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【Eventually, even fetching water from the shore required your or Zhang Cangfeng’s help.】

【Seeing Bai Ningshuang so afraid of water, you felt a bit guilty.】

【So you started thinking of finding an opportunity to take her to the shallow area to learn how to swim.】

【However, before the opportunity arose, Bai Ningshuang was taken away by a female Elder of Shu Mountain.】

【She became the first among the three of you to join Shu Mountain.】

【You recognized that female Elder; she was one of the two female Elders among the thirty-plus Elders.】

【Later, you learned that Bai Ningshuang had joined Lingyu Peak of Shu Mountain, a place for alchemy cultivation, with medicinal fields covering the mountains.】

【Another half a year passed, and Zhang Cangfeng was also taken away by the Elder specializing in Spirit Swords from Lingxi Peak. Now, only you remained in the miscellaneous courtyard.】

【You started to panic, wondering why no one had come to take you. You worried endlessly every day.】

【But such was your Immortal destiny.】

【Worrying was useless.】

【Your thoughts gradually calmed, and you began to focus on fetching water and tending to vegetables daily.】

【Unknowingly, three years had passed since Sect Head Junior Brother True Person Yichen brought you here, and you had grown into an 11-year-old boy.】

【One day, as you were fetching water and chopping wood as usual, you found a white-robed girl carrying a small medicine basket standing by the pond.】

【You looked closely and were pleasantly surprised; the girl in front of you was Bai Ningshuang, who had joined Lingyu Peak two years ago.】

【At this moment, she had a small Daoist bun, and her white jade-like face appeared delicate and lovely.】

【However, you were completely ignorant of matters between men and women, only feeling that Bai Ningshuang seemed a bit thinner than before.】

【Upon seeing you, Bai Ningshuang also walked forward.】

“Su Gege, I came to see you!”

【Hearing this, a bitter feeling rose in your heart.】

【For a moment, you were filled with emotion, as she had already become an Immortal.】

“Ning Shuang, why did you come here?”

【Hearing your question, Bai Ningshuang chuckled.】

“A few days ago, Master gave me a Magical Artifact, and I rode it to come see you.”

“Magical Artifact? What is that?”

【You were curious and couldn't help but ask.】

【Bai Ningshuang then took out a white jade pestle from the small medicine basket she was carrying.】

“This is the Magical Artifact Master gave me.”

“Su Gege, look.”

【After speaking, Bai Ningshuang activated the white jade pestle. In an instant, the pestle grew larger and floated in mid-air.】

“Just ride on it.”

【After speaking, Bai Ningshuang rode onto the white jade pestle. It looked like it could carry one more person.】

【You looked on with envy.】

“Ning Shuang, can I ride it too?”

【Bai Ningshuang hesitated for a moment but still nodded.】

“Alright, Su Gege, but don't move around once you're on, I'm not very skilled at controlling it yet.”

“Don't worry!”

【You then rode onto the back of the white jade pestle and embraced Bai Ningshuang’s tiny waist.】

【Bai Ningshuang immediately blushed, while your face was filled with excitement and curiosity.】

“Giddy up! Ning Shuang, fly quickly!”

【Hearing your words, Bai Ningshuang also controlled the white jade pestle to fly.】

【Before long, you felt your body soaring through the clouds, and the scenery below rapidly shrinking.】

“Wow!”

“Ning Shuang, you’re so amazing now!”

【Bai Ningshuang was happy from your praise and took you flying to other places.】

“Su Gege, Ning Shuang can't take you for too long, otherwise Ning Shuang's magic power will be depleted. I'll send you back soon.”

“Okay!”

【However, as you passed by a deep abyss, you suddenly remembered that True Person Yichen had always avoided this place when he brought you to Shu Mountain.】

【You couldn't help but lean your head down to look, wanting to see what was strange.】

【But just as you leaned your head out, a black Qi flew directly towards you, sweeping you to the bottom of the abyss.】

“Su Gege!”

【Bai Ningshuang was instantly flustered and anxious, pearls of tears falling from her large eyes. After a dazed half-moment, she remembered to go tell her Master.】

【She then activated the white jade pestle and flew towards Lingyu Peak.】

Chapter 159: Surviving a Great Calamity, You Were Abducted by a Strange Old Man!

【You, however, survived the great calamity. After falling from the sky into this abyss, you landed directly on a tree canopy, and after several impacts, most of the force was buffered before you finally fell.】

【After struggling to get up, you suddenly smelled a scent of barbecue.】

【For three years, you had only eaten light food at Shu Mountain, and your mouth had long become bland.】

【You used to love roasting small birds and bird eggs after raiding nests. Now, this scent completely aroused the gluttonous worms in your stomach.】

【Following the scent, you walked along and eventually saw an old man wearing a tattered Daoist robe sitting on a large bluestone. In front of him was a bonfire, on which a snake and a pheasant were being roasted.】

【You didn't find the Old Daoist scary, so you walked towards him.】

“Old grandpa, what you’re roasting smells so good!”

“Can I have some?”

【Hearing you actively ask him for food, the Old Daoist laughed heartily.】

“Eat, just eat.”

【You weren't afraid upon hearing this. In your opinion, anyone within the Shu Mountain territory couldn't be a bad person.】

【So you tore off a chicken leg and ate it heartily.】

【Upon tasting it, you found the chicken leg perfectly salted and incredibly fragrant with oil. In no time, you finished it completely.】

【Then you tore off another chicken wing and chewed it.】

【Seeing your excellent appetite, the Old Daoist clicked his tongue in wonder. In his view, if an ordinary child encountered such a situation, they would probably be too scared to know what to do.】

【Being so calm now, he was indeed a trainable talent.】

【You didn't know that this Old Daoist's real name was Baiyang Real Person. Years ago, he encountered a white ape and a divine eagle fighting in the boundless East Sea, got caught in the conflict, and drifted to a deserted island.】

【On the cliff face of the deserted island, he found a Heavenly Book, from which he comprehended the “Baiyang True Explanation,” a set of profound and subtle top-tier Flying Sword incantations.】

【After achieving Major Achievement in the “Baiyang True Explanation,” he cultivated to the Earth Immortal Realm. Later, he shattered the cliff face and found a cave, where he obtained seven top-grade Flying Swords entirely refined from Grand Unity Golden Essence.】

【Grand Unity Golden Essence is a top-grade spiritual material that can only be born in a mysterious place in the Universe. Even a trace added to an ordinary Flying Sword can greatly increase its power, let alone a Flying Sword entirely refined from Grand Unity Golden Essence.】

【After leaving the mountain, Baiyang Real Person directly found the white ape and divine eagle that had fought that day, unleashed his Flying Swords, and killed them one by one. He also obtained a spiritual bead from the white ape's belly and entrusted it as his Second Primordial Spirit.】

【From then on, he eliminated demons and devils, rarely having an opponent.】

【But once, he heard someone say that Shu Mountain Sect Leader Purple Rainbow Zhenren's Sword Control technique was unparalleled in the world. Feeling greatly unconvinced, he actually sought out Shu Mountain, wanting to compete with the Shu Mountain Sect Head using the “Baiyang True Explanation.”】

【If he won, he would make Shu Mountain Sect Leader Purple Rainbow Zhenren announce to the world that his Sword Control technique was inferior to Baiyang Real Person's.】

【If he lost, his seven Grand Unity Golden Essence treasured swords would be given to Shu Mountain.】

【Baiyang Real Person's actions naturally angered the Shu Mountain Sect Leader. If he were to lose to him, wouldn't Shu Mountain forever be unable to hold its head high?】

【So the Shu Mountain Sect Leader proposed another condition: if he lost, he would not only have to hand over the seven Grand Unity Golden Essence Flying Swords but also confine himself at the bottom of Shu Mountain's Motian Cliff for a thousand years, not to emerge within that millennium.】

【Baiyang Real Person had already cultivated to the Earth Immortal body, his Primordial Spirit refined a hundred times, Immortal and indestructible, having escaped the physical body's lifespan. His methods were not much inferior to a Heavenly Immortal.】

【However, because he couldn't achieve a mind free of attachments, comprehend emptiness, and his Primordial Spirit didn't reach pure Yang, he was entangled by Karma, thus unable to Ascend to the Immortal Realm.】

【These thousand years, for him, were neither long nor short.】

【Out of pride, he agreed to this condition.】

【The competition location was set at the East Sea coast. On the starting day, many Loose Immortals, famous scholars, Devil Heads, and evil cultivators arrived.】

【Everyone was greatly looking forward to this competition.】

【The competition was divided into three rounds. The first round was to compete in slaying East Sea Flood Dragons and Poison Dragons; whoever killed more would win.】

【The second round competed in retrieving objects with Flying Swords from a thousand li away; whoever retrieved it fastest would win.】

【The third round competed in Sword Arts Divine Abilities, with everyone present jointly judging who won.】

【Because there were many reclusive Devil Heads, demon kings, and evil cultivators present, there was no need to worry about fairness.】

【In the first round, Baiyang Real Person unleashed all seven Grand Unity Golden Essence Flying Swords. Their sharpness was irresistible, slaying one hundred thirty-nine Flood Dragons and Poison Dragons.】

【Purple Rainbow Zhenren, having only one Demon Suppressing Sword, only slew sixty-four Flood Dragons and Poison Dragons.】

【Therefore, Baiyang Real Person won the first round.】

【The second round was retrieving objects from a thousand li away. Purple Rainbow Zhenren cultivated the “Supreme Purity Purple Mansion Immortal Canon,” with an extremely deep Foundation. His control of Flying Swords was exquisitely marvelous, being one breath faster than Baiyang Real Person.】

【Purple Rainbow Zhenren won the second round.】

【The third round was Sword Arts Divine Abilities.】

【Purple Rainbow Zhenren made the first move, his Demon Suppressing Sword flying out, unleashing a powerful Sword Art Divine Ability.】

【In an instant, the sun and moon shone together, auspicious light soared, and the colors of heaven and earth shifted unpredictably, causing the East Sea tides to rise ten thousand feet high.】

【All kinds of Divine Abilities in the world paled in comparison to this technique, utterly incomparable.】

【All the Loose Immortals, famous scholars, Devil Heads, demon kings, and evil cultivators present were shocked.】

【Upon seeing this scene, Baiyang Real Person immediately conceded defeat and obediently offered his seven Grand Unity Golden Essence treasured swords.】

【At the same time, he self-imprisoned himself at the bottom of Shu Mountain's Motian Cliff, pondering the “Baiyang True Explanation” daily.】

【Purple Rainbow Zhenren had visited here before his Ascension, promising Baiyang Real Person that he could leave now.】

【Baiyang Real Person, however, refused to leave.】

【Purple Rainbow Zhenren had no choice but to warn his Disciples not to disturb Baiyang Real Person, and then he Ascended.】

【Now, only five hundred years of the thousand-year term had passed. Baiyang Real Person, idle, looked up at the sky and saw the scene of Bai Ningshuang flying with you.】

【Seeing your excellent Aptitude, he was delighted to find a talent and used some minor techniques to pull you down from the sky.】

【Now, seeing that your personality greatly suited his liking, he suddenly had the idea of taking you as a Disciple.】

【If you were a Shu Mountain Disciple, he wouldn't be able to speak up.】

【But he saw that you had no Foundation within your body, so he asked curiously.】

“Are you a Shu Mountain Disciple?”

【You shook your head upon hearing this, wiped the chicken grease from your mouth, and spoke.】

“I don't know.”

“Because for the past three years, I've been doing odd jobs in the miscellaneous courtyard. The two people who were with me have already joined Shu Mountain.”

“Now, I guess I'm an Outer Sect Disciple.”

【Baiyang Real Person was even more delighted upon hearing this, and at the same time, he secretly cursed Shu Mountain for being blind and delaying such a good seedling.】

“You, are you willing to become my Disciple!”

【You were startled when you heard the Old Daoist in front of you suddenly offer to take you as a Disciple, and you quickly shook your head.】