239: Chapter 239 Leaving Wanyan Lingque

Ultimately, Lin Qing still accepted the two Level 9 weapon blueprints sent by Tao Tao. After all, Tao Tao had put in quite a bit of effort and specially gotten them for him.

In the time that followed, the incident of Lin Qing killing Lu Xue continued to ferment, and his ability to perform a nearly perfect transformation also spread out.

A few days later, Tao Tao visited again, interrupting Lin Qing, who was grinding his Artifact Refining Rank.

"Senior Sister, what happened?"

"Junior Brother Xie, the Sect needs to conduct a cultivation check on you."

Tao Tao's expression was somewhat heavy. After Lin Qing's transformation ability was exposed, various major Sects had initiated a grand self-investigation operation.

Every time Lin Qing appeared, he unreservedly displayed his Level 9 cultivation, which led the outside world to mistakenly think that Lin Qing's ability to conceal cultivation was average. Therefore, the first step of their search was to determine the cultivation of all Disciples.

Tao Tao had contact with Lin Qing in the Kunxu Forbidden Land, and she did not hold much malice towards him. Otherwise, back at that banquet, she would not have indirectly defended Lin Qing.

"Junior Brother Xie, you'll be fine, right?"

Tao Tao asked with some apprehension. Lin Qing had joined Wanyan Spirit Pavilion only after the Secret Realm incident ended. If his Level 9 cultivation were to be discovered, one could easily imagine what his fate would be without even thinking.

"Rest assured, I am just an ordinary Middle Stage Level 8 Loose Cultivator."

Lin Qing smiled slightly. He had even contacted Divine Venerables; back at that banquet, Manzhu hadn't been able to see through his cultivation, let alone the Sect's inspection.

Because the number of people who needed to participate in the inspection this time was too large, the Sect had set up many inspection points. Lin Qing followed Tao Tao to the square of the Task Hall, and those responsible for the inspection were Level 11 Cultivators.

Even in super-major forces, Level 11 could be considered absolute core figures. This showed how much importance the Sect attached to this inspection. There was no helping it; who asked Wanyan Spirit Pavilion to happen to hold an entrance assessment right after the Secret Realm incident ended?

"Take him down and interrogate him strictly."

As soon as the two arrived at the square, they saw a Disciple who had concealed their cultivation being detected. Wanyan Spirit Pavilion was not a demonic cult; what kind of good person could conceal their cultivation to sneak in? Regarding their exposure, Lin Qing did not have the slightest psychological burden.

When it was Lin Qing's turn, he passed easily without any surprise. One month later, the grand inspection ended. Those Disciples who had been ferreted out were still under investigation, while other Cultivators returned to normal life.

In the shop, Sixing had already been recalled by Lin Qing. Lin Qing handed Sixing a Storage Ring.

"Put these weapons on display. In the future, we can continue to accept custom orders, but let's take Level 8 ones first."

During this past month, Lin Qing successfully ground his Artifact Refiner Rank to Level 9 Perfection, but he did not re-forge all these weapons to Perfection. He planned to slowly improve the quality of the weapons he sold and wait a year or a half before starting to accept Level 9 custom orders.

Before this, Lin Qing had delivered a batch of custom Level 8 weapons. Now, after more than a month, customer feedback had come out, and it could be described as receiving rave reviews.

Now that Jianduan had reopened, it immediately attracted a large number of customers. Fortunately, the weapons Lin Qing forged not only had perfect quality, but his speed was also not slow. A large number of orders did not waste too much of his time.

Days proceeded in an orderly manner like this, and this large-scale search for Lin Qing naturally ended up in nothing definite.

During this period, while undertaking orders, Lin Qing also elevated all his skills to the Level 9 Perfection level.

It was just that the slightly smaller world origin from before had been handed over to Old Turtle by him, causing him to have never started refining his own Lifebound Treasure.

In the shop, the quality of the weapons on the shelves improved even slower than planned, because Lin Qing discovered that his shop was too popular, making it seem like he didn't need to take on additional Level 9 weapon orders anymore. In order not to attract attention, he lowered the speed at which the weapon quality improved.

After some more time, Lin Qing finished cultivating all the Pill Formulas, array diagrams, and weapon blueprints he could cultivate in his hands, and completely collected all the auxiliary Materials that could be obtained in Wanyan Spirit Pavilion.

Lin Qing knew it was time to leave. He took out Tao Tao's communication token.

"Senior Sister Tao Tao, are you there?"

"Junior Brother Xie, what is it?"

In these nearly two years, Tao Tao often came to look for Lin Qing, but Lin Qing was always busy. The two usually only strolled around the Sect's internal market town or nearby cities.

Lin Qing had also inquired about Tao Tao's preferences and had previously promised to refine a Lifebound Treasure for Tao Tao. Contacting Tao Tao this time was intended to conclude this final matter.

"Senior Sister, your Lifebound Treasure can begin refining."

"Ah! So fast, but I haven't finished collecting the Materials yet."

Although Tao Tao's talent was alright, she would still stay at Level 9 for a hundred or two years. Now that she had only been promoted to Level 9 for about two years, it was completely normal that she hadn't finished collecting the Materials.

"It's fine, I've prepared some. Come over first!"

In these two years, Tao Tao had taken good care of Lin Qing, and Lin Qing was someone who repaid kindness. Therefore, he had long prepared the Materials for Tao Tao. These Materials included several rare treasures with a total value of over ten billion.

Following Lin Qing for the past two years, Sixing had naturally earned a fortune, and now his net worth was more substantial than many Tenth Rank Disciples.

Lin Qing did not intend to tell him that he would never return after leaving, only saying he was going out for experiential training. For high-Rank Cultivators, going out for experiential training for decades or a century was a very common thing.

After sending Sixing away, Tao Tao happened to arrive at the entrance of Jianduan.

"Junior Brother, I'm here."

The newly arrived Tao Tao was still a bit elated, but when she saw the empty shelves of the shop, she seemed to anticipate something and quieted down, though she didn't ask anything.

"Senior Sister, the commotion from forging your Lifebound Treasure will be a bit big. Let's go out."

"Mm."

Tao Tao nodded and then followed Lin Qing to leave the Sect. After going through several teleportation arrays, the two arrived at a familiar area, the Cangyun Mountains.

At this time, although the Cangyun Mountains were still shrouded in clouds and mist, they were vastly different from two years ago. The current clouds and mist were just ordinary fog between the mountains and fields, and both the concentration and coverage height had drastically decreased.

The ability to suppress Divine Thought had disappeared, and those stone-pillar-shaped peaks originally hidden in the clouds and mist were revealing their heads one by one. There were also flying Yao Beasts hovering above the peaks. Looking from afar, it felt like a Pandora's Secret Realm.

Tao Tao lowered her head. This time, she did not lead the way in front of Lin Qing, but instead followed Lin Qing flying towards the depths of the Cangyun Mountains.

After arriving at a sufficiently deep mountain stream, the two stopped. Lin Qing waved his hand and tossed out some array-setting Materials. After all, this was the wilderness, and he still needed to pay attention to some privacy.

"Are you Lin Qing?"

"Mm."