My brother is so cunning
Chapter 1 The Tragic Fate of the Remnants of Jiejiao
Chapter 1 The Tragic Fate of the Remnants of Jiejiao
Across the southern continent lies a mountain range as beautiful as a brocade. The mountain is winding and covered with lush trees. From a distance, it looks like a dark blue horse.
The mountain has wonderful scenery, with cleverly arranged peaks and various strange rocks. You can hear the crowing of golden pheasants on the peaks and watch dragons coming in and out of the caves. There are longevity deer and fairy foxes in the forest, magical birds and black cranes in the trees, beautiful grasses and flowers under the cliffs, and purple ganoderma and fragrant irises beside the winding paths.
The name of this mountain is Lishan. Because it is as beautiful as brocade, it is also called "Xiuling".
The Lishan Mountain Range stretches for hundreds of miles, with mountains and peaks rising one after another, and magnificent buildings dotted among the forests on the mountaintops. There is a large-scale cultivation sect located here - the Lishan Immortal Sect.
Lishan Immortal Sect was founded by Wudang Holy Mother, a disciple of Master Tongtian. Not long after the Battle of the Gods ended, Wudang Holy Mother, who had fled to Lishan in defeat, was attracted by the magnificent scenery of the place. She established the Lishan Immortal Sect under the pseudonym Lishan Laomu in order to preserve the last wisp of incense for the defeated and nearly destroyed Jiejiao.
On a small ridge on the edge of the Lishan Mountains, a female monk stood in front of the gate of a cave on the top of the cliff. She was wearing a white feather robe, with long, flowing black hair draped over her shoulders. She had a beautiful and cold appearance, an extraordinary temperament, and a slender figure.
Standing on the cliff, the female monk looked up and the first thing that caught her eye was the huge plaque at the entrance to the cave. Generally speaking, the plaque at the entrance of the mountain would have the name of the cave inscribed on it, but that plaque was densely engraved with several rows of Western Zhou bronze inscriptions.
"Professional flying sword film application, second-hand magic weapon renovation, large-scale flying boat maintenance, painting, repair of spiritual sails, cleaning of old alchemy furnace liner, undertaking palace, monastery, waterside pavilion, tower, bridge, overseas fairy island, floating mountain construction and cave interior decoration projects, recycling of various waste magic weapons, flying swords, second-hand flying boats (fragments and wreckage are also collected), non-destructive unlocking of lost mountain protection magic array array keys..."
The female monk had an extremely beautiful appearance and a refined and elegant temperament. She exuded a sense of aloofness and detachment that was difficult for ordinary women to achieve. She was as beautiful as a mountain elf, but at this moment, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, and her cheeks were covered with worries. She wandered in front of the cave, wondering whether she should go in.
This remote peak is located on the edge of the Lishan Mountains. It is remote and inconspicuous. The female monk has been practicing in the Lishan Taoist Temple for more than two hundred years. Today is her first time visiting this place, but this place is quite famous in the sect because of word of mouth among the Lishan disciples.
The owner of the cave is said to be a weird human cultivator with a lonely and strange personality, who always says strange things that others can't understand.
For example, she could recognize all the bronze characters on the plaque at the entrance of the cave, but she couldn't understand what they meant when they were put together.
This female cultivator in white is a third-generation disciple of the Lishan Immortal Sect. Her descendant is an immortal crane incarnated, so she has no surname. She only got a Taoist name from her master, which is "Lingyun".
If she had become an immortal, she could have called herself "Lingyunxian" according to the title rules of Jiejiao. However, she had not yet experienced the thunder tribulation and her cultivation realm was the Golden Elixir Realm. So she took the name "He" from her pre-transformation form as her surname and gave herself a name called "He Lingyun".
He Lingyun came to this cave to ask for something. The reason why he hesitated and was very confused at the door was because the owner of this place had a strange rule.
This cave is open to the entire cultivation world for business. You can come here to handle the business written on the plaque, as long as you bring enough spirit stones, you can get what you want. If you give enough spirit stones, the owner will provide all kinds of first-class services. It has been regarded as a conscientious store with a good reputation in the cultivation world in the past hundred years. However, if you don't bring spirit stones, the owner of the cave will never give you credit.
This cave master has some connection with the Lishan Immortal Sect. He is a disciple of Jiejiao who survived the Conferred God War. He is a descendant of the lineage of the Golden Spirit Holy Mother and the son of Wen Zhong, the national master of the Shang Dynasty. Now that Jiejiao has declined, Wen Zhong died on Juelong Ridge and ascended the Conferred God Platform. As a remnant of Jiejiao, he sought shelter under the tutelage of Wu Dang Holy Mother and found a remote cave outside the Lishan Taoist temple.
He Lingyun also heard rumors from fellow sisters in the sect, saying that monks from the Lishan Taoist temple can receive certain preferential treatment when they come here. The owner of this place, considering that they are all remnants of the Jiejiao, can waive the bill if certain conditions are met. They don't have to pay a penny of spirit stones, and can take away brand new magic weapons, flying swords or alchemy furnaces, or even take the spirit stones directly!
This time, He Lingyun wanted to ask the owner of the cave for a new flying sword.
Some time ago, her flying sword was smashed into pieces by a monk from the Western religion when she had a conflict with him when she went down the mountain to collect herbs. Now that the day of the sect's competition is approaching, as a sword cultivator, how can she compete with her fellow sect members if she has lost her flying sword?
The ranking of the internal competition is related to the treatment in the next fifty years. If you rank last in this disastrous defeat, you may have to waste fifty years of cultivation due to insufficient resources. The way of cultivation is like sailing against the current. If you don't move forward, you will fall behind. If you waste fifty years, it will be even harder to compete in the next competition. As the saying goes, one step late will lead to every step late. It will be more and more difficult to have a chance to turn things around in the future. It is now five hundred years after the Conferred Gods calamity. The cultivation world is gradually recovering from the calamity. However, the cultivators of the Lishan Immortal Sect in the post-Conferred Gods era have not had a much better life. After all, they are the remnants of the Jiejiao, and the three religions of Chan, Shi, and Ren do not like them.
The sect founded by Lishan Laomu still adheres to the Jiejiao principle of "teaching without distinction" when recruiting disciples, and has accepted many "people with fur and horns, and those born from eggs in moisture". Even if these disciples are disciples of the righteous path, they are no different from "monsters" in the eyes of the monks of the three religions of Chan, Ren, and the West.
The reason why He Lingyun fought with the Western monk and destroyed the flying sword was because the other party mistook her for a crane demon. As soon as they met, he shouted without saying a word, "I can see that you are not a human being. How dare you show off your skills in front of an expert? Great Heavenly Dragon, Buddha Ksitigarbha..." and then he killed her with a "righteous" face of "eliminating demons and defending righteousness".
The Lishan disciples who traveled outside the Lishan Taoist temple were like rats crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat them. They suffered humiliation and grievances. Not to mention obtaining treasures, they couldn't even compete for the basic resources needed for practice.
Under the vicious cycle, the entire sect became increasingly impoverished. All the cultivation resources at the sect's disposal were no longer enough for all the disciples to use, so they had to hold regular ranking competitions within the sect and allocate the meager resources to the most outstanding elites.
He Lingyun didn't even dare to tell the elders in the sect about the damage to his flying sword during the fight with the Western monks. At the end of the Conferred God Tribulation, Daozu Hongjun scolded Daozu Tongtian in front of all the immortals from the three religions for "trusting his disciples too easily and causing trouble", and put all the blame for the Conferred God Tribulation on the heads of the disciples of the Jie Religion.
In order to avoid the lessons of the past, the Holy Mother Wu Dang established rules in the Lishan Taoist Temple, strictly ordering her disciples not to engage in disputes with other sects when they are outside. Otherwise, they will bear all the consequences. Even if they die, it will be in vain, and the master will not collect the body. Even if they are lucky enough not to die, they will not be able to escape the punishment, and the sect will punish them!
He Lingyun's current situation is extremely embarrassing. She is so poor that she only has a feather robe left on her body. The only flying sword that is worth some spirit stones was smashed to pieces by someone. Seeing that the sect's competition is approaching, as a sword cultivator, her skills are all in flying swords, and she is likely to rank last.
She didn't dare tell her master about the loss of her flying sword. If she did, not only would the master not support her, but would punish her instead. She could only believe the rumors from her fellow sisters in the sect and come to this cave, trying to get a new flying sword to get through this difficult time.
but……
It was not easy to ask the cave master for a flying sword, otherwise He Lingyun would not have been so entangled. According to the sisters, the cave master had a strange temperament and the conditions he set were quite harsh, especially for female cultivators...
Perhaps they were too ashamed to speak out, so the rumors spread by the sisters and brothers who had benefited from him were vague. It was said that asking for a magic weapon of lower value would only require shedding some blood, but asking for a magic weapon of higher value would even require sacrificing one's body!
Although he was a transformed crane and did not have a deep understanding of the scandalous matters between human men and women, He Lingyun had more than 200 years of experience as a crane. He had seen people run even though he had eaten human flesh. The conditions of "bleeding" and "giving up one's body" sounded very wrong - he didn't know if it would be painful!
Pain is secondary. As a cultivator with great willpower, physical pain is easy to endure, but mental blow is hard to bear. For the sake of cultivation, one has to sacrifice one's innocence and give it to a strange old pervert of the human race. Even if one can achieve enlightenment and become an immortal in the future, an indelible stain will be left on one's immortal life, and a shameful crack will be engraved on one's bright heart of Taoism!
What's more, He Lingyun is just as his name suggests. Ever since he awakened his spiritual intelligence, he has had lofty ambitions and is very proud deep down in his heart. He would rather die than accept such humiliation.
Her aptitude for cultivation can be ranked among the top ten in the Lishan Immortal Sect. Not only does she possess top-level spiritual roots, but she also has excellent comprehension. In the words of her master, Caiyunxian, she is one of the few geniuses among the second-generation disciples who has the best chance of achieving enlightenment and ascending to become an immortal.
With such talent, if she were in other sects, she would even be worshipped by the elders and spoiled to no end. However, she was not a human being and she was a disciple of the already declining Jiejiao sect. Even if she was a soaring crane, she had to be raised in poverty and her treatment was no different from that of a free-range chicken.
There is no way. In the post-Conferred Gods era, even if the high-level demon immortals of the Jie Religion have reached the Golden Immortal Realm or even the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, they have fallen to the point of being used as mounts and pets by the powerful people of the Western Religion and the Chan Religion. He Lingyun is just a remnant of the Jie Religion who has not yet become an immortal. He should be content to be able to live and practice with self-dignity under the shelter of the Holy Mother Wu Dang.
If he had not been able to join the Lishan Immortal Sect, even if He Lingyun had outstanding aptitude for cultivation, he might have been hiding in some mountain valley as a patrolling demon, and might even be beaten to death by a passing monkey in a thousand years.
You are a beautiful lady, but you have the body of a demon. You have the body of a young lady but the life of a maid. This is the true portrayal of He Lingyun. Even with lofty ambitions, you cannot stand the drudgery of life. As a cultivator who is born from an egg, even breathing is wrong. This is determined by several Hunyuan saints from the Western Church, the Chan Church, and the Human Church!
After wandering at the entrance of the cave for a long time, the female monk bit her lip, as if she had finally made up her mind. She took heavy steps, and after a battle with her inner demons, she made a decision!
(End of this chapter)
