Chapter 3488: Martial Aunt (5)

The world was actually quite cruel, but the entrustor had been burned to death by her own inner demon. Her mind was scorched until she finally died.

One failed challenge after another, along with the resulting frustration and humiliation, was enough to destroy a person.

Furthermore, Jiang Xueci felt that she shared a certain bond with Qi Cheng. They had discussed the scriptures and the Dao, and they had shared their insights on cultivation.

She thought they saw eye to eye, their hearts as clear as mirrors.

In the end, she realized she was just being overly sentimental.

In the eyes of others, she was a joke, a fool who lacked self-awareness and made a scene despite her own shortcomings.

She was a jumping clown who invited nothing but disgust upon herself.

Jiang Xueci’s heart was filled with such complex emotions. She was nothing more than a minor pawn on Yi Youxuan’s path to glory as she soared through the heavens and the earth.

To be fair, Jiang Xueci did not have any deep-seated hatred for Yi Youxuan. Her main offense was simply saying a few words to Yi Youxuan’s master.

She just felt that Yi Youxuan was the type of person who did not understand social graces, and that navigating the ways of the world was also a form of cultivation.

Besides, a master was like a father, so there was nothing wrong with offering a bit of guidance.

Since Jiang Xueci was originally an elder of Zisha Island and belonged to the same generation as Qi Cheng, there was technically nothing wrong with her words.

The problem was that Yi Youxuan was ‘playing the pig to eat the tiger.’1A Chinese idiom meaning to feign weakness or play the underdog in order to catch an opponent off guard and defeat them. Her strength was formidable. Jiang Xueci’s attempt to pull rank as a senior resulted in a humiliating slap to the face.

Jiang Xueci’s Dao heart was destroyed, and she was left nearly beyond recovery. Some people possessed deep foundations, while others could only rely on effort. They could try and try again, yet never reach even a tenth of what some people achieved naturally.

Being tied to such a person was a true misfortune in life.

Once something went wrong with one’s Dao heart, it was a total catastrophe for a cultivator.

Jiang Xueci had no other wishes. She only wanted to repair her Dao heart.

As for Qi Cheng, that was a lost cause. She no longer had any thoughts of developing a relationship with him.

Would he protect an outsider instead of his own disciple?

Disaster could sprout from a single sentence.

Ning Shu’s chest tightened painfully, and she vomited another mouthful of black blood.

She took a jade bottle from the drawer of a small side table and poured out a single pill.

The pill turned into a cool sensation as it slid down her throat. That coolness then settled in her chest, finally causing the aching, swollen pain to dissipate a little.

The timing of her arrival was quite unfortunate. Yi Youxuan had already publicly thrashed Jiang Xueci, leaving her unable to hold her head up on Zisha Island.

She was currently on the verge of succumbing to her inner demon and was relying entirely on medicinal pills to keep herself going.

Ning Shu let out a helpless sigh. The birth of a strong person was never easy. One’s foundation and spirit roots determined their talent, while their mind determined their ultimate height.

The path of cultivation was fraught with dangers, and many people saw their Dao vanish as their bodies perished.

She had to focus all her energy on repairing the Dao heart.

Ning Shu flicked her fingers, and two droplets of water appeared in the air. Although the world’s suppression was still present, it was slightly weaker than it had been outside.

She wondered if defeating Yi Youxuan would repair the Dao heart, or if she could start from another angle. The Dao heart was a heart that steadfastly pursued the Great Dao. It encompassed one’s courage, resilience, intellect, spirit, and energy.

However, with Yi Youxuan’s excellence and arrogance, she had essentially sprinted toward the heights by stepping over a trail of shattered Dao hearts.

The world of cultivation believed that if a person did not look out for himself, Heaven and earth would destroy them.

But there was no helping it. When someone was that excellent, their strength alone left others with no recourse.

Furthermore, her ‘cheats’ were incredibly powerful.

Anger and helplessness only stemmed from one’s own lack of strength.

It had to be said that this girl had destroyed the Dao hearts of many disciples on Zisha Island. This had created a strange phenomenon: people either held a deep grudge against her and gritted their teeth in a life-and-death struggle, or they became part of a massive wave of mindless fans who worshipped her without reason.

The sect leader of Zisha Island felt that things were not quite right. Some of their sect’s young talents had been so demoralized that they couldn’t find the energy to do anything. How could they continue like this?

These disciples were supposed to be the future pillars of Zisha Island.

The sect leader found Qi Cheng and told him to keep an eye on his disciple. He asked that she stop running around so ostentatiously and beating everyone to a pulp.

In response, Qi Cheng said that the path to immortality was full of difficulties. If they couldn’t even get over this small hurdle, why bother cultivating? They should just go home, get married, have children to carry on the family line, and wait to die. Why bother with immortality at all?

His own disciple being powerful brought him great pride. Should he tell his disciple to hide her strength? There was no logic in blaming his disciple’s strength for someone else’s weakness.

Being weak did not mean you were in the right!

Even if the strong bullied the weak, it was the weak person’s own fault for having no strength!

The wounds inflicted by Yi Youxuan would not heal quickly. Recently, Jiang Xueci had been staying at her own mountain peak, unwilling to go out. After all, she had just suffered such a massive loss of face that she was too embarrassed to show herself. She stayed tucked away on Lanzhu Peak.

Right now, the entire island was gossiping about how Immortal Xueci had been beaten by a new disciple until she had no power to fight back.

Ning Shu was not about to go out and endure those rumors and strange looks. She was injured and needed to nurse her body back to health.

People said that birds of a feather flock together. It seemed Qi Cheng was just like his disciple. He was a person with very low emotional intelligence.

Jiang Xueci had run to his mountain every day to discuss the scriptures and share insights, yet he never discovered that the woman liked him.

Even though the rumor that Immortal Xueci was in love with Qi Cheng had spread throughout Zisha Island, Qi Cheng, remained oblivious.

If every expert had the mindset that being weak meant you deserved your fate, then the ‘weak’ of the world would have already gone extinct, waiting with bound hands to be slaughtered.

But how could one truly explain luck and opportunity? Yi Youxuan had obtained the inheritance of an ancient Divine Dao sect. Ordinary people simply didn’t have that kind of luck.

After taking the pill, Ning Shu performed an internal inspection. She saw a tiny, sitting infant in her inner core. Its features were carved exquisitely and looked lifelike, and bore a resemblance to the entrustor.

This was likely the entrustor’s nascent soul, but right now, it looked somewhat withered and listless.

Between her physical injuries and the suddenness of the recent events, Jiang Xueci’s Dao heart had become unstable.

Jiang Xueci had never imagined that her crush’s disciple would barge directly onto her mountain peak and challenge her.

It had left her in an incredibly awkward and precarious position.

Winning wouldn’t have been honorable, but losing—especially to a junior—was even more humiliating.

Moreover, since the girl was her crush’s disciple, what would happen if the relationship turned sour?

Even when the fight eventually broke out, Jiang Xueci had not used her full strength, thinking she should show some mercy.

The result was a literal slap to the face. Yi Youxuan had no need for her politeness.

The girl had dominated her from the very beginning. Even when Jiang Xueci finally exerted her full strength later on, she was still soundly defeated.

It was truly a tragic affair.

Ning Shu pinched her fingers into a hand seal and set up a spirit gathering formation. This was a cultivation world, so it naturally had an abundance of spiritual energy.

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