Fate Trading System – Chapter 268

Plan A

Furnace 19

[Refresher: Qi Refining stage → Foundation Establishment stage → Golden Core stage → Nascent Soul stage → Divine Transformation stage → Void Refining stage → Body Integration stage → Great Accomplishment stage]

“How was it? Did he give you a hard time?”

Jing Yueru didn’t care at all about formalities like a daughter-in-law paying respects to her father-in-law, or a son-in-law to his. A father like that? Better not to see him at all.

“How could he possibly give me a hard time? It’s already good enough if I don’t give him a hard time.”

Su Xin pouted. Her storage ring held many essential items, so she didn’t need to ask Jing Yueru for everything anymore.

“Will you come back here in the future?”

“We’ll see. Why do you look even more nervous and angry than I am?”

Su Xin found it a bit funny and took Jing Yueru’s hand.

“I just feel so angry, but I can’t hit him.”

Whether she could beat him or not was still a question, but Jing Yueru really wanted to punch that bastard father of hers. Even though it wasn’t a case of selling his daughter for personal gain¹, how much better was that situation really?

“Don’t think about these things anymore. If we have any more dealings with him in the future, I’ll handle it. Ah, I think I forgot something.”

Su Xin glanced back at the Wei family’s main gate.

“What is it?”

“I forgot to ask for a weapon.”

Swords are one of the basic weapons for cultivators. One can only have one life-bound artifact², but one can have many weapons.

The spirit sword³ in Jing Yueru’s hand was her weapon, not her life-bound artifact.

Everyone needs to fly on their swords; how could one manage without a sword?

“Don’t go back. I’ll help you find one.”

“It’s fine, wait for me to come out.”

Su Xin came out after a short while, and she and Jing Yueru rushed towards Huanling Mountain.

In the days that followed, they began a long period of seclusion.

The ‘passion heat’ was an additional effect of her physique changing. After she took the pill that dispelled the fire poison, this abnormal physical condition also disappeared.

Jing Yueru started insisting that Su Xin ‘cultivate’ with her using the harvesting method, but Su Xin sent her away. She didn’t need to use that kind of method to rapidly increase her cultivation power right now. No matter what, it was better to stabilize her foundation and proceed step by step.

Su Xin remembered Jing Yueru herself saying that it was best not to touch the seal for three years, otherwise there would be major trouble, and Jing Yueru’s body wouldn’t be able to withstand it. To prevent anything else from happening, Su Xin simply had Jing Yueru go into seclusion.

She’d go into seclusion for three years first, to avoid any mishaps.

In cultivation, years pass like nothing; three years was merely the blink of an eye⁴.

During these three years, Jing Yueru made great leaps and was already close to Golden Core.

Su Xin took a different path, focusing on alchemy, while also improving her own strength.

In the fourth year, Jing Yueru formed her Core.

This made Xuan Yi overjoyed. Although he knew her true capabilities weren’t limited to this, at this moment, he still felt a sense of shared honor. This was probably one of the earliest people on the continent to reach Golden Core, and she was his disciple.

The other elders came one after another to congratulate her, bringing their juniors to observe from outside the range of the tribulation lightning, feeling the power of the tribulation cloud. Watching others undergo their tribulation was actually very beneficial; it could bring some insights and sometimes even help break through bottlenecks.

Su Xin saw Jing Yueru’s Eldest Martial Brother and Second Martial Brother. Both were elegant and distinguished figures, and they both looked with great concern at their Junior Martial Sister who was about to undergo her tribulation.

“I originally thought the two of us were already exceptionally gifted, but I didn’t expect Junior Martial Sister to be even more amazing. She actually formed her Core so early, seven or eight years earlier than I did.”

The one who spoke was the Eldest Martial Brother, his words filled with deep admiration.

“I knew long ago that Junior Martial Sister’s aptitude was definitely extraordinary. Her spiritual roots are one in ten thousand. It’s just that the older she gets, the colder her expression becomes. She definitely learned that from Master.”

Second Martial Brother sighed. Back then, Little Junior Martial Sister was also a lively and cute girl. In the blink of an eye, she turned into a block of wood⁵.

“Are you saying it’s my fault, as your master?”

Xuan Yi was expressionless. Second Martial Brother quickly waved his hands in denial.

Su Xin felt that Jing Yueru’s tribulation lightning seemed much fiercer than others’.

Clearly, she wasn’t the only one who noticed this; others had discovered it too.

“Why is the tribulation cloud for Junior Martial Sister’s tribulation so much more exaggerated than mine and Eldest Martial Brother’s?”

Second Martial Brother looked at the dense, dark mass of clouds in the sky, slowly gathering above Jing Yueru’s head.

Xuan Yi seemed to know something, his eyes darkening. She could only rely on herself to endure this. Why would such a powerful hidden clan or sect suffer complete annihilation, with only one bloodline surviving? Who exactly caused their calamity? He didn’t know any of this. Yet, in the unseen, he also sensed that these matters were not something she could touch.

Su Xin also knew why. It was because of the Heavenly Dao.

Jing Yueru’s clan was annihilated because their power could even affect the balance of this world. Therefore, the rules would absolutely stop anyone who disrupted this balance, which is why it would destroy them.

No one can break the rules of a world, not even Su Xin.

To fight against the heavens, the joy is endless.

Jing Yueru closed her eyes, sat cross-legged, and prepared to receive the descending tribulation lightning.

A red dot faintly appeared between her eyebrows.

One bolt after another struck, a horrifying sight for the onlookers.

After it ended, everyone had their own different opinions, but the consensus among them was that Jing Yueru was definitely not ordinary.

If she was already like this at the Golden Core stage, she would definitely be even more terrifying in the future.

After Jing Yueru successfully formed her Core, she felt the power filling her body was even stronger. The first thing she did was cast her gaze upon Su Xin, and their eyes met, sticking together in mid-air.

“Very good.”

Xuan Yi nodded and gave her some good things. Those Martial Uncles were also not stingy and gave Jing Yueru some good items.

Jing Yueru had already stabilized her realm. After using a cleaning spell to briefly wash herself, she still felt very uncomfortable. Her body was covered in injuries, and some places were charred black from the lightning, looking quite gruesome.

“Eldest Martial Brother, Second Martial Brother, I’ll come over after I’ve rested and tidied up a bit.”

Jing Yueru grabbed Su Xin and ran off. She needed to go back and treat the wounds on her body.

“Here, this is a medicinal pill I refined. It can heal injuries.”

The first time Su Xin refined pills, they were low-grade. But as she became more proficient, the chance of producing low-grade ones became smaller; usually, they were medium-grade or high-grade.

This was already a very remarkable achievement because she had only practiced for a short amount of time. Alchemists generally train their abilities from a young age, starting with identifying medicinal herbs, memorizing the effects of each spiritual plant and the efficacy of their mixtures, as well as understanding the function of each type of pill. Only after memorizing all of this do they begin to practice heat control⁶ and mastery, and then they can start refining pills with their own cauldron. Except for the exceptionally gifted, the first few batches are usually failures or of the lowest grade. Su Xin’s success rate was already very gratifying.

“Okay.”

Jing Yueru joyfully took the pill, as if she wasn’t receiving a medicine, but a piece of sweet candy.

“Master, who is that?”

Second Martial Brother had actually wanted to ask for a while, but the situation just now wasn’t suitable for asking such things.

His junior martial sister had a cold personality and didn’t interact much with outsiders. Apart from being affectionate towards their Master and showing some warmth to fellow sect members, she was basically a polite iceberg⁷ in front of others.

Xuan Yi pondered for a moment, thinking about how he should introduce her. Although the two of them had never confessed anything to him, how could he not see the fishy business between them?

“That young lady should be your junior martial sister’s good friend.”

Xuan Yi deliberated for a moment and still decided to say it this way. The relationship between these two seemed rather complicated, like lovers yet also like friends. It was better to be a bit more prudent.

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Jing Yueru soaked in the pool, the wounds on her body slowly recovering. Su Xin was washing her hair. Jing Yueru looked at her reflection in the water, smiling a little happily.

“I’m just washing your hair, why are you so happy?”

Su Xin felt helpless. This person had been grinning like a fool for several minutes.

“Happy.”

Jing Yueru wished her hair was longer and thicker, so that this person could wash it for a longer time, and time could pass a little more slowly.

“Little fool.”

Every disciple of the Lancang Sect had to do missions. This was the contribution they had to make to the sect. Because of her cultivation level, Jing Yueru accepted a relatively high-level mission.

There were suspected demonic cultivators causing trouble in the mortal realm, disrupting the balance. The mission was to investigate the situation clearly and then eliminate them.

This mission was usually taken by those at the Foundation Establishment stage; there was no need to use Golden Core stage power. However, this mission was not as simple as it appeared on the surface, because the place where the incident occurred was a land of death in the mortal realm.

Are there ghosts in this world? Of course.

One branch of demonic cultivators is ghost cultivators.

They control ghosts, can refine puppets⁸ to use for themselves, and are the most difficult to deal with and most despised among demonic cultivators.

“I want to go with you.”

Su Xin looked at the jade tablet⁹ in Jing Yueru’s hand. Although she didn’t necessarily have to go, she felt she should be responsible for the little fool.

What if something happened when they got to that place, and Jing Yueru got agitated again?

Moreover, this matter didn’t feel so simple. Su Xin had a bad feeling about it.

Why would demonic cultivators go to the Mortal Realm?

Apart from some necessary connections, the Cultivation World and the Human Realm are not interconnected. This is a convention everyone abides by; cultivators don’t go to the Human Realm to cause trouble or proselytize. Except for some unpresentable rogue cultivators, only those whose cultivation can no longer advance go to the Human Realm to drift along aimlessly.

There must be some very special reason.

The mission Jing Yueru accepted allowed for teaming up. Going alone would inevitably be somewhat dangerous.

Jing Yueru was naturally happy for Su Xin to go with her, but Su Xin was not a member of their sect, so she still had to team up with others from the sect.

Two young people arrived, a man and a woman. The man was delicate and refined, while the woman had a cold face and exuded the aura of an ‘older sister’ type¹⁰.

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