txolops Chapter 219 The Complete Story of the Extermination of the Tianqiao Sect
Chapter 219 The Complete Story of the Extermination of the Tianqiao Sect
in the courtyard.
The commotion caused by Xiao Yunzhi's departure naturally alerted Li Ping and Shi Yutong.
For a moment, the air in the courtyard seemed to freeze.
"Ahem..." Li Ping coughed twice, breaking the silence in the courtyard.
He is upright and honest, so naturally he wouldn't feel embarrassed or anything like that over such a trivial matter.
"Sect Leader Shi," Li Ping introduced calmly, "This is my younger sister, who came to the far north with me more than ten years ago."
Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi addressed each other as brother and sister, something they had already agreed upon, and at this moment, Li Ping revealed this relationship without hesitation.
Hearing Li Ping's explanation, Shi Yutong covered her mouth and smiled gently: "Brother Li, you don't need to explain to me. Yutong trusts Brother Li's character."
As soon as she spoke, Xiao Yunzhi's expression turned slightly indignant.
Especially when she called him "Brother Li" and said things like "no need to explain" and "I believe in Brother Li's character," she seemed to be very understanding of Li Ping, making it seem as if she and Li Ping had an extraordinary relationship.
However, given Xiao Yunzhi's personality, she really didn't know how to deal with such teasing remarks and could only remain silent.
Li Ping shook his head speechlessly. He was now certain that this Sect Leader Shi was a scheming green tea.
Whether it's revealing her mixed-race secret and begging him not to tell others, or calling him "Brother Li" in a familiar way, or now deliberately saying some ambiguous things.
These are all standard procedures for green tea processing.
This is different from Xiao Yunzhi. He once used the power of the Health Preservation Technique to treat Xiao Yunzhi's toxins, and under the nourishment of the Health Preservation Technique's power, Xiao Yunzhi naturally had a good impression of him.
In addition, during her trip to the secret realm more than ten years ago, she almost died at the hands of the six cultivators of the Yuling Sect. It was Li Ping who miraculously appeared and saved her life, leading her to escape danger.
After going through so much, she finally developed feelings for Li Pingfang.
And what about this Shi Yutong, the sect leader?
Li Ping had only known her for less than a day, but he was well aware of his own appearance and knew that he wasn't the type to make people fall in love at first sight.
Shi Yutong's ambiguous words and actions clearly indicate she's a scheming woman.
Of course, Li Ping guessed that her bold and open personality was also related to the fact that she had half Yeti blood.
Over the past ten years or so, he has also heard Ji Shuxuan tell some interesting stories about the far north.
For example, some Yeti tribes in remote areas have the custom of entertaining guests with their wives, and the separation of men and women is not considered an important matter to them.
If it were the Western Wilderness, unless they had already expressed their feelings for each other, a female cultivator wouldn't casually flirt with other male cultivators.
But the far north is a different story.
Therefore, Shi Yutong's issue is not due to sexual repression or a desire for connection, nor is it innate. It's not that the local atmosphere is so open, but rather that it's a local custom.
However, Li Ping only wanted to use the third-tier spiritual pulse to strike the Core Formation stage; he didn't intend to flirt with her or have any romantic feelings for her.
Yes.
His gaze swept over Shi Yutong, who was covering her mouth and chuckling, and Xiao Yunzhi, who looked indignant. He shook his head and said calmly, "Sect Leader Shi, you've misunderstood. I'm not explaining, but introducing my younger sister to you. I don't think I have anything to explain to you."
She could tell from Li Ping's coldness towards Shi Yutong and his protectiveness towards her.
The resentment on Xiao Yunzhi's face vanished, replaced by a smile.
Shi Yutong was slightly taken aback, seemingly not expecting that someone would be so indifferent to a beautiful girl like her.
Could this fellow Daoist Li before me be a solitary cultivator single-mindedly seeking the Dao?
Thinking of this, her expression became solemn: "I misspoke just now, and I hope Brother Li will not take offense."
"It's alright." Li Ping waved his hand casually, nodded to Xiao Yunzhi, and then said indifferently, "Sect Leader Shi has come looking for me. I wonder if there is anything I can do for Sect Leader Shi."
After asserting her dominance, Xiao Yunzhi smiled and nodded to the two men before returning to her room to continue her arduous cultivation.
Only Li Ping and Shi Yutong remained sitting facing each other in the courtyard.
"I heard from Senior Brother Mei that a master alchemist has come to the city. I happened to have collected a batch of spiritual herbs, so I came to visit you and asked Brother Li to help me refine them into pills." Shi Yutong put away her seductive and flirtatious demeanor and returned to the competence of a sect leader.
As she spoke earnestly, her silver hair flowing low, her skin like jade, and her delicate eyebrows solemn, she appeared even more radiant and captivating to Li Ping than before.
"The Snowman bloodline truly lives up to its name," Li Ping couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
……
Li Ping hopes to use the third-tier spiritual energy within Flying Snow City to strike the Core Formation Pill in the future.
He readily agreed to Shi Yutong's request to refine pills.
He asked with a smile, "I wonder what kind of pills Sect Leader Shi wishes to refine? By the way, Sect Leader Shi should be aware of the rules governing my pill refining, right?"
Shi Yutong nodded slightly: "Of course I know. What I want Brother Li to refine is the Sweet Dew Pill."
"Ganlu Dan Yao..." Li Ping pondered.
Ganlu Dan is a second-grade high-quality elixir.
It can be taken by late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators to enhance their cultivation. This type of pill is considered a relatively common second-tier high-grade pill, and many late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators with powerful backgrounds take it to accelerate their cultivation.
Similar popular elixirs were naturally found in the legacy left by Xu Pingsheng.
Although Li Ping had never refined it before, with the help of his unparalleled talent, he had already learned the method of refining it.
Thinking of this, he looked at Shi Yutong and asked, "Sect Leader Shi, did you bring the refining materials with you? If you did, I can start refining them right now."
"I brought them." Shi Yutong took out dozens of spiritual materials from her storage bag and placed them all on the table.
Li Ping scanned the area with his divine sense and carefully examined each item.
After a long while, having checked and found nothing wrong, he finally raised his head: "The materials provided by Sect Leader Shi are all of the highest quality. I will now refine pills for Sect Leader Shi."
As they were talking—
brush!
He immediately put away the spiritual materials on the table and led Shi Yutong towards the alchemy room.
……
Ten days later, Shi Yutong walked out of the alchemy room, holding a jade bottle in her hand, her face full of shock and joy.
After observing Li Ping refine pills for ten days, she finally witnessed what real skill was.
Ten pills are produced in one batch, and each one is a high-quality pill.
Li Ping's confidence, casualness, and indifference... all proved that his alchemy skills were not just ordinary second-tier high-grade, but that he had been immersed in second-tier high-grade alchemy skills for a long time, and might soon reach the third tier.
"If he could become a third-tier alchemist..."
Considering the numerous benefits that having a third-tier alchemist would bring to the sect, Shi Yutong made up her mind: "We must win him over, we absolutely must make him a guest elder of the sect!"
……
In his excitement, after refining the elixir...
Shi Yutong didn't rush to leave, but instead lingered with Li Ping in the courtyard, chatting idly.
She looked at Li Ping, and a smile involuntarily appeared in her eyes as she thought of another piece of information about him.
"Thank you so much, Brother Li, for refining the pills for me. If you ever need my help in the future, please don't hesitate to ask." Shi Yutong said with a smile as she put the pills into her storage bag.
Li Ping nodded. He did indeed need Shi Yutong's help, but it wasn't appropriate to bring up the matter of borrowing a third-tier spiritual vein now.
Firstly, he is currently in the late stage of Foundation Establishment and does not need to use the third-tier spiritual veins yet.
Secondly, his relationship with the Flying Snow Sect was not good enough. If he rashly asked to borrow a third-order spiritual vein at this moment, the other party would most likely not agree, and he would only humiliate himself.
After all, the third-tier spiritual vein is the true lifeblood of Flying Snow City.
The cultivators and millions of mortals in the city all depend on this spiritual vein to survive in the icy and snowy far north.
This is a matter of great importance; how could we possibly allow outsiders to use it?
As they chatted, Shi Yutong soon changed the subject to something else.
She feigned curiosity and asked, "I heard that you've been searching for materials to make puppets, Brother Li. Are you perhaps also skilled in puppetry?"
Li Ping never intended to hide the fact that he had instructed Ji Shuxuan to help collect the materials needed to refine the puppet from the Flying Snow Sect.
After all, Ji Shuxuan's collection of materials for crafting puppets and his gathering of information about the Tianqiao Sect were all aboveboard.
As the local power, the Flying Snow Sect must have a firm grasp on all affairs in the city. It would be truly strange if Shi Yutong knew nothing about this matter.
He nodded: "I am indeed interested in puppetry, but I would say I am not an expert, only that I have achieved some success."
"Brother Li is truly multi-talented! I admire him so much!" Shi Yutong said, half in amazement and half in exaggeration. Before she knew it, she had started drinking tea again.
Li Ping automatically ignored her teasing remarks.
Unaware of Li Ping's thoughts, Shi Yutong said with a sigh, "By the way, Brother Li, do you know that there was once a sect in the far north that was extremely skilled in puppetry? Through the accumulation of generations of cultivators in the sect, they even crafted several third-tier puppets, and once dominated the far north with those puppets?"
Li listened quietly.
Shi Yutong continued, "This sect is called Tianqiao Sect. Back then, Tianqiao Sect was the most powerful of the nine major human cities in the far north. Many alien races were intimidated by the power of the third-tier puppets and had no choice but to submit to Tianqiao Sect."
"Nine major cities?" Li Ping found something interesting in Shi Yutong's words.
Shi Yutong sighed, "But the puppets were both their strength and their weakness. The Tianqiao Sect dominated the far north with its third-tier puppets, but in the end, it was also the puppets that led to its annihilation."
Li Ping asked in confusion, "According to Sect Leader Shi, since the Tianqiao Sect has already dominated the far north, what kind of enemy could have wiped them out?"
He had come to a deep understanding of the puppet's power after several battles.
If the Tianqiao Sect really has several third-tier puppets, it would be considered a top-tier force not only in the far north, but also in the western wilderness.
How could their entire family have been wiped out?
Shi Yutong raised her delicate hand and pointed north: "Indeed, there is no force in the far north that can rival them, but there is in the Ice Sea. The Ice Dragon in the Ice Sea is a great demon that has survived the tribulation of lightning."
According to our sect's records, over a thousand years ago, it suddenly attacked, destroying the Heavenly Craftsmanship Sect's mountain gate, devouring the sect's cultivators and millions of mortals, and even completely shattering the Heavenly Craftsmanship Sect's third-tier spiritual land into nothingness.