Shen Qing didn't know that she had inadvertently escaped a disaster while she was sound asleep last night.
After waking up, she immediately gathered her belongings and headed straight for the Zonglu Hall.
In the Qingyun Sword Sect, there was a place specifically for issuing and verifying tasks called the Lu Hall. Every disciple who wanted to receive a task or go on a training mission outside the sect had to register there.
Shen Qing took out her jade pendant and handed it to the disciple in charge of registration, asking him to record her name and receive the supplies for going out by the way.
There weren't many supplies for going out, only some low - grade pills and a teleportation talisman.
The disciple glanced at Shen Qing but said nothing. He just hung up Shen Qing's life token and then handed her the supplies, telling her to go down the mountain.
Shen Qing left the Lu Hall smoothly. She took a deep breath and was full of ambition, ready for her first training mission.
Not far away, a group of people caught her eye.
Those people were wearing the disciple robes of the Five - Element Dao Sect. Shen Qing recognized the leading disciple at a glance. It was the one who had helped her when she was about to faint.
That person also noticed Shen Qing. His cold and aloof eyebrows showed no sign of emotion.
Shen Qing had no intention of going up to say hello. She just nodded to him from afar as a greeting.
She thought that the person wouldn't respond, but unexpectedly, the next second, he nodded back at her.
It seems that the people from the Five - Element Dao Sect are quite easy to get along with...
Shen Qing sighed.
After leaving the sect, Shen Qing found that they were also going down the mountain.
When they reached the middle of the mountain, Shen Qing was a bit speechless. These people all had swords hanging from their waists. They could have flown with their swords, but why were they walking on foot just like her?
Her originally relaxed mood was ruined.
With a group of serious - faced outer - sect disciples following behind her, Shen Qing always felt that the atmosphere was awkward and oppressive.
Shen Qing, who originally wanted to save some spiritual energy, no longer wanted to be stingy with it. She quickly summoned Biyue and was about to leave.
"Your meridians are not suitable for circulating spiritual energy just after your breakthrough. It's better not to fly with your sword."
A cold voice came into Shen Qing's ears. She turned around in surprise.
She saw the leading disciple frowning and looking at her with a disapproving look.
"Ah?"
Seeing Shen Qing take a few steps back warily, the man seemed to realize that he had been a bit abrupt. He introduced himself to Shen Qing.
"Li Xian of the Five - Element Dao Sect. Greetings, fellow Daoist."
Li Xian??
Shen Qing suddenly felt that the name was very familiar. In a flash, she recalled the rumors about Li Xian from her past life.
A genius sword cultivator of the Five - Element Dao Sect, the number one among the young generation in the cultivation world. He was already in the late stage of the Golden Core realm at a young age, and no one among his peers could match him.
Even Master Heng Ling, who was extremely arrogant, had not spared his praise for Li Xian after a certain sect competition.
But such a天之骄子 (son of heaven's favor) had fallen silently.
After Li Xian's life token in the sect was broken, the people of the Five - Element Dao Sect were in great chaos. They only found one of Li Xian's severed arms, and they didn't even know how he had died.
But Shen Qing, who was familiar with the plot, knew that as the number one among the young generation in the cultivation world, Li Xian was a person with great luck. And such a person was easy to be targeted by Lin Yibai.
Li Xian's fall was the result of Lin Yibai and the system's scheme.
It was also because Lin Yibai had absorbed Li Xian's luck that he seemed to be on a cheat mode in the later stage.
However, the original text didn't elaborate on how Lin Yibai had attacked Li Xian. It only said that during a certain mission when Li Xian led a team out, he was trapped by a trap specially set by the system.
After that, Lin Yibai used special means to torture Li Xian for three days and three nights. During this process, Li Xian tried to resist, which led to his arm being cut off by Lin Yibai.
In this novel with Lin Yibai as the female protagonist, anyone who dared to harm the female protagonist was classified as a villain.
So in a sense, Li Xian and Shen Qing were actually of the same kind.
Shen Qing put away Biyue and looked at Li Xian hesitantly.
Although Lin Yibai was still lying in bed pretending to be in a coma, Shen Qing wasn't sure if Lin Yibai and the system would find a way to wake up and cause trouble again.
In order to prevent Lin Yibai from stealing Li Xian's luck, Shen Qing decided to travel with Li Xian for a while.
And Shen Qing's concerns were indeed reasonable. Lin Yibai, who should have been lying in bed, was awakened by the system in advance because of the destruction of the diary...
"Thank you for your reminder, Fellow Daoist Li. I have an impertinent request. There is a dense forest outside the Qingyun Sword Sect. Since I can't fly with my sword, I'd like to travel with you until we get out of this forest."
The Qingyun Sword Sect was located deep in a dense forest. If one didn't fly with a sword, they had to pass through the dangerous forest to leave the sect.
As soon as Shen Qing finished speaking, the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect changed their expressions and looked at each other.
Seeing this, Shen Qing reflected on whether her request was too excessive. Otherwise, why did the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect look so strange?
However, Shen Qing had no idea that the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect changed their expressions not because her request was excessive, but because no one had ever dared to make a request to Li Xian.
People from other sects might not know, but the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect knew best.
Their senior brother Li Xian always had a cold face on weekdays, and his heart was even colder than his face.
As long as there was a disagreement, their senior brother wouldn't care who you were. He would just draw his sword and attack.
Whoever dared to talk to him, their senior brother would always glare with suppressed anger, exuding a terrifying and cold aura.
If he didn't like someone, a few sarcastic remarks were already mild. Once, a disciple was so blind as to dirty their senior brother's Dao robe, and he was directly crippled and expelled from the sect.
So on weekdays, the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect didn't dare to talk to Li Xian at all. If they had to talk, they were always very careful, for fear of angering this ancestor.
Seeing Li Xian with a cold face and not saying a word, the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect were scared. They had no choice but to push Xiao Jinglan out.
After all, this was the territory of the Qingyun Sword Sect. If Li Xian attacked a disciple from another sect on their territory, it would be hard for them to explain.
Xiao Jinglan, who was pushed out, turned around and glared fiercely at the disciples huddled together. Then he swallowed his saliva, shrank his neck and walked up to Li Xian bravely.
Shen Qing looked at the little actions of the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect behind Li Xian curiously. When she saw a disciple being pushed out and winking at her, Shen Qing couldn't help but speak.
"Fellow Daoist, do you have a problem with your eyes? Why are you blinking like that?"
Xiao Jinglan was roaring inside.
You're the one with a problem! Your whole family has a problem!
Can't you see that I'm trying to save you?!
Shen Qing looked at Xiao Jinglan, who was on the verge of tears, in confusion and was completely unaware of the collapse of the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect.
"Fellow Daoist, we may..." Xiao Jinglan forced himself to speak.
"Okay, it's fine."
Before the words "not on the same route" could come out, Xiao Jinglan's words were interrupted by Li Xian.
"Then thank you, Fellow Daoist."
Shen Qing thanked Li Xian with a smiling face, completely oblivious to the almost petrified expressions of the disciples of the Five - Element Dao Sect.