"Less than two days have passed since the incident in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm, yet the rumors have already spread like wildfire throughout the city. I won't believe it if the Main Shrine and the Demon Race aren't behind all this."
A cold sneer played on Shen Qing's lips, and the frost in her eyes condensed into a dark hue.
Li Xian nodded in agreement, while Xian Shiyu still looked completely out of the loop.
"I thought the incident in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm was caused by a great expert in the cultivation world. How does it involve the Main Shrine and the Demon Realm?"
Shen Qing frowned and quickly pulled Xian Shiyu aside to ask about the rumors outside.
"I only heard that the eldest disciple of a certain sect practiced demonic arts in order to ascend quickly, so he had evil intentions."
Shen Qing's eyebrows twitched. Sure enough, she thought.
She was now certain that the Main Shrine and the Demon Race were colluding. They were shifting the blame to a disciple of a sect in the cultivation world just to take the opportunity to suppress the sect.
Judging from Nan Zhijin's attitude just now, the Main Shrine would target Qingyin Valley first.
Most of the disciples in Qingyin Valley had no powerful backgrounds and came from ordinary families. Someone like He Zhaoxue, who had a background, was already considered extremely lucky.
"Li Xian, I think something bad is going to happen to Qingyin Valley."
Li Xian opened his hand, revealing a note lying inside.
"This was given to me by Master just now. He told me to read it when I was alone. I took a quick look, and it's about Qingyin Valley."
Shen Qing was startled and quickly took the note. Opening it, she read: "I've already foreseen that something will happen to Qingyin Valley. Please tell Shen Qing not to worry. We old fellows will take care of all the sect matters. Focusing on cultivation is the most important thing."
After reading it, Shen Qing thought that Yu Xuzi truly lived up to being the recognized master of the Kunlun Disk. He was truly infallible.
This made Shen Qing feel at ease.
With Yu Xuzi around, the people from the Main Shrine probably wouldn't dare to do anything too extreme.
After everyone had read it, the note turned into light spots and disappeared.
"With Master around, we just need to focus on our cultivation."
Shen Qing nodded. Seeing that Shen Qing's expression had returned to normal, Xian Shiyu clung to her and wanted Shen Qing to tell her what had happened in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm.
The two little girls walked in front, while Li Xian followed behind. Somehow, the two spirit beasts that had been in Xian Shiyu's arms were now in Li Xian's.
The Dark Wolf let out two discontented howls. He had been lying comfortably in the little girl's soft and fragrant arms.
Unexpectedly, Xian Shiyu had stuffed him into Li Xian's arms. Li Xian didn't have that fragrant smell, and his chest was so hard that the Dark Wolf felt extremely uncomfortable.
But the little wolf cub next to him was sleeping soundly. It even let out a milk burp and had no idea what was going on.
Li Xian walked behind, his eyes lingering on Shen Qing's smiling profile.
Shen Qing had too many secrets. Things like the spiritual bone and the system, he had never heard her mention before.
If it weren't for the fact that Shen Qing had accidentally let them slip when she was possessed by the devil, it would have been really difficult to get her to talk about them voluntarily.
The longer they got along, the more Li Xian realized that there seemed to be a high wall in Shen Qing's heart. Apart from herself, no one could easily enter.
But then he thought that he and Shen Qing were actually the same kind of people.
They both had the pain of their original families. If it weren't for the sect and their friends around them, they might have easily gone astray during their growth.
But he was still a little luckier than Shen Qing. Although his parents were unkind, he had been taken under Yu Xuzi's wing as soon as he was born and became his direct disciple. He had grown up under Yu Xuzi's care.
But Shen Qing wasn't like that. She seemed to have to fight with all her might just to get a simple thing.
She had so many secrets hidden on her that Li Xian felt that these things were weighing heavily on Shen Qing, making it hard for her to breathe.
Li Xian had noticed this feeling when they met for the second time.
He had an impulse to tell Shen Qing to trust him and tell him everything. He would always stand by her side.
But Li Xian knew that Shen Qing wouldn't believe him.
However, Li Xian was confident that if they continued to walk together in the future, one day, he would gradually open Shen Qing's heart.
Bit by bit...
Let Shen Qing accept his existence...
"I said, why are you smiling so stupidly? You looked so solemn just now."
The Dark Wolf in Li Xian's arms had witnessed all his mood swings. It thought he was about to have a mental breakdown.
One moment he was full of sorrow, and the next moment he was smiling as if he had let go of his worries.
Li Xian ignored the Dark Wolf's yelling in his arms and was lost in his own thoughts.
He had already conquered Shen Qing's stomach with delicious food. So what should he do next...?
Right, Shen Qing was now at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Although she hadn't formed her Nascent Soul yet, her cultivation was much higher than his. When would he be able to advance to a major realm?
So frustrating... It's so hard to chase a wife... If Xiao Jinglan were here, it would be great...
Shen Qing was so pestered by Xian Shiyu that she had no choice but to briefly tell her what had happened in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm.
But she didn't describe in detail how the spirit beasts had been tortured and killed, for fear of scaring the little girl.
Unexpectedly, Xian Shiyu guessed from Shen Qing's words how the spirit beasts had been tortured and killed.
Shen Qing sighed. As expected of a disciple from the Beast Taming Sect, she really knew everything about spirit beasts.
But after hearing it, the little girl's face turned deathly pale.
She had only heard that none of the living beings in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm had survived, and even the spring eye had been destroyed. She had never imagined that the spirit beasts had been tortured and killed.
"It's so cruel. Although those living beings were created by the secret realm, this person didn't care about the karmic retribution and brutally killed them all. One can imagine how ugly this person's heart is."
Although Xian Shiyu had also killed spirit beasts, she had only killed those that were causing harm and were about to become demons.
"Yes. Someone who can do such a thing must not value life. If such a person can achieve the Great Dao, then this Heavenly Dao..."
"This Heavenly Dao is simply unfair!"
Xian Shiyu angrily finished the sentence that Shen Qing hadn't said.
It was indeed the case, and there was nothing to be afraid of saying.
Xian Shiyu thought that if, as Shen Qing said, such a person could ascend, then the people flying in the sky would all be those who regarded all things in the world as ants. Then the Heavenly Dao would really be hopeless.
Just thinking about it made Xian Shiyu feel like she was going to be angry to death.
"It's a pity about that spiritual spring. It had been flowing continuously for tens of thousands of years, but it was actually destroyed by someone."
"Yes," suddenly, Xian Shiyu seemed to remember something. "By the way, sister, did you go to the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm because you needed the spiritual spring?"
Shen Qing nodded. "Yes. I have something that has been eroded by demonic energy for a long time, and it's very difficult to get rid of it. That's why I need the spiritual spring."
Xian Shiyu clapped her hands, squatted down, and took out more than twenty jars half the height of a person from her storage bag.
She stood proudly beside these jars and said, "Look, how amazing I am! I filled all these with the spiritual spring water."
"You can take as much as you want."