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Chapter 40 Lots of doubts
Song Xinci has been practicing the "Taishang Wangqing Dao" since childhood, and has always been emotionally stable with very few fluctuations.

She herself couldn't understand why her mood started to fluctuate so drastically after meeting Yun Yi. Could he really be her enemy?

She watched Yun Yi and the graceful woman enter a private room deep in the Dan Pavilion. Although the two were just refining pills, what was the meaning of the "hugging" afterwards?

This made it increasingly difficult for Song Xinci to remain rational, and he could only choose to turn a blind eye.

So after she wandered around Fuyao Sect alone, she returned to Youxi Peak early.

When Yun Yi found his junior brother, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm sorry, junior brother. I was busy refining the elixir today and almost forgot about you."

Although Song Xinci had many complaints in her heart, her current identity was Shi Yucheng, so she could only suppress her anger and explain, "I searched for a long time at Yunxia Peak and couldn't find Senior Brother Yun, so I came back on my own."

"It was indeed my fault. I'm giving this pill to you as an apology." Yun Yi handed over a bottle of Snow Swallow Powder and said, "I've been busy all day just for this."

Song Xinci pretended to be dumbfounded and asked, "What is this?"

"Snow Swallow Powder can replenish spiritual energy after taking it. However, I see that Junior Brother's cultivation is also in the early stage of Qi Refining Realm. Taking this may cause some adverse reactions."

"Adverse reaction?"

"Farts and burps and stuff, but luckily we're all men, so you don't have to be embarrassed."

Song Xinci's eyes widened, and she suddenly realized a very serious problem. With her current level of cultivation, taking Xueyan Powder would have no effect at all.

If I want to appease Yun Yi, don’t I have to pretend to burp?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Yun Yi seemed to see the dilemma of his introverted junior brother and said considerately, "I will go to the mountain to practice in a while. Junior brother, you can take the pills in the house."

"Um……"

"By the way, Master asked us to go to the Divine Forest tomorrow to do our routine inspection to see if there are any unusual movements in the earth veins."

"understood."

After saying this, Yun Yi hurried away, carrying the large iron sheet on his back. It seemed that he was eager to take the elixir to improve his cultivation. Song Xinci was left alone in the house, inexplicably feeling like a resentful woman in the boudoir.

She stared at the porcelain bottle in her hand for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking, and finally put the Snow Swallow Powder into the Sumeru Ring.

"What a fool." The precious elixir he had worked so hard to refine was useless to Song Xinci.

Song Xinci tried hard to drive Yun Yi out of her mind and began to think about the stinky beggar. Today, she found several disciples and used soul-stealing techniques to search their memories, finding some clues about the Sang Sutra.

Sang Jing is a disciple of the Book Pavilion, and his master is Elder Piaomiaozi. What is particularly noteworthy is that he and the master scholar Meng Fan are from the same school.

Song Xinci had some impression of Meng Fan; the two had met during a battle between good and evil. Meng Fan had fallen in love with her at first sight and had been pestering her for a long time, talking about turning over a new leaf and starting over. In short, he was a narcissistic and conceited playboy.

As for Elder Piaomiaozi, Song Xinci had heard of him. He was the Grand Elder of the Book Pavilion, a master in the late Return to Void Realm and a half-step into the Dao. Unlike elders like Qingwei who favored unconventional methods, Piaomiaozi wielded real power and was a ruthless figure within the Fuyao Sect, second only to the emperor.

Even Daocheng has to rely on Piaomiaozi for many things.

This also caused Song Xinci to be quite suspicious. Since Sang Jing was Piaomiaozi's apprentice, why did Piaomiaozi seem to be in no hurry to find the murderer after his mysterious death? Instead, Xun Ziyu and Qi Ling'er, who were friends with Sang Jing, were asking around and even asked their own master for divination?

Furthermore, from the memories of those disciples, it was known that Sang Jing and Meng Fan had a good relationship, and that he often helped his senior brother manage the affairs of the library. If this was true, then Meng Fan's reaction to his junior brother's murder was rather indifferent.

In comparison, Yun Yi's life is much simpler, he practices sword and makes alchemy, and goes back and forth between two places.

He climbed up the mountain as usual and took the Snow Swallow Powder. He immediately felt full of spiritual energy all over his body, so he struck while the iron was hot and began to practice the Sword Sharpening Sutra.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but every time the Fangyuan Sword touched or rubbed against his body, it seemed to become slightly lighter and the blade brighter. Of course, these changes were so subtle that Yun Yi thought he was just seeing things.

However, the benefits that the Sword Sharpening Sutra brought to his body were very significant. Although it was not as hard as steel, it could barely be as hard as a rock when protected by spiritual energy.

Moreover, the hard training in the past few days has also made his initial Qi Refining Realm begin to loosen up. With the help of Snow Swallow Powder tonight, he has made some progress and is about to break through to the middle stage.

Yun Yi practiced while thinking about his next plan.

With Su Qing's help, he didn't have to worry about wasting the medicinal herbs on hand. This was his biggest gain from joining the Fuyao Sect this time.

As long as you practice step by step like this, it won’t be long before you can refine your Qi and transform it into a spirit, and then you will be able to fight against the incidents caused by Futian Pavilion.

There was only one small thing that concerned him.

Shi Yucheng, Junior Brother Shi is a strange person. He was pestering me with questions yesterday, but today he suddenly became introverted and taciturn.

It was as if he was angry that he had left him alone on Yunxia Peak.

Moreover, the expression of the junior brother when he was angry was quite similar to that of the woman. Sometimes, after Yun Yi had been with him for a long time, he actually had the illusion that the junior brother opposite him was actually a junior sister.

What’s even more terrifying is that if Shi Yucheng is really a junior sister, Yun Yi actually feels that she looks familiar.

He shook his head, quickly driving these irrelevant thoughts out of his mind.

……

The previous incident of contaminated earth veins at Cuiwei Mountain had drawn Daocheng's attention, leading to an increase in the frequency of disciples' outbound inspections. However, the results of these inspections had not yet been released, so Yunyi was unaware of any other contaminated earth veins.

The next day, Elder Qingwei ordered Xun Ziyu and Qi Ling'er to form a team, and Yun Yi and Shi Yucheng to form a team, to patrol the east and west sides of the Shenmu Forest respectively. All four of them were in the Qi Refining Realm, so they were going to a place closer to the sect.

Disciples in the Spirit Transformation Realm were arranged to go to farther or more dangerous places.

Qingwei originally planned to let Xun Ziyu and Qi Ling'er, who joined the sect earlier, bring a fellow apprentice each, but when he saw Qi Ling'er, who was so excited about the trial, he was sure that this playful girl was probably not as reliable as Yun Yi, who came two years later.

Moreover, Qi Ling'er has a lively personality, and except Xun Ziyu, I'm afraid no one can control her.

So Qingwei finally made the current arrangements.

Before leaving, he reminded everyone, "The Sect Leader said that the unusual movement in the earth veins is related to the Demon Sect's Myriad Poison Sect. We also found the body of that old devil, Master Wandu. You all need to be smart. If you find anything wrong, come back and ask for help."

The disciples replied, "I will remember this carefully."

Xun Ziyu gave Yun Yi and Shi Yucheng each a communication talisman and warned them, "The talismans only require a small amount of spiritual power to activate. Once you go out, don't act separately. Patrolling the earth veins used to be an easy task, but now it always helps to be cautious."

"Okay, if we encounter a dangerous situation, the four of us will first find a way to reunite." Yun Yi deeply agreed with this, and exchanged some escape experiences with Xun Ziyu. The two of them got along very well.

Song Xinci was thinking about something.

She was not worried about the unusual movement of the earth veins, but she was quite concerned about why someone would use the corpse of Master Wandu to pollute the earth veins, and what role did the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect of the Demon Sect play?
The Demon Lord has been in seclusion for many years, and the Demon Sect is now not united. Many sects act independently and rarely interact with each other.

From her understanding of the Myriad Poison Sect, those old poisoners had always bullied the weak and feared the strong. How could they dare to take the initiative to attack the Fuyao Sect this time? It was really strange. Grandpa Qiu Feng had said that recently many disciples of the Demon Sect had received commissions to destroy the earth veins, and the rewards were generous.

Is it also related to this matter?

(End of this chapter)