My junior sister sees everyone as a heretical cultivator.

Chapter 27 Su Ling'er's Dao Heart
There was no solid ground under my feet; it felt hollow when I stepped on it.

The sea of ​​clouds and the horizon before my eyes, as well as those faces, whether familiar or blurry, all faded and peeled away at this moment.

The world changed once again before her eyes.

When she opened her eyes, the scene before her was no longer the Ladder of Inquiry, but the Qingxu Temple where she had been a disciple for three years, the bluestone square outside the gate where fallen leaves needed to be swept up every day.

The air was filled with the damp scent of grass and trees, and familiar footsteps approached.

"What a pity. What a wonderful girl. She's the only one in our Qingxu Temple with four pseudo-spiritual roots. Her family spent a fortune to send her up the mountain. Now it seems like all their efforts will be in vain."

"That's right, she's still a little bit better than those pure mortals who have no spiritual roots."

But...sigh, all that money was wasted.

With this kind of talent, he probably won't even be able to enter the inner sect. He'd be better off leaving the outer sect sooner rather than later.

"Yes, I heard that after she reached the third level of Qi Refining, she got stuck and could not progress any further."

The sect leader, Xuan Yuan, saw that she was diligent and capable in the outer sect, which is why he advised her to go down the mountain and get married, which was also a way out.

Even at the very least, she's a Qi Refining Stage 3 cultivator. As long as she's not too picky, she can still marry into a good family.

The voices came from blurry faces.

The senior student who said this had once helped her when she was too weak to lift the bucket;

That senior sister from the inner sect also gave her extra copper coins when she asked her to run errands to buy things.

There was no malice in those voices, only pity, but the condescending attitude was suffocating.

Of course, it wasn't just this pity; there was also a lot of undisguised sarcasm from the inner disciples.

"Junior Sister Su, the water isn't even full yet, are you just lazing around here daydreaming again?"

"You, with only a pseudo-spiritual root, dare to dream of Foundation Establishment? You're just daydreaming!"

"Look at you! Since you don't want to come down the mountain, you're destined to be a servant to our inner sect brothers and sisters for the rest of your life!"

In the illusion, she repeatedly tried to draw energy into her body, but the spiritual energy surged wildly through her meridians and wouldn't obey her commands.

Progress remained as slow as a tortoise's pace, and a sense of powerlessness surged from all directions, threatening to overwhelm her.

why?
Just because their spiritual roots are better than mine, does that mean they can rise to the top so easily?

why? !

I've tried so hard, why is it still not working?!

Then, the indifferent face of the Qingxu Temple Master appeared before her.

"No matter what method you use, find out the truth about their cultivation methods, find irrefutable evidence that they are evil cultivators, and tell me all the information."

After this is accomplished, I will not only make an exception and accept you as my personal disciple, but I will also personally cleanse your marrow and reshape your bones!
Even if you don't reach the Core Formation stage in the future, at least the Foundation Establishment stage will definitely be yours.

Su Ling'er knew very well why she had been chosen.

Because she was just an insignificant pawn.

I wouldn't feel bad if I lost it.

He was just an outer disciple doing odd jobs.

However, only someone as diligent and hardworking as her, who yearns for the righteous path and the pursuit of immortality, would faithfully carry out this perilous mission.

This was her only chance as an outer disciple to climb the ranks.

She is lucky and unlucky.

How could those who truly represent the future of sects possibly be sent to carry out such dangerous missions?

They are like precious jade, while she is nothing more than a stubborn stone by the roadside.

But deep down, there was still resentment.

Why? !

Because they were born with inferior spiritual roots, were they destined to be trampled underfoot?

Does being born into a bad family mean you're destined to receive pity and endure ridicule from others?

She also wanted to become a chess player, and no longer wanted to be a chess piece.

The undercover mission was both poison and her only antidote.

Outside the Qingxu Temple, there are countless stubborn rocks like her, who cannot even get the chance to become a pawn, and can only exhaust their lifespan in despair.

And she, Su Ling'er, was chosen.

Even if there are mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead, or bottomless abysses, the end of the road is the word "foundation building".

It is the first real scenery on the path to immortality!

It's better to die on the road than to rot in the same place!
The noise in my mind was cut off by a single thought.

Does having a pseudo-spiritual root really preclude one from becoming an immortal?

She wants to see.

She insisted on seeing the view from the mountaintop!
Su Ling'er's eyes cleared in the illusion.

She lifted her leg and stepped onto the second step.

Third stage. Fourth stage.

……

The tenth level.

Behind them, the illusion of Qingxu Temple collapsed continuously, and the sounds also disappeared.

The scene before my eyes changed once again.

This time, she was suddenly overwhelmed by the intense pain of flames burning her skin, so real that she almost screamed out in agony.

She saw it.

She saw herself being lifted up by two Guixi Sect disciples and thrown into a huge alchemy furnace.

That alchemy fanatic Lu Wu was frantically casting refining spells outside the furnace.

The furnace was blazing, the copper walls glowing red-hot, and I was tumbling inside.

She watched her hands melt away, from skin to flesh to bone, until they turned to charcoal.

The flesh and bones were constantly tempered and burned, eventually being refined into a living pill whose surface constantly displayed its own painful cries!
The scene changes.

Clank, clank, clank…

A deafening hammering sound rang out, and he was once again tied to a forging table.

A giant hammer, shimmering with strange inscriptions, slammed down on him again and again.

His bones shattered inch by inch, his flesh was pounded into a blur, and his body was forcibly twisted and stretched, turning into the prototype of a sword!
Her very soul trembled at this moment!
However, she had no chance to catch her breath as the ground beneath her feet turned into wet mud.

The surroundings were filled with the despair-driven, numb atmosphere of the Spirit Beast Garden.

She will never forget it.

She watched herself become one of them, her eyes numb, her limbs shackled, forced to work in the fields, being pulled by a mine cart.

If you stop for even a moment, you'll be whipped until your skin is torn and bleeding.

He could only painfully pull the cart forward step by step, serving the Guixi Sect disciples who were chatting and laughing beside him.

Watching them enjoy the spirit stones they had worked so hard to move and the spirit herbs they had painstakingly grown.

And one can only watch from afar as this endless labor eventually comes to an end.

Until their lifespan is exhausted and their soul perishes, their fallen body will be taken to the sect and processed into human soil.

This is the Guixi Sect!

This is a den of iniquity where you can't see your hand in front of your face!

Su Ling'er's soul trembled incessantly, and every part of her body seemed to be screaming for her to run away and give up!
But why cultivate Taoism?

Isn't it all for the sake of immortality?

Isn't it all for the sake of living as long as the heavens, roaming freely between heaven and earth, and witnessing all the splendor of this world?

Isn't it all about being able to control your own destiny, to no longer be afraid, and to no longer be at the mercy of others?

She, Su Ling'er, is determined to become an immortal!
Even if she only has a pseudo-spiritual root of four elements, even if her aptitude and constitution are extremely poor.

She still wants these things.

She's going to make all of this a reality!
She wanted to trample these demons who treated human life as a plaything under her feet, and let these evil cultivators who disregarded human life taste the despair they felt!

Her steps became heavy, and the mental anguish with each step caused her body to tremble uncontrollably, but she never stopped walking.

Level 20!
Thirty levels!
Forty steps!
……

Ask the question at the bottom of the ladder.

The scene erupted in uproar, all eyes fixed on the slender figure climbing upwards.

Am I seeing things?

Junior sister, isn't this your first time here?
"So that's how you climb to the forty-five steps?!"

"What a joke!"

"Does this new local junior sister have such a high level of hidden willpower?"

"Look at her expression. It doesn't seem like she's asking a question, but rather seeking revenge."

"I reckon her Dao Heart or Willpower attributes are frighteningly high."

The others all looked at the disciples of the Weapon Refining Pavilion who had just come down the ladder.

Those disciples who practiced the "Sword Refining Technique".

When you play this "Stairway to Enlightenment" game, doesn't everyone have to come down after climbing ten or twenty steps the first time?
Even those who were randomly given higher Dao Heart and Willpower attributes at the start and cultivated the "Sword Refining Technique" only progressed to the 30th or 40th level.

In the end, they either suffocate under the oppressive force or are driven insane by the illusions of their inner demons.

Lin Qingfeng also dropped his nonchalant expression, and his face became somewhat playful.

This junior sister... in the initial data, her talent and aptitude were so poor, she was a pseudo-spiritual root, and even a bit of an artificial intelligence disorder.

Did she initially allocate all her random attributes to her will or Dao heart?
Or is it that the judgment mechanism for native NPCs in this Daoist Ladder is different from that for us players?
(End of this chapter)