After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

So, she was really unlucky and accidentally entered the illusion created by the awn flower?

But, but...

The slight tingling in the dantian is not fake!

Jiang Li frowned slightly and raised his hand to rub his temple.

Maybe she really was overthinking it.

She said, how could a gloomy courtyard appear out of nowhere in the Qiankun Sect without being discovered?

"Are you injured? Do you want me to help you go to Danfeng for a checkup?" Sun Li saw that Jiang Liqian seemed very distressed and tired, so he asked kindly.

Jiang Liqian shook her head and asked him casually, "Did you come here specifically to pick the awn flowers?"

Sun Li nodded. "Yes, the newly initiated disciples of Taotie Peak are going to hold a delicacy competition. I plan to use the Miscanthus horn flower to make a special delicacy and try my luck."

"A gourmet food competition?"

"You didn't know?" Sun Li was surprised. Then, as if remembering something, he quickly took out a gold-embossed note from his storage bag and handed it to Jiang Liqian. "I almost forgot. You haven't been in Qimingzhai these days, so when my senior brother came to announce the Taotie Peak Gourmet Competition, you didn't know. Here, the date and location are written on it. If you're interested, you can also apply to be a judge."

"Evaluator? Can I eat for free?"

The food at Taotie Peak is so delicious that even Jiang Liqian, who doesn't care about food at all, has heard of its reputation for a long time.

It would be a lie to say that she didn't want to taste the cooking skills of the disciples of Taotie Peak, but if it came to spirit stones, she had never had such a fantastic idea.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what Jiang Liqian said, Sun Li burst out laughing, and his whole body was shaking with laughter.

Jiang Liqian folded her arms and looked at him suspiciously.

Could it be that he was also hallucinating?

Why is she laughing all of a sudden? Is she funny?

Sun Li laughed enough, wiped the tears from his eyes, and patted her shoulder: "Jiang Liqian, I originally thought you were a difficult and cruel fellow disciple, but I didn't expect you to be quite interesting. Zhenfeng is so rich, are you afraid of spending a few spirit stones?"

Jiang Liqian resolutely rejected his idea: "Spirit stones should be spent on the blade. Even if I have a spirit vein, I won't spend it if I don't need to. Diligence and thrift are virtues."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Li laughed even louder.

"So," Jiang Liqian glared at him, "is it free?"

Sun Li laughed for a long time, and when he had finished laughing, he pointed to the notice in her hand and said, "It says it all. For this competition, all disciples of Qiankun Sect can enter for free."

Jiang Liqian was stunned: "How many spirit stones did that cost?"

Then she slapped herself again.

She is not the eldest senior sister now, why should she care whether Taotie Peak loses spirit stones or not!

Seeing that Jiang Liqian didn't look injured, Sun Li spoke to her as they walked out together: "Don't worry. The disciples of Taotie Peak rely on understanding the way of food to improve their cultivation. If someone comes to taste our food and leaves a comment or two, maybe one of them will enlighten us. Compared to this, what are spirit stones?"

“Besides,” he laughed, “the thing that Taotie Peak has the most is spirit stones.”

“…” I almost forgot that Taotie Peak is also a big gold-making peak, and everyone is rich.

"How do I apply to be an assessor?"

"If you want, I can add your name."

"It's that simple?"

"With your senior brother as a 'living signboard', the other senior brothers and sisters will definitely agree to you being the evaluator. Besides, there are not just one or two evaluators, there are hundreds of them, so one more won't matter to you."

"...Can this still happen?"

"Yes."

The sounds of laughter gradually faded away, and a wisp of black mist suddenly swept across the swaying branches and disappeared into the distant horizon.

-

He held the spirit crystal in his hand and looked at it again and again. He turned the beetle over and over again, but he could not find a single flaw. Jiang Liqian ran to the path towards the awn horn flower twice, but still found nothing.

Finally, she sighed and decided not to dwell on it. The Qiankun Sect was full of old monsters anyway, so it wasn't her turn to worry about it. Rather than wasting time with Cao Xian, she might as well return to Zhenfeng and practice in seclusion.

She originally wanted to explore the relationship between Cao Xian and the magic stone, so she agreed to Elder Cao's request and stayed here.

One and a half months is enough time for her to lay a solid foundation and prepare to build her foundation.

After building her foundation, she truly joined the ranks of immortal cultivators.

"Are you leaving again?" Cao Xian felt helpless.

He had never seen a girl more stubborn than Jiang Liqian.

He sent her gifts every day, tried various ways to please her, and gave her whatever she wanted, never saying that he felt sorry for the spirit stones.

If it was another girl, even if she didn't feel close to him, at least she would smile at him, right?

The results of it?

A thousand-year-old iceberg is not as cold as her. She has a dead face and a heart of stone!

Sometimes he even wondered if this girl actually worshipped the headmaster as her master. She didn't match the smiling master of Zhenfeng at all.

Jiang Liqian wasn't interested in what he was thinking. She said calmly, "I only promised Elder Cao to look after you for a few days. Now that your injuries are almost healed, it's time for me to leave."

"But..." Cao Xian was anxious and unwilling.

Jiang Liqian didn't like to argue with people she didn't like, so she dragged her mother away, said "goodbye", and got on a boat and left.

He didn't even wait for Cao Xian to say anything.

Cao Xian could only watch her leaving back and gritted his teeth in hatred.

She returned all the way to Zhenfeng, used the jade token to leave a message for her master and third senior sister that she had returned, and sent a message to Shui Lian'er and Qin Beiyao that she had returned to Zhenfeng. Then she rushed into her room, set up restrictions, and began to practice with her eyes closed.

However, during this training, her state of mind was very unstable. Whenever she closed her eyes, all she saw was the gloomy courtyard, countless flying fallen leaves, the withered lotus pond, and that vague figure with a terrifying aura.

The blood mist in the dantian jumped restlessly, and was then tightly bound by the icy chains.

Jiang Liqian opened her eyes, blood-red and purple light kept interweaving in her eyes, and finally they were all suppressed by her.

She didn't bother to practice her mental skills first, but closed her eyes and silently recited the Heart Cleansing Technique over and over again, allowing herself to clear all distracting thoughts and calm her mind.

Suddenly, the spirit beast bag moved.

Jiang Liqian sensed it and suddenly remembered the little golden peach that she had ignored for a long time, so she quickly released it from the spirit beast bag.

A round ball of fur rolled out, and after a long time, four small paws and a small head emerged from the fur ball.

Jiang Liqian widened her eyes and couldn't figure out who this ball of fur was for a long time.

"Little Golden Peach?"

The fur ball whined twice, then rolled to Jiang Liqian's feet and rubbed against them.

Jiang Liqian was shocked again.

"You, how did you become like this?"