Bone-stripping and tendon-pulling? The reborn senior sister becomes the number one cultivator in the

Xie Wanning slept very soundly.

She didn't wake up until three days later.

Xie Wanning was surprised to find that her dantian had been restored to its original state, and her spiritual power had recovered to 80%.

She stood up, about to go out, when she sensed a concealment barrier set up outside the cave.

Is someone protecting her?

Xie Wanning didn't know who that person was, but she was deeply moved.

In the turbulent world of cultivation, Xie Wanning was framed, hunted down, and even died twice. A myriad of sorrows welled up within her; Xie Wanning felt a sharp pain in her chest, and her arm was dampened by something.

Outside the cave, a torrential downpour was threatening to engulf everything on the ground. The rain lashed against the leaves, making a piercing, shrill sound.

Xie Wanning sat down cross-legged and circulated her inner energy, allowing the surrounding spiritual energy to flow into her body.

Three hours later, Xie Wanning's body was finally filled with spiritual energy.

She began to reflect on the current situation.

Nowadays, Xie Wanning's reputation—no, it should be Xu Weilin's name—has long been scorned by the cultivation world. Everyone thinks she colluded with the demon race, stole inheritances, and killed cultivators; she is an absolute demon.

However, Xie Wanning knew that Ye Qianqian was definitely behind this. Although there was no evidence, Xie Wanning's intuition told her that this was indeed the case, as if this kind of thing had happened hundreds or thousands of times.

She is now in grave danger. The sects of the cultivation world have jointly announced that they will offer one million high-grade spirit stones to arrest Xu Weilin. That's quite a generous offer.

Xie Wanning couldn't help but laugh at herself.

Her most important task now is to clear her name, and the best time for that is the upcoming sect competition.

The Sect Grand Competition is a competition jointly organized by the eight major sects and some smaller sects. Disciples from different sects compete against each other until the top ten disciples are determined. Only then will they have the opportunity to enter the Lingxiao Palace to select magical treasures.

Xie Wanning wasn't particularly interested in magical artifacts, but during the sect competition, all the major sects would gather. If she revealed the truth then, her chances of clearing her name would increase.

However, only sect disciples can participate in the sect competition. How can she sneak into the sect competition?

Although Xie Wanning really wanted to ask Si Jinchuan for help, she considered that her current identity would only bring trouble to Si Jinchuan, wouldn't that be repaying kindness with enmity? Xie Wanning didn't want to be an ungrateful person, so she didn't plan to return to Yunxiao Sect.

Perhaps we could try looking for an opportunity there.

Xie Wanning secretly had an idea in her mind.

Before this, Xie Wanning needed to ensure she survived until the sect's grand competition, so she began refining pills, drawing talismans, and forging weapons.

Although she seemed to have no memory of these things, as the paper said, she knew eight kinds of martial arts, so Xie Wanning did not find it difficult to do these things, and her memory seemed to be clearer.

Having made all the necessary preparations, Xie Wanning opened the barrier and stepped out of the cave.

Little did she know that the moment she stepped out of the barrier, the people of the eight major sects had anticipated this and all sent their disciples and assassins to hunt her down.

Xie Wanning's future is fraught with difficulties.

Jiuding Division.

"Senior Sister, stop refining pills. You haven't left the house for two months." A young girl dressed in the Nine Cauldrons Sect's Taoist robe called out from outside the door.

Since Xia Mengqi returned from the Void Realm, she has stayed in the alchemy room and hasn't come out.

At first, Yunyan, as the junior sister, didn't care much. After all, her senior sister was a pill-refining fanatic who could stay in the pill-refining room for ten days or half a month.

It wasn't until a month later, when the alchemy room remained completely silent except for the sounds of explosions, that Yunyan began to suspect something was amiss.

She assumed that her senior sister had reached a bottleneck in alchemy and that was why she had been locked in the alchemy room, so she left after saying a few words of concern outside the door.

Another month has passed, and the eldest sister still hasn't come out. There's not a sound in the alchemy room, not even a trace of medicinal fragrance.

Unable to contain her worry, Yunyan anxiously begged her senior sister to open the door.

However, the senior sister set up a restriction on the outside of the door, so the door will not open unless she opens it from the inside.

The eldest sister has not come out for a long time. Could it be that something bad has happened to her?

Yunyan pounded on the door harder and harder, as if she wanted to smash it down to see how her senior sister was doing.

"Senior Sister, please open the door." Yunyan's voice was choked with emotion.

She was genuinely concerned about her senior sister's condition.

Unable to hear anything from inside the room for a long time, Yunyan had no choice but to stop knocking and go look for her master.

Before long, in front of Xia Rujing's room, the head of the Nine Cauldrons Division, followed by Yun Yan with a worried expression and her second disciple, Lü Siyan, who was bowing her head in silence.

"When did she begin her seclusion to refine medicine?" Xia Rujing asked Yun Yan seriously, her brows slightly furrowed.

“More than two months ago,” Yunyan answered truthfully.

A hint of worry flashed in Xia Rujing's eyes.

Xia Rujing was always serious and rarely smiled, but she was extremely indulgent towards Xia Mengqi. Everyone suspected that Xia Rujing and Xia Mengqi were mother and daughter. However, the two did not resemble each other, and Xia Rujing had no lover and could not possibly have a daughter. Therefore, others could only be jealous that Xia Mengqi, although not Xia Rujing's daughter, received the same treatment as a biological daughter.

Previously, Xia Rujing had been in seclusion cultivating. It wasn't until Yunyan informed her that her senior sister hadn't left the alchemy room for two months that Xia Rujing rushed there in a panic.

"Mengqi, please open the door." Xia Rujing's tone softened, carrying a gentleness she rarely showed.

The door remained closed for a long time.

Xia Rujing realized that her eldest disciple might really be in trouble.

So she made a snap decision to forcefully open the barrier and burst through the door.

Upon entering, one is greeted by the pungent aroma of medicine. Then, one sees the walls of the room charred black, the floor littered with discarded elixirs, and in the center of the room, Xia Mengqi lies unconscious on the floor, her entire body blackened, with some areas of her skin even burned.

Xia Rujing hurriedly helped her up and fed her an eighth-grade pill.

After a while, Xia Mengqi finally woke up.

Her eyes were filled with confusion, followed by a sense of relief.

She raised her hand, opened her palm, and revealed to everyone a seventh-grade blood-replenishing elixir.

"Master, I... am able to... refine the Seven..." Xia Mengqi's voice was weak, but her dark eyes shone brightly, like stars in the night.

"Don't speak yet, your injuries haven't healed." Xia Rujing stopped Xia Mengqi from speaking, gently stroking her head, her eyes filled with deep self-reproach and worry: "Mengqi, remember, don't lose your life for alchemy. Do you know that if I had arrived any later, you would really be dead?"

Xia Mengqi nodded slightly, a look of shame on her face.

After returning from the Void Realm, Xu Weilin and Ye Qianqian's genius alchemy skills left an indelible impression on her, especially Xu Weilin, who could still produce eighth-grade pills even though her alchemy method was wrong.

Unconvinced, Xia Mengqi locked herself in the alchemy room and kept studying the alchemy techniques of the Invincible Taoist.

In nearly a thousand attempts at alchemy, nearly a hundred furnaces exploded, and countless pills were ruined. Xia Mengqi's body was covered in wounds, but she did not want to give up.

In the end, Xia Mengqi developed inner demons, the quality of the pills she refined became lower and lower, and the number of times her pill furnace exploded became more and more frequent. Inside her body, there was a "Xia Mengqi" with bloodshot eyes who tried to take over her body several times.

The suppression of a genius, endless failures, and the downgrading of pills all gave Xia Mengqi a splitting headache, making her want to give up.

But then she thought of that person. She hadn't found him yet, so how could she collapse here?

They had made a pact to become top alchemists in the cultivation world, and Xia Mengqi could not break the pact.

Therefore, she deciphered the Undefeated Taoist's cultivation method and finally refined a seventh-grade spiritual pill. Although it was not an eighth-grade spiritual pill, it was the best spiritual pill she had at the moment.

Xia Rujing looked at the elixir and smiled, "It's a grade seven elixir with a smooth appearance and excellent effects."

Xia Mengqi smiled too.