Oh no, I accidentally cultivated three spiritual roots and became an empress!

Qingyang Venerable Saint nodded: "No rush. If we ask her to deal with these people now, she might feel uncomfortable. We have to make her learn her lesson by making her suffer a loss."

Xuan Yuan objected, saying, "Xiao Xin'er is so kind, how can she suffer a loss!"

Qingyang Venerable Saint sighed, "Think back to when we were young, we all grew up like this."

My master told me that when killing an enemy, even if the enemy is already dead, I should finish them off to ensure that they have no chance of survival.

I was careless.

If it weren't for you, I would have been killed by the enemy that time.

"Don't worry, we're watching over her. She still has a chance to correct her mistakes."

Xuan Yuan paced anxiously for a moment, then said, "We need to get her a contracted beast as soon as possible."

With an assistant by her side, we can feel more at ease.

Sigh, sometimes when she's going through trials and tribulations, we simply can't always be by her side.

Qingyang Venerable Saint shook his head: "This is not something we can decide. Her contracted beast can only be formed when the time is right."

As they were talking, Zhong Lingxin returned happily with several storage bags to report on the results of her battle.

Xuan Yuan didn't even glance at the storage bags. Instead, he launched into a tirade against Zhong Lingxin, saying she had been too lenient with these people.

Zhong Lingxin said weakly, "They are from the same sect, and besides, they didn't really hurt me."

Xuan Yuan was exasperated and said bitterly, "It will be too late when they actually hurt you."

There are so many cultivators in the cultivation world, do you really think they all die of old age?

Look at our Qingyun Sect, we recruit disciples every year, especially during our grand recruitment event once every ten years, which brings in tens of thousands of people each time.

Of these people, how many have advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage?

Most of them died from various accidents and fights.

And what about the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages? Aren't many cultivators dying at each stage?

They say that out of a hundred Qi Refining cultivators, only one can reach Foundation Establishment, and out of a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, only one can reach Golden Core. They all die from various accidents. Do you even understand what that means?

You've let these few cultivators go today. They're all from the same sect, and you can't bear to kill them, but you should at least reduce their cultivation so they'll never have a chance to fight you again!

Otherwise, these little bastards will be eyeing you every day, and you'll suffer!

Zhong Lingxin was dumbfounded.

She never intended to reduce their cultivation levels.

She has been in the Qingyun Sect for six years, and has spent three of those years in the Four Seasons Formation.

With her speed, her master even praised her for her solid foundation and fast pace.

Those were the true outer disciples.

They are the ones who truly have difficulty getting promoted.

She felt that taking their storage bags was already a punishment for them.

Xuan Yuan launched into another tirade of exasperation: "What kind of punishment is this? Do you know how corrupt the cultivation world is? Tens of thousands of disciples on Wanfa Peak, the big fish eat the small fish, the small fish eat the shrimp, and protection fees are collected at every level. These few pieces of trash can easily plunder resources from other disciples. This little bit of resources is nothing to them."

Zhong Lingxin was stunned. Oh right, how could she have forgotten about collecting protection money?

It is said that this kind of thing happens in every sect, and the sects are too lazy to care.

As long as no major problems arise, the junior disciples are allowed to do as they please.

This can be considered a compulsory course for the younger disciples' growth.

If you have the ability, stand out as soon as possible.

If you lack ability, you can only become someone else's stepping stone.

Zhong Lingxin was annoyed and muttered, "What should I do then? Should I rob them again in a few days?"

Xuan Yuan was stunned. Had he not made the point clear?

Instead of thinking about preventing these people from posing a threat to her, Zhong Lingxin was eyeing their resources.

Xuan Yuan turned and left in annoyance.

He didn't care.

Zhong Lingxin should learn her lesson from this.

Zhong Lingxin turned to look at her master.

Qingyang Zunsheng lowered his head and drank his tea, ignoring the argument between the two.

Zhong Lingxin returned to the left wing dejectedly, completely devoid of the joy of defeating a few scoundrels.

Uncle Xuanyuan is right. These little bastards suffered a loss, and they'll probably keep thinking about getting revenge on her.

It seems she still needs to improve her skills.

In the time that followed, Zhong Lingxin devoted herself to cultivation, neglecting sleep and meals.

She keeps her schedule packed.

Every morning, just as dawn breaks, after finishing her breathing exercises, she enters the Four Seasons Formation and stays there until the moon is high in the sky. She only leaves the formation when she is so tired that her hands and feet are weak and she can barely walk.

After circulating her spiritual energy for one cycle, she went into the library and studied there eagerly for two hours.

After leaving the library, she would play the zither for another hour.

She only gets two hours of rest each day.

Now, she really wants to reach the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, one no longer needs to eat or sleep; a single Bigu Pill will suffice.

The results of his intensive training came quickly.

In just three months, she advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining.

She reappeared in the ring.

The cultivators who had been stripped naked and hung upside down in the woods to get soaked in the rain all turned red when they saw her.

They are the tyrants of Wanfa Peak. Relying on their connections within the inner sect, they have always been robbing resources from other outer sect disciples and servants on Wanfa Peak.

They worked so hard to snatch it all, only to have it all fall into the hands of that kid on the stage.

Zhong Lingxin is someone who is good at making people angry.

That day, she went into the ring with six storage bags strapped to her waist—the very bags belonging to the six men who had tried to rob her.

Many people below the arena were drawn to the six storage bags lined up at Zhong Lingxin's waist.

There's no way around it; for a normal person, wearing just one is enough. The others can be stored away somewhere else.

Soon, someone recognized it as the storage bag of the six members of the Wanfa Peak Overlord group.

No wonder the six members of the Peak Gang have been desperate for money these past few months, robbing other people's resources everywhere. They accidentally robbed the wrong person and got beaten up so badly that they couldn't get out of bed for half a month.

The disciples on the arena are only at the ninth level.

At this moment, everyone was curious about how Zhong Lingxin had managed to steal the storage bag from the six members of the Fengba group.

Xuan Yuan, who was protecting Zhong Lingxin with his divine sense, laughed heartily.

Xiao Xiao'er is to his liking; he has to be so high-profile, so flamboyant, so infuriating.

Qingyang Venerable Saint also saw it, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes.

He finally understood his little apprentice.

He is a person who is quick to repay kindness and vengeance, and lives a free and unrestrained life.

Although such people live a harder life than others, they are more suited to the world of cultivation. As long as their Dao heart remains intact, they can go higher and farther than others.

That's good, he'll protect his apprentice.

After defeating two opponents, Zhong Lingxin, now in the ring, began to challenge opponents of a higher level.

The rules of the Qingyuan Sect stipulate that opponents must be of the same level in the arena.

If a cultivator wants to fight against someone of a different level, they must apply to the arena management office themselves, and the application must be for a lower-level cultivator to challenge a higher-level cultivator.

Higher-level beings are strictly prohibited from challenging lower-level beings.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be a challenge, but a premeditated murder.

Zhong Lingxin hadn't been to the arena for three months, and when she returned, she had advanced a level and was even challenging a disciple a level higher.

This piqued the interest of a disciple at the tenth level of Qi Refining.