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

They knew about these jade slips, but they hadn't read them because they were short of spirit stones and didn't want to read these rambling notes.

Now that a learned hermit has joined them, he has quickly become their living encyclopedia, and they come to him for advice whenever they don't understand something.

Zhong Lingxin was clever; after the rogue cultivators asked her a few times, she began to pretend she didn't know.

The independent cultivators didn't suspect anything. The further they went in, the higher the level of the spiritual herbs and fruits they encountered. It was normal for her, as an independent cultivator, not to recognize them.

While a group of rogue disciples were discussing a spiritual herb, a surge of spiritual energy suddenly rushed in.

Zhong Lingxin and the two rogue disciples reacted quickly, simultaneously unleashing a burst of spiritual energy towards the source of the energy.

Behind them, a mocking voice rang out: "A bunch of ignorant fools!"

Two disciples from the Loose Cultivator Alliance recognized the group of people standing behind them and instantly became furious: "Wu Lao Er, you're the real idiot! You only managed to get in as a lowly guard because your family has connections in the Law Enforcement Alliance! Everyone knows your father paid a fortune to get you in."

The cultivator known as Wu Lao Er might have indeed entered the Law Enforcement Alliance through back channels. His shortcomings were exposed, and he was furious. Pointing at the disciples of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, he said, "Ghost Head A Si, withered Wang Wu, I have spirit stones, my family has a lot of spirit stones. With your poor appearance, you can't even recognize a spirit herb. You deserve to be poor."

The two sides started arguing back and forth, and soon they were in a heated argument.

More and more disciples gathered around to watch the commotion, and they all sided with Wu Lao Er, mocking the disciples of the Loose Cultivator Alliance.

But when it comes to arguing and cursing, the disciples of the Loose Cultivator Alliance are all seasoned veterans, each one capable of taking on ten men, leaving Wu Lao Er and his group speechless with anger.

This enraged Wu Lao Er to the point of losing his mind; he roared and pounced on him, starting a fight.

Zhong Lingxin did not participate in the verbal battle, but calmly held an ordinary magic sword on guard.

She felt very uncomfortable. Since she started cultivating, she had always been practicing hard and poorly. Now, when she heard Wu Lao Er showing off his wealth, she wanted to slap him twice.

Wu Lao Er is so ostentatious with his wealth, it would be a waste of all my years of hard work not to give him a good beating.

She raised her magic sword and lunged at Wu Lao Er, shouting, "Brothers, the recording stone is finished. This is not something we asked for. Fight! Fight him to death!"

The disciples of the Loose Cultivator Alliance came to their senses and all took out their recording stones.

Those sect disciples who originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to strike a few blows had no choice but to regretfully give up.

There are too many people in the Loose Cultivator Alliance. If the Loose Cultivator Alliance catches them red-handed, their families and sects will be in big trouble.

This slender disciple of the Loose Cultivator Alliance is truly cunning, cutting off their path to fish in troubled waters.

Because there were so many onlookers, Zhong Lingxin was afraid that things might change if she fought too slowly, so she used all her strength from the start and closed in on Wu Lao Er, using all body-cultivation techniques.

So after a few moves, he quickly knocked the magic sword out of Old Wu's hand and slammed him to the ground with one hand.

After being slammed several times, Wu Lao Er's bones were broken, and he was spitting out large amounts of blood, unable to even beg for mercy.

When the sect disciples watching saw how ferocious this thin, rogue cultivator was, none of them dared to utter a sound.

They are not stupid.

At the same level, body cultivators can defeat magic cultivators, and body cultivators can even fight beyond their level.

Judging from the appearance of this thin, rogue cultivator, he can definitely fight opponents of higher levels. Didn't you see how Wu Lao Er, who was at the same level as him, was swung around and slammed by him after only a few exchanges?

Zhong Lingxin swung Wu Lao Er more than ten times, and Wu Lao Er was so badly slammed that he could barely breathe.

She stopped what she was doing, took out a healing pill, and fed it into Wu Lao Er's mouth.

Everyone secretly scorned this skinny young male cultivator, thinking he was all bark and no bite!

Despite how fiercely he threw it, he was just afraid of being hunted down by the Wu family if he died.

But they quickly changed their minds.

Just as Wu Lao Er caught his breath, the thin young male cultivator started throwing again.

He was nearly suffocating when he was thrown, so we gave him another healing pill.

Keep throwing...

The disciples from the surrounding sects all took a step back.

My goodness, I can't even die a quick death!

He's ruthless! He's a ruthless guy! He likes to torture people!

Zhong Lingxin finally stopped after shoveling the dust for a full hour. She disgustedly dusted off her hands and kicked Wu Lao Er, saying, "Damn it, you've dirtied my hands!"

Wu Lao Er lay on the ground, too weak to even lift his hand.

This time, Zhong Lingxin didn't feed him the healing pills again; she just looked at him coldly.

A tremendous fear gripped Wu Lao Er.

He saw murderous intent in Zhong Lingxin's eyes.

After a long silence, he finally managed to utter two words in a barely audible voice: "Spare...my life..."

Zhong Lingxin sneered: "Spare my life? Why should I spare you!"

"Spare me, and I'll give you my storage ring."

"Kill you, and all your storage rings and magical artifacts will be mine."

"I...I'll give you another thousand high-grade spirit stones after I get out."

"Ha ha……"

"Ten thousand high-grade spiritual stones!"

"Ha ha……"

"One hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones! One hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones!"

"Ha ha……"

How much do you want? Name your price!

"The second young master of the Wu family, I heard, spent 100,000 top-grade spirit stones to get into the Enforcer Association, huh..."

"I'll give you 100,000 top-grade spirit stones."

"Heh, it's not that you gave me 100,000 top-grade spirit stones, it's that you used 100,000 top-grade spirit stones to buy a worthless life!"

Zhong Lingxin handed a piece of animal hide and a talisman pen to Wu Lao Er, saying, "Write it down: you owe Wu Huan 100,000 top-grade spirit stones. You'll pay it back after we leave the secret realm. Also, imprint your divine sense on it."

The rogue cultivator known as Ghost Head A-Si said worriedly, "Junior Brother Wu, how are you going to get the spirit stones after you leave? Their family isn't good people, they're wicked!"

Zhong Lingxin said nonchalantly, "That's easy. I'm just a small-time cultivator, with no ties or influence, so I really can't get it. But I can sell it. I'll sell this IOU at 80% off, and someone will buy it, right?"

The group of independent cultivators and sect disciples were all stunned for a moment; it was indeed a good idea.

This Wu Huan, I don't know where he came from, I've never heard of him before, he must be a cultivator without any foundation.

As long as he sells the IOU and slips away quietly, so what if they remember his scent? The Immortal Spirit Continent is so vast; he can just find a place to hide anywhere. With these 80,000 top-grade spirit stones, if he uses them sparingly, it'll be enough for him to cultivate to the Golden Core stage.

Wait, what's going on with Wu Huan? What kind of magical artifact does he have? It's actually shielding his aura!

Several cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage after entering the secret realm were secretly astonished.

Something's wrong with Wu Huan, absolutely wrong.

He's a fake; his name definitely isn't Wu Huan!

Zhong Lingxin didn't care what the cultivators who entered the secret realm speculated about; let them rack their brains as they pleased.