Chapter 77

Lu Xiaoding was very worried about Ge Pi. How could someone like him become an evil cultivator? He didn’t even need to be deceived by others; he just jumped right in.

She sighed deeply and said helplessly, "I came here to look for the egg. I’ve been searching for a long time. Since we’ve become quite familiar, could you take me to find the egg?" This wasn’t a lie; she had indeed been searching for a long time, wasting a lot of it with the Red-Scaled Dragon.

"I’m not that familiar with you. Why should I help you with this?" Ge Pi snorted, putting on the airs of an evil cultivator.

Lu Xiaoding looked at Ge Pi and found him a bit strange. This was clearly his sect’s stronghold, yet he hadn’t shouted for help. When someone came over, he even covered his mouth, as if afraid of being seen.

If he were on the run, it wouldn’t make sense for him to chat so leisurely with her. Moreover, he had been insisting on leaving and cursing his master as an old scoundrel. Could it be that he had learned something he shouldn’t have, found it disgusting, and wanted to leave?

Not wanting to be discovered meant he didn’t want others to know what he had seen. The more she thought about it, the more she felt this was the reason, and the hope of cooperation grew.

Thinking this, Lu Xiaoding said calmly, "Your master treats you like that, and you still remember his good points, unwilling to take his egg. You’re truly one of the top ten filial disciples in the world." Since she didn’t know what had happened, she decided not to mention the event itself and just spoke casually.

Ge Pi looked at her in shock, his expression incredulous. Even outsiders knew about this. Could it be that everyone in the Tianling Sect except him knew?

"Did you hear it from other disciples?" He shouted angrily, "Everyone knows what my master wants to do to me, and they all help him against me, treating me like a monkey."

Lu Xiaoding didn’t know what Ge Pi’s master wanted to do to him. Besides soul-snatching, there didn’t seem to be anything else that could make a disciple hate so much. Listening to him, it seemed his master was still alive, so how could he soul-snatch? She really couldn’t understand.

Talking nonsense was the easiest way to get caught, so she said sincerely, "Since he treats you so badly, why not join me in a big commotion and take revenge on him?"

"Take revenge on him?" Ge Pi looked as if he had just woken up, staring at her. Why hadn’t he thought of this before? He had only wanted to leave quickly and never see them again, which was too weak. He should make them suffer.

He clenched his fist and said through gritted teeth, "Alright, he only thought of playing with me. Now I’ll make him taste it. We’ll destroy his life’s work."

"Why does it sound like your master did something inhumane to you, with a bit of a perverted feel... It’s not that serious, is it?" Lu Xiaoding moved to the side, her eyes strange.

Ge Pi, hearing this, said angrily, "What do you mean it’s not that serious? He stole me, a young cultivator with excellent potential from a prestigious sect, when I was still in the cradle. For his own desires, he said I was an orphan without parents, taught me evil techniques, and spoiled me to turn me into a bad person."

Lu Xiaoding was stunned, thinking he had some issues. Teaching him techniques and spoiling him was wrong? Just stealing him was a bit confusing. Was Ge Pi of such high quality that he was very suitable for learning evil techniques?

She couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Why did your master steal you?"

"Of course, it’s because he liked my mother and couldn’t have her, so he didn’t want her to be happy." Ge Pi shouted, suddenly feeling something was off and asked, "You didn’t know?"

"Of course not. Such a private matter, who would tell me? I’m just curious, how did you find out?" So, it was a man driven by love and hate, wanting to ruin the son of the woman he loved.

Ge Pi’s face turned red with anger, unsure if it was from rage or self-hatred for telling her the truth. After a long pause, he said fiercely, "You know nothing, and you just blindly followed me."

"This isn’t my fault. Seeing you afraid of being discovered, I thought you had failed a mission in Peach Leisure City and your senior brother had reported you. Now your master wants to kill you as an example." Lu Xiaoding shrugged, feeling quite wronged.

"The Black Corpse Wood being destroyed, making my master lose the Black Wood Fruit and unable to reach the Soul Formation stage, is all because of your Cloud Sword Sect. If you hadn’t done this, my senior brother wouldn’t have tried to avoid responsibility by putting the blame on me, and my master wouldn’t have revealed this." Mentioning this, Ge Pi was filled with anger. He had been a beloved little uncle in the Tianling Sect, living a carefree life without any pressure.

Now, because of this small matter, he had to hear such a shocking truth from his master. How could he live happily ever after? Seeing his master’s face would make him think of his biological parents, and the most infuriating part was that the other party was a major sect, not some obscure evil cultivator or third-rate small sect.

Seeing his agitated state, Lu Xiaoding suddenly punched him, hitting his nose. She said impatiently, "Quickly tell me where the Lincai Pheasant’s egg is. I don’t want to listen to your trivial matters. I kindly invited you to join me in revenge, but you refused. In the end, you’re just unwilling to give up your status here. The Tianling Sect is about to fall, and your good days are over. Help me quickly, and this will wash away your evil cultivator identity, allowing you to find your successful parents."

Ge Pi held his nose, feeling as if he had been hit by a cauldron, tears almost streaming down. He said with great委屈, "We were talking about this the whole time, and you suddenly jumped to the egg. You should at least let me react. Why did you hit me right away?"

"Looking at you makes me want to hit you. It’s not because I’m jealous of your good looks, you know." Lu Xiaoding said casually, not taking it seriously.

"I’ll take you there, and you can destroy wherever you want. But you must protect my safety and not settle accounts later. You also have to take me to my mother to prove I’m her child." Even Lu Xiaoding had come in, so the righteous sects must have surrounded the Tianling Sect. Now, turning to the light was the right path. Logically, he was a complete victim, and his mother’s sect was there, so there shouldn’t be any danger.

Lu Xiaoding was shocked, "How can I prove you’re her child? If you have a mark, show it. If not, you should have some token. Do you think people will believe a son fell from the sky just because I say so?"

"I mean, you should explain it. Without your introduction, I probably can’t even get through the gate." Ge Pi thought she was too naive. Just standing at someone’s mountain gate and shouting that your mother is a Core Formation cultivator wouldn’t get you welcomed. You’d be lucky to escape with your life.

"That’s no problem. Everyone is happy to help return a lost son to his mother. It’s a favor that costs nothing, and everyone is willing to do it." Lu Xiaoding nodded in agreement.

This didn’t sound comfortable, and Ge Pi felt that even if it was true, there was no need to be so blunt. Luckily, it was just the two of them; otherwise, it would have been very embarrassing.

"Can we go now? I’m in a hurry to get the egg." Just picking up an egg, why was it so complicated? She had already made deals with a human and a beast. Lu Xiaoding was getting annoyed. If it weren’t for the pheasant’s leg, she wouldn’t have bothered.

Ge Pi glanced at her angrily and stood up, leading the way. "No one knows I heard this, so they won’t be suspicious. I told you not to speak to avoid being discovered. They are investigating the eavesdropper. Now I’ll pretend to have just returned, and I can pass by others on the way."

"You’re really stupid, even failing at eavesdropping." Lu Xiaoding stretched and complained as she followed.

Who wouldn’t be shocked hearing such a thing? She hadn’t done it on purpose. This demon cultivator was too annoying. Once she found her mother, she’d tell her about this demon cultivator as a gift. A Spirit Formation demon beast was a significant gift.

Ge Pi, with his small calculations, led Lu Xiaoding back, taking her to get the Lincai Pheasant’s egg. Wearing the skin of an evil cultivator, he needed Lu Xiaoding to protect his life and lead him to the path of a righteous young hero.

On the surface, the Tianling Sect was a third-rate small sect selling spirit pets, but its true identity was the Ghost Spirit Sect. It wasn’t that the Ghost Spirit Sect had taken over and used the Tianling Sect as a puppet. From the beginning, the Tianling Sect was established by the Ghost Spirit Sect to gain a foothold and avoid being constantly attacked by the righteous sects.

They spent over ten years establishing a small sect here, using techniques like soul extraction to catch demon beasts and sell them. Gradually, they gained a reputation and spent over three hundred years to reach their current scale.

However, in the competition for spirit gathering areas, they didn’t want to stand out or reveal their strength, so they didn’t have a single spirit gathering area. This low-profile, small-profit sect that only raised spirit pets indeed seemed unremarkable.

But this wasn’t their goal. If they didn’t have the ambition to become powerful and unify the world, they wouldn’t have become evil cultivators, using those heaven-defying techniques to enhance their cultivation. This time, if they could produce a Soul Formation cultivator, they could move the Ghost Spirit Sect to those dark places, developing into a powerful evil sect that even the righteous sects wouldn’t dare to attack easily.

Staying here wasn’t a solution. At evil sect gatherings, they could only sit at the back, with no status.

What they wanted was the kind of power where the sky would turn dark when they went out, and righteous cultivators would flee at the sight. They didn’t want to live a life where they were constantly pursued by the righteous sects just for revealing their identity.

Unfortunately, the most important Black Wood Fruit had turned to charcoal, and they still didn’t know who did it.

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The Tianling Sect, on the surface, was a third-rate small sect selling spirit pets, but its true identity was the Ghost Spirit Sect. It wasn’t that the Ghost Spirit Sect had taken over and used the Tianling Sect as a puppet. From the beginning, the Tianling Sect was established by the Ghost Spirit Sect to gain a foothold and avoid being constantly attacked by the righteous sects.

They spent over ten years establishing a small sect here, using techniques like soul extraction to catch demon beasts and sell them. Gradually, they gained a reputation and spent over three hundred years to reach their current scale.

However, in the competition for spirit gathering areas, they didn’t want to stand out or reveal their strength, so they didn’t have a single spirit gathering area. This low-profile, small-profit sect that only raised spirit pets indeed seemed unremarkable.

But this wasn’t their goal. If they didn’t have the ambition to become powerful and unify the world, they wouldn’t have become evil cultivators, using those heaven-defying techniques to enhance their cultivation. This time, if they could produce a Soul Formation cultivator, they could move the Ghost Spirit Sect to those dark places, developing into a powerful evil sect that even the righteous sects wouldn’t dare to attack easily.

Staying here wasn’t a solution. At evil sect gatherings, they could only sit at the back, with no status.

What they wanted was the kind of power where the sky would turn dark when they went out, and righteous cultivators would flee at the sight. They didn’t want to live a life where they were constantly pursued by the righteous sects just for revealing their identity.

Unfortunately, the most important Black Wood Fruit had turned to charcoal, and they still didn’t know who did it.