funbook-pk Chapter 25 Sect Grand Competition 4
Chapter 25 Sect Grand Competition 4
What? Are you kidding me?
Lin Yue was so shocked that he stood up from the audience, his face full of astonishment, looking incredulously in Dong Wan's direction. What's wrong with this girl?
Zhang Yunling looked at Dong Wan with a puzzled expression and slowly asked, "What are you doing?" Ignoring the gazes of the elders and other disciples who had gathered around, Dong Wan turned around and threw the pill in her hand to Zhang Yunling, replying, "To tell you the truth, I have long been disgusted by the ugly behavior of some people who secretly take advantage of others. Today, I abstained from the competition to speak out against this!"
Elder Wang became anxious upon hearing this. He had originally thought he could get away with this by muddying the waters and that he would never do such a treacherous thing again after getting the jar of wine. However, he never expected that this naive female disciple would expose him.
Zhang Yunling caught the pill, his expressionless face, which had remained unchanged for a day and a night, finally broke into a smile. He put away the crimson pill furnace in front of him, then stood up and took a few steps, standing beside Dong Wan. He also looked up at Elder Wang in mid-air and said in a deep voice:
"Elder, with your seniority and cultivation, surely you wouldn't have accurately placed a bunch of inferior herbs into my hands?"
Although Elder Wang had lived for over a thousand years and was much more composed than the average person, this was still relative. Even he was somewhat nervous when this blatant act of persecution was exposed.
Faced with Zhang Yunling's questioning, Elder Wang still tried to struggle, bracing himself to retort: "These herbs are all of different qualities. You just didn't master the craft and failed to refine the pill, yet you blame me and accuse me of deliberately giving you inferior herbs? How utterly ridiculous!"
Before Zhang Yunling could retort, Dong Wan stepped forward and took out an item from her storage bag—the very same pill that Zhang Yunling had previously refined, which had been contaminated with poison.
"Elder, please take a look at this pill. This is the pill that Zhang Yunling refined using the herbs you personally distributed. The original medicinal power was very weak, and in addition, one of the herbs was too old and had already undergone a change in medicinal power, which resulted in this pill being contaminated and becoming a poisonous pill. How do you explain this result?"
Seeing the other party pressing closer, Elder Wang was already red-faced and furious. In order to protect his reputation, he still persisted: "Nonsense! This pill was taken from your storage bag. Could it be that you deliberately took it out to frame me? I think you two are both wicked people. Now get out of here right now!"
"No need for further words. It's better not to participate in such a filthy sect competition." Zhang Yunling waved his hand indifferently, then took Dong Wan's hand and flew off the field.
Before Dong Wan could react, Zhang Yunling had already led her away, and the two of them flew towards the mountain peak of the Qiankun Dao inner sect in full view of everyone.
Seeing this scene from afar, Lin Yue's shock had subsided considerably. However, seeing Dong Wan and Xu Tianli questioning Elder Wang together, he couldn't help but become suspicious. Could it be that these two had not become enemies but had instead become allies?
The moment Dong Wan landed, she immediately broke free from Zhang Yunling's tight grip on her wrist and hurriedly took a few steps back, asking, "Hey, Xu Tianli, what are you doing?"
Zhang Yunling shrugged helplessly. "Didn't you forfeit? I'm eliminated too, so let's go." Seeing his nonchalant expression, Dong Wan's wariness lessened a bit, and she tentatively asked again, "Aren't you afraid of me? Aren't you worried I might have ulterior motives?"
Seeing Dong Wan's cautious attitude, Zhang Yunling turned around and stared at her. "I think you're just a competitive person. If you wanted to harm me, you would have done it in the first round. But all I heard from you was your incessant chatter. You watched me comprehend the Dao of Alchemy and refine pills, and then you even stood up for me after I was framed. You really have a sense of righteousness."
Dong Wan's expression became complicated after hearing this explanation, and her guard was lowered considerably. Looking back at the competition venue, she felt even more conflicted about her promise to Lin Yue.
She desperately needed that rare and precious material because back then, due to her low strength and status, she was unable to obtain a high-quality, perfect Foundation Establishment Pill, which resulted in some flaws in her fire spirit root.
Over the years, I have relied on a fire-attribute immortal technique to sustain my alchemy, but this technique is not of a very high grade and is not a long-term solution. Furthermore, my spiritual root did not have its defects perfectly repaired during the foundation building stage, and it is now extremely difficult to make up for them when my cultivation level has improved.
However, Lin Yue promised her that the rare and precious materials would allow her to perfect her spiritual roots, enabling her to truly possess all five spiritual roots. This would make her cultivation and alchemy much smoother, and she would no longer need to use that fire-attribute immortal technique, as she could directly manipulate her own primordial alchemical fire.
Seeing that she was deep in thought, Zhang Yunling wisely refrained from disturbing her and waited for Dong Wan to come out of her reverie before slowly speaking: "If you and Lin Yue are accomplices, then we shall part ways here. But if you don't have much interaction with him, I advise you to stay away from him. Whatever you want, whatever pills you want to refine, my methods are more than enough."
Hearing the attempt to win her over in Zhang Yunling's words, Dong Wan's heart wavered. She didn't have a very good impression of Lin Yue to begin with, and now that she had seen through Zhang Yunling's character and integrity, she finally agreed.
"Are you sure you can get what I want?" Dong Wan asked with some distrust. Zhang Yunling smiled slightly and nodded, saying, "Just tell me what you want, and I'll go find it for you. However, I need you to do something for me as well. Once it's done, I'll naturally give you what you want."
Dong Wan remained somewhat wary, carefully scrutinizing Zhang Yunling from head to toe before slowly nodding. "Okay, but it can't be the kind of bad thing Lin Yue mentioned. I made a big decision when I agreed that time, and I never intended to really harm you."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yunling's smile deepened. He stepped forward and whispered in Dong Wan's ear, "I need you to tell me the regional distribution and routes of the inner sect. When the sect competition is about to end, I will use my own skills to rush into the arena and seize the Dao Luck Lotus Seed."