["What? She is only at the Third Layer of Qi Refining. How is that possible?"]
[Wei Qing stared with wide eyes, his gaze moving back and forth between you and Zhou Lingxi.]
[You paid Wei Qing no attention. This was her secret, and for the time being, you would not tell him.]
[After entering the room, you asked Zhou Lingxi to briefly explain her situation.]
["My name is Zhou Lingxi. I am the Ninth Princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty."]
["You are the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty who was demoted to a commoner last year?"]
[At that moment, you could not help glaring at Wei Qing, signaling for him to stop talking.]
[After being glared at by you, Wei Qing immediately behaved himself. Although your cultivation was lower than his, he knew that your background was anything but simple.]
[Just one of your Senior Sisters was already a Void Refinement expert, not to mention what kind of cultivation your other Senior Brothers or even your master might possess.]
[Zhou Lingxi nodded and sighed.]
["The reason I was expelled from the royal family was because I did it deliberately."]
[Next, Zhou Lingxi told you why she had done such a thing.]
[When she was six years old, she awakened her Immortal Eyes. After awakening them, she discovered that her entire worldview had collapsed.]
[The imperial father who had treated her well in the past had a monster inside his body. The Crown Prince and all her imperial brother were monsters as well.]
[Among the very few who were still Human were several underage princes, but she discovered that once those princes broke through to Foundation Establishment, they all gradually turned into monsters.]
[Because she had awakened her Immortal Eyes, she was far more mentally mature than ordinary people. She knew that she had to escape that imperial city.]
[The only thing she felt fortunate about was that she had been born without a Spiritual Root. In the eyes of outsiders, she was just a waste.]
[But only she herself knew that with her Immortal Eyes, even without a Spiritual Root, she could still cultivate, and her cultivation speed was not inferior in the slightest.]
[And so she kept disguising herself as a good-for-nothing, causing trouble all over the palace and making others think she had become a wastrel because she could not cultivate. In the end, she was driven out of the palace.]
[Today, at the ghost market, she happened to see you by chance and discovered that your body was shrouded in fog. Even her Immortal Eyes could not see through you. She only knew that you were a normal Human and not a monster.]
[After hearing about her experiences, you decided to let her stay and cultivate, and you gave her some cultivation resources.]
[A year later, Zhou Lingxi's cultivation had already reached Qi Refining Great Perfection, and you refined a Foundation Establishment Pill for her to help her break through.]
[Three months later, her cultivation successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment. Possessing Immortal Eyes allowed her to suppress the Bizarre Insect with ease after her breakthrough.]
[Nineteenth Year: After three years of living together, you and Zhou Lingxi had become increasingly familiar with each other, and your feelings had deepened as well.]
[You also taught her the Heavenly Evolution Art, and you discovered that the Heavenly Evolution Art was extremely suited to the cultivation of Immortal Eyes.]
[After cultivating the Heavenly Evolution Art, Zhou Lingxi became even more enchanting in appearance. As for Zhou Lingxi, who had known the truth since childhood, after spending several years with you, she had also developed feelings for you.]
[Twentieth Year: You became Dao companions, and Zhou Lingxi became your first Dao companion in the Canglan Realm.]
"Holy hell? No way! That definitely was not me!"
When Su Ming saw his own actions in the simulator, he covered his face and shook his head.
He had not expected that after going to Zhongzhou, the story would develop in this direction.
Su Ming suddenly grew curious about what Zhou Lingxi actually looked like, to have charmed him to this extent.
"One born with Immortal Eyes..."
[After living in the capital for more than ten years, you had almost forgotten that you were a disciple of the Sword Pavilion.]
[On this day, an unexpected guest came to your little courtyard. When you saw the figure standing in the courtyard, your body could not help trembling.]
["Gu... Senior Sister Gu?"]
["Little Junior Brother, more than ten years have passed. How is your cultivation still only at Nascent Soul?"]
[Upon hearing the voice, Wei Qing and Zhou Lingxi also came out.]
[When Wei Qing saw Gu Xinyue's face, his eyes widened enormously. After so many years without any news of her, he had assumed she was already dead.]
["Oh? So you have been hiding a beauty in a golden house, Little Junior Brother!"]
[Gu Xinyue glanced at Zhou Lingxi, who had only Foundation Establishment cultivation, and could not help teasing you.]
["Senior Sister, I waited for you here for so many years. You have finally come!"]
[You paid no attention to her teasing, but inwardly you also knew that these years of overly comfortable living had caused your cultivation to stagnate. Only now had you just broken through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection.]
[In the next moment, you saw Gu Xinyue put away the smile on her face and look at you with a serious expression.]
["Little Junior Brother! I just received a message from the Pavilion Master saying that Third Senior Sister has run into trouble. We need to go back."]
["Third Senior Sister?"]
[You were extremely puzzled. Was Xia Qiange not guarding the Blood Demon Secret Realm? How could something suddenly happen to her for no reason?]
[Thinking of this, you suddenly had a bad feeling in your heart.]
[You turned and told Wei Qing and Zhou Lingxi that you were going back to Youzhou, and that they were to wait here for your return.]
[After speaking, you left behind most of the Spirit Stones you had accumulated over the years for Zhou Lingxi, then hurriedly departed with Gu Xinyue.]
[On the way back to Youzhou, you asked Gu Xinyue what exactly had happened.]
[Gu Xinyue explained that something had gone wrong in the Blood Demon Secret Realm, and that the thing beneath the Blood Stele had escaped.]
[Hearing this, you were deeply alarmed. You knew about that Bizarre Insect, but was it not supposed to be suppressed beneath the Blood Stele? The Spiritual Energy inside the Secret Realm should have been enough to support the suppression for a long time.]
[Faced with your question, Gu Xinyue fell silent.]
[Because she did not know the reason either. Only after returning to the Sword Pavilion would they learn the full truth.]
[Half a year later, you successfully returned to Youzhou, and then hurried nonstop toward the Sword Pavilion.]
[When you arrived at the Sword Pavilion, you discovered that it had already become a field of ruins, with traces of battle everywhere around it.]
["How could this happen? Was the Pavilion Master not here? Could there really be an enemy even the Pavilion Master could not defeat?"]
[Although you did not know exactly what the Pavilion Master's cultivation was, he was at the very least above Void Refinement. If even a powerhouse of that level could not defend the Sword Pavilion, you did not dare imagine how powerful the enemy was.]
["Senior Sister, let us go back to Qingzhou first and ask Sixth Senior Brother what happened."]
[After hearing your words, Gu Xinyue nodded in agreement, and the two of you set off for Qingzhou once more.]
[A month later, you arrived at Heaven's Revelation Academy in the Qin Kingdom.]
[The moment you stepped into the academy, you saw Fang Jingchun sitting alone in the courtyard.]
["You have returned."]
[Fang Jingchun spoke in a calm tone, as if nothing had happened at all.]
["Old Six, what exactly happened? How was the Sword Pavilion destroyed?"]
[Fang Jingchun did not answer at once. Instead, he calmly poured himself a cup of tea.]
["I do not know either. We will know once Xiao Tian wakes up."]
["Xiao Tian? Lin Tian is here with you?"]
[Fang Jingchun nodded and turned his gaze toward the wooden house.]
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