Chapter 42 (Part 2)

“Many menial disciples are only at Qi Refining. Making them rush to the plaza within a time limit would be making things difficult for everyone. After this ends, I will have to trouble Senior to sweep through the entire sect.”

Lingbao explained to the mirror spirit with an apologetic smile. Only a very small number of disciples, elders, and menials had not come. When the time came to scan the entire sect, the mirror spirit would not need to use a large amount of its own energy.

It only had to focus on places where people were and cast illusions there. It did not need to cover the entire sect in an illusion.

“Hmph, you brat, you are quite considerate. Fine then, this old one will help you this once. Remember to give me one extra immortal stone.”

The mirror spirit had originally been a little unhappy, but then for some unknown reason, it suddenly agreed.

Heh. This was just the right opportunity to go take a look at that boy called Lingyu. For Lingbao to protect him so much, and even Qingsheng and the others had no objections.

When Yu Yu entered the sect, the once-every-ten-years disciple recruitment ceremony had just ended. As soon as it ended, the mirror spirit went into dormancy inside its main body, so it knew nothing about Yu Yu’s situation.

From Lingbao and the others’ tone, the mirror spirit heard pride and indulgence. Could this boy be a second Qingyang?

Thinking of Qingyang, who had touched and poked it all over, the mirror spirit had no body, yet still somehow developed an extremely displeased feeling.

Well then. This was also a victim. Within the Taizhen Immortal Sect, those who had not suffered Qingyang’s persecution could probably be counted on one hand.

One spirit and one person conversed. About half an hour later, more than a hundred thousand disciples and elders slowly awakened. By the time it ended, only a few hundred people were left unconscious in the entire plaza.

And these people were the targets of this major inspection.

“All right, you can call people in to clean up. Their memories have all been erased, but I went a little hard. They’ve all turned into fools.”

The mirror spirit’s words made Lingbao freeze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal.

This immortal artifact spirit of the founder still had such a hot temper!

Lingbao did not know that the Xuanzhen Mirror’s artifact spirit had originally been asleep. This was a method of conserving energy. As it had been sleeping soundly, it had suddenly been awakened and was still dazed.

What? What was going on? It had not been ten years yet. Why had it been woken up?

Lingbao feared it would get angry, so he explained the situation. Then the artifact spirit exploded with fury.

It had been sent down by the founder of the Taizhen Immortal Sect and was an immortal artifact personally refined by him, so it had very deep feelings for the Taizhen Immortal Sect.

When it heard Lingbao say there were people who wanted to damage the unity of the sect, of course it became angry.

Therefore, when it examined the sect’s elders and disciples, it discovered those who harbored evil intentions, those who had been bribed by other sects after entering the sect because of personal gain, and those who had committed many evil deeds. It raised the level of the illusion for all of them. In the end, these people not only confessed their crimes, but under the influence of the powerful illusion, they turned into fools the moment they came out.

“Senior Mirror Spirit, now that these people have become fools, how am I supposed to arrange them?”

They could not even do odd jobs, could they? Was he supposed to support them for free? Someone as shrewd as Lingbao naturally would not do a losing business.

But Lingbao was also unwilling to send these people back to those who had schemed against the Taizhen Immortal Sect. Would that not be openly telling them that the Taizhen Immortal Sect had a way to identify spies?

That did not accord with the principle of keeping a low profile.

“Kill them. Saves trouble.”

The mirror spirit said this with particular decisiveness.

“…That is the only way.”

Lingbao thought about it and agreed. He spoke coldly. Toward those who damaged the sect and betrayed the sect, he would not have the slightest sympathy, nor would he let them off just because they had become fools.

With a wave of his hand, the several hundred people who had still been standing all fell to the ground.

With another wave, disciples dressed in black and wearing masks immediately entered. They were disciples of the Punishment Hall, specializing in doing certain work in the shadows for the sect.

Such as handling these bodies.

“Sect Master, should we use them to nourish flowers? I heard flowers grow especially well when nourished by bodies.”

One Punishment Hall disciple asked.

“Are you stupid? Aren’t you afraid you’ll make the flowers stupid too?”

Another disciple behind him slapped him on the head and said this.

“True. People with such black hearts would only pollute pretty flowers and plants.”

The disciple who had spoken first suddenly understood. Together with his senior brother, he collected the bodies and finally found a pit to bury them in at random.

As for why they were not directly reduced to ash and scattered, the main reason was that this world was still comparatively respectful toward bodies. People felt only those guilty of the most heinous crimes would be burned to ash.

So finding a random pit and burying them was enough. As for whether wild beasts would dig them out and eat them, that was none of their business.

They were only responsible for burying bodies, not after-sales service.

At the same time, the disciples and elders in the plaza had inexplicably fainted. After waking up, they discovered that even the Punishment Hall had come. One by one, they were so frightened they looked like quails, and no one dared open their mouth, including the elders.

They dared not ask what Lingbao intended to do either. They only silently stood or sat in place.

The Punishment Hall was the sect’s most special department. It was an existence even more frightening than the Law Enforcement Hall, and ordinary disciples did not dare mention it at all.

Usually, the people who appeared were from the Law Enforcement Hall, so everyone was more familiar with the Law Enforcement Hall.

Once people from the Punishment Hall appeared, it meant the matter had blown up, and someone was about to be unlucky.

If one fell into the hands of the Law Enforcement Hall, there was still a way to live. If one fell into the hands of the Punishment Hall, one could only pray for a swift death.

The terror of the Punishment Hall was famous in the Taizhen Immortal Sect. There were even some female disciples who would be frightened to tears at the sight of Punishment Hall disciples.

However, Punishment Hall disciples had always been mysterious. The masks on their faces hid them in the shadows, and no one knew their true identities. Aside from the sect master and themselves, not even Zhenjun Lingyin, the person in charge of the Punishment Hall, knew who these disciples were.

Lingyin was Lingbao’s second junior sister. She was a little older than Lingtong and was Qingsheng’s second disciple.

More importantly, she was a sword cultivator.

That was right. Qingsheng, a pure spell cultivator, had somehow accidentally taken in a sword cultivator.

At first, this had worried him terribly. He did not understand swords at all. How was he supposed to teach her?

With no other choice, he fostered Lingyin on Holy Sun Peak until she reached Golden Core, only then allowing her to return to the main peak.

Therefore, anyone who had seen Lingyin’s sword technique knew it clearly bore the style of the Holy Sun lineage. At the same time, her temperament was also very cold and ruthless. After entering Soul Transformation, she took the initiative to ask her senior brother for the Punishment Hall so she could take charge of it. It could be said that if she removed her mask, she could frighten all the disciples of the Taizhen Immortal Sect to tears.

It was not that she was ugly. Rather, her personality was extremely cold and ruthless, and with the thick killing intent on her body, the disciples did not dare look her in the eyes.

Such frightening eyes. Looking straight into them felt as if one had entered a world of slaughter.

This was the impression all the disciples had of this Punishment Hall elder. They would rather fight an evil cultivator to the death than face this baleful god inside their own sect.

Lingyin also knew she was not welcomed by the disciples, so she usually stayed inside the Punishment Hall and did not go out.

This time, even the immortal artifact had been invited out, so Lingyin naturally appeared in the plaza as well. However, she showed up in the plaza under the identity of a main peak elder and Lingbao’s junior sister.

Just now, she too had been schemed into the illusion by the mirror spirit. After she woke up, the low pressure around her was very strong. Even Lingbao, standing beside her, felt cold.

“Second junior sister, don’t you plan to say something?”

Lingbao knew Lingyin was in a very bad mood after being abruptly schemed into the illusion.

But he had no choice. Between Lingyin and the immortal artifact’s mirror spirit, he could not afford to offend either one.

“I want to go see little junior brother.”

Lingyin looked at Lingbao. Before this, she had been afraid of scaring her very young little junior brother, so she had never met Yu Yu, and Yu Yu had never met her either.

Of course, not having met did not affect the sibling affection between them. Lingyin had sent many resources, while Yu Yu’s return gifts were many spirit fruits.

There were also Five Element spirit fruits. Qingyang had given the most to his eldest senior brother. Qingsheng had not eaten them himself, but divided them among his disciples instead.

He was about to ascend soon. There was no need for him to eat them again. It was better to give them to his disciples so their cultivation could advance another step.

Lingyin was Qingsheng’s personal disciple, so naturally, she also received several.

Originally, she had been a little stuck at a bottleneck, but after eating the spirit fruit, she immediately entered the late stage of Soul Transformation.

Since she had already gone out this time, she decided to meet the little junior brother whose name she had heard but whom she had never seen.

“All right. Little junior brother also really wants to meet this senior sister who cherishes him very much but has never had the chance to meet him!”

When Lingbao mentioned Yu Yu, even his eyes and brows were smiling.

“Hmph.”

Lingyin could not be bothered with this senior brother of hers. She felt everything he said was meant to coax her.

Perhaps her little junior brother had a good impression of this senior sister, but words like “really wants to meet her” had clearly been added by this senior brother himself.

“You’re still so cold. At least respond to me with a few sentences!”

Lingbao looked at his junior sister’s departing back and sadly clutched his chest.

He was her actual senior brother. Did she have to be so cold? Every time she spoke with him, it never went past five sentences.

Her attitude of considering even three sentences too many made him lose composure.

Did she dislike him that much? He was her senior brother.

However, Lingbao’s inner complaints could not reach Lingyin’s ears. She happily went to find her little junior brother.

Although she did not fully believe Lingbao’s words, she still held some expectation. What if?

She had heard little junior brother was very cute, and that he was meticulous and thoughtful. Toward Lingfeng, this senior sister of his, he was like a real younger brother.

She was also a senior sister. She did not ask for much. It would be enough if he let her hug him.

Would that be all right, little junior brother?

That was far too all right.

Held in the arms of his newly arrived senior sister, Yu Yu felt a little dead inside.

He was a boy, so why did everyone like holding him and playing with him? They even loved pinching his cheeks, making him seem like a toy doll.

As for resisting, this was his senior sister. Even if there was a layer of separation between them, she was still his senior sister.

The immortal cultivation world was the same as ancient Blue Star. Fellow disciples were like true siblings, and one’s master was as close as one’s father. Therefore, relationships between senior and junior brothers, as well as between senior sisters and junior brothers, were much closer than in later eras on Blue Star.

This was an elder sister. Back at the orphanage, he had often served as the elder sisters’ toy too. When they played house, he often became the elder sisters’ good big son.

It was a little embarrassing to say, but it also showed just how popular he had been among the girls.

After all, compared with other boys, Yu Yu had a quiet personality and was obedient and well-behaved. Who would not want a son like that?

The female desire to be someone’s mother had never depended on age. Three-year-old little girls were very practiced at being mothers. Yu Yu had formed memories early, and he still remembered things from when he was two.

So he remembered a little elder sister who was one year older than him. When she was three and playing house, she dragged him over and called him son.

Young and ignorant, although he had not called her Mom, she had still taken plenty of advantage of him.

From then on, he became the good big son of every girl in the entire orphanage.

Yu Yu had almost forgotten all of this. But as soon as Senior Sister Lingyin arrived, she pulled him straight into a full embrace and still had not let him down. How could Yu Yu not remember what had happened when he was little?

Heh. Women, no matter their age, all liked being someone’s mother.

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