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Chapter 129 - 128 Taiching Disciple and Yuhua Reincarnation (Two in One)_2

Chapter 129: Chapter 128 Taiching Disciple and Yuhua Reincarnation (Two in One)_2

Lin Xing hurriedly said, "We can offer more money."

Ling Yufen asked, "First off, I’m quite expensive. How much can you add?"

Lin Xing started to calculate how much silver he had left.

Before leaving, Jing Shiyu had stuffed quite a bit into his carriage.

Lin Xing estimated that after eating and drinking along the way, they should still have over two hundred taels of silver left.

Lin Xing tentatively offered, "Would one hundred taels be enough?"

"Just one hundred?" Ling Yufen nodded and said, "Alright, but I want to make it clear beforehand: I can only accompany you until tomorrow morning. I have early classes tomorrow."

Bai Yiyi, who had been listening to the conversation, couldn’t hold back any longer, prompting her to ask impatiently, "Are you in desperate need of money? Isn’t the monthly salary from the sect enough?"

"Sect? Salary?" Ling Yufen laughed and said, "The Martial Arts Sacred Land gives you the opportunity to learn, so many elders teach you, and they throw so many priceless techniques at you. You expect not to pay silver and even want to take money from the sect?"

Bai Yiyi was astonished, "You don’t get a salary but also have to pay the sect? How much?"

Ling Yufen casually said, "From the moment you join the Taiqing Sect, you owe the sect. The lesser your talent, the more you owe. The more you learn after joining, the more you owe."

At this point, Ling Yufen sighed softly, "Like me, whose family originally farmed, with compound interest over two and a half years, I now owe roughly five hundred taels of silver every month."

Bai Yiyi was shocked, "That much?"

Lin Xing then asked, "What powerful martial arts does the Taiqing Sect have? What are the most famous ultimate techniques?"

Ling Yufen carelessly replied, "The most powerful in Taiqing Sect are certainly the Taiqing Divine Mirror and the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword."

Lin Xing continued to inquire, "Then, have you heard of Yuhua Reincarnation?"

As Lin Xing expected, Ling Yufen shook her head, "Never heard of it."

Bai Yiyi then questioned, "Do you know of Bai Yiyi within your sect?"

Under Bai Yiyi’s expectant gaze, Ling Yufen thought for a moment and said, "Bai Yiyi?"

She seemed briefly startled upon hearing the name, then said, "Elder Bai is one of our Supreme Elders, one of the top swordsmanship instructors in our sect. Why do you ask this?"

Upon hearing this, the doll controlled by the cat toy seemed to be struck internally, quickly prompting the Puppet Girl to continue asking, "Supreme Elder? Swordsmanship instructor? Hasn’t she... hasn’t she gone missing?"

Ling Yufen smirked and replied, "What nonsense are you talking about? Elder Bai is a second-generation Swordsman. It’s said that she’s the most likely candidate to become a Third-generation Sword Saint. How could she go missing?"

Lin Xing asked several more questions, but the Puppet Girl sat quietly from start to finish, seemingly lost in silence.

Lin Xing suggested, "Let’s call it a day."

"That’s it for today? Then let’s settle for thirty taels of silver," Ling Yufen stood up, thought for a moment, and left a note for Lin Xing, "If there’s more business next time, you can find me at this address."

Curiosity arose as Lin Xing asked, "Aren’t you from a local martial arts school?"

Ling Yufen clarified, "I’m listed with several martial arts schools. If you find them, they’ll still take a cut from me."

After Ling Yufen left, Lin Xing patted the cat toy on the Puppet Girl and asked, "Master Bai, are you alright?"

"Bai Yiyi," said with disbelief, "I’m alive? Then I..."

Lin Xing sensed a rare fear in her voice.

He thought for a moment and comforted her, "Master Bai, of course you’re alive. As long as you’re by my side, you are immortal."

"As to the Bai Yiyi in the Taiqing Sect, we can’t conclude anything just from Ling Yufen’s few words."

"It could simply be a coincidence of identical names."

Bai Yiyi gradually accepted Lin Xing’s words, "You’re right,"

On the way back to the inn, a flash of fiery red suddenly crossed Lin Xing’s vision.

He turned his head and saw a woman with fiery red hair walking out of the inn.

"People with red hair in Mirror World?"

Seemingly feeling Lin Xing’s gaze, she turned her head towards him. However, after a brief glance at Lin Xing’s ordinary visage, she looked away.

The red-haired girl was accompanied by a skinny man who cast several glances towards the Puppet Girl and Zhao Wanxi.

Mu Tianjiao spoke indifferently, "Let’s go, Yihu. If you ask me, we could have just stayed in the Taiqing Sect’s guest rooms. Why bother staying at an inn?"

Niu Yihu explained, "I can’t get used to that ghostly place. Just forget it."

They were disciples of the Xingxiao Sect who had traveled all the way to the Taiqing Sect by off-road vehicle.

At this moment, they hastened to the front of the Taiqing Sect, where they were soon greeted and brought inside by a group of the Sect’s disciples.

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the Taiqing Sect, the old woman who had been driven away by the guards was sitting by the roadside, holding her head in confusion, "What...what did I come here for? Why can’t I remember?"

...

Mu Tianjiao and Niu Yihu arrived in front of the central tower within the Taiqing Sect.

Looking at the two masks handed over, Niu Yihu curled his lips, "Do we need to wear masks too?"

A nearby disciple of the Taiqing Sect said, "Many of our distinguished guests prefer not to be recognized, so wearing masks is a rule here. Please put them on."

After putting on the masks, they entered the tower but descended instead of going upward.

As they moved farther from ground level, caverns began to appear in front of them, with all sorts of strange voices coming faintly from deep within the caves.

The disciple of the Taiqing Sect beside them asked, "This isn’t your first time here, is it?"

Mu Tianjiao said indifferently, "Indeed not, but there have been big changes around here."

The disciple smiled faintly, "Thanks to the cooperation with your Sect, we have been receiving more and more esteemed guests over the past few years. Would you two like to try? As friends from the Xingxiao Sect, I can offer you a discount."

Mu Tianjiao gave him a cold look, saying pridefully, "I’m not interested in the memories of others."

In recent years, the Taiqing Sect had been secretly running the business of trading memories, especially memories of various skills, which attracted the pursuit of many powerful individuals.

Although memories of skills from others, even when infused into another person’s sea of consciousness, cannot instantly improve their strength due to a lack of physical and mental compatibility,

it does amount to a significant increase in experience, boosting the efficiency of the buyer’s learning as if enhancing their talent.

Of course, such a service was extremely secretive and expensive. Mu Tianjiao knew that across both worlds, only a very small portion of people were qualified to use it—each with either a strong background or astonishing capabilities.

She did not like the practice of having others’ memories stuffed into her own mind, nor did she trust the Taiqing Sect’s maneuvers.

The disciple laughed, "We are always here to welcome you both."

"The Sect Leader is just up ahead, please follow."

In the darkness, it felt as if something was watching her.

An immense pressure swept in, causing Mu Tianjiao and Niu Yihu to instantly tense up.

An aged voice emerged, "Is it the little devils of the Xingxiao Sect who sent you here?"

Mu Tianjiao clenched her teeth, resisting the pressure from the other party, and said, "My master said that the person you’re looking for has already arrived."

The aged voice asked, "Is it Lin Xing, the one that’s been the talk of the Xingxiao Sect?"

Mu Tianjiao responded, "Exactly, that is the person. We are the ones our master sent to help you capture him."

As she spoke, she took out a photo of Lin Xing and continued, "His purpose for coming to the Taiqing Sect is for the Yuhua Reincarnation badge. If you use the badge as bait, you will surely be able to lure him out."

The aged voice seemed indifferent to this, "How do I know whether what you say is true or false?"

Mu Tianjiao replied, "His strength is meager; just have the Sect Leader find and test him to know the truth."

She earnestly said, "If successful, not only will the Sect Leader find the inheritor of the Yuhua Reincarnation badge, but you will also be averting a great disaster in the world."

After a long pause, a question came from the darkness, "Who... are you?"

Mu Tianjiao sighed in resignation and repeated what she had just said.

This time the aged voice answered, "I don’t care about any great disaster, but indeed there are quite a few entertaining youngsters in this city now."

"The inheritor of the Yuhua Reincarnation badge is indeed someone to be selected from among them."