The daily life of a genius who enjoys gossip and cultivates immortality

Chapter 58 Trials 2

Wen Sishu was about to form his nascent soul in the Demon Serpent's Cave, so the two of them withdrew.

Outside, the black bear was playing with the iron-eating beast on its back. It wasn't surprised to see the two of them come out. After all, the boy was on the verge of advancing, and the fire spiritual energy in the serpent's cave was quite abundant, so it wasn't surprising that he was advancing inside.

"Junior Sister! Junior Sister!"

The two men and the bear looked in the direction of the sound and saw a huge lion flying swiftly in the distance. The lion was golden all over, and under the sunlight, it seemed as if it was wearing a golden veil, making it extremely handsome.

Seemingly spotting the two, the lion took a few steps through the air before descending from the sky, sending a cloud of dust billowing in their faces. The two instinctively fanned the air in front of them. Two handsome young men, different in bearing but identical in appearance, jumped down from above.

"Senior Brother Gongcheng! Senior Brother Gongyu!" Cheng Jiu was overjoyed to see his long-lost friends.

“We received your message as soon as we came out of the formation. Master said you haven’t returned yet and are probably still training. So we asked Master to send his Azure-Eyed Golden-Haired Lion to escort us here,” Gong Yu said happily.

"Yes, luckily the Azure-Eyed Golden-Haired Lion is very good at finding people, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to see you from the sky." Gong Cheng glanced at Ying Yue: "This must be Senior Sister Ying Yue, right? Senior Sister Ying Yue, we are disciples of Lord Qingyang. My name is Gong Cheng, and this is my younger brother Gong Yu. I heard there is also a Senior Brother Wen. Where is Senior Brother Wen?"

"Junior Brother Gongcheng, Junior Brother Gongyu." Yingyue greeted the two with a smile: "Your Senior Brother Wen is preparing to form his Nascent Soul and is currently in seclusion in the cave."

"Senior Brother Gongcheng, Senior Brother Gongyu, what happened to you at the Array Peak? I sent dozens of messages, but you haven't replied." Cheng Jiu was even more curious as to why his friends hadn't contacted him for so many days.

"When we entered the Array Peak, we didn't have any senior brothers to lead us. Fortunately, that silly boy Gong Yu has a bit of talent in array formations. We stumbled along and it took us a day or two to reach the Array Peak Master Hall."

Seeing that his younger brother had some talent in formations, the peak master of the formation peak stayed behind to personally teach us.

"When you sent the message, we were being thrown into the formation set up by the Peak Master and couldn't get out," Gongcheng explained.

Cheng Jiu deeply felt that in the same cultivation world, with the same master, the trap of array cultivation was real. After learning the array, everyone was thrown into the array set by their master, and it was not just the same array they had learned, but a series of interconnected arrays.

The two of them finally managed to break through the formation set up by the peak master of the formation in the past two years. They originally wanted to find Cheng Jiu, but they found that there were dozens of messages in the jade slip, all from Cheng Jiu, asking if they wanted to go on a training trip together.

Upon closer inspection, they realized it was two years ago. They had assumed Cheng Jiu and the others would have returned long ago. However, upon arriving at Cheng Jiu's courtyard, they found only rampant growth of spiritual herbs, but no sign of the people they were looking for.

I asked my master and found out that they had been taken in as disciples by a powerful figure from the beginning. They had just come out in the last few days and hadn't returned to the sect yet, probably because they wanted to continue their training.

The two didn't plan to go to the last two peaks, so they asked their master for permission, and Lord Qingyang sent his contracted spirit beast, the Azure-Eyed Golden-Haired Lion, to bring them over.

"Speaking of this, junior sister, here, this is the medicinal pearl in your courtyard. The effect of this medicinal pearl is really too good. You don't know that the spiritual herbs in your area are growing wildly."

Not only your house was entangled by the vines of those medicinal herbs, but the courtyards of the surrounding senior brothers and sisters were also affected.

"But you've been training and haven't returned. They've been holding back because you're a disciple personally taught by the Venerable Lord. This time, when we arrived at your courtyard, it was Senior Brother Anqi who came to tell us to put away your medicinal bead. The spiritual herbs in the courtyard were also sold to the Offering Hall for a total of 50 contribution points. You can collect them from the Offering Hall when you return to the sect." Gong Cheng took out a bright green bead from his ring and handed it to her.

Cheng Jiu discovered that two years had passed, and the medicinal bead had not only not faded, but had become even greener, clearly indicating its extraordinary quality. He had only meant well in helping that disciple, but unexpectedly obtained such a treasure.

If that disciple had even a little knowledge of value, and had offered the medicinal bead as payment, the senior brothers and sisters of Danfeng would probably have refined it for him without him even having to provide the ingredients.

Thinking about it this way, Cheng Jiu actually felt a little guilty for only giving him one White Lotus Pill, especially since he was the one who provided the medicinal materials.

Never mind, if she runs into him in the future, she'll just give him a few more pills as compensation.

Cheng Jiu also told the two about his experiences over the past two years, and when he talked about the Little Iron Beast.

Gong Yu asked curiously, "If that's the case, then this little iron-eating beast should still be inside its mother's belly at the time! How does it know so much about these things?"

Yingyue also fell into deep thought. Yes, why didn't they ever doubt that the little iron-eating beast was lying?

Cheng Jiu was starting to have some doubts about life, because the other person looked very similar to the national treasure from her previous life, and was incredibly cute. She never doubted that the little iron-eating beast was making things up.

"Maybe it's because it sounds so detailed and believable! It seems like it really happened," Cheng Jiu guessed hesitantly.

"Actually, this really did happen," Miyagi confirmed.

"What? Why, brother? You know, but I don't know? Aren't we always together?" Gong Yu was a little flustered. Could it be that his brother was having an affair behind his back?

Gongcheng rubbed his younger brother's head: "Don't overthink it. I heard a senior sister gossip when we were at Zhenfeng, saying that the Iron-Eating Beast Princess and the Peacock Princess beat up the Tiger Clan Prince."

Because all three of them were extraordinary individuals, news of them quickly spread across the mainland. The person who supplied the storybooks I often bought even recommended some based on these three individuals to me.

However, I was at Zhenfeng at the time and couldn't get it, and it would only have been a matter of a moment's notice, so I didn't tell you."

"So you actually bought storybooks, brother!" Gong Yu's focus immediately shifted: "You wanted to buy storybooks but wouldn't let me, and now you're confiscating my storybooks? Brother, you've gone too far!"

Gong Cheng wasn't angry when Gong Yu didn't say anything, but he got angry when Gong Yu said that, and punched Gong Yu on the head: "You still have the nerve to say that? Don't you even know what you bought back then? They were erotic pictures, and they were of two men at that."

What was most outrageous was that you showed it to me back then and innocently asked, "Brother, look how these two men are fighting."

What do you expect me to answer? Besides, Mother went into the room and saw it all. Just thinking about the palace made him want to vomit blood. He still remembered his mother's strange look and meaningful words.

"Chengcheng, if you ever find a wife you like, don't hesitate to introduce her to your mother. I'm very open-minded, and I fully support you!"

Just thinking about that scene made him feel ashamed and indignant, and he really wanted to tell his mother that his brother had bought the sketchbook.

The other party wouldn't believe it, since his brother always seemed so simple-minded; how could such a fool buy a erotic novel? If Gong Yu hadn't given him the novel, even he wouldn't have believed it.

Of course, the most important thing is that after his mother finished speaking, she happily ran to share it with his father, without giving him a chance to explain.

Although he kept subtly hinting that the storybook was bought by Gong Yu, his mother had a knowing look on her face, as if she knew he was using her younger brother as a shield.

Because of this incident, he deprived his younger brother of the right to read storybooks. What a joke! He tricked him and he thinks he can just let it all go so easily?

"When did I ever buy erotic pictures? Brother, don't wrong me!" Gong Yu had no recollection whatsoever. The only thing he could remember was that his brother wouldn't let him look at picture books, or even buy them.

Cheng Jiu and Yingyue listened with great interest.

Speaking of the cultivation world, the storybook industry is quite developed. After all, there aren't many entertainment activities, so storybooks are a very good pastime.

However, some writers are just too daring. From Mahayana immortals to Qi Refining children, there is nothing they dare not write or draw.

Because it was too daring, the storytelling industry was not an open industry, but a clandestine industrial chain composed of some cultivators.

Back when she was with the Luo family, Cheng Jiu actually had her own contact person. The gossip she knew about the cultivation world all came from storybooks.

But after arriving at Guiyuan Sect, she lost contact with the contact person and stayed in the sect. She was also a disciple of Qingxu Venerable Lord. Who would dare to do business with her?

Cheng Jiu accidentally discovered something: in the Guiyuan Sect, her master and Uncle Qingyang's storybooks were extremely popular.

Who would dare sell storybooks to these two disciples? If these two venerable rulers found out, they would be in deep trouble.

So, how could it not be surprising that Gongcheng, who was also a disciple of the Venerable One, had his own contact person, and it seems that the contact had never been broken?

However, she remembered that Gong Yu had given her a lot of storybooks when she was injured before. Sure enough, Senior Brother Gong Yu was not honest!

Oh dear, why didn't she ask a single question back then! It turns out she was the only disciple of the Venerable One who didn't have anyone to contact.

With a cold laugh, Miyagi pulled out three exquisitely illustrated little books from his ring: "My dear brother, I knew you would deny it. Do you remember these three?"

Gong Yu took the book from his hand, flipped through it, and looked at it as if it had been burned by fire. She then threw the book back at her brother: "Brother, I never knew you had this kind of hobby!"

Gongcheng was so angry at Gongyu that he laughed. He rolled up his sleeves and started hitting his younger brother: "I already told you, this is the sketchbook I confiscated from you back then, it's yours!"

"Help, help, okay, brother, I was wrong, it's mine, it's mine." Gong Cheng and Gong Yu circled around the two of them, jumping up and down, dodging left and right, and began to beat their younger brother in circles.

"Wow, this is the finest version of the pre-destined pairing of Qianli Venerable and Lu Yan True Lord! This is already out of print!" Senior Sister Yingyue picked up the three sketchbooks on the ground and exclaimed with delight, "It was drawn by Jianghu Xiaoxiaosheng!"

"?" Cheng Jiu doubted whether he had heard correctly. Weren't Venerable Qianli and True Monarch Luyan rivals in love? These two actually had their own storybooks!

Cult, it's downright cult!

As expected of the fiction industry, which is considered a cancer by powerful figures in the cultivation world, they really dare to draw anything!

Sigh, let her judge just how wicked these stories really are!

"Senior sister, I want to see it too!"