NOVEL NEXT Chapter 310: Qi Test
"What did that fellow Daoist just say?" Someone muttered in a barely audible voice.
"The way of plundering yin to nurture yang..., this…"
"Old man, is that fellow Daoist right?"
"I don't see it, but would anyone dare to make such an accusation carelessly?"
"Isn't Senior Cai a guest elder of the Snow Mountain sect?"
"Does anyone know where she came from?"
The gathered cultivators whispered, and Shen Xu almost laughed in satisfaction.
However, he forcibly restrained himself and sneered at Cai Lan.
"Junior, are you going against me?" Cai Lan asked, her eyes narrowed into slits.
At the same time, she focused her spiritual sense.
In the open, the Myriad Treasures Pavilion only had some fusion realm guardians.
However, Cai Lan knew that each tower city's main branch had a hidden Mahayana realm protector.
These protectors were from the Tianxuan continent and usually worked in shifts of one thousand years.
After one thousand years, they would return to the Tianxuan continent, and another batch of Mahayana realm cultivators would replace them.
"Senior, do you dare to take a qi test?" Shen Xu asked and removed a crystal ball from his storage ring.
This crystal ball was called a qi test crystal.
After Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan first encountered the evil cultivators, the double fixated on the idea of exposing them.
As a result, he searched the space library and finally discovered the qi test crystal.
The qi test crystal worked the same way as a spiritual root test stone.
Where the spiritual root test stone examined a cultivator's quantity, quality, and type of spiritual root, a qi test crystal checked a cultivator's qi.
Generally, a single root cultivator's qi would contain only one element, while a double root cultivator's qi would be a mixture of two elements, and so forth.
However, the qi of evil cultivators who relied on stealing qi would be a mixture of more types of elements than the number of their spiritual roots.
Knowing this, Cai Lan didn't dare to take the qi test.
"Junior, you are challenging my bottom line." She stated and deliberately revealed a hint of killing intent.
Unfortunately, Shen Xu was determined to go against her.
Instead of backing down, he doubled down, and his lips curled in a mocking smile.
"So what if I am?" He asked, his head tilted to the side.
At first, he and Zhen Yuan were reluctant to provoke the Mahayana realm cultivators.
After all, although their realm was suppressed and they couldn't utilise their full cultivation, they were still Mahayana realm cultivators, and the way of heaven only suppressed them to the peak of the fusion realm stage.
Most importantly, despite the heavens' suppression, the Mahayana realm cultivators could still summon their domain, and their qi still contained a speck of law.
Because of this, ordinary fusion realm cultivators could not deal with suppressed Mahayana realm cultivators.
However, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu soon figured it out and realised they were not completely helpless.
First, Zhen Yuan had a heavenly law domain, and his qi naturally contained law.
Compared to the domain and qi of Mahayana realm cultivators, Zhen Yuan's advantages were superior, giving the group a chance against the enemy.
Second, Zhen Yuan was an early-stage level eight soul cultivator, and the others were peak-stage level seven soul refiners.
Even if they couldn't use qi to defeat the Mahayana realm cultivators, they could use soul attacks or body attacks.
"The senior shouldn't refuse the qi test if she has nothing to hide." Shen Xu insisted, and Cai Lan grew angrier.
She was a Yin line disciple of the fifth branch of the Ten Evils sect.
Five thousand years ago, her sect sent her to infiltrate the Snow Mountain sect in the Tianxuan continent.
Later, she took a sect mission and came to the Tianqi continent to guard the Snow Mountain sect for one thousand years.
During that time, she took in many female disciples and recruited them for the Ten Evils sect.
Unexpectedly, just when the mission was about to end, she suddenly encountered a cultivator who could see through her qi concealment.
'This person can't stay.' She thought, and the killing intent in her aura thickened.
"Senior, do you want to kill me to silence me?" The double continued to taunt.
"How dare you talk to my master like that?" One of the female cultivators angrily shouted.
At the same time, she drew her sword and swung it at Shen Xu.
However, Shen Xu was prepared and activated a level six turtle shell talisman.
In fact, he didn't need to do this.
After all, he wore a defensive robe and other treasures beneath his auction robe.
Even if he didn't defend himself, the attack would rebound before injuring him, but Shen Xu didn't want to do this because Lin Xiang, Xiao Weimin, and others were there.
Let alone the Canglan continent, even the Tianqi and Tianxuan continents didn't have the rebound talisman, rebound formation, and rebound inscription.
As such, the moment Shen Xu used the rebound effect to protect himself, Lin Xiang and the others would suspect his identity since they knew Zhen Yuan could draw the rebound talisman and inscription.
"Let's see how long you can hide under that turtle shell." The female cultivator roared and prepared to attack a second time.
However, just then, a horrifying qi presence fell on her, and her body froze.
"You dare to cause trouble in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion?" A voice echoed in the hall, and the female cultivator began to tremble.
"Fellow Daoist, my disciple is insolent and has offended the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. Allow me to apologise on her behalf." Cai Lan immediately stepped in to smooth over the situation.
At the same time, she secretly cursed her bad luck.
'Everything is a mess.' She thought, her hands clenched into fists and her heart filled with hatred.
"Fellow Daoist Cai, the accusation made against you is not light." The voice spoke again, and a man floated down to the auction hall.
The man was middle-aged and a little fat.
However, his demeanour was no less than Cai Lan's, and his aura contained a hint of sword intent.
'Qin Jingfeng.' Cai Lan thought and almost cursed.