Chapter 131: A Wise Man Does Not Stand Under a Dangerous Wall

Li Si staggered as he walked, having lost one of his boots. His disheveled hair probably made him look quite handsome…

Before he had gone ten li, the guiding sword talisman suddenly stopped at a seemingly ordinary rock wall. Soon, a faint silver glow lit up in that spot. Only then did he notice that someone had carved a sword mark there.

The sword mark was carved very sloppily. At first glance, it looked like a sword. Upon closer inspection, it became a person riding a sword. Looking even closer, it seemed like some kind of rune.

“A warning sword talisman?”

Li Si pondered. The Jiuxuan Sword Sect truly had some extraordinary skills. This kind of warning sword talisman was like a directional landmine. Within a range of several dozen meters, any non-friendly person passing by would trigger it.

However, Li Si’s guiding sword talisman could pass through safely.

“These major cultivation sects each have incredibly rich foundations. Although the Floating Cloud Sect is a branch of the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect, clearly, the differences in their core cultivation methods have made them completely different.”

Li Si thought to himself. He hadn’t had time yet to study the [“Spirit Sword Heart Sutra”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra) that Jiuxuanzi had given him earlier.

After passing this spot and walking forward a few more li, he saw two figures running towards him as agilely as leopards, moving over the rough ground as if it were flat. Their movement technique somewhat resembled Mi Zhou’er’s.

So Li Si stopped in an open area and quietly waited for the newcomers to approach.

A short while later, the two figures stopped about a hundred meters away from Li Si. One held a sword disc that flickered with a faint blue light, while the other held an attack sword talisman, looking as if they were facing a great enemy.

Li Si also acted as if ‘facing a great enemy,’ while also weakly swaying his body to show that he was very tired, that he had traveled day and night, and that he was a very good person.

“Where does the guest come from?”

“I ate noodles.”

Alright, the passphrase matched. The two people opposite relaxed. Ah, so professional! The Floating Cloud Sect never had any concept of using passphrases.

“Are you Junior Brother Li from the Floating Cloud Sect? I am Qu Qi from the Jiuxuan Sect.”

“I am Mai Bing from the Jiuxuan Sect.”

The two men quickly reported their names. They were also two of the four Foundation Building cultivators currently in the Jiuxuan Sect.

Hmm, counting the now-incapacitated Mi Zhou’er, the Jiuxuan Sect’s overall strength was much better than the previous Floating Cloud Sect’s.

“Greetings, Senior Brothers. I have come under my Master’s orders to provide support. This is my identity spirit talisman; please verify it.” Li Si took out a red spirit talisman and stuck it on his forehead.

Another identical identity spirit talisman was in Mai Bing’s hand. As long as no abnormalities occurred after activation, it would prove that Li Si was truly Li Si and hadn’t been replaced midway.

“Fizz!”

The two identity spirit talismans instantly burst into flames. The fire was very docile, indicating the verification was complete.

Qu Qi and Mai Bing had no more doubts. They hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Si, who was almost unable to stand steady. Their hearts were filled with emotion. Truly, a small gift from afar conveyed great feeling, and prolonged time reveals a person’s heart. Good brother from the Floating Cloud Sect.

They returned all the way to the Jiuxuan Sect’s temporary camp. It was actually a flat area cleared out in a valley. Three tents stood there, with occasional flashes of golden sword light around them. This was probably the Genggold Sword Formation.

Outside one of the tents stood Mi Zhou’er, her face pale as if she had been seriously ill. She resembled the last yellow leaf of autumn, withering beyond recognition.

However, upon seeing Li Si, a glimmer of light flashed in Mi Zhou’er’s previously lifeless eyes. She quickly stepped forward but was immediately stopped by Qu Qi.

“Senior Sister, the Master has given orders that from now on, you are not to approach anyone closely.”

“I…”

Mi Zhou’er opened her mouth but then managed a strained smile towards Li Si.

“Junior Brother Li, did you come alone? You must have had a hard journey.”

“Senior Sister, I’m fine. I believe you are innocent,” Li Si said quickly. Unfortunately, for the time being, he had no solution, as no one knew whether the Unknown Deity/Demon had left any hidden tricks inside Mi Zhou’er’s body.

But if an opportunity arose in the future, he would definitely help.

“Junior Brother Li, you’ve had a long and hard journey. I am Luo Ping from the Jiuxuan Sect.” A woman with graying hair came out and spoke warmly. She was also a Foundation Building cultivator.

Behind Luo Ping was a similarly dark and skinny young woman. She seemed a bit taciturn and only gave Li Si a nod nervously.

“Junior Brother Li, you must be hungry. Let me roast some Alien Tree for you. Sorry, we ran out of water these past two days.” Luo Ping said helplessly. Because the Giant Mushroom’s power went out of control and the Blood Cloud covered the sky, the four seasons in this world had long disappeared, and water resources were even scarcer. Unless there was an original river, it was very difficult to get water.

Previously, Jiuxuanzi had to beg for water from other True Immortals.

“I still have some water here. I also brought some Devil Mushroom Remnant Exuviae. Senior Sister Luo, do you know how to prepare the Hundred Herb Soul-Restoring Decoction?” Li Si could no longer keep pretending. He took out a full Water Purification Pouch. This was still a treasure of the Floating Cloud Sect, but the Floating Cloud Sect was now stationed next to the Blackwater River, so they truly weren’t short of water.

Watching Li Si take out various supplies as if they were free, the few people from the Jiuxuan Sect were dumbfounded. These supplies were nothing in front of their past selves, but now, they could save lives.

“Junior Brother…”

Luo Ping choked up. Li Si could only give a silly hehe laugh, then glanced into the tent at Jiuxuanzi. As expected, she had also reverted to her true form due to the collapse of the Sacred Raven Kingdom and the large loss of Human Race Fate/Luck. However, she had actually put on a black veil. He didn’t know what kind of magical tool this was, but he couldn’t see anything through it.

Seriously, was this necessary? Was it necessary?

I, Li Si, am upright and honorable, I stand tall and firm, I am open and aboveboard, and I have a clear conscience!

Next, Li Si weakly drank a pot of Hundred Herb Soul-Restoring Decoction. No need to be polite; he had brought a lot of supplies.

Anyway, from top to bottom, the Jiuxuan Sect finally had a full meal.

“Senior Sister Luo, when will Senior Aunt Jiuxuan wake up? I think we shouldn’t delay and should set off as soon as possible.”

Li Si truly didn’t dare to delay. Everything in Greyrock City was ready. He really didn’t want to drag things out until that fly emerges.

“Well, Junior Brother Li, you’ve come a long way. You should rest first. The Master left instructions earlier that if you arrived, she had something to say to you.”

“Then… alright.” Li Si could only agree. He couldn’t very well just pick up Jiuxuanzi and run regardless, right?

After that, he was arranged to stay in a separate tent. Although Li Si repeatedly said it wasn’t necessary, he couldn’t resist the enthusiasm of the Jiuxuan Sect disciples.

But how could he need rest? Especially in this desolate wilderness, even meditating and cultivating felt unsafe.

So, having nothing better to do, he took out the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, planning to refine and upgrade it again.

After all, he could now be considered a minor master of artifact refining; his experience in this area was quite extensive.

The Wish-Fulfilling Pearl’s core ability to illuminate the Illusory Void and the Mortal Realm relied on two things.

One was its very high spiritual response value, high enough to sense the Illusory Void – essentially, an ultra-precision radar.

The other was the Evil-Detection Algorithm.

This was the core ability that allowed the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl to give Li Si one last look at the scene even if it was corrupted.

Of course, this was Li Si’s own understanding. In the Artifact Refining True Explanations of the Yunhua Sect’s tech geeks, they used another term: Hanging Point Deduction.

Other Cultivators played with normal deduction, but the Yunhua Sect’s tech geeks took a completely different path. They constructed a deduction matrix that could deduce a single event from multiple angles, cross-referencing and overlapping the deductions.

At the same time, it could produce hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of deduction results. By screening these results in a new round, they could arrive at the answer closest to the truth.

Then they would imprint these answers into the deduction matrix for storage and collection. Once enough were accumulated, similar events could be quickly screened for results.

Hmm, it sounded a bit like big data.

Anyway, Li Si was amazed. The Yunhua Sect’s tech geeks had been working on this for thousands of years, and while they hadn’t produced any major results, they had accumulated nearly a million plus Hanging Point Deduction answers.

In short, because of this Hanging Point Deduction, Li Si confirmed that the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl came from the Yunhua Sect.

But in the Yunhua Sect, this thing wasn’t called the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl; it was called the Little Mountain Sprite.

Listen, does that sound familiar?

Actually, it and the Little Night Wanderer were companion magical tools within the same framework.

The Little Night Wanderer could handle information relay, while the Little Mountain Sprite could perform discovery and reconnaissance. It was practically an automated early warning radar system.

What Li Si needed to do now was to connect a Little Night Wanderer artifact with the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl and update the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl’s Evil-Detection Algorithm…

There wasn’t a single trace of light inside the tent, only an occasional flow of blue radiance. This was the manifestation of Creation Magical Power.

The Little Night Wanderer artifact was a cube. On its top surface was a spherical indentation. Placing the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl into it was a perfect fit.

The whole process didn’t take much time. The most complex part was updating the Evil-Detection Algorithm.

At this moment, Li Si slowly infused Creation Magical Power. The cube-shaped Little Night Wanderer suddenly melted on its own, but not into a liquid. Instead, it behaved like a living creature, enveloping the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl to form a slightly larger sphere.

As more Creation Magical Power was infused, needle-like blue light began to shine through the sphere’s surface. This light gradually illuminated the tent, and the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl miraculously disappeared, leaving only a blue light screen hanging in the void.

While marveling at the artifact refining skills of the Yunhua Sect’s tech geeks, Li Si began quickly tracing intricate and Bizarre Creation runes on the blue light screen.

This was a kind of cipher text created by the Yunhua Sect based on the [Jade Tome of Creation]. It could also be understood as a power key. Any single rune contained a vast amount of information.

Previously, Li Si had consumed 150 portions of White Fortune just to understand the simplest part of these Creation runes.

But he had memorized the Hanging Point Deduction answers accumulated by the tech geeks over thousands of years.

There were about one million answers in total, which only required one hundred Creation runes. Memorizing them was relatively easy.

However, imprinting these Creation runes required consuming Creation Magical Power.

Basically, imprinting one Creation rune required consuming 100,000 points of Creation Magical Power.

So most people really couldn’t handle this.

It took almost the entire night. Li Si consumed ten million points of Creation Magical Power before finally completing the update of the Evil-Detection Algorithm.

Silently reciting the Creation Law, the blue light screen contracted again, eventually turning back into the cube-shaped Little Night Wanderer and the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl.

The Little Night Wanderer didn’t change much, but the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl now appeared in a sky-blue color overall. The more one looked at it, the more one felt a sense of being drawn into it, an illusion. Holding it in his hand, several lines of information appeared.

“Strengthening and upgrade successful. Obtained Creation Magical Tool: Wish-Fulfilling Pearl.”

“Usage Conditions: Must have cultivated the [Jade Tome of Creation] and possess a Creation Golden Core.”

“Usage Effect: Illuminates the Mortal Realm and the Illusory Void, maximum range a hundred li radius. After locking onto a target, it can provide a three-second precision judgment for one’s own long-range attacks. During these three seconds, this judgment is unaffected by evasion, dodging, teleportation, etc. As long as the attack can keep up, nothing is a problem.”

“Additional Effect: When using the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl and releasing deduction-type Dao Technique Divine Abilities based on already mastered clues, one can receive an Evil-Detection Algorithm bonus. This allows for up to 1100 intensive judgment deductions on the true answer. It can obtain the truth without alerting the target being deduced. (Small print note: Targets not in the Evil-Detection Algorithm answer database, we don’t engage. Targets being deduced are extremely powerful, we don’t engage.)”

“Is it reliable?”

Li Si was half convinced and half doubtful. He didn’t hold much hope for the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl’s Evil-Detection Algorithm. In his view, the most awesome aspect of the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl was that even if it was corrupted, as long as it was re-cleansed and refined, it could immediately transform into a Brave Pearl!

“Ah–”

Just as Li Si was about to put away the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, a shrill, miserable scream suddenly came from outside.

Almost instinctively, he immediately threw out the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, while simultaneously ordering the Mountain Guardian Deity, which had been lurking fifty li away, to rush over quickly.

As for himself, of course, he instantly teleported a hundred li away. Three seconds later, he teleported back.

Hmm, he had already shifted the coverage and suppression range of the Yunhua Law Seal in this direction.

Anyway, a wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall.