Sword Protecting Mountain has been quite lively recently. Ever since Shi Qinxin took the Pulse-Restoring Pill, recovered her meridians, and picked up her sword again, she's been challenging everyone to swordsmanship duels.
This includes Tian Ning. Every time Shi Qinxin sees an exciting part in a storybook, she comes!
Because of this, the Third Senior Sister was beaten up by her Junior Sister. Afterward, she obediently followed her Senior Brother and acted like a good girl, accepting her Junior Sister's instructive teaching.
Second Senior Brother Jiang Xi can also write talismans normally now.
Even though he's blind, his past memories of talisman drawing are ingrained in his bones. If his hand hadn't been injured, preventing him from holding a brush, he wouldn't have been unable to draw a single talisman in five years.
He knew it was the Pulse-Restoring Pill that his Junior Sister had specially given him, remembering him. He immediately displayed all his belongings before Tian Ning: "Junior Sister, thank you! Take whatever you like; you can even take everything!"
"..."
If he hadn't said this to a tree in the courtyard, Tian Ning would have been moved.
"No need, Second Senior Brother. Didn't you also give me a gift on my first day at Sword Protecting Mountain? Consider this a return gift from your Junior Sister." Tian Ning didn't need anything and pushed the things back.
Jiang Xi was extremely moved. After returning, he drew talismans day and night, and in a few days, he gave Tian Ning a dimensional pouch full of talismans.
Tian Ning: "..."
What kind of tentacle monster is Second Senior Brother?
After returning to Sword Protecting Mountain, Tian Ning lived a comfortable life. She read storybooks and occasionally guided her Senior Brothers and Sisters. She only encountered a little trouble when she went to the Mission Hall to turn in missions.
Tian Ning accidentally remembered that she hadn't turned in her mission yet. That day, she went to the Mission Hall and handed over the herbs she had collected from the Secret Realm to a disciple. After they were counted, she exchanged them for points. As she was leaving the Mission Hall, she was stopped.
"You're the Tian Ning who used backdoors to enter Wanjian Sect?"
The speaker was a young man in white, about Tian Ning's age, wearing the robes of a direct disciple. His tone was unkind; he clearly came to provoke her.
Behind the young man were many disciples watching the spectacle. They pointed at Tian Ning and gossiped:
"So she's the one who gave the Sect a lot of bribes but could only stay in that place for the wastes at Sword Protecting Mountain!"
"I heard she's the Wenren Family's lost daughter. Compared to Senior Sister Xue'er, she's like heaven and earth!"
"You don't know, my second aunt's cousin's wife works for the Wenren Family. She said that Tian Ning often bullies Senior Sister Xue'er. If it weren't for Senior Sister Xue'er's kindness..."
"Goodness! Doesn't she have the face to look in a mirror?"
...
These people spoke without reservation in front of Tian Ning.
The young man in white looked coldly at Tian Ning, not concealing his contempt. He said sarcastically: "I am Xie Xingzhi, a new disciple under Master Xu Yu Zhenren. I heard that you deliberately bullied my Senior Sister Xue'er at Wenren Manor. I have come to challenge Junior Sister Tian Ning to a duel on the Dueling Stage!"
"If you lose, you must kneel down and apologize to my Senior Sister Xue'er!"
Master Xu Yu Zhenren?
So he's from Wenren Xue's cheap master's sect.
Wanjian Sect prohibits disciples from fighting privately, but they can practice swordsmanship on the Dueling Stage. This was a calculated move...
Tian Ning genuinely felt that they were idle. Every time Wenren Xue's yes-men came looking for trouble, they always spoke for themselves.
As if afraid Tian Ning wouldn't agree, Xie Xingzhi spoke again: "You wouldn't dare fight me, would you? That's right; a waste like you only deserves to stay in a pile of wastes like Wanjian Mountain!"
This kind of provocation is very low-level.
Tian Ning looked at him speechlessly and said something unexpected to everyone: "Fighting is fine, but I don't like fighting brainless people, because stupidity is contagious."
"..."
Everyone thought she was calling Junior Brother Xie stupid, but they had no proof...
Xie Xingzhi asked: "What will make you willing to fight me?"
Tian Ning: "Alright, if you can answer a few questions of mine, proving you have a brain and aren't stupid, then I'll agree to fight you."
"Good!" Xie Xingzhi agreed.
He didn't believe Tian Ning would ask difficult swordsmanship questions. After all, he had heard that the elders of Sword Protecting Mountain had been in a coma for five years, and Tian Ning had gone to that place for the wastes. Whether she had any guidance was questionable!
This girl probably can't even hold a sword now?
Xie Xingzhi was supremely confident, but when he heard Tian Ning's questions, he was dumbfounded.
Tian Ning asked: "If a mouse is sick, will it get better if it eats rat poison?"
"..."
Xie Xingzhi was stunned for a long time before replying: "Probably not... isn't rat poison used to kill rats?"
Tian Ning didn't say he was wrong and continued: "Does a pregnant woman beating someone count as a gang fight?"
Xie Xingzhi: ???
"If maggots die, will they reproduce?"
"If you use the venom of a poisonous snake to poison a poisonous snake, will the poisonous snake be poisoned to death?"
"If I punch myself to death, does that mean I am strong or weak?"
Ah, this...
Xie Xingzhi fell silent, unable to answer for a while. Are these questions even asked by humans?
The disciples who were originally criticizing Tian Ning were also dumbfounded, and they all had different opinions.
"Of course, a pregnant woman beating someone is a gang fight! That's three people!"
"Of course not, if the pregnancy is not full term, the child can't strictly be considered a person!"
"Then the maggots?"
"..."
Everyone was baffled by Tian Ning's questions and couldn't determine the correct answers.
As for Tian Ning, she had already returned to Sword Protecting Mountain while these people were brainstorming. She didn't have that much free time.
Tian Liang Mountain:
The four senior brothers who doted on Wenren Xue had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Xie Xingzhi return, the fourth senior brother, Liu Er, immediately went up and asked: "How is it, Junior Brother? Did you severely teach that Tian Ning a lesson? Did she come to kowtow and apologize to Junior Sister?"
Xie Xingzhi's eyes were vacant: "She... she said I had to answer a few of her questions before she would fight me."
"It's just a few questions. Junior Brother, you have excellent aptitude and are taught by Master. How could you not answer them?" This was Gong Fenghe, the third senior brother.
"..."
Xie Xingzhi fell into an eerie silence before recounting the questions.
Sure enough, his senior brothers also had complicated expressions.
"She didn't say rat poison is poison! What if it's specifically used to treat mice?" Second Senior Brother Shen Zhou spoke.
"Second Senior Brother, that's wrong. Since she didn't say it, rat poison is literally rat poison!"
"..."
They actually seriously started to discuss it?
The only sensible Senior Brother, Zongzheng Lun, couldn't stand these idiots anymore: "She's playing you all. Don't you see?"
Everyone: "..."
"Forget it, since she doesn't want to kowtow and apologize to Junior Sister, let's make a small matter out of a big one. In the upcoming Grand Competition for new disciples, Junior Brother, don't show mercy. Let her know that not everyone can bully our Junior Sister!"
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