Almost in an instant, the three of them surrounded Wei Ruxue, completely ignoring how tense the current situation was.
“Come to my Pill Sect! I guarantee you won't have to worry about pills for the rest of your life!”
“Get lost! She has a derived water spiritual root and can't perform alchemy anyway, so why would she go to your Pill Sect? Come to my Xiaoyao Sect! Our sect's Library has as many water-attribute cultivation methods as you could ever want!”
“What's so good about spell cultivators? They die the moment they're touched—fragile as glass! If you want the absolute ceiling of combat power, you have to come to my Heavenly Sword Sect!”
While the three of them were fighting over the genius, the senior brother Zheng Tianba had mentioned also rushed over.
Unlike Zheng Tianba's muscular build, Feng Feiyun was a male cultivator dressed like a frail scholar. He looked at Wen Jingshu and the other three with a beaming smile and said:
“Even the Four Great Sects can't just go around snatching other people's disciples, can they?
“You aren't planning to gang up on my Beast Taming Sect, are you?
“My, my, what capability does our Beast Taming Sect have to deserve the Four Great Sects joining forces against us?”
Feng Feiyun's words were laced with sarcasm and passive-aggressive mockery, making Wen Jingshu roll her eyes.
When Wei Ruxue saw Feng Feiyun arrive, she timidly hid behind Zhao Miaomiao to seek protection.
Seeing this, Zhao Miaomiao frowned.
If it were only Zheng Tianba, the three of them might have been able to leverage the cultivation restrictions in the mortal realm to deal with him.
But this Feng Feiyun was clearly also a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator. For the four of them, who were outer sect disciples without any powerful backing, to go up against two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators was like throwing eggs against a stone.
Furthermore, these two clearly did not care about the sects backing them. Even if they sent messages back to their sects right now, it would take at least four days for reinforcements to arrive.
By the time reinforcements arrived, it would be far too late.
The rewards for recruiting a genius were indeed tempting, but in the face of death, no amount of treasure mattered if they weren't alive to enjoy it.
Looking at the grim expressions on the three's faces, Wei Ruxue said unwillingly:
“Please, Immortals, save me! I beg you to save me! If you can help me escape today, I will surely repay you handsomely in the future! I, Wei Ruxue, will remember this kindness for the rest of my life!”
The gratitude of a cultivator with a Supreme Derived Water Spiritual Root! Of course the three of them were tempted.
But it came back to the same problem: they were currently completely powerless!
Even if they could call over other fellow disciples who were also recruiting in the mortal realm, they still wouldn't be a match for these two.
As if to confirm their thoughts, with a wave of Feng Feiyun and Zheng Tianba's hands, over a dozen demon beasts appeared before them.
“These little pets might not be as fierce as they are in the cultivation world, but, well... they still have some combat capability. For example, randomly biting off the leg of a little Qi Refining cultivator.”
A threat!
This was a blatant threat from Feng Feiyun!
Feng Feiyun was highly satisfied to see their expressions change drastically. Having said his piece, he looked at Wei Ruxue with a beaming smile and continued:
“Be a good girl, Ruxue. Just follow Senior Brother Feng obediently. I guarantee that you will become a personal disciple the moment you join our sect.
“The Four Great Sects are nothing but institutions with hollow reputations. Besides, they have too many geniuses. Even with a Supreme Derived Water Spiritual Root, you won't receive much attention there.”
Seeing Feng Feiyun take a few steps forward, Wei Ruxue instinctively took a few steps back.
She was originally the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Her parents loved each other, and her older brothers and sisters doted on her. Having grown up in the lap of luxury, she had never once thought about leaving her hometown to cultivate.
She only wanted to live out her life in peace and stability.
But after Feng Feiyun accidentally discovered she had a Supreme Derived Water Spiritual Root, he ignored her wishes and forced her to come with him. He had even threatened to make her entire family pay with their lives if she disobeyed.
The young girl had never experienced such a terrifying situation, so she had followed him with a pale face.
Just when she thought she would be forced into the Beast Taming Sect, a turning point appeared!
Zheng Tianba had found another person with a spiritual root and wanted to abduct them as well!
Unexpectedly, Luo Yunting had already been selected by the Four Great Sects. Seeing that the four cultivators before her had upright countenances and did not look like bad people, Wei Ruxue had made her desperate plea for help.
In her eyes, Feng Feiyun and Zheng Tianba were no different from those tyrannical, playboy scoundrels who bullied others and abducted women.
As long as she could escape the Beast Taming Sect, she didn't care which sect she joined.
But now...
Wei Ruxue pursed her lips and looked at Zhao Miaomiao with a face full of hope.
Female cultivators were usually soft-hearted. Surely she would help her, right?
Zhao Miaomiao could not bear to meet her gaze and forced herself to look away.
Wei Ruxue's heart instantly turned to ash.
On the other hand, Wen Jingshu sent a message to Xu Haoguang, then walked straight up to Wei Ruxue and said:
“Wei Ruxue, right? The Qingyun Sect welcomes you.”
Hearing Wen Jingshu's words out of nowhere, Shen Kuo and the other two, despite knowing how inappropriate the current situation was...
...couldn't help but twitch their lips and roll their eyes.
They vaguely remembered that on the first day of recruiting, this fellow had used that exact same official line: “The Qingyun Sect welcomes you...”
Most importantly, those children had actually chosen the Qingyun Sect just because of those words?!
In comparison to Wen Jingshu's brief sentence, their long-winded recruitment speeches suddenly seemed extremely ridiculous.
And now, this fellow was doing it again?
No, did Wen Jingshu even understand the current situation?
Right now, two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators were unilaterally surrounding the four of them!
Would the Qingyun Sect actually die if they didn't put on airs?
Fearing that she would be dragged down by Wen Jingshu's reckless behavior, Zhao Miaomiao said to her, “Senior Brother Wu, now is not the time to show off.”
Her underlying meaning was for Wen Jingshu to give up on Wei Ruxue.
Wen Jingshu's response to Zhao Miaomiao was a disapproving look.
Didn't they come to the mortal realm to recruit disciples? A super genius was right in front of them; why shouldn't they take her?
“If we can't even protect our own disciples, then I suppose our Qingyun Sect might as well throw away our reputation as the number one sect.”
Wen Jingshu's domineering statement filled the eyes of the children with little stars, but Shen Kuo and the other two felt she was just putting on a massive show.
In the end, Zhao Miaomiao gritted her teeth and said, “Fine! Since you're determined to protect her, then this is a grudge between your Qingyun Sect and the Beast Taming Sect. It has nothing to do with us!”
Feng Feiyun obviously hadn't expected Wen Jingshu to actually dare to snatch someone. The smile on his face instantly vanished, and he said darkly:
“Junior Brother, I advise you to think this through. Are you sure you want to defy me right now?”
Wen Jingshu only found these two villains' endless babbling incredibly annoying. She casually pulled out a defensive formation plate and a stack of Thunder-Attracting Talisams.
These Thunder-Attracting Talismans were only low-grade first-rank talismans, which wouldn't have much power in the mortal realm, but she had an overwhelming quantity of them.
She could use her defensive formation plate to block any damage, but they didn't have any formation plates!
If this massive shower of talismans flew all over the sky, they would lose a layer of skin even if they didn't die.
“A talisman cultivator? You're actually a talisman cultivator! Damn it all, I hate talisman cultivators the most in this life!”
If beast tamers were considered to be fighting dirty by fighting many-on-one, then talisman cultivators were absolutely the dirtiest of them all!
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