How Can You Learn Water Spells Without a Water Spirit Root (Ji Guangji of Spirit-Attuning Peak): Pure as Water? You're finished.
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After finishing her comment, Kong Lingyan let out a long breath of suppressed anger and withdrew her divine sense.
Fortunately, she happened to be browsing the World Forum and spotted the message immediately.
Otherwise, she couldn't imagine what would have happened if those who knew Gu Ningyun hadn't discovered this notice in time to stop it.
As time passed, countless cultivators would have been led astray by these rumors, leading to massive misunderstandings about Gu Ningyun.
With Gu Ningyun's talent, she was destined to make a name for herself at the upcoming Hundred Sects Competition.
Kong Lingyan did not want such malicious slander to accompany Gu Ningyun when she achieved fame.
She would never allow it.
Ke Xueqing clutched her identity jade token, looking a bit puzzled.
"Perfected Person, why didn't you just state that Junior Sister Ningyun is an official disciple of our Xiaoyao?"
The entire cultivation world knew that the most essential part of Xiaoyao's recruitment was the assessment on the Path to Immortality.
The first stage of the Path to Immortality was an illusion.
The worse one's character and the more crooked one's intentions, the more numerous and complex the illusions they encountered.
Those with a pure heart might pass with just one simple illusion.
But for those with wicked hearts, the illusions would come one after another, layer upon layer, until they couldn't pass even if they possessed heaven-defying abilities.
After all, the Path to Immortality was an immortal tool.
Since Gu Ningyun had passed that assessment, it was absolutely impossible for her to be a petty thief or an unfilial person as the notice claimed.
If they simply revealed her status as a Xiaoyao disciple, the rumors would collapse on their own.
There was a saying in the cultivation world:
You could claim that Xiaoyao failed to guide a disciple properly in the later stages, leading them to go astray and commit wrongs.
But you could never claim that a disciple was rotten to the core from the moment they were recruited.
That would be a challenge to the integrity of the immortal tool.
Kong Lingyan fell into deep thought upon hearing this. "This missing person notice clearly has a deeper motive. Although Xiaoyao can protect its own, it’s best not to reveal too much information if we can avoid it."
"We must avoid falling into the trap set by this 'Pure as Water' and giving them exactly what they want."
"Furthermore, Ningyun is currently training under a hidden identity. To avoid affecting her progress, it’s better not to expose her for now."
"That’s true. Your considerations are far more thorough, Perfected Person."
Shen Banxi and Shu Ziming were currently disguised as ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators among the passengers on the spirit ship.
Seeing Jiang Yao and the others hurriedly knocking on Gu Ningyun's cabin door while clutching their Spirit-Attuning Jade Tokens with grim expressions, they knew something was wrong.
Shen Banxi thought for a moment and pulled out his own Spirit-Attuning Jade Token to check the New Disciple Training Department platform.
Strange. There were no new messages from the sect. What were those little ones up to?
However, his confusion didn't last long, as a private message popped up.
Ji Guangji of Spirit-Attuning Peak: Martial Uncle Shen, look at this forum message!
Shen Banxi clicked on it, and his face instantly turned pitch black.
He forwarded the message immediately.
Shen Banxi of Spirit-Attuning Peak: Peak Master, are you at Spirit-Attuning Peak? This concerns our little junior sister—it's an absolute emergency!
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Star-Moon Sect, Taiyi Peak.
Gu Lianxue's lips curled into a smile as she joyfully scrolled through the missing person notice she had spent a fortune to push to the front page.
Seeing the overwhelming tide of malicious comments cursing Gu Ningyun, she felt a surge of immense relief.
If that wench hadn't run away, that old Daoist never would have gone back on his word.
Because of her, Mother had to rely on the array the old Daoist left behind to manually swap her five spirit roots for a water spirit root.
This had caused her spirit root to be incompatible with her body. Even now, she couldn't cultivate; she could only barely use a forbidden art to exert a tiny bit of divine sense just to browse the Spirit-Attuning Jade Token.
The malice and jealousy in Gu Lianxue's eyes were almost overflowing.
To solve the compatibility issue, they had begged that old Daoist countless times over the years.
Only recently had he finally relented and sent a message.
He said that as long as they caught Gu Ningyun and brought her back to the Gu family, he would step in and fix the mismatch between her spirit root and her body.
But catching that wench was easier said than done.
They had searched for over three years without hearing a single word of news.
The girl had likely left Nanwangzhou long ago.
At that thought, Gu Lianxue's hatred seethed.
For six years, that wench had acted obedient and stupid. She never expected it was all an act.
It was all to dull their senses and lower their guard so she could find a chance to escape.
They had truly underestimated her.
Now that the girl had seen through them, finding information on her was incredibly difficult.
She and her mother had spent many days coming up with the idea for the missing person notice.
She didn't believe that with such malicious slander and so many hateful comments, the girl could resist jumping out to defend herself.
As long as she or someone close to her revealed a single detail, Gu Lianxue could follow the trail and find her.
Gu Lianxue skipped past the hate comments she had bought and carefully scanned the comment section for real clues.
As she read, the smile on her face faded, replaced by an uncontrollable rage.
"What do they mean the logic is flawed?! What do they mean she’ll bear all my future calamities?!"
Gu Lianxue was so angry she felt like she was coughing up blood. Then, another comment caught her eye: 'Pure as Water? You're finished.'
What did they mean she was finished? This person named 'How Can You Learn Water Spells Without a Water Spirit Root' had quite the ego. Who did he think he was?
Gu Lianxue couldn't take it anymore and began furiously typing a reply under that comment.
However, just as she finished her message and before she could send it...
The notice flickered and turned a dull grey.
The notice was gone, and all the comments below it had vanished.
In its place was a line of large, clear characters:
Upon investigation, this message has been deleted due to fabricated content and malicious slander, which severely impacted the atmosphere of the World Forum.
Gu Lianxue was stunned.
What was going on? This could happen?
Mother never said this was a possibility.
Before Gu Lianxue's shock could even register, her divine sense was forcibly ejected from the Spirit-Attuning Jade Token.
When she tried to enter again, she saw only a grey void and a line of large green characters:
Due to your wicked heart, malicious slander of others, inciting conflict, and disrupting the order of the World Forum, the Spirit-Attuning Jade Token has permanently rejected your aura.
What did that mean?
Huh?
What did that mean?!
She was permanently banned from using the Spirit-Attuning Jade Token?
The World Forum was a chaotic place with countless people arguing every day. There were plenty of messages far more chaotic than her comment section.
Why was her account specifically banned?
And why was she permanently banned from ever using a Spirit-Attuning Jade Token again?
Gu Lianxue pulled out a spare Spirit-Attuning Jade Token and tried to enter with her divine sense, but she saw the same grey void and the same line of green characters.
Her pupils shrank.
A sense of impending doom grew stronger. Gu Lianxue's hand trembled as she clutched her chest.
Her heart was in a state of total panic.
She turned and sprinted toward the side of the mountainside.
That was the direction of the cave dwelling of the first senior brother of Taiyi Peak, Kang Heng.
"First Senior Brother, do you know anything about the permanent ban of a Spirit-Attuning Jade Token?"
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