Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 496 Seeking the Path 6
The impact of this incident was not as great as Wei Xi had imagined. In Old Zhang's words, how many people didn't die in the mines of Xizhou every year? Let alone a bloodbath caused by an unequal distribution of spoils. It disappeared without a trace in just a few days, and no one mentioned it again.

Wei Dong, who returned to the mine after the holiday, secretly reminded his sister to be careful while working there, completely unaware that his sister was the mastermind behind it all.

Wei Xi's mind was not on the accounting work at all; she was caught in a rare anxiety.

A common thought among young girls: What will I do in the future?
Children from poor families mature early, but their choices are already predetermined, and few can escape the life trajectory of their parents.

Unfortunately, Wei Xi was a cultivator, and by chance, he managed to escape the towering mountains of Xizhou.

Although Wei Xi had just progressed to the age of eight in the test of eloquence, the Northern Frontier Sect's recruitment of disciples was imminent. Coupled with the precarious number "three," Wei Xi had to adjust the flow of time back to normal in order to be fully prepared before encountering [Threads].

For Wei Xi, who has not yet fully grasped the rules, the strategic significance of [Threading] has been elevated to an unprecedented level.

Wei Xi faced two paths: one, to follow the established path and join the Qingcheng Sect, and then head to the Baoxiang City Secret Realm again; two, to become a rogue cultivator and enter the Secret Realm ahead of time.

The former's advantage is its familiarity with the task, but its disadvantage is that its actions are restricted; the latter's advantage is its freedom of action and greater room for maneuver, but its disadvantage lies in how to implement it.

"I wonder if my cultivation will return after the Immortal Fate Stone appears." Wei Xi finished sorting out today's accounts and pondered his next move. "If so, it won't be difficult to travel alone, and I've already given my parents some instructions."

"Also, the opening of the Treasure Elephant City Secret Realm is a problem. Should we follow Lian Gou's example and sneak in?"

Wei Xi now felt that seven paths were still too few. How could she be so clueless? After cultivating immortality for so many years, she had only touched these few thresholds!
Had he known she would plunge headlong into the City of the Dead, with Wei Xi's talent, he would probably have already comprehended twenty or thirty different Daos regarding the secondary and tertiary utilization of lifeless human bodies.

"Killing or healing...deception..." Wei Xi kept replaying the events in his mind, "What was that time right after I was born? Was it for survival? Or something else?"

Wei Xi, whose thinking had reached a bottleneck, sighed and chose to rejoin the Qingcheng Sect—at least that way she would have access to a wealth of resources.

After speeding up the flow of time, Wei Xi finally saw the familiar team.

The team that came to Kushui Village to recruit students first provided relief in the county town. Wei Xi, who had sneaked out, "by chance" and shamelessly tried out the Immortal Stone. With Chen Zhou's help, he successfully joined the Qingcheng Sect.

It was no wonder that Wei deliberately starved himself for half a month, resulting in a sallow, emaciated, and malnourished appearance.

Seeing his old friend vividly appear before him, it was as if everything had happened yesterday. But Wei Xi knew it was all fake, or rather, it didn't count, and he immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

"It seems there's some story behind the place where all rivers flow eastward," Wei Xi thought to himself. "It's not easy for Heaven to remember so much."

Chen Zhou remained as kind and responsible as ever. After learning that Wei Xi was mute, he went out of his way to explain the situation to Wei Dong, fearing that Wei's family would worry.

Having learned a trade at the mine, Wei Dong's personality had matured somewhat. Seeing that Chen Zhou had a rather otherworldly air about him, and with the adjutant in charge of mine affairs also accompanying him, Wei Dong dispelled his suspicions and let his sister go on her way.

Wei Dong, who was an apprentice, used all his earnings to support Wei Xi. When the time came, he borrowed money from relatives and friends at the mine and gave it all to his sister. When the siblings parted, the older brother racked his brains to give her all sorts of advice.

Wei Xi didn't mean to upset her parents, so she installed the Immortal Fate Stone in the county town. Unexpectedly, she received a long lecture from Wei Dong, which softened her heart even though she was usually hard-hearted.

Leaving his hometown again, Wei Xi was much calmer than before, no longer feeling the confusion and fear he had when he first left the village. The one who felt confused and fearful was Qin Feng, who had been expelled from the Huai Xin Sect.

To put it bluntly, Wei Xi knew exactly what Qin Feng was thinking, making it incredibly easy for him to befriend her again. Even before seeing the snow in Qingzhou, Miss Qin was already constantly talking about Wei Xi and never far from him.

After joining the Qingcheng Sect, Wei Xi plunged headlong into the Bailu Pavilion, her goal being to find the Golden House.

It wasn't that Wei Xi was in a hurry; it was just that Wu Wu's schedule was hard to book, and she would soon fall into a deep sleep.

When Wei Xi awoke again, he had already "married" with [Qian Si].

"I don't know what the senior was thinking. How could a magical artifact like the Golden House exist in the White Dew Pavilion? They know the temperament of their own artifact spirit," Wei Xi, who raised Lingyin, thought to himself. "The Golden House is simple and easy to fool. Who knows what trouble it might cause if it falls into the hands of someone with ulterior motives."

Wei Xi, with ulterior motives, wandered around Bailu Pavilion for half a month with a bag of maltose. Her suspicious behavior became so bad that her fellow disciples on duty could no longer tolerate it and told her to calm down for a month or two before coming back.

As the snow fell heavily, Wei Xi's nose turned red from the cold, but steam was rising from his forehead.

The golden house is not in the White Dew Pavilion.

This is the first difference that occurred in this trial without Wei Xi's intervention.

"How could the Golden House have disappeared?" The cold air filled his lungs, but Wei Xi's fear only intensified. "It had been lying in Bailu Pavilion for at least several hundred years without any problems, so how come it has vanished without a trace this time?"

"Is it because your words are lacking? Or is it because the senior who created the Golden House is far more skilled than you?"

Wei Xi rubbed his face several times, trying to find a reasonable explanation.

"Or is it a matter of materials? The water of the Hundred Rivers Flowing East, the water of Dead Water City... the water must have carried some kind of history for it to appear here?"

"Humans cannot live without water, whether it's for clothing, food, shelter, or transportation; even mythical beasts can control a region's water system; plants cannot grow without water; even extinguishing a fire requires water; rain falls from the sky, and snow falls when the wind blows—all of these are water."

"All this water flows into the abyss outside Deadwater City, so it's entirely possible to create lifelike 'people.' Even things I haven't experienced can unfold logically. No wonder."

"But what material in this world can completely avoid contact with water?"

This problem seems simple at first glance: fire controls water.

But upon closer examination, is it really true that fire can't come into contact with water? According to Wei Xi's incomplete observations and feelings, there is water vapor in every breath, so how can a burning flame not come into contact with water?

Wei Xi, who had no interest in studying physics, was displeased, and problems followed one after another, with no intention of letting her off the hook.

“The only thing that is certain is that the origin of the Golden House is not simple.” Wei Xi closed his eyes, letting the snowflakes melt on his cheeks and turn his temples white. “Going back further, there are probably people in the Qingcheng Sect who were involved in these matters as well.”

But for Wei Xi, the biggest hidden danger is whether [Tethered Silk] will still be waiting for him in the Treasure Elephant City Secret Realm.
Wei Xi: My heart is bitter, but my life is even more bitter!