Mortal: I really didn't want to be reborn as Zi Ling!

Wang Ning was not very satisfied with her cultivation progress, but her parents, especially the maid who took care of her, were amazed by her extraordinary talent.

Achieving perfect Qi cultivation at the age of twelve—such a cultivation speed is astonishing even for a cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

However, her parents were quite worried about her working so hard to cultivate.

Zhou Yuan had tried to persuade him more than once.

The gist is that cultivation requires gradual progress, and you are still young, so there's no need to rush.

His father, Wang Heng, also tried to persuade him, using himself as an example. At his age, his cultivation level was only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

But Wang Ning dared not neglect the matter and even tried to persuade her parents.

In the cultivation world, strength is paramount, and she was well aware of what the Miaoyin Sect would face in the future.

However, these six years of efforts have not been in vain.

Perhaps it was the inspiration from her relentless practice, or perhaps it was the subtle probing over the years, or perhaps it was the information gathered from the outside world that finally made her parents uneasy.

In these six years, although Wang Heng and Zhou Yuan's cultivation levels did not break through, they gained many more offensive methods than in the original timeline.

Especially at Wang Ning's suggestion, the two learned a set of combined attack techniques.

This set of secret techniques was obtained by her mother after searching through the entire library of the Miaoyin Sect. She then used her father's connections to purchase it from the Xing Palace at a high price.

When husband and wife practice together, the greater their tacit understanding, the greater the power of the secret technique.

Wang Ning's parents had a deep bond, and with their frequent private practice over the years, they had mastered this combined attack technique to perfection.

In terms of combat power alone, it is definitely a significant improvement over the original work.

Even against a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, the two of them together would be a formidable opponent.

It is absolutely impossible for him to be easily defeated by Wu Chou, who is in the mid-stage of Core Formation, as in the original story, let alone be killed by him.

As for why she would participate in the Demon Suppression Ceremony knowing it was dangerous, we have to mention her father's other secret identity—a steward of the Star Palace Intelligence Department.

Two months ago, when Wang Ning heard that her father had agreed to the Star Palace's request and was preparing to participate in the Demon-Suppressing Ceremony on Kui Xing Island, she was furious.

She smashed the teacup in her hand, kicked over the low table in front of her, and even smashed her father's favorite purple clay teapot.

"Dad! Are you crazy?!"

Wang Heng still vividly remembers that day—his usually gentle and considerate little darling suddenly turned into a furious little lion.

Seeing his little princess throwing a tantrum, Wang Heng, who had a daughter late in life, had no choice but to patiently explain.

Through Wang Heng's narration, Wang Ning finally learned the reason.

On the surface, the Myriad Sounds Sect is indeed a commercially driven force, but in reality, its other business, the Myriad Sounds Pavilion, is a secret agent organization controlled by the Star Palace. On the surface, it is an entertainment venue for people to enjoy, but in secret, it is responsible for collecting intelligence on the Chaotic Star Sea.

However, things have been calm these past few years, and Wang Heng himself is engrossed in music, so this matter has long been handed over to others.

But his identity as an intelligence officer cannot be faked.

Elder Xinggong asked him to go to Kuixing Island as a special envoy to attend the ceremony and gather information about the current situation on Kuixing Island. He could not refuse, nor did he dare to refuse.

Upon hearing this news, Wang Ning was speechless.

How unreliable is one's own father?

As one of the deacons of the Star Palace's intelligence department, it's one thing that he didn't notice any clues all these years, but in the original work, he even became the first sacrifice to be publicly tortured and killed by the Reverse Star Alliance.

He was unlucky, and he really was.

But it is truly pitiful.

There is always a reason why someone is pitiful.

As cultivators, they lack ambition and indulge in strange and ingenious techniques all day long. This would be fine in a prosperous era, but now we are about to enter a chaotic one.

The Way of Sound is not useless, but if you don't study the Way of Killing and only study things for people's enjoyment, then you've lost sight of what's important.

But she's innocent!

Now, Wang Ning only hopes that she won't repeat the same mistakes in this life.

"well--"

If she had Core Formation cultivation—

Wang Ning leaned against the car window and sighed inwardly.

I am still a nobody with little influence.

Otherwise, if her parents obediently listen to her, resign from their damned positions as intelligence officers, and go to the outer reaches of the ocean to avoid trouble, nothing will happen.

If all else fails, you can pretend to have gone mad while practicing cultivation!

Wang Ning desperately wanted her parents to avoid this trouble, but her father completely ignored her.

He dared not disobey the instructions personally given by the Sixth Elder of the Star Palace!

Although Wang Heng had noticed some of the subtle actions of the righteous and demonic paths after being reminded, he still did not believe that the righteous and demonic paths would dare to act recklessly while the Heavenly Star Twin Saints were still around.

It's not just the father.

Wang Ning discovered that even her mother, the cultivators throughout the Chaotic Star Sea, and the high-ranking members of the Star Palace did not believe that either the righteous or demonic paths would dare to act recklessly while the Twin Saints of Heavenly Stars were still around.

But the truth is, the other party did more than just make a move.

A century later, they even went to war with the Star Palace!

The warships arrived at Tianxing City.

Just as Wang Ning's thoughts were racing, she suddenly noticed a gaze fixed on her.

And that gaze had been fixed on them for quite some time.

As she grew older, Wang Ning became increasingly aware of her own beauty.

The twelve-year-old girl, though not yet fully grown, already showed remarkable beauty—her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her eyes like autumn water, and her skin was as white as cream, gleaming faintly in the sunlight.

Walking down the street, she was already used to all kinds of stares.

But today's gaze gave her a different feeling.

It even stirred a faint flutter in her heart.

He turned his head away.

On the street, an ordinary-looking man in a blue robe was looking at her, but his eyes seemed somewhat unfocused.

The man appeared to be in his early twenties, with ordinary features that would make him stand out in a crowd. He wore a faded blue robe and cloth shoes, looking like an ordinary rogue cultivator.

Wang Ning didn't take it seriously and was about to turn back.

But in that instant when she turned her head, she caught a glimpse of someone next to the man out of the corner of her eye—

A burly man wearing a straw hat and a black outfit.

The burly man stood silently half a step behind the man in the blue robe, his straw hat pulled low, but Wang Ning could still see a hideous scar on the man's left eye.

Moreover, with her extraordinary divine sense, she keenly perceived the astonishing murderous aura emanating from the burly man, as well as his unfathomable cultivation level.

Although her aura was not as strong as her mother's, who was in the early stage of Core Formation, it was far superior to that of Fan Jingmei, who was in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

He exudes a murderous aura, has a scar over his left eye, and is at the fake Core Formation stage!

Could this person be—

Wang Ning's pupils contracted, as if she had thought of a certain possibility.

Her gaze went straight to the man in the blue robe.

The man in the blue robe seemed to have just come to his senses. Seeing that Wang Ning was looking at him with an extremely strange gaze, he awkwardly touched his nose and then subconsciously lowered his head to avoid her gaze.

"Strange, why does she give me such a strange feeling of familiarity?"

As Han Li lowered his head, a sudden wave of doubt arose in his heart.

The feeling was subtle, like meeting an old friend he had known for a long time, but he had never met this little girl before.

But this inexplicable sense of intimacy didn't seem fake. Seeing that the other person was unharmed, he inexplicably thought of a certain acquaintance, feeling at ease yet inexplicably.

When he looked up again, the carriage had already driven far away.

The twelve or thirteen-year-old girl also turned her head back, leaving him with only her slender back view.