Chapter 303: Nothing More Than This

He continued walking up the mountain peak.

Beside Lin Xun, one Cultivator after another collapsed.

However, Lin Xun looked as if he was about to break down at any moment, yet he simply wouldn’t.

“I’m not crazy!!! Hahaha!!! I’m not crazy!”

“Old Wang! Why are you in my wife’s bed! I’m going to fight you to the death!”

“Junior Sister, please don’t leave me, okay? I’ll definitely cultivate hard! I can steal immortal swords to support you! I’m begging you, don’t leave me…”

“Wife, why does everyone say our child doesn’t look like me at all?”

“One day, I will stand at the peak of this world! I’ll take every Saintess under heaven into my arms! Hahaha!!! *hiccup*… Hahaha…”

As he walked further up, Lin Xun saw all sorts of strange people saying all kinds of bizarre things.

Some were hugging large trees and wailing loudly.

Some were looking up at the sky, silently shedding tears.

The sight of this chaotic dance of demons left Lin Xun dazed.

But Lin Xun felt he could understand… After all, these were Heart Demons. It was normal to let oneself go under the influence of a Heart Demon.

Bypassing this group of fellows, Lin Xun continued his ascent.

Perhaps feeling that his performance was too calm—among so many strange people, he only had a “stomachache”—he appeared a bit like an outlier.

Consequently, it seemed that more gazes were watching him from above the clouds.

Steeling his heart, Lin Xun rubbed some onion onto his eyes.

“Goddammit! Why! I only wanted to make you all happy! Why is it so hard? Why!!!”

Qinger, I didn’t want to take concubines; I truly love you and them…”

Lin Xun walked upward while weeping, his facial expression management being quite exceptional.

He even leaned against a tree, panting heavily and drenched in sweat, as if he might collapse at any moment… “Wenwen, for a Cultivator like this, I don’t know how you have the confidence in him to believe he can reach the mountainside? He’s already near his limit and will collapse soon.”

Shen Xiao shook his head as he watched Lin Xun through the Mirror Flower Water Moon.

“Furthermore, this person is incredibly fickle in love, actually claiming his fickleness is about giving other girls happiness. It’s simply laughable.”

“Is it laughable?”

Mo Wenwen continued to watch Lin Xun, as if conducting some sort of observation of the mortal world.

“If those women all love him, and he indeed loves them all, but there is only one of him and he doesn’t want to give up any of them because he wants to give them happiness, shouldn’t that be reasonable?”

Why does Senior Brother find it laughable?”

“That’s just an excuse for a man’s fickleness. Junior Sister, compared to such a fickle man, I will only ever love you!”

Mo Wenwen sighed. “But I do not like you, Senior Brother.”

“…”

Shen Xiao wanted to say something more but didn’t know how to open his mouth.

Right at that moment, a sudden commotion erupted above the clouds.

“Who is this person?”

“Are they from a Sect or a Loose Cultivator?”

“I want his full profile within the time it takes an incense stick to burn.”

“My Wentian Sect wants this person!”

“Wentian Sect? Such big talk,” an Elder chuckled. “Does Wentian Sect think they can get whoever they say they want?”

“What, is Fellow Daoist Qi going to compete with me?”

“Why not? Do you think this humble Daoist is afraid of you?”

Amidst the sounds of arguing and discussion, Mo Wenwen also looked over.

It turned out that a Cultivator had already reached the halfway point of the mountain and was still continuously moving upward.

Being able to reach the mountainside showed a certain amount of potential, but calling them a peerless genius would be an exaggeration.

If estimates were correct, about ten percent of the Cultivators would reach the mountainside.

However, this Cultivator had only taken half an hour to reach the mountainside!

One must know! Back then, when Mo Wenwen was also in the Golden Core Realm, it had taken her half an hour to get from the foot of the mountain to the halfway point!

This Loose Cultivator… is his state of mind actually comparable to Mo Wenwen’s?

With such talent, how on earth did he end up as a Loose Cultivator?

How could he not have been discovered?

Furthermore, this Loose Cultivator was extremely handsome, with delicate and pretty features.

But the more one looked, the more he gave off a sense of feminine grace… In the Mirror Flower Water Moon, the Loose Cultivator who had reached the mountainside sensed someone watching him, looked up, and gave an elegant smile as he opened a paper fan.

His scholar-like elegant temperament and delicate appearance once again gained him a lot of favor.

However, Mo Wenwen only gave this Cultivator an extra glance.

Mo Wenwen turned her head and continued to watch Lin Xun in the Mirror Flower Water Moon.

While the arguments among the Elders of various Sects above the clouds grew increasingly heated,

more and more Cultivators collapsed on Heart Refining Mountain.

But similarly, quite a few Cultivators reached the mountainside.

The Elders had already made calculations in their hearts regarding these Cultivators who reached the mountainside of Heart Refining Mountain, based on the time they took.

Essentially, these first and second batches of Cultivators to reach the Heart Refining Mountain’s waist were the primary targets they intended to invite to join their Sects.

At this time, Shen Xiao had no time to worry about that exceptionally talented Cultivator.

His gaze returned to Lin Xun once again.

In Shen Xiao’s view,

this man named “Ri Dangwu” would collapse in the next moment!

But to his surprise, the man just wouldn’t fall!

Shen Xiao couldn’t fathom how this man could be so persistent.

The people around him collapsed one after another, and he overtook one person after another.

This Ri Dangwu’s pace of climbing the mountain wasn’t considered fast.

However, no matter how slow he was, he kept moving upward… As Shen Xiao watched him climb step by step, he had never felt so uncomfortable… One step, two steps, three steps… Half a day passed, and by afternoon, a total of one hundred thousand Cultivators had reached the waist of Heart Refining Mountain, and no one else was coming up.

“I lost…”

Finally, when Ri Dangwu climbed onto the mountainside, Shen Xiao let out a heavy sigh.

He hadn’t expected that this Cultivator would actually do it.

Turning to look at the young girl beside him, in her flawless profile, Shen Xiao saw the girl’s calm.

It seemed that to the girl, it wasn’t strange at all that this man would climb to the mountainside.

“Mm.”

Mo Wenwen nodded, her expression still like an icy spring in winter, without the slightest ripple.

“Since that’s the case, then please don’t come looking for me anymore, Senior Brother. Please focus on your cultivation.”

Shen Xiao clenched his fists. Although the deep winter had passed and the weather was already turning to autumn, Shen Xiao still felt cold all over, his body trembling:

“Wenwen, do you really hate me that much?”

“Hate?”

Mo Wenwen touched her chin, thinking slightly, and finally shook her head.

“Senior Brother just makes me feel a bit of a bother; it doesn’t quite reach the level of hatred.”

“Wenwen, I won’t give up on you!” Shen Xiao said affectionately.

Mo Wenwen shook her head. “If Senior Brother truly won’t give up on me, that is also Senior Brother’s business. There is no need to tell me.”

Shen Xiao: “…”

Shen Xiao’s mouth opened slightly, wanting to say something more, but he slowly closed it.

In the end, Shen Xiao just stood a meter away from Mo Wenwen, no longer speaking.

Mo Wenwen didn’t care about him either.

Where he wanted to stand was his freedom.

It was just that sometimes Mo Wenwen wondered if things would be better if she were much uglier.

Among the hundred thousand people who reached the waist of Heart Refining Mountain, only a thousand could obtain a spot for the Rootless Secret Realm.

So, to show their uniqueness, many Cultivators would grit their teeth and climb further up.

Lin Xun was naturally no exception.

He still followed behind the hundred thousand people, continuing to act like a newbie.

Above the mountainside, the path became even harder to walk.

The speed at which Cultivators collapsed or went mad was much faster than before.

In less than half an hour, only three thousand people were still struggling forward on the mountainside.

After another half hour, fewer than fifteen hundred people remained.

By now, the vast majority of Cultivators had stopped moving forward.

Because they had already reached their limits.

Lin Xun also checked his position on Heart Refining Mountain.

Lin Xun felt he was about where he needed to be.

He should be around the thousandth place.

Not everyone would accept recruitment by the Sects.

Many people had heard that this trial was at Heart Refining Mountain, so they specifically came to participate.

After all, “Questioning the Heart Demon” was also a way of seeking the Dao.

Generally, once Heart Refining Mountain was controlled by the major Sects of Fuchen Continent, even the Cultivators of Fuchen Continent itself didn’t necessarily have the chance to come here to train.

This was even truer for Cultivators from other continents like them.

Therefore, some people simply came to Fuchen Continent to participate in the trial, never intending to go to the Rootless Secret Realm, but rather wanting to use Heart Refining Mountain to temper their state of mind.

So Lin Xun also felt it was about enough; there was no need to continue further.

When the time came, he would just sneak into a Sect and get a spot.

However, just as Lin Xun sat down bluntly on a tree stump, intending to rest and slack off,

suddenly, a swirl of black storm continuously swept across Heart Refining Mountain.

This black storm wasn’t an air current, but was formed by gathered spiritual energy; the leaves didn’t move an inch.

But the Cultivators who had just stopped felt as if they were facing a great enemy.

They quickly used spiritual energy to protect their heart meridians.

As the black wind blew past, many more people fell into their Heart Demons and fainted on the ground.

Lin Xun felt that his spot for the Rootless Secret Realm was as secure as could be.

“But what on earth happened on the mountain? Why does it feel like this Heart Refining Mountain has been provoked and insulted?”

Lin Xun released a wisp of Divine Thought to sense toward the mountain.

When Lin Xun found the Cultivator who was only two hundred meters from the summit, his heart skipped a beat!

How could it be her?

Why is She Qiqi here? How did she sneak into Myriad Laws World?

After the Demon Calamity a million years ago, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Myriad Laws World and Demon Race World were as incompatible as fire and water.

Now, she, a royal princess of the Demon Race World, appeared in Myriad Laws World.

Isn’t she afraid of death?

And although she was a pervert, she was indeed very beautiful. If she were exposed, it might not be as simple as just dying.

She might end up as a plaything.

The most outrageous part was that she was still walking up step by step.

The further up she went, the more attention she would draw, and the greater the possibility of her true identity being discovered.

Lin Xun couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat for her.

It was one thing to infiltrate Myriad Laws World.

He didn’t expect her to show off so blatantly.

What good would it do to attract the attention of the entire Fuchen Continent, or even the entire Myriad Laws World?

Is this She Qiqi crazy?

Or is she just tired of living and came to Myriad Laws World to seek death?

Lin Xun really couldn’t figure out what she intended.

But if he couldn’t figure it out, then forget it; whatever happened to her was none of his business anyway.

Even if she saw me, it would be impossible for her to recognize me.

I disguised myself before coming.

This mask on my face was something I personally asked the “Faceless Man” to make for me back then.

At that time, my long spear was pointed at his back, so he made it very carefully, and the Materials used to make the mask were rare in the world; no Yin-Yang School Cultivator below the Immortal Realm could see through it.

Even if they did see through it, they wouldn’t be able to see my true face; the other party would only see a bunch of pixelated blur.

So Lin Xun wasn’t worried that she would expose his identity.

But speaking of which, Lin Xun really didn’t expect that She Qiqi’s state of mind would be so strong!

Heart Refining Mountain tests the state of mind; just having a high Realm makes it impossible to climb to within five hundred meters of the summit.

Even Cultivators in the Ascension Realm could only rely on their Realm to get within a hundred meters of the summit.

But this She Qiqi, despite only being in the Nascent Soul Realm and currently suppressing her Realm to Golden Core, had reached a distance of fifty meters from the summit!

A Golden Core Realm Cultivator reaching fifty meters from the summit of Heart Refining Mountain and still continuing upward—the resilience of her state of mind was already incredibly astonishing!

At the same time, above the clouds, there was total silence.

All the Elders held their breath as they watched this man with the paper fan walk up step by step.

Because Lin Xun had stopped and wasn’t moving further up, Mo Wenwen also shifted her gaze away from Lin Xun.

Looking at this man who was actually a woman in disguise, Mo Wenwen was also somewhat curious about her identity.

Furthermore, this woman seemed not to be human.

However, Mo Wenwen did not say any of this aloud.

One meter… two meters… three meters… four meters… when this “man” was no more than a meter from the summit of Heart Refining Mountain, everyone held their breath.

Just one last step.

As long as she took this final step.

Then, this “man” would be the second person to reach the summit after Mo Wenwen!

She Qiqi never took that final step.

She just looked up at the summit, a strange light flickering in her eyes—a sign that she had fallen into a Heart Demon.

Lin Xun thought she might not take it.

If she didn’t want to alarm the entire Fuchen Continent, or even the entire world.

But… in the Mirror Flower Water Moon, and under Lin Xun’s perception,

this “Young Master” holding the paper fan snapped the fan open with a *shua*.

The strange light in her eyes vanished as she broke free from the Heart Demon. She was seen taking a small step and stepping onto the highest peak of Heart Refining Mountain!

“Fuchen Continent’s Heart Refining Mountain… so it’s nothing more than this.”

Gazing at the world’s scenery from the mountain top, this “handsome” Young Master spoke slowly.

Her eyes curved slightly, seemingly with contempt and mockery, seemingly with a young girl’s pride, and even more like an empress standing atop a mountain peak, peerless in her elegance…