Chapter 199: This is Your Trial (Part 5)

Chapter 199: This is Your Trial (Part 5)

“Divine Epiphany, is it really a Divine Epiphany?!”

Ling Meng was getting all excited again. She had heard Lin Nuo talk endlessly about how amazing and powerful the Divine Epiphany was, like a heavenly chosen technique that one could only encounter by chance. Now that she had triggered it herself, she felt just like her master, becoming one of the chosen ones.

The feeling was unparalleled; she had never been this happy before.

Even though she had faced difficulties at the Sacred Altar and almost lost her life, it was all worth it—every hardship was for the arrival of this moment!

By triggering the Divine Epiphany, she wouldn’t let her master down and would close the distance between them.

Seeing Ling Meng bouncing around, Lin Nuo was left dumbfounded.

Wasn’t this little girl once the leader of a small faction in the Refining Demon Sect? A ruthless daughter of the demon path?

But now, how had she become even more crooked with training?

He was a legitimate mentor, using the most advanced demon techniques from the Great Puhan Empire to teach her. He would be evaluated six years later as the top demon mentor of the First Grand Convention of the Great Puhan Empire, renowned all over the nation.

But why was a student taught by such an incredibly skilled person turning out like this…

Her strength had improved, but she had lost the fierce aura and temperament of a true daughter of the demon path.

It seemed like she needed to be sent back to the Refining Demon Sect for a while, to undergo a brutal reality check.

*Knock, knock!* Someone was at the door.

“Who is it?”

Lin Nuo snapped back to reality, shouted a reply, and was about to open the door when a voice came from outside:

“Bro, I can understand enjoying life, but do mind the timing, alright? Don’t get too intense with the… uh, double activities or group activities; don’t wake up the folks downstairs.”

“……”

Wasn’t that Ling Meng’s bouncing around that disturbed the folks below? What kind of double activities were you talking about during broad daylight?

No wonder it felt like there was some noise from above sometimes; it might have been true.

“Okay, I got it.”

Lin Nuo replied to the voice outside, then turned to Ling Meng.

“Alright, Ling Meng, stop jumping around, you’re disturbing the downstairs.”

“Oh, oh, oh.”

Ling Meng finally realized and stopped jumping, having been too overjoyed and excited just now.

Lin Nuo opened the door, the person outside left, and after closing the door, he said to Ling Meng:

“Master didn’t teach you to avoid arrogance and impatience. Even if you trigger the Divine Epiphany, it’s not something to be overly proud of. The road ahead is long; don’t let temporary achievements make you forget your manners.”

Lin Nuo spoke earnestly, each word dripping with a hint of lemony acidity.

How could it not be sour? She could break through and advance, while he had nothing.

So what if she broke through? What was good about it if he was still alive?

“Okay, Master, I understand! I will heed Master’s instructions, avoid arrogance and impatience, and strive to become stronger in the future.”

Ling Meng puffed up with enthusiasm, feeling like the future was bright. She was getting closer to her master, and one day she would catch up to him and be someone who could fight alongside him!

However, she didn’t realize that as she progressed, she was actually drifting further away from Lin Nuo.

After all, he was always behind her, and as she moved forward, he probably wouldn’t even see her shadow anymore.

He was merely playing the role of a spiritual leader, hiding his identity as a rookie, encouraging her to forge ahead. How noble!

“Master, what shall we do next?”

“I’ll find you a group.”

“A group? What is it?”

“The Refining Demon Sect. You originally belonged to that demon organization, but you joined me because of some incident along the way. You’ve been out for so long; it’s time for you to go back.”

“But Master, will you come back with me to the Refining Demon Sect?”

“No, I don’t stay in that place; I have my own arrangements,” Lin Nuo replied.

“Master, you… you don’t want me anymore…”

Upon hearing this news, Ling Meng was extremely saddened, feeling abandoned, tugging at Lin Nuo’s sleeve with a pout.

“Not at all.”

Lin Nuo responded,

“This is just a way to test you. Use everything I’ve taught you in the Refining Demon Sect. Remember to be cautious and not to show off. There are those inside the Refining Demon Sect who want to do you harm, but it’s fine; with your current abilities and the way I’ve taught you to handle things, they can’t do anything to you. You go back for a while; I’ll keep tabs on you from the shadows. Once the time is right, I will naturally come find you.”

Lin Nuo sounded very profound, as if he were some inscrutable master placing his disciple in a testing situation while observing from the shadows—either in the clouds or lurking in the shadows, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.

In reality, if he had the ability to do that, he wouldn’t have taken Ling Meng as a disciple. He was just good at talking.

The whole monitoring thing was a ruse; he was actually bailing out, returning to Tianling Mountain.

Finding Ling Meng later wouldn’t be hard; after all, she would become stronger, class upgrades, becoming a higher-ranking leader. Eventually, he would just need to inquire and know where she was.

She, on the other hand, wouldn’t know how to find him, which was the result he wanted.

Listening to Lin Nuo’s words, Ling Meng felt a bit relieved; it wasn’t abandonment after all but a test.

That made sense; she had been trailing behind her master every day, learning a lot, but lacked opportunities for independent training.

Plus, she had been away from the Refining Demon Sect for quite a while; her father would surely worry. She hadn’t contacted her family, and they probably thought she was dead.

“Alright, fine, I should go back. I’ll find a way to contact the Refining Demon Sect.”

With the deception successful, the two reached a consensus. They were about to scout out the nearby location of the Refining Demon Sect. Lin Nuo planned to send Ling Meng off first, giving her some time to grow independently, while he also had to figure out how to deal with Su Kexin and search for ways to advance.

…

On top of the mountains, before the cliff, stood several profound wizards, along with beast tamers and fierce beasts.

The distant Sacred Altar was still emitting dazzling light, and the Three Heaven Stone continued to operate, sustaining this land.

“Lord Cang Zhao has fallen; our long-planned scheme has failed.”

“Yeah, it’s said that a man named Wu Ying Ge killed the lord. The lord was incredibly powerful; who would have thought he would be defeated? This Righteous Path Organization really knows how to recruit talents. Should we seek revenge for our lord?”

“Let’s hold off for now. If the lord couldn’t defeat him, there’s no need for us to exert ourselves. Just because one plan failed doesn’t mean there will be more failures in the future.”

The old wizard gripping a skeletal staff opened a dark portal.

“Let’s go; there’s nothing left worth staying for here.”

After saying that, he stepped into the dark portal, and the other wizards, beast tamers, and fierce beasts followed suit one after another.

That day, everyone remembered the name:

Wu Ying Ge.

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I had thought the eldest martial sister would be the most popular, but unexpectedly, it was the second martial sister who shone the brightest. Why can’t the student in the long storyline defeat a loli that hasn’t even appeared for a few chapters? Is this a reflection of human nature, or…

P.S.: The loli is about to make her appearance!