6. The Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Sound Technique
For a moment, Gong Yiling suspected that Qiu Shui and the assassin were working together, deliberately creating a distraction.
But… when the sword was pulled out and Qiu Shui groaned, collapsing into her arms, the spreading bloodstain on the young woman’s abdomen ignited a surge of anger in Gong Yiling’s heart.
Regardless of anything else, this girl was the first person in this world to show her kindness and swear eternal loyalty…
How dare this assassin!
However, the assassin also seemed startled at having stabbed Qiu Shui.
This brief moment of hesitation gave Gong Yiling a chance.
Although she was just an ordinary science student, her father had a friend who was a retired soldier and had taught her some self-defense techniques.
Gong Youwei would practice whenever she had free time, which was one of the reasons she felt she could afford to stay up late and abuse her body.
Now, the distance between her and the assassin was only a single body length, minimizing the advantage of cultivation level.
She could do this!
Gong Yiling immediately let go of Qiu Shui, chopping at the assassin’s neck with one hand—a feint.
Her main attack was a precise strike with her right hand to the assassin’s sword-wielding wrist.
The next moment, her feint was blocked, but the assassin’s sword, as planned, was now in her hand.
However, the sword was not something her current body could easily wield. Gong Yiling had to settle for the next best thing, attempting to slash at the assassin’s right hand.
Unfortunately, she had underestimated the role of cultivation.
As the assassin reacted, a surge of powerful energy erupted from their body, sending her flying backward, landing near a light source.
“Damn it…!”
Gong Yiling clutched her grazed wrist, biting her lip as she glared at the assassin.
This look made the assassin pause, murmuring, “Liu Sujin, is that you?”
Liu Sujin?
The assassin’s out-of-the-blue words puzzled Gong Yiling.
But she quickly realized that this was the name Gong Yiling used while studying at Daoist Mountain.
Only fellow disciples and elders from that time would know this name.
Wait…
The book mentioned that Jiang Chenmo was being pursued by the Blood Orchid Palace, seriously injured, which led to his encounter with Yan Chuyue.
Could it be that Jiang Chenmo was being pursued because he tried to assassinate Gong Yiling in the middle of the night?
Did all of this happen on the same night?
“Are you Jiang Chenmo?”
These words clearly startled the assassin. Before he could respond, Chun Lian’s panicked voice rang out, “Assassin! Catch the assassin!”
Hearing this, Jiang Chenmo knew he had missed his best opportunity, and this Young Palace Master wasn’t as helpless as rumored.
Without another word, he quickly retreated, disappearing into the night.
Damn you, Jiang Chenmo, how dare you hurt my person!
Gong—”Kill the male lead, steal the female lead”—007, who already had no good feelings toward the male protagonist, spat on the ground and rushed to Qiu Shui’s side.
At this moment, Chun Lian also ran over, her face pale. “Chun Lian was lying just now. There’s no one else in the inner hall except for the cook and two kitchen helpers. He won’t come back, right?”
“Well done! I doubt he’d dare to return!” Gong Yiling praised Chun Lian and immediately checked Qiu Shui’s condition.
Jiang Chenmo’s sword attack was infused with true energy. While the wound could be treated with medicine, the damage from the true energy required someone who could manipulate true energy to help dispel it.
Damn it!
Why was she a blank slate?!
By the time someone arrived after Chun Lian called for help, Qiu Shui would probably be dead.
“Young… Palace Master… are you… alright…?” Qiu Shui struggled to open her eyes, forcing a bitter smile.
“Don’t speak. This Palace Master has a way to save you.” Gong Yiling frowned, thinking about what to do.
Logically, as an engineering student, she was helpless in this situation. Unless Yan Chuyue was here right now, Qiu Shui was doomed.
But…
Gong Yiling’s eyes darkened.
Someone dying to save her was something Gong Yiling absolutely couldn’t bear.
But what could she do, how could she… wait!
What she saw during those two fatal all-nighters now offered a glimmer of hope.
In this world, to learn an inner cultivation technique, one needed to know the complete oral formula and possess the corresponding talent.
Inner cultivation techniques were the foundation of cultivation, and their quality directly determined how far a cultivator could progress.
In the book, Youyuan had provided the complete formulas for the rare cultivation techniques in the afterword.
And she…
Seemed to remember a few of the more ridiculous-sounding ones.
Thinking of this, she calmed down, took the Golden Sore Balm that Chun Lian had hurriedly found, and fed it to Qiu Shui.
Then, she calmly said to the injured girl, “Qiu Shui, this Palace Master has only one way to save you, but it depends entirely on your fate.”
“If you have anything else you want to do, promise this Palace Master that you absolutely will not die.”
Qiu Shui looked at Gong Yiling with complex emotions and nodded slowly.
“Then repeat after this Palace Master. I’ll say a line, and you repeat it.”
“Okay…”
There were only a handful of cultivation techniques in the world that could heal true energy injuries during cultivation.
And the one she remembered was among the most profound, a lost secret technique of the extinct Cloud Rainbow Sect.
Known as the foremost among the lost classics of the Five Rare Scriptures, the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Sound Technique.
“Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, Calcium…”
That’s right, the oral formula for this technique was the periodic table of elements. Who knew if her sister had chosen the most absurd option between classic and nonsensical.
And most of what she remembered were such strange things.
But now wasn’t the time to worry about such matters.
After reciting the entire formula, nothing happened to her, but Qiu Shui began to exhibit some strange changes.
The girl’s face turned red, then orange, then yellow… basically replicating the colors of the rainbow.
Her aura also began to change, and just a few seconds later, signs of true energy circulation appeared in her body.
Seeing this, Gong Yiling finally relaxed.
It worked.
But suddenly, that mechanical voice and some words appeared in her mind.
—Host has unlocked the Master-Disciple function. You can view detailed information about your disciple, Yin Qiushui.
…Huh?
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