Fellow Daoist! That scoundrel has written a new book again.

Chapter 483 Those who wish take the bait

Rumors from the outside world have been rampant and have persisted for months.

Time stands still in this hidden realm.

As Zhu Wuyao gathers his memories, out of curiosity about outside news, the entrance to the secret realm reopens to the world.

The figure of the spirit pen disappeared into the void, while Zhu Wuyao's will lingered in this world, looking at the three cultivators who were adventuring together. All three were at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Surprisingly, there were acquaintances among them.

"Senior Sister Yi, we've... entered the Wishing Pool Secret Realm?!"

The leader was Yi Tian, ​​who had tried to join Zhu Wuyao's side at the Star-Picking Tower. Unfortunately, Zhu Wuyao rejected both his attempts to curry favor and his open attempts to join him.

Gu Yiguan picked it up and used it.

Although Zhu Wuyao didn't care about interpersonal relationships within the sect and had no desire to form factions or compete for power, he was still curious about how Yi Tian had been doing lately.

I also wanted to learn about the recent changes at Zhaixinglou through her.

Yi Tian's expression betrayed a hint of irritability and impatience. Although she was addressed as "Senior Sister Yi" and seemed to be enjoying a glamorous life, her cultivation level hadn't improved much.

It seems that Gu Yiguan's approach to this person was to give her only a nominal title without any real benefits.

"Senior Sister Yi, if we can seize some opportunities here, Senior Sister Tang Xin will be no match for you when we return to the sect!"

Tang Xin...

Several months have passed, and Zhu Wuyao's memory-pieced-together project has yielded considerable results; it's time to go to Tongzhou.

Zhu Wuyao had heard that the personal disciple assessment prepared for her was for Tang Xin, the sixth personal disciple selected by the Star-Picking Tower after she left the sect.

This actually surprised Zhu Wuyao somewhat.

She also thought that Gu Yiguan would secretly manipulate things and reserve the position for his henchmen.

"I don't know what's so good about Tang Xin. All she does all day is go to Beixuan City to buy food, or stay in the courtyard reading novels. What a waste of her position!"

That's incredibly unreasonable.

They're all direct disciples, yet Song Kezi curses others and disrupts the atmosphere of the Star-Picking Tower all day long; Shen Anzhi stays in his courtyard and never sees anyone; Ye Xiaozhou is never in the sect... So why is it that Tang Xin is different?

It seems that Yi Tian and his group are always ready to oust Tang Xin from his position.

They seem quite energetic.

Having drifted in the boring secret realm for too long, it was a rare treat to experience something so fresh, and Zhu Wuyao was quite energetic.

She created a character for herself using the matter of this world.

Let this masked hermit NPC fish by the wishing well, pretending to be a mysterious and wise senior.

The restless Frost Jade Corpse Puppet was suppressed once again.

A "surprising adventure" was arranged for Yi Tian and the others!

Although I'm not very skilled at controlling NPCs using my drifting will, the best thing is that experienced masters are usually very quiet, so there's no need for difficult maneuvers, and because they're masked, you don't even need to pay attention to their lip movements.

Before long, Yi Tian and the others arrived at the wishing well.

I saw a hermit elder with an air of otherworldly wisdom.

A hint of surprise flashed in Yi Tian's eyes. She had heard rumors about the Wishing Well Secret Realm, and that a master lived in seclusion there, but no one had ever seen this senior.

And today... today the senior actually showed up!

Yi Tian was filled with mixed feelings of surprise and joy. Could this be her extraordinary encounter?

Not only that, but the two junior brothers beside Yi Tian also had a different kind of light in their eyes, secretly hoping that their senior would treat them differently.

Zhu Wuyao, the main character, remained unmoved.

Still fishing.

It wasn't until Yi Tian and the others had performed all the proper courtesies and took the initiative to greet them:

"We juniors have mistakenly entered the secret realm and disturbed your cultivation, senior. Please do not take offense."

The hermit, untouched by worldly affairs, seemed to belong to another realm, and said:

"After a short nap, many passersby accidentally entered my dream."

Yi Tian and the others understood the hermit's unspoken meaning—it turned out that the Wishing Pool Secret Realm had suddenly appeared in the cultivation world because this senior had taken a nap and neglected to manage the secret realm.

But what if one accidentally enters a dream?

Could it be that this entire secret realm was just a dream?

Just as Yi Tian was pondering how to respond, his junior brother beside him, with sharp eyes, asked:

"Why is your fishing hook straight, senior?"

The hermit smiled and said, "Naturally, it's up to those who are willing to take the bait."

After saying this, Zhu Wuyao controlled the hermit to raise his finger and point forward. The clear wishing pool instantly became murky, and the water rippled, turning into a deep abyss.

Beneath the abyss, countless ghosts and spirits seemed to roam, wailing and scrambling for the fishing hook, trying to climb out of the abyss along the fishing line.

The hermit, dressed in white, silently fished for evil spirits beside the abyss.

The three were so frightened that they took a step back.

The scene before him felt like a dream. Yi Tian swallowed hard, about to say something, when the cultivator asked first:

"During the three years I've been napping, have there been any unexpected changes in the outside world?"

Could it be an illusion...? Yi Tian was still looking into the abyss, watching the evil spirits scrambling for the fishing hook and trying to climb out.

Upon hearing the hermit's question, he quickly came to his senses and recounted the recent changes in the outside world.

The three of them wanted to impress the hermit and win his favor, so they picked out and talked about everything that happened in the outside world, big or small, regardless of its importance. They even did not hide anything that happened inside the Star-Picking Tower.

Zhu Wuyao occasionally got the hermit to nod, and thus obtained a lot of information.

I never imagined... my reputation would turn out like this?

But when did she steal the Star-Picking Tower's secret techniques?

Shen Anzhi actually went to travel the mortal world?

If his fragile Dao heart were tormented by karma a few more times, wouldn't it shatter into eight pieces...?

Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, the hermit nodded and chuckled:

"It seems that nothing that shouldn't have gone out from here while I was taking a nap."

Before anyone could ponder this further, the hermit, as if testing them, uttered a remark:

"I've been sitting here fishing for a long time, why haven't I caught anything?"

coming!

The three men tensed up; in the story, the test from the master had arrived!

As long as what you say is insightful and pleases the master, the master will drop secret manuals, immortal books, or elixirs and magical artifacts!

Why did we catch nothing...? Of course, it's because the hook was too straight and the bait too salty...

"No, a master's test is never that simple," a junior disciple answered first.

"Because the evil spirits in the pool are fighting and vying for control, none of them will give an inch, and none of them can climb out of the abyss."

Another junior brother followed closely behind, saying:

"If bait is hung on the hook, and greed arises, the evil spirits in the pond will bite the hook tightly and will not let go even if others pull on it."

Yi Tian pondered for a moment and said:

"Because the elder did not want the evil spirits to leave the abyss, he used a stick to lure them, so that they would fight forever."

Zhu Wuyao was somewhat surprised.

These three people, as expected of cultivators from the Star-Picking Tower, were quite insightful, and what they said seemed to be allusions to their own circumstances.

But the hermit who was fishing shook his head with some regret and said:

"No, no!"

After speaking, the hermit gently waved his sleeve, sending the three of them out.

It is expected that new legends about the Wishing Well will soon emerge.