After transmigrating As The Sickly Junior Sister - Chapter 15

Confusion appeared in Jiang Li’s eyes. What was the Sin-Revealing Pool?

Xiao Hu secretly transmitted her voice. “To put it simply, the Sin-Revealing Pool shows whether you carry killing karma. Otherwise, how do you think Yao Sect dares to accept demon cultivators? Anyone with evil intentions or who has killed people will have their flesh corroded by the pool water. No matter how high their cultivation is, they won’t be able to walk out.”

Yao Sect’s rule for accepting disciples was that whether one was human or demon, one had to walk through the Sin-Revealing Pool.

Jiang Li grew nervous. “Then I should be fine, right?”

“Probably.”

Although Xiao Hu said that, Jiang Li was still uneasy. What if there was something Xiao Hu did not know? What if the original owner had committed killing karma?

The autumn wind stirred the crimson pool water, reflecting Jiang Li’s hesitant face.

Seeing Jiang Li standing at the edge of the pool without moving, Elder Ji Lei frowned slightly. “What? You don’t dare go in?”

Jiang Li took a deep breath. If she did not enter, it meant she could not join Yao Sect. And that meant her only path left was to return to the demon race with Xiao Hu.

Perhaps it was due to the instincts of being human, but compared to going somewhere surrounded by demons, she preferred living among humans.

The bright red pool water swayed slightly, just barely covering her knees.

The Sin-Revealing Pool was only a dozen or so meters across, yet Jiang Li walked through it with unusual difficulty. Her legs felt as though they had been dragged into mud.

Fortunately, there was no sign of the pool water corroding her. It seemed the original owner had not committed killing karma.

Elder Ji Lei’s brows relaxed. “Follow me.”

After returning to the Outer Sect Elder Hall, Elder Ji Lei handed Jiang Li a silver nameplate. “Among the Upper Three Sects, inner disciples all wear gold nameplates. Silver represents the outer sect. Yao Sect has one additional color: bronze, which represents demon cultivator disciples.”

Jiang Li accepted the nameplate. Seeing that Elder Ji Lei seemed to be waiting for something, she bowed. “Disciple Jiang Li greets Master.”

Elder Ji Lei laughed heartily. “Good disciple. First, go to the library pavilion and receive a copy of the alchemy guide. Familiarize yourself with the sect’s rules. When you can refine medicine into pills, come find me.”

He also had to continue his own research.

Just thinking that, in the near future, Jiang Li—a complete single-spiritual-root disciple with exceptional talent—would become Ji Lei’s personal disciple made him feel extremely proud.

After Jiang Li went to the library pavilion and received the alchemy guide, she also collected the pill furnace, low-grade medicinal herbs, and other things new disciples needed.

The one guarding the library pavilion was a thin, gaunt-looking demon cultivator disciple. As Jiang Li was about to leave, he smiled ingratiatingly and said, “Fellow disciple, in the outer sect from now on, please take care of me.”

Jiang Li nodded and did not say much.

After observing for a while, she had also noticed something.

There were very few people wearing gold nameplates, and their faces all carried a trace of pride. They were inner disciples.

The outer disciples wearing silver nameplates would greet her, this newly minted personal disciple, but their attitude was normal.

As for the demon cultivator disciples wearing bronze nameplates, they showed a hint of trying to please everyone, or rather, they intentionally lowered themselves and acted small.

Judging by the behavior of Yao Sect’s disciples, demon cultivators clearly had the lowest status, and they were all concentrated in the outer sect.

Seeing this, Xiao Hu transmitted her voice and asked, “How did it become like this?”

Jiang Li had noticed the problem, and naturally, so had she.

No wonder the seniors did not suggest that she enter Yao Sect, only saying that life in the demon realm was more carefree.

Jiang Li pointed out the crux of the issue. “In the end, it’s because no powerful expert has emerged among the demon cultivator disciples who joined Yao Sect. Most strong members of the demon race are carefree and undisciplined by nature and don’t get involved in cultivation sect affairs. The cultivation world respects the strong. Over time, this kind of situation inevitably formed.”

Xiao Hu was unconvinced. “That’s because the demon cultivators who joined Yao Sect are all learning human cultivation methods. Otherwise, our demon race would definitely be stronger.”

This was also why many demons longed for Yao Sect but did not join it. For demons, human cultivation methods were too slow.

Their fellow demons who had joined Yao Sect had no trace of demonic power on them, and even their demonic aura was faint. They had clearly had the cultivation they accumulated from absorbing the essence of the sun and moon abolished, then started from zero like human cultivators.

If one abandoned the cultivation method most suited to oneself, progress would naturally be slow.

Thinking of this, Xiao Hu said worriedly, “Although all the seniors say the cultivation of demons and humans can be stacked, I’m really worried you’ll pick up sesame seeds and lose the watermelon, wasting your cultivation.”

Jiang Li listened while trying to refine pills according to the alchemy guide. In her heart, she was also curious. If the seal was undone and both sides were at Qi Refining, what would it look like after stacking them?

But her spiritual root was damaged. Using human cultivation methods, it would be difficult for her to reach Foundation Establishment. At most, she would probably reach late Qi Refining, without any major breakthrough.

Just as she was thinking this, the pill furnace went bang and released a cloud of white smoke.

Jiang Li focused and tried again.

The furnace exploded again.

She took a deep breath. She refused to believe this evil.

In the end, Jiang Li stood there with furnace ash all over her head and face, utterly lifeless.

Xiao Hu watched and shook her head. “Tsk, tsk. In your situation, you clearly have no talent for refining medicine.”

Generally speaking, even Yao Sect disciples with no talent could refine herbs into pills after a few tries. Someone like Jiang Li, whose furnace kept exploding, was truly rare.

Jiang Li wiped her face. “I entered Yao Sect for nothing.”

She had thought she could rely on alchemy to dominate the cultivation world.

After all, high-grade pills were scarce. Cultivators, like ordinary people, could also fall ill, only in a different sense.

For example, injuries required Essence-Nourishing Pills, poisoning required various antidote pills, and there were also Foundation Establishment Pills that could directly help one break through in cultivation.

Sometimes, an injury that could not heal after half a year of regulating one’s breathing could be solved instantly with a single pill.

This was also the reason Yao Sect had always remained among the Upper Three Sects. Cultivators could not do without pills, so they had no choice but to acknowledge its status.

Xiao Hu laughed out loud. “Your talent for cultivation is hopeless, and refining medicine doesn’t work either. Now you’re finished.”

Jiang Li: “…”

If she did not know how to speak, she could speak less.

For several days in a row, Jiang Li studied medicine refining with the new disciples at the training grounds during the day. At night, she went back and practiced more. Yet not once did she successfully form a pill.

That day, just as she left the training grounds, she saw a familiar face.

Ji Da walked over with a smile. “Junior Sister Jiang Li, why haven’t I seen you looking for my father to learn alchemy?”

“Master said to come find him once I can refine medicine into pills. I still haven’t managed to form any pills.” Thinking of how she had been blown up and covered in ash every day, Jiang Li had no temper left.

“You still haven’t refined medicine into pills?” Ji Da almost thought he had heard wrong. It had already been several days. Even the dullest disciple should have been able to form pills by now. This junior sister’s talent was truly… truly unexpected.

The good disciple the old man had waited half his life for seemed to be the wrong person.

Jiang Li nodded. How worrying.

Ji Da coughed lightly and comforted her. “Maybe your talent lies in refining poison. Your senior brother here refines poison. Yao Sect doesn’t only have the path of medicine refining.”

Jiang Li’s eyes lit up. “Senior Brother, hurry and tell me what poison refining is about.”

She knew heaven would never completely cut off a person’s path. Refining poison could also let her sweep across all directions.

After listening to Ji Da’s explanation, Jiang Li returned and replaced all her medicinal herbs with poisonous herbs, trying to refine poison.

This time, the furnace did not explode.

But she poisoned herself.

“Ah Gu, can you still breathe?” Seeing Jiang Li collapse while refining, Xiao Hu was so frightened her soul nearly flew away.

Jiang Li moved her eyes and transmitted, “Still breathing. These are all anesthetic grasses. It’s not a big problem.”

She had wanted to refine poison and knock other people down.

Now this was great. She had knocked herself down directly.

But it was not completely without gain. At least it proved that the thing refined from these poisonous herbs really could make someone lose the ability to move.

For example, she could not even lift a finger.

Xiao Hu let out a long breath. “As long as it’s not a big problem. Why aren’t you getting up?”

Jiang Li closed her eyes. As if she did not want to get up. Wasn’t it because she could not?

“The toxicity may be too strong. I can’t get up for a while.”

An hour passed, and the sky gradually darkened.

Looking at her little companion still collapsed on the floor, Xiao Hu said worriedly, “I think, since you’ve been poisoned, you probably need an antidote too.”

Jiang Li: “I think you’re right.”

Xiao Hu: “…”

“Then what do we do? I don’t know how to detoxify you.”

Jiang Li blinked and transmitted, “Use my communication jade talisman. Find someone familiar… find…”

Before she could squeeze out the words “Senior Brother Ji Da,” she lost consciousness.

“Find who? Hey? You fainted?” After Xiao Hu confirmed that her little companion had really fainted, she began thinking about who Jiang Li meant by someone familiar.

Who should she find?

Who was she most familiar with?

A hundred li away at Qingxi Sect, Ye Qingruo was preparing to go to bed when several specks of light appeared before her eyes and formed a line of words:

Young Sect Master, help! Jiang Li has been poisoned.

This was… Jiang Li’s communication jade talisman.

Judging from the wording, someone else had sent it for her.

Poisoned?

Yao Sect was best at refining medicine and poison. Jiang Li was no longer a disciple of Qingxi Sect. Ye Qingruo did not need to meddle.

Ye Qingruo lowered her eyes, unwilling to pay attention.