"Team leader, what do you think of this newly captured little beggar?"
"Well, it looks good, but whether she can master the bone-shrinking technique depends on how much pain she can endure."
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"No, don't take my arm off, please..."
"If you can't get into this tank, don't even think about eating for the next three days!"
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"Don't try to get close to me. Now that we've entered the Shadow Building, we're destined to kill each other in the future. Here, only one person in a group can survive, you know?!"
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"Take this jade pendant and go, don't worry about me!"
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Seven-year-old Ge Yuchan suddenly sat up from the bed, breathing rapidly, her chest heaving violently, and her whole body soaked with sweat.
The cold wind of early winter poured in through the half-open window, making Ge Yuchan feel cold all over. She tightly wrapped herself in the quilt, bit her lower lip, and tried hard to suppress the trembling of her body.
"It's okay, it's okay. This is the Immortal Gate, not the Shadow Tower. No one will take me back. It's okay, it's okay..."
Ge Yuchan murmured to herself to comfort herself. She didn't know who her parents were. It seemed that since she could remember, she had followed an old man named Ge to beg everywhere.
Later, the old man died and she was captured by a theatre troupe. Every day, she had her arms and legs cut off and was forced into a tank smaller than herself to practice bone-shrinking skills.
In order to have enough food to eat, she endured the pain and took the initiative to practice. As long as she passed the test of the class leader early, she could perform on stage and have two meals a day.
But because she performed so well, she was noticed by the people in Shadow Building, who bought her and trained her as a killer.
In her group was a sister two years older than her named Xu He.
Xu He entered the Shadow Building half a year earlier than her. Her original partner died and they couldn't find a suitable candidate, so they were put together.
Ge Yuchan still remembers that Xu He was very fierce and cold at the beginning. He would ruthlessly knock her down during every sparring session and watch her being punished and suffering with cold eyes.
But later, she discovered that Xu He was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.
A lot of things happened in between. In her eyes, Xu He was like a strict sister who taught her many things in her unkind way.
Xu He said that in the Shadow Building, only the best people can survive, and anyone who falls behind will die at any time.
She always remembered this sentence. Even though she was young and didn't understand many things, she worked hard to become the best with Xu He.
It was not until the Shadow Building was discovered by its rivals and Xu He took her to escape that she found out that Xu He's previous partner was her own sister, who was killed for escaping.
The enemy's killers were killing people, and in addition to resisting, the Shadow Building was also busy transferring these good seedlings.
In the cave, the only exit leading to the outside world was too narrow. She happened to have learned the skill of shrinking bones, so she could escape, but Xu He could not.
In the end, Xu He could only smile and accept his fate, stuffed a jade pendant from his hidden collection into her hand, and let her go first.
She hesitated and struggled, but she still escaped alone because she was afraid and because she didn't want to die.
Later, the jade pendant contained a secret and guided her to the gate of Tianyan Sect.
These should have originally belonged to Xu He.
Ge Yuchan couldn't sleep, so she got up, dressed, and sat cross-legged to practice. She spent many days and nights in a small ceramic jar. Concentration was something she had in abundance.
However, she was haunted by nightmares every night and had difficulty falling asleep. By accident, she entered the first level of Qi training faster than the other boys in the same courtyard, and it only took her seven days.
Ge Yuchan thought that Xu He was helping her in the dark.
She will go back and rescue her!
The morning light shone into the house, and Ge Yuchan woke up from her meditation. Although she had already reached the first level of Qi training, she still pretended that she had not entered the realm of Taoism. She used the Qi-gathering method she learned in the Shadow Tower to suppress the Qi and blood in her body, making herself look weak.
Ge Yuchan didn't know whether it would work or not, but the son of the hunter who entered the outer sect in three days but suddenly went astray and died a few days ago, made her feel cold all over whenever she thought of him.
The Immortal Sect is not a peaceful place either. There are also bloody storms, open and secret struggles.
Xu He once said that one should strive for the top spot, but one should also hide one's weaknesses and leave room for oneself, and never reveal all one's cards.
"Lin Sui Wan, are you the only one who has an ancestor? I have one too, and my ancestor is much more powerful than yours. You'd better behave yourself from now on and don't force me to slap you!"
"You! You're going too far!"
There was another quarrel going on in the next yard, and there were rustling noises coming from the rooms in her own yard. Ge Yuchan lowered her head and slipped out of the yard silently.
These days, she has been avoiding the boys in the outer sect and not getting close to anyone. She is like an invisible person with no sense of existence.
Walking on the way to the forest for morning exercise, Ge Yuchan thought of Lin Suiwan and the girl who almost lost her qualification to join because of Lin Suiwan.
He is only a little younger than her and his talent is not as good as hers, but he has been able to climb to a level higher than her through perseverance.
At that moment, Ge Yuchan deeply remembered the little girl, Jiang Yuebai!
There are mountains beyond mountains, there are heavens beyond heavens, and beyond humans, there are countless people who are unwilling to accept their fate and grit their teeth to fight for a way out.
Ge Yuchan, you can't stop!
After practicing dagger fighting techniques in the forest for an hour, Ge Yuchan discovered that there was a huge gap between immortals and mortals.
Even though she is so young, she can now pierce the rock with an ordinary dagger.
She had only seen this scene from the coach of the Shadow Building, who had practiced internal skills for thirty years.
And she did it in seven days!
Pulling out the dagger, Ge Yuchan looked in the direction she came from with bright eyes.
Xu He, I will come to rescue you soon, very soon!
After finishing the daily compulsory basic courses of the outer sect, Ge Yuchan went to the library and browsed through the books on the first floor. Surprisingly, she saw many martial arts secrets that people in the martial arts world dreamed of.
To cultivators, these are just ordinary martial arts. Even a six-year-old child, with a basic foundation of Qi training, can master one in three to two months.
Thanks to the teachings of Shadow Tower, Ge Yuchan was able to distinguish good from bad martial arts, and also knew her own strengths and weaknesses. She chose a martial art that could improve her body movement, and a medical classic, which contained many things about the human body's weak points and major acupoints of life and death.
If a qualified killer fails to kill with one strike, he loses!
Therefore, she didn't need to learn anything too complicated. She just needed to turn herself into an unnoticeable shadow, wait for the right moment, and end everything with one move!
Time flies, and Ge Yuchan's life is boring and repetitive. Except for a small episode one month after she entered school, when she went to the wrong place to register and was almost discovered by a girl named Jiang Yuebai, there was no disturbance at all.
She practiced, attended classes, and learned martial arts every day, trying her best to rescue Xu He as soon as possible.
In two months, he broke through to the second level of Qi training and learned his first spell.
After another three months, his physical skills improved slightly.
Another half year passed, and I reached the third level of Qi training!
Three spells and two martial arts.
She can go back and save Xu He!
No more updates today, see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)