Junior sister, I really need to control you

However, on the other hand, although this spell can improve chess skills, it is only a side effect. The key is still the mastery of formations, and chess skills have little impact on the power of the spell.

Ultimately, this is still a spell used to fight enemies; it merely uses magical power to conjure the Yin and Yang elements as "materials" for setting up an array.

It's like swinging a chessboard at someone. Does the same chessboard cause more damage in the hands of a chess master than in the hands of someone else?

It doesn't make sense.

Just as Li Yinsheng was pondering what kind of magic or technique he should use to exchange the "Yin Yang Cave Mystery Array" with the Jade Altar Temple,

Just then, Meng Yu suddenly spoke up: "This technique was not taught privately. I asked my master about it last night using a communication artifact and have already received his approval."

"Huh?" Li Yinsheng almost thought he had misheard. "Your master? The abbot of Yutan Temple? He agreed?"

Meng Yu nodded: "Master said that as long as you promise not to pass it on to anyone, then he can teach you."

Hearing that there were requirements, Li Yinsheng felt a bit more at ease.

But is that all the requirements?

Seeing the puzzled look on Li Yinsheng's face, Meng Yu became even more confused.

Does he dislike this spell?

After returning to her room last night, she didn't want to teach Li Yinsheng chess anymore, but she also wanted to see him. So she quickly thought of this spell.

Because she enjoys playing chess, she naturally learned this spell.

She has already condensed the spirit of chess, but the spirit of chess is not very useful to her. Whether it is chess strength or array formation skills, she can learn them on her own, which is much faster than activating the spirit of chess.

The most important aspect of this spell is actually the ability to conjure chess pieces into formations using magic, as well as the more than ten formations recorded within it, which are extremely practical.

If teaching Li Yinsheng this magic technique could replace teaching him chess, it would undoubtedly be the best of both worlds.

So she used a communication artifact to ask her master overnight, reporting what had happened in the past few days and also asking if he could teach Li Yinsheng the Yin-Yang Cave Profound Array.

As dawn broke, she received a reply from her master.

He can teach it, but Li Yinsheng is only allowed to learn it himself; he must not pass it on to others.

This time, her good intentions backfired, exposing Li Yinsheng to the eyes of Shouyi Temple. Although, according to her description, Li Yinsheng didn't seem to care much, she still had to give him some compensation.

After all, given Li Yinsheng's talent, becoming a True Person in the future is almost a certainty, so naturally, he can't let go of the opportunity to befriend him in advance.

So Meng Yu took this magic spell and went straight to find Li Yinsheng.

Seeing Li Yinsheng hesitating about whether to accept it, she took out a palm-sized mirror from her Qiankun bag.

This is her communication artifact, extremely precious. If she hadn't been entrusted with this important task by the temple, it wouldn't have been given to her.

"Fellow Daoist Li, look."

She handed the mirror to Li Yinsheng, displaying the conversation she had with her master the day before.

Looking at the blatant words from the abbot of Yutan Temple on the mirror, "This boy has the potential to be a true master; we can befriend him," Li Yinsheng didn't know what expression to make.

He returned the mirror to Meng Yu, took the "Yin Yang Cave Mystery Formation" she handed him, bowed respectfully, and spoke solemnly.

“Fellow Daoist Meng, I have remembered your favor, as well as the favor from Yutan Temple.”

Meng Yu blinked, disregarding the promise of favor, and instead asked, "This spell is a bit difficult, do you need me to teach you?"

"I really don't know much about formations, so it would be great if Fellow Daoist Meng could teach me."

Li Yinsheng hesitated for a moment and said, "But at this time, with the demons coming up the mountain and the formation being set up, as the person in charge of the formation, can Fellow Daoist Meng spare the time?"

“It’s alright,” Meng Yu shook her head, “someone is taking my place.”

"For you? Is that reliable?" Li Yinsheng asked with some curiosity.

"They are my junior brothers and sisters who assisted me when I was setting up the Tongming Refining Spirit Array for Xuanzhen Temple," Meng Yu said.

"Oh!" Li Yinsheng suddenly realized.

"I only had some free time in the first few days. After five days, the number of demons will increase, and I won't be able to leave the central hub of the formation easily," Meng Yu said.

"Then, since Fellow Daoist Meng has some time today, please give me some more guidance," Li Yinsheng said.

As for visiting my junior sister... it won't make a difference if I take a little while. I'll learn the spells first and then go.

“Yes!” Meng Yu nodded immediately.

……

About two hours later.

Before the dazed Meng Yu, Li Yinsheng flicked his fingers in the air, and black and white light flew and swirled, transforming into a simple array that enveloped him.

As the last black chess piece landed on the corresponding array node, the array, along with Li Yinsheng within it, spread out rapidly, becoming transparent, like a drop of ink in a water vat.

Yin Yang Cave Mystery Formation - Shadow Concealment Formation.

This is a formation used to conceal one's aura and physical form; it is quite simple to execute.

However, since it was Li Yinsheng's first time encountering formations, he could feel that he was still very rough in using them.

This formation now only has the effect of concealing physical form; the ability to suppress one's aura depends entirely on him.

If it were a cultivator with similar cultivation level or a higher level of array mastery, they would be able to see through this level of concealment array at a glance.

However, it is extremely difficult for those with low cultivation levels to detect.

Looking at Li Yinsheng, who had vanished into thin air before her eyes without a trace, and whose location could only be found through the traces of the array, Meng Yu's originally expressionless face was now blank.

That doesn't make sense.

That shouldn't be the case.

Chapter 59 Difficult Rewards

On Zhulin Peak, halfway up the mountain.

A small team of four people was traveling through the forest.

Apart from the thousands of tiny spiritual eyes on which each planted a single Suyun bamboo, the rest of the mountain was still a forest.

In reality, the entire mountain area was covered by the root system of tens of thousands of Suyun bamboo, so the rest of the vegetation in the forest was extremely short and sparse.

Outside the mountains, trees are often over ten feet tall, while on the mountain, there aren't many trees that can exceed five or six feet, and the wild grass is even shorter than the instep.

This actually made things easier for the disciples on patrol.

Even without using magic like the Armored Horse Technique, traveling through such deep mountains and forests wouldn't be too inconvenient.

"Junior brothers and sisters, it's almost noon."

The leader of the four was a young man from Huangzhu Temple who looked to be in his early twenties. Holding a compass, he led the way and said, "After this patrol is over, let's all rest here for a bit."

Huangzhu Temple arranges all patrol teams to be in groups of four, with each group led by a Huangzhu Temple disciple who is familiar with the mountain's terrain.

Of course, the purpose of "leading" is also to prevent these other Taoist disciples who have been recruited from slacking off or even learning from demons to steal food and practice their skills.

Upon hearing that they needed to rest, Mu Xiaoyu and two other patrolling disciples, a man and a woman, nodded in agreement, standing behind the young man from Huangzhu Temple who was leading the group.

The other two disciples wore different robes. The male cultivator wore a brown robe, had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and dark skin. Compared to a cultivator, he looked more like an ordinary martial artist.

The female cultivator wore a moon-white Taoist robe embroidered with a bright moon surrounded by auspicious clouds resembling pine branches.

When they were divided into teams in the early morning, the three of them had already informed each other of their names and backgrounds.

The male cultivator's name was Lu Kuan. He came from a Taoist temple called Yuanya Temple, which was ranked in the middle among all the temples and was not famous. It was only slightly better than Huanghe Temple.

The female cultivator's name was Wu Mingke. She came from a decent Taoist temple called Songyue Temple. Moreover, she hadn't just met Mu Xiaoyu that morning; she was Mu Xiaoyu's roommate, so the two of them had naturally met the night before.

If Li Yinsheng were here, he would have some impression of this Taoist temple, because the Master Yuehe, who had previously extended an olive branch to him and wanted to invite him to be a "Taoist partner," was the patriarch of Songyue Temple.

Unlike Huanghe Temple, which only has one patriarch, Songyue Temple once had three patriarchs at its peak. Although it is no longer what it once was, it still has two patriarchs in charge.

However, Mu Xiaoyu didn't know much about Taoist temples. To her, both Yuanya Temple and Songyue Temple were just "other Taoist temples".

Of course, Lu Kuan and Wu Mingke knew even less about the Xuanzhen Temple from which Mu Xiaoyu came from.

The two were only two or three years older than Mu Xiaoyu; they weren't even born when Xuanzhen Temple declined.

Wu Mingke and Mu Xiaoyu walked side by side, and Wu Mingke said in a low voice, "Xiaoyu, I heard from others that when you came yesterday evening, you were personally escorted by a senior from your Taoist temple who was highly skilled and handsome?"

“Sister Wu, you’ve asked this several times already,” Mu Xiaoyu said helplessly, “It was my senior brother who brought me here.”

"Just how handsome is your senior brother?" Wu Mingke pressed.

Yesterday, Li Yinsheng was patrolling the area where the disciples lived. Although Fu He was a bit flamboyant, he had come from nowhere and left quickly, so not many people actually saw him.

The rumors that Wu Mingke just mentioned are spreading very quickly.

"Senior brother, you are indeed quite handsome," Mu Xiaoyu said, pouting, "but you're a bit too strict."

“Strictness is good,” Lu Kuan said from not far away. “Strict teachers produce outstanding students. Ordinary disciples like us are not qualified to be apprenticed to the temple’s stewards as masters, so we can only cultivate with our senior brothers and sisters.”

"It would be good for our cultivation to have strict senior brothers and sisters to discipline and teach us." He walked along, waving a wooden stick as if he were practicing some kind of mundane stick technique.

"That makes sense. Your sternness shows that your senior brother cares about you."

Wu Mingke nodded in agreement: "If I had a senior brother who was handsome, highly skilled, and cared about me a lot, I would definitely stick to him every step of the way."

As she said this, a blush crept onto her cheeks: "As for being strict... sometimes it's a good thing, hehehe."

“Yes!” Lu Kuan nodded in agreement. “Keep pestering him, ask him about cultivation every day! The stricter the better!”

Wu Mingke rolled her eyes—you can't reason with someone like you.

Mu Xiaoyu felt a little insecure after being talked about by the two of them.

So, do fellow Taoists from other temples think that being strictly disciplined is a good thing?

Is it normal for my senior to be so strict with me?

Could it be that the cultivators in other Taoist temples are like me, getting up at dawn every day and practicing cultivation, swordsmanship, and studying scriptures until midnight?

"Little Fish, I'm two years older than you and have cultivated for two more years. I'm going to say something you might not like to hear."

Wu Mingke took Mu Xiaoyu's hand and said earnestly, "You should cherish the senior brothers who are strict with you. Those senior brothers and sisters who call you by your name after adulthood may not be good people, but the senior brothers who force you to cultivate every day are definitely good to you."

"After all, no matter how hard you cultivate, your cultivation will not go to him; it will all be your own. His strictness towards you is definitely for your own good."

“That’s right!” Lu Kuan agreed. “Most of the senior brothers and sisters in my temple with high cultivation levels are busy with their own cultivation and earning money for talismans. How can they have time to take care of junior brothers and sisters who are not related to them?”

“It’s the same everywhere. Which Taoist temple isn’t like this? People have limited energy, so it’s best to focus it all on their own cultivation,” Wu Mingke added.