Junior sister, I really need to control you

This question stumped Li Yinsheng.

Strictly speaking, the True Blood Manual, a cultivation method that focuses on refining blood, isn't actually that tiring to practice.

The main problem is the pain.

His method of tempering his qi and blood is to refine the Bing fire qi in the blood pivot. When cultivating, it feels like being burned by raging fire, causing unbearable pain.

But the Blood Refining Pit is useless against my junior sister.

This thing is a cultivation tool with both great advantages and disadvantages. If cultivation in the cave heaven does not consume mental energy, this thing is not only a consumable that cannot be used for long, but it will also slow down normal cultivation. The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

While it's true that normal cultivators can supplement their combat power by cultivating their bodies, it's difficult to reach a very high level, so it's not very worthwhile.

Therefore, he never considered letting his junior sister cultivate the True Blood Scripture.

But when Mu Xiaoyu brought it up, Li Yinsheng suddenly remembered.

While the normal cultivation of the True Blood Manual is slow, there are actually ways to achieve faster results.

However, it requires the assistance of body-tempering elixirs of the "heavenly treasure" level.

He knew this when he first found the True Blood Manual. The True Blood Manual cannot be aided by ordinary medicinal materials, but rare and precious herbs are still useful.

Moreover, using rare and precious materials for rapid cultivation has no side effects other than condensing and amplifying the pain of body tempering during the cultivation process due to the excessively fast cultivation speed.

There is no difference in quality between a True Blood Manual cultivated by oneself and one cultivated with the aid of spiritual herbs.

At the time, he didn't pay any attention to this point. He only planned to use the cave and the Blood Refining Pivot to gradually improve the True Blood Scripture.

But for him now, the rare and precious natural materials that have the effect of tempering the body, although extremely precious, do not seem so out of reach.

If we have the opportunity to obtain rare and precious materials for body tempering in the future, we can really let our junior sister supplement her training in the True Blood Scripture. This technique is indeed quite good.

If we can find a body-tempering elixir before the Shaoyang Dao exam, and help my junior sister master the True Blood Scripture, wouldn't our chances of winning a second or even first grade be much greater?

Thinking of this, Li Yinsheng's eyes lit up.

Facing the wary Mu Xiaoyu, Li Yinsheng smiled warmly: "Cultivating the True Blood Secret Manual isn't too tiring. It's just that normal cultivation is very slow, and you need rare and precious materials to help you complete it quickly."

"Oh..." Mu Xiaoyu was a little disappointed.

“However, if you are ambitious, Junior Sister, I can help you keep an eye out for rare and precious herbs that can temper your body,” Li Yinsheng said with a smile. “Once you find them, you can start cultivating the True Blood Scripture.”

Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up: "Senior brother, you're such a nice person!"

“However, practicing body-refining techniques will inevitably involve some pain,” Li Yinsheng reminded her. “Junior Sister, you should be mentally prepared.”

Mu Xiaoyu hesitated for only a moment before gritting her teeth and nodding: "Senior brother, I'm not afraid!"

"Aren't you afraid?" Li Yinsheng asked, somewhat surprised.

Are you still the same cunning, lazy, gluttonous, and slippery junior sister I know?

"Anyway, I've already endured the pain of the bone marrow cleansing. If it's going to make me look better after a while," Mu Xiaoyu took a deep breath, her face full of determination, "I can endure it!"

Anyway, it probably won't hurt as much as the bone marrow cleansing, right?

Moreover, my senior brother is not very old, yet he has mastered the True Blood Secret Manual to the point where he can become more handsome, which proves that the technique should not be difficult to learn.

At worst, I'll just give up on further training once I've practiced to the point where I can look good.

Mu Xiaoyu was secretly plotting something.

At the same time, Qi Jiushan and Deputy Abbot Liang arrived almost simultaneously from the mountainside and the summit, respectively, and fell from the sky.

Seeing the near annihilation of the audience below, the two who had fallen, along with the female stall owner brought by Qi Jiushan, were all stunned.

It wasn't until a lucky disciple of Shouyi Temple, who hadn't been completely stunned by the electric shock, let out a muffled groan of pain that Vice Abbot Liang was awakened.

"Fellow Daoist Li, what... what is this...?"

A look of amazement and delight flashed in Vice Abbot Liang's eyes.

He had just discovered through the array used to monitor the movements in the mountains that a battle seemed to have broken out at the Shouyi Temple's outpost, so he rushed over immediately.

At the time, he guessed that it might be Li Yinsheng and Shouyi Temple who made the move, since among the people present, only Li Yinsheng and the steward of Shouyi Temple had ever had a conflict.

To avoid Li Yinsheng suffering too much loss, he used his magical artifact at full power on the way here, not daring to stop for a moment.

But when I arrived, this was the scene before me.

Li Yinsheng and Mu Xiaoyu stood unharmed, while almost all the cultivators in the Shouyi Temple's camp were caught in the magic weapon's net and electrocuted, their bodies charred black.

While marveling at the formidable talent of the younger generation, he also felt a sense of satisfaction.

Shouyiguan and his gang, who had been running rampant everywhere, finally ran into a brick wall and suffered their just deserts.

But the pleasure was followed by a headache.

With such a huge incident, how are we going to explain this to Shouyi Temple?

“Fellow Daoist Liang,” Li Yinsheng stood up and explained, “these people from Shouyi Temple have been deliberately targeting and bullying the stewards of my Xuanzhen Temple. They have gone too far, and I couldn’t stand it, so I took action to teach them a lesson.”

"That's right!" Qi Jiushan also realized what was happening and pulled over the female stall owner beside him. "Senior brother, my niece Yunqin just reported to me that Shouyi Temple did indeed provoke us first!"

The female stall owner nodded timidly: "I and many disciples around me have heard people from Shouyi Temple say that the temple instructed them to cause trouble for Xuanzhen Temple."

“This…” Vice Abbot Liang looked troubled. “I am all too familiar with the domineering style of Shouyi Temple, and I know that the fault certainly does not lie with Fellow Daoist Li.”

“But Shouyi Temple has always been domineering, and I’m afraid they won’t let this matter rest.” Vice Abbot Liang shook his head repeatedly.

A deputy abbot, a deacon, and many disciples were all captured in one fell swoop.

Let alone the notoriously domineering Shouyi Temple, even a small Taoist temple like Huanghe Temple, which ranks near the bottom, couldn't possibly pretend nothing happened, right?

Chapter 67 Divine Journey Realm, Great True Person

At the Shouyi Temple's garrison.

Seeing Vice Abbot Liang's dilemma, Li Yinsheng took the initiative to speak.

"Fellow Daoist Liang, rest assured. If Shouyi Temple persists in its wrongdoing and seeks trouble, you may simply push me out. I will take full responsibility for this matter and will not implicate your temple."

"No, no, no, Fellow Daoist Li, what are you saying!"

Deputy Abbot Liang quickly waved his hand: "You are a guest invited by my Huangzhu Temple, and you have been wronged on our temple's territory. How can we pretend not to know?"

"Besides, Shouyi Temple really went too far this time, openly targeting other Taoist temples. They got a lesson for it, which is exactly what they asked for."

Vice Abbot Liang did not ask why Shouyi Temple instructed its disciples to target Xuanzhen Temple.

It was no secret that Shouyi Temple coveted the spiritual vein of Xuanzhen Temple, so how could he not know?

He was more concerned about something else.

"Fellow Daoist Li just said that Shouyi Temple is targeting your temple's stewards, but where are the stewards?" Vice Abbot Liang asked.

"It's right here." Li Yinsheng patted Mu Xiaoyu on the shoulder.

Mu Xiaoyu straightened his back, looked at Vice Abbot Liang with a serious expression, cupped his hands in greeting, and said in a manner that was neither humble nor arrogant: "Mu Xiaoyu, a steward of Xuanzhen Temple, greets Fellow Daoist Liang."

Normally, when a deacon introduces himself, he should also include his specific position and the matters he is responsible for.

However, Mu Xiaoyu didn't know exactly what her duties were as a butler, so she could only refer to herself as a "butler".

Facing Deacon Mu, Vice Abbot Liang was stunned for a long time before looking at Li Yinsheng and saying somewhat dryly, "Fellow Daoist Li, this matter is not something to be joked about."

"Junior sister, show your Daoist certificate and steward's seal to Fellow Daoist Liang," Li Yinsheng said.

Are you kidding me? What a joke! My junior sister went through all the proper official procedures and was personally appointed as a steward by me, the abbot. All the formalities were in order!

Upon seeing Mu Xiaoyu display his Daoist certificate and seal, Vice Abbot Liang closed his chin, gave Mu Xiaoyu a strange bow, and said, "Liang Chengfeng, Vice Abbot of Huangzhu Temple, greets Fellow Daoist Mu."

"Fellow Daoist Liang, you're too kind," Mu Xiaoyu replied with an air of superiority.

Li Yinsheng tapped her on the head, signaling her not to get carried away. Mu Xiaoyu looked up and grinned at Li Yinsheng.

“Since Fellow Daoist Mu… uh, Fellow Daoist Mu,” the strange look on Vice Abbot Liang’s face had not been completely suppressed, “Fellow Daoist Mu is indeed a steward of your temple, then the nature of this matter is different.”

"Conflicts between disciples are one thing, but openly targeting a deacon from another Taoist temple is another. After all, a deacon can represent a Taoist temple to a certain extent."

Vice Abbot Liang said, "If this matter is to be taken seriously, then Shouyi Temple is definitely in the wrong."

His implication was that you, Fellow Daoist Li, had overstepped your bounds by wiping out the entire enemy force right from the start.

Ultimately, however, the one who adheres to the original view is more unreasonable, so in comparison, they are the ones who are less justified.

“However, Shouyi Temple is not exactly a reasonable Taoist temple. I’m afraid they’ll argue even if they’re wrong,” Qi Jiushan said from the side, his expression complicated.

Vice Abbot Liang also felt somewhat saddened.

After hesitating for a while, he said with a serious face, "In any case, this matter happened at my Huangzhu Temple and it was caused by the purchase of training materials. Fellow Daoist Li, rest assured, within our power, Huangzhu Temple will uphold justice for you."

The talent and strength of this young fellow Daoist before him were truly unparalleled in his life...

No, it's more than just "seeing" him. Even considering the geniuses of the Zhengyang lineage and other lineages that he had heard about, this Fellow Daoist Li is by no means inferior to anyone else.

At such an age and with such cultivation, wouldn't it be a certainty that he will become a True Person in the future?

Even the higher-level Divine Travel Realm Grand Master should have a considerable chance, right?

A Grand Master of the Divine Realm is second only to the Sect Master and the elders in a lineage, and even the elders of the lineage must treat him with respect.

The reason why Shouyi Temple can act so domineeringly is not only because of its lineage, but also because of the ten True Persons and two Great True Persons of the Divine Travel Realm within the temple.

The few major temples that could maintain some semblance of dignity in the face of the overwhelming power of Shouyi Temple relied on their own Divine Travel Realm ancestors for their greatest confidence.

Being able to befriend such a promising prodigy is worthwhile, even if it leads to some conflict with Shouyi Temple.

Anyway, there's no benefit in being on good terms with Shouyi Temple.

Moreover, although Huangzhu Temple itself does not have any Great True Persons at the Divine Travel Realm, the cultivation level of its own True Persons is not bad.

Moreover, Huangzhu Temple has provided training grounds for the Zhengyang lineage and other lineages for many years. Although it does not have a stable backer like Shouyi Temple, it has naturally cultivated many relationships within the lineage.

If we really want to stand up to Shouyi Temple, then we can certainly do it!

However... whether or not to support this Fellow Daoist Li, and how much effort to put in, is not something that a mere deputy abbot can decide on his own.

He still had to send a message back to the temple to inform the abbot and the venerable master before he could make a decision.

Therefore, in the end, Vice Abbot Liang did not give Li Yinsheng any very specific promises, only saying that he would support Li Yinsheng "within his capabilities".

Then he asked Li Yinsheng to untie the net and release the people of Shouyiguan. He then ordered the disciples of Huichuntang of Huangzhuguan to come quickly and treat the people of Shouyiguan.

After arranging everything, Vice Abbot Liang bid farewell to Li Yinsheng and hurriedly pulled Qi Jiushan away.