Junior sister, I really need to control you

Ever since being tricked by Li Yinsheng with the Black Scale Python, Mu Xiaoyu has found it hard to trust Li Yinsheng in this regard.

Building trust takes a very long time, but destroying it only takes a moment.

“Hmm…” Li Yinsheng’s gaze fell on Mu Xiaoyu. He didn’t answer her question, but stared at her and suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"Junior sister, it seems you've reached the fourth level of the Qingxuan True Scripture. Congratulations!"

After cultivating and refining the peaches for some time, my junior sister's cultivation had already reached the bottleneck of the third level. But when she was startled by the insect, her blood and magic power surged together, and she reached the fourth level in one fell swoop.

"Really?!"

Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up. Forget about questioning her senior brother, she closed her eyes to carefully sense the sensation, and then opened her eyes with a look of surprise.

"It's really the fourth level! Yay! I don't need to wear the Qi Refining Lock anymore!"

“Yes, the Qi Refining Lock is no longer useful to Junior Sister, so she doesn’t need to wear it anymore.” Li Yinsheng nodded.

Mu Xiaoyu was overjoyed.

Li Yinsheng nodded slightly, looking pleased.

It's just the right time for the Blood Refining Pivot to step down.

He had previously considered giving it to his junior sister, but the Blood Refining Pivot was extremely mentally taxing and would only slow down normal cultivation. It would be better to use rare and precious materials to assist his junior sister in refining her body, so he quietly abandoned this idea.

But now...

Thinking of the giant fleshy worm underground, whose energy was pure but extremely difficult to refine, Li Yinsheng had a new idea.

This Blood Refining Pivot might just come in handy.

Testimonials

The book will be available for purchase at midnight tonight. The author is currently working hard on the writing.

Waaaaah!

However, the author is not a tentacle monster. Although the book has been published for forty days and has a total of 240,000 words, with an average of 6,000 words per day, which is not a small amount, it is basically the author's limit.

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The author has written books before and tried updating rapidly, but the quality declined significantly—not because he intentionally padded the story, but because he suddenly pushed the plot beyond his ability, which inevitably caused problems.

Although the author himself has always believed that online novels are fast-food literature serving the masses, fast food itself can be either carefully made or hastily made.

Therefore, quality is more important than blindly piling up words in a superficial article.

There are talented authors who can balance quality and quantity, but I'm useless (sob sob).

So today's release will likely only have around five chapters.

The daily updates will naturally not be less than 6,000 words, depending on the author's condition, the plot points at the time, and other factors. The daily updates should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words.

In short, quality should always come first.

However, the author can guarantee that the updated version will cover the entire Huangzhu Temple incident and will not keep everyone hanging.

Once it's released, this book... won't immediately enter some earth-shattering new phase.

After all, it's just the end of an event, not some earth-shattering event (laughs).

While such a major plot point will certainly occur later, it won't appear so soon.

Speaking of which, the most important part of this book, the "golden finger" (a powerful, overpowered ability), was actually conceived two and a half years ago. (However, a few months before the book was published, the author had already come across similar books with "golden fingers" on Qidian. At the time, the author only read the synopsis and deliberately didn't dare to click to read them, lest other authors have some excellent ideas and influence the author, causing the author to unconsciously want to imitate them and disrupt the rhythm.)

The original idea was a cultivation novel with a focus on ordinary people, but as the author's imagination ran wild, it gradually evolved into a martial arts setting, an urban martial arts setting, and even a Western fantasy setting.

In the end, it returned to the fantasy setting, but it became what everyone sees now. Although it still has some elements of the mortal world genre, it is completely different from the original pure mortal world setting.

However, although the background changed repeatedly when conceiving this book, the characters of the protagonist and his junior sister remained largely unchanged.

In fact, when it comes to writing a book, it's often easier to achieve good results if you have a sudden inspiration and start writing quickly with a burst of enthusiasm.

Those who spend a lot of time preparing in advance, hoping to make a name for themselves, are more likely to lose enthusiasm as they prepare and then quietly fail.

So this imaginative novel, which had been brewing for over two years and almost failed to be published, has finally made it onto the Sanjiang Literature City list and achieved its current impressive results, which is truly a pleasant surprise for the author.

This at least proves that some of the things I conceived during my difficult creative process were not entirely products of self-entertainment, but were indeed liked and interesting by everyone.

For an author, this is the most gratifying recognition.

Thank you again for your support! (ヽ(°▽°)ノ?)

Alright, I won't say anything more. My typing energy is limited, so I'll save more for the main text. *sobs*

Finally, I'm begging for a first-day subscription, sob sob!

(Although it's supposed to be released at midnight, there might be a slight delay of a few minutes in VIP coupon activation, sob sob~)

Main text

Chapter 71 The Storm Is Brewing (1/5)

Night fell, on Bamboo Forest Peak, in Li Yinsheng's bamboo house.

Accompanied by Li Yinsheng, Meng Yu walked out looking exhausted and dazed.

After learning what happened at the Shouyi Temple last night, she came to find Li Yinsheng in the afternoon, worried that he had been bullied by the Shouyi Temple.

Fortunately, Li Yinsheng was unharmed and even had the leisure to ask her for advice on formations.

Meng Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Considering that she didn't really have anything urgent to do, and that Li Yinsheng seemed... even more handsome than yesterday, she immediately decided to stay.

It's good to exchange ideas; those who share the same path should exchange ideas more often.

Then she discovered that the person in front of her, who had claimed to know nothing about formations, had already deduced the formations in the Dongxuan Formation to an extremely high level.

Even if we only consider the formations within the Dongxuan Formation, she has already been surpassed by Li Yinsheng.

Although Dongxuan Formation was not her main focus, and she devoted most of her energy to the family tradition of Yutan Temple, it was still quite remarkable that she could surpass her in the skill of Dongxuan Formation.

No one among the younger generation of the entire Yutan Temple could do that.

Meng Yu even doubted at one point whether Li Yinsheng was acting out his own persona.

He was actually a master of array formations who had been immersed in the art for many years, but he had asked her to set up an array at Xuanzhen Temple for some reasons that he couldn't say.

But after a conversation, or rather, after discussing the Dao of Arrays, she had to admit that Li Yinsheng was probably really encountering the Dao of Arrays for the first time.

Based on their timeliness, formations can be roughly divided into two categories.

One type is temporary formations, which can exist and operate normally for anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Their main advantage is that they are convenient and inexpensive.

It either consumes very few materials or only consumes mana, requiring no array materials at all, and can basically be set up by a single person.

The second type is permanent formations, such as the Tongming Refining Spirit Formation or mountain-protecting formations. If properly maintained, they can last for hundreds of years.

Correspondingly, permanent formations require a huge amount of materials and manpower.

Temporary formations and permanent formations have many things in common and complement each other.

The former is mostly used for combat and self-protection, while the latter is the foundation for earning money through talismans. No normal array master would focus on only one type.

However, when Meng Yu was discussing array formations with Li Yinsheng, he discovered that Li Yinsheng only knew about temporary array formations.

Because the Dongxuan Formation is a magic technique that uses formations to fight enemies, all the formations recorded in it are temporary.

Therefore, Li Yinsheng, who purely deduces formations through the Dongxuan Formation, is quite accomplished in temporary formations, but only knows some basic knowledge about permanent formations.

If we're talking about materials, then it's basically a matter of understanding nine out of ten things.

Materials? What materials? Aren't the materials for setting up an array chess pieces created from one's own magic?

Meng Yu and Li Yinsheng talked for a long time, probing each other repeatedly, and finally had to admit that this guy's knowledge of formations seemed to really all come from that book, Dongxuan Yanzhen.

Is this even human?

What does it mean that you spent a day becoming a half-baked array master using a spellbook that focuses on array formations?

What about the twenty years of hard study I've had since childhood?!

Feeling a slight unease in his Dao heart, Meng Yu wanted to take his leave, but looking at that face that seemed even more perfect than yesterday, he couldn't help but stay.

Then, he sold Li Yinsheng a number of books on array formations for ten talisman coins each, helping him to supplement his lack of knowledge about array formations.

These books are not non-sale items. Although ten talisman coins is indeed a friendly price, if you buy them properly, each book will only cost thirty or fifty talisman coins.

After all, there's often a huge gap between reading about formations and truly understanding them.

There is often no connection between being able to afford a book on formations and becoming a formation master.

A book on formations, about an inch thick, would require an average person with above-average comprehension to study diligently for a year, if they listened to a formation master explain it for two or three hours every day.

If you can understand ten books like this, you can be considered a basic formation master.

A book on formations, fifty coins.

It would cost fifty coins to hire a formation master to explain this book for an hour.

You should learn this formation.

Meng Yu sold Li Yinsheng one hundred such books on array formations in one go.

Among them were seven or eight particularly difficult and obscure books, which she herself only had a vague understanding of.

She didn't care whether Li Yinsheng could understand them or not; after handing the books to him, she hurriedly took her leave.

We must tell our master about this right away!

Ideally, Master could directly bring this Fellow Daoist Li into the Jade Altar Temple and convert him to a different sect!

No matter the cost, it's worth it.

She even felt that, given Li Yinsheng's talent, he could easily invite a reclusive ancestor to personally accept him as a disciple!

……

After seeing off Fellow Daoist Meng, Li Yinsheng returned to his room, leaned back in his recliner, and leisurely began reading a book on formations.

Fellow Daoist Meng is truly learned; he pulled out a hundred books at once.

However, these are just basic knowledge of array formations.