Junior sister, I really need to control you

……

The following morning, at Xuanzhen Temple, in Uncle Jiang's bedroom.

"Yinsheng should be back tomorrow."

Jiang Ningzhi sat in front of the bronze mirror, gently stroking her eyebrows.

In the past, Li Yinsheng would also go out to hunt demons regularly, sometimes for a month or two at a time. After the first few times, she was a little restless, but she gradually got used to it.

But this time she seemed somewhat uneasy.

She herself knew the reason very well.

This time, his nephew didn't go alone; he also brought that little girl with him.

"Although Yin Sheng has always said that he has no feelings for that girl, and he certainly doesn't seem to have any romantic intentions, but..."

She pursed her lips, still somewhat worried.

Suddenly, a dazzling light shone outside the window, with five colors—white, blue, black, red, and yellow—flowing and reflecting on the window paper before receding.

The door was pushed open by a slender, snow-white hand.

"Ningzhi, I've come to see you!"

A woman dressed in a wide-sleeved, colorful, feathered dress pushed open the door and walked in.

She looked to be about the same age as Jiang Ningzhi, and their appearances were almost identical. She had an oval face, cherry lips, willow-leaf eyebrows, and her eyes sparkled. She was adorned with a variety of ornaments.

Her hair was styled in a bun adorned with a gold and jade hairpin, a tortoiseshell hairpin, and a hair ornament inlaid with red and blue jade. A black and white floral ornament was pinned to the side of her ear.

The clothes were adorned with even more precious jade and gemstones; the feathered robe was studded with lustrous pearls, and the belt was inlaid with five-colored gemstones…

"Ling'er?" Jiang Ningzhi was somewhat surprised, her gaze darting away, and she subconsciously tried to turn her face away. "Why aren't you in seclusion cultivating in the Dharma lineage? What are you doing here?"

"I'm out of quarantine! I came here especially to tell you some good news!"

She sat down next to Jiang Ningzhi with a smile: "I've already cultivated to the level of a Great Immortal, now I've finally caught up with you, haven't I?"

"You're deliberately trying to annoy me, aren't you?!" Jiang Ningzhi's lips twitched.

So what if you've cultivated to become a Great Immortal? What are you showing off for?

If I still had my cultivation, I might have already achieved the Dharma Form by now!

"Don't be angry, let me finish."

The female cultivator called Ling'er smiled even more: "After I became a Great True Person, I didn't come to find you right away. Instead, my master took me to the Bixiao Dharma Lineage."

"Then I found there a way that might restore your cultivation."

As she said this, her smile faded and her tone became serious.

Jiang Ningzhi's eyes suddenly reddened, and she grabbed her hand: "You...you..."

“I’m not joking,” Ling’er grasped Jiang Ningzhi’s hand in return, “but calm down first. This isn’t so easy. The Bixiao lineage isn’t so easy to talk to, and I only have a 50-60% chance of success…”

Jiang Ningzhi took a few deep breaths and nodded gently: "I understand, I understand..."

"Wait!" Ling'er released Jiang Ningzhi, stood up abruptly, her gaze sharpening. "Something's not right!"

"What's wrong? Why are you suddenly so startled?" Jiang Ningzhi asked, puzzled.

"A great master has arrived, heading straight for the Xuanzhen Temple!"

Ling'er's expression turned solemn, her brows furrowed: "I don't know if they are friend or foe."

Chapter 84 Shangguan Ling'er

Jiang Ningzhi in her bedroom.

"The Great Master?"

Hearing her best friend's words, Jiang Ningzhi was taken aback.

She subconsciously thought of her own junior apprentice, but then immediately shook her head.

With his talent, it's only a matter of time before he becomes a Great True Person or a True Person with an Imperial Title. However, he is still too young. Even after the New Year, he will only be twenty-three years old.

Ling'er gently stroked her dantian, and a beam of colorful light flew from her fingertips, transforming into a five-colored glass lamp that enveloped Jiang Ningzhi.

The glass cup was adorned with five colors—white, blue, black, red, and yellow—flowing seamlessly together, giving it the appearance of a powerful magical artifact.

"Let's go out and take a look."

Ling'er took Jiang Ningzhi's hand, led her out of the bedroom, and looked towards the horizon.

At the same time, a black Ruyi appeared in her hand, and a gold and jade hairpin flew out from her head, transforming into a slender sword about two feet long. Both of these were magical treasures whose aura was no less than that of a glass lamp.

A streak of blue light shot across the horizon.

"Such pure and abundant wood element energy!" Ling'er's expression turned solemn.

She practiced the Five Elements Technique, so she was extremely surprised by the wood element energy flying towards her from afar.

Upon hearing "Mu Xing," Jiang Ningzhi was basically certain that he was not her junior apprentice.

Li Yinsheng's Qingxuan True Scripture is upright and peaceful. Although his magical power is also light blue, it has no obvious relationship with the five elements. So where does this pure wood element energy come from?

The azure rainbow arrived extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye, it had flown into the Xuanzhen Temple and stopped in front of her and Ling'er.

After Qinghong landed, it subsided, revealing Li Yinsheng, who looked puzzled, and Mu Xiaoyu, who was standing behind him tugging at his clothes.

“Yin Sheng!” Jiang Ningzhi blurted out.

“Uncle-Master.” Li Yinsheng nodded, but his divine sense remained fixed on the woman in colorful clothes beside his uncle.

This person's cultivation level is quite impressive.

“Yinsheng, this is Shangguan Ling’er, a good friend I met in the lineage.”

Jiang Ningzhi quickly explained, "She has been in seclusion and cultivating diligently within the lineage for many years, so I have never mentioned it to you."

"But you can trust her. Ling'er and I have known each other since we were young. We have been through many dangerous situations together and are friends who have faced life and death together."

Upon hearing his uncle's introduction, Li Yinsheng bowed and said, "Greetings, Senior Shangguan."

Although he felt that the woman in colorful clothes in front of him was no less powerful in terms of aura, she was, after all, his senior uncle and friend, so he simply addressed her as a senior.

Even if their cultivation levels are similar, this person is definitely many times older than him, so calling him "senior" won't hurt.

Shangguan Ling'er did not return the greeting, but stared intently at Li Yinsheng.

To be precise, her attention was divided in two.

Half of it was on Li Yinsheng's face.

The other half is on the Azure Sword beside Li Yinsheng.

The azure rainbow that appeared when Li Yinsheng arrived was from his escape technique using the Azure Sky Sword.

Although he himself had not formally studied escape techniques, the Azure Sky Sword, a magic weapon of this caliber, could be regarded as a kind of escape technique when used to control the sword, and its speed was more than ten times that of the talisman crane.

If he himself had also learned the art of sword escape, his speed would be even faster.

The azure rainbow, after it had subsided, did not disappear but instead returned to the Azure Sword, hovering quietly beside Li Yinsheng.

After all, before his martial uncle introduced her, he didn't know who Shangguan Ling'er was, so he was inevitably on guard.

Just as he was about to put away the Azure Sword, he noticed Shangguan Ling'er's strange gaze.

"Senior Shangguan?" Li Yinsheng called out.

"Oh!" Shangguan Ling'er finally came to her senses and looked at Li Yinsheng with a strange gaze. "You are... Ningzhi's nephew?"

“Not bad.” Li Yinsheng nodded.

"Didn't they say your Xuanzhen Temple was going to disband?" Shangguan Ling'er stared wide-eyed at her best friend. "You have a Grand Master, why would you want to disband your lineage?"

"This matter is complicated. The Dharma lineage is still unaware that Yin Sheng is a Great True Person," Jiang Ningzhi said.

"You also just broke through not long ago?" Shangguan Ling'er suddenly realized, but still shook her head. "That doesn't make sense either. There was a True Person, and his lineage couldn't have been broken apart from yours, right?"

Before Jiang Ningzhi could answer, she took two steps forward and looked at Li Yinsheng with a face full of curiosity.

"Speaking of which, fellow Daoist, I know most of the True Persons of Xuanzhen Temple, so how come I've never seen you before?" she asked, extremely puzzled.

Because of her excellent relationship with Jiang Ningzhi, she often came to see Jiang Ningzhi before the incident at Xuanzhen Temple. Although she was not very familiar with the other masters in the temple, she was at least somewhat acquainted with them.

Why did she have no recollection of this real person who had suddenly appeared in front of her?

"Uncle-Master, Senior Shangguan," Li Yinsheng didn't answer Shangguan Ling'er's question immediately, because he was also full of doubt, "What is this 'Grand Master' you're talking about?"

"Huh?" Shangguan Ling'er blinked.

"Sigh, this is a mess," Jiang Ningzhi rubbed her temples. "It's a long story, you two, come in and talk slowly."

Li Yinsheng and Shangguan Ling'er exchanged a glance and nodded together.

After sheathing his Azure Sword, Li Yinsheng patted Mu Xiaoyu's head behind him and said, "Junior Sister, I have something to discuss with my Uncle and Senior. You should go back and rest first."

"Okay!" Mu Xiaoyu nodded.

But then she looked conflicted and gritted her teeth, saying, "Senior brother, I haven't had time to cultivate today. How about I practice for a while first?"

Li Yinsheng nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, go ahead."

……

About half an hour later, in Jiang Ningzhi's bedroom.

Jiang Ningzhi leaned against the soft couch, while Li Yinsheng and Shangguan Ling'er sat facing each other at a long table.

After a complicated explanation, she finally clarified the two people's questions one by one.

“Now you all should understand, right?” she asked.

"I understand," Li Yinsheng nodded, then complained with a smile, "So there are three levels to becoming a True Person. Uncle, why didn't you tell me sooner? I didn't even know I had entered a state of spiritual travel."

Jiang Ningzhi remained silent for a few moments, unsure how to respond.

"I don't understand! I don't understand!" Shangguan Ling'er shouted from the side, "What do you mean he joined the Xuanzhen Temple after I went into seclusion?!"

“You went into seclusion twenty years ago,” Jiang Ningzhi said matter-of-factly. “Yinsheng entered the temple after you went into seclusion, so there’s no problem.”

"Who asked you that!" Shangguan Ling'er slammed her hand on the table. "I asked you what a twenty-two-year-old Grand Master is!"