Sect Leader! Please strengthen our Dao Sect!

After dealing with Tang Yan's matter, Shen Shanshui also officially began his seclusion.

Although he didn't quite trust Li Dongzhu, he was now caught in a dilemma and had no choice but to act. His flesh and blood had begun to crumble, and if he didn't deal with the calamity of Bifeng properly, he would truly perish.

As Shen Shanshui had expected, three days after he went into seclusion...

Tang Yan ultimately made the decision that went against his master's wishes, choosing to try the undisassembled cultivation technique first.

As expected, Tang Yan, whose qi circulation had gone awry, foamed at the mouth and radiated a scorching heat, writhing on the ground like a maggot.

Fortunately, Li Dongzhu appeared in time and calmed the chaotic spiritual energy within him.

Tang Yan, who had recovered, was panting heavily, still shaken.

"What an overbearing technique!"

Li Dongzhu looked at Tang Yan in surprise.

"Thank you for saving me, senior."

Tang Yan, regaining his senses, quickly thanked him.

Li Dongzhu nodded. Although she found it strange, she didn't take the cultivation technique of a second-level Qi Refining cultivator seriously.

"The cultivation techniques your master passed on to you aren't very good. Rogue cultivators like to take unorthodox approaches, creating techniques that look powerful but are actually a mess."

Upon hearing this,

Tang Yan, who had just been showing gratitude, suddenly changed his expression.

"Please kill me, senior!"

"what?"

"To insult my master is tantamount to killing his disciple with a knife!"

Li Dongzhu was taken aback when she saw Tang Yan's expression of resignation to death.

"I'm scared of you. I take back what I just said."

"How come he's exactly like those scholars in the manor who aren't very good at cultivation but are excellent at talking?"

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"Girl, become my disciple!"

In the courtyard, Li Dongzhu laughed heartily, his eyes shining as he looked at the little girl in front of him.

Compared to her previous aloof and unapproachable demeanor, she's like a completely different person.

Shen Lingxi squatted on the ground, preferring to idly count the sand rather than pay any attention to Li Dongzhu.

She's not in a good mood right now, even though she recently broke through again and is now a high-level Qi Refiner at the seventh level.

But my senior brother is injured and has gone into seclusion. I guess we won't see him for a long time.

In addition, she has started having dreams again these past few days. In her dreams, the old man from before comes back and keeps begging her for mercy.

Shen Lingxi was also puzzled as to why she dreamed of an ugly old man she didn't recognize at all.

Fortunately, the old man's figure in the dream is getting fainter and fainter, and he will probably disappear in a few days.

The gray-haired old man, who used the chaos of the qi to cover up the escape of the yin spirit, never expected this.

He thought he had escaped a calamity, but was pulled into Shen Lingxi's sea of ​​consciousness by a mysterious force, and ultimately died at Shen Lingxi's hands.

No one could have imagined that a dignified Foundation Establishment cultivator would die so silently.

"Your talent is unparalleled in my life. Your master is no match for me. Why not leave your master and become my disciple?"

Even though Shen Lingxi completely ignored her, Li Dongzhu kept trying to persuade her.

This is truly a gem in the rough. As the headmaster of the East Tower Academy, how could he not be tempted by such a promising young talent?

"You're not allowed to speak ill of my master; he has already passed away!"

Shen Lingxi glared angrily at Li Dongzhu; she disliked this woman who had injured her senior brother.

"That Taoist priest wasn't your master?"

"He is my senior brother."

Li Dongzhu frowned deeply: "How old is he this year?"

"Next month is my senior brother's twenty-second birthday. Okay, stop bothering me, I don't want to talk to you."

After Shen Lingxi finished speaking, she ran to the other side to continue counting the sand.

Still standing there, frozen in place, Li Dongzhu felt a tightness in her chest, as if she had suffered a tremendous blow.

"A Foundation Establishment cultivator under twenty-two years old... Unheard of! What kind of freak is this?"

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East Building Academy, at the bottom of the central lake.

The spiritual energy here is the most abundant.

woohoo...

It is infinite and endless, without beginning or end.

Shen Shanshui sat cross-legged at the bottom of the water, his body withered, like dried meat, showing no signs of life, as if he were completely dead.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a snapping sound.

The shriveled body cracked open, releasing some bubbles into the water.

At the same time, a surge of vitality poured out through the crack.

"How will this gust of wind stop?"

Although Shen Shanshui's body did not move, his thoughts were racing.

Shen Qingfeng was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, so he did not pass on any experience related to the Foundation Establishment stage to his disciple.

Shen Shanshui originally thought that by letting the wind blow away his flesh and blood, he would be able to rebuild his body and the problem would be solved.

But now, the wind showed no signs of stopping, continuing to blow from the depths of his Qi Sea, relentlessly ravaging his flesh and blood body that he had painstakingly rebuilt.

"I don't believe it! You baseless thing, can you really be without beginning or end?!"

……

……

The winter snow melts, and the weather is still chilly despite the warm spells.

On the island in the middle of the lake, Tang Yan held a bamboo stick in his hand, his figure constantly shifting and changing.

"A sword that separates worlds!"

With a sudden chop, the bamboo strip, unable to withstand the spiritual energy, exploded instantly, while a sword aura flew out, leaving a trail more than ten meters long in the water not far away.

"What do you mean by 'one sword separates worlds'? It's clearly just the eighteen basic sword moves!"

Dressed in a scholar's robe, Li Dongzhu sat on a branch of a large tree, swinging her beautiful legs, and was very dissatisfied with Tang Yan's random naming behavior.

In the past few months, Tang Yan's cultivation speed has once again astonished her.

These three—the senior brother, junior sister, and disciple—are all freaks.

Needless to say, Shen Shanshui and Shen Lingxi's ages and cultivation levels are seriously mismatched.

Tang Yan, who seemed unremarkable, turned out to be quite extraordinary.

Tang Yan, who diligently cultivated Shen Shanshui's disassembled version of the Qi Refining Manual, broke through the third level of Qi Refining in just a few months and even reached the peak, and could step into the fourth level at any time.

The speed was like riding a rocket; Li Dongzhu even suspected that he had cultivated a fake immortality.

Of course, Li Dongzhu cannot be entirely blamed for this.

The main reason is that whenever Tang Yan cultivates to the point of exhaustion, or when his Qi circulation becomes blocked, he will start muttering to himself, "I cannot let down my father and master's expectations..." and then his Qi will suddenly become stronger.

Li Dongzhu even secretly tried it out herself to see if this method could indeed increase the speed of cultivation.

"Thank you for your guidance, senior!"

Tang Yan was overjoyed; he really loved the feeling of constantly getting stronger.

"You are not a disciple of the academy, so I did not instruct you. The sword techniques I gave you are just common, outdated stuff."

Li Dongzhu leaped lightly, her expression shifting from shock back to aloofness.

Tang Yan was initially quite respectful of this academy's chief priest who was capable of injuring his master.

However, I gradually realized that the other party wasn't as cold-hearted as I thought.

"Tch, what's so great about it?"

"Good junior nephew, once your senior brother emerges from seclusion, I will impart to you top-tier divine abilities!"

Shen Lingxi, who was standing to the side, still disliked Li Dongzhu, but she was not as hostile as before.

"Ha, little girl. The world is so big, there will always be a few geniuses."

However, if you want to go far on the path of cultivation, you need more than just talent.

Your so-called Heavenly Dao Sect is not a registered sect. What foundation do you have? It's just a waste of talent.

Li Dongzhu chuckled and shook her head. She wasn't being sarcastic; she just felt a little regretful.

Over the past few days, through subtle questioning, I've also learned about the backgrounds of these people, including the reasons why Shen Shanshui found her.

Although her reactions were sometimes slow, she eventually realized that the jade slip containing her divine sense was deliberately provoked by that bastard Liu Jiujiang to make her attack, and then used to protect Shen Shanshui from disaster.

"But that stinky Taoist priest was only dealing with a minor calamity, how could it have taken so long? Could he have died at the bottom of the lake?"

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