Chapter 124

After finalizing the plan to leave Lingyun Sect, Song Pianxian also mentioned another matter to Yu Yi, which was to officially accept Tang Miao as her named disciple.

As a guest elder, Song Pianxian’s named disciples were equivalent to ordinary inner disciples of the sect, much stronger than outer disciples, which could be considered as a reward for Tang Miao.

When she mentioned this to Yu Yi, Yu Yi said that Tang Miao’s spiritual root and comprehension were quite good. Before, Yu Qing also intended to accept him as a disciple after he entered the Golden Core stage. Upon hearing this, the two of them decided to directly accept Tang Miao as their personal disciple.

In terms of treatment from the sect, personal disciples were not much different from named disciples and inner disciples, but there were many named disciples from each main peak, and only a few were truly accepted as personal disciples and personally taught by elders.

As personal disciples, they could be called “master and disciple.”

Moreover, Tang Miao was the only disciple of Daiyuan Peak. According to tradition, he would become the chief disciple of Daiyuan Peak in the future. Even if there were other disciples, no matter who they were, they would have to respectfully call him Senior Brother.

“Who could have imagined that Tang Miao would have such good fortune? Big Senior Sister is a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, and her personal disciple is even higher in status than the personal disciples of other Nascent Soul stage elders.”

“The other personal disciples of Nascent Soul stage elders are all powerful figures who have reached the Nascent Soul transformation stage. If Big Senior Sister regards him highly, doesn’t that mean Tang Miao has extraordinary potential?”

“When Tang Miao went to Qingyun Hall to receive his jade token, his robe and treasure hairpin were both brand new. When he went to the martial arts field, he consecutively used seven or eight excellent spiritual weapons. With the generosity of Senior Sister Yu Yi, I wonder how many more he didn’t bring out.”

“If you ask me, Senior Sister Yu Yi is the one truly blessed by luck. In the past, she had those two protecting her, and now she has Big Senior Sister. I heard that Big Senior Sister is going to take her to search for medicinal herbs and refine pills—she even has a way to heal her meridians. Who wouldn’t praise her as a favored child of heaven?”

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For a moment, everyone in the sect envied the confident and powerful Tang Miao, the respected Big Senior Sister, and the generous Yu Yi, who possessed a treasury of treasures.

Wherever you went, you could hear the words “Daiyuan Peak,” “Yu Yi,” and “Big Senior Sister.”

These words were often mentioned in the past as well, but at that time, Daiyuan Peak was still synonymous with coldness and decline, Yu Yi was the lonely girl “young and talented but pitiful” in the mouths of disciples, and Big Senior Sister was tightly held by Qu Xirong.

Qu Xirong had been the Big Senior Sister of Lingyun Sect for many years, but suddenly changed her name.

There wasn’t even a trace of the origin of this change. As if silently, everyone thought that Song Pianxian should be the Big Senior Sister. So, tacitly, they all changed their titles accordingly.

The hearts of cultivators were complex yet simple—

Strength was respected.

Faced with such a silent iron rule, Qu Xirong couldn’t even find anyone to vent her frustrations. She could only watch helplessly, unable to find a reason to get angry.

Now, there were fewer female cultivators laughing and playing on Lianyun Peak all day long, and the sparse figures made the undefeated spring scene seem somewhat desolate. Only Qu Xirong remained, and her complexion wasn’t too good.

Just because she was the “descendant of the Nascent Soul elders” in the mouths of the disciples. She had never paid much attention to Tang Miao in the past, but now, she found herself having to lower her head to him.

But compared to Qu Xirong, the disparity for Jiao Xiao wasn’t that great.

Even if she was the daughter of the prestigious sect master, what of it? Now that she couldn’t hold onto the title of Big Senior Sister, and Hang Yunhe, who was deeply in love, was being punished on Xingshan, and Yu Yi, who she didn’t know if she truly cared for or just pretended to care for, had suddenly risen to prominence, who else could see Qu Xirong’s glory?

She looked at Qu Xirong, who remained silent for a long time, her face as calm as water, and suddenly felt another strange sense of satisfaction.

Jiao Xiao twirled a withered grass from Lianyun Peak, half sincerely and half mockingly sighed, “In the past, the one to be promoted to Daiyuan Peak Senior Brother was only Senior Brother Hang. Now it has become Tang Miao. It’s really lamentable.”

Qu Xirong remained silent.

Jiao Xiao glanced at the distant demon beasts and continued, “Even the Tianxue Silver Fox has been given to Yu Yi by Senior Sister. Otherwise, when I leave, it could still accompany Senior Sister.”

“Jiao Xiao!” Qu Xirong sternly shouted.

Jiao Xiao stopped her provocative behavior and said, “Senior Sister, are you feeling disconcerted? If so, it’s no wonder others forget about you.”

Jiao Xiao threw away the grass and walked away. Qu Xirong watched her steadily. Seeing her leave at a steady pace, Qu Xirong couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, “Do you have any way to say it without causing offense? Making such a scene truly invites others’ dislike.”

Jiao Xiao giggled, then turned around and said, “Then Senior Sister, listen to my plan.”

The Tianxue Silver Fox mentioned by Jiao Xiao and Qu Xirong was given to Manzhi by Yu Yi.

Although Yu Yi didn’t allow Manzhi to pry into her daily life, after spending many years in the secret realm, Manzhi was naturally curious about the outside world and couldn’t be confined anymore.

Manzhi somehow preserved her soul, and only lacked a “vessel” to wander outside. Yu Yi let her choose for herself, and Manzhi chose the Tianxue Silver Fox without hesitation.

Manzhi’s soul entered the body of the Tianxue Silver Fox. In just a few breaths, the fox’s eyes suddenly opened, flashing a strange and stunning red light. Then the fox stretched lazily, its curves sleek and enchanting.

Yu Yi watched her like this and said, “Is this how you demon cultivators are, even able to use the bodies of demonic beasts?”

“Borrowing it for temporary use, can’t stay for long,” Manzhi chuckled lightly, and the fox’s body emitted a human voice. It twisted its waist and said, “Other demon cultivators aren’t like this. In my opinion, the current generation of demon offspring must be quite incompetent.”

Yu Yi remained noncommittal.

The Demon Queen indeed had this confidence.

In the world of cultivation, the righteous path and the demonic path were not connected. The demon cultivators who made a name for themselves in the Five Provinces of the righteous path were all renowned figures, but they were nothing compared to Manzhi in front of her.

Manzhi, like the former Demon King who swept through the Nine Provinces, had her life story carefully recorded by the founder of Lingyun Sect on a jade talisman and passed down as a secret treasure of Lingyun Sect for generations.

If it weren’t for Yu Qing using Manzhi’s story as a tale to tell Yu Yi, Yu Yi wouldn’t have known that Manzhi could cultivate even without meridians, and wouldn’t have deliberately sent Tang Miao to find her.

In the grand scheme of things, everything had its own course.

Manzhi leaped onto the window sill. “Alright, take this ring. Consider it borrowed from you. I can’t bear to watch you and your lover being so clingy all the time.”

“When you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, I’ll come back to find you.”

With that, the fox shook its long furry tail and disappeared from the window sill.

“Tsk.”

Yu Yi turned the mustard seed ring on her hand. However, she really needed to wear a ring to conceal the fact that she could already cultivate and had spiritual power lurking inside her.

Song Pianxian still didn’t know that Yu Yi could already cultivate.

They left Lingyun Sect a few days ago, originally intending to go to Zhuhai Province. But halfway there, they heard that the Jingfeng Auction House in Dilangzhou had a rare treasure this time, rumored to include the Five Elements Immortal Jade Essence they needed. So they stayed for two days. If it was true, it would save them a lot of effort.

This auction had a wide variety of rare treasures, so guests were required to bring auction items to obtain an admission ticket, and nothing below the Earth grade was accepted. This was both to enrich the auction items and to test the guests’ wealth.

The Tianzi-class room they stayed in had high restrictions, and this was the largest city in Dilangzhou. No one dared to act in the city, so Song Pianxian left Yu Yi here with peace of mind and went alone to get the admission jade plaque.

In Song Pianxian’s absence, Yu Yi immersed herself completely and entered the mustard seed ring to practice.

This demonic technique of Manzhi was extremely mysterious and could be seen in the early stages of cultivation.

Yu Yi was originally a mutated ice spirit root, only able to absorb the water spiritual power in the air. However, when practicing the demonic technique, she absorbed the five-element spiritual power like a whale swallowing, recklessly absorbing the five-element spiritual power.

The most important thing was that these five-element spiritual powers didn’t need to be distributed to the five spiritual roots like other five-element roots, forming five incompatible spiritual powers within the body. Instead, after circulating through the two great circulations in the body, they would all transform into black mist and gradually infiltrate Yu Yi’s limbs and every part of her body.

Now, Yu Yi was at the eighth level of Qi Refinement. Before reaching the Golden Core stage, she couldn’t see things inside her body. Relying on the remaining divine sense, Yu Yi could still vaguely sense some changes inside her body.

She could feel the black mist slowly entering her flesh and blood, but it didn’t stay. They buried themselves in the deep red, delicate muscles, perhaps for a moment or longer.

In any case, after she reached the seventh level of Qi Refinement, these “qi” would flow out from her flesh and blood, continuously passing through the broken and scattered meridians, merging into Yu Yi’s dantian in another more calm and free way.

Yu Yi’s lips lightly closed, her breath flowing gently, and there was already a feeling of fullness in her dantian. This feeling was not unfamiliar to her. It was equivalent to the magical energy filling her dantian. If she continued to cultivate, she could break through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement in one fell swoop and then build the foundation when she reached the tenth level.

This cultivation speed was quite satisfactory. Yu Yi calculated the time and Song Pianxian would be back soon, at most in a quarter of an hour.

This was too risky. Yu Yi didn’t want to expose herself in front of Song Pianxian. She controlled her breathing and intended to stop for now, waiting to break through tonight.

Unexpectedly, when she wanted to stop, her dantian seemed to “come alive” and refused to stop.

The speed at which the demonic qi gathered in the dantian suddenly accelerated. The dantian felt like a ripe fruit, heavy and slightly trembling. Yu Yi’s eyes narrowed, and she reached out to take out a magical tool to suppress it.

Just as her ice-cold fingertips touched the storage bracelet, the demonic qi suddenly behaved like a child, converging towards the center without Yu Yi’s intervention. In no time, it formed a black shadow.

What is this? Yu Yi frowned. Her dantian had loosened considerably, except for the vague black shadow in the center, the rest was as empty as before she started cultivation.

Yu Yi couldn’t see the black shadow clearly; she could only sense it. This feeling was similar to the breakthrough at a higher realm, like the spiritual bead condensed during the Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment breakthrough, or the spirit pill formed during the Foundation Establishment to Core Formation breakthrough. But Yu Yi was only at the eighth stage of Qi Refining—

Wait, Yu Yi suddenly remembered something.

At first, she hadn’t paid much attention to its existence.

It seemed to have a strange connection with her. When she realized what the black shadow might be, it leaped lightly from her dantian and landed agilely on the cushion in front of Yu Yi, making no noise.

All black, with triangular little ears, golden eyes surrounded by black jade pupils, and long white whiskers twitching.

Under Yu Yi’s gaze, it remained calm and even buried its head, using its front paws to alternate stepping on the cushion.

Curious, agile, innocent, and daring.

—It was only the size of her palm.

Yu Yi looked at it sternly for a long time until it finished stepping on the cushion and looked at her with its head tilted. Yu Yi gritted her teeth and said:

“Cat?”

“Meow?”

Really just a cat?

Yu Yi leaned over, grabbed its neck, and brought the black cat in front of her, looking expressionless. Then, she glanced at the window sill where Manzhi had left.

She didn’t know if throwing this thing out and starting to cultivate again would get her a new contract beast.

As this thought emerged in Yu Yi’s mind, there was a knock at the door.

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Translator: Glariosa
Editor: Ruu

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