Your Master Will Perform Transmission Empowerment for You

Xia Ningxue was true to her word. The next day, she sent an inner disciple to deliver Mo Huazhi's indenture.

Mo Huazhi was officially freed from her status as an Ask Immortal Pavilion menial and became a Mount Shu disciple.

When the news spread, every menial in Ask Immortal Pavilion was green with envy.

Who would have thought that even a menial could have the chance to become a Mount Shu elder's disciple? It was like ascending to heaven in a single step.

"Junior Brother Lu, is this your newly accepted disciple?"

"Her aptitude looks ordinary, and she doesn't seem to have much cultivation."

"But Junior Brother Lu is an excellent teacher. Lin Qingzhi had ordinary aptitude too, and Junior Brother Lu still taught him into a Golden Core Realm disciple."

"That's right. Junior Brother Lu has a discerning eye for talent, beyond what the likes of us can understand."

When Lu Changsheng brought Mo Huazhi back to where the Mount Shu contingent was staying, quite a few Mount Shu elders gathered to see her.

Mo Huazhi was overwhelmed by the attention and hid timidly behind Lu Changsheng. It was her first time seeing so many important figures.

"Enough, everyone. We leave for Mount Shu in two days. The journey back may be dangerous, so all of you junior brothers must be careful."

Eldest Senior Brother Li Changye appeared, and everyone gradually fell quiet.

The journey back would be dangerous?

Their expressions grew somewhat grave.

It seemed Eldest Senior Brother had heard something.

"Am I going to Mount Shu with Master tomorrow? Mount Shu must have so many books..."

Mo Huazhi was full of anticipation.

As a disciple, she would naturally have access to far more texts than she had as a menial.

According to her master, Mount Shu's various texts were as vast as a sea of mist. Even someone in the Dao Palace Realm would struggle to read them all in a lifetime.

Besides determining the rankings of the six great sects and allowing their six sect masters to discuss matters, the Six Paths Assembly also gave the younger generation of elders from the six sects a chance to get acquainted. After all, they might fight side by side in the future.

Li Changye, Mount Shu's chief disciple, and Ye Wen, the Martial Dao Alliance's chief disciple, recognized kindred spirits in each other.

Lu Changsheng, meanwhile, had visited Xia Ningxue, Ask Immortal Pavilion's most gifted elder.

Song Wuchuan had made the acquaintance of Xiao Menger, the Pavilion Master of Ask Immortal Pavilion's second disciple.

Zhao Wuyan was rather depressed. No fairy from Ask Immortal Pavilion had come to visit him; only a group of senior monks from Boundless Temple had called on him to discuss the Dao.

During that time, another group of Ask Immortal Pavilion fairies had asked to see Lu Changsheng, but he had turned them all away.

If Lu Changsheng wanted to tease Ask Immortal Pavilion's fairies to pass the time, he might as well seek out Xia Ningxue, whose bearing was even finer.

Afterward, Elder Kumu of Ask Immortal Pavilion came to visit, and Lu Changsheng agreed to see him.

Elder Kumu had once led a team to Desolate Province on a mission, so the two could be considered old acquaintances.

"Young Friend Lu, you comprehended the Dao in a single day, and your cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds. After three days apart, one must look at you with fresh eyes."

Elder Kumu picked up his teacup and took a sip as he exchanged pleasantries with Lu Changsheng.

"I may have cultivation, but my experience is still shallow. I cannot compare to you, Elder Kumu."

"Haha, Young Friend Lu, you are so modest. Your character is even greater than your cultivation."

"Back then, we encountered Evil Sword and Black Tiger Dao Lord in Desolate Province. After Xia Ningxue and I escaped, I never learned what happened afterward."

"Although Evil Sword is an elder of Reincarnation Hall at the Fourth Layer of the Dao Palace Realm, so am I. He couldn't kill me. I used an earth-burrowing Divine Ability to escape that calamity. If Reincarnation Hall had sent an elder with higher cultivation back then, I'm afraid I would have had difficulty getting away."

"Do you know how powerful Reincarnation Hall is, Elder Kumu?"

"Reincarnation Hall is no weaker than our Ask Immortal Pavilion. The Four Great Demonic Sects are fewer in number than the Six Great Orthodox Sects, yet they have always remained standing. Every Demon Sect has a formidable foundation. Some of their disciples even came from the Six Great Orthodox Sects..."

"Oh?"

"The heart's righteousness and evil are separated by only a single thought. Sometimes, a single stray thought is enough to send one tumbling into the demonic path. Although my cultivation is lower than yours, Young Friend Lu, I have cultivated for eight hundred years and seen much of human warmth and coldness. Even among the pavilion master's generation, there were those who strayed from the right path... Alas, this matter is taboo. It would not be proper to say more."

Elder Kumu's mention of the Six Great Orthodox Sects' secrets left Lu Changsheng deeply shaken. As it turned out, quite a few elders and disciples of the Four Great Demonic Sects came from the Six Great Orthodox Sects. Righteousness and evil were separated by a single thought; no wonder the Four Great Demonic Sects could never be eradicated.

Lu Changsheng sighed. "The human heart is perilous; the heart of the Dao is subtle."

"How true, Young Friend Lu. I have less than two hundred years of life left, and to have had the good fortune to meet you is truly a blessing earned over three lifetimes. We may yet fight side by side in the future. If fate allows, we shall meet again then."

Elder Kumu chatted with Lu Changsheng for a while longer before taking his leave.

Lu Changsheng called for his newly accepted little disciple, Mo Huazhi, and began fleecing the system.

There were still more than ten years until the great calamity, and Lu Changsheng believed that with his current cultivation, he still could not protect himself.

"Sit properly. Your master is going to perform Transmission Empowerment for you. If you feel any discomfort, speak up at once."

Lu Changsheng intended to perform Transmission Empowerment for his little disciple right away, directly raising her cultivation.

"Master, you absolutely mustn't! I've read about it in the texts. Transmission Empowerment damages the master's cultivation. Only someone nearing the end of their life would do such a thing!"

Though Mo Huazhi was a menial, she had read widely and knew what price the person performing Transmission Empowerment had to pay.

Transmission Empowerment was far too inefficient; the loss outweighed the gain. The person performing it could even drop in realm as a result.

"I know my own limits. Are you going to disobey your master's orders?"

"I obey, Master..."

Mo Huazhi had no choice but to sit on the meditation cushion and wait for Lu Changsheng to perform Transmission Empowerment.

Mo Huazhi was already deeply moved. Her master had not only redeemed her indenture, but was also performing Transmission Empowerment for her.

Was this all a fleeting dream, like the dream of Nanke?

Having performed Transmission Empowerment for two disciples before, Lu Changsheng knew the process inside out. He separated out only a faint wisp of Spiritual Qi and poured it from his palm into the crown of Mo Huazhi's head.

With Lu Changsheng's cultivation at the Dao Palace Realm Fifth Layer, even that single wisp of Spiritual Qi was enough to make Mo Huazhi's body extremely uncomfortable.

"Master, it's so hot. My body is so hot..."

Mo Huazhi was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm First Layer. Even receiving half a day of Lu Changsheng's cultivation left her drenched in sweat, all the meridians throughout her body burning hot.

"Calm down and follow your master's guidance. Once you open your Dantian, you will have stepped onto the immortal path."

Lu Changsheng guided the Spiritual Qi slowly through Mo Huazhi's body, letting her sense how to refine it and make it her own.

"Mm, ah..."

Mo Huazhi struggled to refine the wisp of Spiritual Qi, letting out pained sobs from time to time. Practicing Qi and opening her Dantian for the first time was naturally no easy task.

Outside the room, a graceful figure appeared without a sound.

"He gave me a sixth-grade Medicinal Pill. It's only right that I come to see him off."

The people of Mount Shu were about to leave Misty Peak, and Xia Ningxue was talking to herself.

Suddenly, Xia Ningxue heard the sounds from inside the room and hesitantly stepped back.

[Ding! You transmitted three days of cultivation to your disciple "Mo Huazhi." Mo Huazhi actually gained days of cultivation.]

[Ding! You have received a two-hundredfold return reward for teaching your disciple: one hundred days of cultivation.]

[Ding! Today's remaining Transmission Empowerments: -1.]

Lu Changsheng's realm was too high. Mo Huazhi had received only half a day of his cultivation, yet she would need a long time to refine it.

Mo Huazhi gazed at her handsome master, tears of gratitude streaming down her face. She had never imagined that, to help her take her first steps, he would sacrifice his own cultivation.

"Refine this wisp of Spiritual Qi as quickly as you can. Your master will continue performing Transmission Empowerment for you in the future."

Mo Huazhi's eyes widened. Had she heard him right?

Wasn't her master afraid of draining his very source dry?

"Who's outside?"

Lu Changsheng's six senses were keen, and he had noticed someone lingering outside the room, so he spoke.