Seven Beauties of Tianyun

Guard Post Yi-10, training ground.

Three days later, Wang Chen arrived to report in on time once again.

To his surprise, he was actually the last to arrive.

Clearly, the beating meant to cow them three days ago had scared everyone witless, and they had all come early.

At the hour of Shen, Guard Captain Li Wuji appeared on the training platform again.

This time, however, he did not have anyone call the roll. Instead, he introduced and assigned nine team leaders to the nine Night Patrol Teams.

The leader of Wang Chen's Fourth Night Patrol Team was a dark, gaunt middle-aged cultivator.

Yao Mingjie, an outer sect Guard Hall disciple, eighth level of Qi Condensation!

He seemed quite resistant to Li Wuji's appointment, his face hanging with displeasure the entire time.

The way he looked at Wang Chen and the others was as if they all owed him three million Spirit Stones.

By comparison, the attitude of Team Deputy Guo Ping was far friendlier.

The newly formed Night Patrol Team was organized with one leader, one deputy, and seven newcomers. Guo Ping, who served as deputy, was an old Night Watchman of Guard Post Yi-10. He was at the seventh level of Qi Condensation and extremely experienced in night patrols.

All the organization and training work was handled by him as well.

As evening approached, the guard post prepared dinner for everyone.

Wang Chen took the three rice balls, one strip of Demonic Beast Meat jerky, and pickled vegetables allotted to him, then sat down in a corner.

The rice was a little hard, the jerky a little salty, and the pickled vegetables tasted rather strange.

But Wang Chen ate with relish, following the ancient Chewing Method.

As he enjoyed this free dinner, he silently circulated the Five Elements Technique, enhancing his stomach and intestines' digestive ability to speed up the absorption of the spiritual energy contained in the food.

After being drafted into the Night Patrol Team, he would no longer have the chance to cultivate normally at night.

Therefore, Wang Chen had to make full use of every scrap of time.

Without accumulating small steps, one could not travel a thousand miles.

Every little bit of accumulation in ordinary days was the foundation of his future path to the Dao.

In contrast, the other young cultivators on Wang Chen's team clearly had different thoughts.

They gathered in twos and threes, chatting as they ate.

Every one of them was rather excited.

One of the team members was Jiang Cong, the very first person to be caned three days ago!

This fellow seemed to have forgotten the pain as soon as his wounds healed, grinning as he talked with the others.

He even took out a Magic Tool to show off, drawing envious looks from those around him.

Wang Chen felt that his parents had clearly given him the wrong name, because this guy did not look smart in the slightest.

He also looked like someone spoiled rotten by indulgent upbringing.

In truth, among the Yunyang Sect outer sect's hundred thousand disciples, there was no shortage of those from wealthy families.

Many Cultivator Second Generations lived quite comfortably on the care of their elders.

Jiang Cong was at the sixth layer of Qi Condensation.

But when Wang Chen observed him with the Spirit Eye Technique, he found that the aura of his Mana was far from stable, fluctuating too greatly.

Nine times out of ten, he had forced his way up in cultivation with Pills!

Wang Chen could not understand how someone like that had been selected for the Night Patrol Team. Just as he himself, a spirit plant farmer at the fourth layer of Qi Condensation, had somehow been drafted into its ranks, he suspected there was another story behind it.

Then he looked at Team Leader Yao Mingjie, who wore the expression of a man whose father had just died.

Wang Chen felt his team's future was bleak.

Why was it so hard just to be a Cowardly Cultivator in peace?

Every single grain was a pain in the balls.

All of a sudden, the surroundings fell silent, and he could no longer hear his teammates' laughter and chatter.

The strange atmosphere made Wang Chen, who was gnawing on a rice ball, raise his head.

Then he saw several young male and female cultivators walking out through the guard post's gate under Li Wuji's escort.

Li Wuji had previously given the impression of being cold, domineering, and violently temperamental—a man whose word was law.

Yet at this moment, the seven-foot-tall man was bent at the waist with a smile on his face, revealing a hint of cautious fawning.

It made one wonder whether he had been possessed by Evil Spirits!

The female cultivator walking at the front wore a moon-white Daoist robe, her dark hair arranged in a Daoist bun, the Flowing Cloud Sword slung diagonally across her back.

She was tall and slender, with pearly teeth and starry eyes, elegant and otherworldly. Though a faint smile rested on her face, it carried a trace of aloofness.

Wang Chen instinctively Empowered his Spirit Eye Technique.

Yet before he could examine her closely, the female cultivator abruptly turned her head, her phoenix eyes brimming with authority and glinting with cold light!

Wang Chen immediately felt as though needles were pricking his eyes, and he nearly burst into tears on the spot.

Alarmed, he promptly shifted his gaze away.

It served as a warning to Wang Chen.

The Spirit Eye Technique could not be used carelessly. Otherwise, if he encountered someone with keen Spiritual Sense and a bad temper, he would only be asking for trouble.

Yet this female cultivator had also left a profound impression on Wang Chen.

Such long legs—it would be a crying shame not to pedal a tricycle with them!

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The information that popped up in his vision left Wang Chen rather speechless.

That single glance had actually pushed his Spirit Eye Technique to the mastery level!

While Wang Chen was still stunned, the sword-bearing female cultivator and her companion had already left the guard post.

The next moment, the cultivators near Wang Chen erupted into an uproar!

"Who was that?"

"What a beautiful girl!"

"Shh! Are you all tired of living? Didn't you see the Inner Sect jade plaque hanging from her waist?"

"Whose disciple could she be?"

"Why would an Inner Sect Disciple come to a place like this?"

"Heh!"

Just then, Jiang Cong suddenly gave a derisive snort. "You really are frogs at the bottom of a well, not even recognizing her!"

Jiang Cong's words dripped with mockery, making anyone who heard him want to punch him.

But no one took offense. "Who is she?"

This Jiang Cong had dared to arrive late when the guard post first assembled the Night Watchmen. His speech and mannerisms carried an air of superiority; it was obvious that he had some backing.

Thus, no one wanted to offend him lightly.

Jiang Cong said smugly, "She is Senior Sister Xie Yaoxiu, one of the Seven Beauties of Tianyun. Her master is Venerable Zhemei, a Golden Core True Disciple. Senior Sister Xie reached great perfection of Qi Condensation two years ago!"

Everyone around them sucked in a cold breath.

One of the Seven Beauties of Tianyun, a Golden Core True Disciple, great perfection of Qi Condensation!

To Outer Sect disciples from the Bottom Layer like them, she was a being high above the clouds.

Jiang Cong glanced around and lowered his voice. "They say Senior Sister Xie has yet to break open her aperture because she is tempering her sword intent. Last year, the son of the Five Peaks Sect's vice sect leader took a fancy to Senior Sister Xie and brought his father to Venerable Zhemei to propose marriage. Then..."

He deliberately paused there, waiting until everyone's attention had focused on him before continuing, "Senior Sister Xie proposed that they settle their marriage by the sword, and then she made just one strike."

"She sliced off that toad's topknot, scaring him into fleeing back to Five Peaks Mountain overnight!"

The moment Jiang Cong finished speaking, the people around them either burst into laughter or clapped in approval.

"Haha, satisfying!"

"Senior Sister Xie is mighty!"

"A toad dreaming of swan meat—bah!"

"If I could enter the Inner Sect and behold Senior Sister Xie's immortal beauty once more, my life would be worth it!"

"You're dreaming. Hurry up and piss while standing on your head to wake yourself up!"

They chatted animatedly, their enthusiasm soaring, making Wang Chen feel as though he had somehow stumbled onto the Tianya gossip board.

Jiang Cong really was a talent.

What a loss to the entertainment industry that he had not become a paparazzo!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A copper bell rang sharply as someone shouted, "Fourth Night Patrol Team, assemble at once!"

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