Where Did This Reckless Fool Come From?

A moment later, Lu Yi could clearly feel that he had gained a deeper level of comprehension regarding the White Cloud Qi Guiding Art. He tried circulating the cultivation method, and immediately he was pleasantly surprised: the circulation of Spiritual Qi was much smoother than before, the time required to complete one full cycle was shortened by nearly a third, and the absorption efficiency of Spiritual Qi had also improved.

All in all, his cultivation efficiency could probably increase by about fifty percent!

This improvement was simply massive!

Lu Yi originally estimated that it would still take him another seven or eight months to break through to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, but now... perhaps it would only take five or six months to break through.

Not only that, but with the smooth circulation of Spiritual Qi, Lu Yi's speed in casting techniques would also become faster, and his combat prowess would likewise increase.

It could be said that merely the improvement of his Qi Refining cultivation method brought Lu Yi quite a tremendous boost in all aspects!

Thus, Lu Yi issued himself a task to practice the White Cloud Qi Guiding Art ten times, and continued his cultivation--since he had to cultivate anyway, not accepting a task always made him feel like he was suffering a huge loss.

Just like that, time passed.

Lu Yi issued tasks to himself every day, practicing the White Cloud Swordplay in the morning, the White Cloud Footwork in the afternoon, and the White Cloud Qi Guiding Art in the evening.

As the tasks were completed, the levels of his three cultivation methods and techniques were rapidly improving.

In the blink of an eye, two weeks passed, and it was the beginning of the month.

In the morning, Lu Yi, Lu Gaoyang, and Wang Siqi were eating breakfast together.

Lu Gaoyang thought of something, looked at Lu Yi, and spoke up, "Yi'er, today is the day of the Elder's lecture, you must not forget the time."

Lu Yi took a bite of half a meat bun and nodded, "I know."

At the beginning of the month, Outer Sect Elders would give lectures at White Sheep Peak, teaching some cultivation foundations and also guiding Outer Sect disciples on difficult problems they encountered in their practice.

One had to know that even an Outer Sect Elder possessed the cultivation of the Golden Core realm, and any casual bit of cultivation experience was infinitely useful to Outer Sect disciples who were merely in the Qi Refining Realm.

Basically at the beginning of every month, unless they had other matters, Outer Sect disciples would all go to attend the lectures, and Lu Yi was naturally no exception.

With a Golden Core big shot giving free lectures, if one didn't even go to freeload on that, were they even human?

Although Lu Yi now had a Golden Finger and his cultivation speed had become very fast, he would not inflate with arrogance, thinking that he was invincible. Right now, he was just a plain and unremarkable little Qi Refining rookie cultivator, and even among three people walking together, there must be one who could be his teacher, let alone when the other party was a Golden Core big shot?

Lu Yi felt that no matter what he did, he could not be arrogant or conceited, otherwise the one who would get hurt would definitely be himself.

After hastily finishing breakfast, Lu Yi spoke up, "Dad, Mom, I'm heading to White Sheep Peak."

Seeing Lu Yi rush out in a hurry, Wang Siqi hurriedly spoke up, "Be careful, don't run too fast."

"Got it!" Lu Yi replied with a smile, and ran out of the small courtyard.

The White Cloud Sect was located in the White Cloud Mountain Range, and the entire sect covered an area of hundreds of kilometers in radius, filled with towering mountains inside.

The outer sect was located on the outermost side of the sect, featuring over a hundred peaks, and White Sheep Peak, where the Outer Sect Elder gave lectures, was among them.

The peak where Lu Yi lived was called White Spirit Peak, which was not too far from White Sheep Peak, separated by only six mountains.

Lu Yi checked the time, and since it was still early before the lecture started, he wasn't in a rush, slowly jogging along the mountain path toward White Sheep Peak.

Along the way, Lu Yi also saw other Outer Sect disciples, some alone, and others moving in pairs or threes with friends.

Living together on the mountainside, most of them had seen each other, and now when they ran into one another, they would nod and smile.

Lu Yi was usually busy with cultivation, didn't socialize much, and didn't have any particularly close friends. He didn't care about this himself; in the immortal cultivation world, while socialization was important, what was even more important was strength. He was currently in a period of rising strength, so he should cultivate properly; otherwise, when he grew older later on, it would be too late to regret.

If you don't work hard in your youth, you will only grieve in your old age.

Of course, Lu Yi didn't have any particularly bad relationships with others either. After all, his parents were executive stewards, so he still had some face here in the outer sect, and everyone was easy to talk to.

Lu Yi's own cultivation talent was considered to be in the upper echelon within the outer sect, so people usually held him in high regard, and very few people would inexplicably take the initiative to provoke him.

Let alone someone with relatively high cultivation like Lu Yi, even disciples whose cultivation talents were relatively weak would generally at most be ignored by everyone; there weren't many fools who would deliberately target them.

After all, there was no need.

If someone's cultivation is weak, what good does targeting them do for your cultivation? Absolutely none at all, and it even wastes your own cultivation time.

What's more, what if the person obtained some fortuitous encounter and took off on the spot, and then came back to exact revenge on you later? Wouldn't you be completely screwed?

Don't say it's impossible; ruins of ancient sects, the heritage of powerful cultivators, and so on were extremely common on the Heaven's Will Continent, and all kinds of rare heavenly treasures might also exist. What if the person really did obtain some incredible great fortuitous encounter?

Lu Yi felt that a certain saying was right: the pugilistic world is not all about killing and fighting, it is about human sophistication and worldly wisdom.

The cultivation world is the same. Unless there is a true conflict of interest, everyone lives in peace with one another.

The closer Lu Yi got to White Sheep Peak, the more Outer Sect disciples he saw.

There were over one hundred thousand Outer Sect disciples, and those coming to White Sheep Peak at the beginning of every month numbered around one hundred thousand. Looking at it from the sky, it was just like a migrating group of ants.

As they drew close to White Sheep Peak, the atmosphere among all the Outer Sect disciples also became serious.

The place where the sermons and lectures were held on White Sheep Peak was at the summit. Although the platform at the summit was not small, there were only a thousand seats, enough for a thousand disciples to sit.

Then what about the others? Naturally, they stood below the platform, along the mountain path, halfway up the mountain—wherever they could manage to stand, they stood.

Not to mention that the sermons could be heard more clearly on the summit platform, after the Elder's lecture concluded, the Elder would randomly guide disciples on their cultivation doubts, and these disciples also referred to those on the summit platform.

Who wouldn't want to squeeze their way onto the platform?

As for who could get onto the platform? Naturally, it depended on strength.

Those with strong strength went up, and those with weak strength—well, sorry.

Lu Yi had previously always listened to the lectures from halfway up the mountain.

This time, he planned to go check out the platform and see what difference the scenery up there had compared to halfway up the mountain.

With a smile, Lu Yi strode in the direction of the summit of White Sheep Peak.

As he climbed upward, disciples at the first and second layers of Qi Refining were the first to stop. It wasn't that they didn't want to go up, but rather that they didn't dare to. There were only so many spots, and going up to occupy the positions of disciples with powerful cultivation would result in getting beaten.

Average disciples still had a good sense of self-awareness.

Soon, disciples at the third and fourth layers of Qi Refining also stopped.

When they reached halfway up the mountain, the crowd thinned out a lot, and disciples at the fifth layer of Qi Refining also stopped.

After walking not much further, most of the disciples at the sixth layer of Qi Refining stopped as well.

Going any further, those were the positions for disciples at the seventh layer of Qi Refining and above.

Lu Yi, however, did not stop and continued walking upward.

The Outer Sect disciples on the sidelines saw this, all stunned for a moment, and subsequently revealed expressions of watching a good show.

Someone wanted to challenge the majesty of disciples with powerful cultivation? It had been a long time since they had bumped into such a stubborn, reckless fool.

The disciples at the seventh layer of Qi Refining and above on the sides all furrowed their brows when they saw Lu Yi. It was already crowded up here to begin with, and now a guy from the sixth layer of Qi Refining wanted to come and squeeze in with them? Wasn't this going too far?!

Lu Yi paid no attention to their gazes, wearing a smile as he continued forward.

The expressions of those disciples at the seventh layer of Qi Refining and above gradually turned peculiar.

Because even though they, who were at the seventh layer of Qi Refining, had stopped, Lu Yi still hadn't stopped.

That was already close to the summit, a position where only particularly powerful disciples at the seventh layer of Qi Refining or even the eighth layer of Qi Refining could stand!

The spots here were so limited, and this stubborn fool dared to go up there too?

"What the fuck? Where did this reckless fool come from?! Is he really not afraid of dying?"

"Not afraid of getting beaten, I'd like to call this Junior Brother a stubborn fool!"

"Let's place a bet and guess how long it takes for this brat to get rolled down?"

The crowd discussed animatedly.

Right at that moment, an Outer Sect disciple with a tall and sturdy build blocked Lu Yi's path, and he spoke with a smile, "Junior Brother, did you walk to the wrong spot? Why don't you head down yourself?"

It was starting!

The eyes of the numerous Outer Sect disciples lit up, and they happily began to munch on melon seeds while watching the show.