Eccentric Peak Master +1

The expressions of the senior brothers and sisters nearby were extremely complicated. They clearly knew about this.

But Bai Yulong did not. Hearing this, his eyes widened, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

He sat there dumbfounded and muttered, "Innate Thunder Spiritual Body?! Isn't that a legendary cultivation physique? That fairy actually has such terrifying talent?!"

"But she clearly possesses such terrifying talent, yet she is only a Nominal Disciple?! Just how high must that person's standards be?!"

Hearing Bai Yulong's words, Bai Lingfeng and the others wore complicated expressions.

They simply could not understand why such a genius would be willing to become a Nominal Disciple.

At that moment, the young man beside Bai Lingfeng smiled and said, "Yulong, do you know why I said you and Junior Brother Lu Yi are now worlds apart? As a major sect in Azure Province, our White Cloud Sect has hundreds of thousands of disciples. Yet until now, only Senior Sister Liu Ningshuang and Junior Sister Donggong Mingyue have caught the Drifting Soul Peak Master's eye. Both possess Innate Spiritual Bodies. And now, there is a third person—Junior Brother Lu Yi... Yulong, do you know what that means?"

Boom!

Bai Yulong froze in place. After a moment of silence, he muttered, "The Drifting Soul Peak Master believes Junior Brother Lu Yi has talent comparable to Senior Sister Liu Ningshuang and Senior Sister Donggong Mingyue?!"

The atmosphere fell silent. Bai Lingfeng took another sip of wine and shook his head with a bitter smile. "The gap between people truly is unimaginably vast. Yulong, don't think that I'm doing fairly well in the White Cloud Sect just because I am already a direct disciple of an elder. Compared with the sect's true top geniuses, I still fall somewhat short."

A young man nearby smiled. "Senior Brother Lingfeng is too modest. Among the current generation of disciples, Senior Brother is still quite a figure."

Bai Lingfeng smiled and shook his head without saying anything more.

Bai Yulong was extremely silent. What had happened today had shaken him greatly, as though it had opened his eyes to an entirely new world.

Meanwhile, after Lu Yi followed Donggong Mingyue into Magnolia Pavilion, a delicate-looking maid immediately approached them and respectfully said, "Fairy Donggong, you've come?"

Donggong Mingyue nodded with practiced ease. "Mm, I'm buying Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine for Peak Master."

The maid hurriedly said, "I'll take Fairy to the third floor."

"Alright." Donggong Mingyue smiled and nodded.

The maid glanced at Lu Yi beside her, surprise seeming to flicker in her eyes, but she said nothing.

Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue followed the maid upstairs.

Upon reaching the second floor, Lu Yi swept his gaze around and saw guests with powerful auras eating and drinking in the hall. These guests appeared to be rather old and were likely elders or the like.

Lu Yi merely glanced at them before withdrawing his gaze and continuing upstairs.

There was no hall on the third floor, only private rooms.

The maid led Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue to the room at the very end and knocked on the door.

Very soon, a gentle voice sounded from within. "Come in."

The maid pushed open the door and led Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue inside.

Once inside, Lu Yi saw a simply furnished room. Rather than a restaurant private room, it resembled a cultivation chamber.

The room contained only sparse furnishings. In the center, a beautiful woman with a graceful and gentle bearing sat on a meditation cushion, seemingly having just been cultivating.

Seeing the woman, Donggong Mingyue smiled. "Magnolia Peak Master, I'm here again!"

Lu Yi looked at the graceful woman in surprise. He had not expected this person to be a Peak Master too.

A Peak Master was actually cultivating in a restaurant? Lu Yi found it somewhat strange.

But on second thought, Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine were both spiritual food and spiritual wine of the Spirit Transformation Realm. Such spiritual food and wine were naturally extremely precious. If ordinary people guarded them, that might not even be safe enough—someone might steal them.

Was this Peak Master personally guarding the spiritual food and wine?

Still, these Peak Masters all seemed somewhat eccentric. His own Peak Master seemed possessed by a sleep bug all day long, while this Magnolia Peak Master enjoyed guarding a restaurant.

Upon seeing Donggong Mingyue, the Magnolia Peak Master immediately revealed a gentle smile. "So it's little Mingyue. Have you come to buy Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine for Ling Luo?"

"Yes, Peak Master loves the Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine from your place." Donggong Mingyue said with a giggle.

The Magnolia Peak Master could not help laughing. "Your little mouth is so sweet. That woman is merely greedy. Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine are no longer of any use to her."

As she spoke, the Magnolia Peak Master looked at Lu Yi beside her and asked, "Little Mingyue, who is this little fellow?"

Donggong Mingyue stuck out her tongue somewhat sheepishly. "I forgot to introduce him. Magnolia Peak Master, this is Peak Master's newly accepted Nominal Disciple, my Junior Brother Lu Yi. Junior Brother, this is the Peak Master of Magnolia Peak."

Lu Yi bowed to the Magnolia Peak Master. "This disciple, Lu Yi, greets the Magnolia Peak Master."

Hearing Donggong Mingyue's introduction, the Magnolia Peak Master's eyes widened slightly, a trace of astonishment appearing in her autumn-water eyes. "That woman accepted another Nominal Disciple?!"

She turned and scrutinized Lu Yi, as if she wanted to examine him until flowers bloomed from him.

Donggong Mingyue nodded with a giggle. "Yes, Junior Brother is incredible. His comprehension is even stronger than Senior Sister Ningshuang's."

"His comprehension is stronger than Ningshuang's?!" The Magnolia Peak Master was even more shocked.

She looked at Lu Yi and smiled. "Little fellow, I didn't expect your talent to be so strong. Cultivate diligently. In the future, you may perhaps become a great cultivator."

Lu Yi smiled. "This disciple will certainly cultivate diligently."

The Magnolia Peak Master sighed again. "That woman really has good fortune, to encounter three good disciples. I can't even find one disciple for myself."

Donggong Mingyue smiled. "Disciples with talent in the Pill Dao are even rarer than disciples with cultivation talent. Mingyue believes the Magnolia Peak Master will definitely find a suitable disciple."

"You little girl certainly know how to say nice things." The Magnolia Peak Master shook her head. Then, a white jade box and a white jade flask appeared in her hand. "The Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine. Take them."

Donggong Mingyue hurriedly put the items away with great care, then said, "Put the cost on Peak Master's tab."

The Magnolia Peak Master said irritably, "That woman's tab has never been paid back to this day. Tell her to repay it when you return, or there won't be any next time."

Donggong Mingyue gave an embarrassed chuckle. "I'll definitely pass that on to Peak Master!"

"Alright, off you go. I need to cultivate." The Magnolia Peak Master waved her hand.

Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue took their leave and departed from the room.

After leaving Magnolia Pavilion, Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue chatted all the way and soon returned to Drifting Soul Peak.

When they reached the upper half of Drifting Soul Peak and neared Lu Yi's Cave Residence, Donggong Mingyue finally smiled and said, "Junior Brother, I'll deliver the Magnolia Pastry and Magnolia Wine to Peak Master. You just entered the inner sect today, so you must have had quite a few things to deal with. You should be tired too, right? Go back and rest first."

Hearing this, Lu Yi glanced at the task, which had already displayed as completed, and did not insist. "Then I'll trouble Second Senior Sister."

"Go on, go on." Donggong Mingyue waved her little hand and skipped happily uphill.

Lu Yi watched Donggong Mingyue's back vanish behind the trees, smiled, and turned toward his Cave Residence.

After returning to the Cave Residence, Lu Yi pressed the mechanism behind the stone wall. A massive boulder descended over the entrance, sealing the Cave Residence shut.

Although the entrance was sealed, a formation operated within, and the air remained fresh.

Lu Yi could not wait to return to his room and take stock of today's gains.

On his very first day in the inner sect, his harvest had been far too abundant.

Thanks to big boss cslaw for the 500-point reward~