Rewards for Becoming a Personal Disciple

The spiritual food recipe was Tiger Bone Spiritual Ginseng Soup. It could strengthen bones and temper the body; long-term consumption could increase physical strength, and its effects would be even better when paired with a Body Tempering Technique.

It was somewhat similar to the Bright Yellow Pill, but spiritual food essentially had no Pill Poison, and its medicinal effects were mild. It could often be used together with pills—put them together, and it was double the joy.

What surprised Lu Yi most was the spiritual wine recipe.

The spiritual wine recipe was called Spirit Nurturing Dew. It was an exceedingly rare spiritual wine capable of nourishing the mind and increasing spiritual power!

One had to know that during the Qi Refining stage, a cultivator's spiritual power generally only increased as a byproduct of improving cultivation.

Other methods, even techniques for cultivating the divine soul, were not something one at the Qi Refining Realm could cultivate.

As for pills, Lu Yi had never heard of any pills at the Qi Refining Realm that could increase spiritual power.

But now, he actually had another method of increasing his spiritual power?!

Wonderful!

Lu Yi immediately felt delighted. He happened to be planning to temper himself and break through the Heavenly Dao Restriction. His body, spirit, and Spiritual Qi all needed to improve; not one could be lacking.

Now, he had a method to increase his spiritual power.

Lu Yi planned to visit the Resources Hall later and ask whether they had the materials.

Materials for the Qi Refining Realm should not be too hard to find, right?

Lu Yi looked forward to it.

At this point, he had claimed all the rewards, and Lu Yi was thoroughly satisfied.

He sat cross-legged on his meditation cushion. Rather than rushing to cultivate, he considered a problem.

Now that he had entered the inner sect, the next thing he needed to do was break through the Heavenly Dao Restriction and become the Drifting Soul Peak Master's official Personal Disciple.

Even becoming a Nominal Disciple came with such generous rewards. What about becoming a Personal Disciple?

With that thought, Lu Yi murmured inwardly, I want to become the Drifting Soul Peak Master's Personal Disciple.

Task

Become the Drifting Soul Peak Master's Personal Disciple

Reward: Middle Grade Treasure Jade Spirit Robe, 3 Enlightenment Tea Leaves.

Accept: Yes/No

The number of rewards seemed small, but Lu Yi was utterly delighted.

It was actually a Treasure Item!

This was an existence beyond a top-grade magical artifact. Such treasures were generally possessed only by powerful Golden Core cultivators or even Nascent Soul cultivators. Yet becoming a Personal Disciple would grant him one?

And it was even a Mid-Grade Treasure Item!

This single reward was already worth far more than its cost, let alone the additional three Enlightenment Tea Leaves.

Lu Yi had once read about Enlightenment Tea Leaves in a book. A single leaf could enhance one's comprehension for an entire day. If one was lucky, it might even trigger an epiphany. With enough of them, they could even permanently increase one's comprehension!

This was an extraordinarily precious and rare heavenly treasure, incomparable even to all kinds of Foundation Establishment spiritual liquids.

There were three whole leaves!

Although Lu Yi could now raise the levels of his techniques and arts by completing tasks, the number of tasks required was tied to Lu Yi himself.

The higher Lu Yi's comprehension, and the deeper his understanding of cultivation techniques and arts, the fewer tasks he needed to complete to raise their levels.

It was just like playing a game: a character's base attributes also affected how difficult it was to level up, and comprehension was clearly an extremely important base attribute.

With these Enlightenment Tea Leaves, Lu Yi's speed in raising the levels of his techniques and arts through completing tasks would increase considerably.

Sure enough, tasks related to the Drifting Soul Peak Master had rewards as generous as ever.

Lu Yi happily accepted the task.

To break through the Heavenly Dao Restriction, he needed to temper his foundation.

Lu Yi felt that there was no issue with the foundation of his Spiritual Qi. The current problem lay in his physical foundation and spiritual foundation.

He now had the Spirit Nurturing Dew for his spiritual foundation, so that should not be too far behind. The biggest issue was his physical foundation.

Hmm... Tomorrow, I'll ask Second Senior Sister and find a Body Tempering Technique for the Qi Refining Realm to cultivate.

Only after making his plans did Lu Yi begin cultivating.

He had arrived at the inner sect in the morning, gone through the Entry Peak Assessment, and met the peak master. It was already afternoon.

Following his usual cultivation habits, Lu Yi practiced the White Cloud Footwork.

Ever since the White Cloud Footwork had reached lv9, Lu Yi felt that his daily practice improved it very slowly. He had no idea when it would reach lv10.

However, cultivators had plenty of time and long lifespans. Lu Yi was in no hurry; he only needed to cultivate normally each day.

After practicing the White Cloud Footwork in the cultivation room, night had arrived, and Lu Yi began cultivating the White Cloud Qi Guiding Art.

With Hundred Year Spiritual Milk as a cultivation resource and the lv9 White Cloud Qi Guiding Art, even after breaking through to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, Lu Yi's cultivation speed remained astonishingly fast.

At his current cultivation pace, he should be able to break through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer in just over a month. Given the quality of Lu Yi's already mistified Spiritual Qi, this speed was quite remarkable.

The day passed in cultivation, and soon it was the next day.

Lu Yi was cultivating with his eyes closed when he heard Donggong Mingyue's crisp, lively voice from outside the Cave Residence. "Junior Brother, are you there?"

Lu Yi slowly opened his eyes, a thread of white spiritual light flashing through them.

His body vanished from where he sat, and he appeared in the main hall. Opening the stone door, he saw Donggong Mingyue standing there prettily in a white dress, her hair tied into twin ponytails.

Lu Yi smiled. "Second Senior Sister, what brings you here? I was just planning to find you."

Donggong Mingyue smiled. "Junior Brother, you just entered the inner sect, so you haven't collected your cultivation resources yet, right? We're the peak master's Nominal Disciples, and our monthly resources are unlimited as long as we don't waste them. I'll take you to collect them now."

Lu Yi's eyes lit up at those words. He had been planning to obtain the materials for Tiger Bone Spiritual Ginseng Soup and Spirit Nurturing Dew anyway, so this was perfect.

Lu Yi smiled and nodded. "Then I'll have to trouble you, Second Senior Sister."

"Why be so polite?" Donggong Mingyue cheerfully patted her chest. "This young lady is your senior sister. Isn't it only right for me to look after my junior brother? If anything comes up in the future, just come find me~"

Lu Yi glanced at Donggong Mingyue's chest. Although Donggong Mingyue was only fifteen, cultivators were well nourished, and she had already developed quite a bit. Watching how hard she was patting herself, Lu Yi was afraid she might damage her chest.

He smiled. "All right, then I won't stand on ceremony with Second Senior Sister in the future. If you run into any trouble, you can come find your junior brother too. I'll definitely help!"

Donggong Mingyue placed her hands on her hips, raised her chin slightly, and said proudly, "This young lady is your senior sister. How could there possibly be anything I can't handle? Junior Brother, there's no need for you to worry."

Lu Yi happily flattered her. "Second Senior Sister is invincible!"

"Good that you know~" Donggong Mingyue became even happier, her light violet eyes curving into crescents. "Come on, let's go to the Resources Hall."

Lu Yi nodded and followed after her.

The inner sect differed from the outer sect. All resources for Outer Sect Disciples were distributed uniformly by the outer sect's Affairs Hall. But the resources for inner sect disciples were allocated separately by their respective peaks, and inner sect disciples, Core Disciples, and Personal Disciples all had different allocation methods.

Of course, that had nothing to do with Lu Yi. As the Drifting Soul Peak Master's Nominal Disciple, he could take anything he had use for.

This was a privilege even Personal Disciples did not possess.

Each peak's Resources Hall was responsible for distributing resources. Drifting Soul Peak's Resources Hall was located halfway up the mountain. Lu Yi followed Donggong Mingyue down the mountain and soon saw a fairly large palace—it was the Resources Hall.