Yet Another One?

Lu Zhining felt the pressure descending from above the Lu Family, and her pretty little face instantly turned deathly pale.

Lu Wuhen, who had been recuperating from his injuries in the secret chamber, also widened his eyes at that moment.

What kind of calamity had the Lu Family suffered recently?

They had just sent off one Void Immortal, and now another had come?

At the same time.

Li Zhōujūn, who was resting in his room, naturally sensed that completely unrestrained Void Immortal-level aura.

The system prompt sounded.

[ Ding: An evil Void Immortal-level Array Spirit has been detected. It is preparing to target the host's future female disciple. The system has issued a mission: drive this thing away, and the host will receive a generous reward!]

"This Array Spirit really refuses to give up." Li Zhōujūn smiled faintly. With a flick of his finger, sword light shot out, transforming into the Ao Xue Flying Sword as it streaked straight toward the Array Spirit's location.

The Array Spirit had been floating high in the sky, throwing its head back and laughing wildly in triumph. Suddenly, it saw a streak of sword light fly out from some unknown room and slash straight toward it.

"With such a petty sword-controlling trick, you think you can do anything to me... What the hell! A Ninth-grade Immortal Sword?!"

The Array Spirit had still been wearing a faint smile, but after sensing the aura of the flying sword slashing toward it, it was so shocked that its eyes instantly went wide.

Even if it were beaten to death, it could never have figured out why a tiny place like the Lu Family was actually hiding a True Immortal.

A plain and unadorned streak of sword light flashed past. The Array Spirit, whose cultivation had reached the Void Immortal level, did not even have time to react before it was severed at the waist. Its two halves also began gradually dissipating.

"I'm not willing to accept this..." Before dying, venom glinted in the Array Spirit's eyes, but it was already helpless. After all, against a True Immortal, a puny Void Immortal like it was completely out of its league.

After the Ao Xue Sword slew the Array Spirit, it flew back into Li Zhōujūn's body in the blink of an eye—coming quickly and leaving just as quickly.

[ Ding: Congratulations, host, on successfully eliminating the evil Void Immortal-level Array Spirit!]

[ Ding: The system is issuing a reward: 'Sixth-grade Extreme Cold Sword Array!']

[ Ding: The system is issuing a reward: 'Mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivation!']

[Extreme Cold Sword Array]: A sixth-grade spirit array capable of trapping and killing Void Immortal-level experts!

"Sure enough, it's a good thing!" Li Zhōujūn's heart leaped with joy when he saw it.

"The Array Spirit's aura... disappeared?"

At the same time, when Lu Zhining sensed the evil Array Spirit's aura gradually vanishing, she could not help staring in a daze.

Inside the secret chamber, Lu Wuhen's mouth fell open.

He could guess it with his toes: it had definitely been Mr. Li who had acted. Only a powerful True Immortal could kill a Void Immortal so cleanly, as easily as crushing an ant.

Thinking of this, Lu Wuhen felt a little happy for his granddaughter again.

That night, after leaving seclusion, Lu Wuhen wanted to visit Li Zhōujūn. But then he thought that it was already the dead of night. What if he disturbed Mr. Li's rest? Wouldn't that be doing the exact opposite of what he intended?

Thus, when Li Zhōujūn woke from a sweet dream the next morning and stepped outside, he immediately saw Lu Wuhen bowing to him. "Regarding what happened last night, thank you for taking action, Mr. Li."

Li Zhōujūn smiled faintly. "It was nothing. Just a little effort."

"Please don't be modest, sir. If you hadn't acted, my Lu Family would have been wiped out overnight." Lu Wuhen spoke with lingering fear.

The cultivation world was simply like this. Even if you were a prestigious family, as long as you provoked someone you could not afford to offend, having your entire family wiped out overnight was commonplace.

Clearly, if Li Zhōujūn had not been in the Lu Family last night, all that remained of it now would have been a heap of ruins.

Li Zhōujūn merely smiled without speaking.

"Sir, I've already instructed the servants to prepare breakfast. You only need to come over," Lu Wuhen said.

Seeing that Li Zhōujūn often behaved like an ordinary person, Lu Wuhen knew in his heart that this True Immortal had reached the realm of returning to simplicity. His behavior was no different from a mortal's, so regardless of whether he ate breakfast or not, preparing it could never hurt.

"Old Master Lu, you're too kind. In that case, I'll accept your invitation," Li Zhōujūn said with a hearty laugh.

Following Lu Wuhen to the main hall, Li Zhōujūn saw that an abundant breakfast had already been laid out on the table.

"Please wait a moment, sir. I'll go call that girl over so she can perform the disciple ceremony," Lu Wuhen said.

Li Zhōujūn waved his hand. "We cultivators don't concern ourselves with such trifles. As long as that girl acknowledges me as her master, we can dispense with these formalities."

As a modern man who had transmigrated into this world, Li Zhōujūn still was not used to the cultivation world's habit of kneeling and bowing at the slightest occasion.

"Mr. Li is truly unconstrained by petty formalities. Old Man Lu admires you," Lu Wuhen said with emotion.

"Zhining pays her respects to Mr. Li and Grandfather." As the saying went, speak of the devil and he appears. Lu Zhining was already standing prettily at the doorway.

"You girl, why are you still calling him Mr. Li? Call him Master," Lu Wuhen hurriedly told Lu Zhining.

"Ah..."

Lu Zhining froze slightly. She glanced at Li Zhōujūn, then finally called out, "Master."

"Good. Since you've called me Master, from this day forward, you're my disciple, Li Mou's disciple." Li Zhōujūn smiled faintly. "I'll give you a gift to mark our first meeting."

With that, Li Zhōujūn's thoughts stirred, and an array formation instantly imprinted itself onto Lu Zhining. "This is the Extreme Cold Sword Array. It can activate automatically when you encounter danger."

"To deploy a sixth-grade array in a single thought—he truly is a True Immortal. How terrifying!" Lu Wuhen's awe of Li Zhōujūn grew even deeper.

"Thank you, Master." Lu Zhining bowed respectfully to Li Zhōujūn.

Clearly, she had not realized that the Extreme Cold Sword Array was a sixth-grade array.

At the same time, Li Zhōujūn began carefully examining Lu Zhining. The Taiyin Body, also known as the Taiyin Immortal Body, was the reason Lu Zhining had reached the ninth level of Qi Refining at only sixteen years old.

Otherwise, with only her superior-grade spiritual root aptitude, achieving this would still have been rather difficult.

[ Ding: Congratulations, host, on successfully accepting a disciple!]

[ Ding: The system is issuing a reward: 'Heaven Slaying Sword Technique!']

[ Ding: The system is issuing a reward: 'Taiyin True Scripture!']

[Heaven Slaying Sword Technique]: Consists of three forms: Heaven-Opening, Heaven-Slaying, and Heaven-Slaughtering!

[Taiyin True Scripture]: The exclusive cultivation technique of the Taiyin Body!

"The name of this Heaven Slaying Sword Technique sounds so ridiculously chuuni, doesn't it? System, are you terrible at naming things?" Li Zhōujūn complained.

[ Ding: Host, stop talking nonsense. Be careful, or you'll end up without a little ding-ding.]

"Uh..." Li Zhōujūn grimaced.

"Master, may I leave a few days later? My father and mother will be returning in a couple of days, and I want to see them," Lu Zhining asked Li Zhōujūn.

"Of course." Li Zhōujūn smiled.

Lu Wuhen slapped his forehead and said to Lu Zhining, "How could I almost forget? Girl, take Mr. Li to the lantern festival the day after tomorrow. Got it?"

"Okay!" Lu Zhining breathed a sigh of relief.

She had been afraid that Li Zhōujūn would leave in a hurry, preventing her from seeing her father and mother one last time.

"Also, you girl must properly thank Mr. Li. If he hadn't destroyed that Void Immortal last night, our Lu Family would already be gone," Lu Wuhen added.

So it had been her cheap master who acted last night!

But he had actually been able to kill a Void Immortal. Just what level of cultivation did this cheap master possess?

Could he be a great expert in the Integration Stage?

At that thought, Lu Zhining sucked in a cold breath. No wonder Grandfather had been so eager to make her take him as her master.