You looked at the alluring Fifth Senior Sister and felt dazed for a moment.
Fifth Senior Sister was stunning. She wasn't pure and innocent like Ye Chuxue; instead, she was a bewitching, enchanting beauty.
Under her spell, you almost lost control.
"Fifth Senior Sister, could you please put away your bewitching art? Your junior brother is getting a little scared!"
"Scared? What's there to be afraid of? It's not like your senior sister's going to eat you!"
Fifth Senior Sister's voice circled your ears. When she finished speaking, she blew a warm breath at you.
The next second, she immediately moved away from you and sat back down on the wooden couch.
"Tell me, what do you need with First Senior Sister?"
After doing your best to calm yourself, you explained that you wanted to learn about the Great Void Technique.
"The Great Void Technique? What do you want to learn that for? Ordinary people can't cultivate it. Only those with exceptional comprehension of the Space Law can master it."
You straightened up and told her that you had already mastered the Great Void Technique. You wanted to find First Senior Sister because you had obtained it in a secret realm.
"What? You mastered the Great Void Technique all by yourself?"
Afraid she might doubt you, you demonstrated the Great Void Technique right in front of her.
"So it really is the Great Void Technique! Little Junior Brother, I already thought your talent in swordsmanship was impressive. I didn't expect you to be so gifted with space, too."
Fifth Senior Sister Gu Xinyue stared at you in disbelief, her eyes full of surprise.
A moment later, Gu Xinyue sighed.
"Little Junior Brother, it's not that I won't tell you. First Senior Sister's whereabouts are a mystery, and I've barely met her myself. I don't know much about her."
"Even the Pavilion Master might not know much. First Senior Sister has never talked about any of that."
When you realized that even Gu Xinyue knew so little, you couldn't help feeling disappointed.
"Then, Fifth Senior Sister, you..."
Before you could finish, Gu Xinyue cut you off.
"Stop! Don't call me Fifth Senior Sister. It sounds awful. My name is Gu Xinyue!"
You hadn't expected Fifth Senior Sister Gu Xinyue to have such a cute side, so you quickly changed how you addressed her.
"Senior Sister Gu, do you know where First Senior Sister is?"
Gu Xinyue rested her hands beneath her chin and thought for a long while before slowly giving you a name.
"Central Prefecture!"
"Central Prefecture?"
You hadn't expected First Senior Sister to have gone to Central Prefecture. That would make her hard to find.
Central Prefecture was the largest continent in the Canglan Realm, its territory even greater than that of the other four great prefectures combined!
It could be called the holy land of cultivation in the Canglan Realm, though that was only true for humanity in ancient times.
Now, Central Prefecture was a Forbidden Zone for humans, teeming with countless powerful Sinister Worms.
Gu Xinyue looked at your furrowed brow and earnestly warned you, "Little Junior Brother, you're only at the Nascent Soul Early Stage. I advise you not to go to Central Prefecture. You wouldn't even be able to protect yourself!"
You knew that well enough. In places like Green Prefecture and You Prefecture, the highest cultivation anyone could reach was Spirit Transmutation Great Perfection.
There might be Void Refining cultivators, but they were all in hiding.
And now that you were already in the Nascent Soul Realm, as long as you didn't run into a top Spirit Transmutation expert, you could escape with the Great Void Technique even if you couldn't defeat your opponent.
You had always wanted to find First Senior Sister because you felt that the Great Void Technique you'd cultivated had some kind of flaw. You just didn't know what it was.
"I understand, Senior Sister Gu. I won't go to Central Prefecture until I reach Spirit Transmutation."
Seeing you say this, Gu Xinyue smiled, but before long her expression turned rather strange.
"Little Junior Brother, since you know the Great Void Technique, how about coming with me somewhere?"
You looked at Gu Xinyue's strange smile, and a bad feeling rose in your heart.
"Where?"
Gu Xinyue deliberately put on a sorrowful expression in front of you.
"Your senior sister is about to break through to the Void Refining Realm, but I'm missing a Spiritual Herb. So I want you to take me there with the Great Void Technique and help me steal it!"
"Steal?"
Hearing Gu Xinyue say she wanted to take you along to steal something—and use the Great Void Technique to do it—struck you as a little odd.
"Senior Sister, you're already so powerful. Who in all of You Prefecture could possibly be your match?"
"Why steal anything? Wouldn't it be better to just take it by force?"
At that, Gu Xinyue nodded.
"You make a good point, Little Junior Brother. Taking it by force really would be better than stealing it. But the Pill Sect is full of old monsters, and I'm not sure I could beat them!"
"What? You're going to rob the Pill Sect?"
You were completely shocked by Gu Xinyue's idea.
From what you knew, in You Prefecture, you could offend anyone but the Pill Sect.
That wasn't just because the Pill Sect was the most powerful sect in You Prefecture. Its alchemy was also second to none, and every sect was on good terms with it.
Gu Xinyue nodded seriously and explained, "I received word that the Pill Sect Master has started collecting the materials needed to refine a Void Breaking Pill."
"You have to understand, the main strength of these Sinister Worms is their Soul Power. They're much better at refining pills than we humans are."
You finally understood why Gu Xinyue had suddenly returned at this time. So she was after the pill materials.
"Then... are you sure you can pull it off, Senior Sister?"
Seeing you doubt her, Gu Xinyue rolled her eyes at you in annoyance.
"Of course I am! On my own, I'd have about a fifty percent chance. Now that I know you can use the Great Void Technique, Little Junior Brother, I'm eighty percent sure!"
Hearing that Gu Xinyue was eighty percent sure, you let out a quiet sigh of relief.
"Then, Senior Sister, when are we leaving?"
"In three years!"
Gu Xinyue casually gave you a date.
"What? Three years from now?"
Hearing that you'd be stealing something three years later, you were stunned.
Seeing you freeze, Gu Xinyue patiently explained, "We have to wait three more years because one of the main ingredients for the Void Breaking Pill won't mature until then."
"I found that Spiritual Herb earlier, but it wasn't mature yet. Later, I ran into people from the Pill Sect and learned about this."
Hearing her explanation left you not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Since you'd agreed to help Gu Xinyue, all you could do was cultivate at Sword Pavilion for three years.
Once you'd helped Gu Xinyue take care of this, she would surely head to the Immortal Falling Secret Realm for her breakthrough. You could then return to Green Prefecture with her.
After saying goodbye to Gu Xinyue, you returned to your thatched hut and began cultivating the Great Void Sword Art.
A year later, your cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
Gu Xinyue couldn't help feeling a little envious of your talent when she saw how quickly you'd broken through.
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