Flame Emperor, You Really Know How to Undermine Someone

"Yes, today was my first time practicing the Bagua Lightning Chasing Steps," Xiao Ting answered without the slightest guilt.

He had only received the Plane Blessing granting him seven days of cultivation experience after midnight, so today truly was his first day practicing the Bagua Lightning Chasing Steps.

How terrifying. Yao Lao was deeply shocked. In terms of comprehension for cultivating Dou Techniques alone, Xiao Ting was unprecedented in his experience.

Coupled with cultivation talent that surpassed even Xiao Yan's, there was a very high chance that he could reach the height Yao Lao had attained at his peak.

If that Gu Clan girl held sufficient status within the Gu Clan and was willing to look after Xiao Ting, then reaching the pinnacle below the Saint realm would practically be guaranteed.

"Mm, not bad." Though he was deeply shocked inside, Yao Lao still put on a merely mildly surprised expression and solemnly spouted nonsense. "If your cultivation talent and comprehension were placed in the Jia Ma Empire, you would be able to look down on everyone. Even in the Northwest Continent, you would be among the rarest of talents."

"But in the Central Plains, geniuses emerge in great numbers. You can only be considered decent there; you have not yet reached the point where you can be proud and complacent."

"Teacher, are there really people more talented than Little Ting?" Xiao Yan's face was full of shock. "A mid Xuan Tier Dou Technique, and Little Ting reached minor mastery in less than an hour. Could it be that the geniuses of the Central Plains can learn it with one glance, with Low Earth Tier techniques as their starting point?"

Yao Lao: "..."

His disciple had undermined him. What should he do?

"It seems that if I get the chance to visit the Central Plains in the future, I must go all out whenever I encounter an opponent. I cannot hold back in the slightest," Xiao Yan said seriously.

Xiao Ting: "..."

The Central Plains Corrector had said this. A moment of silence for the Central Plains' geniuses.

"Kid Ting's Dou Qi is nearly exhausted. Rest for a while before continuing," Yao Lao said, smoothly changing the subject without answering Xiao Yan's question.

"My Dou Qi consumption is actually still below thirty percent," Xiao Ting said after thinking briefly.

Yao Lao: "..."

"It is this old man's soul body that needs to rest for a while!" Yao Lao flashed away and vanished.

He had originally intended to use this teaching opportunity to "teach Xiao Ting a lesson," yet he had failed to hit him even once and had instead been shocked by his talent.

Yao Lao felt that he needed to calm down.

"Brother, Senior Yao Lao must have his reasons for telling me to rest. I'll go rest nearby for a while first."

After greeting Xiao Yan, Xiao Ting walked to a clean boulder nearby, sat down, closed his eyes, and circulated his cultivation method to recover his Dou Qi.

His feeling had not been wrong. Meditating to cultivate after practicing a Dou Technique did make his cultivation improve slightly faster.

When his cultivation method began circulating through its cycle on its own, he decided to record it in the Notes.

[Soul Hall Signature Laugh: Jie jie jie.]

The five women currently holding copies: ?

[Across the myriad worlds, everyone knows that to identify members of the Soul Hall or Hun Clan, one does not look at their names, cultivation, cultivation methods, or bloodline, but at their voices.]

[A black-robed person accompanied by a strange "jie jie jie" laugh is a proper Soul Hall villain.]

The five women: "..."

How absurd. Was this also part of that Tuo Dou setting?

If reality was like this too, then the Soul Hall... was rather laughable.

"Elder Ling."

On a mountain peak several hundred zhang from where Xiao Ting was training, Xun'er stood with her hands behind her back and called softly.

"Miss." Ling Ying, dressed in black robes, appeared and dropped to one knee.

"You are knowledgeable and well-read. Do you know what marks the people of the Soul Hall?" Xun'er asked, her red lips parting slightly.

"The marks of the Soul Hall?" Ling Ying's thoughts raced as he answered seriously, "Nine out of ten Soul Hall members use chains as weapons, and they all like wearing black robes."

"What else?" Xun'er asked.

"Soul Hall members also have identity tokens, but they like leaving them to gather dust in their Storage Rings." After shifting his train of thought, Ling Ying answered, "They possess a unique aura that always lets others know at a glance that this fellow comes from the Soul Hall and is not a good person."

"What kind of aura?" The corners of Xun'er's lips curved upward. "Is it that when they appear, they do things no one else would do?"

Swish!

A flash of insight streaked through Ling Ying's mind.

"Miss is correct." Ling Ying immediately replied, "Soul Hall members always have their jie jie jie laughter arrive before they do."

"That laughter is exceptionally strange and sends chills down one's spine. The moment one hears it, one knows they are not good people."

"So that was it." Laughter blossomed in Xun'er's eyes. "Then to identify Soul Hall members, one simply needs to listen to how they laugh and watch how they appear?"

"That really is the case." Ling Ying felt as if he had been enlightened. "If they do not laugh like that, it means they are not Soul Hall enough."

Hahaha!

Xun'er could not help laughing inwardly.

This so-called "setting" was truly interesting.

However, why had Brother Xiao Ting mentioned the Soul Hall at this time?

[At this very moment, I want to let out a jie jie jie laugh.]

The five women: "..."

The image was too beautiful. They dared not imagine it.

[Today, from the perspective of a bystander, I personally watched Yao Lao guide the future "Flame Emperor."]

[But Yao Lao wanted to guide me even more. He was upset that I had tricked him out of his cultivation method and Dou Technique yesterday, so he wanted to "settle a personal score under the guise of public duty"...]

[Yet this future imperial tutor was shocked by the speed at which I mastered the Dou Technique.]

[This was only inevitable. Today's Plane opportunity granted me seven days of Dou Technique training experience.]

[It was a full seven days. Under normal circumstances, when learning a Dou Technique, considering one's focus and Dou Qi, training for four hours a day already counted as enduring and diligent...]

"So that was it." The five women suddenly understood.

They sincerely agreed with Xiao Ting's reasoning.

There were twelve hours in a day. After subtracting the time needed for eating, drinking, resting, meditating, cultivating, and other trivial matters, being able to spend four hours cultivating truly counted as enduring and diligent.

By that calculation, the seven days of cultivation experience granted by the Plane Blessing was equivalent to the experience an ordinary person would accumulate over a month of training.

If the cultivation experience was calculated according to Xiao Ting's own talent and comprehension, the improvement would be even greater.

"I never expected there to be such a benefit."

In the southern province of the Jia Ma Empire, at the edge of a lake with abundant natural energy and exceptionally fine scenery, Queen Medusa, who was taking a brief rest to recover her Dou Qi, gazed intensely.

The Plane Blessing was practically a cheating accelerator for Dou Technique cultivation. She also wanted to experience it.

As the queen of the Snake-People Tribe, she usually had many trivial matters to handle. Aside from cultivation, she did not have much time to train Dou Techniques and secret arts.

This made her combat methods relatively monotonous, giving others the savage impression that she only liked using her fists and legs.

"More importantly, will Xiao Ting mention this queen's name today?"

The same thought also appeared in Yun Yun's mind.

As the sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect, she not only needed to handle sect affairs, but also occasionally had to go to the front lines for the Jia Ma Empire to fight against the Chu Yun Empire.

She had mastered quite a few wind-element Dou Techniques, but she rarely had time to settle down and cultivate them in seclusion. Instead, she honed them whenever she had the chance on the battlefield.

"If only I could receive this kind of blessing too."

[My rapid cultivation is not merely a matter of talent.]

[No matter how outstanding one's talent is, it cannot compare to cheating.]

[Senior Yao Lao was afraid I would become arrogant, so he deliberately said those words...]

[In the end, the "Flame Emperor" undermined him,...]

"Pfft!"

At that moment, all five women could not help laughing.

With no one around them, Queen Medusa and Yun Yun laughed freely.

Smiles also appeared on Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin's faces.

One could imagine just how wonderful Yao Lao's expression had been.