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Su Xin had always looked down on Huanxi Temple of the Esoteric Sect.
Though he sometimes acted in ways that defied convention, he was still a fairly orthodox martial artist. He had won every bit of his strength through bloody battles.
Su Xin had always disdained strength gained through dual cultivation with a harem of women, as practiced by Huanxi Temple.
But disdain aside, this shortcut to power—one even faster than demonic arts—was undeniably effective. Huanxi Temple's strength was proof of that.
Among the Esoteric Sect, Huanxi Temple could be said to rank second only to Vajra Temple.
Aside from Great Joy Arhat, the abbot who had spent more than a century in seclusion, supposedly wandering through the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, the temple's other three Dharma Protectors were all at the Yang Spirit Realm.
And even setting Huanxi Temple itself aside, Huanxi Cult—a separate branch of the temple—had earned a place among the Nine Prisons Demonic Sects. That alone showed how powerful this lineage was.
The dual-cultivation and energy-absorption techniques practiced by Huanxi Temple's lineage were despised by everyone in the Martial Arts World. They also had plenty of drawbacks, such as unstable foundations and serious bottlenecks when advancing. But with their terrifying speed of cultivation, those problems hardly mattered.
Ordinary people might not have the patience for arduous cultivation, but Huanxi Temple's practitioners could indulge their true selves in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and gain immense power. That was why so many martial artists had joined Huanxi Temple and Huanxi Cult over the years.
The "Master Bliss" before them, Xiao Moye, was neither from the Central Plains nor the Western Frontier. He was from the Golden