Heavenly One True Water

Early that morning, Ling Qing was leading Clear Wind and several others through their morning recitations in the hall when Bai Suzhen, Xu Xian, and Xiaoqing arrived together outside.

Xu Xian lived nearest. He had waited specifically at the crossroads for Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, then come with them.

After the three entered and saw that Ling Qing was occupied, they quietly found prayer cushions and sat down, calming their minds to listen.

Though it was an ordinary set of recitations, each of the three heard something different in it.

Back when Xu Xian had been refining pills at the temple, he had joined the daily recitations as well.

By now, he was already accustomed to them. Moreover, each time he did the recitations, he gained a different insight, which he found deeply novel.

Bai Suzhen, though she had now attained the cultivation of a Three-Tribulation Earth Immortal, had mostly relied on that single transmission of the Dharma, together with over a thousand years of contemplation.

Her cultivation was far from shallow, her magical power was not weak, and she possessed divine abilities as well.

Yet she lacked precisely this kind of foundational practice.

Listening to the recitation scripture now, she carefully sorted through everything she had learned in the past, gaining fresh insights in the process.

Xiaoqing, however, was different again.

If Bai Suzhen had at least received a transmission of the Dharma, Xiaoqing was a demon who had cultivated herself from scratch. Where could she have found any proper method?

Precisely because of this, she did not understand the true Dao. Hearing the recitation scripture only made her heart restless, and she could barely sit still.

Only when the morning recitations ended did she finally let out a breath of relief.

Ling Qing waved Clear Wind and the