Three Sisters of the Xiao Clan Take a Master! The First Hundredfold Return

After Bixiao called out "Master," she was the first to freeze.

Yunxiao and Qiongxiao also looked over in unspoken accord.

They had not even formally performed the disciple-taking ceremony, yet in her excitement, this girl had changed how she addressed him faster than anyone.

Bixiao clearly realized the issue as well. Her cheeks flushed slightly, but she quickly regained her righteous confidence.

"Anyway, I think this senior is quite good. No one said we definitely can't become his disciples."

Qiongxiao glanced at her and, for once, did not refute her.

Though that bout of enlightenment had not lasted long, its gains surpassed everything they had gained from fumbling through cultivation on their own over the past several hundred years.

Yunxiao in particular.

She had always possessed a special affinity for formations, yet it had always felt as though she were separated from them by a sheet of window paper. She only knew that she liked them, but never knew where the true path lay.

Now, after contemplating at Enlightenment Cliff for only a brief while, she had condensed her first cloud formation on her own. That feeling of suddenly seeing the light could not possibly be false.

More importantly, she had personally witnessed Luxuan merely observe the three of them attaining enlightenment, yet simultaneously manifest phenomena of the formation path, sword path, and spatial path.

This could no longer be summed up by a simple phrase like "profound cultivation."

At least, in Yunxiao's understanding, she had never heard of any Great Wilderness mighty figure who could so effortlessly comprehend several entirely different Great Daos at once.

"Senior."

Yunxiao did not hesitate any longer. After straightening her robes, she solemnly stepped before Luxuan.

The Great Dao phenomena around Luxuan had gradually subsided. Hearing her, he opened his eyes and saw Yunxiao respectfully perform the grand bow of a disciple.

"This junior, Yunxiao, is willing to take Senior as my master. From this day forth, I will honor my master and respect the Dao, cultivate with devotion, and hope that Master will not cast me aside."

Qiongxiao followed immediately after, kneeling down.

"Qiongxiao is willing to take Master as her master."

Bixiao was the quickest of all. While her two elder sisters were still properly performing their bows, she had already dropped to her knees with a thump.

"Bixiao is willing too!"

As Luxuan looked at the three women before him, the smile in his eyes finally deepened somewhat.

"Good."

As that single word fell, the Great Dao's invisible master-disciple bond completely acknowledged the identities of the three women as his disciples.

Three clear pieces of information surfaced within Luxuan's Primordial Spirit at once.

Yunxiao, top-grade innate divine sacred origin, Golden Immortal perfection, affinity with clouds and water, formations.

Qiongxiao, high-grade innate divine sacred origin, late Golden Immortal stage, affinity with the sword path and slaughter.

Bixiao, high-grade innate divine sacred origin, late Golden Immortal stage, affinity with space and yin-yang transformations.

"Well, damn."

Luxuan could not help sighing inwardly.

No wonder the three sisters would one day trap the Chan Sect's Twelve Golden Immortals inside the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and teach them a lesson one by one. With such origins and comprehension, if they had not ultimately encountered a Sage personally entering the fray, no one could say how far they might have grown through ordinary cultivation.

Now that they had become his disciples, those future troubles naturally had nothing to do with the original course of events.

If anyone dared rely on seniority and realm to bully his disciples again, Luxuan would not mind personally teaching them what it meant to be an overprotective parent, Great Wilderness style.

"Rise."

Luxuan waved a hand, and a gentle surge of mana lifted the three sisters to their feet.

"Since you have entered my school, your cultivation methods naturally can no longer be like before, where you blindly fumbled ahead on your own."

As he spoke, he raised a finger and pointed at each of their brows in turn.

Three streams of light containing the true meaning of different Great Daos entered their Primordial Spirits.

What he passed to Yunxiao was the Void Cloud Water Scripture, founded upon innate clouds and water while also cultivating the formation path.

What he passed to Qiongxiao was the Mystic Origin Sword Codex, which specialized in sharpness and slaughter and could be cultivated all the way to Zenith Heaven perfection.

As for Bixiao, she received the Void Escaping Sky Scripture, which united the paths of space and transformation.

These cultivation methods had not appeared from thin air. Rather, Luxuan had derived them over countless years in Penglai, based on the innate Dao traces within the island. No one had cultivated them in the past, but now they happened to suit the three Xiao sisters perfectly.

A vast and complete inheritance flooded into their seas of consciousness. The three sisters had only just risen when they closed their eyes again in unison.

Yunxiao was the first to enter a state of cultivation.

She had already touched the bottleneck of Golden Immortal perfection. Now that she had received the cultivation method most suited to her, the slightly scattered mana within her immediately began circulating along an entirely new route.

One circulation.

Ten circulations.

A hundred circulations.

The cloud-and-water spiritual qi between heaven and earth seemed drawn by an invisible force, beginning to gather madly into her body.

The changes in Qiongxiao and Bixiao were just as apparent.

Once the Mystic Origin Sword Codex began circulating, Qiongxiao's originally gentle innate mana swiftly took on a sliver of unstoppable sharpness.

Tiny spatial ripples continuously appeared around Bixiao. She was clearly sitting there cross-legged, yet from time to time, she seemed to be shifted one layer out of alignment with the surrounding heaven and earth.

The three disciples completed their first true transformation of cultivation methods at the same time.

The hundredfold return arrived almost immediately afterward.

Boom!

The barrier of the early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm within Luxuan, which had long since loosened, shattered with a thunderous crash.

In that instant, the entire Penglai Immortal Island seemed to resonate with him. Boundless innate spiritual qi surged back from all directions.

A vast sea of clouds blanketed hundreds of millions of miles.

Strands of golden rosy light pierced through heaven and earth.

The branches and leaves of the Enlightenment Ancient Tree swayed, and countless Great Dao patterns flowed across its leaves.

Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

Luxuan had not even deliberately attempted a breakthrough, yet his realm naturally crossed over under the impetus of three hundredfold feedbacks.

The three Xiao sisters were almost simultaneously startled awake from their enlightenment.

Bixiao looked at the golden rosy light filling the sky, then at Luxuan's aura, which was clearly even more unfathomable than before. Her expression gradually turned strange.

"Master."

"You... broke through again?"

Luxuan briefly sensed the mana within him, now several times more majestic than before, and soon returned to calm.

"Yes."

"Just a minor realm."

"No need to mind it."

The three Xiao sisters fell silent once more.

They had spent who knew how many years cultivating to become Golden Immortals. Sometimes, even a minor realm could trap them for tens of thousands of years.

Yet when it came to their master, why did it seem that merely watching them cultivate let him casually break through?

After holding herself back for a long while, Bixiao finally leaned close to Yunxiao and transmitted her voice.

"Eldest Sister."

"Why do I feel that the 'minor realm' Master mentioned might not be the same kind of minor realm we understand?"

This time, Yunxiao did not lecture her, because she felt exactly the same way.

Luxuan took in the reactions of the three women, and he was instead quite satisfied.

This was only the first formal return.

Once Yunxiao began perfecting her formation path, Qiongxiao truly developed her own sword path, and Bixiao deduced the art of space to a higher level, the things he received would only become more outrageous.

Not to mention the truly significant major-realm breakthroughs of Taiyi and Zenith Heaven in the future.

With that thought, Luxuan's gaze toward his three disciples instantly became even more benevolent.

Yunxiao grew slightly uncomfortable beneath his gaze and could not help asking, "Master, did something go wrong with our cultivation just now?"

"No."

Luxuan shook his head. Then, as though he had suddenly remembered something, he rose to his feet.

"Since you have formally become my disciples today, as your master, I naturally cannot merely impart cultivation methods without giving you a meeting gift."

Bixiao's eyes immediately lit up.

The Innate Spiritual Roots she had seen all along the way into the island immediately flashed through her mind.

Yet Luxuan did not head toward the spiritual herb garden at all. Instead, he led the three of them toward the other side of Penglai.

Before long, a mountain cliff shrouded in countless gleams of treasure appeared at the end of their sight.

Bixiao took one look from afar, and her steps suddenly halted.

Because on that mountain, there were treasures radiating innate auras inserted, hung, and floating everywhere.

"Master."

"This place couldn't be..."

Luxuan's expression remained calm.

"Treasure Cliff."

"Choose a few that you like."