Chaos Body

Chaos Body

Jiang Lu's eyes rolled as she clasped her hands behind her back and looked up at him.

"What benefits are there to becoming your disciple?"

Chi Miao raised an eyebrow. This little girl had quite the nerve.

Hearing this, Elder Ye was overjoyed. She had not even become his disciple yet, and she already knew to make demands of him. He liked that kind of personality!

Then he said in a light, faintly smug tone:

"I'll only have you as my disciple. Everything I own will be yours. Besides, with your master's Late Mahayana Stage cultivation, few blind fools would dare provoke you. Is that enough?"

Late Mahayana Stage!

Jiang Lu's eyes widened. In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators were few enough to count on one's fingers and rarely showed themselves before the public. Nowadays, Mahayana Stage cultivators reigned supreme outside.

This was a golden thigh!

Jiang Lu nodded. Hesitating for even a second would have been disrespectful to her own strength. "This disciple is willing."

Hehehe~

The young face of Elder Ye nearly crinkled into wrinkles from smiling. Then he looked at Chi Miao. "I'll take this little girl as my disciple. If you're short on people, just recruit a few more from outside."

"Then many thanks, Elder Ye."

How could Chi Miao possibly refuse? With such a good seedling coming from him, the resources of their West River City Medicine King Pavilion would double within ten years.

He then stood and led Elder Ye and Jiang Lu into the main hall.

Elder Ye stood before the main hall, looking at the memorial tablet above. It belonged to the first Pavilion Master of the Medicine King Pavilion, their patriarch. Since he was taking a disciple, although there was no formal apprenticeship ceremony, it was only natural to inform their ancestor.

He turned to Jiang Lu, his tone slightly solemn.

"Today, we are stranded in the wilderness, with no incense, candles, ritual vessels, or clan elders to bear witness. We shall temporarily forgo the full apprenticeship rites. But remember this well: from this moment onward, you and I shall have the substance of master and disciple. The title is no falsehood, and righteousness comes first."

"The Medicine King Pavilion in Void City has strict rites and rules. Once we return to the city, we will prepare the three sacrificial offerings and incense, kowtow and serve tea, then hold the proper apprenticeship ceremony. We will announce it to the entire city and bind you and me in a long-lasting master-disciple bond. Before then, you must restrain yourself according to a disciple's duties. In every word and action, you must uphold the rules of my sect. You must not show the slightest slackness or indulgence."

"I am willing to take you as my disciple in private not because of a momentary impulse of pity. I have seen that your heart is steadfast and your innate constitution rare, hiding a resilience others cannot match. But the road ahead is perilous. On the path of cultivation, inner demons, powerful enemies, and trials emerge one after another. One misstep, and you may be doomed beyond redemption. I place great hopes upon you. Do not disappoint this opportunity."

"From now on, I will pass down cultivation methods to you, teach you the Dao, show you how to distinguish good from evil, understand gain and loss, and guard your original heart. You cannot seek only great personal cultivation; you must also shoulder the responsibility of carrying on our lineage. If you achieve success one day, you must protect yourself, uphold the righteous path, shelter the weak, neither tarnishing the prestige of our school nor disgracing its teachings."

"Do not take this master-disciple bond lightly just because we have not yet performed the grand rites. The title lies in the heart, not in ceremony. Returning to the city for the rites is merely following convention. Today, recognizing each other in these wild mountains is the true beginning of your path in cultivation. I will carefully shape you, but in the end, you must walk the road step by step yourself. Do not disappoint me."

When he finished speaking, Elder Ye silently gazed at Jiang Lu, his expression solemn, his eyes holding weighty expectations that could not be betrayed.

Jiang Lu listened, then bowed deeply. She dropped to both knees, and with a sharp thud, knocked her forehead against the ground in a formal kneeling salute.

"This disciple obeys."

Since she had already taken a master, she would bear the corresponding responsibilities. There was no reason to receive resources without giving anything in return.

Chi Miao then took out a sheet of gold foil from the incense table and held it with both hands before Elder Ye.

Several dazzling spells danced across the gold foil. It suddenly erupted with golden light, followed by a muffled clap of thunder from the sky. The gold foil floated into the air.

As an ancient bell tolled beside Jiang Lu's ear, the gold foil flickered several times before transforming into a golden thread that entered both her and Elder Ye's brows.

From then on, the two became master and disciple acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao.

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This was a ritual only performed when cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage accepted disciples. It was an orthodox Daoist rite of the Immortal Cultivation Realm. The master-disciple bond was recognized by the Heavenly Dao. If Jiang Lu betrayed her sect in the future, she would be punished.

Likewise, if a master harbored impure intentions and damaged their disciple's foundation, they would receive the corresponding punishment.

Taking a master was not something one person could decide and do as they pleased.

"These are your gifts for becoming my disciple. If there is anything you want in the future, just ask your master. You are my only disciple, so whatever I have is yours."

With a wave of his hand, a silver storage bag appeared in his palm. He handed the bag to Jiang Lu as he spoke.

Jiang Lu nodded vigorously and accepted it with both hands.

"Let's go."

After saying that, Elder Ye lifted his foot and walked outside.

Jiang Lu immediately trotted after him.

After returning to the courtyard, Elder Ye set up a barrier that isolated the entire courtyard.

"Disciple, now that we are master and disciple, tell your master honestly. Is there something unusual about your Spiritual Roots?"

Elder Ye sat in a chair, his voice steady and carrying a trace of certainty.

Jiang Lu nodded.

"Master, to be honest, I do not know what is unusual about my Spiritual Roots, because I have never tested their attributes. I merely happened to obtain a cultivation method that day and began cultivating. I discovered that I could absorb spiritual energy of every color, so I assumed I had Mixed Spiritual Roots."

"Later, I found that my cultivation speed seemed somewhat too fast, which made me suspicious. But I do not know the true reason either."

After speaking, Jiang Lu calmly looked at Elder Ye, wondering whether her master would see the peculiarity in her Spiritual Roots.

Her master said nothing more. He merely took out a testing stone.

"Place your hand on it. Let me see."

Jiang Lu nodded and raised her hand, placing it atop the testing stone.

The originally white spirit-testing stone immediately emitted dazzling multicolored light, instantly enveloping Jiang Lu within it.

Elder Ye seemed to see endless vitality within that light. Only after Jiang Lu lowered her hand did the spirit-testing stone slowly return to calm.

"Master, this..."

Jiang Lu looked at the lights. They were precisely the colors she had absorbed into her dantian. Looking again, she saw that her master wore a stunned expression, as though he had encountered something utterly unbelievable.

"Little disciple, tell me the truth. How long did it take you to cultivate to Qi Refinement, Fourth Level?"

How long?

Jiang Lu thought for a moment and said:

"Master, around eleven months." If she had not suppressed her cultivation over the past two months, she should have reached Qi Refinement, Fifth Level or Qi Refinement, Sixth Level by now.

After she spoke, her master threw back his head and laughed. "Hahaha!"

He had never expected that Ye Qingfeng would still receive such an extraordinarily gifted disciple at this time. Compared to the disciples of those old geezers, this one disciple of his could crush every last one of them!

"If my guess is correct, you possess a Chaos Body, which is why you have Chaos Spirit Roots and cultivate with twice the result for half the effort. The Chaos Body is an innate constitution, and only the Primordial Chaos Body can rival it. However, possessing these Spiritual Roots requires an enormous amount of spiritual energy. Often several times, even dozens of times, that required by ordinary Spiritual Roots. You will need to put in far more effort in your cultivation."