Loyalty Below Sixty, Unable to Join

"Who... are you, really?" Xiao Xier finally began to take Su Bai seriously.

Su Bai had seen right through her, yet she knew nothing about him.

The feeling made her heart tremble. Could this youth truly be some hidden old monster who had deliberately come out to gain experience?

"I'm Xiao Yan's master. Who do you think I am?" Su Bai chuckled.

Xiao Xier fell silent. At that moment, Xiao Yan happened to walk out of the Immortal Arts Pavilion as well.

"Master, this disciple has already found an Immortal Art suitable for me!"

The moment he emerged, he clutched a scroll and knelt before Su Bai, looking beside himself with joy.

"Mm, very good." Su Bai nodded. He had long known what had happened within the Immortal Arts Pavilion.

Body Refinement was also a road with boundless prospects!

"Brother Xiao Yan can cultivate now?" Xiao Xier was stunned once again, her face full of disbelief.

Even Uncle Ying had been unable to resolve Xiao Yan's constitution problem, much less provide him with a cultivation method!

"Master, how much silver is needed to cultivate this Immortal Art?" Xiao Yan asked eagerly.

Although he knew in his heart that the Primordial Chaos Body-Refining Art was precious, and that its cost might be more than he could bear, he still wanted to try.

As long as he could cultivate, he was willing to pay anything!

"Every disciple who joins the sect may choose one Immortal Art for free. Naturally, no silver is required." Su Bai shook his head.

"For free?" After being stunned for a moment, Xiao Yan became incomparably excited and hurriedly knelt before Su Bai. "Master above, please accept another bow from your disciple."

"Enough. Go cultivate first, and strive to reach the Fleshly Body Realm as soon as possible." Su Bai waved his hand.

The realms of Body Refinement began with the fleshly body. The Fleshly Body Realm also had nine levels, corresponding to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining.

"Thank you, Master." Xiao Yan rose to his feet and left respectfully.

Afterward, he sat cross-legged and began carefully reading the Primordial Chaos Body-Refining Art in his hands.

However, the moment he saw the first page, he sucked in a cold breath.

Run ten li carrying one hundred jin for a quarter of an hour!

Do one hundred consecutive push-ups while carrying one hundred jin!

Endure one hundred consecutive lashes of a whip!

Only when the physical body reaches the required strength after completing the above tasks may one officially cultivate! (Note: Ordinary people in the cultivation world have slightly stronger constitutions than normal people.)

After going through that entire set, even with Xiao Yan's willpower and endurance, a bead of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Xiao Xier saw the training requirements as well and immediately felt her entire body shudder.

Could an ordinary person who had never cultivated possibly complete this?

"Brother Xiao Yan, how about you stop cultivating?" she urged worriedly.

After all that, he would probably lose half his life, wouldn't he?

Even Xiao Yan was somewhat frightened. Aside from the strange looks others had given him, he had never suffered much hardship since childhood. How could he endure such torment?

Su Bai glanced at the two of them and smiled faintly. "What? Three years from now, do you still want Liu Yanran to keep trampling you beneath her feet?"

"This..." Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, his fists clenching until they cracked.

In the end, he gripped the scroll fiercely and said word by word, "I want to become stronger. I want to defeat Liu Yanran!"

"I want to prove that I, Xiao Yan, am no worse than anyone else!"

His eyes were red, and his entire face had turned bluish-purple from holding himself back. Clearly, he had used every ounce of strength in his body just to shout those words.

After saying that, he immediately got to his feet and began running around the foot of the Heavenly Dao Sect's mountain.

He wanted to prove himself. He wanted to become stronger!

At that moment, Su Bai swept his gaze aside and saw Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi watching nearby. He immediately said, "Go cultivate. The sect's strength will depend on how much effort you put in."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi did not prepare to cultivate. Instead, they looked toward Xiao Xier.

Clearly, the Immortal Arts they cultivated were too extraordinary. If outsiders saw them...

"No matter. The Immortal Arts of my Heavenly Dao Sect were neither stolen nor snatched. There is no need to avoid anyone." Su Bai smiled.

Only after hearing Su Bai's words did Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi relax. They turned and left.

Xiao Xier stood there blankly, somewhat unable to make sense of the situation.

They had to avoid her just to cultivate their Immortal Arts?

What, could their Immortal Arts possibly be stronger than those of her Lineage?

One had to know that the Lineage she belonged to was an unimaginably colossal behemoth across the entire continent!

Even a mere gatekeeper from her Lineage, if brought to Great Zhao, would be enough to reign supreme over all!

She could not even be bothered to glance at the sect-protecting Immortal Arts of the Lingxiao Sect and Cloud Heaven Sect. Why would she care about this trash?

"Hmph, putting on airs. I'd like to see just how impressive the Immortal Arts of your Heavenly Dao Sect are!"

She grumbled inwardly, her beautiful eyes fixed tightly on Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi as they cultivated, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.

"One, two, three..."

Before she had even counted to three, her expression changed.

Her knowledge and experience far surpassed Xiao Lingxi's, and she knew much more about certain top-grade Immortal Arts.

Too fast!

The circulation of spiritual energy was far too fast!

Such rapid spiritual energy circulation meant there were almost no impurities. Its quality had reached an unimaginable level!

Moreover, the spiritual energy circulating through the two of them possessed different colors and attributes. Clearly, they were two completely different Immortal Arts.

"Twenty... one circulation in twenty breaths. This is the supreme art Father spoke of, one that exists only in legends!"

"And... there are two of them!"

"How is that possible..." Xiao Xier was shocked to the extremity, her pretty face flushing crimson.

This was too heaven-defying!

And weren't Immortal Arts this heaven-defying supposed to be cultivable only by direct blood relatives?

For example, only her father and she could cultivate her Lineage's highest Immortal Art. The others cultivated different Immortal Arts, precisely to prevent the technique from being leaked.

Yet in the Heavenly Dao Sect, an utterly ordinary disciple could cultivate such a heaven-defying Immortal Art?

This...

They treated their disciples this well?

"Um... can I join the Heavenly Dao Sect?" she suddenly asked.

She looked at Su Bai somewhat nervously.

Su Bai looked at her in slight surprise, then shook his head.

Because a line of text had appeared before him.

Sect loyalty below sixty. Unable to join!!! (Note: "loyalty" still doesn't sound very good. After around chapter forty, it will gradually be changed to "favorability.")

This was the first time he had discovered this restriction. Before this, whether it was Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, or Xiao Yan, their loyalty had all been above sixty.

Xiao Yan in particular had already had seventy loyalty when he joined the sect, and it immediately rose to eighty after he received the Immortal Art. This was enough to show that sixty loyalty was not high.

In other words, if one did not even have sixty loyalty, then one simply did not take the sect seriously at all!

How could such a person possibly join the sect?

"Ah..." Xiao Xier sighed, rather disappointed, but she did not continue pestering him.

After all, she did not have much time left to remain here.

There were conflicts within her Lineage that still required her to mediate.

Meanwhile, Su Bai watched Xiao Yan running at the foot of the mountain, and Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi cultivating with complete focus, and he could not help but chuckle inwardly.

The upgrade mission of recruiting three disciples had already been completed, and only the final ten points remained before he reached one hundred sect points.

Everything was ready for the sect's upgrade; only the points remained!