Xiao Lingxi's Immortal Arts

Xiao Lingxi entered the Immortal Arts Pavilion like a curious little cat, looking left and right.

When she saw Immortal Arts scrolls floating all around the room, she was immediately stunned.

Unlike Zhuge Feng, she came from a great Lineage and had seen and learned much more.

The more Immortal Arts a sect possessed, and the higher their quality, the more it reflected that sect's strength!

Lingxiao Sect was strong enough, wasn't it?

Yet it possessed no more than a hundred Immortal Arts!

But in this Immortal Arts Pavilion before her, the Immortal Arts scrolls alone absolutely numbered over ten thousand!!

What Immortal Arts Pavilion was this? It was practically a precious treasure vault!

Xiao Lingxi's delicate body trembled with excitement. With so many Immortal Arts, she had no idea what to choose.

"Please place your hand on the stone platform before you."

Seeing that Xiao Lingxi did not know how to choose, the Guardian Spirit of the Immortal Arts Pavilion spoke.

"Wh... who is speaking?"

Just like Zhuge Feng before her, Xiao Lingxi was badly startled and looked around.

"I am the Guardian Spirit of the Immortal Arts Pavilion. Do not be afraid."

The Guardian Spirit's voice rang out. "According to sect rules, every disciple who newly joins our Heavenly Dao Sect may choose one Immortal Art."

"If you wish to choose for yourself, you may select any Immortal Arts scroll. If you wish for me to choose for you, please place your hand on the stone monument ahead."

"Guardian Spirit? The spirit of a legendary divine artifact?" Xiao Lingxi was dumbfounded once more.

On the continent, any divine artifact that possessed an artifact spirit was unquestionably an existence among the strongest!

And any expert who possessed an artifact spirit was likewise unquestionably among the continent's peak powerhouses!

At the very least, she had never heard of Lingxiao Sect possessing any artifact spirit!

"Master did not lie to me. Perhaps he truly does not fear Lingxiao Sect!"

Xiao Lingxi thought to herself. She then took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in her heart, and after calming herself, carefully walked toward the stone platform.

She placed her hand upon the stone pillar.

Buzz—

With a faint tremor, light lit up atop the stone platform. A scroll slowly emerged, and the Guardian Spirit's voice rang out again.

"Your personality is lively and your temperament unrestrained. This is the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra: Qi Refining Chapter. Combined with your physique, it can produce stronger cultivation results."

"Jade Maiden Heart Sutra? Is this what Senior Brother Zhuge cultivates too? No, no, just from the name, it is clearly suited for women to cultivate."

Xiao Lingxi muttered. After picking up the scroll, she asked again, "Senior Guardian Spirit, is this Jade Maiden Heart Sutra the Heavenly Dao Sect's strongest Immortal Art?"

"Can cultivating it allow one to complete a hundred Zhou Tian circulation cycles in one hour?"

Xiao Lingxi asked eagerly. She still could not forget it—one hundred times, a whole one hundred times.

"There is no strongest Immortal Art, only the most suitable Immortal Art. If one blindly pursues the strongest and cultivates an Immortal Art unsuited to oneself, how far can one possibly go?"

The Guardian Spirit's voice spread through the room.

"Mm, I will remember that. Thank you, Senior Guardian Spirit."

Xiao Lingxi earnestly bowed to the stone platform before leaving.

"How was it? Did you find a suitable Immortal Art?"

Seeing Xiao Lingxi emerge so cheerfully, Su Bai asked with a smile, though he already knew the answer.

"I found one already, Master. This disciple will go cultivate first!" Xiao Lingxi answered in a clear, pleasant voice, unable to conceal the joy in her heart.

Having said that, she impatiently bowed to Su Bai, found a quiet place, and began cultivating the Immortal Art she had just obtained.

"This girl really is rather impatient." Su Bai shook his head with a laugh.

Zhuge Feng also said, "Master, since Junior Sister has already begun cultivating, this disciple also wishes to seize the time to cultivate diligently. Please grant permission, Master."

Su Bai nodded. "Cultivate if you wish. The sect has no assignments yet, so there is no need to ask my permission."

"Yes, Master!"

After receiving permission, Zhuge Feng turned and left as well, finding an empty, deserted corner where he calmed his mind and began cultivating with focus.

As he watched his two disciples enter cultivation one after another, Su Bai shifted his gaze to the sect upgrade requirements.

Upgrading a One-Star Sect to a Two-Star Sect required three disciples with loyalty of at least 60, as well as one hundred sect points!

Loyalty of 60 was not particularly high. Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi had both already reached 80.

Oh, no, that was wrong. They were already at 85 now!

Only then did Su Bai realize that in such a short while, both Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi's sect loyalty had risen.

As for sect points, Zhuge Feng's breakthrough had previously rewarded 10 points. It seemed that whenever a disciple's cultivation broke through, sect points could be gained.

He just did not know whether every breakthrough rewarded 10 sect points, or whether the points awarded differed according to cultivation level.

That meant that if he wanted to upgrade to a Two-Star Sect, he still needed to recruit another disciple whose sect loyalty reached at least 60!

Seeing that Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi had both entered cultivation, Su Bai shook his head. He silently thought that once the two had cultivated for a while and stabilized their cultivation, he would go out and recruit disciples.

"...Eighteen, nineteen, twenty!"

Xiao Lingxi cultivated while muttering under her breath. When she silently counted to twenty, the spiritual energy she had absorbed had just traveled once around her body along her meridians.

One hour, one hundred Zhou Tian circulation cycles!

Another heaven-defying Immortal Art!

Moreover, she discovered that the spiritual energy absorbed into her body by this Immortal Art did not need to be tempered or purified at all!

In other words, one hundred Zhou Tian circulation cycles an hour truly was the strongest Immortal Art!

Because it needed no purification, it could save several times the time. No wonder Senior Brother Zhuge could reach Qi Refining overnight.

One could well imagine Xiao Lingxi's shock. Countless powerful sects could beg for even one such heaven-defying Immortal Art and fail to obtain it, yet Heavenly Dao Sect possessed two!

No, it definitely possessed more than two!

The Immortal Arts Pavilion had so many Immortal Arts. It surely concealed quite a few more heaven-defying Immortal Arts!

Thinking this, she opened her eyes and looked in a certain direction. There, she saw Su Bai standing beneath the sunlight, his hands clasped behind his back as he gazed toward the clouds.

Sunlight fell over Su Bai, making him seem as though he were draped in a layer of golden radiance, exceptionally dazzling.

At that moment, Xiao Lingxi's heart could not help but skip a beat.

Instead of keeping such precious Immortal Arts for himself, he shared them with others. So Master was actually so lofty and noble!

Three days later, in a room within Lingxiao Sect.

"Where is she? I asked where Xiao Lingxi is! A bunch of trash! A bunch of good-for-nothings!"

A young man with a sickly pale face was roaring in fury.

Several stewards knelt before him, trembling as they kept their heads lowered, not daring to look up.

"Young Master, Steward Li said that Xiao Lingxi ran away. He took several disciples out to search for her, but there has been no word for three days now..."

One steward braced himself and answered cautiously.

Upon hearing this, the pale-faced young man immediately flew into a towering rage!

"Trash, trash, all of you are trash! I told you to bring her back to me, yet you actually lost her for this Young Master!"

The several reprimanded stewards trembled even more violently.

They knew this wastrel young master's temper all too well. Even if he casually killed them, no one would seek justice for them.

"Find where she vanished! Go search for her! No matter the cost, even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, you must bring her back to me!!"

"If you cannot find her, then do not come back!"

The pale-faced young man shouted harshly.

At these words, the several stewards shuddered from head to toe.

"Do not come back" did not simply mean that they should not return to Lingxiao Sect if they failed to find her.

It meant they should not remain in this world!

One of the stewards was the first to break the deadlock, answering with a trembling voice, "Y-Yes... this subordinate obeys!"

The other stewards did not dare delay either. They rose one after another and hurried away.

After everyone had left, a sinister and vicious gleam appeared in the pale-faced young man's eyes.

"You damned slut, you actually dared to run away. Once I catch you, I will make you beg for life and plead for death, and let you have a good taste of this Young Master's methods!"

"Hmph, any woman this Young Master sets his eyes on—no matter if you flee to the ends of the earth—I will find you and make you obediently become this Young Master's plaything!"

"No one can escape the palm of this Young Master's hand!"

"No one!!"