Xu Xiaoyan walked out of her room, yawning and rubbing her eyes.
"Master?"
She called out, but no one answered.
"Brother Lu Guan?"
Still no answer.
Xu Xiaoyan ran to the main hall. Normally, Lu Guan would already be cultivating at this hour, but today, there was not even a trace of him.
And her master was gone too, off doing who knew what. The entire Body Sect compound was unusually quiet.
Where had everyone gone?
Xu Xiaoyan made a circuit of the courtyard and finally found a note on Lu Guan's door.
She reached out and pulled it down. Lu Guan's handwriting sprawled across it like soaring dragons and dancing phoenixes: "Master and I are in secluded cultivation."
The moment she saw those words, Xu Xiaoyan felt a mountain of pressure descend on her.
"Competing! So everyone's competing to work harder, huh!" Xu Xiaoyan gritted her teeth. "Then I'm going into seclusion too!"
Bang!
Her door slammed shut.
Xu Xiaoyan had entered secluded cultivation!
From that day onward, all four current members of the Body Sect entered an era of intensive cultivation!
For some people, however, this was simply everyday life.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Only the monotonous sound of something cutting through the air echoed across the Shrek Inner Court's training grounds.
Dressed in gray-white training clothes, Ye Xinglan gripped the Stargod Sword tightly in both hands, repeating the same movement over and over.
A straight thrust.
Withdraw the sword.
Another straight thrust.
Her training clothes had long since been soaked through with sweat and clung to her back. Her chest heaved violently, and the muscles in her wrists kept spasming from the intense, tedious repetition, yet her sword grip never slipped out of form in the slightest.
Two people, one plump and one thin, sat on the moss-covered