A year was neither long-just spring, summer, autumn, and winter-nor short, with more than three hundred days and nights.
Under Zhang Lexuan's meticulous care, Chen Tianyuan's physical injuries had almost completely healed. His meridians had fully recovered three months earlier, and he had resumed cultivating.
His soul power level had also risen to 65.
Zhang Lexuan, meanwhile, had progressed by leaps and bounds, reaching a soul power level of 93.
At her rate of one level a year, Yue Shen's second trial posed no difficulty at all.
Inside the Body Sect's main hall.
Chen Tianyuan lifted the humming kettle off the stove, then poured a full cup for Du Busi, who sat opposite him.
"Master, I think the Body Sect must change if it wants to grow."
Du Busi looked at him with interest. "Change? How?"
Chen Tianyuan spoke unhurriedly. "Soul masters with body martial souls are already rare. If we only accept disciples with body martial souls, the Body Sect will never grow."
Du Busi frowned slightly. "You mean recruiting soul masters with other martial souls?"
"Would the Body Sect still be the Body Sect then?"
Chen Tianyuan chuckled. "It's precisely that way of thinking that has held the Body Sect back."
"Other soul masters can't use the Body Sect's secret method for a body martial soul's second awakening, but what about the Body Sect's combat arts? When our predecessors developed those combat arts, they never said only disciples with body martial souls could learn them, did they?"
"So my idea is to divide the Body Sect into an inner sect and an outer sect. There wouldn't be much difference between them, except that inner sect disciples must possess body martial souls. They could learn the Body Sect's combat arts and the secret method for second awakening."
"Outer