Reflecting on the Pain

So, after much painful reflection, they decided to temporarily put aside their experiments and focus on their cultivation.

This way, there's time to wait for the next encounter with the Quenching Ice Essence, without being troubled by insufficient cultivation.

In any case, they have now developed many types of pills, enough to sustain the sect's external trade.

The refining methods have also been simplified in various ways, and now they are all placed in the Alchemy Chamber, where anyone in the sect can go and learn them if they want.

The people in the Alchemy Chamber were already thoroughly familiar with the techniques for refining those pills, and they were more than capable of teaching others.

Thus, Liao Pantu and his disciple Sun Yigao learned their lesson and decisively went into seclusion to cultivate their skills.

However, as the saying goes, what the superiors do, the inferiors will follow.

The two leaders of the Alchemy Chamber had gone into seclusion because their cultivation was insufficient to support the subsequent research and refining of pills. How could the others in the Alchemy Chamber sit still?

The people in the Alchemy Chamber, who used to live busy, fulfilling, and comfortable lives, couldn't help but put cultivation on their agenda.

After all, the elders of the Lingxian Sect had been living peacefully for the past three years, and they were all immersed in their respective careers and hobbies. Those who liked farming worked hard in the fields, and those who were obsessed with alchemy spent all their time in the Alchemy Chamber.

Regarding cultivation, aside from everyone voluntarily checking in at the cultivation room every morning, there are basically no other plans.

In recent years, some people have even ended their cultivation early and left the cultivation room because they were thinking about their own newly planted seeds, or the new Pill Formula and array patterns they had learned, in order to complete things that were more important than cultivation.

After all, if you do something for a long time without a strong purpose, you gradually start to put it aside when faced with something more readily available.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Cultivation may sound simple, but it is ultimately a process that can be described as having almost no end.

The most difficult part is persisting day after day.

Later, most of the disciples of Azure Cloud Peak were not very knowledgeable about cultivation, but they were guided by many senior disciples from other sects to learn and try out various new cultivation techniques.

After several months of integrating into the sect, although the daily learning in the Cultivation Hall and the initial enthusiasm of entering the sect kept them from slacking off in their cultivation, it would be inaccurate to say that everyone was full of enthusiasm.

Although they were divided into study groups on Azure Cloud Peak, everyone encouraged and supported each other.

But only a minority truly excel.

Only the top disciples truly possess astonishing cultivation speed; the majority are slightly inferior.

One slow step leads to another slow step, and with each slow step comes complacency.

That's mostly how it is in this world.

Fortunately, with Liao Pantu and Sun Yigao taking the lead, and because it concerns the smooth continuation of their alchemy practice, the disciples in the Alchemy Chamber have rekindled their determination to work harder in their cultivation.

However, most of them were not very skilled in cultivation, so they would just go back to their rooms late at night to cultivate diligently, which did not affect the output of the Alchemy Chamber too much.

Therefore, Liao Pantu and Sun Yigao were able to concentrate on their seclusion with peace of mind, and since Lin Xiao had just emerged from seclusion, it was unlikely that he would go into seclusion again anytime soon.

With the sect leader in charge, they naturally had no worries.

Lin Xiao originally intended for them to go into seclusion at the Nature Platform.

However, neither of them has yet reached the point of breaking through their bottleneck, so they do not plan to enter the Nature Platform, but instead choose their own preferred places to cultivate.

Liao Pantu naturally chose Everbright Mountain.

He had already made arrangements for the flowers and herbs in the Yaoguang Lesser World.

For each precious medicinal herb, its growth characteristics, possible complications, and solutions were detailed.

Previously, he even planned to personally fund the recruitment of people within the sect to provide one-on-one care and training.

However, Lin Xiao stopped him.

He hired twenty disciples as payment for their contributions to the sect, each responsible for different medicinal herbs. They didn't need to keep an eye on them all the time; they only needed to come and take care of them occasionally.

They just need to master the characteristics and properties of the medicinal herbs they are responsible for in a short period of time.

Under Liao Pantu's intensive teaching, this matter was not a problem.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao hired six disciples to guard the herb garden. They worked in pairs, with three groups taking turns on duty each day.

At the same time, these staff members on duty also need to learn some basic knowledge about valuable medicinal materials to ensure their daily care of these materials. In addition, when problems arise with the materials, even if they cannot immediately identify the problem and resolve it in time, they can still notify the person in charge of the material to handle it.

Thus, Liao Pantu was finally able to go to Everbright Mountain for secluded cultivation with peace of mind.

However, the place Sun Yigao chose for his cultivation was not a quiet room where he could be alone.

After deciding to focus on cultivation, he didn't prepare anything. Instead, he went directly to the entrance of Yaoguang Floating Island and sat down in front of the Heart-Rectifying Mirror.

He then took out stacks of books from his Lock Ring and placed them aside, even setting up a small array to protect them from wind, sun, and rain.

Out of curiosity, Jiang Youfu and the others, who had been secretly observing from the sidelines, watched as Sun Yigao arranged everything. Then they saw him sit down next to the pile of books, pick up a book, and begin to read it with complete focus.

Other people occasionally pass by or enter and leave the floating island, or there are any noises around, but none of this disturbs him in the slightest.

From the moment he began reading, it seemed as if his eyes were only on the words in the book, unmoved by anything external.

This made Jiang Youfu and Liu Yunan sigh: He really is still the scholar from their village who never puts down his book.

Although the young people of Xiushui Village had little contact with Sun Yigao when they were young, and might not even meet him all year round, they still admired this person who was about their age.

When I was a child, I didn't understand. I just thought that if I were to stay at home every day, holding that book full of dense words and reading it over and over again, I definitely wouldn't be able to stand it.

As Dayi, seeing that he remained the same, and remembering that I myself couldn't even play simple games for long, the admiration in my heart, though unconscious, had already seeped deep into my soul.

And so, from that day on, the overall atmosphere within the Lingxian Sect immediately calmed down.

People who had unknowingly relegated cultivation to the back burner have quietly brought it back to their hearts, placing it once again in a prominent position.

Lin Xiao saw this change very clearly and couldn't help but admire it.

Some people have this ability to inspire others to emulate them and strive to be like them.

Without the need for verbal persuasion or stern supervision, he is a silent yet powerful vortex, drawing people to follow in his footsteps.