The First Lesson of Practical Training

For the Yuan Household, Lingxian Sect is an excellent partner. The quality of their products is guaranteed. As they have gradually increased the amount of goods they produce in recent years, their Lineage's total annual income has grown rapidly, and their influence in Yuanling City has further expanded.

Therefore, upon learning that disciples from the Lingxian Sect would be coming to train, they quickly arranged accommodations for them in Yuanling City.

The group strolled along the street, making a lively entrance, until they arrived at the place arranged for them by the Yuan Household.

This is a very ordinary-looking house from the outside. Above the gate hangs a plaque with the words "Ling Mansion". It is located deep in this alley, which has only five households. It is neither too far nor too close to the bustling market, making it a suitable place for them to stay.

Lin Xiao paused for a moment before the gate, seemingly looking around with satisfaction, before pushing it open and saying to the eight people behind him, "Go in."

Upon entering, there is a screen wall. On either side of the entrance are stables and a gatehouse. Further inside are two empty rooms. Beyond the screen wall is an open space, directly opposite which is the main hall used for receiving guests.

Passing through the main hall, there is a large courtyard with ten rooms. The open space in the middle of the courtyard is not planted with many plants and is very large, seemingly reserved for people to practice martial arts.

Beyond this main courtyard lies another courtyard, but behind it is only a single large room that has been converted into a single space. Inside, there are many tables and chairs, clearly intended for use by the Lingxian Sect members for cultivation and lectures. It is also equipped with some basic tools related to the four arts of cultivation, such as Pill Furnace and array engraving plates. The quality is certainly not comparable to that of the Lingxian Sect's own equipment, but these are common items that ordinary cultivators in Yuanling City can use. They are not very expensive, but purchasing a complete set would still cost a considerable amount of Spirit Stone for an ordinary cultivator.

With a quick scan of their Divine Sense, everyone gained a fairly comprehensive understanding of the entire residence.

Lin Xiao waved his hand dismissively. "I won't assign rooms one by one, everyone can choose their own!"

The rooms all looked pretty much the same, so there wasn't much to choose from. Everyone got along well, and although the courtyard was large, it was all within easy reach. So, they simply walked towards a room that didn't overlap with any of the others.

Only Lin Xiao stood still.

He looked up at the sky and silently counted to three.

"Hiss--" Suddenly, Bai Zhu's gasp came from one of the rooms.

Immediately afterwards, various noises also came from the other rooms, as if everyone had encountered some kind of problem.

At this moment, Lin Xiao, standing in the center of the courtyard gazing at the sky, spoke slowly and deliberately, "The first lesson of the Lingxian Sect's first summer camp: On the importance of remaining vigilant while traveling and how to escape the beginner-level test."

Looking around, everyone inside the eight rooms with their doors wide open was trapped in place. For the first moment after being trapped, everyone thought it was a trap set by someone from Yuanling City, and some even suspected that the Yuan Household had ulterior motives.

As a result, their sect leader didn't give them much time to think about it and directly told them that this was a trial.

Moreover, judging from the sturdiness and complexity of this comprehensive trapping technique, they reasonably suspected that it was made by their sect leader himself.

Otherwise, how could Elder Mo Yuanjiao and Senior Yuan Jinsheng, both at the Golden Core Stage, have been unable to break free for so long?

But since the sect leader has been with them since he first arrived in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, when exactly did he set up these trapping spells?

Everyone had their own thoughts, but their hands and eyes were constantly busy, carefully searching for and trying to find a way to escape.

As the first lesson in training, Lin Xiao naturally wouldn't set up content that was too difficult. Therefore, these traps all used relatively basic content from the four arts of immortal cultivation, including but not limited to the parts taught in the sect's courses. In other words, they would involve some "extracurricular knowledge" that everyone might not have learned, but the level of difficulty was relatively low. As long as one had a little understanding of the four arts of immortal cultivation, could draw inferences from one instance to another, and apply them flexibly, they would not be difficult to solve.

However, he piled up a bit too many in terms of quantity and variety.

Although the content consisted of relatively basic information, the sheer volume of it left the eight trapped individuals completely bewildered.

There's no way around it; the basics are basic, but they're all so interconnected that it seems impossible to find a starting point or even begin, just like a ball of thread that you can't thread a needle without finding the end.

Not to mention, they are not just interconnected.

They also combine, overlap, intersect, meander, hide, and Eye-Obscuring Law tricks...

The eight people from the Lingxian Sect felt as if they were wrapped in a huge ball of yarn from head to toe, with tangled threads between their fingers and in their hair. They needed to untangle this messy ball of yarn, which had been wrapped and knotted countless times, one by one in order.

Of course, in theory, it's also possible to unravel the spells in any order. In the world of cultivators, brute force always prevails. As long as one's own strength is strong enough, any spell can be broken.

The prerequisite is that one's own strength is strong enough.

If they could break free from the sect leader's trapping technique, they would have done so long ago. Then they would have gone out and given the sect leader, who was now sitting cross-legged in the middle of the courtyard, happily enjoying the food Elder Jiang had prepared with his eyes half-closed, a good beating.

Instead of standing helplessly inside the room trying to find a solution.

That damned sect leader even placed a sealing spell, so they can't even open their Storage Bag and Lock Ring, and can't even eat something while standing inside the trap!

Of the eight, Mo Yuanjiao was probably the most relaxed, after all, he was also very skilled in formations and could easily break these numerous basic formations. It was just that his cultivation was not as good as Lin Xiao's, otherwise he would only need to solve a few key links and he could easily set up counter-formations to break the rest.

Therefore, a short while later, another distinguished guest was enjoying a delicious meal in the middle of the courtyard.

While watching the seven disciples eat, Mo Yuanjiao ate with gusto, occasionally remarking to Lin Xiao, "How important it is to master formations!"

Lin Xiao nodded in agreement.

The seven disciples suddenly realized that it wasn't a good thing that the sect leader and elders were too young. Although they could usually get along well and were really down-to-earth, they were also really down-to-earth in situations like this!

When there's something fun, they genuinely watch; when there's excitement, they genuinely join in, showing no regard for the dignity of a sect leader or elder.

The disciples felt frustrated and secretly vowed that they would be careful and cautious wherever they went in the future, and never let themselves fall into such a frustrating situation again!

The seven people tried to ignore the two people in the courtyard and focused intently on disassembling the device.