Chapter 6: Night Raid

Fengge Peak, Senior Sister Xue Bingxuan's dojo.

It was already deep into the night, in the luxurious and exquisite courtyard.

The room was tightly sealed with formations, and Xue Bingxuan's residence was right next door. In case of any unexpected events, she could rush over to provide support immediately, ensuring nothing would go wrong.

Originally, this was the residence of an inner disciple who was close to Xue Bingxuan. Now, it had been relocated to accommodate Qin Muling.

The courtyard was quite quiet, with only four puppet dolls and no other maids or servants. In order to maintain secrecy, Xue Bingxuan personally handled anything related to Qin Muling and didn't allow others to intervene.

In the spacious bedroom, a fragrant scent filled the air. The embroidered curtains hung low, and on the large embroidered bed, Qin Muling appeared to be sleeping with closed eyes, but in reality, he was communicating silently with the mysterious seed in his sea of consciousness.

"...The legendary Innate Hongmeng Spirit Root? I'm just not sure which kind it belongs to, and it seems to be just a seed for now. I don't know when it will start to sprout and grow..." Qin Muling pondered, recalling some memories from his previous life, such as the Ginseng Fruit Tree, Fusang Divine Tree, Bodhi Tree, and Chaos Azure Lotus. They were all Innate divine objects born from Hongmeng, each with a prestigious reputation and supreme usefulness. Especially the Chaos Azure Lotus, it was recognized as the first Heavenly Spirit Root.

In the depths of his sea of consciousness, a faint purple cloud of mist surrounded the mysterious seed, which floated quietly. Countless profound Dao patterns covered its surface, and strands of deep and mysterious chaotic colors flickered and circulated, exuding an ancient and desolate aura of majesty.

Qin Muling made great efforts, and finally, the seed trembled slightly for a moment. Tiny specks of crystal light scattered lightly, dancing and swirling around the seed for a while before silently merging with his sea of consciousness.

A warm and comfortable feeling spread throughout his body, as if soaking in a warm and hot spiritual spring. Even the intensity of his divine soul seemed to have improved slightly.

Qin Muling felt a slight joy in his heart. In the cultivation world, treasures that could enhance a cultivator's divine soul origin were extremely rare. The strength of one's divine soul origin largely determined the growth limit of a cultivator. Therefore, resources of this type were always extremely valuable, even hard to come by.

Since this seed had such wonderful uses, even if the improvement each time was small, as long as he persisted and accumulated, his divine soul origin would definitely become powerful enough to surpass the world.

In the neighboring room, Senior Sister Xue Bingxuan's boudoir.

Xue Bingxuan stood in front of the dressing mirror, changing her clothes. Her jade hand reached her waist and skillfully loosened the hidden buckle of her belt. Her gorgeous outer skirt lightly fell off, revealing a modestly elegant middle garment embroidered with peach blossoms. With the smooth and silky fabric, it slid down her round and white fragrant shoulder, revealing a bright red silk embroidered bellyband that wrapped around her full and firm peaks, deep and bottomless cleavage. Her snow-white and tender skin was dazzlingly white, and the thin ribbon was slightly tight around her slender neck, tied into an exquisite knot.

Wearing a transparent gauze dress, Xue Bingxuan walked into the adjacent bathroom. Inside was a bath made of precious jade stones, with a diameter of about three zhang. The sound of water trickled, mist filled the air, and warm spiritual spring water flowed out from the mouth of an ancient bronze beast, giving off an ancient and fragrant aroma. Countless fist-sized pearls were embedded in the dome, illuminating the entire room, shining as bright as daylight.

After a short while, Xue Bingxuan, who had finished tidying up, returned to her boudoir, changed into a new dress, and then added a thick snow-white collar cloak outside to barely cover her extremely seductive figure. She turned and pushed open the door.

On the bed, Qin Muling, who seemed to be half-asleep, was completely awakened by the gentle fragrance that wafted over his face.

Qin Muling opened his eyes and saw the radiant Xue Bingxuan standing by the bed, slightly bending down to examine him with her deep and tranquil beautiful eyes.

"Sister..."

Feeling a little embarrassed, Qin Muling shrank his body and called out softly, wondering if this senior sister would directly lift his blanket.

"Get up, it's time for class!"

Xue Bingxuan's clear and pleasant voice came out from her cherry lips.

Rest during the day and teach until dawn at night, this was the rule she personally set for Qin Muling.

"Okay... Okay."

Qin Muling readily agreed, but had no intention of getting up. She looked at Xue Bingxuan eagerly, indicating that she should wait outside. The teaching place was in the adjacent cultivation room.

"Why are you still lying there? Do you want to be lazy?" Xue Bingxuan frowned slightly when she saw that he didn't move, showing a hint of displeasure.

Helplessly, Qin Muling said, "There's a difference between men and women. I kindly ask Senior Sister to wait outside. Can I dress myself?"

"...Wait, what are you up to?" Xue Bingxuan narrowed her beautiful eyes, scrutinizing him for a moment. The next second, the most feared thing finally happened.

Without any action from Senior Sister, a strong wind suddenly rose, and the brocade quilt on Qin Muling's body disappeared without a trace.

Immediately, chaos ensued, and screams echoed in the bedroom. "Senior Sister, don't blame me!"

"Bang!" Xue Bingxuan, with a flushed face, slammed the door and stormed out.

In the room, Qin Muling, feeling wronged, frantically searched for his clothes. He thought, "I was just trying to relive the habit of sleeping naked from my past life. It didn't bother you at all. It was your own choice to sneak in at night. What does it have to do with me?"

Of course, even if he felt aggrieved, Qin Muling dared not confront Senior Sister now. If he provoked her even more, he didn't know what kind of punishment he would face.

Now that his cultivation was weak, he was like fresh meat in the eyes of the other party. She could do whatever she wanted to him.

After a while, Qin Muling, dressed neatly, arrived at the cultivation room. Xue Bingxuan had already regained her dignified and solemn demeanor. She exuded a noble and elegant aura as she sat quietly on a jade cushion.

In front of her was a green jade table, on which were several volumes of jade slips, two bottles of spiritual pills, and a golden gourd.

Qin Muling respectfully saluted and only sat down in front of her after receiving permission.

"Alright, let's start the class!" Xue Bingxuan said lightly, "This time, I'll first talk to you about the classification of cultivation realms..."

In this era, different from the glorious ancient era of immortal civilization, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth had become scarce. The Body Refining cultivation system that had evolved and improved over a long period of time in this time and space gradually gained recognition and acceptance throughout the cultivation world.

The Qi Refining Realm was divided into nine small realms, which belonged to the foundation stage of cultivation. Practitioners refined their bodies, tempered their meridians, balanced their qi and blood, and drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth step by step through various introductory techniques, supplemented by various secret medicinal recipes, different types of elixirs, and various Body Refining secret techniques. This process strengthened their physical bodies and power.

When the strengthening of the physical body reached a critical point, the highly condensed qi and blood underwent a qualitative change, stimulating the potential deep within the body, breaking through the cocoon and transforming into a butterfly, and giving birth to various unimaginable abilities. This allowed them to possess tremendous power that ordinary mortals couldn't imagine.

This was the Profound Comprehension Realm, where cultivators initially broke free from the constraints of mortal bodies and gained insight into the mysteries of the power of heaven and earth, stepping onto the true path of cultivation.

Most of the menial disciples of Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace were in the Qi Refining Realm. Outer disciples had to reach the peak of the Qi Refining Realm and accumulate enough merits to be promoted. Inner disciples had to start with the Profound Comprehension Realm and contribute more merits to meet the requirements.

As for the core disciples, they had to reach the Core Condensation Realm and meet a series of strict assessment conditions to meet the standards. Qin Muling's current cultivation was obviously not up to par, and he had no contribution to the sect. It was only because the Supreme Sect Master personally allowed it that he was able to skip this stage.

Currently, there were only a little over three thousand openly recognized new generation core disciples in the various branch sects of Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace. Of course, the actual number was unknown. They were the backbone of the entire sect.

(End of this chapter)

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