The Top Efficiency Cultivator

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Familiarity breeds innovation.

Lin Shuang was reminded by Xiao Qi and retrieved her diary on spiritual perception cultivation.

Due to the saturation of her spiritual perception intensity, its growth rate gradually slowed down.

She hadn’t recorded anything for a long time.

Now, looking at it again, she felt that the 108 strands of spiritual perception that had formed about eight years ago and had been used daily for nearly three thousand days, had become more flexible and refined.

[Sure enough, a scientifically planned schedule for learning, entertainment, and rest has made my spiritual perception more effective.]

[PS: The variety of entertainment and rest activities should be diversified, not limited to just a few. For example, watching movies, the battles of Zhou Xuanwu, and others—a first-time experience—has a wonderful effect on resting spiritual perception.]

[But for others, like Xiao Qi watching Zhou Xuanwu’s battles, there seems to be no rest or growth in spiritual perception. Is it because of their mindset? Or a lack of long-term training?]

—Summary of Spiritual Perception Cultivation Experience (Draft 138)

Lin Shuang finished recording and nodded satisfactorily as she dried the ink marks.

She stretched lazily on the wide sword.

“Lin Junior Sister, I’m returning to Shanhai Sect. Contact me again for our next outing or fat-burning exercise.”

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Upon reaching the entrance of the Qingshui Sect, Xiao Qi continued westward, parting ways with them.

Zhou Xuanwu hesitated to speak but ended up just pursing his lips in silence. He followed Lin Shuang into the sect’s gate.

As soon as the scattered outer sect disciples saw them, they eagerly rushed toward the management hall.

“Senior Brother Xu Rui, they’re back!”

“No worries, no worries. They didn’t encounter that Foundation Establishment evil cultivator!”

Senior Brother Xu Rui came out with his Bagua Sword on his back. He quickly flew over, seeing the two of them, his expression relaxed for a moment, “Thank goodness, thank goodness. This dangerous Desolate Mountain nearly had an incident. You two didn’t encounter that Foundation Establishment cultivator, you’re really lucky.”

Zhou Xuanwu: “…”

Senior Brother, not only did we encounter him, but we also defeated him.

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“Zhou Junior Brother, why do you look so pale?”

Senior Brother Xu Rui quickly noticed something was off.

“Did your mission go smoothly?”

Zhou Xuanwu opened his mouth and then closed it again.

Xu Rui had been in charge of the outer sect management for ten years and was well acquainted with the personalities of each disciple. He shook his head, not expecting the reticent one to speak up. Instead, he quickly observed Lin Shuang.

He saw that her eyes were bright, her cheeks were slightly flushed like peaches, and her outer sect robe was neat and fluttering without a single tear.

It seems she didn’t suffer any losses.

“As long as there were no major mishaps,” Xu Rui breathed a sigh of relief, “let’s go to the management hall to submit the mission.”

Outside the management hall stood a towering pine tree that was over three hundred years old. On the west side of the pine tree was a stone tablet for ranking the disciples.

Zhou Xuanwu and Lin Shuang handed over the mission evaluation of the merchant Sun Lao’s task to Xu Rui.

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Xu Rui opened it and was taken aback.

[Zhou Xianren (Immortal Zhou): Grade A. Courageous and fearless, willing to sacrifice.]

[Lin Xianshi (Fairy Lin): Grade A. The fairy’s divine skills are mighty, guarding us fiercely, and she’s approachable, sharing interesting stories on the road.]

This Sun Lao guy was quite a flatterer.

Their cultivations were vastly different, yet the evaluation he gave both of them was first-rate.

Xu Rui let out a sigh, “Ordinary people generally respect cultivators, which is why you two could easily achieve such excellent results. In the future, as your cultivation levels rise, you’re bound to receive requests for tasks from fellow cultivators and even seniors. At that time, remember to be diligent and cautious.”

After he finished speaking, the mission book was quickly updated to Grade A tasks, and the stone tablet at the entrance of the management hall emitted a spiritual light.

[Zhou Xuanwu completes a Grade A task, rated Grade A.]

[Lin Shuang completes a Grade A task, rated Grade A.]

[Mission difficulty changed: Originally 200 contributions, now doubled for a reward of 2000 sect contributions.]

[Rated Grade A, an additional reward of 500 sect contributions.]

[Zhou Xuanwu’s ranking among outer sect disciples updated: 2 → 1.]

[Lin Shuang’s ranking among outer sect disciples updated: 17291 → 14993.]

Xu Rui nodded, particularly encouraging Zhou Xuanwu, “Well done, keep improving your cultivation.”

But Zhou Xuanwu didn’t hear anything; he was fixated on the stone tablet.

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Lin Shuang, 14993rd.

Unconsciously, a scene of a pair of pink fists planting the Condensing Yuan Hammer into the ground flashed before his eyes…

In a daze, he saw Lin Shuang looking at the ranking on the stone tablet, a satisfied smile on her face.

She was still unremarkably near the bottom.

“You two should rest and recuperate for a while.”

Xu Rui Senior Brother was about to leave the management hall when he stopped, “Oh, by the way, Zhou Junior Brother, I’ve already submitted your name for the elite disciple quota to the elders at the end of the year.”

Zhou Xuanwu looked at Lin Shuang who was leisurely standing with her hands in her pockets, and then turned around contentedly.

“Next spring equinox, it’s up to you for the competition among the strongest outer sect disciples of the twelve major sects within the Eastern Realm will depend on you.”

Senior Brother Xu Rui reminded him, patting his shoulder.

Quickly, he raised his brows with compulsive behavior, patting his other shoulder as well to maintain harmony between Yin and Yang.

Zhou Xuanwu suddenly snapped to attention, “Senior Brother, did you also submit Lin Junior Sister’s name?”

“Huh?”

” Junior Sister Lin, which one are you talking about?”

Lin Shuang, who was already gliding on her wide sword like a snowboard, paused mid-air.

Author’s Note:

Lin Shuang: Finally, couldn’t keep it hidden anymore?

“Record of the 134th Generation Zhao Sect Master of the Clearwater Sect, Chapter 12”:

“On that day, Senior Sister was visibly uneasy. Senior Brother Xu Rui knew that Senior Sister was efficient in doing miscellaneous tasks, often arriving late and leaving early. But in the past ten years, all he had seen was the fastest Senior Sister in handling miscellaneous tasks.”

“Note, the miscellaneous tasks are only a small part of the first volume of ‘Fastest Learning,’ occupying just a fraction of the content.”

Senior Brother Xu Rui:??? Speak human language.

Zhou Xuanwu: Elite disciple, I’m not worthy.