“Actually, the Five Elements Dao Body is just a speculative rumor I once read about in ancient texts.”
“There’s never been any confirmed record of anyone successfully cultivating the Five Elements Dao Body throughout history.”
“Moreover, you still have Lower-Lower Grade Five Spiritual Roots………………”
“Your breakthrough today to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer was due to three reasons:
first, a sudden enlightenment that triggered a Heavenly Phenomenon; second, the abundant spiritual energy on the Cloudview Platform; and third, the Dengtianti’s automatic protection that indirectly helped you sort out the chaotic spiritual energy.”
However, sudden enlightenment is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; it can only happen once. I’ve never heard of anyone achieving sudden enlightenment as frequently as eating or drinking.
Given your aptitude, it would probably take a hundred years or more of cultivation to break through to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.
Sect Master Chang said this with a worried expression, stroking the little disciple’s head before him.
The world is ever-changing—who would have thought that after so many years, he’d still feel inclined to recruit disciples? He had hoped to find a prodigy, but instead, he got a little short-lived ghost.
But once he accepted you, he wasn’t the type to abandon you casually………………
Sigh, every time he thinks about how the little disciple in front of him has a lifespan shorter than the spirit mouse he kept in his youth, he almost wants to cry.
That little mouse who only gnawed on table corners accompanied him for three hundred years, yet this lively and adorable little disciple only has about a hundred years.
Looks like I can’t close myself off for cultivation these hundred years. If I do, and the little disciple kicks the bucket during my retreat, when I come out, I’d only be left holding a pile of yellow dirt, crying.
“The maximum lifespan of a Qi Refining Stage cultivator is no more than a hundred and fifty years.
Ah, dear disciple, life is but a few decades, passing in the blink of an eye. During these days, don’t take things to heart. If there’s anything you want to eat, just buy it and try to enjoy your meals as best as you can.”
Sect Master Chang’s eyes were full of sorrow and kindness: “Your master will protect you and watch over you until your very last moment.”
Yun Miao: “…Doctor, ah no, Master, I think I can still be saved.”
Sect Master Chang comforted her: “Though there are many cultivators in the world, very few throughout history have actually become true immortals and achieved eternal life.”
“Most of us will die, myself included. I once whimsically had a high-quality Purple Gold Copper coffin made for myself. So you don’t need to be afraid; just treat it calmly.”
He lowered his voice:
“By the way, that Purple Gold Copper was secretly borrowed from the Disciplinary Hall’s public treasury. I’ve only told you this, so don’t spread it around. Otherwise, both of us would be in trouble.”
Yun Miao twitched at the corner of her eye. During the day, this white-bearded old man looked dignified and kind like an immortal, but no one told her he was this eccentric in private.
It’s one thing to force her to accept a death notice; it’s another to embezzle public funds as an NPC?
Logically, she should have said something like “My fate is mine to control, not Heaven’s,” to let her master know not to underestimate her.
Or she could have sincerely thanked her master for his comfort and maybe raise his affection level.
But after a second’s thought, she decisively chose a third path: “Master, I want a Purple Gold Copper coffin too.”
Although she didn’t know what Purple Gold Copper was made of, it sounded like something good.
Sect Master Chang scratched his beard, conflicted: “Dear disciple, Senior Uncle Yan is watching closely lately. The Disciplinary Hall’s treasury is locked up tight, not easy to get into.”
Yun Miao: “Then, Master, why don’t you just give me your Purple Gold Copper coffin? After all, I only have a few decades left, just a blink of an eye. And you still have many years to live.”
Sect Master Chang: “This………..”
***
Yun Miao looked pitiful: “Master, I’m dying soon. You wouldn’t mind giving it up for me, would you?”
Sect Master Chang furrowed his long eyebrows into a knot and rubbed his beard faster.
Moments later, Sect Master Chang swiftly vanished on moonlight steps, while Yun Miao stood happily in the courtyard, waving goodbye.
“Thank you, Master! Come visit often when you have time!”
Awesome! Another Purple Gold Copper coffin added to my Storage Pouch collection +1!
Once she has time to decorate her home, she’ll dig a basement to stash the coffin and lie in it to jump out and scare people like a zombie! Hehehe!
Back inside, Yun Miao didn’t log off to sleep as planned. Instead, she picked up the Low-grade Qi Refining Manual that Junior Brother Qi had just given her.
Classics never go out of style, even though she already guessed she was playing a “waste to prodigy” script.
But having personally experienced the sighs, regrets, and lack of confidence from those around her, she couldn’t help but feel a bit downhearted.
As an immersive player, Yun Miao felt she had completely stepped into the storyline. She delayed sleep to train hard, hoping to shock all the NPCs soon!
She sat cross-legged on the carved wooden bed, spread out the Low-grade Qi Refining Manual before her, carefully noting the spiritual energy circulation routes on the little figures, then posed with Five Hearts Toward Heaven and closed her eyes.
She stayed like that for half an hour without opening her eyes or turning a page. Her expression shifted from confident determination to disbelief and existential doubt.
Finally, Yun Miao opened her eyes expressionlessly and stared at the slowly growing blue bar on the system panel.
Good news: Because she had already practiced Qi Introduction during her enlightenment, the skill “Qi Introduction” was already in her skill bar—no need to learn it separately.
Bad news: Her Lower-Lower Grade Five Spiritual Roots absorb spiritual energy as slowly as she wrote papers in college—um… like barely three words per hour.
No wonder Master was so pessimistic. Even she wanted to cry looking at her cultivation speed.
Yun Miao leaned back on the bed and decisively changed her goal from “train hard and shock everyone” to “find game items to improve aptitude and shock everyone.”
Just then, a flash of light unlike moonlight flickered inside the dark room.
Curious, Yun Miao looked down and found her Disciplinary Order glowing at her waist. She reached out to grab it, but as soon as her hand touched the token, a strange voice entered her ear.
【Junior Sister Yun, are you there?】
Yun Miao: ???
【I’m Shang Mancang, a disciple who entered the sect with you. We just toured the Main Peak together with Senior Sister Ning.
You should remember Senior Sister Ning saying the Disciplinary Order has communication functions, right?】
Shang Mancang’s voice was warm, even flattering: 【I asked a senior sister on Array Peak, and she said you’re a new disciple without restrictions on your Disciplinary Order yet, so I only need your name to contact you through it.】
【Sorry to disturb you at night. I heard you bled quite a bit on the Cloudview Platform today. How are you feeling? Any discomfort?】
Yun Miao: ???
【Junior Sister Yun? Sister Yun?】
Shang Mancang: 【Ah, I almost forgot, do you know how to use the Disciplinary Order? Just press the token to your forehead, focus your mind, and you’ll naturally understand how to operate it.】
Skeptical, Yun Miao tried it. Instantly, the token’s glow intensified, and a wave of information seemed to appear in her mind.
Because the essence of the game was to create illusions by interfering with brainwaves, she accepted this phenomenon easily.
She just found the message rather formal and a bit confusing, taking her a while to mentally process it in a way she could understand.
In the cultivation world, there is a special kind of jade slip that can connect cultivators’ Spiritual Sense within a certain range, allowing them to communicate remotely. This area is called the “void zone.”
Simply put: jade slips are like phones, Spiritual Sense is WiFi, and the void zone is a local network. The Xuantian Sect’s Disciplinary Order merges this jade slip technology, creating a sect-wide intranet.