The female disciple looked a bit worried. Judging by Zhao Shuanghua’s appearance, she really didn’t seem like the type to be a good teacher.
“Really, can she teach techniques well?” a female disciple nearby asked quietly.
“It should be fine. Don’t let her appearance fool you—she’s a powerful Golden Core True Person herself. Her Dao techniques are certainly up to par,” Mu Yanxi said.
The pressure Zhao Shuanghua gave her was stronger than even Nascent Soul Peak cultivators, and stronger than Teacher Wei Dai just now, quite a bit stronger, in fact. And Wei Dai was a physical cultivator.
“It’s said that Teacher Zhao Shuanghua graduated from the Lingyue Dazong, and passed through both Lingyue Chuzong and the Spiritual Moon Sect.”
“In her prime, she was peerlessly elegant—even among the beauties of the Lingyue Dazong, she was the most beautiful school flower in temperament.”
“But later, for some reason, she became dispirited, her cultivation stagnated, and she came to the Spiritual Moon Sect to teach.” Shangguan Yun revealed a piece of sect insider history.
Mu Yanxi watched her drinking, the intoxicated beauty that she was, and could imagine what a stunningly gorgeous woman she must have been in her youth.
Her innate talent was probably also very high; otherwise, she wouldn’t have given Mu Yanxi such a terrifying sense of pressure.
The elite class disciples landed one by one on the plaza and prostrated themselves before Zhao Shuanghua, but she continued drinking as if nothing was happening, allowing the female disciples to kneel without any intention of telling them to rise.
Mu Yanxi knelt quietly and didn’t move. She was already very familiar with this kind of thing. Senior cultivators sometimes wanted to test the younger disciples’ Heart of Dao and perseverance.
For example, walking up the stairs from the foot of the mountain on foot, waiting alone outside for nine shichen—small trials like that.
It had only been a short while, so she wasn’t in a hurry at all. And Mu Yanxi didn’t see anything wrong with juniors kneeling to their seniors; rather, she considered it only natural.
But some of the other female disciples couldn’t hold back.
They couldn’t help looking up at Zhao Shuanghua, and some even wanted to speak. But due to her status as a Golden Core True Person, they dared not open their mouths carelessly.
Only after Zhao Shuanghua finished a gourd of wine did she tilt her head and look crookedly at the disciples kneeling in a row. She sneered, “That fellow Wei Dai gave you all medicine?”
“Yes, Teacher Wei Dai’s injections were very effective,” a female disciple said, plucking up her courage. She said it while kneeling, of course.
“Heh, he gave you injections and had a great time teaching his own class. Then he dumps a bunch of wilted little girls on me and expects me to teach Dao techniques?”
As Zhao Shuanghua spoke, she suddenly spat out a mouthful of wine mist. The range of this wine mist was enormous; in an instant it covered half the plaza, enveloping all the female disciples.
Many of the female disciples had never expected Zhao Shuanghua to suddenly spit wine mist, and they were all drenched by it.
Of course, they didn’t dare to activate their shields to block. The few automatic defense artifacts didn’t detect it as a threat either, so they didn’t activate.
But they quickly discovered that the wine mist was equivalent to a divine medicine for restoring mana. All their previously expended mana, blood energy, and spirit were replenished. Its effect was far better than that of the sunflower vein-protecting pill.
The sunflower vein-protecting pill’s main function was protection—nurturing the body’s meridians so they wouldn’t be destroyed by the medicine’s potency.
This mouthful of wine, on the other hand, was primarily for replenishment—filling the true essence, blood energy, and so on that they had lost during physical cultivation.
“Thank you, Teacher, for bestowing the wine!”
Though they were splashed all over with wine, every female disciple knelt in gratitude, thanking Zhao Shuanghua for spitting this wine on them and so quickly restoring their deficits.
Mu Yanxi hadn’t dodged from the very beginning, because her immortal brain had already analyzed it:
[Returning Yang immortal wine. A divine immortal vine treasure gourd brewed from various precious spiritual fruits into an immortal wine.
It has the effect of rapidly restoring true essence. An auxiliary-class divine ability, non-aggressive. A derived function of a treasure. Cannot be learned.]
This was the first time Mu Yanxi had seen a treasure’s divine ability since arriving in this world, and it was indeed mysterious and extraordinary.
In her previous life, her treasure had been an immortal sword—a single-function offensive treasure. This immortal vine treasure gourd was clearly a treasure with more functions and greater power.
Divine abilities derived from treasures could not be learned through simulated learning by the immortal brain.
Only actual cultivation methods could be learned. At the same time, Mu Yanxi also understood one of the major limitations of simulated learning.
“Don’t use too many drugs in the future. At least don’t exceed the limit your body can endure, or you’ll overtax your body,” Zhao Shuanghua said. “Everyone, rise.”
From the sound of it, the teachers of the Spiritual Moon Sect seemed to be divided into two factions.
One faction believed in using drugs for cultivation, while the other opposed it. Teacher Wei Dai belonged to the former, Zhao Shuanghua to the latter.
After the disciples all stood up, Zhao Shuanghua continued:
“Now I will teach you the lingyue art. The lingyue art is the basic dual cultivation technique of the Spiritual Moon Palace.”
“It can bring great benefits to both you and male cultivators, and it also comes with many divine abilities. Once you learn it, you will benefit endlessly in the future.”
“In addition, the lingyue art also has effects such as shaping the body and beautifying the face, and even includes charm arts.”
All the female disciples nodded seriously.
Apart from those who had already practiced the lingyue art in the Chu Sect and had been directly promoted, the other newly enrolled female disciples all knew that once they arrived at the Spiritual Moon Sect, they would have to cultivate the lingyue art.
As a top-level dual cultivation technique, the lingyue art could bring great benefits to both oneself and one’s dual cultivation partner.
The cultivation speed was extremely fast, equivalent to the sum of both parties’ talent, and it also came with other miraculous effects. As a result, disciples from the Spiritual Moon Palace were widely praised by male cultivators.
The lingyue art could only be cultivated by women, who would then dual cultivate with men.
For this reason, although the Spiritual Moon Sect offered many miscellaneous studies that could assist both male and female high-level cultivators, the Spiritual Moon Sect still focused on currying favor with male cultivators.
That was because the effects of the lingyue art could only maximize benefits for male cultivators.
The fake phoenix art could allow female-female dual cultivation, but it was ultimately only a substitute—a means of training female disciples in dual cultivation skills before they formally graduated.
The fastest and best way to cultivate was still to use the lingyue art to dual cultivate with high-level male cultivators.
Therefore, even low-level disciples with sufficiently good talent—like someone such as Shangguan Yun—were still very satisfactory dual cultivation partners for high-level male cultivators.
Moreover, because the lingyue art valued not only cultivation base but also talent, one of its most miraculous functions was the ability to break through limits.
High-level cultivators generally had enough money to transplant one or even several celestial spiritual roots, but the best single talent was still the celestial spiritual root.
For example, if a cultivator practiced an ice-type technique, the only useful root would be an ice-attribute celestial spiritual root.
The lingyue art was different. Talent stacking allowed a male cultivator to stack two spiritual roots of the same attribute.
For instance, dual cultivating with Shangguan Yun would mean an ice-attribute celestial spiritual root plus a sacred spiritual root, resulting in even faster cultivation speed.
In addition, there was also the miraculous function that Shangguan Yun had previously demonstrated—acting as a proxy cultivator for other cultivators.
The lingyue art was not only a top-level dual cultivation technique but also a comprehensive collection of many dual cultivation divine abilities.
Because of this core competitiveness, the Spiritual Moon Palace had designated the lingyue art as a core technique that could not be passed outside, and they had applied for patent protection.
Every few hundred years, they would update the lingyue art to extend the copyright protection period.