Chapter 181: Body Reactions

“Sitting cross-legged on the ground—or lying down, that works too—visualize the moon phase in your mind, sink your spiritual sense deep into your Elixir Field, and attempt to refine essence into Qi, five Qi returning to origin.”

“Of course, you don’t have essence yet, so just imagine it. During cultivation, you might feel your body heat up, mana surging, and a sense of emptiness—all of that is normal.”

Zhao Shuanghua taught while cracking jokes, without any of the seriousness of a teacher. She was more like a senior sister.

Actually, leaving seniority aside, there was no problem calling her everyone’s senior sister. She even taught while lying sideways on the ground.

Mu Yanxi felt incredibly awkward cultivating.

She tried using the simulated learning function again, but the immortal brain talked her out of it. The immortal brain suggested she use the Taiqing Immortal Domain in the Heavenly Tome Library for immersive cultivation.

According to the immortal brain’s explanation, simulated learning of cultivation methods worked by analyzing and deducing the target, restoring the principles of the method, and then forcibly cramming them into the owner.

While this could quickly master all techniques, the ceiling was only the target’s current realm, since it was a simulation of their method.

In other words, if Mu Yanxi used the immortal brain to simulate and learn the Lingyue art now, she would be learning the Lingyue art as Zhao Shuanghua understood it.

Of course, Zhao Shuanghua’s understanding and realm of the Lingyue art weren’t low, but it was still far inferior to the level at which the Lingyue empress originally created the method.

Moreover, the Heavenly Tome Library contained a vast number of records from other cultivators of the Lingyue art, which could be cross-referenced.

Those female cultivators who had reached Great Perfection or even ascension had insights and teachings on the Lingyue art that far exceeded Zhao Shuanghua’s level.

The key was that for a primary cultivation method like the Lingyue art, if she used simulated learning, it would be a copy of Zhao Shuanghua.

Without her own understanding of the Lingyue art, her Dao Foundation would be unstable, and she would struggle to advance when encountering bottlenecks.

Therefore, for techniques like magic arts, martial skills, and divine abilities, the immortal brain recommended using simulated learning directly.

But for important cultivation methods like breathing techniques and heart methods that directly affected her cultivation, the immortal brain suggested using the Heavenly Tome Library’s features and cultivating personally.

Cultivate steadily and solidly—Mu Yanxi understood that.

She never really liked the shortcut of simulated learning, and it wasn’t like she’d become addicted after using it two or three times. The problem was that cultivating the Lingyue art was genuinely difficult.

The Lingyue art was a double cultivation technique, so the demonstrations in the Heavenly Tome Library were basically live pornographic scenes—real passionate moments, handsome men and goddess-like fairies—not the fake phoenix art’s woman-on-woman double cultivation.

Furthermore, the Heavenly Tome Library considerately offered an immersive experience function, allowing her to step into the fairy’s perspective and feel how she circulated the method and performed divine abilities. Of course, the physical sensations were also reproduced one-to-one.

To that, Mu Yanxi refused.

Although she had already used this function when cultivating the fake phoenix art and the female immortal bathing method, that was exactly why she absolutely could not use it for the Lingyue art.

Are you kidding? She used to be a man!

Unable to accept stepping into the fairy’s perspective and sensations, Mu Yanxi could only watch from the sidelines.

Although the effect was greatly reduced, it was still the demonstrations and teachings of many senior experts from the Heavenly Tome Library—most of which were left by the Supreme Elders of the Bell Moon Sect.

Mu Yanxi’s learning speed was certainly faster than other new female disciples.

But then came the real-world problem.

When cultivating the Lingyue art, especially without a dao companion, when the method idled, her body would heat up, and she would feel an overwhelming emptiness.

Mu Yanxi felt it quickly.

Her face flushed red, and she could barely keep sitting still. She shifted slightly, parted her lips, and her breath came out like orchid fragrance. This lonely, unbearable feeling was truly awful.

But beside her, Shangguan Yun spoke in slight surprise:

“So soon you’ve found the first glimpse? Amazing. You’re even faster than I was when I first cultivated it. The other girls haven’t even entered the state yet. So your innate talent really is in double cultivation methods?”

Mu Yanxi had previously demonstrated her ability to quickly grasp the fake phoenix art, and even though her mana cultivation was low, it was extremely pure.

So Shangguan Yun, while a little surprised at Mu Yanxi’s quick understanding of the Lingyue art, wasn’t shocked.

For now, what Mu Yanxi displayed was astonishing comprehension.

Mu Yanxi also noticed that the other girls around were still at the stage of having slight feelings—just a bit red in the face—and hadn’t truly entered the cultivation state. Only those disciples who had come up from Lingyue Chuzong were about the same as her.

Even more outrageous were those direct disciples from Lingyue Chuzong: they didn’t care about anyone else’s eyes at all.

Those who had double cultivation study partners directly hugged each other, using the fake phoenix art as a substitute for male cultivators to practice the Lingyue art.

And their movements were much more intense than last night. They acted as if no one else was there, getting handsy right away.

Only then did Mu Yanxi realize that, over the past two nights, Shangguan Yun had indeed been gentle.

Thinking of the illusions left by the Lingyue art in the Heavenly Tome Library, combined with the shameless behavior of these Lingyue Chuzong female disciples, Mu Yanxi felt her future was pitch black.

No girl was born this lewd. It must be the method and the sect’s atmosphere that changed them.

If three years at Chuzong could turn them into this, what would three years at the Great Sect do to her?

Could she really emerge from the mud unstained?

“It’ll be fine.”

As if guessing what Mu Yanxi was thinking, Shangguan Yun said calmly:

“As long as your Heart of Dao is firm and your original intention unchanged, you can also persist in keeping your true nature. But it’s a very difficult path.”

Mu Yanxi then noticed that Shangguan Yun looked composed, sitting very upright, without any of the other female disciples’ disgraceful appearance. In fact, she looked even more normal than the new disciples.

If not for the strange fragrance emanating from her body, Mu Yanxi might have thought she wasn’t circulating the Lingyue art at all.

This sweet, cloying, special scent was the same one Mu Yanxi had felt when Shangguan Yun used the Lingyue art to practice for her earlier.

At that moment, Zhao Shuanghua also noticed Mu Yanxi’s state.

She smiled and said:

“It seems classmate Mu Yanxi has already gotten started. Incredible speed. Everyone should learn from her and hurry to get into it as soon as possible.”

Oh no!

Mu Yanxi hadn’t expected that cultivating the Lingyue art would have physical manifestations.

She had just been cultivating immersively, and by the time she noticed her body reacting and withdrew from the Taiqing Immortal Domain, it was too late. Zhao Shuanghua had seen it at a glance and directly called her out.

Now, all the female disciples knew she had already found the first glimpse of the Lingyue art.

“You’re about to become the class star now. You can also experience what I’ve been through.”

Shangguan Yun wore a sly smile, as if she foresaw something, but she didn’t say anything.

After class, Zhao Shuanghua flew away directly on her gourd.

A large group of female disciples who hadn’t yet gotten started immediately crowded around Mu Yanxi, asking for tips on how to get started.

Mu Yanxi instantly understood that as the chief disciple, Shangguan Yun had probably been surrounded and bombarded with questions by her classmates many times before.