Coincidentally, Mu Yanxi had a similar experience. In her past life, she was the Senior Brother of the Magnificent Truth Sect and one of the most talented geniuses in Eastern Hua Prefecture.
When her junior brothers and sisters had cultivation questions but were afraid to ask the master or uncles, they would come to the Senior Brother for advice.
And coincidentally, Mu Yanxi also enjoyed teaching. As a righteous and prestigious sect, the Magnificent Truth Sect advocated mutual help, encouraging disciples to exchange knowledge.
Her father, an elder, also required her to help her junior brothers and sisters, to accumulate experience and prestige for becoming the sect leader in the future.
That’s right. In her life before last, as the chief disciple and the most talented, Mu Yanxi was naturally a candidate for sect leader. She had been working toward that goal, but now everything had turned to clouds.
Looking at the chattering and vibrant girls before her, Mu Yanxi felt as if she had returned to her past life.
Facing all kinds of questions from her junior brothers and sisters, it seemed nothing had changed, except that the questioners had gone from mostly male disciples to all female.
Thus, she subconsciously opened her mouth and began to answer the most frequently asked question:
“The key to the Lingyue Art lies in essence. The body stores essence, refines essence into Qi, the five Qi return to the origin, then refine Qi into spirit.”
“You are all women, so you cannot immediately grasp the meaning of ‘essence.’ The refinement of essence refers to…”
There were actually three reasons why Mu Yanxi could enter the Lingyue Art so quickly.
First, naturally, the Heavenly Tome Library provided her with the most authoritative and comprehensive daoist canons.
Even purple gold members could not directly view the Lingyue Art’s data, but as a disciple of the Spiritual Moon Sect, Mu Yanxi had a student registration, allowing her to access the Lingyue Art database.
The second reason was that she had originally been a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.
Although in the definition of this great world, she was probably just a blank nascent soul, her understanding of the Great Way, cultivation methods, and practice far surpassed that of these female disciples who were only at Qi Refining stage.
Having gone through the three major stages of foundation establishment, core formation, and Nascent Soul formation, Mu Yanxi stood higher and saw farther.
The third reason was even more coincidental: she had once been a man, so she knew the importance of essence.
Especially as a Dao sect disciple from a righteous sect, she had experienced the process of refining essence into Qi and understood its principles.
Although there were also some among the other female disciples who had been male, they were only at Qi Refining stage, lacking theoretical knowledge and experience, so they could not comprehend as quickly as Mu Yanxi.
However, among those who successfully entered the Lingyue Art in this first lesson, more than half were former males.
Now, after Mu Yanxi’s explanation and clarification, those disciples who had been male instantly attained enlightenment.
Mu Yanxi also explained how female students could imagine essence and practice the Lingyue Art in a vacant rotation without having essence themselves.
These were actually knowledge from the Heavenly Tome Library.
Shangguan Yun grew more shocked as she listened, because Mu Yanxi had no habit of holding back.
Whatever her fellow disciples asked, she answered, and each answer was concise and to the point, even clearer than what the teacher taught.
Of course, not clearer than Zhao Shuanghua. That drunkard teacher taught rather casually, and since it was the first lesson, she did not go into too deep subjects.
But Shangguan Yun had also trained at Lingyue Chuzong for three years, with teachers lecturing on the Lingyue Art almost every week.
She had heard the insights and understandings of different teachers, but it seemed that most were not as clear as Mu Yanxi’s explanations.
Shangguan Yun was certain that before today, Mu Yanxi had absolutely never practiced the Lingyue Art. As double cultivation study partners, it was impossible to hide, at least last night she still hadn’t.
That meant Mu Yanxi had comprehended such depth in just one lesson?
Just as Mu Yanxi was speaking with enthusiasm, Shangguan Yun’s voice transmission rang in her mind:
“Don’t say too much. If you expose your comprehension ability, you’ll attract the teacher’s attention, be envied by other disciples, and cause a lot of trouble.”
Mu Yanxi’s heart tightened. She had just re-experienced the feeling of her past life, getting carried away with her love of teaching, and inadvertently had said a lot of explanations from those Spiritual Moon Palace ancestors in the Heavenly Tome Library.
Earlier, when the atmosphere grew more heated, the vast majority of disciples had gathered around Mu Yanxi, asking increasingly profound questions.
Many follow-up contents that had not been taught in this lesson were brought up.
Earlier, there were still some disciples gathered around Shangguan Yun to ask questions, but later they all ran over to Mu Yanxi’s side.
The rules of the Heavenly Tome Library did not allow the transmission of cultivation methods to outsiders, but questions from disciples of the Spiritual Moon Sect who were teaching the Lingyue Art were considered mutual discussion among fellow disciples, not external transmission.
Otherwise, she might have already triggered heavenly punishment.
In the judgment of the Dao web, it seemed to consider that Mu Yanxi was only answering content that had already been transmitted.
As for what Shangguan Yun said about saying too much leading to jealousy, Mu Yanxi understood that too. “A peck of rice creates a favor, a bushel creates an enemy”—it was the same everywhere. She also did not want the teacher’s attention.
So Mu Yanxi restrained herself a little, controlling herself to only explain things that someone at her stage should understand. She focused the difficult points she addressed on the beginner stage.
For certain questions, she directly answered:
“I don’t know, the teacher hasn’t covered this part yet. Why don’t you go ask the disciples who directly advanced from the Beginning Sect Department?”
This was a very reasonable statement. Of course she wouldn’t understand what the teacher hadn’t taught.
But many of the disciples who had directly advanced from Lingyue Chuzong in the crowd began to smile bitterly.
They had studied the Lingyue Art for three years, yet they still did not comprehend it as thoroughly as Mu Yanxi, who had only studied it for half a day.
Many already felt that Mu Yanxi’s comprehension ability was terrifying.
After controlling the scope of her explanations, the number of questions decreased significantly.
Even so, after answering all the female disciples’ questions, Mu Yanxi felt her mouth and throat were a bit dry.
Those female disciples who had asked questions dispersed happily. They wanted to find a place to practice the Lingyue Art more.
At that moment, a small hand handed a bottle of black drink to Mu Yanxi’s side.
“Thank you. Huh? Ruo… Ruo Xuan’er.”
Mu Yanxi looked at the girl who handed the drink. Actually, she had noticed Ruo Xuan earlier, but she had been quietly waiting on the periphery, not pushing in to ask questions.
Mu Yanxi was indeed thirsty. Although the drink looked a bit strange, since it was given by Ruo Xuan, it surely wouldn’t be a problem.
She opened the lid and took a sip of the black drink.
‘So good!’
That was Mu Yanxi’s first reaction.
She had never drunk such a delicious beverage. It was very special, neither tea nor alcohol, with a refreshing sweetness. Most importantly, the drink was infused with a large amount of spiritual energy.
When it entered her body, the spiritual energy burst out from the drink, and she felt amazing!
There was a label on the bottle with its name. Mu Yanxi looked and saw that the drink was called “Immortal Water.”
‘Quite a bold name. Does it mean drinking it can make one immortal? Or do immortals like to drink it?’
But this method of injecting compressed pure spiritual energy into the drink, along with the various spiritual medicine ingredients it contained, was indeed a flavor Mu Yanxi had never experienced before.
She checked her immortal brain, which said the main ingredients were millennia-old coca leaves and millennia-old cola fruit.
This drink really went all out on the ingredients.
“Thank you, Xuan’er. Such a good drink—how much does it cost?”
Mu Yanxi asked somewhat uneasily.
“What are you talking about? Immortal Water is three spirit stones a bottle. Drink as much as you like, it’s fine.”
Ruo Xuan said casually.