Fusang Sword Heart Diagram

Chapter 85 Tianxin Peak

Faced with Li Huiran's praise, Jiang Xin felt a little flustered. She imitated Li Huiran's manner and said generously, "Thank you for your praise, Senior Sister."

Li Huiran smiled gently. She wasn't the kind of woman who was particularly beautiful, but she had a unique temperament and charm.

"Master asked me to guide my junior sister and familiarize her with Yuzhi Peak. Let me tell you about our sect first."

“Our master, True Person Ziwan, is currently at the peak of the Knowledge Realm. She has two personal disciples, Senior Brother He and Senior Brother Yi, who are both at the sixth level and are trying to break through to the peak. You probably don’t see them usually. I will introduce you to them after they come out of seclusion.”

Jiang Xin nodded and replied gently, "Okay."

Li Huiran continued, "Besides the two direct disciples, Master has a total of five nominal disciples."

She smiled warmly and said, "I'm number two, you're number five."

Upon reaching a cliffside walkway, Li Huiran pointed and said, "Across from us is the west peak of Jade Branch Peak, where Elder Sikong of our sect resides. A little to the north is Elder Hu, a guest elder of the Southern Star Sword Sect. He has two disciples, one brought in from outside and the other a disciple recruited within the sect."

"Although Elder Hu's cultivation level is not high, he is good at refining medicine. Some of the pills in the sect are purchased from outside, while others are refined by Elder Hu and his disciples."

"The Qi-Nourishing Pills you received when you first joined the sect were made by Elder Hu's eldest disciple."

Following Li Huiran's directions, Jiang Xin looked towards the North Peak and could only vaguely see several large halls and a sundial on it.

"Senior sister, what about Nanfeng?"

Seeing that Li Huiran mentioned the East Peak and the North Peak, but not the South Peak, Jiang Xin couldn't help but ask curiously.

Li Huiran glanced south: "The South Peak was reserved for an elder who was to be promoted from the outer sect. Later, that elder broke the rules, so the matter was dropped and the peak was left vacant."

Such a thing naturally wouldn't reach the ears of the outer disciples, and even ordinary inner disciples wouldn't know about it.

Jiang Xin was perceptive and didn't ask any further questions.

After showing Jiang Xin around the East Peak of Yuzhi Peak, Li Huiran took her to the room where she would live.

"Junior Sister Jiang Xin came to Jade Branch Peak right after lighting her life lamp, right?"

Li Huiran said with certainty and a gentle smile, "It's still early. After Junior Sister Jiang pays her respects to Master, she can go to Guangyuan Hall to collect her inner disciple's robes and this month's cultivation supplies before returning."

"I won't bother you any longer, junior sister."

Jiang Xin went out to see her off.

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On another mountain peak, Ning Fusang unleashed the Shattered Light Sword.

She never expected that the Southern Star Sword Sect would have such a barren place.

The landscape was desolate, overgrown with weeds, and devoid of any spiritual energy.

Tianxin Peak is steep on all sides, with only a flat area in the center. Due to the terrain, it is impossible to build a large palace complex.

Ning Fusang lightly touched the ground with her toes, stepping on weeds taller than herself, and landed in front of the small wooden building.

She turned around and couldn't help but think to herself, "No wonder Master Qixuan lived alone on this peak. After his death, this mountain was not cleared out and other elders were not allowed to move in."

That's too shabby.

What kind of madman would agree to move here?

Ning Fusang spent most of the day clearing away the weeds on the mountain peak, finally opening up a wider view. The stone tablet inscribed with the three characters "Tianxin Peak" saw the light of day again after thirty years.

Afterwards, Ning Fusang used several more sweeping and cleaning techniques to clean the attic.

She touched the wood used to build the wooden building, her eyes brightening. "This little building is made of over a thousand-year-old cliff cypress spirit wood?"

"It seems that when Master Qixuan was alive, he lived a rather extravagant life."

Ning Fusang spent most of her time in the library and often attended lectures by the sect's elders, so she was very knowledgeable. She recognized the wood used to build the small pavilion as cliff cypress spirit wood after just a few glances.

The cliff cypress spirit tree grows on cliffs in extremely harsh environments. A type of bird likes to build its nest on it, so it will drive away cultivators who approach the cliff cypress spirit tree.

To obtain cliff cypress spirit wood, one needs to be a cultivator with extremely high spiritual power. Therefore, cliff cypress spirit wood is very expensive.

Master Qixuan either cut down the wood himself to build the pavilion, or he spent a lot of spirit stones to buy these spirit trees.

Living in a pavilion built of sacred wood can purify the mind and body, sweep away impurities, and over the years, it is of great benefit to spiritual practice.

Ning Fusang then went to see the other wooden buildings, which were just ordinary spirit wood structures, so she didn't clean them.

She lives alone, so she doesn't need to clean so many rooms.

Behind the attic, there was a house that caught Ning Fusang's eye. Green vines hung down gently, forming a curtain.

On the bamboo and wooden bookshelf, there were many dusty books. Ning Fusang picked up one at random and flipped through it. It was not a Taoist scripture or cultivation method, but just some local chronicles and biographies.

After thinking about it, she still used magic to organize the books and move them to the attic.

She lived in the middle room, and the right side was used to store these books.

A huge, thousand-year-old pear tree had its branches reaching into the window. Ning Fusang flicked her finger, and her spirit blade severed the branch. The delicate pear blossoms fell onto the swing beneath the tree, scattering a blanket of white petals on the ground.

By the time we finished doing all that, it was already getting dark.

Outside the small pavilion on Tianxin Peak, two fluorite vase lamps hung. Inside, dim candlelight shone, illuminating the paper windows.

Ning Fusang finally had a moment to take stock of the cultivation supplies she had collected from Guangyuan Hall.

Inner disciples can receive one hundred spirit stones, three spirit-nourishing pills, and three healing pills each month.

Ning Fusang received the allowance of a direct disciple: 150 spirit stones, 5 Spirit Nourishing Pills, and 5 Healing Pills. In addition, he could receive 100 sect contribution points each month without doing any tasks.

The Nourishing Spirit Pill is for nourishing the essence, energy, and spirit, to prevent overwork and mental exhaustion. The Healing Pill is the kind sold at Dancaozhai, the most common kind of healing pill, and it is completely incomparable to the Rejuvenating Pill that Ning Fusang received as a reward for winning the championship.

The sect gave her nine Rejuvenation Pills and nine Spirit Rejuvenation Pills, but Ning Fusang had also received a bottle of Spirit Rejuvenation Pills and a bottle of Rejuvenation Pills from Xie Taiting before.

There are four Rejuvenation Pills and three Rejuvenation Pills left in the flask.

Ning Fusang put the two relatively valuable pills into her storage bracelet.

As for the theoretically most expensive Breakthrough Pill, she didn't value it that much. Ning Fusang's cultivation had no bottlenecks, so she didn't need the Breakthrough Pill to help her break through realms.

She was also thinking that she would find an opportunity to sell the Breakthrough Pill when she went on a mission.

Pills like the Breaking Yuan Pill are very popular on the market.

Underneath his clothes were two booklets: one containing sect rules, and the other a schedule of lessons. Whether they were direct disciples or inner disciples, all had to attend the same courses, and most importantly, there were assessments.

The difference is that direct disciples don't have to worry about being expelled from the inner sect if their assessment results are too poor.

All courses in the inner sect assessment are divided into only four levels: A, B, C, and D. The results are tallied every ten years, and no more than ten students can achieve a score in the D level.

In addition, inner disciples must break through the fourth level of the cultivation realm before the age of one hundred, otherwise they will be expelled from the inner sect.

(End of this chapter)