Junior sister, I really need to control you

There should be some, right? If she can't even get to eat good food, then this saintess is really too pitiful.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiaoyu immediately became interested and nodded in agreement with Li Yinsheng.

She wasn't greedy; like Sister Qu, she was content to become a Water Element Saintess!

But seeing Li Yinsheng and Mu Xiaoyu nod, Qu Yunshu's face showed a hint of difficulty.

"This... Mu Xiaomei's talent is indeed the best I have ever seen in my life. Logically speaking, as long as she starts to cultivate any one of the Three Elements True Techniques, she should be able to make some progress within three to five years."

"But now there are only six months left until the selection of the Holy Maiden."

Qu Yunshu shook her head slightly and said, "Even the Water Element Saintess would need to cultivate a true technique to the fifth level or higher to have a better chance."

"Fifth level or higher is enough?" Li Yinsheng was somewhat surprised. "Isn't it said that this true technique has nine levels?"

"Fellow Daoist Li may not know this, but although this true technique does not seem difficult, the improvement becomes slower as you progress."

Qu Yunshu explained, "It was only three years ago that I cultivated the Water Element True Technique to the sixth level. Even with the most optimistic estimate, it will take fifty or sixty years to reach the seventh level."

"As for the higher eighth and ninth levels... I'm afraid only Earthly True Persons and Heavenly True Persons can achieve them."

Li Yinsheng nodded, thinking to himself that it was indeed not that simple.

This secret technique can enhance talent. If it were easy to learn, wouldn't it be like ascending to heaven by stepping on your own foot?

It now appears that while the true techniques can enhance talent, they also consume a great deal of a cultivator's energy.

"So it's really a pity about Mu Xiaomei. With Mu Xiaomei's talent, if she had started cultivating the true techniques from a young age, she could have at least cultivated one of them to the sixth level. Plus, with her age, she would have had a good chance of becoming not only the Water Element Saintess but also the Earth Element Saintess."

"Sigh, your master is really doing some harm," Qu Yunshu couldn't help but shake her head.

"Yes, yes, it's so harmful!" Mu Xiaoyu nodded seriously.

A light tap on the head.

Mu Xiaoyu immediately covered her head and gave Li Yinsheng a pleading smile.

"Although the chances are slim, I still want my junior sister to give it a try. It's all about participation," Li Yinsheng said with a smile.

Mu Xiaoyu thought about it and decided that going out to have some fun wouldn't be a bad thing, so she nodded and said, "Senior brother is right, it's all about participation."

"That's true. The selection of the Holy Maiden is a grand event that happens only once every thousand years. It's always better to participate in it personally than to just watch from below."

Qu Yunshu nodded, then gave Li Yinsheng a gentle smile.

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Li, once I find out about the registration, I will definitely let you know."

"But... I don't know where Fellow Daoist Li is currently residing. How can I find him in the future?"

Having already fabricated an excuse, Li Yinsheng went along with it, saying, "I just came down from the mountain with my junior sister and was looking for a place to stay in the inner city, so I came to sell demon cores to exchange for some spirit stones so that I can buy a place to live."

"No place to stay? Great!" Qu Yunshu slapped her thigh instinctively and laughed loudly.

The shopkeeper in the corner turned his face away and coughed twice.

Qu Yunshu's face stiffened, and she quickly suppressed her smile, placing her hands flat on her lap.

"What I mean is, if Fellow Daoist Li doesn't mind, my Qu family still has several vacant mansions..."

"If it's too luxurious, I'm afraid I'll be short of money," Li Yinsheng said with a smile.

"No, no, no, I don't want spirit stones!" Qu Yunshu quickly said.

……

Inside the inner city of Shengyuan City, there was a huge mansion covering more than ten acres, with carved beams and painted rafters.

"So, Fellow Daoist Li, are you satisfied with this residence?"

Qu Yunshu had changed out of her martial attire and into a flowing, wide-sleeved dress. With her beautiful eyebrows and eyes, she looked every bit the refined lady of a noble family, showing no trace of physical cultivation.

"Although this house is not large, it is not remote and is very quiet. Moreover, the formations within it are quite sophisticated."

Although I don't agree with the claim that the formation is sophisticated, I was just staying there temporarily and didn't pay any money, so I shouldn't criticize it. I'll just quietly add a few formations myself from now on.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Qu, for lending my junior sister and me a place to stay," Li Yinsheng said, cupping his hands in thanks.

"Fellow Daoist Li, you are too kind. It is an honor for me and the entire Qu family to befriend such an expert as you," Qu Yunshu said with a smile.

Her words were sincere. After getting to know Li Yinsheng, she concluded that he was at least a highly skilled person with profound cultivation in the Water Element Realm.

Although the Qu family has a powerful ancestor from the Earthly Elemental Realm, making them a formidable force in the inner city, they are far from strong enough to ignore a True Person from the Water Elemental Realm.

Moreover, he is such a young Water Element True Man.

If she weren't worried that being too hasty in recruiting might scare people away, she would have wanted to invite Li Yinsheng to live in the Qu family as a guest elder.

However, this matter needs to be handled gradually, so she only arranged for Li Yinsheng to stay in a mansion that was not too far from the Qu family and was quiet and luxurious enough.

They chatted for a long time until the sun began to set, at which point Qu Yunshu reluctantly left.

"Goodbye, Sister Qu!" Mu Xiaoyu bowed to Qu Yunshu at the door.

"Goodbye, Sister Mu." Qu Yunshu said, then turned and left, turning back to look at herself again and again.

A hand as white as jade grabbed Mu Xiaoyu by the back of her collar.

Mu Xiaoyu froze.

"Now that Fellow Daoist Qu has left, Junior Sister, let's talk about that beastly master you mentioned."

Li Yinsheng said with a smile, "I can tell you have a lot of opinions about that master."

Mu Xiaoyu shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, I have no objection at all..."

As she spoke, she turned and ran.

But with a slight tightening of his hand that gripped the back of her collar, he dragged her, who was powerless to resist, into the room.

"Junior sister, you still have some moon dew to refine tonight, as well as the visualization diagram, and you can't neglect the Earth Fire Tempering Body Technique. Come, this time your senior brother will help you temper your body with spiritual fire. You sit in the alchemy furnace..."

"Senior brother, I know I was wrong! Ahhhhhh—"

Chapter 187 True Spirit Beast, Reversing the Three Elements

One month later, in the mansion courtyard.

Mu Xiaoyu was in the courtyard, with a visualization diagram hanging on a tree in front of her.

The swordsman in green robes in the picture is handsome and lifelike.

Mu Xiaoyu stared intently, cold sweat pouring down her forehead like a wrung-out towel.

A moment later, she shivered violently, and her eyes regained their clarity.

"Damn it! So close! It was almost there, just a hair's breadth away, almost touching it!"

She slammed her hand on the stone table in front of her, causing the incense burner containing the invigorating incense to fly high into the air before landing smoothly.

But immediately, she focused her mind back on the visualization.

Li Yinsheng nodded in satisfaction.

With the help of the visualization diagram, Bodhi seeds, and incense to refresh the mind, the junior sister's efficiency in comprehending the Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword was greatly improved.

She can now condense more than two hundred sword beams.

Although the two hundred sword lights were significantly reduced due to insufficient magical power, it did not affect the fact that their swordsmanship level had indeed improved.

At this rate, it won't take long for the 256 sword lights to appear.

Li Yinsheng shifted his gaze from his junior sister to the spirit-devouring fish swimming around him.

Although the Devouring Spirit Fish still appears to be only about ten feet in size, this is because it has actively reduced its size.

In fact, after being fed with demon cores for some time, the Devouring Spirit Fish, which had revealed its true form, was already over fifty feet tall.

If Li Yinsheng hadn't set up an array in the mansion, even if the Devouring Spirit Fish concealed its size, its aura alone would have been noticed.

Although it was Mu Xiaoyu's spirit pet, the Devouring Spirit Fish now prefers to revolve around Li Yinsheng.

If we're talking about the reason, it's probably because since it hatched, Li Yinsheng has fed it two demon cores that are close to the level of a great demon, as well as more than two real demon king demon cores. During this time, he also let it drink a lot of thousand-year-old spiritual milk.

In this respect, Li Yinsheng had to admire the innate talent of the Spirit-Swallowing Fish.

Although spirit beasts are theoretically comparable to great demons, that refers to adult spirit beasts.

This spirit-devouring fish is far from being a sub-adult. If converted to human terms, it would be equivalent to a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, which would be enough for her to devour and refine the demon king's demon core.

This process of devouring the prey yielded extremely pleasing results.

Although it is not yet fully developed, the Devouring Spirit Fish is on the verge of advancing to become a True Spirit Beast.

Li Yinsheng hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.

It's probably mostly because this Spirit-Devouring Fish was born as a spirit beast, so it has an excellent foundation.

If it is born as a spirit beast, even if it is fed more resources, it probably won't be so easy to advance to a spirit beast.

Although he had exhausted his demon cores and lost most of his millennium spirit milk as a price, it was still well worth it.

A demon king's core, now only about one-third full, appeared in Li Yinsheng's palm. He looked at the spirit-devouring fish.

"Tuntun, open your mouth."

The Spirit-Swallowing Fish immediately opened its mouth wide, its bright little eyes looking at Li Yinsheng with anticipation.

Li Yinsheng flicked the last demon core into the mouth of the Spirit-Swallowing Fish. The Spirit-Swallowing Fish excitedly spun around in the air, and its azure light suddenly intensified.

"As expected of a spirit beast, it was able to advance after being fed only three demon king cores."

While sighing, Li Yinsheng activated the array he had set up in advance, surrounding the area and completely isolating the Devouring Spirit Fish from its advancement.

"Sigh, Tun Tun, if only you could advance to the Celestial Spirit Beast level so easily in the future," Li Yinsheng said, shaking his head.

After daydreaming for a while, he shifted his attention away from Tun Tun, who was still advancing, and began to circulate the Heavenly Origin True Technique from the Three Origins and Three Officials True Technique.

During this month, he and his junior sister both tried to cultivate the Three Elements and Three Officials True Technique.

Unsurprisingly, their compatibility in this aspect is remarkably balanced.

Or rather, neither of them has any particular advantage in any of the key techniques.

Relying on his own cultivation advantage, Li Yinsheng was able to better refine and absorb the so-called Three Elements Qi. He had already raised all three True Techniques to the third level, and then his progress suddenly slowed down.

Mu Xiaoyu is still stuck at the first level of all three true techniques, only approaching the second level.