Junior sister, I really need to control you

He and the female disciple beside him were actually a few years older than Meng Yu, but Meng Yu had been cultivating since childhood, entered the sect earlier, and had a higher cultivation level, so she was naturally the senior sister.

"It's not surprising that Senior Sister Meng is like this."

Faced with the puzzled male disciple, the female disciple answered verbally, but her gaze remained fixed on Li Yinsheng's profile, never looking away.

"Junior sister, you're acting strangely today too," the male disciple said, even more puzzled.

The female disciple finally shifted her gaze from Li Yinsheng for a moment, looked at the person beside her with a strange expression, shook her head and sighed: "Senior brother, you don't understand."

……

Not long after, the "Azure Jade Scales" carried the four of them to the front of Xuanzhen Peak.

But the jade scale did not land.

"To build a spirit refining array on a mountain peak, one must first find a suitable spiritual eye location to extract and collect spiritual essence, construct a spiritual essence collection array, and then send the collected spiritual essence to a spirit refining array for crafting special spiritual essences..."

Senior Sister Meng stood at the very front, holding a compass in her hands.

"Different mountains have different numbers and locations of spiritual eyes, as well as varying degrees of difficulty in extracting spiritual energy from them. These differences need to be explored using geomancy techniques."

She looked at Li Yinsheng and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, how many spirit-gathering formations have you built on Xuanzhen Peak? Where are they located? Please point them out to me first."

"Once I have located all the spirit eyes, I will select a few from the remaining spirit eyes that have not yet been used to build spirit gathering arrays, and build spirit gathering sub-arrays for the Transparent Spirit Refining Array."

Generally speaking, a mountain with a spiritual vein can have hundreds of spiritual eyes of varying sizes.

However, only a few spiritual eyes can easily extract and collect large amounts of spiritual essence. These spiritual eyes have long been equipped with spiritual gathering arrays, and the spiritual essence will be directly supplied to large-scale spiritual refining arrays to continuously refine special spiritual essence.

Although the remaining spiritual eyes can also extract and collect spiritual essence, their efficiency is not high.

However, it's enough to provide spiritual energy for a small spirit refining array. If you find a few more ordinary spirit eyes and build a spirit gathering array, it should be enough.

“Uh…” Li Yinsheng scratched his cheek and spoke somewhat awkwardly.

"Fellow Daoist Meng, to be honest, Xuanzhen Temple did not have any spirit-gathering formations before, and all the spirit eyes were empty. You can just go directly to the best spirit eye."

For the first time, an extremely obvious emotion appeared on Meng Yu's usually calm face—

are you kidding me?

"Is Fellow Daoist Li joking?" Meng Yu shook his head, not believing Li Yinsheng at all.

"Indeed, some Taoist temples are short of funds and have not built many spirit-gathering arrays on their own peaks, but the top-grade spirit eyes definitely need to have spirit-gathering arrays built."

Li Yinsheng sighed, "Our Xuanzhen Temple didn't even have a spirit-refining array before, so what's the use of collecting it?"

There isn't even a spirit refining array!

Meng Yu now felt even more strongly that Li Yinsheng was joking.

A Taoist temple with only a mountain peak but no formations is like a person living in a house with only four walls and no doors, windows, or furniture.

“If Fellow Daoist Meng doesn’t believe me,” Li Yinsheng spread his hands, “why don’t we just fly to the best spiritual eye and see for ourselves? It’s definitely empty there, so we can just build a spirit-gathering array there.”

Seeing that Li Yinsheng spoke sincerely, Meng Yu also became somewhat unsure of herself.

So she nodded and, following the best location for the spiritual eye determined by feng shui, flew there on the jade scale.

A moment later, Meng Yu, who had flown to the vicinity of the Spirit Eye, stopped the jade scale and looked at Li Yinsheng expressionlessly, with a hint of reproach in her eyes.

“Fellow Daoist Li was indeed joking,” she pointed to the ground not far below, “Isn’t that the Spirit Gathering Array?”

In the direction she pointed, a patch of what was once a dense, wild forest had been abruptly cleared away.

On the cleared ground, a formation the size of a house stood prominently, with several cultivators dressed in gray-yellow Taoist robes around it, constantly making hand seals and casting spells, occasionally throwing in some materials.

"Look, there are still people maintaining the formation, although... even from this distance you can tell the technique is rough."

Meng Yu looked at Li Yinsheng, somewhat annoyed that he was making fun of her.

But soon, she realized that Li Yinsheng's expression was wrong.

Li Yinsheng's face showed neither the mischievousness of someone who had gotten away with a joke, nor the embarrassment of being exposed. Instead, it carried an undisguised coldness, and his dark eyes narrowed slightly, their chilling light intimidating.

“Fellow Daoist Meng, those people below are not from Xuanzhen Temple,” Li Yinsheng said.

"If I am not mistaken about the Taoist robes, they should be disciples of the 'Yellow Crane Temple' on the next mountain."

Chapter 22 Yellow Crane Temple, Fellow Daoist Meng, who is eager to help others

Xuanzhen Peak, the place with the greatest spiritual eye.

Five cultivators dressed in gray-yellow Taoist robes were casting spells around a spirit-gathering formation and systematically adding materials to repair the worn parts of the formation.

The five people consisted of three men and two women, all of whom appeared to be around thirty or forty years old. When they cast spells, their auras were deep and powerful, and their palms were filled with a rich yellow aura.

A somewhat alluring woman cast a spell while glancing at the male cultivator next to her, and spoke in a coquettish voice.

"Senior Brother Yang, after this magic array is maintained, can we stay on Xuanzhen Peak and have some fun instead of going back?"

"The spiritual veins of Xuanzhen Peak far surpass those of my Huanghe Peak; it's truly a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters. After we finish repairing this formation, why don't we go sightseeing and enjoy the scenery?"

The man called Senior Brother Yang appeared to be the oldest of the five, over forty years old, and spoke in a deep voice as he reprimanded the alluring female cultivator.

"Junior Sister Mei, this is Xuanzhen Peak, not our own Huanghe Peak, where you can do whatever you want! Hurry up and get to work, then head back immediately!"

"Oh dear, Senior Brother Liu~" The charming female cultivator was not annoyed by the reprimand, and her tone became even more tactful, "There's only a cripple and a little cultivator left in Xuanzhen Temple. Are you afraid of being discovered? They haven't patrolled the mountain for more than ten years, have they?"

“Junior Sister Mei is right,” a male cultivator with a sinister face said, “Xuanzhen Peak is probably safer than the meditation rooms in the sect.”

"Don't even mention not encountering anyone from Xuanzhen Temple. Even if we did, so what? He's just a greenhorn who's only been cultivating for a little over ten years. Isn't he someone we can easily manipulate?"

The other two also spoke up.

"That's right! There's no need to take Xuanzhen Temple seriously at all. The temple is only secretly building the spirit-gathering array to save face. Otherwise, even if they just snatched the spirit eye, would Xuanzhen Temple dare to object?"

"If the higher-ups really had even the slightest fear of Xuanzhen Temple, would they have allowed us to come here in our own Taoist robes to maintain the magic array? At the very least, they should have asked us to change our clothes before coming, right?"

"Hmph... If you ask me, we've only been secretly collecting spiritual essence from Xuanzhen Peak all these years, which is already quite merciful!"

"If they don't know what's good for them, we can easily seize their Taoist temple!"

"Junior brothers and sisters, be careful what you say!" Senior Brother Yang scolded. "Don't forget how strict the rules of the Zhengyang lineage are! Stealing spiritual essence can be a big or small matter. Xuanzhen Temple has fallen into decline, so there is no real risk."

"But if we forcibly seize Xuanzhen Temple... once the Dharma lineage finds out, the consequences will be far greater than what Huanghe Temple can bear!"

The sinister-looking male cultivator looked unconvinced and was about to open his mouth to refute.

A cold but thunderous voice descended from the sky.

"How strange! It turns out that the people of Huanghe Temple are aware of the strict precepts of the Zhengyang lineage?"

"Seeing you all chatting and laughing here, treating the spiritual eye of my Xuanzhen Peak as your own private well, I thought your Huanghe Temple had no idea that the Zhengyang lineage had precepts!"

When the sound came, the five people were only stunned for a moment before they immediately withdrew from the area around the formation, changed their positions, and vaguely formed a formation to fight against the enemy.

They may not be true array masters, but since they are here to maintain the array, they must understand some principles of array formation.

A square jade chessboard, about ten feet in size, slowly descended, carrying four people.

Upon seeing the chessboard, all five of them were momentarily stunned, then suddenly tensed up.

The superior magical artifacts only aroused Li Yinsheng's envy.

However, in the eyes of these five people, they were a great threat.

The five of them were only true disciples or direct disciples at Huanghe Temple. Only Senior Brother Yang had a high-grade magic weapon. How could they not be afraid when they saw someone descending from the sky with a high-grade magic weapon?

In particular, on this superior magical artifact, there are three people who are all wearing Taoist robes from the Jade Altar Temple!

Yutan Temple ranks among the top in the Zhengyang lineage, while Huanghe Temple is the opposite, consistently ranking at the bottom.

It is said that the Taoist masters in Yutan Temple are so accomplished that a Taoist master will open an altar to preach every three or four years.

There is only one true master at Huanghe Temple, and he has been in seclusion for nearly twenty years.

Although everyone is a disciple of a Taoist temple, the disciples of Yutan Temple and Huanghe Temple are clearly not on the same level.

The chessboard was set down, and Li Yinsheng, Meng Yu, and her fellow students stepped off the chessboard.

Senior Brother Yang, who was in the lead, immediately recognized Li Yinsheng. His eyes showed not only surprise but also deep doubt.

Their Huanghe Temple is located not far from Xuanzhen Temple, making it the closest Taoist temple to Xuanzhen Temple.

Moreover, they had stolen a lot of spiritual energy over the years, so they had naturally done their homework on Xuanzhen Temple in advance and were quite familiar with Li Yinsheng.

But when Senior Brother Yang saw Li Yinsheng, he felt extremely puzzled.

When did this reclusive and unremarkable abbot of Xuanzhen Temple board the big ship of Yutan Temple?

He looked at Meng Yu, feeling even more uneasy.

A female cultivator who can wield a high-grade magic weapon, and is so young, is by no means an ordinary person in the Jade Altar Temple!

"Junior Brother Li Yinsheng of Xuanzhen Temple?" Senior Brother Yang made a defensive hand gesture, ready to take out a magic weapon from his Qiankun bag at any moment. "You seem to have some misunderstanding about us?"

"A misunderstanding?" Li Yinsheng looked at the formation. "A misunderstanding that Huanghe Temple used the Spirit Gathering Formation to steal the spiritual essence of Xuanzhen Peak?"

"Boy, with so much spiritual energy, your Xuanzhen Temple wouldn't need much anyway. Instead of wasting it, why not help out your neighbors?" the sinister male cultivator sneered.

Before Li Yinsheng could answer, Meng Yu, who was standing next to him, turned cold, stepped forward, and rebuked him without any politeness: "Shameless!"

The sinister-looking male cultivator's face hardened, and he wanted to retort, but he held back.

He dared to provoke Li Yinsheng because he was certain that Li Yinsheng could not defeat any of them.

However, the female cultivator from Yutan Temple in front of him, who was holding a high-grade magic weapon, was clearly someone he couldn't afford to offend.

“Fellow Daoist, are you a master from Yutan Temple?” Senior Brother Yang stepped forward and cupped his hands to Meng Yu. “This matter is a conflict between Huanghe Temple and Xuanzhen Temple, and has nothing to do with Yutan Temple.”

"Yutan Temple has a long-standing reputation. If it were to spread that disciples of Yutan Temple were forcibly interfering in the private affairs of other Taoist temples, it would probably affect the reputation of Yutan Temple, wouldn't it?"

His tone was relatively polite, but the threat in his words was undisguised.

Although he dared not openly break ties with the people of Yutan Temple, he could at least use the temple's reputation as leverage to make them hesitant to act rashly.

But Meng Yu wasn't fooled at all, and simply asked indifferently, "What impact could it have?"

"So, you insist on meddling in this matter?"

Senior Brother Yang's face darkened, and he took out a magic sword from his Qiankun bag. The blade glowed with a blue light, and its sharpness was dazzling just by looking at it.

The grass around him was instantly reduced to countless tiny grains of rice by the shimmering blue sword light.

"Would you like to test the sharpness of my magic sword?!"