Junior sister, I really need to control you

"But the feeling of spiritual communion is so...so strange, and it's also a bit...a bit...um..."

She pinched a wisp of breeze between her fingers and blew it on her face, trying to cool down her burning cheeks.

"Furthermore, I asked Sister Jingxuan yesterday, and she said that although spiritual communion is only practiced between extremely close cultivators, it's not exclusive to Daoist couples. Although those who do it are usually Daoist couples, but..."

A thought she had never considered before arose in Mu Xiaoyu's mind: "Me and my senior brother? Daoist partners?"

She was startled by her own thought and almost fell off the bed, quickly shaking her head.

"No, no, no! Little Fish, what are you thinking! It's not a Daoist partner, it's not a Daoist partner, it's not a Daoist partner! It's a senior brother, it's a senior brother, it's a senior brother!"

She pinched her cheeks hard with her fingertips, as if punishing herself for her earlier thoughts.

She raised her hand and summoned the Mystic Crystal Mirror. A ray of dark light flew out from between her eyebrows and landed in her palm. The cool sensation spread through her fingertips, calming her down a bit.

The crystal mirror was held up in front of her, reflecting the slightly faded blush on her face—

For some reason, the Mystic Crystal Mirror could reflect her again after she broke through to the True Person realm, which was truly strange.

"Mu Xiaoyu, Mu Xiaoyu, how could you think such nonsense?"

Looking at herself in the mirror, Mu Xiaoyu murmured a self-admonition.

"Although in the mortal world, you should indeed be getting married at your age, you are now a cultivator. How can you be so preoccupied with those kinds of romantic stories?"

"And to think about your own senior brother like that, how shameless!"

"You should now focus on cultivation, aspire to the Great Dao, live up to the expectations of your senior brothers and uncles, and aim to become an immortal."

"Besides, you are now the abbot of Xuanzhen Temple, and you have to revitalize it. We can't let your senior brother's efforts on you go to waste..."

"Yes, cultivate diligently and revitalize the Xuanzhen Temple! Cultivate diligently and revitalize the Xuanzhen Temple!"

She slapped her cheeks hard: "Focus on your cultivation and revitalize the Xuanzhen Temple! Don't think about nonsense!"

……

Meanwhile, in Li Yinsheng's room.

He was in a daze while refining healing pills for Saintess Jingxuan.

The resounding sound of a great bell filled the air, and then the golden characters appeared.

[My Ambition for Cultivation: To Revitalize Xuanzhen Temple!]

As the current abbot of Xuanzhen Temple, the master of the grotto-heaven bears the responsibility and ambition to revitalize Xuanzhen Temple, and should strive to do so!

Moreover, the cultivation world is full of powerful forces, and lone cultivators cannot stand alone. Developing and expanding one's power is also very beneficial to cultivation.

We urge the Lord of the Grotto Heaven to revitalize the Xuanzhen Temple, transforming it from an obscure little Taoist temple into a behemoth recognized by all in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

As the prestige of Xuanzhen Temple increases, the standards recognized by the Ten Thousand Mountains will also gradually rise. Please explore on your own, Lord of the Grotto.

This cultivation journey has no duration. The lineage of Xuanzhen Temple will be extinguished, and this cultivation journey will end.

Cultivation Rewards:

The Xuanzhen Temple will be developed into a recognized third-rate force in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and will be rewarded with three hundred years of cultivation.

The reward for expanding Xuanzhen Temple into a recognized second-rate force in the Hundred Thousand Mountains is a thousand years of cultivation.

The reward for developing Xuanzhen Temple into a recognized first-class force in the Hundred Thousand Mountains is three thousand years of cultivation.

[To expand Xuanzhen Temple into a recognized top-tier power in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, rewarding ten thousand years of cultivation.]

Li Yinsheng was stunned.

"What's going on? Has the grotto gone mad? Why did it suddenly have this ambition for cultivation out of nowhere?" He couldn't help but scratch his head.

This ambition for spiritual practice came out of nowhere, and even the standards for it were somewhat inexplicable.

Although there are indeed generally accepted classifications of first, second, and third tiers among the human forces in the Ten Thousand Mountains, these are mainly judged by the realm of their own ancestor with the highest cultivation level.

However, it doesn't mean that just because the ancestor's cultivation level is high, he is necessarily at the corresponding level.

Ultimately, the terms "first-class," "second-class," and "third-class" are just general terms. There are no clear standards or consensuses in the vast mountains to evaluate the power of different factions.

Even if someone with nothing better to do brings it up, everyone will just laugh it off.

To determine the level of a power, besides the most important aspect of the patriarch's cultivation, many other factors must also be considered.

If we're really talking about Xuanzhen Temple now, with him holding the title of True Person, at the level of an ancestor, it's not inferior to other third-rate forces.

After all, the lowest level of a third-rate power is like the Taibai Sword Pavilion back then, which only had one ancestor at the level of a True Person.

Even the Taibai Sword Pavilion isn't the real bottom line, because Wei Xingchong is a sword cultivator and a prodigy, and his own Dharma body is likely to be a top-grade Dharma body.

The true bottom line is when an ancestor barely breaks through the Dharma Aspect realm, barely manages to condense a low-grade Dharma Aspect, and single-handedly supports the entire sect.

In Li Yinsheng's eyes, such a Dharma form couldn't even withstand the suppression of slow poison, and he wouldn't even bother to lift a finger in a real fight.

With him present, Xuanzhen Temple could clearly not be considered a "third-rate force."

The reason is not hard to understand. First of all, a sect with only three people cannot be considered a "power" in any way.

Moreover, the reputation of Xuanzhen Temple is limited to its own lineage and is clearly not widely recognized.

but……

Looking at the sentence, "As the prestige of Xuanzhen Temple increases, the standards recognized by the Ten Thousand Mountains will also gradually rise," he began to understand the situation.

The text repeatedly mentions the concept of "public recognition," indicating that the prestige and reputation of Xuanzhen Temple, as well as whether it has received sufficient recognition, are very important standards.

In other words, he needs a powerful force or cultivator with sufficient influence to endorse him.

Of course, this is on the premise that his own strength and the influence of Xuanzhen Temple can grow to a certain scale.

If he himself is neither a human immortal nor a ghost immortal, then he cannot possibly rely on hiring online trolls to make the people of the Ten Thousand Mountains recognize Xuanzhen Temple as a second-rate force.

Or, as it is now, the Xuanzhen Temple cannot be considered a real power at all.

Even though the Taoist lineage and other Taoist temples acknowledged his personal strength, their perception of Xuanzhen Temple was at most "promising in the future," rather than "currently a third-rate force," so they were unable to fulfill his ambition of cultivation.

Of course, it's possible that recognition from the lineage alone is not enough.

However, Li Yinsheng felt that this was unlikely, since the lineage itself was only a second-rate force, and its recognition should still be quite valuable.

If it's the former, then he really needs to find a way to expand the scale of Xuanzhen Temple in order to...

wrong.

Li Yinsheng rubbed his chin, and an idea suddenly came to mind.

If the lineage cannot be considered to have recognized it, it is because they know Xuanzhen Temple inside and out and do not think that Xuanzhen Temple, which currently only has three people, deserves to be called a third-rate force.

Would the other cultivators in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, who are unaware of the full extent of Xuanzhen Temple's existence and only know its strength, regard Xuanzhen Temple as a third-rate force?

If that works, then claiming the reward will be much easier.

And now he has a perfect opportunity to test this idea.

To be honest, the recognition of the Ten Thousand Mountains might not be enough for an ordinary peak-level demon king.

What about that pure-blooded Golden Crow at the peak of the Demon King realm?

What if this pure-blooded Golden Crow clearly holds a high position within the Demon Court?

What if this pure-blooded Golden Crow had another woman by his side, someone he couldn't even see through, who clearly had an extraordinary background?

He had never revealed to Chiling that he also came from the outside world.

Of course, he figured that with Chi Ling and Su Sheng's intelligence, they probably already had their suspicions, but they just hadn't brought it up.

In any case, this matter cannot be kept secret forever.

If Chi Ling, Su Sheng, and the other two women whose identities are also unknown can all "accept" the Xuanzhen Temple, then perhaps they can achieve the lowest level of cultivation.

It just so happens that the day has come to exchange essence with Miss Chiling again, and we will also invite her to teach our junior sister.

Why not take this opportunity to have a genuine exchange with her?

Li Yinsheng secretly made a plan.

Of course, this time, we can't tell the whole truth. If we tell them the whole story about Xuanzhen Temple, then Chiling and the others obviously won't regard Xuanzhen Temple as a "power".

At that time, we'll probably still need a bit of the art of language.

Chapter 210: The Miraculous Effect on the Golden Crow

In the room of the Holy Maiden Jingxuan at Li Yinsheng's residence.

She sat cross-legged on the futon, practicing breathing exercises, but the technique she used was not cultivation, but the Three Elements True Technique.

With Li Yinsheng helping her nourish her meridians and recover from her injuries, it became less necessary for her to heal herself through self-cultivation.

On the contrary, the fall of the Three Elements True Technique is somewhat troublesome.

Originally, her Three Elements True Techniques, except for the Heavenly Element True Technique which was only at the eighth level, had already reached the ninth level in both the Earthly Element True Technique and the Water Element True Technique.

However, due to the damage inflicted by using the Luo Tian San Shou technique, they have now fallen to only the sixth level.

Although it would be much easier to start over than to begin from scratch, she estimated that it would still take at least thirty or forty years of hard work.

Moreover, unlike healing, which can be aided by elixirs and the external power of others, she naturally had to take this matter more seriously.

After cultivating for a long time, she slowly opened her eyes.

Normally at this time, Li Yinsheng would come to give her medicine and help her heal her injuries.

Sure enough, a few moments later, there was a knock on the door.

"Fellow Daoist Li, please come in." Jingxuan was already half-lying on the bed.

Li Yinsheng pushed open the door and sat down next to Jingxuan, who then offered him her wrist.

With his fingers pressed against her wrist, Li Yinsheng skillfully infused his magic to heal her.

"Is there anything else you would like to ask Fellow Daoist Li since Luo Tiansan is in his hands?" Jingxuan asked.

These days, when Li Yinsheng was treating her injuries, he would always ask her for some tips on how to use or execute the Luo Tian San Shou technique, so she took the opportunity to ask him today as well.

However, this time Li Yinsheng shook his head.

Perhaps because of the different way of cultivating the Three Elements True Technique, he felt that the Luo Tian San Shou, which Jing Xuan described as profound and difficult to cultivate, was actually not that difficult.

Moreover, when he used the Luo Tian San Shou technique, the way the Three Yuan Qi circulated was quite different from what Jing Xuan had said.