Junior sister, I really need to control you

But now that he is a real person, not only is his spell power greatly increased, but learning spells is also much easier than before.

After examining the Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword without stopping, Li Yinsheng raised his hand and pointed, and a sword light appeared beside him.

Although the Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword is a sword technique, with his current cultivation level, it is not difficult for him to use his fingers instead of a sword.

A moment later, the sword light split into two.

After a while, the two sword lights turned into three.

About half an hour later, the fourth sword light also emerged.

Li Yinsheng nodded slightly and dissipated the sword light.

What would normally take a cultivator three to five years to master—four sword beams—was accomplished in him in just half an hour.

However, correspondingly, the current sword light is not very meaningful to him.

In terms of sheer power, if we're only talking about the four sword beams, they're not even as powerful as the two punches he throws casually.

"Hmm, judging by the time, Junior Sister should be up and cultivating now." Li Yinsheng put away the manual for the Two Elements Dividing Light Sword and muttered to himself.

"Junior sister has made good progress recently. Today, we can try adding another ten jin to the weight of the Tempering Yuan Lock."

"Then let her practice for two hours to warm up first."

"After the warm-up, I can teach her the Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword."

"The Two Elements Dividing Light Sword is quite easy to learn. If she works hard enough, she might be able to master the first sword light of the Two Elements Dividing Light Sword today."

"Yes, today was another fulfilling day."

Chapter 37 The Will to Cultivate, Honing Sword Techniques

In the meditation room of the abbot of Yutan Temple.

Meng Yu knelt respectfully before his master.

The abbess of Yutan Temple was a woman who looked to be in her early forties, with some signs of hardship around her eyes.

Unlike Meng Yu, who always had a cold expression, the abbot of Yutan Temple, while not always smiling, was at least not constantly surrounded by an aloof indifference that kept people at arm's length.

Moreover, at this moment, in front of her apprentice whom she had raised since childhood, she couldn't help but show a hint of affection on her face.

"Yu'er, why did you come back early? Are you not used to life as the shopkeeper?"

The woman put down the array diagram in her hand, looked at her apprentice, and comforted him.

“I know that with your personality, you won’t like managing a business. But since you will be taking over the management of Yutan Temple from me in the future, you need to gain experience beforehand.”

Meng Yu shook her head: "I'm doing well in the shop, Master, you don't need to worry."

"Then why did you suddenly come back?" the woman asked, puzzled.

“My disciple has returned because I have something to ask you,” Meng Yu said.

"Is there something you don't understand about the formation or your cultivation?" the woman asked kindly.

Meng Yu shook his head: "I met a cultivator from an unknown Taoist temple, and I was very curious about the temple he belonged to."

"Curious about the Taoist temple he belongs to?" The woman was taken aback, then a knowing smile appeared on her lips as she pressed for an answer.

"Oh? Yu'er, are you curious about the Taoist temple or the cultivator himself?"

Meng Yu's eyes darted away twice.

The woman chuckled softly, saying nothing, just staring straight at Meng Yu, her smile growing wider, clearly tinged with a mischievousness.

Suddenly, Meng Yu spoke up: "He should be two years younger than me."

"Mmm." The woman nodded in response, indicating that she was listening, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

“He is… extremely handsome,” Meng Yu’s voice lowered slightly, her earlobes turning a little red, “more handsome than any man I have ever seen.”

"Hmm, hmm!" The woman nodded as she listened, a mischievous smile appearing in the corners of her eyes.

"I was entrusted by him to help build a small spirit refining array for his Taoist temple," Meng Yu continued.

“It’s easy for you,” the woman nodded and smiled. “Well… I mean the part about setting up the magic circle.”

With her disciple's current mastery of array formations, she could even give it a try to oversee the construction of a large-scale spirit refining array.

However, if we're talking about other aspects... well, she still needs to practice.

"After arriving at the mountain peak of his Taoist temple, we encountered people from Huanghe Temple stealing their spiritual essence," Meng Yu continued.

The woman was taken aback.

Hmm? It seems like we've gone a bit off-topic. That's not what I'm concerned about.

"Then, without using any magical artifacts, he only used the White Blade Technique and the Artifact Manipulation Technique to subdue a cultivator whose cultivation level was slightly higher than mine and who possessed a high-grade magical artifact."

Meng Yu said calmly.

The woman's eyes widened immediately.

"Are you sure? Is that person really a few years younger than you?" she quickly pressed. "Did he really defeat his opponent so easily, using only melee combat and object manipulation techniques?"

Meng Yu nodded earnestly.

Although Li Yinsheng's melee and object manipulation techniques were unusually strong, she was not so sure that she would mistake these two techniques for each other.

The woman picked up a cup of tea, her brows furrowing slightly.

"So young, yet so handsome, and his cultivation is far superior to yours... I've never heard of any Taoist temple producing such a talented and beautiful person in all these years."

"However, with such talent and cultivation, they are most likely a prodigy from one of the top-ranked Taoist temples..."

She lowered her head and took a sip of tea, but before she could swallow, Meng Yu spoke again.

"The Taoist temple he works at is called Xuanzhen Temple," Meng Yu said immediately upon hearing her master mention the temple.

Her main reason for returning this time was her curiosity about the Xuanzhen Temple.

"Cough cough cough..."

Caught off guard and choking, the woman quickly put down her teacup, circulated her magic power, and calmed herself down.

"Xuanzhen Temple?! Are you sure?!" Her voice cracked slightly.

Meng Yu nodded, looking at her master with a somewhat strange expression.

How can you be unsure? The core of the formation can only be set up inside someone's temple.

"Xuanzhen Temple... It's impossible, it doesn't make sense, no temple could possibly be Xuanzhen Temple..."

The woman frowned and muttered to herself.

"Why couldn't it be Xuanzhen Temple?" Meng Yu asked.

The woman took a light breath, but did not answer. Instead, she took out a scroll of portrait from her Qiankun bag, used her object manipulation technique to hang it up, and unfolded it in front of her disciple.

The painting depicts a man with a handsome face and a refined demeanor, dressed in a simple black Taoist robe.

The woman, holding up a portrait, asked her disciple, "Is the monk you mentioned named Li Yinsheng? Does he look like this?"

Meng Yu nodded subconsciously.

The painting is exquisitely detailed, and the Li Yinsheng in the painting is exactly the same as the one she had seen, only lacking a bit of the spirit.

She suddenly realized what was happening, looked up at her master, and her eyes were filled with doubt.

"Master? How do you know Fellow Daoist Li? And even have his paintings?"

The woman's face stiffened, and after a pause, she said, "Uh... it was a gift from a friend of mine who is passionate about painting."

"Then why did Master's friend paint Fellow Daoist Li?" Meng Yu was even more puzzled.

The woman's face stiffened even more.

Why? What else could it be?

Of course, it's because Li Yinsheng's portrait has long been popular among female cultivators who practice dual cultivation techniques within the Zhengyang lineage!

Female cultivators who practice dual cultivation techniques often like to find handsome Daoist partners, and they often exchange portraits of handsome male cultivators from the same lineage.

A few years ago, a portrait of an extremely handsome man suddenly appeared in the hands of a female cultivator. It became an instant sensation, and within a month, countless copies were made.

Later, this portrait was no longer only circulated among female cultivators practicing the dual cultivation path; many female cultivators of other cultivation paths also collected it.

The female cultivator who first painted this picture did not know who the person in her painting was. She simply encountered the person by chance on the street of Baoguang Temple and quickly cast a spell to paint it.

However, when the painting soon fell into the hands of several highly skilled seniors, some of whom had even achieved the status of True Person, the identity of the person in the painting was quickly discovered.

Then the female cultivators, who were initially extremely excited and eager to try, were suddenly dampened.

Li Yinsheng, the acting abbot of Xuanzhen Temple, was also the only disciple of Xuanzhen Temple.

The lineage has never imposed any restrictions on cultivators seeking partners in the dual cultivation path, only requiring that it be consensual and that coercion or force be strictly prohibited, let alone the heretical practice of sexual exploitation.

Otherwise, you'll have to witness the heavenly lightning of the law-wielding cultivators within the lineage.

But Li Yinsheng is different; the current state of Xuanzhen Temple is far too sensitive.

If you want Li Yinsheng to be your Daoist partner, you can't force him, no matter what.

Because theoretically he is now the master of Xuanzhen Temple, but Xuanzhen Temple exists in name only.

In a sense, taking down Li Yinsheng would be equivalent to taking over Xuanzhen Temple and the spiritual veins within Xuanzhen Peak, thus gaining actual control over the spiritual veins.

When it comes to matters involving spiritual veins, that's considered crossing the red line of the Dharma lineage.

The allocation of all spiritual veins is decided solely by the lineage, and no Taoist temple is allowed to overstep this boundary, not even by skirting the rules.

If you dare to violate this rule, then you can expect the law-abiding monks to come to the temple and have a cup of tea with everyone.

Therefore, over the years, no highly skilled dual cultivation practitioner has dared to directly contact Li Yinsheng.

Even though two masters were quite interested in Li Yinsheng and had openly said they wanted to take him as a male concubine, they said that they would only let Li Yinsheng follow them after the Xuanzhen Temple was disbanded and the spiritual veins were taken back by the Dharma veins.

There are many lustful people in the world, and even more lustful people who practice the dual cultivation method.

But lust is one thing, but taking risks for it is another. Such irrational lustful demons are extremely rare.

Of course, the abbess of Yutan Temple has nothing to do with the practice of dual cultivation; she simply has a close friend who practices it.

This painting was a gift from her best friend.