Junior sister, I really need to control you

"Jiang Ningzhi, are you kidding me?" She suddenly stood up, took two steps forward, and pinched her best friend's cheeks with both hands, pulling them outwards. "Do I look that easy to fool?"

"I didn't lie! It's steamed!" Jiang Ningzhi mumbled, her face being pinched.

“Senior Shangguan, what my martial uncle said is indeed true.” Li Yinsheng, who was standing to the side, suppressed a laugh and testified on behalf of Jiang Ningzhi.

"I don't believe it!" Shangguan Ling'er released her best friend's flushed cheeks, put her hands on her hips, and glared at Li Yinsheng. "Also, don't call me senior! Call me fellow Daoist!"

"This isn't appropriate. You're my uncle's friend, and according to seniority..."

Li Yinsheng was interrupted by Shangguan Ling'er halfway through his sentence.

"What seniority! I no longer believe you two are martial uncle and nephew!"

Her gaze swept back and forth between Li Yinsheng and Jiang Ningzhi: "You say that you are actually Ningzhi's Daoist partner, whom she has kept secret from me for half her life, which is more believable than any twenty-two-year-old Great Master!"

"Ling'er!" Jiang Ningzhi blushed instantly. "What are you saying! Yin Sheng really is my... nephew!"

Fortunately, her face had already been pinched red, so the difference wasn't noticeable.

Li Yinsheng was also somewhat embarrassed: "Senior, I really am..."

"Do you know what a twenty-two-year-old Grand Master means? Do you know how many years it has been since a Grand Master under fifty has been born in our lineage? And you're telling me you're twenty-two?"

Shangguan Ling'er glared fiercely at Li Yinsheng: "Do you dare let me measure your age myself?"

"An age test?" Li Yinsheng was taken aback at first, then nodded. "Why not? Please, senior."

Without any hesitation, Shangguan Ling'er placed her hands on Li Yinsheng's shoulders and probed his body with her magic.

A few breaths later, she let out a soft exclamation.

She then released her hands from Li Yinsheng's shoulders, grabbed his wrists, and probed into his magic again.

"Huh?" Her expression changed. "I don't believe it!"

This time, she simply grabbed Li Yinsheng's hands with both of hers, interlocked their fingers, pressed their palms together, and poured her magic power into Li Yinsheng's palms.

"Huh? Could it really be?" A moment later, her eyes began to twitch.

"impossible!"

She released Li Yinsheng's hand and pressed and massaged his body with both hands, as if touching his bones, exploring almost his entire body, every limb and bone.

"Ling'er, that's enough! Yin Sheng is at least at the same cultivation level as you. You can't keep bullying him just because he has a good temper, can you?" Jiang Ningzhi said with some dissatisfaction.

Why take so long to measure age?

"Aaaaaah! I don't want to live anymore!!!"

Shangguan Ling'er shouted and flashed into the corner of the bedroom. She squatted down facing the corner of the wall and covered herself with the five-colored glass lamp that she had used to protect Uncle Jiang.

"Senior Shangguan? Senior Shangguan?"

Li Yinsheng called out twice, but the glass lamp magic treasure on her body seemed to have the function of isolating sound and divine sense. No matter how Li Yinsheng called her, she did not respond and continued to squat with her back to the two of them.

If it weren't for the wrong color of his clothes, Li Yinsheng would have suspected that this senior Shangguan was a cowardly mushroom that had become a spirit.

“It’s alright, Yinsheng, you don’t need to worry about her,” Uncle Jiang said with a smile. “She’s always been like this. When she’s in a bad mood, she doesn’t like to talk to people. Just let her be by herself for a while and she’ll be fine.”

"I haven't seen her like this in decades, and I really miss her."

The uncle's face showed no concern for his best friend, only a gloating smile.

"Decades?" Li Yinsheng noticed another key point and couldn't help but ask curiously, "How many years exactly?"

Jiang Ningzhi's smile froze instantly.

Chapter 85: Past Events of Xuanzhen Temple

In the afternoon, in Uncle Jiang's bedroom.

Shangguan Ling'er remained crouched in the corner, ignoring Li Yinsheng and Jiang Ningzhi.

Li Yinsheng simply sat down beside the couch and tried to use the wood element energy of the Azure Sky Sword to nourish his uncle's body.

In their previous conversation, he had also recounted to his martial uncle the events that had occurred on Bamboo Forest Peak, including the details of what had happened.

Perhaps because the Azure Sword had been nurtured by him for a hundred years, its wood element energy had become extremely pure and gentle, and the effect of nurturing his body was much better than he had expected.

Of course, his explanation to his martial uncle was that he was a cunning and ruthless man who had been cheated on by his uncle.

Unfortunately, he is not yet able to separate the Yin and Yang of the Wood element into Jia Wood and Yi Wood. Otherwise, using the Yi Wood element to nourish his uncle's body would likely be even more effective.

While she was recuperating, her martial uncle also told her that the senior Shangguan had brought a method that might help her recover.

Just as Shangguan Ling'er mentioned that this method was related to another Bixiao lineage, she sensed Li Yinsheng's aura and was interrupted.

Li Yinsheng didn't know much about the other lineages, only that there were twelve lineages under the entire Taihao Immortal Sect, and that the lineages were nominally equal to each other.

After his uncle explained it to him, he learned that the relationship between the Bixiao lineage and the Zhengyang lineage was quite distant.

The twelve lineages of the Taihao Immortal Sect belong to three different Dao Palaces.

One Taoist palace governs four lineages. Lineages under the same Taoist palace tend to be closer to each other.

The Zhengyang lineage belongs to the Yin-Yang Dao Palace. The other three lineages in the same palace are the Taiyang lineage, the Taiyin lineage, and the Zhengyin lineage.

The Bixiao lineage belongs to another Shenxiao Dao Palace, which also includes the Yuxiao lineage, Danxiao lineage, and Zixiao lineage.

The Zhengyang lineage and the Bixiao lineage belong to different Daoist palaces, so their relationship is naturally not very close.

Therefore, her uncle was also very worried. No matter what method the Bixiao lineage had to help her restore her cultivation, it probably wouldn't be easy to obtain.

Li Yinsheng was also worried, but he kept reassuring his uncle.

Besides, we should wait for that senior official to tell us the details before we can make a detailed plan.

After Li Yinsheng had treated her uncle's body, Shangguan Ling'er felt much more comfortable than usual, and finally unveiled the glass lamp.

"Oh? You've come to your senses?" Jiang Ningzhi covered her mouth and laughed.

Shangguan Ling'er showed no embarrassment, but looked at Li Yinsheng and Jiang Ningzhi, who were sitting close to each other but not engaging in any intimate behavior, and shook her head with a look of regret.

"Sigh, I've locked myself up for so long, and you two have been behaving so well. It seems we're really not a couple."

Jiang Ningzhi's face, which had already regained its fair complexion, suddenly flushed red: "You dare to trick me!"

Shangguan Ling'er looked smug.

"No, you don't have that kind of brain, and besides, your glass lamp doesn't isolate your own divine sense."

Jiang Ningzhi frowned slightly: "Even if you really think that Yin Sheng and I are Daoist partners, you shouldn't use it to trick me. Even if you're stupid, you wouldn't think I would fall for this kind of trick, would you?"

She stared at Shangguan Ling'er, her eyes narrowed slightly, and a smirk appeared on her lips: "You've actually broken down, but you're just trying to cover it up with these words, aren't you?"

Shangguan Ling'er's smug expression froze.

"Hmph!" A smug look appeared on Jiang Ningzhi's face.

Li Yinsheng, standing to the side, remained expressionless and indifferent.

Is this the intrigue and power struggles among the great masters? How treacherous!

Although there are three real people in this room, I am actually the only normal person.

Li Yinsheng was filled with emotion.

At the same time, his divine sense fell on his junior sister, who had endured the burning pain of the Blood Refining Pivot and completed her cultivation for the day.

He was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, sweating profusely, looking at his still slender and handsome self in the mirror, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

Seeing that she was preparing to fetch water for a bath, Li Yinsheng withdrew his divine sense and looked at Shangguan Ling'er.

"Ahem, although you may indeed be Ningzhi's junior disciple, please still call me fellow Daoist. Let's stick to our own way of addressing each other," Shangguan Ling'er said.

Since Shangguan Ling'er insisted, Li Yinsheng didn't hold back and directly addressed her as "fellow Daoist".

Seeing how cooperative Li Yinsheng was, Shangguan Ling'er's gaze towards him immediately became more affectionate.

"Fellow Daoist Li, when I was taking your age just now..."

She scrutinized Li Yinsheng's flawless face, her gaze becoming more serious: "You seem to have supplemented your studies with the True Blood Scripture, and you should have already reached the ninth or even tenth level?"

“It’s currently on the eleventh floor,” Li Yinsheng said frankly.

Since her martial uncle had already said that this fellow Daoist Shangguan was her sworn brother, there was no need to hide it from her.

Moreover, even though he says it's the eleventh floor, he himself isn't sure if it will become the twelfth floor in a while.

"Eleventh level!" Jiang Ningzhi's eyes widened. "Isn't your body refinement a secondary cultivation method? How can it be eleventh level!"

Li Yinsheng had already told her about his auxiliary cultivation of the body.

However, the eighth level of the True Blood Manual already gives one the potential to break through to the True Person realm, so the eleventh level of the True Blood Manual can hardly be considered a supplementary cultivation method!

“It wasn’t even eleven stories before; it was only recently completed,” Li Yinsheng explained.

Shangguan Ling'er, however, remained calm and composed, showing no signs of losing her composure.

After all, she had just lost her composure inside the glass lamp.

In fact, the main reason she broke down was when she tested Li Yinsheng's age and discovered that he was actually a body cultivator with extremely strong physical strength!

A twenty-two-year-old Grand Master was something she had never heard of before, let alone a Grand Master who cultivated the body!

Are you even human?

However, upon hearing Jiang Ningzhi mention supplementary cultivation, she raised an eyebrow and looked at Li Yinsheng, asking, "Are you a supplementary cultivator of the body?"

Li Yinsheng nodded.

"Nonsense! That's utter nonsense!" Shangguan Ling'er corrected her bluntly. "You clearly focus on cultivating your body, with Qi as a secondary cultivation method!"

"What makes you say that, Fellow Daoist Shangguan?" Li Yinsheng asked, puzzled.

“I recognize the cultivation technique you mainly practice; it’s clearly the Qingxuan True Scripture!” Shangguan Ling’er asked bluntly, “The upper limit of the Qingxuan True Scripture is much lower than that of the True Blood Secret Manual. You’re telling me that you mainly practice the Qingxuan True Scripture?”

Li Yinsheng fell silent.

What Shangguan Ling'er said doesn't seem to have any problems.

Although the Qingxuan True Scripture and the True Blood Secret Scripture are roughly at the same level in terms of overall quality, the difference in their upper limits is indeed enormous.

He had already reached the pinnacle of the Qingxuan True Scripture after two hundred years of cultivation. When he broke through to the Divine Travel Realm, he relied entirely on his accumulated cultivation to achieve the incredible strength that made bricks fly.

In detail, if we were to rank the Qingxuan True Scripture and the True Blood Secret Manual, the Qingxuan True Scripture would be superior to the True Blood Secret Manual before one achieves the status of a True Person.