Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Inside the shop of the casting furnace.

After getting a general understanding of what had happened, Li Yinsheng chatted with the shopkeeper for a while and offered her some words of comfort before getting to the point.

"Shopkeeper, do you still have any divine sense jade slips for sale in your shop?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"A jade slip containing divine sense?" The female shopkeeper was taken aback and couldn't help but say, "Senior seems to really enjoy buying niche items."

Li Yinsheng smiled but didn't say anything.

If it weren't for his junior sister's special circumstances, he really wouldn't have bought this thing.

"Fortunately, you've come to the right place. Our Casting Furnace Temple has a rich collection, and we do have a few jade slips containing divine sense. I'll go and get them for you right away."

After the female shopkeeper finished speaking, she did not call a maid to run errands, but turned around and left to fetch it herself.

After eating several plates of snacks, and even asking the maid to bring several more plates of pastries, Mu Xiaoyu finally stopped eating.

She looked at Li Yinsheng curiously: "Senior brother? What is a Divine Sense Jade Slip?"

"It's a magical artifact that allows you to repeatedly inscribe information into it with your divine sense," Li Yinsheng said. "It's not cheap; it usually costs several thousand talismans."

"That's really expensive. A few thousand talismans could buy dozens of sacks of snacks." Mu Xiaoyu nodded. "What's the point of selling it for such a high price? Is it only for recording?"

"After the cultivator inscribes the information inside with their divine sense, the user can directly memorize the information simply by using their own divine sense to absorb it."

Li Yinsheng explained, "To give an example, I use my divine sense to record the entire Taoist scripture, and then you use your divine sense to absorb it into your mind."

"Then you will remember this Taoist scripture firmly, which is equivalent to memorizing it word for word after spending a long time."

"It's like a magical tool specifically designed to help people quickly memorize scriptures or other complex information."

Li Yinsheng smiled at Mu Xiaoyu and said, "Junior Sister, although you have already achieved some cultivation since you came up the mountain, you lack a foundation in scriptures, which will make things increasingly difficult for you later on."

"If you want to make up for this lack of foundation by studying the classics, it will take at least two or three years, studying hard at your desk every day. And you can't not study. Without a foundation in the classics, you won't even be able to understand the later levels of the Qingxuan True Scripture."

"However, if we could use the divine sense jade slip, it would be much faster," he said with a smile.

Mu Xiaoyu was stunned for a few moments, then almost jumped up from her chair.

"Senior brother, I don't think this spiritual jade slip is expensive!" Her eyes sparkled. "If I had a treasure like this when I was studying with the teacher, I wouldn't have had to memorize texts every day!"

They wouldn't get their hands slapped by the teacher for not finishing memorizing the text.

"But it's not too late now!" Mu Xiaoyu chuckled. "Actually, I've been worried about this before. Senior brother, you said that new disciples have to study scriptures for a few years before they can join the sect."

"Senior brother, you are so kind. You taught me cultivation before even letting me recite scriptures or read books. But who knows, I might have to catch up on all the scriptures I haven't read yet someday."

"I hate studying the most. Now that I have this treasure, studying the scriptures will be much easier, right?" Mu Xiaoyu said happily.

Li Yinsheng shook his head and chuckled at Mu Xiaoyu's naiveté.

If it's really that useful, then why is it considered an "unpopular" item by the female shopkeeper?

The Divine Consciousness Jade Slip sounds convenient and simple, a shortcut to learning scriptures, but in reality it is extremely troublesome.

First of all, just using one's divine sense to inscribe information requires a high level of cultivation and divine sense, and it is also extremely mentally taxing.

Because this is not a message from the divine consciousness, but a transmission of memories by the divine consciousness, which is to directly implant information into someone else's mind, the inscription of scriptures must be done with great care.

Moreover, the content burned into it is disposable. Once someone has used it, the burned content will disappear, and if you want the next person to use it, you have to burn it again.

It's impossible to burn a single copy and then benefit all new disciples.

It's like having a highly skilled cultivator spend a considerable amount of time just to save a newly initiated disciple the time of memorizing texts.

People without a strong background cannot enjoy this kind of treatment.

Of course, for a true person like Li Yinsheng, whose divine sense is extremely powerful and who has also cultivated a special soul-tempering technique, recording it would be a piece of cake.

But to have a real person personally inscribe a jade slip containing one's divine consciousness—the person receiving such treatment must have an incredibly profound background.

Secondly, when using the Divine Sense Jade Slip, a large amount of information is forcibly flooded into the mind in a short period of time, so it is inevitable that some dizziness and headaches will occur.

Even with normal memorization and study, one will still feel dizzy and lightheaded after a long time, let alone with the divine jade slip.

However, Li Yinsheng believed that with his junior sister's firm will, she would definitely be able to overcome it.

And most importantly, remembering something doesn't mean you truly understand it.

The "memorization" that the Divine Sense Jade Slip brings to the user is the kind of complete rote memorization, which is useless in itself.

After memorizing them, someone still needs to explain and interpret the scriptures so that the disciples can understand them and apply them to their cultivation.

The Divine Sense Jade Slip can only save time for memorizing texts, not for studying them.

That's why Li Yinsheng had to set aside at least half an hour for his junior sister every day after that—she had to attend classes.

During this period, Li Yinsheng would personally explain the scriptures to her, helping her to quickly fill in the gaps in her understanding of the scriptures.

When Li Yinsheng was studying the scriptures, he didn't have the good conditions of having a divine jade slip.

He could only memorize the Taoist scriptures that filled two entire bookshelves by himself. Fortunately, his senior uncle explained things to him, so he didn't have to figure things out on his own.

According to the study plan he assigned to his junior, it should be possible to compress two or three years of study into a few months.

Of course, this would be much harder than studying normally for two or three years. After all, even with the help of the divine jade slip, my junior sister only had half an hour of class every day.

At most, you can extend her time by one hour.

Therefore, the intensity of studying for half an hour or an hour will inevitably be higher.

A moment later, the female shopkeeper returned with several jade slips containing divine sense.

According to her, these jade slips containing divine sense had been accumulated over several years, and their quality varied slightly, so the price ranged from five thousand five hundred to eight thousand talisman coins.

Before Li Yinsheng could say anything, Mu Xiaoyu waved her Qiankun bag, indicating that she would pay and wanted the best one!

Her idea was very clear—this jade slip was obviously meant to save her the pain of memorizing texts, so she definitely had to buy the best one!

Mu Xiaoyu was willing to buy it herself, and Li Yinsheng didn't stop her, but the necessary bargaining process still had to be followed.

After some haggling with the shopkeeper, Mu Xiaoyu bought the divine consciousness jade slip, which originally cost eight thousand talismans, for five thousand talismans.

After inquiring about Li Yinsheng's intended use for the Divine Sense Jade Slip, the female shopkeeper also gave him some free gifts.

……

That evening, at Xuanzhen Temple.

With the help of the White Rainbow Sword, Mu Xiaoyu mastered the third sword light and was then taken to the Sutra Repository by Li Yinsheng.

Then she realized that her senior brother's promise that she could "practice swordsmanship for half an hour less" actually meant "use the saved half hour to study scriptures!"

At first, she sat down at the table with a smile, thinking that since she had the jade slip containing divine consciousness, studying scriptures and reading books wouldn't be tiring.

Then she realized that when receiving knowledge through the divine consciousness jade slip, it felt like "the top of her head was opened and someone was pouring water into it".

After using the Divine Sense Jade Slip for the first time, Mu Xiaoyu touched her head from left to right.

She always had the illusion that her head was being stretched out of shape by knowledge.

She was then pressed down in front of the table by Li Yinsheng and began to listen to her senior brother explain the verses of scripture that she had forcibly memorized but still did not understand.

Moreover, she didn't know why, but her senior brother seemed to be able to detect with extreme precision whether she was distracted or not.

As a result, she spent almost half an hour listening to her senior brother's lecture without stopping!

After half an hour of fussing, Mu Xiaoyu collapsed limply onto the table as Li Yinsheng said, "That's all for today."

She rested her chin on the table, looked up at Li Yinsheng with teary eyes, and said, "Senior brother... I want to practice swordsmanship..."

"Junior sister, you must learn the scriptures, otherwise you won't even be able to understand the cultivation techniques in the future." Li Yinsheng's tone was kind, but not stern.

"Waaah..." Mu Xiaoyu covered her face.

Didn't I come here to cultivate immortality? Why do I need to study to cultivate immortality?!

This isn't how cultivation should be done!

After wailing in her heart for a long time, Mu Xiaoyu had no choice but to accept reality and could only find joy in her suffering and console herself.

"Let's look on the bright side. Although we still have to study now that we're up in the mountains, at least it won't be like at home, where we not only have to study but also take tests..."

The tutor at home was very strict. Every three days, he would give her a small test and a test paper to judge how well she had learned.

If you don't do well on the exam, you'll be punished by copying the answers, or even by getting your hands slapped!

Hearing Mu Xiaoyu mutter to herself, Li Yinsheng was somewhat surprised: "How did you know I prepared exam materials for you, junior sister?"

Mu Xiaoyu sprang to her feet, staring wide-eyed at Li Yinsheng.

In her despairing gaze, Li Yinsheng pulled a stack of exam papers from his Qiankun bag.

"These are free gifts from the shopkeeper. She said that all the Taoist temples use these exam papers specifically to test the new disciples' studies. They are usually tested every seven days or half a month."

"However, junior sister, you learn much faster than them, so you can write a whole volume every day after you finish learning."

"No, even writing one scroll a day won't keep up with your pace of learning the scriptures. Let's write two scrolls a day then..."

Mu Xiaoyu stood there blankly, her face ashen, as if the sounds around her were gradually fading away.