Junior sister, I really need to control you.

On Bamboo Forest Peak, at the Shouyi Temple's residence.

Li Yinsheng scanned the peak back and forth with his divine sense.

After his divine sense underwent a qualitative change, he could sense that something was wrong with the mountain peak, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what was wrong.

Of course, if the soul leaves the body, the divine sense will be more acute, and more clues will certainly be discovered.

However, with Fellow Daoist Qi and Vice Abbot Liang of Huangzhu Temple on their way to Shouyi Temple, it was clearly not a good time to immediately send their souls out of their bodies to investigate.

Let's wait until we've dealt with the matters at Shouyi Temple and returned to our own rooms before discussing this further.

Li Yinsheng walked into the bamboo hut whose roof he had ripped off, sat in the chair that had previously belonged to the deputy abbot, and raised his hand to point at the ritual lamp in the central bamboo hut. The lamp shone brightly.

"Don't just stand there, come and sit down," Li Yinsheng said to Mu Xiaoyu. "The Daoist friends from Huangzhu Temple are arriving soon, sit down and wait."

"Um!"

Mu Xiaoyu sat down on the bamboo chair next to Li Yinsheng, took out two pieces of deer cake from her Qiankun bag, and was about to hand one of them to her senior brother when she froze.

It was dark at night, and she hadn't used her divine sense, so she couldn't see things very clearly.

At that moment, Li Yinsheng lit the lamp, and the light shone brightly, making the surroundings almost like daytime. She looked at her senior brother and suddenly realized—

Has my senior brother become more handsome?

She knew her senior brother was already good-looking, but now, although his features hadn't changed, his skin seemed to have gotten even better.

Mu Xiaoyu stared intently at Li Yinsheng's face, her gaze moving from his forehead to the bridge of his nose, then from the bridge of his nose to his cheeks, and down to his lips and chin...

There is absolutely no flaw in it.

"My senior brother's skin is much better than mine..." Mu Xiaoyu was filled with envy.

"What are you looking at?" Li Yinsheng asked.

Mu Xiaoyu, who was intently observing Li Yinsheng, was startled and quickly handed over the deer cake she was holding: "Here you go, senior brother!"

Li Yinsheng accepted the deer cake without ceremony and took a bite.

"Senior brother," Mu Xiaoyu asked uncertainly, "has your skin improved?"

"You noticed?" Li Yinsheng didn't intend to hide it. "My cultivation technique has made a breakthrough, which is just a small, insignificant benefit brought about by this breakthrough."

Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up: "Is it the effect of the Qingxuan True Scripture? Which level can produce this effect?"

Previously, she was just a little envious of her senior brother, but she didn't have any particular thoughts about it. After all, appearance is something you can't force.

But upon hearing that the technique could have such effects if practiced well, he immediately became interested.

"It's not the effect of the Qingxuan True Scripture, it's another technique." Li Yinsheng shook his head.

"Huh?" Mu Xiaoyu was immediately disappointed. "Then why didn't you let me practice that technique, Senior Brother?"

"If I had known there were techniques that could make people more beautiful, I wouldn't have practiced the Qingxuan True Scripture. It's tiring and doesn't make you any prettier..." she pouted.

"If you want to learn, Junior Sister, I can teach you now," Li Yinsheng said with a smile. "This technique is called the True Blood Secret Manual, and it is a body-refining technique."

"Body tempering?" Mu Xiaoyu immediately became alert. "Is this technique tiring?"

"Um……"

This question stumped Li Yinsheng.

Strictly speaking, the True Blood Manual, a cultivation method that focuses on refining blood, isn't actually that tiring to practice.

The main problem is the pain.

His method of tempering his qi and blood is to refine the Bing fire qi in the blood pivot. When cultivating, it feels like being burned by raging fire, causing unbearable pain.

But the Blood Refining Pit is useless against my junior sister.

This thing is a cultivation tool with both great advantages and disadvantages. If cultivation in the cave heaven does not consume mental energy, this thing is not only a consumable that cannot be used for long, but it will also slow down normal cultivation. The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

While it's true that normal cultivators can supplement their combat power by cultivating their bodies, it's difficult to reach a very high level, so it's not very worthwhile.

Therefore, he never considered letting his junior sister cultivate the True Blood Scripture.

But when Mu Xiaoyu brought it up, Li Yinsheng suddenly remembered.

While the normal cultivation of the True Blood Manual is slow, there are actually ways to achieve faster results.

However, it requires the assistance of body-tempering elixirs of the "heavenly treasure" level.

He knew this when he first found the True Blood Manual. The True Blood Manual cannot be aided by ordinary medicinal materials, but rare and precious herbs are still useful.

Moreover, using rare and precious materials for rapid cultivation has no side effects other than condensing and amplifying the pain of body tempering during the cultivation process due to the excessively fast cultivation speed.

There is no difference in quality between a True Blood Manual cultivated by oneself and one cultivated with the aid of spiritual herbs.

At the time, he didn't pay any attention to this point. He only planned to use the cave and the Blood Refining Pivot to gradually improve the True Blood Scripture.

But for him now, the rare and precious natural materials that have the effect of tempering the body, although extremely precious, do not seem so out of reach.

If we have the opportunity to obtain rare and precious materials for body tempering in the future, we can really let our junior sister supplement her training in the True Blood Scripture. This technique is indeed quite good.

If we can find a body-tempering elixir before the Shaoyang Dao exam, and help my junior sister master the True Blood Scripture, wouldn't our chances of winning a second or even first grade be much greater?

Thinking of this, Li Yinsheng's eyes lit up.

Facing the wary Mu Xiaoyu, Li Yinsheng smiled warmly: "Cultivating the True Blood Secret Manual isn't too tiring. It's just that normal cultivation is very slow, and you need rare and precious materials to help you complete it quickly."

"Oh..." Mu Xiaoyu was a little disappointed.

"However, if you have the ambition, Junior Sister, I can help you keep an eye out for rare and precious herbs that can temper your body," Li Yinsheng said with a smile. "Once you find them, you can start cultivating the True Blood Scripture."

Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up: "Senior brother, you're so kind!"

"However, practicing body-refining techniques inevitably involves some pain," Li Yinsheng reminded her. "Junior Sister, you should be mentally prepared."

Mu Xiaoyu hesitated for only a moment before gritting her teeth and nodding: "Senior brother, I'm not afraid!"

"Aren't you afraid?" Li Yinsheng asked, somewhat surprised.

Are you still the same cunning, lazy, gluttonous, and slippery junior sister I know?

"Anyway, I've already endured the pain of the bone marrow cleansing. If I can become more beautiful in the same amount of time," Mu Xiaoyu took a deep breath, her face full of determination, "I can endure it!"

Anyway, it probably won't hurt as much as the bone marrow cleansing, right?

Moreover, my senior brother is not very old, yet he has mastered the True Blood Secret Manual to the point where he can become more handsome, which proves that the technique should not be difficult to learn.

At worst, I'll just give up on further training once I've practiced to the point where I can look good.

Mu Xiaoyu was secretly plotting something.

At the same time, Qi Jiushan and Deputy Abbot Liang arrived almost simultaneously from the mountainside and the summit, respectively, and fell from the sky.

Seeing the near annihilation of the audience below, the two who had fallen, along with the female stall owner brought by Qi Jiushan, were all stunned.

It wasn't until a lucky disciple of Shouyi Temple, who hadn't been completely stunned by the electric shock, let out a muffled groan of pain that Vice Abbot Liang was awakened.

"Fellow Daoist Li, what... what is this...?"

A look of amazement and delight flashed in Vice Abbot Liang's eyes.

He had just discovered through the array used to monitor the movements in the mountains that a battle seemed to have broken out at the Shouyi Temple's outpost, so he rushed over immediately.

At the time, he guessed that it might be Li Yinsheng and Shouyi Temple who made the move, since among the people present, only Li Yinsheng and the steward of Shouyi Temple had ever had a conflict.

To avoid Li Yinsheng suffering too much loss, he used his magical artifact at full power on the way here, not daring to stop for a moment.

But when I arrived, this was the scene before me.

Li Yinsheng and Mu Xiaoyu stood unharmed, while almost all the cultivators in the Shouyi Temple were caught in the magic weapon net and electrocuted to a crisp.

While marveling at the formidable talent of the younger generation, he also felt a sense of satisfaction.

Shouyiguan and his gang, who had been running rampant everywhere, finally ran into a brick wall and suffered their just deserts.

But the pleasure was followed by a headache.

With such a big incident, how are we going to explain this to Shouyi Temple?

"Fellow Daoist Liang," Li Yinsheng stood up and explained, "these people from Shouyi Temple have been deliberately targeting and bullying the stewards of my Xuanzhen Temple. They've gone too far, and I couldn't stand it, so I took action and taught them a lesson."

"That's right!" Qi Jiushan also realized what was happening and pulled over the female stall owner beside him. "Senior brother, my junior sister Yunqin just reported to me that Shouyi Temple did indeed provoke us first!"

The female stall owner nodded timidly: "Me and many disciples around me have heard the people from Shouyi Temple say that it was the temple that instructed them to cause trouble for Xuanzhen Temple."

"This..." Vice Abbot Liang looked troubled. "I am all too familiar with the domineering style of Shouyi Temple, and I know that the fault certainly does not lie with Fellow Daoist Li."

"But Shouyi Temple has always been domineering, and I'm afraid they won't let this matter rest." Vice Abbot Liang shook his head repeatedly.

A deputy abbot, a deacon, and many disciples were all captured in one fell swoop.

Let alone the notoriously domineering Shouyi Temple, even a small Taoist temple like Huanghe Temple, which ranks near the bottom, couldn't possibly pretend nothing happened, right?