Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Chapter 91 Three months later, the withered and flourishing spirit.

In front of the main hall of Xuanzhen Temple.

Li Yinsheng and Shangguan Ling'er were discussing Dao under the eaves of the main hall, while Mu Xiaoyu, holding the Cold Leaf Sword, was practicing the Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword.

She practiced even harder than Li Yinsheng had expected.

He originally thought that with the help of the Blood Refining Pivot, it would be quite fast if his junior sister could completely refine the mother worm in seven or eight months.

But now, only three months have passed, and she has already refined half of the mother insect, and her cultivation has increased by twelve or thirteen years.

Adding to her original ten years of cultivation, she now has more than twenty years of cultivation, surpassing Ji Yinsheng before she met him.

She has now reached the fifth level of the Qingxuan True Scripture.

Li Yinsheng estimated that after another three months, when she had completely refined the mother worm, she should be able to reach the sixth level.

Then I can give her the Cold Bright Sword and the brass incense burner.

For Li Yinsheng, who is now a Great Immortal, these two high-grade magic artifacts are no longer of much use.

At that time, although my junior sister's cultivation level will not be able to unleash the true power of a high-grade magic weapon, it will be sufficient for her to make initial use of it.

In addition, her Yin-Yang Dividing Light Sword has been mastered to have thirty-one sword lights.

For Li Yinsheng, who has now mastered 512 sword beams, guiding his junior sister in cultivating the Splitting Light Sword is an extremely simple task.

This was only because he had his junior sister focus her main energy on cultivation; otherwise, the sword light should have exceeded thirty-five.

However, if she adds another sword light, reaching thirty-two, she will receive a reward of sixteen years of cultivation.

Li Yinsheng currently lacks a magical artifact that can assist his cultivation like the Blood Refining Pivot, so directly claiming the reward would be a slight loss. Therefore, he needs to go to the Forging Furnace Temple first.

He originally planned to visit the Casting Furnace Temple within a month of returning, but Shangguan Ling'er's appearance disrupted his plans.

Although he directly learned the Six Explanations of Withering and Flourishing and a large number of annotations through the jade slip of his consciousness, the cultivation method is not something that can be mastered simply by thinking about it.

No matter how moderate and peaceful the Qingxuan True Scripture is, and how easy it is to practice, it still requires a process.

Although Shangguan Lingji herself did not specialize in the Six Explanations of Withering and Flourishing, she cultivated the Way of the Five Elements, and the wood element part of it provided many references for her own Six Explanations of Withering and Flourishing.

Therefore, she was able to provide a lot of guidance when Li Yinsheng switched majors.

For the past three months, Shangguan Ling'er has been staying at Xuanzhen Temple, discussing Daoist principles with Li Yinsheng every day, so he has temporarily put aside his plan to go to Zhulu Temple.

Although she claimed that her energy was spread across the five elements and that she did not focus on any one of them, in actual discussions, Li Yinsheng was certain that her attainment in the wood element alone far surpassed that of Master Lang, who mainly cultivated the wood and wind elements.

If she possesses this level of expertise in the other four elements, as well as in the overall interaction of the five elements, then that would be truly astonishing.

Moreover, perhaps because she had a senior martial uncle as a contact, and because Li Yinsheng had practiced her family's martial arts, she rarely concealed anything when she was with Li Yinsheng.

According to her own account, apart from the Wood element which referenced the Six Explanations of Withering and Flourishing, she also referenced four other immortal cultivation methods of similar quality for the other four elements.

Thanks to her guidance on the Way of Wood, Li Yinsheng only spent three months transforming his foundation in the Pure Profound Scripture into the foundation of the Six Unifications of Withering and Flourishing.

He is currently at the Divine Travel Realm. After switching cultivation methods, he directly cultivated the Six Unifications of Withering and Flourishing into one withering and one flourishing, and is currently at the second level of the Withering Realm.

Afterwards, one must first cultivate to the second level of the Glory Realm, and then perfect the second level of the Glory Realm as well, and then one can break through to the Dharma Aspect Realm.

Although cultivators in the Dry Realm do not excel in combat power, even now, while he is still in the Dry Realm, the quality and quantity of his magical power are far superior to what they were before he switched to cultivation.

Furthermore, before completing the transformation, he did not waste the Pure Profound Divine Light, and helped his junior sister to completely complete the Cleansing and Marrow Cleansing of the Pure Profound Divine Light.

If you want to improve further in the future, you will need to find some more advanced marrow cleansing methods than the Pure Profound Divine Light.

"Yinsheng," Shangguan Ling'er said, "didn't you say you were going to the Casting Furnace Temple? When are you going?"

"Today," Li Yinsheng said, "would Miss Shangguan like to come along?"

Over the past three months, she and Li Yinsheng have become quite familiar with each other. They have gone from calling each other "fellow Daoist" to her calling Li Yinsheng by his name, while Li Yinsheng calls her "Miss Shangguan".

"Since we have nothing else to do, let's go together," Shangguan Ling'er said with a smile. "We can ask them if they have any way to repair Ningzhi's White Rainbow Sword."

"If they can't do anything, you'll have to come with me to the Dharma lineage," she said, toying with a small, dark-colored Ruyi in her palm. "But the Dharma lineage is quite far from here."

"Hopefully, the Casting Furnace Temple has a solution," Li Yinsheng said.

As he spoke, he pointed vaguely at the peach saplings not far away.

A tender green light flew from his fingertips and landed on the peach sapling. The sapling, which was originally a foot tall, trembled slightly, grew an inch taller, and sprouted two new buds.

This is the wondrous spirit born after the Six Transformations of Withering and Flourishing have achieved the transformation of one withering and one flourishing.

The withering and flourishing spiritual energy is somewhat similar to the pure and mysterious divine light. It is also born independently of magical power and requires a long time to recover after being consumed, but its functions are quite different.

Spiritual energy has two uses: withering and flourishing. When used for withering, it is self-evident that it poses a great threat to all living beings. At best, it will shorten their lifespan; at worst, it will cause them to die on the spot.

However, it has many ingenious uses when used in Rongshi.

Besides its basic function of helping people recover quickly from injuries, the Life-Giving Breath can also restore and even extend a person's lifespan.

And like just now, there are ways to accelerate the growth of spiritual plants and demons without side effects, but you can't overdo it at once.

This peach seedling grew from the peach pit left behind by the ancient sacrificial spirit. It was originally extremely difficult for it to grow. When he went to the front of Bamboo Forest Peak, it only sprouted a small bud, and there was not much change after he returned.

But during this time, under his daily stimulation with the essence of withering and flourishing, it has grown to a foot tall.

Although they aren't growing very fast, at least there's hope that they'll grow to maturity.

In addition, he used the essence of decay and prosperity to treat his uncle's body and restore some of his lifespan. However, his uncle's condition was more serious. Even though he consumed a lot of the essence of decay and prosperity, he only helped his uncle restore his lifespan to twenty years.

He didn't reveal to his uncle that his lifespan was coming to an end. His uncle hadn't told him this, simply because he was afraid of making him worry.

Once he helps his martial uncle recover his cultivation, his lifespan will naturally return to normal.

According to the Six Stages of Withering and Flourishing, he is currently only at the stage of one withering and one flourishing. Although the effect of the withering and flourishing spiritual energy in restoring and prolonging lifespan is already quite good, it is far from reaching its limit.

Once he cultivates to the point of two withering and two flourishing, or even three withering and three flourishing, he estimates that he will gain an extra 150 years of lifespan.

Even after consuming an extremely large amount of withering and flourishing spiritual energy, it can still help other cultivators increase their lifespan by up to sixty years.

Therefore, a great cultivator who has successfully cultivated the Sixfold Path of Withering and Flourishing, although not an alchemist himself, holds a slightly more prestigious position than an alchemist.

After all, only a very few top-tier alchemy masters can refine pills that can increase lifespan by fifty years, and the cost of the materials is considerable.

However, Li Yinsheng didn't feel any urgency about his lifespan. He didn't use the withering and flourishing spiritual energy to extend his lifespan at all, but instead used a portion of it to cultivate the Crimson Yao Mosquitoes.

He used the essence of decay and growth to accelerate the growth of the Crimson Yao Mosquito. Once mature, the Crimson Yao Mosquito would lay eggs, and then he would use his own true blood to hatch new Crimson Yao Mosquitoes, and then accelerate their maturation again.

After all this fuss, the number of Crimson Mosquitoes in his Spirit Insect Cage had increased to nearly two hundred in just three months.

However, with so much consumption in various aspects, most of the withering and flourishing spiritual energy generated after the transformation has been used up. If it is to recover normally, it will probably take more than ten years.

Fortunately, when he went into seclusion to receive sixteen years of cultivation, his withered spiritual energy was able to recover somewhat.

"Miss Shangguan, let's go."

"After today's intensive care for the peach seedlings was completed, Li Yinsheng stood up and said."

"Um!"

Shangguan Ling'er also stood up, made a hand seal with her fingertips, and the black and white flower ornament by her ear flew out, turning into a size of about ten feet, and quietly floating.

"Your sword is too flashy and not suitable for traveling. You should ride my Qiluodian instead."

Your floral decoration doesn't look particularly understated.

Li Yinsheng thought to himself, "This is ridiculous."

This Miss Shangguan is far too extravagant.

So far, the magical treasures he has seen on Shangguan Ling'er include the Five-Colored Glazed Lamp, the Jade Ruyi, the short sword transformed from a hairpin, and now the Qiluodian.

The clothes she wore were also a treasure far superior to the silver silk robe, and their value and function should be no less than that of a magic weapon.

Moreover, she still has a natal magic weapon that she hasn't taken out yet.

All he had on him, at most, were the Azure Sword and the Shadowless Banner, which he had already refined.

The Azure Sword is still in its growth stage, and the Shadowless Banner is even more ordinary.

Compared to Shangguan Ling'er, he felt extremely poor.

"Then thank you very much, Miss Shangguan, for giving me a ride on the next leg of the journey," Li Yinsheng smiled and waved to Mu Xiaoyu, who was still practicing her martial arts. "Junior sister, let's go to the Casting Furnace Temple."

"Oh!" Mu Xiaoyu cheered, immediately sheathed the Cold Leaf Sword, and ran over quickly.

Yay! No sword practice today!

"She's going too?" Shangguan Ling'er raised an eyebrow.

"Besides needing a special magical artifact for myself and repairing the White Rainbow Sword, I also had another purpose for going to the Forging Furnace Temple this time: to forge a magical artifact for my junior sister."

Li Yinsheng explained.

"A unique magical artifact?"

Shangguan Ling'er looked at Mu Xiaoyu running over, somewhat surprised.

Before she attained immortality, she had several magical artifacts custom-made for her by her elders, none of which were cheap.

But this little girl in front of me has such poor talent, and her cultivation level has improved entirely through external means. Although her foundation is very solid, there should be no need to specially make a magic weapon for her, right?

Shangguan Ling'er stared at Mu Xiaoyu with a very strange look for a few moments, leaving the little girl completely bewildered.

Then she looked at Li Yinsheng with an even stranger gaze, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.

You little rascal—could it be that you have a soft spot for this kind of immature girl who hasn't fully grown up and isn't particularly pretty?

"It's a long story, let's talk about it on the way."

Meeting Shangguan Ling'er's gaze, Li Yinsheng said.

"Okay," she patted Mu Xiaoyu's head, "you come up too."

Li Yinsheng pulled Mu Xiaoyu up onto the Qiluodian.

Looking at the two figures, one tall and one short, Shangguan Ling'er narrowed her eyes slightly, a glint of light flashing in them.

Something's wrong, something's very wrong!

For the past three months, she has been living at Xuanzhen Temple. Although she has been spending most of her time catching up with Ningzhi and discussing Taoism with Li Yinsheng, she has also paid attention to this young girl.

Aside from her diligence in cultivation, she didn't really have any commendable qualities, so why did Li Yinsheng always take such good care of her?

You could even call it a favoritism!

What makes her so special?!

Shangguan Ling'er was completely baffled.

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