Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

However, today, this one pill directly caused Ye Liuyun's realm to break through the initial stage and enter the mid-stage of the Spirit Stream Realm. However, his spiritual power intensity did not increase; only his divine sense and physical strength were improved.

That's not all; the effects of the pill didn't end there. It lasted for almost a minute before the medicinal effects were fully absorbed.

"My God, this one pill is equivalent to several years of cultivation in the mortal world!" Ye Liuyun said excitedly after breaking through his cultivation level.

"This should be some kind of Spirit Gathering Pill, but it's different from the regular Spirit Gathering Pill. I think we should call it the Spirit Bursting Pill. It's suitable for your level. I suggest you refine more, since your little darling wife also needs to improve her cultivation," Lin Qingyou reminded her.

Although Ye Liuyun really wanted to refine the antidote, it depended on luck.

"Yeah, that's right. Let's refine more and give them to Aoxue to eat, hehe." Ye Liuyun immediately nodded in agreement.

So she made a note of the combination of these two medicinal herbs to make the Explosive Spirit Pill. In the future, after she finished using it, she could just follow the prescription to make more.

Ye Liuyun can refine ten pills from one batch of medicinal materials, and from removing impurities and fusing the medicine to the final pill formation, it will not take more than three minutes. Therefore, Ye Liuyun's medicine refining speed is also unparalleled.

Since the pill-refining speed is so fast, Ye Liuyun can simply sell the pills he refines if he needs money in the future.

An hour later, the ingredients for the Explosive Spirit Pills were used up. The basin next to Ye Liuyun was full of white jade pills, all of which were Explosive Spirit Pills, a total of two hundred pills.

If this pill were to be graded, it would at least be a blue-grade pill.

As for Lin Aoxue, she had just returned to her residence in the inner sect when Yun Yun called her over. She was staying next to Yun Yun.

Yun Yun, dressed in a white dress, sat in her courtyard under a tree covered in pink blossoms, sipping spiritual tea.

"You're back." Yun Yun asked casually as she watched her disciple enter the courtyard.

"Hehe, Master, I'm back. Here, this is your contribution token. I've bought everything I needed." Lin Aoxue smiled and returned Yun Yun's token to her.

At first, Yun Yun didn't take it seriously, but after she took the token and glanced at it casually, she immediately spat out the spiritual tea she had just drunk.

It almost sprayed onto Lin Aoxue, but fortunately she reacted quickly and dodged it.

"You? My God, Xue'er, how much did you buy? How come my contribution is only this little?" Yun Yun's pretty face, which was originally quite calm, turned into one of shock, and her eyes looked like she had seen a ghost.

"Well, hehe, I didn't buy much. I just bought a lot of things for my sister. She's alone in the outer sect, and I was worried about her, so I spent a little more than usual," Lin Aoxue said somewhat embarrassedly.

Since the money's already spent, she can't get it back now.

"You? But, is it really necessary to have so much? This is all that I slowly accumulated when I was a disciple. You, on the other hand, spent over a million contribution points in one go, and I?" Yun Yun didn't know what to say. She felt like vomiting blood.

It's not that she's stingy; it's that Lin Aoxue used up all of her accumulated wealth from over a hundred years.

Don't let her status as the sect leader fool you. The sect's money can only be used for sect affairs. The money she gives to Lin Aoxue is all her own.

In the cultivation world, money is spirit stones. In the Cloud Mist Sect, one point of contribution is equal to ten spirit stones. In other words, Lin Aoxue and Ye Liuyun squandered ten million spirit stones in one go.

"This? Didn't you say you could spend it however you wanted?" Lin Aoxue said with an awkward smile.

Yun Yun was speechless at Lin Aoxue's words. She wanted to slap herself, but there was no use in being angry. She could only hold back now. After all, the money had already been spent, so what was there to say?

Chapter 16 Sect Punishment

Yun Yun was like a mute eating bitter herbs, unable to express her suffering. She felt that her apprentice was far too rude.

"Sigh! Forget it, I'll just focus on my cultivation for now and not run around." Yun Yun sighed in frustration.

Seeing that Yun Yun didn't intend to continue blaming her, Lin Aoxue immediately chuckled, apologized, and then went back to her room.

The next day, an aged voice echoed from within the Cloud Mist Sect.

"The Yunxia Sect's annual disciple recruitment ceremony, held once every fifty years, has officially ended today. Those who did not pass the assessment, go back; you have no chance to become immortals."

As soon as these words were spoken, the boys and girls who were still climbing the steps were immediately swept up by a strange storm. Then, amidst countless screams, everyone still on the steps was blown down the mountain and landed at the foot of the mountain.

Not only that, when they landed at the foot of the mountain and looked up at the Yunxia Sect's mountain gate, they found that the steps had disappeared. At the same time, the mounts of the disciples who had successfully entered the sect were immediately grabbed by a force and flown towards Yunxia Mountain.

Yunxia Mountain has closed its gates again.

Looking at the Ye and Lin families in Qixia Town, the atmosphere in the town is very oppressive today, and neither family can be happy.

"Alas! It's fate. Since that's how it is, let them be. It can only be said that it's destiny for the Lin and Ye families. The fact that the two of them were able to successfully enter the Immortal Sect can be considered as a preservation of our bloodline." The old master of the Lin and Ye families announced helplessly.

This time, however, the mortal and immortal realms are separated, and it is unknown when they will meet again.

As for Ye Liuyun, he is currently fast asleep. He spent the whole day refining pills yesterday and is exhausted.

Unbeknownst to her, the disciple token hanging from her waist was flashing white light.

"All newly initiated disciples, please assemble at the sect's martial arts training ground."

Today, all the new disciples are being gathered. It's probably similar to the freshman orientation speech Ye Liuyun gave when he was in school in his previous life. The higher-ups of the Yunxia Sect are holding a meeting.

The Yunxia Sect has nearly three hundred new disciples this time, among whom more than a dozen have become inner disciples due to their good aptitude.

The remaining people will still be required to serve as introductory disciples for three years. Once they reach the Spirit Stream Realm, they will be promoted to junior disciples. If they fail to reach the Spirit Stream Realm within three years, they will be expelled from the mountain.

However, this matter has nothing to do with Ye Liuyun.

Currently, more than 300 new disciples are standing in the training ground. Lin Aoxue is standing next to Yun Yun, and the sect steward in charge of managing the new disciples is calling out names one by one.

"Strange, where's Liuyun? Why didn't she come?" Lin Aoxue looked around but couldn't find Ye Liuyun in the crowd.

She suddenly became worried, wondering if Ye Liuyun would be punished by the sect if he didn't have a dojo.

As each disciple was called out, Ye Liuyun's name was soon called.

"Ye Liuyu?" the sect steward called out.

Unfortunately, he didn't hear someone shout, so he looked up in confusion.

"Ye Liuyu?" he called again, but still no one answered.

"Is Ye Liuyu not here? Ye Liuyu, why isn't she here? Does anyone know her?" The sect steward called out Ye Liuyun's alias three times in a row.

The disciples looked at each other in bewilderment, because Ye Liuyu had indeed missed the initiation ceremony.

The elders of the Yunxia Sect and Yun Yun all frowned at the same time.

"Eh? Martial Uncle, Ye Liuyu is my sister. She... she might have forgotten something about the gathering today. I'll go find her." Lin Aoxue quickly stepped forward and said.

When the sect leader saw Lin Aoxue say this, she secretly glanced at Yun Yun again. Seeing that Yun Yun had no expression, she quickly spoke up.

"Oh, it's your sister. That's alright then. Let's continue with the roll call."

This sect steward is quite sensible. He certainly wouldn't punish the future sect leader's sister for such a trivial matter; wouldn't that just be asking for trouble?

However, some of the elders were dissatisfied, feeling that Ye Liuyu had broken the rules.

In the Yunxia Sect, reaching the first level of the Dao Palace Secret Realm, the Foundation Establishment Realm, allows one to be promoted to sect steward; reaching the second level, the Core Formation Realm, allows one to become an outer sect elder; reaching the third level, the Nascent Soul Realm, allows one to become an inner sect elder; and as for the fourth level, the Out-of-Body Realm...

Currently, only Yun Yun and the Supreme Elder of the Yunxia Sect are at this level.

“Sect Master, although Ye Liuyu is the older sister of Junior Nephew Aoxue, she is so unruly that she should be punished. After all, this is not the secular world,” an outer sect elder said.

As soon as she said this, Lin Aoxue was displeased and immediately glared at the outer sect elder who had spoken.

When the elder saw Lin Aoxue looking at him with hostility, he gave an awkward smile. But at that moment, an inner sect elder also spoke up.

"Sect Master, Elder Fu is right. A little punishment is necessary." The speaker was the Grand Elder of the Inner Sect.

The Yunxia Sect has four elders in the inner sect and six elders in the outer sect.

Since the Grand Elder of the Inner Sect had spoken, Yun Yun couldn't pretend she hadn't heard him, so she nodded helplessly.

"Alright, since you've all said so, then punish her by making her sweep the steps of the mountain gate for a month," Yun Yun announced.

Upon hearing this, the new disciples, who had initially been somewhat unhappy, finally calmed down.

"Damn it, old Bi Deng, just you wait." Lin Aoxue made a mental note of this old guy.

The conference ended quickly. Lin Aoxue originally wanted to go find Ye Liuyun, but Yun Yun stopped her, saying that Ye Liuyun should suffer a bit to learn the rules.

Although Lin Aoxue wanted to help Ye Liuyun, Yun Yun had already publicly announced that Ye Liuyun would be punished, and since it wasn't a particularly serious punishment, Lin Aoxue could only let it go.

Ye Liuyun had already woken up by this time.

"I'm exhausted, you old hag, what time is it?"

Ye Liuyun sat up from the bed looking exhausted, and then stretched out a big yawn.

"It's past 9 AM," Lin Qingyou replied.

"Oh, it's already 9 AM? Huh? It's already 9 AM? Damn it, why didn't you wake me up? The new disciples are supposed to gather today?" Ye Liuyun was a little confused at first, but he immediately realized something was wrong.

But Lin Qingyou didn't seem to care at all.

"It's just a gathering, isn't it? I saw you were too tired yesterday, so I didn't have the heart to bother you," Lin Qingyou replied seriously.

However, Ye Liuyun's expression turned ugly. She quickly gathered all the medicinal herbs and pills in the room and prepared to go to the martial arts arena.

As soon as she stepped out of the cave, she bumped into a man and a woman, two senior disciples of the sect. Both of them had a blue jade token hanging from their waists, with the words "Enforcement Disciple" written on it.

In other words, these two are disciples of the sect's Enforcement Hall.

The sect's Enforcement Hall is specifically responsible for punishing and supervising the disciples within the sect.

"You must be Ye Liuyu?" the two asked as they approached.

The male disciples showed a slight look of amazement when they saw Ye Liuyun, but the female disciples were very stern.

"Eh? Yes, senior sister, what can I do for you?" Ye Liuyun asked innocently.

With that expression and that face, it's impossible to tell that she was deliberately breaking the rules.

"Don't you know what you've done? On your very first day of formal entry, you violated the sect's orders. The sect has already issued a punishment order for you: you will be responsible for cleaning the steps of the mountain gate for a month. We two are disciples from the Enforcement Hall, and we are here to supervise you in cleaning the steps." The female disciple took out the enforcement order and announced it with righteous indignation.

When Ye Liuyun heard that the sect was going to punish him by making him sweep the steps leading to the mountain gate, his face immediately turned green.

Chapter 17 Deceptive Appearances

She knew perfectly well how difficult those steps were to climb; asking her to sweep them? That would be suicidal!

"Eh? Senior sister, senior brother, I really have a reason, please let me explain." Ye Liuyun immediately looked at the female disciple with a pitiful expression, but seeing that the female disciple was not buying it, she looked at the male disciple instead.

The male disciple couldn't withstand Ye Liuyun's gaze.

“Hey? I say, Junior Sister Liu, this Junior Sister Ye doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would deliberately break the rules. How about I take her to the Grand Elder to file a complaint?” the male disciple said.

However, this woman surnamed Liu did not listen to the male disciple.

"Senior Brother Song, this order was personally issued by the Sect Master. How can it be revoked so easily?" the female disciple surnamed Liu questioned.

These words immediately dispelled the male disciple's desire to plead for Ye Liuyun, and he could only look at Ye Liuyun apologetically.

Seeing this, Ye Liuyun had no choice but to dejectedly follow the two toward the mountain gate, encountering many new disciples along the way.

Among them was someone Ye Liuyun recognized—Xiao Hansheng, whom he had met before going up the mountain the day before yesterday.

"Eh? Miss Ye, what's going on here?" Xiao Hansheng quickly greeted Ye Liuyun.

"Brother Xiao," Ye Liuyun replied somewhat awkwardly.

However, after exchanging a greeting, the two of them took him into the air and flew towards the Yunxia Sect's mountain gate. Only after they left did Xiao Hansheng and the others begin to comment on the matter.

"This Senior Sister Ye is really something. She didn't even participate in the first day of the formal initiation ceremony and was punished by the sect. I don't want to climb those steps a second time, and I'll have to clean them for a month. I think Senior Sister Ye deserves to suffer." Everyone laughed.

Ye Liuyun was carried by the two and flew quickly towards the foot of the mountain.

This first flight made Ye Liuyun scream.

"Ah... Senior Sister, slow down, I'm afraid of heights." Ye Liuyun was holding tightly to the waist of the disciple surnamed Liu, riding on a flying sword and traversing through the sea of ​​clouds.

Once a cultivator reaches the Spirit River Realm, they can control a flying magic weapon. The flying swords that the two of them were riding on were such flying magic weapons.

Although flying was exhilarating, Ye Liuyun was genuinely finding it hard to keep up.

"Hey? Junior Sister Liu, slow down! Don't throw Junior Sister Ye off!" Senior Brother Song kept shouting.

This woman surnamed Liu seemed to be deliberately trying to torment Ye Liuyun. She tumbled and rolled in the sea of ​​clouds, a sensation that Ye Liuyun, who was experiencing flight for the first time, could not withstand.

The moment Ye Liuyun and the others landed at the foot of the mountain, she immediately started vomiting, but unfortunately there was no food in her stomach, so all she vomited was gastric juice.

"Alright, here's a broom. For the next month, you must sweep from the foot of the mountain to the gate every day," the woman surnamed Liu said, tossing a broom to Ye Liuyun.

After gagging for a while, Ye Liuyun wanted to curse this woman to death in his heart.

"Damn, is this on purpose? What did I do to offend you?" Ye Liuyun thought to himself.

But his face still looked innocent, and he didn't seem to have any complaints.

After Ye Liuyun regained his composure, he reluctantly picked up the broom.

As for the woman surnamed Liu, she took out a token and gestured towards the disappeared steps. The next moment, the completely vanished steps reappeared.