Chapter 19: Promoted to Outer Disciple

  Three years passed in the blink of an eye, Luo Yu was nine years old, her stature had grown taller, and her cultivation had also risen to the fifth layer of Qi Refining. She moved into a separate courtyard allocated to outer sect disciples, which was similar to Zi Yun's, except that there were peach blossoms planted in the yard instead of fire cloud trees.

  Li Dahu practiced Qi 4th layer later period. After the Song Shu uncle event, she no longer refused to use the Jiling disk with Luoyu together, and her cultivation also rose quickly, it is expected that half a year later she can also move to the outer gate. Luoyu originally wanted to wait for her, but was persuaded by her, Luoyu finally left the Jiling disk behind before reluctantly agreeing to move first.

  The freedom of miscellaneous disciples is restricted, unless they are in charge of going out to purchase things, they cannot leave the sect. Luo Yu has been practicing hard for four years and thought that she would be able to enter and exit the mountain gate in the future, which made her very excited. She prepared to go to the market town tomorrow to buy furniture and sent a transmission talisman to ask if her brother had time to accompany her.

  Didn't want to receive brother's transmission token, but saw him come in person.

  At this time, Zi Ye was thirteen years old, and his cultivation had reached the 8th layer of Qi Refining. He also had a small reputation among the outer disciples of Huo Yun Peak.

  The living room was empty, so Luo Yu had no choice but to take out two cushions and put them on the floor, with one person sitting cross-legged on each cushion.

  "If you didn't send me a message today, I was going to come find you. I just didn't expect that you would advance to the fifth level and become an outer door disciple so quickly, it seems your cultivation speed has increased again."

  In the past two years, Zi Ye and his fellow disciple often formed a team to take on tasks together, going to the Trial Forest in the northern part of the Cloud Heaven Mountain Range to hunt for demonic beasts and gather spiritual herbs. It had been three months since they last saw each other.

  "Haha, I didn't expect it either, I thought there was still a month's time. I planned to finish decorating the room and then go to the Scripture Pavilion to choose a method. By the way, what were you originally going to find me for?"

  "Two days ago, Father and Mother sent a letter saying that you should return home for a visit. If you have already advanced to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, don't rush to choose a cultivation method. Half a month later, the clan will send an elder to distribute resources among the clan's children, at which time we can follow the elder back home together."

  "Has he explained the reason?" Luo Yu was quite puzzled.

  Every year when the elder comes to deliver resources, he also brings letters from each person's family. This time, Father and Mother had someone send a letter ahead of time, but it was a very troublesome thing. From Tianxuan Sect to Qingzhou, there are 100,000 kilometers, and at the speed of a foundation-building cultivator rushing on the road, it would take about a month to arrive, whereas last time Huang's flying boat was an extreme treasure, its speed is naturally not the same.

  In the Xianxia world, the magical artifacts used are divided into five categories: Faqi (magic tools), Lingqi (spiritual tools), Zhenqi (true energy tools), Baoqi (treasured tools) and Xianqi (immortal tools, extremely rare). They correspond to the Qi Refining Stage, Foundation Building Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, and Immortal Ascension Stage respectively. Each category is further divided into four levels: Upper, Middle, Lower, and Extreme Grade. If a cultivator uses an artifact that exceeds their cultivation level, they will be restricted due to insufficient spiritual energy and divine consciousness.

  "I'm guessing it's because of the family's kung fu. Your situation is special, I've hinted to your parents before, maybe they can give you some advice on kung fu, after all our Huang family has existed since ancient times and there are things that outsiders don't know about." Zi Ye said.

  "Father and Mother sent the message ahead of time, so that I would have time to help you smooth out your relationship with Peak Master, get him to agree to let you go out. But instead, you've become an outer door disciple, which makes things much simpler - all you need to do is take on a long-term task at the Execution Hall and you can leave the mountain gate."

  Qigong is a non-attributed skill, said to have been passed down from ancient times. It has great benefits for building a solid foundation, but due to the thin spiritual energy in the modern cultivation world, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy is too slow. Therefore, most people will change to a skill that corresponds to their own spiritual root after practicing Qigong for five layers, speeding up their progress. After the fifth layer of Qigong, Qigong can still be used. It is said that some scattered cultivators did not change skills even without spirit stones and continued to cultivate Qigong until they reached the foundation-building stage, but because of old age, they had no strength to impact the Golden Elixir stage.

  Luoyu went back on track and returned to the Scripture Pavilion the next day. Because she had repeatedly studied the route beforehand, she didn't get lost again this time.

  Huang Luo Yu showed the identity jade card to the gatekeeper, who checked the information and said: "Huang Luo Yu, Qi Refining Fifth Layer, you can only stay on the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion. You can choose one main cultivation method jade slip for free, and then take out five other jade slips for me to copy. From now on, you can come to the Scripture Pavilion once a month, but no more than two hours at a time. If you want to take the copied cultivation methods away, you need to pay the corresponding points. Do you understand?"

  "Disciple understands, thank you for Uncle Master's reminder." Luo Yu made a bow to thank him, "May I ask Uncle Master, can I choose the Jade Simplified Method again next time?"

  "You may go in, come out two hours later." The monk looked at the little girl strangely and then gestured for her to enter.

  Luoyu stepped through a beam of light, and saw that the entire floor of the Scripture Pavilion was incredibly vast, covering an area of at least 1 hectare. It seemed that spatial arrays had been used to expand the space here. Before coming, Luoyu had already asked her brother in detail, so she headed straight for her target - the Five Elements Technique Jade Slip.

  At the time of Zu Xue, Luo Yu had already obtained the basic jade slips about Si Yi. Now she has memorized the contents of "Ling Cao Tu Ce", "Tian Cai Di Bao Tu Ce", "Lian Dan Gai Yao", "Zhen Fa Gai Yao" and "Lian Qi Gai Yao", but only stayed on paper to discuss military affairs.

  Because the Qi Gong practitioners in the early stage are only slightly better than ordinary people, with a bit more physical strength, but their spiritual energy and consciousness are limited, they can only use some auxiliary small spells such as dust removal, fire starting, and rain summoning. Offensive spells are usually difficult for Qi Gong practitioners in the early stage to cast, so people tend to practice offensive spells only after reaching the middle stage of Qi Gong. Luo Yu considers herself an ordinary person, so she naturally wouldn't collect these jade slips ahead of time.

  Looking at the dense five-line jade slips, Luo Yu felt a bit dizzy. If she checked them one by one, two hours would definitely not be enough.

  The types of techniques in the middle stage of Qi training are limited, and some late-stage or foundation-building cultivators only make slight modifications to their original techniques as new techniques sent to the Zangjing Pavilion, which can earn sect points. It's not that it's bad, but it makes Luo Yu's eyes dizzy.

  Luoyu thought for a moment and decided to choose the most basic and common five-element spells. After all, this was just a transitional phase. She searched one by one and finally took out five jade slips: "Golden Blade Technique", "Entwining Technique" (using wood spiritual energy to accelerate seed growth and trap enemies), "Water Arrow Technique", "Fireball Technique", and "Earth Shield Technique".

  These five spells have both offense and defense, Luo Yu is very satisfied. Moreover, the basic spell, allows people to more easily understand the fundamental operation of the spell, since predecessors can improve it, she can also ponder it, who would have thought that accidentally, she actually pondered out some things, of course this is a later story, for now let's not mention it.

  Before leaving, Luo Yu walked to the front of the stairs on the second floor and saw a golden light gate suspended in mid-air. She tried to take a step forward, but was suddenly hit by a strong force that slammed her to the ground, her buttocks were bruised into eight pieces.

  "Hmph!"

  "Who is this girl? She looks smart, but why is she acting so silly?"

  Luo Yu is so painful and sad, she can't help but feel a sense of desolation and despair.

  Luoyu's face turned bright red as she tried to sit up with her arms propped on the ground, but unfortunately, it was unsuccessful. She had really fallen too hard.

  She waited until she had built a foundation, and then came through the Light Gate more than 10 times every day, exhausting herself to death! Luo Yu gritted her teeth in her heart.

  Luo Yu was struggling with her own buttocks when a slender white hand reached out.

  "Little girl, are you okay?" The voice was very gentle.

  Luoyu looked up and saw a man in a blue robe with golden trim offering his hand to her.

  Luoyu stood up with his help, bowed her head and thanked him: "I'm fine, thank you Uncle Song." Why did Song Ning see her every time she made a fool of herself! Luoyu had an inexplicable feeling in her heart.

  "Big brother, do you know her?" A beautiful woman wearing a Xiang embroidery skirt walked out of the light gate and stood beside Song Ning.

  This is Huang Luo Yi! How did the female and male leads get together? I remember that in the text, the two didn't have any intersection. Of course, it's possible that it was just not written in the book, after all, one book can't cover everything. Moreover, as a sect leader's eldest disciple and a peak master's closed-door disciple, the two must be familiar with each other.

  Today I went out without checking the almanac! Luo Yu sighed inwardly and had to call out: "Fifth sister."

  "Who is——" Huang Luo Yi's eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "Luoyu, you're next." Luoyu lowered her head.

  "I remember, you asked me the way on Mount Zhufeng three years ago." Song Ning suddenly realized. It's no wonder he remembered Luo Yu, a little servant girl, mainly because what happened that day had been ridiculed by Chu Yang for three years, and would continue to be ridiculed.

  "Thirteen, uh, little sister, are you leaving with us?" Huang Luo Yi asked, his face showing impatience.

  "No, I still need to find two jade slips before leaving." Luo Yu hastily refused. Big sister, the expression on your face is so obvious, she will naturally find an excuse to refuse.

  "You're hurt so badly, can you make it on your own?" Song Ning was a bit worried.

  "It's okay, I didn't fall too hard. I've already caught my breath and can run and jump again." As she spoke, Luo Yu jumped up, but ended up stimulating the nerves in her buttocks, causing her to grit her teeth in pain.

  Song Ning couldn't help but smile, nodded at Luo Yu and then left with Huang Luo Yi, who also responded to the greetings of the monks in the scripture hall.

  When Song Ning and Luo Yu became familiar with each other, they often teased her about this matter, but that's a story for later.

  Finally unable to see the backs of the two people, Luo Yu let out a breath and waited for a while before coming to the door to hand over the jade slip to Zhu Ji Shu.

  Qian Lu immediately built a foundation, and he stared at Luo Yu: "Not the foundation, within five meters of the second floor's light gate, no one is allowed to approach."

  Luo Yu's legs shook and she almost fell over, but she quickly steadied herself by grasping the jade stone pedestal in front of her. She lamented inwardly, why did everyone see it!

  Qian Lu clenched his fist lightly and coughed, pretending to be serious: "Bring the Jade Scepter, the copying fee is 5 spirit stones."

  Luoyu hastily took out the Ling stone and threw it down, grabbed the copied jade slip and turned around to run, only to hear a loud laughter coming from behind.