Chapter 40: Song Ning Speaks Again

  Regarding Sun Daniu's remarks on elopement, it instantly spread throughout the sect and beyond.

  The 'Yi Family Spirit Dan Pavilion' continued to be bustling from yesterday, Huang Luo Yi learned the news from his senior brother and said regretfully: "I didn't expect my junior sister to be so muddled, originally her reputation wasn't very good, now she's mixed up with the body-refining cultivators of Giant Rock Peak, what kind of benefits can she get in the future?"

  His fellow senior brother Liu Qun stepped forward and said, "This kind of unloving sister, why do you have to think so much? Whatever you say will only dirty your mouth. Continue speaking, how did you come up with such a creative idea and build the Lingdan Pavilion of the Yi family so perfectly?"

  Huang Luo Yi's mouth curved into a warm and gentle smile, but in her heart, she was secretly gloating: The appearance of this Sun Da Niu has made her rumor-spreading plan even more perfect. Not to mention that you can't even build a foundation, even if you could, no one would accept you as a disciple, unless you want to go to Ju Yan Peak to focus on physical training, but then you'd end up looking like a female yaksha. Haha... this is all your own doing, who told you to ruin my perfect plan!

  The rumors outside didn't bother Luo Yu, she had been thinking about advancing to the sixth layer of Qi Refining recently. Perhaps after advancing, the space inside her body would return to normal.

  Two months later, the long-closed door was pulled open, and a girl of about 10 years old walked out. She stretched her waist, looked up at the peach tree in the courtyard, and the peach blossoms on the branches were still brilliant. The scenery that didn't change with the seasons all year round was a bit monotonous! Luo Yu sighed in his heart.

  At this time, she was already a cultivator of the sixth layer of Qi Refining. The space in her Dantian could now enter and exit freely, and the bed inside was surprisingly intact. So Luo Yu took it out.

  Sent paper cranes to Brother and Li Da Yu to report good news. Luo Yu thought about putting some spiritual plants in the space to test its effectiveness.

  She found that the closure of space was just self-protection and would not cause any damage to her body, nor would it harm the objects inside. However, when cultivating, she had to first replenish the spiritual energy in the space to its original concentration before there would be some leftover spiritual energy for her to upgrade her cultivation. This was also why it took her two months to successfully advance, which was already not slow for others, but she was not cultivating ordinary techniques, and after the last heavenly unity, her cultivation was only one step away from the sixth layer of Qi Refining.

  "Luoyu little sister——"

  Li Da Yu arrived after receiving the paper crane. The last time she left, Luo Yu had invited her to meet again another day, but unexpectedly Luo Yu went into seclusion and only just ended it now.

  "Sister Li, you've arrived! Come on in quickly, I'll brew some tea for you."

  Luoyu took out two cups and placed them on the table, adding a few pieces of low-grade Lingxi tea leaves. She used the fireball technique to heat up the water in the kettle, then poured it into the cups. The curled-up tea leaves slowly unfurled, gradually revealing their tips from the water, releasing a faint aroma that wafted through the entire room.

  "You've been in seclusion for a while, and indeed avoided this round of gossip. After half a month, people's discussions about you have decreased a lot." Li Da Yu took over the teacup.

  "These days I haven't been able to hear your voice, because Song Shifu has gone out of the pass. He's been promoted to the late stage of foundation building, and now everyone is talking about him." Li Dabiao's eyes lit up.

  At twenty-three years old, he's already quite accomplished! Luo Yu nodded in agreement.

  "I see that my sister's spiritual energy is fluctuating greatly, she should be able to advance in rank soon."

  Luoyu handed her 50 pieces of low-grade spirit stones, "Sister, go back and close up after this. These spirit stones should be enough for you to advance successfully." Now Luoyu's storage bag only had a few pieces of spirit stones left.

  Her teeth lightly bit her red lips, Li Da Yu hesitated for a moment before finally accepting it.

  "I know I'm still a distance away from advancing, but recently I've been unable to calm my mind and cultivate... I'll take the spirit stone for now, and I'll return it to you later. Once I go back, I'll enter closed-door training and won't come out until I advance."

  "This time I came to actually tell you that Master Song will be going to the Wudang Pavilion to give a lecture in a month, and I wanted to invite you to go together. Now thinking about it, if I can't enter the outer gate, even if I go listen to his lecture, nothing will change, so I'll just head back now!"

  Li Da Yu stood up and walked away.

  Luoyu was shocked, this is a girl's infatuation, it seems she still hasn't forgotten Song Ning. Luoyu only hoped that this wouldn't affect her promotion, if in half a year she couldn't enter the intermediate stage of Qi training, she would forever be a miscellaneous disciple, of course, if she successfully built her foundation she could also promote. But in the Miscellaneous Disciples' courtyard, spiritual energy was thin and chores were heavy, where is it easy to build one's foundation!

  It's possible that he had made up his mind, or perhaps the 50 pieces of spiritual stone had taken effect. Li Dahuai finally advanced to the middle stage of Qi Refining on the day before Song Ning's lecture and moved into the courtyard where Luo Yu was staying.

  The courtyard is called Peach Blossom Garden, Luo Yu has never liked this name, but at that time only this courtyard had a vacant house. However, Li Dahuang really likes it, peach blossoms are just the right proof of her thoughts!

  Li Dahuai put on the outer disciple uniform with a blue base and white edge, black belt around his waist, and even embroidered orchid flowers at the cuffs. Luo Yu couldn't help but shake her head, thinking that Song Ning was truly a beauty who could bring calamity to men!

  Luoyu was also wearing outer door disciple clothes, but didn't even have a belt around her waist, floating and drifting about, as if she had secretly put on an adult's clothes. Moreover, she had actually styled her hair in a Taoist nun's fashion! Li Dahu looked at her with a straight shake of his head - how could this girl become more and more unrefined as she grew up? This time they were moving into the same courtyard, just right for him to properly take care of her.

  Luoyu thought to herself, she did want to dress up, but for the past month, she had been trained by Sun Dainiu every day, practicing boxing and sparring until nightfall, when even her fingers didn't want to move. She hadn't considered anything else, let alone think about dressing up. Today was still a scheduled training day with Sun Dainiu.

  Without mentioning their own thoughts, Luoyu and the other person arrived at the Wenda Pavilion very smoothly this time. As they walked into Lecture Hall No. 1, it was like entering a vegetable market. The two of them quickly rushed to the back and occupied two seats; if they had come a moment later, there wouldn't have been even these seats available.

  Still wearing the cyan-based golden-edged uniform of the direct disciple, Song Ning floated to the front of the podium, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

  "As for the key points of cultivation and advancement, I mentioned them three years ago. Most people didn't persist with it, which is understandable, after all, not everyone's innate talent and resources can guarantee that they can build their foundation on their own."

  Now, Song Ning is much more mature than three years ago. He raised his head and nodded towards the end of the lecture hall: "I found that there are actually people in the lecture hall who can consistently hold my point of view, without taking Dan medicine, and with a very stable foundation, which makes me very happy."

  Song Ning's lips moved slightly, a faint smile slowly bloomed, and in an instant, it dazzled all the female cultivators, even the male cultivators were somewhat enchanted.

  "He saw me!" Li Dabiao gripped Luo Yu's wrist tightly, "He was smiling at me!"

  Li Da Yu turned her face to look at Luo Yu again, her voice trembling: "He's smiling at me, right? Luo Yu, you say, isn't he?"

  "Yes, Song Shifu is watching us and smiling." Luoyu hastily responded, "Sister, are you sure you haven't practiced martial arts before? My iron arm has been pinched red by you!"

  Li Da Yu smiled and turned her head, gazing at Song Ning with a foolishly infatuated expression, which was the case for most female cultivators.

  "Today, I have come to talk about the way of the seal."

  Luo Yuli straightened her back, this trip was really worth it! She was just thinking of going to the Cangjing Pavilion to find some jade slips for making talismans, and Song Ning happened to be lecturing on the art of making talismans, just as drowsiness arrived someone handed over a pillow.

  "The talisman is made by infusing spiritual energy into the brush, dipping it in specially prepared cinnabar, and then writing the talismanic script on the talisman paper. Only when the script flows smoothly, without any breaks or flaws, can it resonate with the heavenly and earthly spirits, and a talisman is considered well-made. It's said that in ancient times, the art of making talismans was highly advanced, and some people could even incorporate part of the Heavenly Way into the talisman. Nowadays, no one can do this anymore, which is also a new path for our generation of cultivators to study the art of making talismans."

  Song Ning paused for a moment: "Let's get back on track. Now, I'll talk about the possible difficulties that may be encountered during the process of creating a talisman..."

  "Today's lesson ends here, now I will show you a talisman's effect."

  After finishing speaking, Song Ning slapped a talisman on his chest, and a burst of spiritual light flashed, Song Ning disappeared and never appeared again.

  What! Is this a big change in human life?

  Song Ning returned to his own mansion, Qingning Garden, and found Chu Yang looking at him with a seemingly smiling yet not quite smiling expression.

  "This time you spoke of the way of the symbol, was it not premeditated, just for this final move - fixed-point transmission! Just to avoid those infatuated women, you can even think of such a method, hahaha!"

  Things in Qingning Garden, Luo Yu didn't know. She just saw Song Ning not appearing for a long time, the confusion and loss of the female cultivators, Luo Yu understood that Song Ning would not come back, so she pulled Li Dabiao who was excited and lost at times to return to Taohua Garden.