Chapter 160: Maybe It’s Not Entirely Impossible?
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Su Wanqing, who was cultivating cross-legged in the Ancient Cultivation Tower, suddenly felt the spiritual energy swirling around her body pause for a moment.
“Achoo!”
She sneezed inexplicably, and the tip of her nose instantly flushed with a light shade of red.
She raised her hand to rub her slightly itchy nose, and a thought suddenly popped into her mind.
“Could it be that someone is thinking about me in secret?”
According to common sense in the cultivation world, as a dignified Golden Core stage cultivator with spiritual energy flowing endlessly within her body, she could easily resist ordinary cold and heat.
Such trivial ailments like sneezing that afflicted mortals should be impossible for her to experience.
So thinking about it this way, someone must be talking about her, but who could it be?
“Could it be Muyu? Is she thinking about me?”
At the thought of Lin Muyu’s appearance, the corners of Su Wanqing’s mouth couldn’t help but curve upward, and her eyes even carried a hint of girlish excitement.
She chuckled and immediately made up her mind, she needed to work harder on her cultivation. Once she finished mastering this divine technique, she could give Lin Muyu a huge surprise.
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“That child Wanqing shouldn’t blame me, right?”
After returning to the peak of Jade Lotus Peak, Xinlian directly floated over to the stamens of the enormous blooming colorful lotus flower.
She lazily reclined against the soft petals, holding a wine gourd in one hand, gazing at the clouds slowly drifting by in the sky while sipping her wine in small gulps.
“It shouldn’t come to that, right… My little disciple wouldn’t tell anyone about what happened between us, would she?”
Only now did Xinlian belatedly realize just how absurd her previous actions had been.
She actually… actually did that with her own disciple, who was originally meant to be a dao companion for her eldest disciple…
“Sigh.”
With a soft sigh, Xinlian couldn’t help but feel conflicted.
If things had gone according to her previous calculations and she only had one year of life left, then there would have been nothing to worry about.
Instead, she would have felt that this experience was thrilling enough, being able to taste something she had never experienced before in the final stages of her life would have added a wonderful ending to her otherwise bland centuries of existence.
But the problem was, now she could apparently still live?
This created a situation where she had to start seriously considering things…
“It’s all the fault of those devious demonic clan scoundrels!”
Xinlian, already irritable from being tormented by the flame poison in her body, grew more agitated the more she thought about it. She simply stopped dwelling on it and threw all the blame onto the demonic clan.
If not for the trouble they caused, she wouldn’t be stuck in such a difficult position.
Immediately after, a powerful divine sense suddenly emanated from her body like an invisible net, rapidly covering the entire Qinglan Sect along with the surrounding area within a hundred miles, carefully investigating and trying to find any remnants of the demonic clan that might still be lurking nearby.
Within Qinglan Sect, all the disciples who were swept by this divine sense inexplicably shuddered, feeling as if an invisible pressure had instantly passed through their bodies, as though some extremely terrifying existence had just lingered on them for a moment.
Only Sect Master Fuyun, upon sensing this familiar divine sense, simply shook his head helplessly, picked up the wine pot on the table, poured himself a cup, took a light sip, and showed a hint of amusement in his eyes.
“This girl is still the same as when she was young, her temper hasn’t changed one bit. Too bad those useless demonic clan members were already locked up in the Demon-Suppressing Tower long ago, where would there be any left for her to search for?”
On the other side, Xinlian, who had withdrawn her divine sense, was stunned.
What’s going on?
Why did the area around Qinglan Sect suddenly become so clean, without even a trace of demonic clan aura detected?
She frowned. Since she couldn’t find any here, wasn’t Qiuqing still fighting with the demonic clan over there?
She might as well go check it out and beat up that damned Demon General while she was at it!
After Xinlian’s divine sense withdrew, all the disciples of Qinglan Sect breathed a sigh of relief, finally feeling that oppressive sensation disappear.
However, among the crowd, one person still felt lingering fear.
“Good thing I brought my disguise divine artifact in advance, otherwise I really would have been discovered this time.”
Ji Jiaying patted her chest, trying to calm her wildly beating heart.
When that powerful divine sense swept through her body just now, she even thought she had been exposed. It wasn’t until the divine sense completely left that she dared to breathe heavily.
Fortunately, the disguise divine artifact on her body was powerful enough, not only could it perfectly block the divine sense probing of high-level cultivators, but it could also conceal her heavenly secrets, allowing her to lurk within Qinglan Sect undetected until now…
“Damn it, I underestimated this Qinglan Sect.”
Ji Jiaying bit her teeth, filled with unwillingness.
“There must be an expert here who can observe heavenly secrets, otherwise our people couldn’t have been captured in one fell swoop so quickly.”
In this operation, aside from her, all the demonic clan spies who had infiltrated Qinglan Sect had been caught, and their plan to test Qinglan Sect’s strength had completely failed.
They had clearly intended to disturb the grass to startle the snake and probe Qinglan Sect’s true capabilities, but unexpectedly it was Qinglan Sect who had lured the snake out of its hole and captured all their people.
It seemed the demonic clan’s higher-ups would need to reassess Qinglan Sect’s strength and readjust their strategic planning for the entire cultivation world.
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“Art of Longevity, here I come!”
In Xiaotao’s space, Lin Muyu sat excitedly on the edge of the bed, holding an ancient book in both hands, her eyes filled with anticipation.
Wasn’t the path of cultivation all about pursuing longevity?
Being able to break free from the constraints of birth, aging, sickness, and death and live on forever was the ultimate goal of countless cultivators.
Although the method recorded in this 《Art of Longevity》 was merely a pirated version of longevity that relied on external forces to maintain one’s lifespan rather than truly breaking through the shackles of life and death through one’s own cultivation.
Even so, it still counted as genuine longevity, and for her, it was already precious enough.
Of course, this method also had huge flaws, longevity didn’t equal immortality.
If she encountered a cultivator far stronger than herself, she could still be easily crushed to death by them. The longevity here simply meant that her lifespan wouldn’t be depleted over time like ordinary cultivators’.
“Master, are you preparing to start cultivating the 《Art of Longevity》?”
Xiaotao bounced over, curiously looking at the book in Lin Muyu’s hands.
“That’s right, I’m about to start.”
Lin Muyu turned to look at Xiaotao, smiling as she waved the book in her hand.
“Didn’t you already mark it in the Insight before? That thing is very suitable for cultivating this.”
“Hehe, so Master actually saw it?”
Xiaotao scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly, her cheeks flushing slightly, like a child being praised for doing something good, her eyes full of excitement.
“Of course I saw it. Xiaotao, thank you for working so hard to organize these books for me during this time, and for specially marking the suitable items for me. Thank you so much.”
As Lin Muyu spoke, she reached out and gently tapped Xiaotao’s nose, her tone full of gentle gratitude.
Lin Muyu suddenly felt like she was making great strides down the path of being a scumbag.
“It’s not hard at all! Not hard at all!”
Xiaotao immediately shook her head, her tone serious.
“As long as it helps Master, I don’t find it tiring no matter how much I do!”
After saying this, Xiaotao opened her small arms wide, tilted her head back to look at Lin Muyu with eyes full of expectation, she wanted a hug.
Seeing this, Lin Muyu immediately set down the ancient book in her hands, reached out to pull Xiaotao into her embrace, and gently rubbed her hair.
After hugging for a while, Lin Muyu released Xiaotao and suddenly remembered a question she had always wanted to ask, so she spoke up:
“Oh right, Xiaotao, when will you all be able to come out of this space? Once you come out, I’ll take you to the towns at the foot of the mountain to go shopping and eat delicious food!”
“Once Master cultivates to the Golden Core stage, we’ll be able to manifest in reality!”
Xiaotao immediately responded happily, her eyes sparkling.
“By then, Xiaomu won’t have to stay in bed sleeping all day either, and we’ll all be able to accompany Master together!”
“Golden Core?”
Lin Muyu subconsciously touched her smooth chin, silently calculating in her mind.
She was already at the late stage of Foundation Establishment. At her current cultivation speed, breaking through to the Golden Core stage didn’t seem that far off.
Wait, wasn’t her cultivation speed a bit too fast?
Lin Muyu suddenly paused, then came to a realization.
Although this frighteningly fast cultivation speed was mostly due to her special physique,
If that was really the case, she’d rather not have this physique and cultivate on her own merits instead… Actually, maybe it’s not entirely impossible?