Chapter 121 Song Yin in Seclusion, Shen Yuzhu's Background

"Close your eyes."

Shi Heming didn't understand why he had to close his eyes, but he always followed Yinyin's instructions.

Shi Heming sat down, a smile playing on his lips, and closed his eyes. Sunlight shone on his face, and his eyes darted under his eyelids as he patiently awaited the other party's next instruction.

Song Yin's home was never short of flowers and plants. She raised her hand, and several perfectly blooming flowers flew into her hand. Standing against the light, she leaned closer to Shi Heming and held the flowers in her hand in front of him.

Shi Heming smelled a floral fragrance, but he didn't pay much attention to it, perhaps it was just the breeze that carried the scent.

"Open your eyes."

Shi Heming slowly opened his eyes, and several delicate, vibrant flowers came into view. His gaze then rose, and the person he had longed for leaned forward against the light, the sunlight gilding her with a golden edge.

Song Yin shook the flowers in her hand. "Here you go."

Shi Heming did not move.

I really want to kiss you.

"Don't like it? Then I'll throw it away."

"like."

Her voice was tender and gentle, making Song Yin's ears itch.

How strange, Shi Heming seemed to be talking about flowers, but at the same time, he didn't seem to be talking about flowers.

I tried to tease him with flowers, but somehow I ended up being the one being teased.

Song Yin pressed the flower into his arms, and Shi Heming quickly caught it with his hand to prevent it from falling to the ground.

Song Yin turned around, her back to Shi Heming, and said, "Here are the flowers. Also, I'm going into seclusion."

The news was so sudden that Shi Heming was stunned. "Seclusion?"

"That's right, and it will be an even longer period of seclusion, possibly several years, a dozen years, or even several decades. I'm going into seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

Shi Heming snapped to his senses in an instant, only to be caught off guard by Song Yin's sudden announcement of going into seclusion.

When was this decision made? I've never heard Yinyin mention it before. Am I the last person to know?

After not hearing a sound from behind her for a while, Song Yin turned around and said seriously, "Shi Heming, I plan to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. If I succeed, I will prepare to participate in the Xuan Tian Tournament. If you want to participate in the same Xuan Tian Tournament as me, then find a way to improve your cultivation and break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

Shi Heming was somewhat speechless, "...When was this decision made?"

Song Yin: "When I was in the mortal realm. In fact, during my five years in the mortal realm, just as my master said, I did gain something. I am very grateful for this journey in the mortal realm, because it loosened my long-unchanged realm and allowed me to touch the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage."

She leaned down again and poked Master Heming's chest with her finger. "Congratulations, you are the first person to know the news."

I'll say it again, Shi Heming is really easy to coax!

Upon uttering these words, Shi Heming visibly became pleased.

"Then I wish Yinyin all the best in her seclusion."

"Wait until I emerge from seclusion and become a Nascent Soul expert." Song Yin kept poking at herself.

It feels really good, hehe.

"You should also work hard in your cultivation and break through to the Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible. You know, once I break through to the Nascent Soul stage, I'll have reached the standard they talked about back in the mortal realm," Song Yin said lightly. "At the Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation stages, I can start thinking about finding a Daoist partner..."

Shi Heming's throat went dry. "You."

Song Yin withdrew her hand. "Let's go back. I hope that when I come out of seclusion, everyone's cultivation will have improved to a higher level."

On his way back to Daowen Peak, Shi Heming felt a surge of urgency; he had to find a way to catch up with Yinyin's cultivation speed.

After hurriedly returning to his residence, Shi Heming locked himself in his study and began to make plans.

The pace of cultivation by following the proper methods is definitely not fast enough; we need to find another way, even if it means taking an unconventional approach.

Judging from Yinyin's attitude and the content of her speech today, he still felt that she knew something.

Shi Heming was nervous and scared, but also felt a surge of secret joy and excitement. Complex emotions swirled in his heart, and finally he let out a low laugh, with positive emotions ultimately prevailing.

It has a feeling of the evening breeze gently caressing you, and the bright moon rushing towards you.

After learning that Shi Heming had returned, the eldest disciple, Zhu Jing, came to find him.

"Junior brother, could you help me guide the ordinary disciples on Dao Asking Peak for the next month? I need to be away for more than twenty days."

Shi Heming suddenly opened the door and said to Zhu Jing, "I'm sorry, senior brother, I can't agree to this. I also need to go out for a while and won't be back for a short time."

There are many ways to improve one's cultivation level, but he certainly wouldn't use the methods of evil cultivation, so he could only use other more aggressive methods.

He thought of Song Yin's breakthrough beyond her level in the Floating Dream Realm, so he also wanted to take the risk. Desperate situations are what truly unleash a person's potential.

High risk, high reward.

Zhu Jing was quite surprised: "Didn't you and Song Yin just return to the sect? Are you going out together again?"

Shi Heming: "If she doesn't go, I'll go by myself."

Shi Heming always followed Song Yin, and he rarely acted alone. Zhu Jing said, "Alright then, I'll go and discuss it with Master."

After Zhu Jing left, Shi Heming did not stay at home, but went out to collect information related to the secret realm.

The world of cultivation is filled with countless secret realms, large and small, but the most alluring are the ancient ones, or those that have existed for over a thousand years. These realms are never short of treasures, but of course, the dangers are also incredibly high.

Since there are so many secret realms, it's not a rare thing for cultivators. Most information about secret realms circulates directly in the market; you can find out which secret realms in which places will open by spending a few spirit stones.

As for the limited information about secret realms, these are generally extremely rare realms, and such information is never circulated in the market. Once the news of their opening spreads, the available spots are usually snapped up by various factions.

Song Yin still needs to inform her master and the others about her seclusion.

Wen Zhiling: "You just got back and you're already in seclusion?"

Song Yin: "Yes, I want to try to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Among the cultivators at the Golden Core stage, I am relatively young, so it doesn't matter if I try to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. If I succeed, all will be well; if I fail, it's not a big deal. I have plenty of time to cultivate and try to break through to the Nascent Soul stage again."

"Your cultivation progress is still phenomenal, completely comparable to the top geniuses in the cultivation world," Wen Zhiling remarked.

Song Yin wasn't surprised that there were cultivators even more talented than herself. "By the way, Master's wife, where is my senior brother?"

Wen Zhiling: "Your senior brother has gone on a long trip back to the Shen family."

Song Yin: "Back to the Shen family?"

Wen Zhiling: "I haven't told you about Yuzhu before, but today I'll tell you about his background and how he became my disciple."

Sensing that her senior brother had some big gossip, Song Yin pulled out a plate of melon seeds.

Wen Zhiling grabbed a handful as well and began to slowly tell the story of Shen Yuzhu.

"Your senior brother comes from the Shen family, a prominent family in the cultivation world, but he was abandoned at birth. He also has a twin brother. After the two brothers were born, they were constantly provided with all kinds of rare and precious materials that could enhance their talents. Until the year they tested their spiritual roots, Yu Zhu's brother was found to have a single earth spiritual root, while Yu Zhu had no spiritual root."

"From then on, Yuzhu was not well received in the Shen family, and his parents abandoned him and ignored him."

Song Yin: "That's not right, isn't Senior Brother supposed to have a single metal spiritual root? How come his spiritual root wasn't detected?"

Wen Zhiling: "We'll talk about this later. Let me continue from where I left off."

"The Shen family values ​​the talents of its members. Only if the next generation is talented can the Shen family's foundation be preserved. If there are no outstanding next generations, the Shen family will perish when the previous generation is gone."

"This is the drawback of cultivation families. To maintain their foundation, they must have talented children born in every generation. This kind of crisis will always follow behind the families, which leads them to value talent above all else. Those family members without talent are destined to be abandoned. So, during one of my travels, I found the dying Shen Yuzhu."

"Senior brother was thrown out of the house?" Song Yin dropped the melon seeds in her hand back into the plate, her mouth agape in shock.

It's hard to imagine that my gentle senior brother had such a tragic past.

Wen Zhiling: "If he has five spiritual roots, or even six, seven, or eight spiritual roots, the Shen family will not easily throw him out of the house."

"Having lived in the cultivation world for so many years, you must have noticed that even the most ordinary person has spiritual roots, and without spiritual roots, one is just a mortal. Therefore, Shen Yuzhu's existence is a stain on the Shen family, and he was thrown out of the house."

"After saving him, I didn't plan to take him on as a disciple; I was just glad he wasn't dead. But the near-death experience awakened his talent. It's not that he didn't have spiritual roots; rather, they were hidden."

"After the twins were born, one was strong and the other was weak. Shen Yuzhu happened to be the weaker one. When he was six years old, his spiritual root was not fully formed due to his congenital weakness, so it was not detected."

"I saw that he had good talent and hated the Shen family, so I brought him back to the sect. He was quite ambitious and overcame many obstacles to enter the inner sect. Then he begged me to take him as my disciple. I saw that he had severed ties with the Shen family and even hated them more than anyone else, so I agreed to take him as my disciple and teach him the Sword Peak inheritance. To outsiders, most people know that I picked up Shen Yuzhu and treat him as an orphan without father, mother, or family."

This is why sects require disciples to be at least six years old; otherwise, their spiritual roots cannot be detected.

Because Shen Yuzhu had been consuming rare and precious herbs to enhance his talents for a long time, he was unable to tolerate the supplements, which further slowed down the formation of his spiritual root.

Song Yin: "Let me guess, it must be that the Shen family discovered his talent and that he became an inner disciple of the Immortal Cloud Sect, so they wanted to take him back so that he could contribute to the family, right?"

Wen Zhiling: "Smart, that's the truth. When he first participated in the Xuan Tian Assembly, he was recognized by the Shen family. Since then, the Shen family has been pestering him, saying that he is a child of the Shen family and must go home."

“My family is not the Shen family, but Wujian Peak. My family members are not the Shen family either, but you.” Shen Yuzhu’s voice suddenly rang out.

Song Yin turned around, "Senior brother, you're back?"

Wen Zhiling: "How is the matter with the Shen family being handled?"

Shen Yuzhu treated the Shen family like a spectator. After entering, he sat down next to Song Yin, poured himself a cup of tea, and then said, "No wonder they were in such a hurry for me to return to the Shen family. It turns out that my brother was injured and his life was in danger."

"The Shen family has been around for many generations and is no longer what it used to be. If I, the elder brother, pass away, the Shen family will have no young descendants with single spiritual roots."

"However, my purpose in going back this time is to make them give up hope. They should then do everything in their power to protect my brother."

Song Yin asked curiously, "How did you manage to make all of them give up on you?"

Shen Yuzhu said calmly, "It's simple. I burned down the Shen family ancestral hall, destroyed half of the Shen family ancestral home, and seriously injured several elders of the Shen family. One of them is still unconscious. If it weren't for the intervention of the Shen family patriarch, I might have razed the Shen family to the ground."

Song Yin gasped, "I'll give you my identity as Long Aotian. You're the real Long Aotian!"

Abandoned by his family and subjected to endless scorn, he displayed his talent and was rescued by a powerful figure. He became the master of this powerful figure and achieved great success in his cultivation. His family regretted their decision and begged him to return home, allowing him to avenge himself and extricate himself perfectly.

Tsk tsk tsk, Shen Yuzhu, an even more arrogant protagonist than her.

"What is Long Aotian?" Aotian himself, Shen Yuzhu, humbly asked his junior sister.

Song Yin: "It means praising your talent and ability."

Wen Zhiling: "But compared to you, his talent is still far inferior. Yuzhu, your junior sister is going into seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

A closed-door cultivation attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul stage? Who? Junior sister?

"Pfft, cough cough!" Shen Yuzhu almost spat out his tea.

Long Aotian himself was shocked by his junior sister. "Did I hear that right? Junior sister, you're in seclusion trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage? You're only a little over a hundred years old!"

Shen Yuzhu was truly terrified.

Some people are over a hundred years old and still haven't broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, while others are over a hundred years old and are trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

"The Xuan Tian Assembly has been without any fresh blood for a long time. If you, Junior Sister, participate as a Nascent Soul cultivator who is over a hundred years old..."

Wen Zhiling continued his disciple's words: "Your name will surely resound throughout the entire cultivation world, and your story will continue to be told for thousands, tens of thousands, or even longer to come."

The vision of the future that Wen Zhiling described made Song Yin's heart pound wildly.

Since you've already come to the world of cultivation, why not take a chance and become a legend, passed down through the ages?

"Then I'll do my best and try to advance to the Nascent Soul stage in one go?" Song Yin said with a smile.

"We're waiting for your good news."

After conveying the news of her seclusion to everyone she knew, Song Yin went into seclusion to cultivate the next day.

Everyone is busy with their own things.

Shi Heming selected several secret realms to explore continuously in search of opportunities for breakthroughs; Lou Shuhe guarded the spiritual marrow, waiting for it to be transformed into ten-thousand-year spiritual marrow; Qi Zibo studied alchemy every day; Wen Zhiling and the others were engrossed in cultivation; even Xia Xining did not stop, constantly refining weapons, cultivating, and going into seclusion, cycling through the three, and now her cultivation level has directly caught up with her peers.

As Jiang Youyi, who had just joined the sect, gradually became familiar with the Immortal Firmament Sect and made several friends of the same age around her, all of whom came from the cultivation world.

At first, she always went to the academy alone, and she often encountered provocations from disciples from the cultivation world. It wasn't until everyone started talking about the senior brothers and sisters who had taken her into the sect that these disciples learned that Jiang Youyi was brought into the sect by Song Yin. They all surrounded her and asked about Song Yin, and even some disciples who had already joined the sect started asking her about her.

At this moment, Jiang Youyi finally understood why her senior had changed his appearance. She also heard about his experiences from them and realized how amazing he was, a towering mountain they looked up to.

While Song Yin went into seclusion to cultivate, Lou Shuhe directly created a new space within the space where the spiritual essence was stored. Lou Shuhe's intention was to have Song Yin cultivate near the spiritual essence, which would increase her chances of successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Feeling the spiritual energy flowing through her meridians, Song Yin quickly entered a meditative state. She was so unaware of how much time had passed outside that she had no idea.

Shi Heming ventured into the secret realms alone, some with ease, others nearly losing his life.

In an effort to unleash his potential, he suffered severe injuries and nearly did not wake up.

But when he remembered what Song Yin had said at Danque Peak, he felt that he could persevere.

"Fellow Daoist Shi? Fellow Daoist Shi, hold on! You absolutely cannot faint. If you faint, you'll really die." His companions in the secret realm kept sending spiritual energy to Shi Heming, whose own condition was also very bad, not far from death.

Despite the excruciating pain, Shi Heming channeled his spiritual energy to retrieve the pills from his spatial storage.

Seeing this, the companion's eyes flashed with greed. After hearing about the transfer of spiritual energy, he took the pill bottle and wanted to leave, but then felt that it was too much of a loss, so he directly removed the storage bag from Shi Heming's waist.

"Fellow Daoist Master, why didn't you take out the pills earlier? Since you're about to die, why not give them to me instead, so that these treasures won't go to waste?"

Shi Heming rolled his eyes. This person had entered two secret realms with him in a row, and he thought he could trust him, but he didn't expect...

With a thud, the person traveling with him collapsed and died.

Shi Heming's fingertips twitched. Having killed his companion, he truly could no longer use spiritual energy. Fortunately, he had been on guard all along, so he wouldn't lose his life.

...

The main peak of the Immortal Cloud Sect.

"How is it? Have the participants for this year's Xuan Tian Assembly been selected?" Sect Master Yan asked his eldest disciple, Ling Zixian.

Ling Zixian is a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator, and everyone has high hopes for him, expecting him to become the young sect leader of the Immortal Cloud Sect. Since reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he has been busy with sect affairs and rarely returns to the sect.

Ling Zixian: "Reporting to Master, the participants for this year's Xuantian Assembly are the same as in previous years. If you ask me, holding it every ten years is still too short a time. It would be better if it were held every fifty or one hundred years."

"Others have mentioned this matter before, but it always fizzled out. It doesn't matter, as long as our sect has disciples participating in each Xuan Tian Assembly," Sect Master Yan said without looking up, continuing to write. "By the way, are you participating this year?"

Ling Zixian: "I have participated in five consecutive sessions, but I plan not to participate this year. However, the two disciples of Lingpo Peak, Han Wuyue and Xiao Daiheng, will participate. With the two of them, we will definitely be able to sweep the top spots in the sword cultivator group."

Sect Leader Yan stopped writing: "The competition has been going on and on, and the rewards haven't changed over the years. If this continues, maybe no one will participate in the future."

Ling Zixian: "Master, there is actually another matter I wish to report."

"explain."

Ling Zixian: "There's been some movement in the Nine Heavens Secret Realm."

Sect Leader Yan suddenly stood up from his seat, walked around the table, and stood in front of his disciple, saying seriously, "Is the information reliable?"

“I went to the site myself and saw that the guards protecting the Nine Heavens Secret Realm did not notice anything, so the news was not reported. In less than a hundred years, the Nine Heavens Secret Realm will be opened again.”

Sect Master Yan paced back and forth in the hall, pondering, "The Nine Heavens Secret Realm opens very rarely, but ancient spiritual herbs can be found everywhere inside. It can be said to be one of the top secret realms in the cultivation world, and the number of places is always scarce. Our Immortal Firmament Sect has only a handful of fixed places, so it seems that everyone will have to fight tooth and nail for them."

Ling Zixian: "I've also been searching for the giant spiritual marrow, but I haven't been able to find it. Master, was the giant spiritual marrow really taken away by two rogue cultivators?"

The craze for finding giant spiritual marrow in the cultivation world has now subsided, with many searching in vain and some having already given up.

The cultivation world is never short of novel events, and after a few years, new news has once again captured everyone's attention.

However, a small group of people still haven't given up and are continuing their search.

"Don't tell me you suspect it was taken by a disciple of some sect or a scion of a noble family?" Sect Master Yan chuckled. "Zixian, you're overthinking it. If you can't find the giant spirit marrow, just let it go. Don't be too fixated on it. You've been away for so long, you probably don't know that the inner sect has gained a few more genius disciples who are even more talented than you."

"Is Master talking about Song Yin? I've heard of her name before."

Sect Leader Yan: "It's not just Song Yin, but also Shi Heming and Xia Xining, who are quite close to Song Yin. All three of them have been added to the core disciple roster. I have some breaking news for you: Elder Qi, Song Yin's master, has been having a lot of headaches lately. Can you guess why?"

Ling Zixian shook his head, "This disciple is dull-witted, please explain, Master."

Sect Master Yan: "Elder Qi has been having a headache lately about Daoist titles. Song Yin is in seclusion trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and his master even came to me for help in order to come up with a good Daoist title for his disciple."

"But wasn't she only recently reached the Golden Core stage? How could this be?" Ling Zixian couldn't believe that there was anyone in the world who could cultivate so quickly. "Among the core disciples, there is simply no one with such a cultivation speed."

"What if I told you that Song Yin wasn't the only one attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul stage?"

"Who else?"

"Shi Heming, Xia Xining."

...

At this time, Qi Zibo was at Lingdan Peak.

Qi Zibo looked worried: "Xin Huailiang, stop studying your furnace and help me think of a Taoist name for my disciple."

Xin Huailiang kept rolling his eyes. This guy wasn't here to ask for his help; he was clearly here to show off.

For ordinary people, the matter of striving to reach the Nascent Soul stage is something they would try to keep secret, for fear of losing face if they failed.

Song Yin was different. She was too young. Among the disciples who entered the sect at the same time as her, some were still stuck in the Qi Refining stage, constantly struggling with how to establish their foundation. Song Yin, on the other hand, was already aiming to break through to the Nascent Soul stage!

Breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage!

Whether this succeeds or fails, it won't be shameful. If it fails, no one will think much of it; if it succeeds, it will truly be a miracle.

Xin Huailiang regrets it now, thinking back to the time when he almost took Song Yin as his apprentice!

The flower language of Songyin is "Hurry, or you'll miss out!"

Qi Zibo deliberately took Xin Huailiang's furnace. "I've thought of so many words: Wei, Ling, Yu, Hua, Yuan, Qing, etc. There are too many to choose from. I really need your help. Helping won't hurt me. You also have three disciples. You'll be more skilled at giving them Taoist names later."

This is mocking him for having three apprentices who are not as good as Song Yin.

Forget it, it really can't compare.

Xin Huailiang: "Yu and Hua sound nice, and the meaning is also good."

Qi Zibo turned and left: "Hmm... your skills aren't that great, I'll think about it myself."

Xin Huailiang immediately cursed, "Old man, you came up with those two words, and you still say I'm not good enough? Bah!"

Still not satisfied with his outburst, Xin Huailiang immediately called out, "Someone, put up a sign at Lingdan Peak that says 'Qi Zibo and dogs are not allowed to enter!'"

Xin Huailiang's eldest disciple entered, looking troubled.

Lü Ziya: "Um... Master, our Lingdan Peak already has quite a few dogs. Once the sign is put up, everyone will have to give their dogs away, which makes things very difficult for me."

Xin Huailiang: "Didn't you advance to the late stage of Golden Core? You should also go into seclusion to help your master break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

"Master, I only recently broke through to the late stage of the Golden Core realm, isn't this a bit too—"

To force someone to do something they cannot do.

Lu Ziya looked miserable: Song Yin, I wish you all the best in your attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but how did the fire end up on me?

Time flies, and decades have passed in the blink of an eye.

Song Yin is just one step away from breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Waves of spiritual energy surged against the barrier, causing a change in the spiritual energy throughout Danque Peak.

Song Yin opened her eyes; it was now.

A massive shockwave of spiritual energy spread out from Danque Peak. Even with the protective array around the peak, some of the spiritual energy still managed to dissipate.

Those who sensed the changes at Danque Peak all focused their attention on it.

Qi Zibo stood with his hands behind his back, hovering above Danque Peak.

"It actually succeeded."

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Author's note: Song Yin: Senior brother, after you were kicked out of the Shen family, did you meet the old man in the jade pendant?

Shen Yuzhu: What old man in the jade pendant? I don't understand. [question mark]

Our voice is about to reach the level of a true powerhouse! [Sunglasses]

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[Empty bowl]