Chapter 232 The Ruthless Senior Brother of the Path ...

Competitors at the same time will subconsciously suppress their peers, let alone actively teach them, but for a group, naturally the more outstanding people the better.

Heng Mo's teaching materials for his friends in Anguo were inexplicably exchanged for a bunch of spirit stones, materials, and sect contribution points.

Before long, the Xuan Yang Sect held several more open classes, which were open to both menial disciples and outer disciples. At the same time, Heng Mo also received a sect mission assigned to him.

The Xuan Yang Sect has quite a few handymen disciples, since the sect needs handymen disciples for cleaning, planting, gathering, and some simple material processing.

The Xuan Yang Sect occupies an area almost the size of a small city, with thousands of servants. Even if each class has fifty students, it would still require nearly a hundred classes. Not to mention the thousands of outer disciples who also need to attend these basic courses.

After all, Heng Mo not only taught seventeen menial disciples who had entered the Qi Refining stage, but the remaining three outer disciples were also far more advanced than their contemporaries.

With so many classes, it's impossible to have just one teacher in charge. So Heng Mo was responsible for teaching all these teachers. According to Lin You, he was the chief professor of the teachers' college.

Not only that, after hearing about the university model in Lin You's world, Heng Mo also suggested to the sect leader that elective courses such as alchemy and weapon crafting be made into open courses.

The Xuan Yang Sect has no shortage of territory; they acquired an entire mountain and set up more than a dozen courses, with each elder even having an annual quota for teaching classes.

After Xuan Ling traveled all over the country and finally returned with the mission in hand, he learned that his plan to take on disciples had been completely thwarted.

The sect leader looked at him seriously, "Heng Mo stumbled upon a method that can help low-grade spiritual roots draw qi into their bodies, as well as a method to improve the cultivation progress of outer sect disciples."

Although he can only teach the lowest-level disciples at present, it is well known that Heng Mo has only been cultivating for less than a year and is only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

The reason he didn't know how to speed up the cultivation of high-level cultivators wasn't because he couldn't do it, but because his cultivation level hadn't reached that level yet.

Since it concerned the cultivation of all the disciples in the sect, Xuan Ling had nothing to say. This was the foundation of the sect, and his ridiculous excuses were not worth mentioning.

Besides, even if he were to come, he probably wouldn't be able to teach a group of menial disciples who had just entered the Qi Refining stage in a few months.

However, he now has the idea of ​​taking on a disciple. Recently, he has become obsessed with this matter because of Heng Mo. If he doesn't take on a disciple, it might become a knot in his heart.

Cultivators, especially those on the Path of Ruthlessness, fear nothing more than inner turmoil and obsession. Ironically, the moment Xuan Ling realized that this was an obsession, "accepting disciples" truly became his affliction.

After reviewing all the newly initiated disciples, Xuan Ling pointed to another disciple's name: Shen Ting.

This kid is also a sword cultivator with great talent, but he's always fooling around with Heng Mo. He's greedy and playful, so he needs to be properly taught.

This time, the sect leader didn't even bother to roll his eyes. He directly stated, "This is the third junior brother's most beloved closed-door disciple. If Junior Uncle isn't afraid that he'll throw a tantrum and burn down your mountain, then go and talk to him yourself."

Xuan Ling: ………

Back then, he didn't participate in the sect competition because he was too lazy to deal with worldly affairs. Xuan Yang Sect only got third place. Because of this, the Third Elder stood at the foot of his mountain and cursed him for three days and three nights with a megaphone.

From his shameless act of stealing Xiao Qi's Beihai Xuanbing, to his taking the sect's salary without doing any work, his cursing voice almost penetrated half of the Xuan Yang Sect. But what he said was all true. If Xuan Ling really went out to confront him, no one could argue with him.

If it were someone else, he could suppress them with his cultivation level, but the Third Elder had just fought for the Xuan Yang Sect in an honorary match, and his clothes still bore the bloodstains of battle. If he were to actually attack him, his reputation would probably be even worse than being cursed for thirty days.

Even if he didn't make a move, he always felt that if he went out and just stood there, the shameless Third Elder could pretend to be unconscious and extort money from him.

After all, the cultivation world has such a thing as pressure, which can not only attack groups of people, but also target a single individual. It is invisible and intangible, and no one except the person involved can detect it.

If that scoundrel were to collapse there and vomit blood, his reputation would be ruined for life.

Even the ruthless sect has its pride. After that, Xuan Ling voluntarily reduced his offerings by 50% and never postponed any sect missions again, which finally calmed things down.

Now, when the sect leader mentions the Third Elder, Xuan Ling is unusually quiet; that man is truly shameless and willing to go all out.

A dignified Nascent Soul cultivator could actually curse like a shrew, and could curse for three days without repeating a single word. He couldn't fight her, and he couldn't win the argument either. What could he do?!

Although he didn't use foul language, Xuan Ling had heard that because he hadn't had enough of cursing during those three days, he went to the mortal realm to listen to shrewish women cursing and studied for three whole years.

The sect competition is held once every hundred years, and there is still a year until the next one. If he catches him in a compromising situation again and berates him for three days like he did a hundred years ago, even Xuan Ling, who doesn't care about worldly affairs, would feel dizzy just thinking about the scene.

This recruitment drive, apart from Heng Mo and Shen Ting, only included outer disciples, which Xuan Ling naturally looked down upon, but his desire to take on disciples grew stronger.

Lin You, who was helping Heng Mo prepare teaching materials, suddenly heard a notification sound. After rummaging through the system page, she discovered that the progress bar for the main quest of changing one's Dao heart and preventing Heng Mo's tragedy had already reached 60%, which was a passing grade.

Well, passing is pretty much the minimum requirement, nothing special. Her task partners are just that helpful, it's just another easy win.

The progress of the Golden Finger's missions was not very fast. He had completed more than 400 missions in total. After all, the later missions were becoming more and more difficult, and now they were starting to require him to capture a certain number of monsters of the same level.

Heng Mo has to cultivate, make snacks, and teach students, so he doesn't have much free time. These days, he can only manage one or two tasks a day.

Although Lin You wasn't in a hurry, Heng Mo still made a special promise to her that once he reached the Foundation Establishment stage and his cultivation stabilized, he wouldn't need to meditate every day. He would definitely work harder to complete tasks and not hold Lin You back.

Lin You was overjoyed to see her child being so considerate. In a moment of excitement, she wanted to reward her child. After thinking for a while, she ended up spending a long time talking to her about cultivation methods in various worlds.

In the previous cultivation world, everyone could learn a lot from nine years of compulsory education, but perhaps the cultivation system in this world is somewhat flawed. Lin You tried some modern knowledge, but it didn't have much of an impact on Heng Mo.

Fortunately, Lin You himself is a cultivator who has experienced so many worlds and seen a lot in each one. He can just pick out some knowledge related to cultivation and talk about it. Since it is all about cultivation, it will always give people some inspiration.

Modern students might get furious if they hear that the reward is extra tutoring or test papers, but for a diligent and studious child like Hengmo, there is no better reward than extra classes!

Heng Mo's cultivation was already on the verge of a breakthrough. After listening to Lin You for two hours, he closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and entered a meditative state.

When he woke up, he had already reached the late stage of Qi Refining. The teaching materials had also been updated. When the sect leader found out, he sent another pile of spirit stones to his courtyard as a reward.

Heng Mo didn't keep any of the spirit stones this time; he gave them all to Lin You. Heng Mo had noticed that Lin You also needed spirit stones for her cultivation.

Back then, he was short of money and couldn't afford to support Senior Lin. Now that he has a considerable income, how could he possibly take the spirit stones that belong to Senior Lin?

The cultivation methods were given to her by Senior Lin, so the rewards should naturally belong to her. Not only that, the snack recipes were also given to him by Senior Lin, and Heng Mo secretly allocated 20% of the profits to her.

Heng Mo was no longer short of spirit stones, so Lin You didn't stand on ceremony and directly put a bunch of spirit stones into his personal space.

This thing is quite expensive in the system shop. A low-grade spirit stone costs ten points, and a mid-grade spirit stone costs one thousand points. Anyway, Lin You is unwilling to spend points to buy it.

Since that day when he drank, the Seventh Elder's personality has become less gloomy than before. He has also developed a new hobby: going to the mountain where he is in charge of teaching and sometimes using illusion magic to pretend to be a novice and audit classes.

Or he might go up and give a lesson or two, the content of which is very random. Sometimes it's about alchemy techniques, sometimes it's about identifying spiritual herbs, and he can even casually talk about swordsmanship. Once he even taught how to make barbecue in the wild taste better.

Only then did the disciples of the sect realize that although everyone said that the Seventh Elder's cultivation level was the lowest among the elders, he was still an existence that was far beyond their reach.

Heng Mo didn't mind his master coming to teach. He wouldn't mind taking on a disciple if he really took a liking to him. However, Heng Mo felt a little awkward because his master would sit in the corner and audit his classes every time he attended.

Fortunately, the lessons he taught the teachers didn't need to be too frequent. During his break, Heng Mo hurriedly completed five more tasks, finally accumulating enough game points to buy a Breakthrough Pill.

Well, once Master breaks through, it will probably take a long time to consolidate his cultivation. This period of time will be enough for him to train a new batch of teachers.

Unlike the pills refined in the cultivation world, the Breakthrough Pill doesn't look like a pill; it looks more like a chocolate bean, and it smells very similar.

Heng Mo took the various chocolate beans Lin You had given him before, put seven or eight chocolate beans into a crystal bottle, and put the Breakthrough Pill in it and it didn't feel out of place at all.

After the Seventh Elder finished attending the class, he received a jar of candy from his thoughtful little apprentice and unsuspectingly popped one into his mouth.

The rich and mellow flavor melts in your mouth, and the slight bitterness is perfectly balanced by the sweetness, making it not unpleasant. These candies also taste a little different; some have chopped nuts, some have jam, and some are slightly less sweet, with a rich and mellow aroma that is bittersweet.

The Seventh Elder shook the crystal bottle with lingering enjoyment, "Although the name sounds a bit strange, the taste is indeed quite good, it's just that there's too little of it."

"The fruits for making this candy are not easy to find. If Master likes them, we can plant a few later." Heng Mo supported the Seventh Elder, and the two walked slowly, occasionally whispering a few words about food and then talking about cultivation.

"At your current cultivation speed, you'll probably surpass your master in just a few years." The Seventh Elder smiled expectantly. He was already content to see his disciple achieve success in his lifetime.

As for Xuan Ling and Bei Hai Xuan Bing, they seem to be unimportant now. He now has an obedient and sensible little disciple, as well as several senior brothers who still love him.

The pent-up frustration in his heart seemed to slowly dissipate, and the Seventh Elder felt an unprecedented sense of ease. The bottleneck that had been hindering him for so long was showing signs of loosening.

Standing in his own courtyard, with his most trusted little disciple beside him, he closed his eyes with peace of mind, sat cross-legged, and his stagnant cultivation progressed as if water had naturally flowed into a channel.

Suddenly, dark clouds filled the sky, a heavy, oppressive mass that seemed to press down on his mountain. Heng Mo belatedly realized that breaking through from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage required undergoing a tribulation of lightning!

He immediately and frantically tried to send a message to the Third Elder, but there was no need for him to do so. The moment they saw the tribulation clouds, all the elders of the Xuan Yang Sect rushed over in an instant.

The Third Elder staggered as he ran over. Only when he saw his junior brother sitting cross-legged, meditating with his eyes closed, and sensed his smooth aura, did he fully confirm that the person undergoing tribulation was indeed his junior brother!

The sect leader and the other elders followed closely behind, and when they saw the Seventh Elder under the tribulation clouds, they all felt as if they were in a dream.

Their junior brother seems to be able to stay with everyone for another five hundred years!

"Everyone, immediately form an array to help Xiao Qi overcome the Nascent Soul Tribulation!" The sect leader stared at the tribulation clouds on the horizon and solemnly gave the order, telling Heng Mo, who was watching, and Shen Ting, who had somehow appeared, to stand further away.

The tribulation clouds spread slowly outwards from the location of the Seventh Elder, the sky grew increasingly dark, and the clouds, carrying strong winds, swept over the mountain peaks.

A streak of blue-purple lightning occasionally flashed across the inky clouds, and muffled rumbling sounds came from the depths of the clouds. The calamity clouds seemed to have descended a little further, gathering their strength.

There are three tribulations in the Nascent Soul stage. The tribulations cannot be completely resisted by external forces. A portion of the lightning needs to be reserved to temper one's own body. The lightning-attracting array set up by the sect leader and others will only attract away a small portion of the violent lightning. The main tribulation still needs to be faced by the Seventh Elder himself.