After a while, Shouxin took Xiang Sheng to the edge of a Tianchi Lake on the top of a mountain and put him down. Then he bowed to the Tianchi Lake and retreated respectfully.
Shortly after he stepped down, bubbles began to bubble up from the calm surface of the Tianchi Lake, and a tortoise shell covering the entire Tianchi Lake slowly floated up, revealing a pair of old eyes as big as copper bells and covered with wrinkles.
An extremely ancient charm of time came to his face, so strong that it almost suffocated Xiang Sheng.
How many years does it take to accumulate this charm of time?
Ten thousand years? One hundred thousand years?!
Could it be that this Xuan Palace Master was really the mount of the founder of the Myriad Veins Sword Sect, as the sect manual claimed? An old monster that had lived for hundreds of thousands of years without dying?
Seeing Xiang Sheng's shocked and dazed look, the Lord of Xuan Palace chuckled and transformed himself into a hunchbacked old man in white clothes. He walked on the water and landed in front of Xiang Sheng.
Xiang Sheng took a deep breath and saluted quickly: "Disciple Chen Xiang, meeting the Master of Xuan Palace."
The Xuan Palace Master smiled kindly: "Get up, and sit with me, the old man, for a while."
Xiang Sheng naturally agreed and followed Palace Master Xuan to sit at the stone table under the old tree beside Tianchi.
The Lord of Xuan Palace flicked his sleeves, and the empty stone table flashed with light, and then it was filled with all kinds of cakes and spiritual food.
Xiang Sheng carefully maintained his persona. He picked up the pastry and took a small bite. Then he heard Palace Master Xuan say, "You're new here. Are you adjusting well?"
Xiang Sheng nodded and replied obediently: "My senior brothers and sisters are all very kind to me. Second senior brother built a house for me, and fourth senior sister decorated my room very beautifully..."
Xiang Sheng had plenty of experience in dealing with children, and even after Palace Master Xuan listened carefully, he couldn't find any flaws.
"There's nothing unusual about his age, and his words and demeanor are pure and innocent. Although he was frightened when he faced me, the distinction between superior and inferior was still blurred..."
Palace Master Xuan thought to himself that all this could prove that Shen Xiangzhen in front of him was just a mortal child, and his understanding of the world of cultivation was extremely limited.
But it was this little kid who had just glimpsed the door to immortality, but in just less than a month, he skipped the accumulation of Qi Refining Period and practiced the "Sword Classic of Time" to the perfection of foundation building.
It even had a premonition that if this little girl had only comprehended the "Sword Canon" to the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would not be impossible for her to enter the Core Formation Stage in one breath.
This was the first time Palace Master Xuan had seen such a strange situation in his countless years of life.
Thinking of this, he narrowed his eyes and continued to ask, "Do you have any doubts about cultivation?"
Xiang Sheng nodded immediately, hurriedly put down the cake, wiped his mouth, and said with a bow, "Palace Master Xuan..."
"From now on, you can just call me Uncle Xuan."
Xuan Palace Master interrupted, and Xiang Sheng was not polite at all, and immediately changed the subject: "Uncle Xuan, Sixth Senior Brother recently took me to the Spiritual Pagoda to practice, but I haven't made any progress in my practice for more than 20 days, so I had no choice but to go to the Sutra Pavilion to find books to read..."
Upon hearing this, Palace Master Xuan's eyes flashed, "Didn't you feel anything while you were practicing?"
Xiang Sheng looked confused: "What does it feel like?"
"You have comprehended the Sword Codex, so you should know that there are bottlenecks in breaking through."
The Xuan Palace Master patiently explained, "Just like building a tall building on flat ground, you need a foundation first. Only then will the building be stable. Practicing Qi to the stage of foundation building is like laying the foundation. Don't you find it difficult at all?"
"Uncle Xuan, there is indeed something that looks like a platform in my Dantian, but isn't it easy to build it?"
Xiang Sheng looked puzzled. "I just felt like after a good sleep, the foundation in my Dantian was built up on its own."
"What?"
Palace Master Xuan's eyes widened. Even as an old man like him, his mind was shocked by Xiang Sheng's words.
With the help of the embryonic form of sword intent, the "Sword Classic of Years" has only been comprehended to the foundation-building stage. This girl's comprehension is only ordinary among the monsters.
There is no bottleneck in cultivation, and the speed is extremely fast. Could it be that all the unusual things are caused by this physical body?
Thinking of this, Palace Master Xuan suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he took out a crystal clear black bead with his backhand.
When Xiang Sheng saw the black bead, his heart skipped a beat, but he appeared curious. "Uncle Xuan, what is this?"
"This is called the Extreme Spiritual Pearl, and it's used specifically to test spiritual roots."
The Xuan Palace Master was forthright and explained with a smile, "The word 'Extreme' means the pinnacle. Currently, there are no more than five people in the cultivation world who possess the Extreme Spirit Pearl."
"This tiny bead is so precious?"
Xiang Sheng was surprised on the surface, but secretly he had already leveraged a bit of heaven-defying power to cover up most of the spiritual roots in his body.
On the first day she went to the Sutra Library, she had already read books on spiritual roots.
She remembered that the book recorded that spirit-testing beads were divided into three grades: low, medium, and high, and the limit that a high-grade spirit-testing bead could measure was a super-grade spiritual root.
Above the super spiritual roots, there is an even more evil spiritual root, called the "ultimate spiritual root".
However, this spiritual root is extremely difficult to identify, and it will not explode the top-grade spiritual bead. Only special treasures can resonate with it.
Today, when she saw Palace Master Xuan take out the beads, she realized that this so-called special treasure was actually called the Extreme Spiritual Pearl.
But is my spiritual root really just an extreme spiritual root?
Previously, when she split her soul in Dongzhou and just condensed this clone, she felt that her spiritual roots were too strong and had already exceeded the level of super-quality.
Now that her perfect body has been tempered again, she can clearly sense that her spiritual roots are also improving. When combined with the "Ancestral Seal", the strength of her spiritual roots has long been beyond common sense.
If this Extreme Spirit Pearl detected something and exposed me too much, the consequences would be far beyond what I could bear at the moment...
Thinking of this, Xiang Sheng covered his spiritual roots to the level when he had just condensed his clone, then stopped and reached out to grab the bead in the palm of Master Xuan's hand.
The moment she grabbed the bead, a ray of light suddenly lit up from inside the bead.
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