This is a female cultivator, who is only about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. She has snow-white skin, a graceful figure, and a pretty face full of anger, yet still possesses an otherworldly beauty.
Her hair was simply draped over her shoulders, with only a few tiny flowers visible among the strands.
She was wearing a loose white robe that reached her ankles.
She had bare, jade-like feet, but wore lotus-patterned shoes.
Su Qing smelled the faint fragrance of the pills on her body, and her heart pounded.
Could this be Elder Shui Qingchen of the Xuanling Sect?
In her previous life, Su Ruoshan became a disciple of Shui Qingchen of Jade Maiden Peak to refine pills. Su Qing was envious for a long time after learning about this from the Su family.
Su Qing possesses the three spiritual roots of wood, metal, and fire, making her extremely suitable for alchemy.
She would be more than happy to become an apprentice of Elder Shui Qingchen in alchemy.
Upon seeing Shui Qingchen, Bei Ming and Feng Yao could only take two steps back and bow in respect.
"Elder Shui, this junior dares not."
“I’ve got my eye on both of them too. They’re coming with me to Jade Maiden Peak today, and none of you can take them from me,” Shui Qingchen said, raising an eyebrow.
Those guarding the mountain gate were all Foundation Establishment cultivators. Faced with the pressure from Core Formation cultivators, they naturally dared not refute.
"Would you be willing to come with me to Jade Maiden Peak to learn the art of alchemy?" Shui Qingchen asked Su Qing and Yun Luoyan.
"Elder Shui's kindness is too much for me. I am willing to follow my master to learn alchemy," Su Qing said hurriedly.
Yun Luoyan was also extremely excited and knelt down on the ground with a thud, saying, "Master, please accept my bow."
Shui Qingchen glanced at Yun Luoyan and frowned, saying, "You can't do it. You don't have a fire spirit root, so you can't learn alchemy."
ah?
Yun Luoyan's face immediately turned bright red.
She was just thinking that a Core Formation stage elder was coming to take her as a disciple, so she should hurry up and cling to his coattails. But she didn't expect to make a fool of herself.
"Since you can't refine pills, how about you follow me to make talismans?" At this moment, a voice came, and the Foundation Establishment disciples hurriedly retreated, only to see an immortal with a dignified and otherworldly air slowly walking over.
He was an Inquiry Elder of the Xuanling Sect, skilled in talisman making. This was the first time he had been willing to accept an outer disciple with three spiritual roots who had just passed the entrance test as his apprentice.
“I am willing!” Yun Luoyan quickly turned around, kowtowed to Elder Wen Dao, and said, “Master, please accept my bow.”
He nodded in response.
He had nothing to do today, so he came over to watch the excitement. Unexpectedly, he discovered two promising talents.
Shui Qingchen arrived before him, and he was worried that he would miss out on everything because he was a step too late. However, he didn't expect that Yun Luoyan didn't have a fire spirit root and couldn't follow Shui Qingchen to refine pills. That was perfect, he would take her back to learn how to make talismans.
Su Qing followed Shui Qingchen to Jade Maiden Peak, while Yun Luoyan followed Wen Dao to Asking Peak, and the two had to part ways.
However, the two agreed that they would visit each other whenever they had time.
Bei Ming and Feng Yao reported back to their master dejectedly. Elder Yuan and Elder Xiang were nearly furious, regretting that they had only sent two disciples. If they had gone themselves…
Well, it seems I can't compete with Shui Qingchen and Wen Dao either.
Although they were both elders of the Xuanling Sect, Shui Qingchen's status in the sect was far superior to theirs in alchemy and talisman-making.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to give up on taking on disciples.
In the end, Elder Yuan still accepted the third person to cross the Heavenly Ladder, a burly white man, as his disciple.
Jade Maiden Peak is a high peak of the Xuanling Sect. From a distance, it resembles the figure of a woman, hence its name.
Elder Shui Qingchen led Su Qing to Jade Maiden Peak, where Su Qing was placed in the medicinal herb field at the foot of Jade Maiden Peak.
"Although I brought you back personally, your aptitude is only three spiritual roots. You are currently just an outer disciple who has just entered the sect, and you cannot yet be considered my formal disciple, Shui Qingchen."
"You will stay at the foot of Jade Maiden Peak for now. Tomorrow, Liu Xuan will take you to the disciples' office to receive the formalities for becoming an outer disciple. From now on, you will take care of the medicine fields. When you reach the peak of Qi Refining, ask me for a Foundation Establishment Pill. Only if you successfully establish your foundation will you be considered my official disciple, Shui Qingchen."
"Thank you, Master," Su Qing replied.
After Shui Qingchen left, Su Qing was taken by Senior Sister Liu Xuan to a cave at the foot of Jade Maiden Peak.
Outside the cave, there were spiritual herbs and medicines planted everywhere. Of course, these that could be planted at the foot of Jade Maiden Peak were definitely not rare spiritual herbs and medicines. They were just ordinary first and second-tier spiritual herbs and medicines that were not very old.
Liu Xuan is also an outer disciple. She has been a disciple for eight years and has been at Jade Maiden Peak for three years, but she is currently stuck at the eighth level of Qi Refining and has not yet reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
"Junior Sister Su Qing, you're really lucky. Elder Shui Qingchen has already taken you in as soon as you arrived. You're only thirteen years old and you've already achieved Qi Induction. Tomorrow, I'll take you to get the cultivation method issued by the sect. You'll probably cultivate even faster then," Liu Xuan said to Su Qing, her eyes full of envy.
"Senior Sister Liu Xuan, I'm new here, so I'll have to ask you to take good care of me in the future," Su Qing said.
"Junior sister, let me show you around. We have a lot of medicinal herb fields on Jade Maiden Peak, all planted by our master. You must take good care of them in the future." Liu Xuan said, pulling Su Qing to see the medicinal herb fields.
Half of Jade Maiden Peak is planted with medicinal herb fields. There aren't many disciples on Jade Maiden Peak. The inner disciples are all cultivating and refining pills on the mountain, while only Liu Xuan takes care of these medicinal herb fields at the foot of the mountain. Now, there's also Su Qing.
“All the cave dwellings here are empty; you can just pick one to stay in,” Liu Xuan said.
Su Qing chose to stay in a cave not far from Liu Xuan's cave.
Su Qing only realized after entering that the Xuanling Sect's cave dwelling was actually equipped with a spirit-gathering array.
"It has to be the Xuanling Sect. Even the outer disciples' cave dwellings have spirit-gathering arrays set up!" Su Qing thought of her previous life, when only the Yunjian Sect leader's cave dwelling had a spirit-gathering array set up, and no one else had this privilege.
The Xuanling Sect is located on Xuanling Mountain, which is situated on a spiritual vein. The surrounding area is full of spiritual energy, so even without a spirit-gathering array, cultivation is twice as effective with half the effort. Thinking back to her previous life, Su Qing suffered in the miserable Yunjian Sect. Yunjian Sect was located on a Gobi mountain, where spiritual veins were scarce, and even spiritual energy was pitifully scarce.
With such a limited cultivation environment, the entire sect was still engaged in fierce internal competition. Su Qing shuddered just thinking about her previous life!
Fortunately, in this life, she was able to start over and join the Xuanling Sect. It was as wonderful as going to heaven.
Su Qing did not waste this hard-won cultivation resource. She sat cross-legged on the futon above the spirit-gathering array and began to cultivate.
She wasn't practicing the Su family's cultivation method, but rather a supreme cultivation method she had obtained in her previous life.
In her previous life, Su Qing didn't have many good resources when she joined the Cloud Sword Sect. The cultivation methods the Cloud Sword Sect gave to its disciples weren't anything special either, only slightly better than the copy of the cultivation method that Su's family had.
Later, Su Qing did obtain some cultivation techniques, but unfortunately, she was no longer able to cultivate them.
This life is different. Su Qing obtained a supreme cultivation technique from the Su family, which is definitely a top-notch technique.
This mental cultivation method focuses on opening up the meridians. Once the meridians are expanded and widened, cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort.
Unlike Su Qing, who practiced the Cloud Sword Sect's cultivation method back then, her meridians became blocked in the later stages, slowing her progress and forcing her to take pills to aid her cultivation.
Every medicine has its side effects, and this kind of cultivation has extremely serious side effects.
At that time, the elixir poison was lodged in his dantian meridians. In the later stages of cultivation, he suffered unbearable pain all over his body. Cultivation was like an execution, and he was in excruciating pain.
In this life, Su Qing possesses an unparalleled cultivation method, so naturally, cultivation will not be as difficult as it was in her previous life.
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