Su Qing sat cross-legged on the ground and cultivated for more than half an hour before stopping and opening her eyes.
She then realized that she was surrounded by a group of people.
"Oh my, you're working so hard, you must be new here."
"Definitely. They're like country bumpkins. They think about cultivating their inner energy after eating some spiritual food. Only a newcomer could do that."
"Oh, I know this outer disciple. He was the first place winner in yesterday's Heavenly Ladder Trial. He seems to have some skill."
"Now that you mention it, I remember too. It was Elder Shui Qingchen who personally picked up that disciple. I was wondering if he came from some great family, but it turns out he's just a country bumpkin."
...
These cultivators kept calling him a country bumpkin and a newcomer, which made Su Qing frown.
At this moment, Liu Xuan looked embarrassed. When she saw Su Qing open her eyes, she quickly went over, pulled Su Qing aside, and whispered, "Junior Sister Su Qing, let's go quickly."
Su Qing stood up and was pulled out of the crowd by Liu Xuan.
Yun Luoyan and Bai Xiao also came out, and their expressions were not good either.
"Senior Sister Liu Xuan, what exactly happened?" Su Qing asked.
Liu Xuan blushed and said, "Junior Sister Su Qing, no one practices martial arts so openly in the cafeteria. You're being too embarrassing."
Su Qing frowned and said, "Isn't the cafeteria a safe place? Why can't we cultivate there?"
In her opinion, these spiritual foods in the cafeteria were almost as effective as taking a Spirit Recovery Pill. Shouldn't one take advantage of the spiritual energy in their lungs and immediately start cultivating?
Are we just going to wait for the effects of the medicine to dissipate in the body like this?
“Oh dear, Junior Sister Su Qing, this is just a cafeteria. Eating is just to satisfy our appetite and feel full. Who would cultivate after eating? Anyway, you are the number one cultivator in our cafeteria,” Liu Xuan said.
Su Qing was a little annoyed. She turned to look at Yun Luoyan and Bai Xiao and asked, "Do you two also think that we shouldn't cultivate immediately after consuming the spiritual food, but instead wait for the snacks to dissipate?"
Yun Luoyan glanced at Liu Xuan and said, "Su Qing, if it weren't for Senior Sister Liu Xuan stopping us, we would have both been sitting on the ground cultivating. We just wasted such good food."
Liu Xuan was furious and pointed at Yun Luoyan and Bai Xiao, saying, "Do you want to be pointed at and talked about like her?"
"So what if people point fingers? I joined the sect to cultivate. My spiritual energy is surging within me. Why should I be afraid of being pointed at and prevent myself from refining the spiritual energy in my body, letting it slip away in vain? I can't do that," Su Qing said.
"Incomprehensible!" Liu Xuan said. "If you don't care, then do it. But don't drag me into this. I don't want to be talked about every day."
Su Qing frowned, looked at Liu Xuan, and asked, "Senior Sister Liu Xuan, I'd like to ask, when exactly are you going to start your cultivation?"
Liu Xuan said matter-of-factly, "Our Xuanling Sect has a cultivation hall. When there are no missions, you just need to go to the cultivation hall to cultivate for four hours every day."
"In the cultivation hall, there are senior brothers and sisters in the Foundation Establishment stage to guide our cultivation, and there is also a spirit gathering array to enhance our abilities, making cultivation twice as effective with half the effort," Liu Xuan said proudly.
Su Qing was speechless.
With such excellent cultivation resources and conditions, how come you only cultivate for four hours a day?
"Senior Sister Liu Xuan, could you take us to see the cultivation hall?" Yun Luoyan asked.
"That's what I was planning to do. We can go over there to cultivate and finish our cultivation tasks for today," Liu Xuan said, leading the three of them towards the cultivation hall.
The cultivation hall is located halfway up the mountain of the Xuanling Sect.
It's called a cultivation hall, but it's actually a nine-story pagoda.
"The higher the level of the cultivation hall, the more abundant the spiritual energy. We outer disciples can only cultivate on the first level, while the senior brothers and sisters who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage can cultivate on the second and third levels. Only elders can cultivate on the third level and above."
“However, very few elders come here to cultivate, unless they are going into seclusion to break through to a higher level,” Liu Xuan said.
The elders of the Xuanling Sect are all very busy. They are either training outside or refining pills and weapons in the sect. Even if they want to cultivate, they don't go to the cultivation hall specifically to cultivate, because the spiritual energy in the elders' caves is also extremely rich. Although it is not as good as the cultivation hall, it is almost the same.
Before entering the cultivation hall, you must show your Xuanling Sect disciple token. After showing your disciple token, the timer will start once you enter the cultivation hall.
In the Xuanling Sect, outer disciples are required to cultivate for four hours a day, inner disciples for five hours, and Foundation Establishment disciples are not required to cultivate for at least five hours.
Upon entering the cultivation hall, Su Qing felt a surge of rich spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy in this cultivation hall is so abundant that you don't even need to cultivate any mental techniques; the spiritual energy just flows straight into your body.
It's practically a cultivation paradise!
“There are small cubicles at the front; everyone cultivates in those cubicles,” Liu Xuan said.
The four of them each found a small cubicle and went inside.
Su Qing entered the small cubicle, which was only ten square meters in size. There was nothing in the room except for the walls, but the walls were engraved with arrays, one spirit-gathering array within another, which was dazzling to the eye.
It was obvious that the spiritual energy in this small cubicle was more abundant than that in the main hall outside.
Not wanting to waste time, Su Qing sat cross-legged on a futon on the ground and began to cultivate.
Yun Luoyan and Bai Xiao were similar; they immediately began meditating cross-legged upon entering.
However, after entering the small cubicle, Liu Xuan did not rush to cultivate. Instead, she took out several bottles of pills from her storage bag, which included not only first-tier Spirit Recovery Pills but also second-tier Spirit Gathering Pills.
After taking the pill, Liu Xuan did not begin cultivating. Instead, she took out a jade tablet from her storage bag, tapped it lightly, and the jade tablet emitted a sound.
"Senior Sister Liu Xuan, why haven't you responded to me all morning!"
Liu Xuan said to the jade tablet, "Junior Sister Xi Ran, you have no idea how embarrassing I am! Master took in a new junior sister yesterday, and she's just... a complete country bumpkin!"
"What exactly happened?"
"Hey, I took her to the disciples' office to get her things this morning, and I was speechless at how clueless she was. And that's not all, I took her to the cafeteria, and do you know what she did? She actually finished eating and sat cross-legged on the ground to start cultivating! Everyone in the cafeteria gathered around to stare, and I wanted to disappear into the ground! I didn't want to disturb her cultivation, so I just stood there waiting for her for half an hour. It was so embarrassing."
"Oh, Liu Xuan, I heard about this a long time ago. It's all over the sect. So it was the junior sister you took to the cafeteria. What a country bumpkin."
“Who says otherwise?” Liu Xuan chimed in with her own comment.
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