Shi Feng knew he had stirred up a hornet's nest. In order to safely pass the tribulation of ascension, it was not advisable for him to fall out with these master and disciples right now. He laughed and said, "Don't take my sharp tongue to heart. That's not what I meant."
Gu Yu and Xi Shangjin exchanged glances. Feng Hongsha, who was sitting next to Sisi, understood and picked up a pastry and stuffed it into Sisi's mouth.
Shang Jin smiled and said, "We think so too. We got too excited and couldn't control ourselves."
Shi Feng waved his hand and went down the steps, saying, "It's nothing, it's nothing."
By the time Sisi realized what had happened, the matter was already over. She glared at Feng Hongsha.
Feng Hongsha looked at her and shook her head. Sisi understood what she meant. Like a deflated balloon, her arrogance vanished in an instant. She took a spiritual fruit and ate it fiercely, but did not undermine her.
Looking at these disciples, Qiao Qiu suddenly felt a pang of envy for Ye Yu.
After the Golden Core disciples finished their competition, the final stage of the contest began: the Nascent Soul stage. However, due to the immense power of the Nascent Soul stage, disciples were not allowed to watch; instead, the contest was held in the void created by the Tribulation Transcending Ancestor.
However, there is an awkward situation regarding Qiao Qiu. She currently only possesses the strength of the Nascent Soul stage, which might mean she can't even defeat her own disciple, but overwhelming all the peak masters at the Nascent Soul stage is absolutely no problem for her.
The peak masters dared to guarantee that even if they were at the Mahayana stage, they might not be able to defeat her.
The sect leader had also considered this point, but the rules established by the ancestors could not be changed, so Qiao Qiu participated in this Nascent Soul stage competition.
Upon hearing this, Qiao Qiu was eager to start the competition. This was a rare opportunity. If she could defeat all the Nascent Soul stage peak masters, it would prove that she was indeed capable.
However, when the Nascent Soul stage competition actually began, all the Nascent Soul masters who were facing her surrendered before the fight even started, citing various reasons. In particular, her grand-disciple's reason for surrendering was even more straightforward: "I cannot betray my master and ancestors!"
Listen to that, what a great reason.
Then Qiao Qiu won the competition and took first place without lifting a finger.
After the rankings were announced, the Kunlun disciples' admiration for Qiao Qiu reached a new level. Since they hadn't witnessed the process, they used all sorts of imaginations to describe Qiao Qiu's strength in an exaggerated and fantastical way.
Qiao Qiu was so busy on Feiyu Peak that she didn't notice these things.
In this life, without any male or female protagonists to hinder her, she could spend more time on herself. She first went to the Scripture Repository and read through all the techniques related to curses.
However, since this was something only demonic cultivators possessed, there were only a few copies in the Scripture Repository. She couldn't possibly read just those few; they were mostly incomplete.
However, she did not put them back, but destroyed them. These things were a hidden danger; practicing them would definitely lead to qi deviation. It was better for them not to exist, so as to avoid any disciples becoming curious.
Qiao Qiu was unaware that her actions saved the female protagonist from a fatal catastrophe, all because of these few cultivation manuals.
Since she couldn't find what she wanted, Qiao Qiu focused all her energy on researching the tribulation avoidance formation.
She thought of architecture and lightning rods in modern science, and wondered what could best withstand a lightning strike.
Each time it undergoes a tribulation of lightning, it can flatten even a mountain. It can also create a huge crater in the ground. But afterwards, both mountains and land will return to their original state because they have successfully survived the tribulation.
So, in that sense, the land that is least afraid of lightning tribulations is actually this very land.
Qiao Qiu's eyes lit up; she understood. Water conducts electricity. If she attached her spiritual power to the water and then used a lightning rod to conduct the lightning into the ground, hiding inside an insulator... that wouldn't work either. The insulator would be affected by electrical breakdown, and the catastrophic consequences would be far more troublesome than they were now.
She needs to come up with another idea.
If most of the lightning can be conducted underground, the small portion of it is not actually that scary.
Qiao Qiu began her research, but research alone wasn't enough; she needed a large amount of materials. She entrusted the task of obtaining materials to her disciples, while the guinea pigs—or rather, the Kunlun disciples—to help her with her experiments were recruited by the sect leader in her name.
The Kunlun disciples trusted Qiao Qiu, and those who were about to break through came to sign up.
When Qiao Qiu learned of this, he sent Gu Yu to screen the people, weeding out all those who had built up their cultivation through pills.
Although these people have improved their cultivation, their realm is unstable. The higher they break through, the easier it is for them to perish.
Qiao Qiu actually disliked the existence of such people, but such people were indeed the most numerous.
No, this is a very bad trend and it must be corrected.
Then Qiao Qiu spread the word that anyone who had cultivated to a certain level and whose realm was stable, even if they were breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, could apply.
Breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment is the first stage. Generally, those who want to be perfect will use elixirs to break through in one fell swoop.
Those poor cultivators who couldn't afford pills were overjoyed to hear this news.
Some second-generation cultivators scoffed at this news, believing that they could break through to the Foundation Establishment stage on their own and then stabilize their cultivation level.
But just then, Qiao Qiu spread the word that any Kunlun disciple who came to her to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage could receive her guidance.
This temptation is no ordinary one. If the previous ones were child's play, then this one is an enormous temptation.
Many miserable second-generation cultivators gave Feiyu Peak a thumbs up, then abandoned the pills they had collected and began their miserable cultivation.
For a time, Kunlun was swept up in a craze for abandoning elixirs in cultivation, becoming an object of imitation for other sects. However, other sects did not know how Kunlun managed to get its disciples to willingly cultivate on their own.
Of course, knowing this is useless. The Transcending Tribulation Ancestors of other sects are all worshipped. They are nowhere near as down-to-earth and responsible as Qiao Qiu.
Not to mention some sects don't even have a Transcending Tribulation Ancestor.
The sect leader is very proud of this.
Besides teaching other people's disciples, helping them overcome tribulations, and researching formations to withstand lightning tribulations, Qiao Qiu also focused on training her own disciples' movement techniques, requiring them to cultivate both internal and external skills.
Gu Yu and the others have been 'tortured' by Ye Yu for so many years; even if they weren't geniuses, they've become geniuses. And even if they are geniuses, they've become geniuses among geniuses.
They always completed the tasks that Qiao Qiu assigned them very well.
They could always quickly grasp the essence of the sword techniques that Qiao Qiu taught them.
Over time, Qiao Qiu simply told them to practice swordsmanship every day to improve themselves, and that they could go to the Forget-Worry Terrace to meditate and elevate their spiritual realm when they had nothing to do.
Two hundred years passed quickly amidst the busyness, and Qiao Qiu's cultivation had recovered to the Tribulation Transcending stage. Every day, lightning seemed to flash across the sky. (For the latest chapters, please visit Tangkexing on your mobile phone.)
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