"Hey~! You dare to make demands to this chief steward, right? Do you believe that I will..." Li Changqing wanted to say "beat you up", but before he could finish his words, he remembered that Zhu Xiaozhao's cultivation level was the same as his, both at the seventh level of Qi training. If the two of them really fought, it would be hard to say who would win. He quickly paused and changed his words: "... deduct your cultivation resources for next month."
The more serious Zhu Xiaozhao was, the more Li Changqing felt like he was being pawed by a cat. Li Changqing had a little-known habit of hearing strange stories. Zhu Xiaozhao's hesitation was driving Li Changqing crazy.
"Manager Li, I, I, I... Oh! What's going on? Fine, fine, I trust your character and you won't go around spreading rumors. Let me tell you, I spent a lot of effort to find out this from the inner disciples of Piaomiao Peak. It cost me quite a few spirit beads!"
After Zhu Xiaozhao rambled on for a long time, noticing that Li Changqing's face was a little distorted, he leaned close to Li Changqing's ear and whispered, "Manager Li, I heard from Senior Brother Wu from Piaomiao Peak that our leader has a secret method for rapid cultivation. It can achieve a Golden Core in five years and a Nascent Soul in twenty years."
"What?" Li Changqing's face changed. Five years for Golden Core and twenty years for Nascent Soul? How could that be possible? Did he think cultivating immortality was as easy as growing cabbages? If that were truly possible, wouldn't the Sect Leader, who is nearly seventy this year, have ascended to immortality long ago?
"Really? This secret technique was obtained by the sect leader three years ago. After practicing it himself, he found it effective, so he taught it to their peak master Yue Zhenshan and the peak master of Qingyun Peak, Li Yuanpei." Zhu Xiaozhao said confidently.
"The Master shared the secret method with Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei?" This time, Li Changqing's face turned even worse. Wasn't he a close confidant of the Master? With such a great cultivation method, why didn't the Master pass it on to him, but instead taught it to Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei, whom the Master always disliked?
Could it be that in the leader's mind, he, Li Changqing, is not as good as Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei?
"I was afraid that Senior Brother Wu had deceived me, so I went to ask Senior Brother Zhou from Qingyun Peak. Senior Brother Zhou said that this was true. The disciple taught directly by the head of Qingyun Peak started practicing this secret method four months ago. In the past four months, the cultivation level of Senior Brother Zhou and his three fellow disciples has increased by at least one level." Zhu Xiaozhao found another witness.
"Hiss!" Li Changqing gasped. A level up in four months? That speed wasn't much slower than the Sect Master's. Could it be that the Sect Master had really shared his secret technique with Yue Zhenshan and the others?
Thinking of this, Li Changqing couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart.
He had always thought he was the most important person in the Sect Leader's heart! What happened? Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei both had access to the Sect Leader's secret cultivation method, but he, the "trusted chief steward", was left aside by the Sect Leader?
Li Changqing's heart was filled with huge waves because of Zhu Xiaozhao's words.
Even if Zhu Xiaozhao didn't say it, Li Changqing had long suspected that Ling Xiaotian had a secret method of cultivation.
In just three years, Ling Xiaotian leaped from the sixth level of Qi training to the middle stage of foundation building. This speed of cultivation simply couldn't be explained by the word "genius".
In the Yushan Sect's gongfa building, there was a jade slip that specifically recorded the remarkable talents of the cultivators over the past 100,000 years. Li Changqing had once read it.
It is recorded in the jade slip that in the past 100,000 years, there have been a total of 28 cultivators who successfully ascended to become immortals in this world of cultivation. Yu Chengzi, the first leader of the Yushan Sect, was one of them.
Yu Chengzi possessed a natural spiritual root with the attribute of thunder. He began cultivation at the age of three, established his foundation at eighteen, achieved the Golden Core at thirty-five, reached the Nascent Soul stage at one hundred and twenty, and ascended to immortality at over five hundred years old. He was the fastest of the twenty-eight cultivators who successfully ascended.
When Liu Jingyu, who was in Ling Xiaotian's guise, entered the Yushan Sect, his aptitude was mediocre. He had a single spiritual root in the water element, and after more than fifty years of cultivation, he was only at the middle stage of Qi training.
After becoming the head of the sect, Ling Xiaotian's cultivation began to soar like a rocket. In just three years, Ling Xiaotian's cultivation had advanced from the middle stage of Qi training to the middle stage of foundation building. This speed was only faster than Yu Chengzi's.
However, secret techniques are called secret techniques because they are kept secret. Even Li Changqing himself would keep any secret techniques he had to improve his cultivation level hidden from others. Therefore, Li Changqing had no other thoughts about Ling Xiaotian's rapid cultivation speed except envy.
But today, Zhu Xiaozhao actually told him that Ling Xiaotian had already passed the secret method to Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei, but had never mentioned a word to him, his trusted steward. How could Li Changqing not be angry?
When Zhu Xiaozhao saw Li Changqing's distorted face, he felt relieved.
Humph! You, Li Changqing, have always considered yourself "the best person around the master." I, Zhu Xiaozhao, will burst your dreams and make you suffer.
Li Changqing didn't notice Zhu Xiaozhao's expression. His mind was in a whirlwind of thoughts. He was thinking about Ling Xiaotian's "favor of recognizing his talent," and then thinking about how Ling Xiaotian had promoted him, which seemed to be a good thing. Over the past few years, Li Changqing had secretly done a lot of shameful things for Ling Xiaotian. Whenever the Sect Leader took a fancy to a female cultivator, it was always Li Changqing who found a way to get her back for him.
But what about Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei? These two relied on their high cultivation and never took the headmaster seriously. Every time Yue Zhenshan and Li Yuanpei came to the headmaster's hall for a meeting, they would scold the headmaster like a grandson. But the headmaster always flattered these two people and did not allow him to secretly attack Piaomiao Peak and Qingyun Peak. Such a headmaster...
These thoughts were in a chaotic mess. One disappeared, and another popped up. Another disappeared, and the next one popped up.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Changqing only heard his own dry voice: "Zhu Xiaozhao, I already knew about what you're talking about! It's not really a secret."
Zhu Xiaozhao looked at the forced smile on Li Changqing's face and was delighted. Telling lies with open eyes was probably the most realistic portrayal of Li Changqing, the chief steward, at this moment.
Hahahaha... He just didn't believe that after knowing such news, Li Changqing would still be so devoted to the leader.
However, before things turned sour, Zhu Xiaozhao was still very good at comforting people.
"Manager Li, so you already knew about it? I treated it as a huge secret. I'm so embarrassed to brag about it in front of you." Zhu Xiaozhao's face showed moderate surprise, and he seemed to believe what Li Changqing said.
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