Cloud City is not far from the Lianfeng Sword Sect; it takes four days to reach it by spirit boat.
At this point, what to do next is no longer up to Shi Xuan; she just needs to watch how the sect handles it.
Shi Mingxiu said, "The enemy leader is at the Nascent Soul stage, and there may be other high-level cultivators as well. We cannot predict what unexpected events might occur after we arrive, so we cannot act rashly."
"Let's unite the six sects and act together," Lin Daozi said. "It would be best to persuade the patriarchs of each sect who are in seclusion to come forward and make sure to wipe them out in one fell swoop."
"That's only natural."
After discussing it, Shi Mingxiu took out his communication jade to contact the various sects. Except for the Divine Cauldron Sect, whose leader was currently missing and which had fallen out of the ranks of the six sects, the other four sects responded positively to the matter.
The five factions hit it off immediately and decided to unite to wipe out the stronghold of [Newborn].
Two hours had passed by the time everything was arranged.
The matter has been settled. It was agreed that five days later, all sects would gather at the Lianfeng Sword Sect and travel together to Cloud City.
"Oh, right," Shi Xuan stopped again before leaving, taking out two items from his storage space. He gave a storage bag to Lin Daozi and a small jade bottle to Shi Mingxiu.
"Here are Master's wine and Sect Master's pills." After putting the items down, Shi Xuan seemed to have completed his task and turned to leave.
The third senior sister, who had already heard the news, was waiting at the door. The two chatted and laughed as they left.
As for the remaining two, Lin Daozi happily probed his storage bag with his divine sense. Inside were more than twenty jars of wine, all of which were Lin Daozi's favorites.
Shi Mingxiu looked at the small jade bottle in his hand and wondered to himself.
It's such a small bottle, and Shi Xuan didn't say what it's for.
However, Shi Xuan's gifts were always quite substantial, so Shi Mingxiu opened the jade bottle with anticipation.
Inside the jade bottle lay a single, perfectly round and translucent pill with a faint golden hue. As the bottle was opened, it released a refreshing fragrance.
This is… Shi Mingxiu couldn’t quite believe his own judgment.
He handed the jade bottle to Lin Daozi and said, "Quickly help me take a look. Is this the Ling Shen Pill? I find it hard to believe. Such a precious pill is just given to me so easily?"
The Ling Shen Pill is the most desired pill among those at the Nascent Soul stage, bar none; it's the kind that would be fought over if it were offered to others.
Shi Xuan once said during the Qi Refining stage that he would refine a Ling Shen Pill for him. At the time, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that the kid was just coaxing him to give him more spiritual plants.
But as Shixuan has grown step by step, the possibility of this has become increasingly greater.
When Shi Xuan took out the jade bottle today, Shi Mingxiu had a fleeting hope that it was a Ling Shen Pill, but seeing Shi Xuan's casual demeanor, he dismissed the idea.
If the precious Ling Shen Pill were to be given to him, there would be a grand handover ceremony, not just something tossed over like that.
However, Lin Daozi glanced at the pills in the jade bottle and sneered at him, saying, "Isn't this the Ling Shen Pill? Hmph, you got a good deal."
Even a master like him hasn't used the Spirit-Refining Pill refined by his disciple, yet Shi Mingxiu has. It seems there are advantages to having low cultivation levels.
At this moment, Lin Daozi suddenly felt envious of Shi Mingxiu, who was in the Nascent Soul stage. If he were still in the Nascent Soul stage, the first person his disciple would give him after refining the Cold God Pill would naturally be him!
"Hahahaha..." Shi Mingxiu held up the jade bottle and laughed heartily, "Good, good, good! After running the sect for so many years and teaching dozens of disciples, I finally received help from my disciples today. It feels really good."
Lin Daozi corrected him mercilessly: "You've got it wrong. She's not your disciple, she's mine! You still haven't gotten the benefit of your own disciples. You're laughing too soon."
"Haha," Shi Mingxiu was still laughing, "No matter whose disciple she is, she is still a disciple of our Lianfeng Sword Sect! I need to think about how to reward her."
Shi Xuan had taken a lot of the shops in the market and the spiritual plants in her pocket. She didn't know what else Shi Xuan was interested in, so she had to think about it carefully.
Lin Daozi interrupted his reverie, saying, "You should hurry up and think about how to persuade the ancestor who is in seclusion to come out of the mountains. The other side has a powerful expert in the Integration stage. Even if we have more people, we may not be able to defeat them. Moreover, we may not even have more people than them."
"What a spoilsport," Shi Mingxiu finally stopped laughing after being interrupted by Lin Daozi. He put the jade bottle into his spatial storage, then turned around and sat down in front of Lin Daozi, saying, "Do you think I should go find Master Lin or Master Qiu?"
If there wasn't something really urgent, they wouldn't bother their reclusive ancestor.
"Let's go with Master Lin," Lin Daozi said, "mainly because Master Lin has a good temper."
If we find Master Qiu and get beaten out, that won't look good.
Shi Mingxiu raised his eyebrows, took out his Ling Shen Dan jade bottle and touched it, then sighed and resignedly walked towards the secluded cultivation place of the old ancestors in the back mountain.
"Master Lin, Shi Mingxiu, the nineteenth sect master of the Lianfeng Sword Sect, requests an audience." Shi Mingxiu stood outside the place where the patriarch was in seclusion and bowed to the gate.
After saying that, he stood quietly at the door and waited. After a long while, a deep voice answered from inside: "What is it?"
Shi Mingxiu respectfully said, "Reporting to the Ancestor, this disciple will soon lead the sect to Yunzhong City to wipe out an organization called 'New Life'. They have a powerful figure in charge, so we would like to trouble True Person Lin to accompany us on this trip to ensure that everything goes smoothly."
"The [Newcomer] organization?" Master Lin asked in confusion. He hadn't expected that such a small organization could warrant the intervention of the Ancestor.
Shi Mingxiu then took two steps closer and stood outside the door, giving the old ancestor a brief account of the [New Life] organization.
After he finished speaking, there was a long silence inside, followed by a long sigh: "Then, this old man will accompany you on this journey."
Shi Mingxiu breathed a sigh of relief and cupped his hands, saying, "Thank you, Ancestor. Five days from now, other sects will gather at our sect, and then we will set off for Cloud City."
"Okay, you can go ahead."
Shi Mingxiu was relieved and stepped back.
Inviting the patriarch is no easy task, and disturbing his peace is a great honor. Fortunately, Master Lin is quite kind.
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Shi Xuan, however, could not comprehend the pressure the sect leader was under.
As soon as she stepped out, Tang Nong picked her up and took her back to Fu Yufeng's courtyard.
After not seeing her for a while, Shi Xuan looked at Tang Nong with surprise in his eyes.
"Wow, Third Senior Sister, you've already reached the sixth level of the Golden Core stage?" That's quite a rapid advancement.
Tang Nong wore an expression that said nothing special, but her inner smugness was practically radiating from her.
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