Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

On the sect page, she can view the sect map for free and choose to build sect buildings where the map is already lit up.

The basic materials given by the system are for this purpose; as long as there is enough wood and iron, anything can be built.

The food provided by the system is for the servants; as long as there is food, servants can be bought, and they can produce wood and iron.

However, Yun Chuyou clicked and found that the servant-related data was gray and could not be clicked at all.

[Data error detected, the system is applying a patch, system maintenance successful, Cancel the servant function, Enhance the disciple function.]

The sect page has added a disciple data.

Qingxu Sect (1 Star Sect)

The system also assigned star levels to the sect, from 1 to 9 stars. The more stars, the stronger the power.

Sect Master: Yun Chuyou

Xie Fuzhi: Supreme Elder

Meng He: Inner Sect Disciple

Yu Jiu: Outer Sect Disciple

Zhong Wei: Outer Sect Disciple

All disciples were taken in by Xie Fuzhi. Yun Chuyou is the only one he has personally taught. Meng He has been here for almost half a year and has done a lot of work, so Yun Chuyou promoted him to Inner Sect Disciple.

Yu Jiu came and has been healing since then, contributing nothing to the sect. Also, before this, Yun Chuyou instinctively felt cautious about Yu Jiu. That’s why he was arranged as an Outer Sect Disciple.

As for Zhong Wei, she just arrived and doesn’t feel a sense of belonging to the sect. Though Xie Fuzhi took her as a disciple, she is still managed on her own and is temporarily an Outer Sect Disciple.

After a while, Yun Chuyou will raise the other person’s status to that of an inner disciple. If nothing unexpected happens, when the younger martial sister becomes a Foundation Establishment disciple, she will ask the master to accept the other person as a beloved student.

Being a direct disciple is not decided just by saying it out loud. Even in a small sect, there must be a proper apprenticeship ceremony, and a strand of divine soul must be taken to create a Soul Lamp to be placed in the sect.

Currently, there are only two Soul Lamps for direct disciples in the Qingxu Sect. One belongs to Xie Fuzhi, and the other to Yun Chuyou. The others either went out or disappeared along with the disciples who left the sect.

Each person’s name has a small plus sign next to it. Clicking on it reveals detailed information about the disciple, including their joining date, gender, age, lineage, Spiritual Root talent, and current cultivation level.

My current cultivation level is: the early stage of the Golden Core Stage, level two.

Xie Fuzhi, age: five hundred years.

Late stage of the Nascent Soul Stage, peak perfection (???).

Although her master looks like a young person in their twenties, he is actually five hundred years old. The cultivation world is like this; if someone can break through to a higher level early on, their appearance will remain youthful.

Generally, a Qi Refining cultivator can live for 200 years, a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator can live for 500 years, a Golden Core Stage cultivator for 1000 years, and a Nascent Soul cultivator for 2000 years.

Even if they take the Youth Rejuvenation Pill, a cultivator will still age quickly as their life span comes to an end. However, if they break through to a higher realm, their lifespan will greatly extend, and they will return to their youthful appearance, looking their best.

Five hundred years old is still quite young in the world of cultivation. After all, sometimes breakthrough periods can last many years, with a single retreat taking ten to fifty years. Powerful beings can even retreat for hundreds of years to cultivate.

The Soul Changing Stage is a powerful being that has lived for thousands of years. In the top sects, there are a few Transcendency Stage cultivators who have not yet passed away from the world and are said to have lived for over ten thousand years.

In her previous life, Yun Chuyou lived in a world where the average lifespan was 75 years. After ten years here, she hasn’t met many people, making it hard to imagine what cultivators thousands or even tens of thousands of years old would be like.

Most of the time, she doesn’t feel that her master is five hundred years old; he doesn’t even look fifty. Xie Fuzhi clearly seems more like a thirty-year-old.

The Qi Refining stage often has ten levels. Some special sects can cultivate up to twelve levels in Qi Refining before moving to Foundation Establishment. From the Foundation Establishment Stage, it is further divided into early, mid, and late periods, each having four levels. There are often small bottlenecks between these stages, but it is relatively easier to break through with the help of pills.

The late-stage perfection means reaching the peak of breaking through the mirror, but there is still a bottleneck; the mind cannot break through that barrier and enter another realm of strength.

According to what Xie Fuzhi revealed while talking, he was already at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage a hundred years ago, with many more resources in the group. It is uncertain when he will break through from Nascent Soul to the Astral Projection Stage. An Astral Projection Stage cultivator can live for five thousand years, while a Soul Changing Stage cultivator can live for over ten thousand years. For mortals and those who never even reached Foundation Establishment, the Soul Changing Stage is not much different from being a deity.

However, because she has only been cultivating for ten years, Yun Chuyou has not really experienced the feeling of hitting a bottleneck. When she first heard Xie Fuzhi speak just a few words, she attained Breathing Control and officially began her journey as a cultivator.

After another year of practice, I almost reached the peak of Qi Refining. With a sudden realization, I jumped directly past the first level of Foundation Establishment. In ten years, I reached Golden Core, but I suffered a big loss during the Thunder Calamity because of the system.

The Single Spiritual Root is truly amazing, but it is said that those with a Heavenly Spiritual Root do not need their elders to teach them. Simply entering a place with Spirit Qi allows them to cultivate on their own, as if the heavens are supporting them.

Let’s take a look at the other two disciples.

Meng He, with Demon Bone, is indeed a super loyal follower in front of the future heroine. His current level is already at Foundation Establishment Stage.

Meng He: Mid-stage three of Foundation Establishment Stage (weakened state).

If the body is injured, a cultivator’s level can drop, and their remaining lifespan may also be reduced. However, the years lived before reaching that level will not be taken away, even if their power decreases.

Yu Jiu: Early first level of late Foundation Establishment (???).

Just like Xie Fuzhi, there are three question marks here too, and it’s uncertain if it’s caused by a glitch in the system.

Yu Jiu is born with the body of a ghost child, different from human cultivators. He came into the world with innate power, which is a gift of his special race.

Just like the legendary dragon and phoenix, at the moment they hatched from their egg, these Mythical Beasts could strike down the human cultivators who had worked so hard for hundreds or even thousands of years.

After Yu Jiu entered the sect, he claimed he only had the cultivation level of Qi Refining Stage Four. At his age, he could either be a beginner in the cultivation world or at the Foundation Establishment Stage, but mostly he would be at the Qi Refining Stage.

Yun Chuyou herself was at the Golden Core Stage, and seeing that the other person was also at the Qi Refining Stage, she was surprised that they were even higher in cultivation than Meng He.

Well, in the stories, Yu Jiu was born to be a villain, saying nine things, and all ten were lies, with the extra one being a false fact he led others to imagine through his actions.

Using such tools to hide one’s true level and pretend to only be at Qi Refining Stage is indeed something this deceitful dumpling could do.

The younger martial sister Zhong Wei should be a mortal. When Yun Chuyou opened her information, it indeed said two words: Mortal, and in the Spiritual Root section, it said Four Spirit Roots, followed by a question mark in parentheses.

However, the system suddenly blinked, and Mortal changed to first grade of the Qi Refining Stage. As long as she successfully practiced Breathing Control, she would be at the first grade of the Qi Refining Stage.

After all, Zhong Wei was currently using a Spiritual Root that was artificially created, but she actually had good natural talent.

Before cooking, Yun Chuyou gave her the basic cultivation method he inherited from Qingxu Sect. She diligently practiced and, after eating food infused with Spirit Qi and with her strong belief, she successfully practiced Breathing Control in just a few hours, which showed she had some talent.

No doubt, she is the wicked rival who could hurt the heroine in the future and is a good seed for cultivation.

Yun Chuyou began to search through her storage bag, preparing a gift for Zhong Wei in the morning to celebrate her official entry into the path of cultivation.

As a once-great sect, Qingxu Sect actually possesses many advanced techniques; what Xie Fuzhi passed on to her was an Earth-level technique. He even had a Celestial-level technique in his collection, though it was just a damaged top half.

According to Xie Fuzhi, he needs to complete the collection and ensure there are no flaws in the technique before allowing her to practice it.

However, since Zhong Wei is just a beginner disciple, she cannot immediately receive such advanced techniques; she must first build a solid foundation, and once she reaches Foundation Establishment, she can naturally learn the Earth-level techniques for inner disciples of Qingxu Sect.

The newly created disciple page is a great tool; although it does not measure loyalty to the sect, it can detect the hidden strength of each person.

If they were part of a big sect, even with average talent, Yun Chuyou could use this information to become an excellent management talent.

Unfortunately, there are only five living members in their sect: two adults and three minors. According to demonic ages, fifteen-year-old Junior Martial Brother Meng He is even younger than Zhong Wei, yet he is currently the third most capable cultivator in the sect.

There are still too few people in the sect; inspired by the system, Yun Chuyou has come up with a good idea, but it is late at night, so she will plan it for tomorrow.

She lay in bed, even though meditating could replace sleep and improve her practice. Still, Yun Chuyou insisted on sleeping; it was a ritual she always honored as a human.

Before sleeping, she took a moment to look at the sect’s building map, searching for places she could construct. The Qingxu Sect might be poor, but it had everything it needed.

There was an alchemy room, a tool-making room, a spirit plant garden, and even a spirit beast garden, although it was now transformed into a breeding ground for edible demon beasts, with no spirit beasts left for the disciples to contract and use.

Yun Chuyou didn’t need to waste materials on redundant constructions, as it would disrupt the harmony of the overall building.

Oh, she spotted a building with special effects that caught her attention: the Five Elements Gathering Spirit Formation, which could gather Spirit Qi and increase the disciples’ training speed by 1%.

This special building required ten thousand wood and ten thousand iron; she simply clicked to build, and the system automatically used the stored items.

The Five Elements Gathering Spirit Formation could only be placed along designated routes by the system. Once completed, Yun Chuyou recognized the spot where the little red dot appeared; it was the peak where Xie Fuzhi lived. That place was already rich in Spirit Qi for the Qingxu Sect, and the map showed a chibi version of Xie Fuzhi sitting at the peak.

However, the Spirit Gathering Formation was not by the residential building but near the Cold Pool. After finishing this task, Yun Chuyou peacefully fell into a deep sleep.

In the middle of the night, Xie Fuzhi, who had been fishing by the Cold Pool, was suddenly knocked over by a large stone and fell into the Cold Pool without realizing it.

Five stone pillars that emitted a strange light emerged from the cobblestone area.

The water in this pond was very special; the Cold Pool water could suppress a person’s abilities, making it impossible to use Spirit Qi while soaked and crawling out of the pond, the carefree and handsome young man turned into a drenched and disheveled figure.

He shook his clothes and sent the toothy Spirit Fish tumbling to the ground. Xie Fuzhi was furious and pieced together what had happened, only to find it led back to Yun Chuyou.

It turns out that Chuyou was the one who caused him to fall into the deep pond… but that’s not a problem anymore.

He then took a closer look at the five strange stones and discovered that this was a clever Spirit Gathering Formation that could make the Spirit Qi in the entire area more abundant.

Late at night, Chuyou was still racking her brain to help the sect develop, truly sacrificing so much for Qingxu Sect. Xie Fuzhi, with tears in his eyes, thought: With a disciple like her, my life is fulfilled. She really makes me cry.

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