My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 921 (1): Like a Wolf Entering a Sheepfold

Not long after, Wei Lu and his group followed the trail and found the two.

However, they never could have imagined that, in such a short time, the prey they were chasing would transform into the hunter.

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, Li Qing's combat strength nearly doubled.

Moreover, his attacks were ruthless, causing even more damage than Sima Jing, who was in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

It should be noted that this group was merely hired mercenaries.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, they immediately considered retreating.

At this moment, Wei Lu grew anxious and couldn't help but stop them.

During this brief standoff, Li Qing seized the precise opportunity and directly struck Wei Lu, who was hiding in the shadows, exposing his true identity.

Wei Lu's cover was blown, and his expression changed drastically.

Sima Jing, trembling with rage, had a glint of killing intent in her eyes for the first time.

At this point, there was no way the matter could end peacefully.

Wei Lu, hardening his heart, promised his entire fortune to persuade the retreating bandits to fight again.

The two sides clashed once more.

No longer holding back, Li Qing and Sima Jing were quickly put at a disadvantage.

At the critical moment, Li Qing, amidst the battle, seemed to achieve another breakthrough, stirring the extreme yin energy in the Yin Wind Valley into a frenzy.

The two took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Next, Li Qing and Sima Jing fought while retreating, retreating while fighting.

They nurtured their strength through battle.

In this process, their coordination grew increasingly seamless, as if their minds were in sync. Their combined attacks nearly doubled their actual combat power.

Ultimately, relying on the terrain advantage of Yin Wind Valley, they achieved a counter-kill.

Looking at Sima Jing's disgusted expression, Wei Lu opened and closed his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

But before he could speak, Li Qing had already reduced him to ashes.

With the crisis resolved, Sima Jing, with Li Qing's help, subsequently completed the sect's trial mission.

The two returned to the sect together.

As for what happened in Yin Wind Valley, although Wei Lu had plotted against them first, they had killed him in a fit of anger.

To avoid punishment from the sect, under Li Qing's persuasion, Sima Jing ultimately did not mention the incident to anyone.

The disappearance of Wei Lu, a Foundation Establishment disciple, did not attract much attention and was soon forgotten.

Though they were already inseparable, they had to restrain themselves in public.

Sima Jing returned to the inner sect to report to her master.

At the same time, she began to consider how to persuade her master to take Li Qing as a disciple, so they could see each other often in the future.

Meanwhile, Li Qing concealed his identity and quietly went to the market, using the spirit stones looted from Wei Lu and his group to purchase some pills that could hide his cultivation.

Half a month later, Sima Jing's master, Huo Jingtong, finally relented under persistent pleading and agreed to meet Li Qing.

It seemed that Huo Jingtong still had some reservations about the fact that Li Qing had been castrated and transformed from male to female.

However, all these concerns vanished when she met Li Qing in person.

Li Qing knelt in the hall, head lowered, awaiting Huo Jingtong's questions.

Unexpectedly, after a long time, Huo Jingtong showed no reaction. Li Qing, thinking his plan had failed, couldn't help but look up, only to find Huo Jingtong still staring at her in a daze.

"Ahem," Huo Jingtong, being a Soul Transformation cultivator, was far more composed than the young Sima Jing.

"Qing'er has told me everything. You may leave for now."

She did not give Li Qing an immediate answer, speaking calmly instead.

Li Qing respectfully bowed and turned to leave.

But from the divine sense that remained locked on him, Li Qing knew the matter was settled.

Sure enough, seven days later, Li Qing received a sect notification and formally became a disciple under Huo Jingtong.

The outer sect female cultivators, though reluctant to see Li Qing leave, silently wished him well in their hearts.

Li Qing also promised to frequently return and visit.

After a flurry of tender farewells, Li Qing moved to the Moonlight Mountain Range.

The outer sect female cultivators, due to their longing for Li Qing, were spurred to cultivate diligently. Surprisingly, many broke through long-standing bottlenecks and joined the inner sect, fulfilling their wishes to visit Li Qing often.

That is a story for later, and need not be mentioned for now.

Huo Jingtong's lineage resided on Crystal Moon Peak in the Moonlight Mountains.

It was not far from Crystal Moon Peak, where Senior Sister Zhao was located.

However, Zhao Ruoxi was still in seclusion, so Li Qing naturally had no plans to visit Crystal Moon Peak.

On Crystal Moon Peak, there were over a hundred female disciples.

The vast majority were pure, untainted maidens.

Li Qing's arrival was akin to a mouse falling into a rice bin.

Yet, with great resolve, he restrained himself from acting recklessly.

Instead, he focused on cultivating the technique imparted by Huo Jingtong.

The true inheritance of the Moonlight lineage, [Moonlight Myriad Transformations].

Worthy of being a top-tier technique of the Grand Dao Sect, it far surpassed the unorthodox methods Li Qing had previously gathered.

Li Qing studied it repeatedly, overjoyed beyond measure.

Moreover, when he began practicing it, he was met with continual surprises.

The Reversing Order Scripture had transformed his pure yin body, which seemed to grant him a natural advantage in cultivating Moonlight Myriad Transformations.

After seven days of seclusion, he had already refined this technique to match his own realm, reaching the early Golden Core stage.

He also discovered that practicing two techniques simultaneously did not burden him.

In fact, the two complemented and reinforced each other, giving him even greater growth potential despite his already astonishing cultivation speed.

For the next period of time, he devoted all his energy to cultivation, only attending to Sima Jing during brief leisure moments.

He did not stop until both the Reversing Order Scripture and Moonlight Myriad Transformations were perfected at the early Golden Core stage.

Calculating with his fingers, Li Qing was somewhat shocked to realize that only three months had passed.

After the Golden Core stage, the cultivation speed of ordinary cultivators is usually measured in years. A ten-year seclusion is common.

Someone like him, without relying on any external resources and barely consuming any spiritual stones during practice, reaching the bottleneck from early Golden Core in just three months… was simply unheard of.

However, the bottleneck he sensed brought him some relief.

“With my current pure yin body, it seems insufficient to continue cultivating the Reversing Order Scripture,” he thought.

“I will need more, even purer yin energy.”

Li Qing’s eyes flickered.

The figures of hundreds of beautiful female disciples on Crystal Moon Peak, each with different physiques and temperaments, appeared in his mind.

They were all excellent sources of energy for his cultivation techniques.

Yet, this was after all the inner sect of a Grand Dao Sect.

His early Golden Core cultivation was still insufficient to act recklessly.

If he were discovered, he might be stripped of his cultivation and expelled from the sect.

Thus, Li Qing decided…

He would begin directly from the top of Crystal Moon Peak: his master, Huo Jingtong, a Soul Transformation cultivator!