Chapter 921 (2): Speedrunning the Grand Dao Sect
Chapter 921 (2): Speedrunning the Grand Dao Sect
To capture the mind of a Soul Transformation cultivator, even if the other party is an innocent maiden untouched by worldly affairs, is truly no easy feat.
Over the past six months, Li Qing has patiently played the role of an obedient disciple.
Aside from occasionally engaging in passionate encounters with Sima Jing, he has restrained himself and observed propriety at all other times, behaving with refined elegance. He has merely focused on cultivating the Moonlight Myriad Transformations.
Li Qing himself is already extraordinarily handsome. After achieving minor success in Moonlight Myriad Transformations, the charm it brings stacks with the effects of the Reversing Order Scripture.
Coupled with his exquisite thoughtfulness and peerless skill in handling interpersonal relations.
Thus, though he has only recently entered the sect, Li Qing has already become the most popular cultivator throughout Crystal Moon Peak.
In their daily interactions, the female cultivators gradually forgot that Li Qing is originally a man.
Six months later, on this day, Li Qing, who has endured for so long, finally awaits a perfect opportunity.
Huo Jingtong’s master, the Great Elder of the Grand Dao Sect and Dao Integration cultivator Yang Nishang, is nearing the end of her lifespan. Having failed to break through to the Longevity Immortal realm, she passes away in seated meditation within her secluded cave dwelling.
Huo Jingtong was personally selected by Yang Nishang from the foot of the mountain and raised by her hand.
The two were as close as mother and daughter.
Yang Nishang’s death strikes Huo Jingtong immensely.
Even while imparting teachings to her disciples, she suddenly becomes dazed.
Yet at this very time, the Grand Dao Sect’s competition among the nine veins and seventy-two peaks begins.
The sect competition rankings not only determine resource allocation within the sect for the next century; they are also closely tied to the bestowal of Longevity fruits.
One must know that even in the Grand Dao Sect, one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects, Longevity fruits are exceedingly rare and fiercely contested among numerous Dao Integration cultivators.
Yang Nishang, in the previous century, saw the Moonlight Lineage rank poorly in the competition, causing her priority to drop.
Thus, she died of old age without ever receiving a Longevity fruit.
This matter has become a knot in Huo Jingtong’s heart, so she desperately wishes to achieve a good ranking in the competition to comfort her master’s spirit in heaven.
Unfortunately, the Moonlight Lineage’s strength is already at the bottom among the Nine Lineage.
Among the younger disciples, Zhao Ruoxi, the most outstanding in potential and talent, has cultivated for too short a time and cannot yet shoulder great responsibility.
Thus, this competition ends with the worst result in the Moonlight Lineage’s history.
Li Qing, whose surface cultivation is merely Foundation Establishment, is not yet qualified to participate in the competition. So no blame falls on him.
But after the competition, the oppressive atmosphere throughout the Moonlight Lineage truly affects him.
As the saying goes, know shame and then be brave. The Moonlight female cultivators set aside their playful attitudes. They all focus intently on bitter cultivation, striving to regain face in the next competition.
The sect’s atmosphere becomes pure, and Li Qing’s flowery words become somewhat untimely and difficult to employ.
Huo Jingtong’s temperament also changes greatly. Her preference for disciples shifts from valuing appearance to valuing cultivation aptitude.
Thus, naturally, she gradually grows cold toward Li Qing, whose surface cultivation has stagnated.
Yet Li Qing is not worried at all.
He knows that although Crystal Moon Peak has many female cultivators with excellent talents, there is no true peerless genius like Senior Sister Zhao who can bear the burden of a Lineage’s rise.
So Li Qing is fully confident that when he reveals his true cultivation, he will completely reverse Huo Jingtong’s impression of him.
“But now is not the best moment. Let's wait a little longer.”
Sure enough, as Li Qing expected.
The cultivation progress of the Crystal Moon Peak female cultivators cannot satisfy Huo Jingtong’s demands.
Her temper grows increasingly irritable; she frequently scolds and reprimands.
The disciples dare not retort and can only lower their heads and accept punishment.
Blind punishment cannot change the status quo.
The atmosphere throughout Crystal Moon Peak becomes ever more oppressive.
Under immense psychological pressure, Zheng Keyin, the direct disciple on whom Huo Jingtong had placed high hopes, fails to break through to Nascent Soul, even damaging her cultivation foundation and rendering her future path hopeless.
This incident causes the already emotionally unstable Huo Jingtong to completely lose control.
She does not even offer a single word of comfort to this former beloved disciple. Cold as frost, she flicks her sleeve and leaves.
The indifference in her eyes leaves Zheng Keyin’s heart ashen.
A sense of sorrow for the death of a kindred spirit arises in the hearts of the other disciples.
After prolonged silence, Li Qing knows that the best opportunity he has awaited has finally arrived.
He first supports the gravely injured Zheng Keyin back, then spends three full days consoling her shattered Dao heart.
Drawing on the pure primal yin energy within her body, he breaks through to mid Golden Core in one go.
He then patiently waits another half month.
He confirms that Huo Jingtong has nearly lost all expectations for her disciples and is preparing to descend the mountain to take new ones.
On this night, Li Qing secretly knocks on Huo Jingtong’s door.
The restriction on the door is lifted, and Huo Jingtong’s cold voice comes from within.
“It is so late; what do you want?”
“Master… I have doubts about cultivation and wish to seek your guidance.” Li Qing lowers his head, speaking with sincere trepidation.
Huo Jingtong is silent for a moment and does not open the door, instead dismissing him: “Go find any senior sister. They should be able to resolve your doubts.”
Yet Li Qing does not leave.
Just as Huo Jingtong begins to feel impatient.
Li Qing suddenly speaks again: “Master, I am afraid the senior sisters cannot resolve the doubts in my heart.”
As he speaks, Li Qing releases a trace of his mid Golden Core cultivation.
“Hm?”
The door bursts open with a boom, and Huo Jingtong instantly appears before Li Qing, scrutinizing him with shock.
For this disciple of extraordinary beauty, Huo Jingtong has paid little attention since the competition ended.
After all, his cultivation is too low, and his aptitude is mediocre.
She never imagined that this disciple she overlooked had quietly broken through to the Golden Core realm!
How long has he been cultivating?
Less than three years in total!
Such talent…
“Follow me!” A strange light flashes in Huo Jingtong’s eyes as she grabs Li Qing and pulls him into the room.
“Pure yin constitution?” After careful examination, Huo Jingtong is shocked once more.
At the time of accepting the disciple, because she still felt some disdain in her heart for the other party having changed from male to female, she did not examine carefully. She only scanned roughly with divine sense.
She never imagined that a male body could also be a supreme yin constitution.
“Master, is my cultivation speed a bit abnormal?”
“Too fast…”
“Fast enough that I am somewhat afraid.” At this moment, Li Qing, who had been observing her words and expressions, spoke up timely.
Huo Jingtong’s expression grew solemn upon hearing this.
She carefully checked Li Qing’s progress in the “Moonlight Myriad Transformation” technique once more.
After confirming nothing had gone wrong, she suppressed the joy in her heart and comforted: “It is fine; do not worry. The cultivation speed of a true heaven’s chosen is indeed beyond what ordinary people can imagine.”
“Fast is good; the faster, the better.”
Huo Jingtong murmured softly.
“By the way, have you revealed your cultivation progress to anyone else?” After a moment, Huo Jingtong reacted and quickly asked.
“No. Besides Master, I dared not mention this to anyone else. The senior sisters have all been busy cultivating during this time, so none of them know I have already reached the Golden Core realm.” Li Qing confessed honestly.
“Very good. Remember, from now on, do not easily reveal your cultivation in front of outsiders.” Huo Jingtong earnestly instructed.
Li Qing nodded repeatedly.
From that night onward, Li Qing moved to the separate courtyard next to Huo Jingtong’s.
He received personal guidance in cultivation from Huo Jingtong.
Li Qing, who carried all of Huo Jingtong’s hopes, enjoyed treatment that was worlds apart from before.
Spirit stones and pills were never in short supply; various technique manuals were provided as much as possible.
Even if a question arose and he came to ask, Huo Jingtong would temporarily pause her own cultivation to patiently resolve Li Qing’s doubts.
Day or night.
In this way, for half a year, Huo Jingtong’s thoughts were almost entirely focused on Li Qing.
Yet what made Huo Jingtong somewhat anxious was that, during this period, Li Qing’s cultivation did indeed progress.
But compared to the speed a true heaven’s chosen had shown before, the difference was far too great.
“Perhaps the pressure I put on was too much.”
After carefully examining Li Qing’s body again and failing to find the reason, Huo Jingtong could only think this.
Thus, she specially approved Li Qing’s request to take leave and relax.
When Li Qing returned three days later, her vitality and spirit seemed entirely different.
Moreover, her cultivation progress suddenly surged.
Reaching late Golden Core was not far off.
This eased Huo Jingtong’s mind slightly.
But not long after, Li Qing’s cultivation speed gradually slowed again, with changes almost perceptible.
Li Qing once more requested to go out and relax.
Huo Jingtong agreed on the surface, but doubt had already arisen in her heart.
She secretly followed Li Qing.
Yet she unexpectedly witnessed a scene that made her face flush and heart race.
In the room, Li Qing embraced a female disciple named Han Haiyan from her sect, along with Sima Jing; the three tangled together.
Pleasures of the flesh filled the room with spring scenery.
They kept uttering absurd, licentious words; Huo Jingtong could not bear it and almost rushed in to stop this unseemly behavior.
But in the end, Huo Jingtong held back.
After all, though absurd, it was consensual; they had not violated sect rules.
Huo Jingtong’s expression kept changing; ultimately, she did not interrupt Li Qing’s enjoyment and left with a flick of her sleeve.
Li Qing sensed Huo Jingtong’s figure departing outside the room; a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
His movements grew even more intense.
Three days later, when he returned to Huo Jingtong.
Seeing the other’s unfriendly expression, Li Qing said nothing and knelt directly.
“This disciple knows her mistake!”
Huo Jingtong snorted coldly: “What mistake have you committed!”
“This disciple should not have lost her mind for a moment and done such absurd things with the senior sisters. But…” Li Qing said pitifully.
“But what?” Huo Jingtong glared fiercely at Li Qing.
“But every time after finishing, I feel my cultivation speed become faster. To not disappoint Master’s expectations, I…” Li Qing’s face was full of self-reproach.
Huo Jingtong’s heart jumped upon hearing Li Qing’s words.
After checking, she found Li Qing was not lying.
The pure yin qi within Li Qing’s body had become even purer. In terms of cultivation, one month later, Li Qing smoothly broke through to late Golden Core.
“This cultivation speed…”
Huo Jingtong was shocked once more, while her heart filled with doubt.
“Could it be that doing such things really benefits cultivation?”
Huo Jingtong, who knew nothing about this, could not help feeling bewildered.
After quietly consulting some classics, Huo Jingtong understood.
It must be due to Li Qing’s extremely special constitution!
No matter the intention, Huo Jingtong had no reason to stop Li Qing’s behavior.
Thus, regarding Li Qing’s disruption of Crystal Moon Peak, she chose to turn a blind eye.
“As long as she can maintain this cultivation speed…”
“Not even in a hundred years. Soon, the entire sect will be greatly shocked.”
Huo Jingtong immersed herself in fantasies of the Moonlight lineage rising in prestige.
After multiple tests, Li Qing, certain that Huo Jingtong had tacitly approved his actions, finally stopped restraining herself.
He bared his fangs toward the female cultivators of Crystal Moon Peak.
Li Qing had always been extremely popular among these female disciples.
Now that he had become Huo Jingtong’s treasured one, as long as it was not excessive, matters on Crystal Moon Peak were practically decided by his word.
With help from female cultivators like Sima Jing who had already fallen into Li Qing’s clutches, Li Qing hardly needed effort to half-coax, half-deceive these female cultivators into bed.
Thus, Li Qing harvested the yin essence of numerous female cultivators at a terrifying speed.
The benefits were extremely evident.
Three months after breaking through to late Golden Core, aided by this unimaginably pure and vast yin essence.
Li Qing successfully formed a nascent soul and stepped into the Nascent Soul realm.
This cultivation speed could no longer be simply described as fast.
Even Huo Jingtong, who had witnessed Li Qing’s cultivation process from beginning to end, could not help feeling fear in her heart.
She seemed to understand the bewildered feeling Li Qing had when coming to her door in the middle of the night.
Just as doubt began to waver in her heart about whether to continue letting Li Qing act recklessly.
She received a sect order to assist in investigating the spreading dharma of Immortal Ancestor incidents within the sect’s territory, like sparks gradually rising.
Helpless, she could only verbally warn Li Qing before hurriedly leaving the mountain gate, hoping to complete the task and return soon.
But she could never imagine that without her presence.
Almost no one on Crystal Moon Peak could restrain Li Qing anymore.
Li Qing no longer concealed anything and openly began to ravage the remaining female cultivators.
Perhaps simply calling it ravaging was inaccurate.
In fact, those female cultivators not only did not resist.
Most even enjoyed it.
Physical and psychological factors were secondary; the most crucial was that the female cultivators of Crystal Moon Peak discovered that after enjoying pleasure with Li Qing, their own cultivation speed became several times faster than before.
At first, with few instances, they did not notice.
Later, as it accumulated day by day, this difference gradually became apparent.
It brought pleasure and benefited cultivation.
Who could refuse?
Thus, in less than half a month.
Crystal Moon Peak completely fell.
No female cultivator could escape Li Qing’s demonic grasp.
When Huo Jingtong returned, this was the situation she faced.
Huo Jingtong’s expression was extremely unsightly.
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