“Not bad at all. To reach this level the first time you’ve practiced the move is no easy feat,” Xu Chengfeng said with a smile. “When you can produce three hundred streaks of sword radiance, this move can be considered to have reached minor accomplishment.”
Feng Mingfei felt secretly ashamed.
The Seven Swords of Exorcising Evil had always been this sect’s introductory sword art. Since entering the sect, she had practiced it countless times and long ago become thoroughly proficient in its forms.
Yet she had never been able to penetrate the mysteries hidden within the sword incantation.
In truth, it wasn’t only Feng Mingfei who failed to value their own sect’s martial arts—nowadays, the entire Lingyue Sect neglected them.
All the disciples treated it merely as a beginner’s sword technique, a foundational art used to familiarize themselves with handling a longsword.
As Lingyue Sect declined and its talents withered away, many key secrets of its martial techniques and cultivation methods were gradually lost.
Just like the Seven Swords of Exorcising Evil, although the sword forms and incantation had been passed down, the essential truths within the incantation had faded away through generations of succession.
Who would have thought that the entry-level sword art of a now insignificant sect was in fact an Immortal-grade martial technique?
“Senior Sister, Senior Sister, how did you do it?” Bai Lingxue grabbed Feng Mingfei’s sleeve excitedly.
“There are some crucial tricks in circulating spiritual energy that you haven’t grasped yet…” Feng Mingfei explained to Bai Lingxue.
Her cultivation level was not much different from Bai Lingxue’s, and she understood exactly where the obscure and difficult sticking points lay. With Feng Mingfei explaining, it was actually more suitable than having Xu Chengfeng do so.
“I understand now!”
After listening to Feng Mingfei’s explanation, Bai Lingxue suddenly felt as though enlightenment had dawned upon her.
She formed a sword seal with her fingers and began to dance the longsword in her hand.
It was obvious that Bai Lingxue’s proficiency with the move “Endless Sword Light Slays the Wicked” was far inferior to Feng Mingfei’s, and her circulation of spiritual energy was also rather slow.
She exhausted nearly all the spiritual energy in her body before she was barely able to condense an extremely faint strand of sword light.
This strand of sword lightmerely managed to leave a shallow mark on the ground.
Bai Lingxue had only been cultivating the Seven Swords of Exorcising Evil for a short time to begin with, and on top of that she was two major realms below Feng Mingfei.
Being able to achieve this much was already quite commendable.
“Lingxue, when you strike with the sword, guide the spiritual energy from the Spirit Mansion to the Spirit Pivot…” Feng Mingfei immediately noticed where Bai Lingxue’s problem lay and promptly corrected her.
She had originally been the senior sister of the sect, and guiding younger disciples had long since become a habit. So when Bai Lingxue finished executing the sword move, she instinctively began offering her pointers.
Xu Chengfeng was very satisfied with this atmosphere.
Feng Mingfei once again tightened her grip on the longsword and demonstrated the move for Bai Lingxue.
The two of them struck at the same time, and sword winds immediately surged in all directions.
Bai Lingxue was already wearing only a loose top, and when she leapt up to strike, the hem of her clothing lifted with the wind.
This little fox isn’t wearing any undergarments?!
Of course.
As for Feng Mingfei, the current sect leader, she wasn’t much better.
Although she had wrapped herself in an apron while making breakfast, once her movements grew slightly larger, everything beneath the hem of the apron was also completely exposed.
“Hey, hey, you two! Put your clothes on properly before practicing swordsmanship!”
Xu Chengfeng couldn’t help but shout.
The little fox Bai Lingxue stopped and looked at her Grandmaster with a pair of bright, clear eyes, then giggled. “Grandmaster is so innocent. Don’t tell me Grandmaster has never even seen a girl’s body before?”
Her pair of snow-white fox ears stood upright, and her eyes glanced toward Xu Chengfeng with that expression…
Strangely similar to the doge face.
“Lingxue, don’t talk nonsense.” Feng Mingfei seemed to scold Bai Lingxue, but the smile she couldn’t suppress at the corner of her lips betrayed her.
Although Xu Chengfeng held the status of Grandmaster,
He looked about the same age as them and showed none of the airs of a senior.
Feng Mingfei even felt that being around Grandmaster was far more relaxing than being around her own master.
As a result, her courage naturally grew as well.
“In the future, as long as you step out of the bedroom door, you must be properly dressed.”
Xu Chengfeng turned around.
“Ah? No way…” Bai Lingxue let out a mournful cry.
Ever since Bai Lingxue entered the sect, she had been surrounded by senior sisters who doted on her greatly, so she had always been rather free-spirited within the sect.
When she was usually in the sect, rolling around happily without a stitch of clothing on was quite a common occurrence.
Because Xu Chengfeng was present, Bai Lingxue had already been restraining herself quite a bit.
She had long regarded the sect as her home.
Having to wear proper sect uniform clothing even at home was simply too uncomfortable.
“Grandmaster, why did you establish a female sect?” Feng Mingfei took the opportunity to ask a question that had been buried in her heart for a long time.
Grandmaster was clearly a man, yet he had established a female sect. There must have been some reason for it.
“A female sect?” Xu Chengfeng held his forehead with one hand. “Who said I established a female sect?”
“Isn’t it?” Ever since Feng Mingfei could remember, the sect had only recruited female disciples, so she had naturally assumed it was a female sect.
“Of course not. When I first founded the sect, among the seventy-two disciples under my seat, the majority were male disciples,” Xu Chengfeng said helplessly.
When the sect was first established, the vast majority of the disciples were men. Aside from the major Buddhist sects, Lingyue Sect probably had the highest proportion of male members.
Who would have thought that ten thousand years later, his sect would actually turn into a female sect?
“Then why did Grandmaster give it a name like ‘Lingyue Sect’ (Soaring above the moon)? It sounds so… like the name of a female sect,” the little fox Bai Lingxue asked in confusion as she scratched her head.
“I just thought the words Lingyue sounded nice…” Xu Chengfeng fell into reminiscence. “Actually, the reason it was called Lingyue is because…”
Feng Mingfei and Bai Lingxue both held their breath in concentration. Bai Lingxue’s pair of fox ears even stood perfectly upright.
There was nothing more interesting than gossip about their own sect.
Yet at that very moment, Grandmaster suddenly fell silent.
The two of them looked up, only to find that Grandmaster’s expression had turned grave.
“Go change into proper clothes. Guests are about to arrive,” Xu Chengfeng said, his gaze sharpening. “Uninvited guests.”
Two people were coming up the mountain, one in front and one behind.
The one in front had cultivation roughly at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, while the one following close behind was at the late stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm.
Their footsteps were chaotic and hurried, showing not the slightest bit of courtesy.
Very soon, the two of them arrived before Xu Chengfeng.
The man in front wore a brownish-cyan long robe, while the one behind him wore an ochre short shirt. Xu Chengfeng had seen these clothes before. They were the clothes of the Shura Sect.
“Anyone here still breathing? Get the hell out of here!” the man in front shouted, his voice sharp and grating, like a blade scraping across glass.
His face was pale, as white as a wall. It was ashen and filled with the aura of death.
His eyebrows were thin as threads. Compared to the three strange figures from the Shura Sect earlier, his appearance was much better, yet his face carried such ill fortune that anyone who looked at him would instinctively feel disgust.
When Xu Chengfeng attached his divine soul to the Sect Leader’s ring, he set up a restriction. Anyone who was not a disciple of his sect would be unable to see his divine soul.
The first reason for doing this was that, if he ever wanted to pass some powerful martial techniques to the disciples of his sect, disciples from other sects would not be able to see them.
The second reason was that he simply did not want others to see him.
Xu Chengfeng had already shattered the void and stepped into the Divine Rank.
Logically speaking, he should have already let go of the affairs of the mortal world.
If other Divine Rank experts found out that he was secretly helping a sect in the mortal world, they would laugh their heads off.
It would be like a parent whose kindergarten child lost a fight, then storming into the child’s school and causing a huge scene.
That would truly be beneath his status.
That was why Xu Chengfeng set up such a restriction.
And it was precisely because of this restriction.
That the two from the Shura Sect could not see Xu Chengfeng standing right in front of them.
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