Chapter 736
But unfortunately, the Imperial Academy students, with their unified attire and masks, plus the changes after the aura and art enhancement, made it very difficult to distinguish the true body from the voice and appearance.
Even the characteristics of gender could not be seen.
So although Xu Qing's vigilance rose in his heart, he couldn't immediately determine the identity of the person in front of him.
After all... after such a big thing happened in the Hetero-Immortal Sect, with the increase in outside attention, there were naturally more than one person coming to test.
So Xu Qing's gaze swept over this student and he spoke softly.
"I just joined the Hetero-Immortal Sect and don't know much, but from what I've seen since I arrived, the master of my sect is indeed like this."
That student looked thoughtful upon hearing this, sized up the sect leader carefully, then withdrew her gaze and looked at Xu Qing beside her.
Although this was her first time focusing on Xu Qing directly, in fact, there were only so many people in the Hetero-Immortal Sect. After this incident, some information had long been dug out by people.
Even if they didn't know the true identities of these few Hetero-Immortal Sect disciples, the time they joined the Hetero-Immortal Sect and their daily performance were mostly known by those with intentions in the outside world.
So the information she mastered also included this disciple who called himself Xuan Leizi.
She knew that the other party had indeed just joined, and this identity made her have some guesses while indirectly eliminating suspicion.
In her cognition, no matter what, the person the day before yesterday couldn't be someone who had just joined.
As for the true identity of this Xuan Leizi, she had no interest. At this moment, what she focused on was that Hetero-Immortal Sect Great Success, so after asking a few questions simply, she simply walked out, arrived in front of the sect leader who was sitting with his eyes closed, and bowed.
"Sect leader, this disciple wants to join the Hetero-Immortal Sect."
Her action attracted the attention of everyone in the Hetero-Immortal Sect Bai Ta. Since such a big thing happened in the Hetero-Immortal Sect, although there were many students coming to understand, this was the first one to propose joining like this.
Xu Qing's eyebrows under the mask raised, and the vigilance in his heart became stronger. This person's previous testing could be explained, but the decisiveness of joining now was a bit strange.
So even the Hetero-Immortal Sect leader opened his eyes and looked at the student in front of him.
With majesty in his eyes, he swept slightly. Clearly happy to death in his heart, his voice still carried calmness, speaking lightly.
"My sect has an agreement: not taught unless core."
"I can! But this disciple has three questions, hoping the sect leader will resolve them." This mysterious woman from that day showed decisiveness in her eyes and bowed.
The sect leader looked at the students in the Bai Ta and found that everyone was paying attention, so he smiled slightly.
"You may."
"This disciple's first question: I heard that our sect's art condenses soul threads and needs to continuously strengthen the soul. I don't know if the Hetero-Immortal Sect's soul-nourishing art has any mysterious methods?"
As she spoke, she closely observed the eyes of the sect leader in front of her.
There was no ripple in the sect leader's eyes, and his voice echoed calmly.
"Xia Xian's single thought, the immortal body forms itself. This thought falls into the sea, and the soul can also be formed."
Everyone in the Bai Ta hesitated. If it were any other time, they would definitely sneer. This sentence was simply ambiguous.
But now that the Hetero-Immortal Sect had a big event and a Great Success had appeared, those hundreds of thousands of soul threads had already proven everything, so everyone couldn't help but think seriously.
Even the three core disciples were pondering.
Only Xu Qing blinked.
That mysterious woman was silent, her brows under the mask furrowed. After thinking for a while, she asked the second sentence.
"May I ask sect leader, is the formation of the Hetero-Immortal Sect's soul threads really as slow as the rumors in the outside world?"
This sentence was also the focus of other students in the Bai Ta, and even the Hetero-Immortal Sect's own three disciples listened carefully.
The sect leader raised his chin, a touch of pride in his eyes, his voice full of confidence, echoing out.
"A thousand years ago, my sect reformed the cultivation technique, dividing it into inner and outer parts, and the ancestors left rules that only core disciples who have reached a certain number of years can be taught the inner method."
"The outer method is indeed slow, but the inner method is rapid!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was moved. Although they were still suspicious, thinking of the mysterious Great Success with hundreds of thousands of soul threads, they hesitated one after another.
That mysterious woman was also like this, her brows furrowed even tighter. She felt that the sect leader in front of her was not simple, and his answers were watertight, without dispersing any useful clues.
So after silence, she didn't ask the third question, but was decisive in her heart and bowed immediately.
"This disciple has no more questions and is willing to become a core member and join the Hetero-Immortal Sect."
The sect leader nodded slightly, thinking to himself, just this, and you want to test me?
In fact, the sect leader, as the sect leader, naturally saw the clues in the questions of the student in front of him, but he was not panicked at all. Even if he didn't know who the mysterious Great Success was, it didn't affect his preparation to use this momentum to improve the prestige of the Hetero-Immortal Sect.
After all, no matter what, what the mysterious Great Success displayed was indeed the Hetero-Immortal Sect's soul threads.
That was enough.
As for the identity of this mysterious Great Success, he felt that at the appropriate time, the other party would definitely appear.
And he didn't care about the dissatisfaction of the Star Emperor Supreme Sect caused by taking on the theft of the other party.
As a sect of the Imperial Academy, the status was transcendent.
Thinking of this, he waved his hand, and a jade slip flew over, landing in front of this mysterious woman.
The woman caught it and branded her identity without hesitation.
"Go and be with your four senior brothers."
The sect leader spoke lightly and closed his eyes without speaking.
Xu Qing watched the whole process. At this moment, the vigilance in his heart was extremely high.
"This person asking like this can be said to be really interested in the Hetero-Immortal Sect, or it can be said to have ulterior motives. It's hard to distinguish."
"But there is one explanation that can interpret everything and is also logical, and that is... this person has fought with me."
"Could it be her?"
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and looked at the student without changing his expression.
Just like that, a day passed.
During this day, this newly joined woman received hundreds of students together with Xu Qing and the others. In the process, she also observed them, occasionally asking some questions that seemed casual.
But she still focused her attention on the sect leader.
She was observing the sect leader, and Xu Qing was observing her.
The more he looked, the more certain Xu Qing's guess became. The more Xu Qing didn't speak, and she couldn't get any clues or details, the more she would supplement various thoughts in her mind.
This kind of supplementation made Xu Qing even more mysterious in her heart.
So after night fell, Xu Qing bid farewell to the sect leader and his fellow disciples, left the Bai Ta, and returned to the mansion.
Recalling the experience of the day, Xu Qing closed his eyes, took out Red Mother flesh, and began to cultivate.
Time passed, and half a month passed in a flash.
The storm about the mysterious Hetero-Immortal Sect Great Success, because there was no continuous outbreak event, even if its sect leader publicly declared many times in an attempt to raise it again, it was just a castle in the air.
Ultimately, it gradually dissipated with the passage of time.
The number of students going to the Hetero-Immortal Sect Bai Ta every day also gradually changed from hundreds at the beginning to dozens.
Although so, compared to the desolation of the past, it was also a heaven-toppling change.
The number of students who joined also increased by nine, now totaling thirteen.
The composition of these people was very complex, coming from all sides, and the daily probing also changed from secret to direct. And the four earliest disciples, including Xu Qing, were more united, occasionally discussing among themselves.
In addition, through half a month of observation, Xu Qing had basically determined that the fifth one... was that mysterious woman from that day.
He always remembered the aura of the other party's move, neither cultivation nor god, it seemed to be another kind of power, more overbearing than cultivation, and sharper than god.
"What is it?"
Xu Qing recalled the Imperial Academy sects he had checked and couldn't find any clues, so he put this matter in his heart.
And his cultivation and the refining of soul threads also reached a new height in this half month.
The Hetero-Immortal Sect did have a profound soul-refining method, and its cultivation speed was faster than normal cultivation techniques. In order to verify his previous words, the Hetero-Immortal Sect leader took out this cultivation technique, but only gave it to the four of them.
And said that this was just a transition, not the real inner method.
He wanted to provide subsequent cultivation techniques according to different years and different aptitudes.
This set of rhetoric had a certain effect, making the spies from all sides who were originally somewhat dissatisfied pay attention again and be moved.
And this cultivation technique could indeed improve a certain efficiency, but in fact, the improvement was not much. For the other three core disciples, it was just refining one or two more soul threads every month.
But here with Xu Qing, it was different.
Using this more profound Hetero-Immortal Sect art, he gained more soul threads when absorbing Red Mother flesh.
In this way, half a month passed. After absorbing all the Red Mother flesh to the limit, Xu Qing's number of soul threads had reached nearly a million.
Only three threads short.
Tonight, Xu Qing intended to go all out and condense the remaining three threads.
Looking inside his sea of consciousness, looking at the Divine Source soul threads that almost filled all areas, Xu Qing was thoughtful.
These soul threads were not as active as before, they became somewhat heavy, dispersing the aura of imminent transformation.
Xu Qing pondered. He had a premonition that once the number of soul threads reached a million, a new change might appear.
What exactly it was, he didn't know, and the cultivation technique didn't record it. After all, since ancient times, no one in the Hetero-Immortal Sect had piled up soul threads to such a terrifying degree.
Even the creator of the cultivation technique had never thought that someone could condense to this point.
Xu Qing's eyes revealed a sharp light, and he felt very strongly about this imminent transformation.
"What kind of change will appear..."
Xu Qing closed his eyes and began to cultivate according to the Hetero-Immortal Sect's method.
An incense stick of time later, a soul thread flashed out in the sea of consciousness.
With its appearance, all soul threads shook together.
The aura of transformation became stronger.
Xu Qing continued. Half an hour later, the second soul thread formed. Xu Qing's sea of consciousness began to roar, churning violently.
Until an hour later, when the last soul thread appeared in the sea of consciousness, a million soul threads were complete in an instant.
A huge change unprecedented in history rose suddenly in Xu Qing's sea of consciousness!
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