Chapter 288

Jiang Yan's gaze was deep as he stared intently at Shenzi for a moment, then said slowly:

"The Tushan Fox clan has a technique called 'Love Silk Ties to the Next Life'."

"This technique... has the power of resurrection and involves the Great Dao of Reincarnation."

"It is also the legendary art of bringing the dead back to life."

Hearing this, Shenzi's pupils shrank, and she looked up at Jiang Yan in disbelief.

The latter had a mysterious smile on his lips, watching her quietly.

Shenzi gritted her teeth, then her smile became brilliant.

"Thank you for your guidance, Sect Master! This disciple will cultivate diligently!"

Jiang Yan nodded slightly and said no more.

Seeing this, Miss Ganyu and Shenzi also bid farewell and left.

After the two left, Jiang Yan took out the jade talisman and explored it with his divine sense.

After a long while, he sighed softly.

"The word 'love' is the most hurtful... even a Qingqiu fox who has seen through love cannot escape the suffering of love..."

172. The Shushan Mountain-Opening Ceremony that is finally about to begin.

More than ten days had passed in the blink of an eye since Shenzi joined Shushan.

During this time, no other newcomers had come to Shushan. Jiang Yan was not in a hurry; after all, once the Mountain-Opening Ceremony began, Shushan would not lack disciples.

Moreover, Shushan's true foundation was these disciples with excellent talent.

To put it bluntly, outer sect disciples were ultimately just foils.

How many cases of losers making a comeback are there in the world?

Although it sounds like a sigh at the injustice of the Great Dao, there is an insurmountable gap between people to begin with.

During this time, it wasn't as if nothing major had happened in Shushan.

Zhongli and the others, at the late stage of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation, hadn't made any breakthroughs.

With the current step-by-step cultivation, even if Jiang Yan lectured on the Dao every day, it would likely take decades to break through.

However, Jiang Yan was not in a hurry; the one thing cultivators lack the least is time.

Even Zhongli, who had lived the longest, still had tens of thousands of years of lifespan.

Time?

There was plenty!

Those with Heavenly Spirit Roots would not stop at Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation for too long.

And even though Zhongli and the others hadn't made any major breakthroughs, their strength had not remained stagnant.

Their accumulation of True Essence was more profound, coupled with the many techniques learned from the Scripture Pavilion.

Their combat power was ultimately not what it used to be.

The three of them were confident in clashing with the Heavenly Principles.

Provided the other party didn't invoke the world's authority.

Besides them, the breakthroughs of the disciples at the Essence Refining and Qi Transformation stage were even more frequent.

Not to mention Miss Ningguang and Miss Keqing who had broken through early, even Bai Zhu, who joined later, had caught up and achieved the middle stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation.

Jiang Yan was very satisfied with this, but he did not support everyone learning from Bai Zhu's crazy drive.

Bai Zhu embarked on the immortal path, knowing his talent was inferior to other fellow disciples, so this guy was even more ruthless to himself.

Whatever pills he refined, he was always the first to test them on himself.

Several times he almost had his True Essence disordered and his dantian shattered.

But he turned a misfortune into a blessing, making his dantian and meridians even tougher.

He went through the Heart-Questioning Array every day without fail, and his state of mind had been polished to perfection.

Every day, he was either squatting on Dazhu Peak refining pills or taking pills to the Merit Hall to exchange for contribution points for cultivation.

He did the most tasks in the Merit Hall to eliminate demon beasts.

He was also at the forefront of mining spirit ores.

Even, according to Lisa, even when Bai Zhu finished his cultivation and rested, he would sit in the pill furnace and beg her to use the Karma Fire to help him...

Bai Zhu was refining himself as if he were a pill.

This ruthlessness made the Law Enforcement Hall very worried about whether he would be too eager for success and walk down a crooked path.

But he went through the Nine-Fold Heart-Questioning every day, and his state of mind was more stable than Zhongli's. Regarding this, the Law Enforcement Hall could only conclude that Bai Zhu's cultivation was too crazy.

Bai Zhu thus became the most obsessed person in the entire Shushan cultivation.

But regarding this, Miss Ningguang and the others expressed deep understanding.

His talent was average, and he dreamed of cultivating for longevity; now that he had the opportunity, Bai Zhu would never let it go.

Besides Bai Zhu, Keli had also successfully broken through to the middle stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation.

The Red Emperor Burning Heaven Body had also been initially condensed successfully.

After Keli broke through to the middle stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation, Jiang Yan had Miss Ningguang, Miss Keqing, Bai Zhu, and many others at the middle stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation spar with her.

Keli defeated everyone within thirty moves.

Only then did everyone see that a divine body was ultimately different from an ordinary person.

She was cheating.

Perhaps Bai Zhu's madness was also stimulated by Keli.

Lisa had harvested quite a few demon beast souls during this time, and her Karma Fire had turned from black-purple to a rich black.

Although she hadn't broken through to the late stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation yet, it would likely be within these few months.

The further one goes in cultivation, the harder it becomes; it was already incredible that Lisa could break through so quickly.

Jean, Kaeya, and the others hadn't broken through their cultivation levels and were still at the early stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation.

However, their strength was no longer what it used to be. Dvalin, who was possessed by the remnant soul of the High Tower Lone King back then—

If they faced him now, even if they couldn't win in a one-on-one, they could easily suppress him by swarming him.

Barbara also successfully broke through to the early stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation, but from then on, Barbara's cultivation speed slowed down.

After all, she didn't have much accumulation to begin with.

The most outstanding were the two divine bodies, Lumine and Paimon.

Lumine reached the middle stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation in a short time, and her cultivation was still skyrocketing toward the late stage.

It was likely she would break through faster than Lisa.

In Lumine's own words, she was getting stronger just by breathing and drinking water.

However, her own strength was already high, and she was just recovering now.

Others couldn't envy that.

Paimon was the same, successfully breaking through to the early stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation. Don't look at her as small; in reality, her strength was now much stronger than Jean and the others.

The simplified version of the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Art and the Basic Spell True Explanation were played to perfection by these two.

In coordination, they could make Liuyun, who was at the late stage of Essence Refining and Qi Transformation, suffer a silent loss.

However, if she got serious, they were still no match for Liuyun.

Fighting across cultivation levels was ultimately impossible in cultivation.

But even so, it was something to be proud of.

And what Jiang Yan found most speechless was Diluc...

This guy seemed to be obsessed with Buddhist and Daoist techniques.

During this time, he went to the Scripture Pavilion and successively chose two techniques.

One was the Great Brahma Sacred Palm, and the second was the Eight Dragon God Seal.

Placed in the cultivation world, he would at least be a well-known disciple of the Buddhist sect.

Even the magic treasure he had accumulated recently was a lotus pedestal.

It was truly outrageous.

However, the others were fine, although the techniques they chose were varied.

But the Sword Control Art had basically reached the minor success stage.

Keqing and Lumine, who had the fastest progress, were approaching great success; by then, they could learn other techniques of the Sword Control Art.

Besides that, there were some constructive suggestions put forward by Yun Qing and Yun Hua from the Outer Sect Elder Hall.