Having got what he longed for, Lin Xiao was in high spirits and even played a joke on Wu Gui with a radiant smile, "For your information, brother Wu, I deliberately picked the least remarkable cultivation methods. Because I fear that I might mistakenly hit anyone to death if I mastered those formidable ones. That won't do it for me. Being a pacifist, I'm inclined to convince my opponents by reasoning."
"No way!" Wu Gui cried in an utter stupefaction.
Not until Lin Xiao reached the gate did Wu Gui come back to himself. He looked at Lin Xiao's receding figure, and murmured to himself, "It does seem so. Though much superior to me, he has never been rude to me. But dare I oppose him? Convincing his opponents by reasoning, very well said! That's way too admirable!"
While Lin Xiao was looking for the whereabouts of the key to The Doctrines of Limbo, the completely humiliated Qin Shou was weeping out his grief to a youngster, "Brother Yi Jia, please avenge me."
The youngster referred to as Yi Jia was about seventeen years old, was a very well-put-together hunk. The fly in the ointment was that a soybean-sized mole beneath his left eye worked against his good looks. When he blinked, the mole sprung spookily.
Yi Jia drew near Qin Shou genially. Spotting Qin's badly-bloated face, he asked in a shocked and concerned tone, "Brother Qin, what happened to your face?"
Yi Jia was a fair-haired boy in the Taixuan Sect. He had not even reached the come-of-age. Being low-profiled, not many of the disciples there had known him before.
Last year, Yi Jia made his debut at the annual contest in the sect.
Albeit nearly seventeen years old back then, he was still at the initial level of the cultivation in the Refining Divine Real. For this reason, quite a few disciples were ashamed of him. Nevertheless, what happened after that made Yi Jia shoot to fame.
With merely the initial-level cultivation in the Refining Divine Realm, he swept away ten rounds consecutively, and some of his defeated opponents boasted the second level cultivation.
Though beaten by Wu Gui at last, Yi Jia went down gloriously. He caught so much limelight that even his identity was uncovered.
There were hundreds of mountains of various sizes scattered about in the Taixuan Sect. Once someone developed into a senior, he was entitled to the ownership of a mountain, where he could establish his own forces while remaining subject to the dominance of the sect.
Yi Jia's father was a senior of this kind, whose name was Yi Tianzhong, the owner of the Mount Youming (literally means the serene netherworld).
Being an emulative character, Yi Jia had been immersed in his cultivation on the Mount Youming ever since his defeat by Wu Gui.
And his cultivation soared to the third level in the Refining Divine Realm after he came out from his martial arts studio.
A two-level leap in half a year could only happen to a genius disciple with spectacular innate talent. Conversely, Yi Jia was not different from any other average disciple in terms of endowments.
His story was widely known. Almost all the people in the Taixuan Sect arrived at a consent unanimously that the Mount Youming was the best place for cultivation.
Therefore, the Mount Youming had been massively frequented with its doorsteps worn out by the visitors. The frenzy of applying for discipleship had been going on ever since.
Yi Jia went back to his cultivation right after the prior half-year one. He didn't show up until his father Yi Tianzhong accepted Qin Shou as his disciple. It remained unknown which level he was at now.
As a matter of fact, Yi Jia hadn't taken to Qin Shou in the past. There were merely distant acquaintances back then.
However, something drew them near two days ago.
On that day, a beautiful girl popped over to the Taixuan Sect for Qin Shou, who was busing looking for Lin Xiao at that time. Hence Yi Jia gave her a reception instead.
The girl was only about fifteen years old. But she was already a stunning beauty, about to grow into a femme fatale in the near future. However, she appeared rather aloof and left right away after handing over a package and letter to Yi Jia with a charming grace of a startled swan.
Then her beautiful image had stayed with Yi Jia ever since.
Later Yi Jia was informed by Qin Shou that beauty was actually his sister, though they had never met before. Then Yi Jia began to fantasize about her.