Chapter 13: Expelled from the Inner Sect
Several months later.
Under the pressure of the light pillar, Feng Shi could already move his hands and feet, and he had completely mastered Drunken Dream.
This speed might still be far behind a genius, but Feng Shi was already very satisfied. After all, his character setting was just a tool man with average luck.
After the divine soul became powerful, the cultivation of other techniques would naturally be several times faster.
Feng Shi had basically mastered the System-rewarded Return to Origin. With steady improvement in several abilities, he felt he wasn’t far from a breakthrough.
During these few months, Xu Yan had been staying with Feng Shi on the third layer.
Feng Shi couldn’t completely practice inedia (abstinence from grains) yet. Fortunately, there were many Fasting Pills in the original host’s Qiankun bag. Coupled with Xu Yan’s help, not eating for several months was no problem.
“I’ll be leaving in a month,” Feng Shi curved his eyes: “Honestly, Senior Xu, I’m a bit reluctant to part with you.”
Xu Yan was closing his eyes to rest. Hearing this, he threw over a cultivation method manual without opening his eyes: “I told you, become my disciple.”
“Call me Master once, and all my things are yours.”
Seeing his goal achieved, Feng Shi picked up the manual on the ground with a grin: “Teacher, is it okay if I call you Teacher? I already have a Master; I can’t take another one.”
Xu Yan glared at him fiercely: “He doesn’t want you anymore! Yet you keep calling him Master!”
Feng Shi fell silent.
If the System didn’t require him to strive to become Shen Songhe’s disciple again later, he would really want to follow Xu Yan.
“Teacher, don’t worry. I guarantee you are the rock-solid number two in my heart!” Feng Shi blew another rainbow fart (flattery). After making Xu Yan smile broadly, he lowered his head to study the cultivation method in his hand intently.
【Intermediate Cultivation Method: <Severing Water>, Main Function: Improves cultivator’s movement technique, speed, etc. Intermediate cultivation methods can only be cultivated after the Host breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage~】
Feng Shi put away the cultivation method.
Presumably, Xu Yan also sensed he was about to break through, which was why he gave him this cultivation method.
Ten days later, Feng Shi successfully stepped into the Foundation Establishment stage.
Another few days passed, and departure was imminent.
When it came time to leave, Feng Shi was truly reluctant. He said sincerely: “Teacher, rest assured. When I get out, participate in the Inner Sect Trial, and become an inner sect disciple again, I will definitely come to the Demon Slaying Tower to see you!”
While speaking, the light pillar had already withdrawn from his body. Feng Shi moved his body, feeling light all over and in excellent spirits.
Xu Yan clasped his hands behind his back and nodded: “It’s enough that you have this heart. Cultivate well in the future. Next time we meet, you can’t be just at Foundation Establishment!”
Feng Shi smiled: “With Teacher’s auspicious words, I will.”
On a small floating island, having stayed for nearly six months, Feng Shi had nothing to miss besides Xu Yan.
When the teleportation array opened, Xu Yan had already left a step ahead.
Feng Shi didn’t even have time for a sentimental goodbye.
He felt the other party was truly an awkwardly kind old man. If not for his help, the current Feng Shi might be in some crazy state.
White smoke gradually blurred his vision. Feng Shi sighed and closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he was already in front of the Demon Slaying Tower.
Unlike when he arrived, there weren’t many people at the Demon Slaying Tower now, only two inner sect disciples who came to pick Feng Shi up.
Feng Shi walked over with a beaming smile and bowed: “Two Senior Brothers, troubled you again.”
Those two disciples were the exact same ones who had sent Feng Shi here. Since seeing Feng Shi, they had been looking him up and down, seemingly unable to believe he really walked out in one piece.
“Did he really break through?” One disciple turned his head and asked the other disciple in a low voice.
The other disciple replied: “Tsk, looks like it.”
“Impossible, right? I thought he would go crazy. Didn’t expect him to actually break through. Weird!”
“Maybe it was luck. But so what if it’s Foundation Establishment? At this age, it’s still not enough to look at.”
Feng Shi listened to their words but smiled without speaking.
He didn’t deliberately hide his aura, so it wasn’t strange for these two to know.
A moment later, the group of three finally arrived in front of the inner sect barrier.
Looking out from the main gate, there was only a thin man wearing dusty gray clothes hovering outside. It should be the person from the outer sect coming to pick Feng Shi up.
“Alright, from today on, you are an outer sect servant. You are not allowed to come up the mountain on ordinary days.”
“Go.” The speaking disciple gave a light push, and Feng Shi stepped out of that barrier.
The moment he stepped out of the barrier, the scene of the inner sect behind him vanished. When Feng Shi turned around and looked back through the barrier, what his eyes saw was just an ordinary mountain forest.
Feng Shi didn’t linger.
Anyway, sooner or later, he would return. For now, he would just treat it as experiencing life in the outer sect.
The gray-shirted disciple outside the gate saw Feng Shi come out, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
“You… you’re here? My name is Jin, Jin He. You, you come with… me.”
It was a little stutterer.
Feng Shi approached, nodding with a smile: “My name is Feng Shi.”
The other party nodded.
“You will, in the future, with… with me, be, be in the herb garden.” Jin He explained the situation to Feng Shi as they walked.
The mountain stairs going down were very long; the end couldn’t be seen at a glance.
It must have rained in the past few days. The steps were wet and covered with green moss, occasionally with a few snails and earthworms visible.
“I… I talk, like this. Will… will you, be annoyed?”
Perhaps because Feng Shi hadn’t responded for too long, Jin He’s face turned a bit red. He asked cautiously, a hint of imperceptible disappointment in his tone.
In the herb garden, except for his mother, no one had the patience to listen to him talk like this.
Seeing this, Feng Shi hurriedly explained: “Not at all. You speak quite clearly. Thank you.”
His smile was sincere and good-looking. Jin He’s face couldn’t help but turn redder as he said infatuatedly: “You, you look really… really good-looking… person, person is also good…”
Feng Shi paused, then replied: “Thank you hahaha, you are also very cute.”
Jin He was puzzled: “Cute?”
“Just praising you.”
“Oh…”
Going down the mountain to the foot of the mountain half-way down was the jurisdiction of the Chongshan Sect’s outer sect.
Looking down from above at first glance, this outer sect was actually very lively.
The large herb gardens were full of busy figures. Green fields were neatly stacked between the fields, surrounded by mountains, with birds flying incessantly—it looked just like a rare paradise.
Because they were all people with insufficient natural talent but unwilling to just be mortals, some couldn’t even achieve introducing Qi into the body and couldn’t practice inedia. So, besides herb gardens, the outer sect also had a considerable area of farmland.
Outer sect disciples provided medicinal ingredients for alchemy to the inner sect. They usually did menial work and relied entirely on the inner sect’s breath to survive.
Feng Shi sighed.
It was a pity that the spiritual energy in this outer sect was thin, not very conducive to cultivation, and he couldn’t farm favorability from main characters.
However, if people in the outer sect were as friendly as Jin He, favorability actually wouldn’t be hard to get.
“By the way, Little He, do you know the time of the recent Inner Sect Trial?”
Hearing this, Jin He stopped talking and looked at Feng Shi in disbelief: “Feng, Brother Feng Shi… are you, going to?”
“That’s right, I still want to enter the inner sect.” Feng Shi didn’t hide it.
Admiration appeared in Jin He’s eyes: “En! Definitely, will!”
“But… the, the most recent Inner Sect, Trial… ti, time, is until… a year later…”
“A year later?” “Indeed a bit long… but I can also take the opportunity to cultivate for a while.”
“Feng Shi, Brother, al, already… Qi Refining stage?”
Feng Shi didn’t correct him: “Yes.”
“So… so amaz, amazing. I still, still can’t…” Jin He’s mood became somewhat downcast.
Feng Shi comforted: “Mm… then I’ll take a look for you when the time comes. Maybe it’s just a small problem.”
Jin He’s eyes lit up: “Real! Really! Thank, thank you, Feng, Brother Feng Shi!”
“En.”
As the two talked, they had already walked in front of a herb garden.
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