Tiangang Zhenren ate very quickly, without apparent chewing, and in a gust of wind, he finished everything on the table.
"Burp~" Tiangang Zhenren patted his stomach contentedly after eating so much.
Seeing Tiangang Zhenren, who was already wiping his mouth, and the untouched deer antler in front of him, Lin Qing, courting disaster, asked, "Grandmaster, these are ingredients I specially prepared. Why don't you try them?"
Lin Qing spoke too fast, and Su Xi couldn't stop him in time.
Looking at Tiangang Zhenren's displeased face, she could only silently mourn for Lin Qing in her heart and start thinking about how to help him collect his corpse.
As expected, Tiangang Zhenren's expression instantly turned grim upon hearing Lin Qing's words. He looked over with cold eyes and said, "What did you say?"
Under Tiangang Zhenren's gaze, Lin Qing felt a chill down his spine.
However, he thought Tiangang Zhenren hadn't heard clearly and, bracing himself, repeated, "These ingredients are all specially prepared by me, and I wanted Grandmaster to try them."
"They are also specially prepared by you?" Tiangang Zhenren looked at Lin Qing, his face growing darker and darker.
Such inferior things, was Lin Qing deliberately trying to retaliate against him by preparing them?
"If my junior disciple wasn't here, I would have definitely purged the sect today." Tiangang Zhenren didn't even glance at the deer antler on the table, his face now so dark it looked like water.
Although he had lost a lot of his memories, upon arriving at Penglai Mountain, his old stomping ground, he recalled some of it.
He now understood that he had once been the Grandmaster of Penglai Mountain, and he also remembered how prosperous Penglai Mountain used to be. He hadn't expected that time would have passed and the place would become what it was today.
The root cause, he concluded, was that his disciple was too foolish and couldn't manage Penglai Mountain properly.
Lin Qing also heard Su Xi's quiet explanation and immediately realized he had made a mistake.
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He felt a surge of relief, considering himself lucky to be alive and not have died on the spot.
Tiangang Zhenren, with a dark expression, looked at Lin Qing and couldn't help but ask, "How exactly did you become the sect leader to let the entire sect fall into such a state?"
Hearing Tiangang Zhenren's words, Lin Qing's face flushed and paled, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Speak." Tiangang Zhenren looked at the silent Lin Qing and slammed his palm onto the table in front of him.
"Grandmaster, Penglai Mountain has become like this because no disciples are willing to come and learn the arts of Penglai Mountain, not because I..."
Lin Qing dared not hide anything and quickly explained all the pressing issues of Penglai Mountain.
Su Xi, upon hearing about the many changes that had occurred in Penglai Mountain, gained a bit more understanding. However, knowing what had happened, her gaze towards Lin Qing didn't improve.
She herself had been deceived and brought here when she was young and ignorant.
After listening to Lin Qing's account, Tiangang Zhenren, besides cursing, couldn't think of a solution. After all, if no one wanted to join, it was indeed a problem with no apparent solution.
Seeing the two men with troubled faces, Su Xi shook her head and walked out.
The two men kept sighing, a scene that was truly bizarre. So, she might as well use this time to train and improve her strength.
After all, she had seen Huan Jie on the street today and felt that his strength had increased.
Therefore, if she couldn't break through soon, facing Huan Jie would only mean certain death.
Su Xi left the arguing main hall and went outside to cultivate.
She had been busy preparing food these days and wasn't sure of her current strength. She was doing this for revenge, not to seek death.
Although she hadn't guessed Huan Jie's cultivation level today, she knew that if she didn't speed up her cultivation, she would not only lose the bet but also her life.
Having finally come back to life, she didn't want to die so soon.
Su Xi examined her body internally and was immediately a little surprised.
Although she hadn't cultivated intentionally during this period, after consuming so many spiritual materials, her cultivation had already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, only a step away from Grand Perfection.
The vigorous magical power within her body was like a vast ocean, inexhaustible and endless, with the possibility of promotion at any time.
Feeling the abundant magical power within her, Su Xi's confidence in cultivating Heavenly Talismans increased.
Previously, due to physical reasons, she couldn't sense or mobilize the five elemental energies. Now that Grandmaster had helped her replenish her elemental origins, her comprehension of the five elemental energies was naturally beyond comparison.
Su Xi held her breath, concentrated, and began to fully mobilize the magical power in her body to prepare to draw the Heavenly Talisman Scroll.
She slowly raised her right hand. Although her hand was empty, a transparent brush appeared out of thin air. The tip of the brush was emitting a dazzling golden light. kuAiδugg
"Rise!" Su Xi shouted, and a powerful force instantly descended from the heavens, transmitting to the brush tip.
The originally clear sky, as the incantation was cast, gradually became overcast with dark clouds. The low atmospheric pressure made it feel as if the sky was about to collapse.
At the same time, strong winds began to rage around them, and large raindrops began to fall from the sky, one by one.
Su Xi was completely oblivious to the changes around her, her gaze focused intently on the scene before her as she slowly began to draw.
Although she was only drawing a first-level talisman, this was a talisman drawn using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and its difficulty was incomparable to those drawn on yellow paper.
Every stroke carried the aura of the Great Dao.
Because she was acting against the heavens, after drawing just one stroke, a lightning bolt instantly split the sky above her.
The tremendous sound immediately attracted Tiangang Zhenren, who was in the main hall disciplining Lin Qing.
"What is this?" Tiangang Zhenren sensed the change in the sky, forgot about scolding Su Xi, and hurriedly went outside.
Why did this aura of heavenly might feel so familiar?
Lin Qing glanced at Tiangang Zhenren's retreating back and quickly followed him out.
He couldn't understand why it was suddenly thundering.
Su Xi was unaware of the sensation she had caused, and was still concentrating on drawing the talisman by mobilizing the magical power within her body.
As the strokes increased, her drawing became increasingly difficult. It was like rowing upstream against a strong current; every inch of movement required all her strength.
Gradually, the not-so-abundant magical power within Su Xi's body was quickly depleted, and the talisman in the sky had yet to take shape. The talisman flickered continuously, on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
"It's failed, hasn't it." Lin Qing looked at Su Xi's performance, a hint of helplessness appearing in his heart. Although Su Xi's technique was powerful, it was clearly extremely difficult and could not be mastered overnight.
Lin Qing sighed and was about to step forward to help. Otherwise, if Su Xi's magical power ran out, she could easily injure herself.
However, Tiangang Zhenren immediately intervened, blocking Lin Qing. "Wait, it's not over yet."
"Not over?" Lin Qing looked at Su Xi and his expression became one of disbelief.
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