Chapter 95: I Saw a Celestial Beauty, a Vision of Unrivaled Grace!

At dawn the next morning, Cao Xuan and the other two emerged from the residence in high spirits and gathered with the rest of the Azure Cloud Sect’s party from Cloud Province.

Li Zhiyun and Xing Mengfan wore expressionless faces. After these days of sparring and instruction, they had both fought themselves into a temper and suffered a few minor injuries.

But since they had only gone so far as the rules allowed, they had recovered to peak condition by the last day with the aid of medicinal pills.

Seeing the rosy looks on Yu Wan and the others, they let out cold snorts.

In their view, the lineage of the Talismans Peak had spent these past few days in ease and comfort, likely even neglecting their cultivation.

Instead, Peak Master Yuan Dan smiled and said, “Senior Sister Yu, did something good happen?”

“Your complexion looks rosy and radiant; you seem much younger all of a sudden!”

Peak Master Wang Tie thought for a moment, then revealed a shocked expression. “Senior Sister, you...”

Yu Wan’s heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly looked herself over.

Nothing wrong. The garments from the Mist Veil Pavilion had already been put away in her storage pouch, and she was wearing the proper Azure Cloud Sect attire.

“...Senior Sister, you’re really about to break through to the Golden Core realm this time!”

Seeing Wang Tie’s delighted expression, Yu Wan rolled her eyes. Could he please speak without making such a dramatic pause?

At the same time, she secretly glanced at Cao Xuan. When the two of them worked together, it really did increase the pace!

This was the first time she had discovered her disciple could be this fierce. He had always been formidable, of course, but never quite as formidable as he had been last night.

Even with her and Li Yao taking turns, they still ended up defeated.

Yet the cultivation results were outstanding. The circulation of spiritual energy and true essence was more than twice as fast as usual, and the strengthening of essence and spirit was likewise far greater!

Yu Wan and Li Yao were like two satellites, circling around Cao Xuan!

Whenever one of them grew tired, she would lie across Cao Xuan’s back, sensing the flow of the other two’s true essence and linking it with her own.

It could be said that even in cultivation, the momentum of the three great cycles had never been broken.

And once they recovered, they would make little covert movements from behind, boosting their junior brother’s pace while also causing the person below to falter quickly, so that they could enter the field a second time!

At that moment, Cao Xuan and Li Yao’s true essence flowed through them without the slightest obstruction, and they had reached peak condition.

Li Yao even stared at her master in astonishment, as though seeing her for the first time after all these years.

“Master~” she drawled sweetly, “tell me, how did you grow like that? Why is your special trait so powerful!”

Ordinarily, after she and Cao Xuan finished cultivating, there would still be foreign true essence left in her body that needed refining.

At first she had thought her master had merely developed a taste for it. After all, she and her junior brother were about to attend the Azure Cloud Dharma Assembly today, and it simply wouldn’t do to have foreign true essence lingering in their bodies.

Only later did she realize that her master had truly been helping them.

With the master’s special trait filtering it out, the foreign true essence was refined before it even entered the body.

Yu Wan knocked her on the head. “There are other people here. Can you please be a little more mindful?”

Then, in a low voice, she said, “This kind of thing is innate. Only your junior brother would go around asking what sort of special trait it is!”

“And hadn’t your junior brother already studied this? He said every woman is different!”

Li Yao grumbled, “Before junior brother came to the sect, he must have studied this plenty with other women!”

Hearing the two of them mutter under their breath, Cao Xuan knew that everyone present was at the Foundation Establishment stage and could hear them clearly.

However, they all looked blank. What special trait? What kind of study? And it had something to do with women?

Because it sounded like heavenly scripture to them, they could only guess blindly, probably that it had something to do with cultivation.

Yu Wan continued, “Besides, didn’t your junior brother also draw a sub-talisman on your navel?”

“That was the first time I’d ever known such a feeling could be shared!”

Li Yao pouted. “It’s precisely because I know how that feels that I’m jealous of you, Master!”

“When you cultivate with junior brother, it’s just too blissful. I could never reach that level!”

Yu Wan’s face reddened. “What are you saying...”

“At worst... next time we cultivate, your master will bring you along!”

Li Yao had been waiting for exactly that sentence. She immediately looped her arm affectionately through Yu Wan’s.

“Master, I was waiting for you to say that!”

“Don’t worry. Next time, I’ll be behind you helping push.”

This time Yu Wan didn’t even tap her head. She simply pinched her waist.

“Ow, ow, ow! Master, I was wrong!”

The others of Azure Cloud Peak: ???

What on earth are the Talismans Peak disciples talking about?

...

“You’re from Cloud Province, correct?” At that moment, a Golden Core cultivator appeared in the residence complex. Her expression was respectful, and she showed no arrogance simply because she was at the Golden Core stage.

As the saying went, when one rises to greatness, even the chickens and dogs ascend with him. In her eyes, everyone before her was a fellow disciple of the Grand Elder Immortal Xiangqiu.

Leaving aside everything else, just the fact that Immortal Xiangqiu was about to enter the Sacred Land of Xuanhua meant that even if the people before her were all mortals, she would still treat them with utmost courtesy.

Sensing the aura of the woman before him, Cao Xuan’s eyes flickered.

Name: Bai Tianxiang

Spirit Root Attribute: Earth Spirit Root

Multiplier: 80x

Cultivation: Middle Golden Core Stage

There was no problem at all. The woman before him had no special trait whatsoever, but her spirit root attribute was the highest Cao Xuan had ever seen: the Earth Spirit Root, above the Ninth-Tempering Spirit Root.

“So special traits really are rare!” Cao Xuan thought to himself.

From Ye Caixuan’s fifty times and Li Zhiyun’s fifty-five times, it was clear that the differences among Ninth-Tempering Spirit Roots were actually not that great.

But his master, Yu Wan, who also possessed a Ninth-Tempering Spirit Root, had reached an eighty-times rebate multiplier because of her special trait.

This woman before him, at the Golden Core stage with an Earth Spirit Root, also had an eighty-times multiplier. Perfectly normal.

In truth, whenever Cao Xuan brought up the system panel, the fairies flying overhead from time to time were almost all worth dozens or even hundreds of times in rebates.

But his master, a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a Ninth-Tempering Spirit Root, could still reach eighty times thanks to her special trait. That showed how tremendous her potential was.

Once she advanced further, her multiplier would surely rise quite a bit.

Of course, Bai Tianxiang’s appearance also gave Cao Xuan the feeling that this was the Central Province indeed!

Among those who could cultivate beyond Foundation Establishment, not a single one was trash!

Cao Xuan rubbed the bridge of his nose and kept reminding himself not to get carried away, not to see a woman and immediately step forward with, “Fair lady, please wait!”

There was nothing he could do. As backup targets, Ye Caixuan had fifty times, Xing Mengfan fifty times, and Li Zhiyun fifty-five times.

These people were, in fact, all targets he was meant to woo, using gifts from Cao Xiong and farming goodwill to gain more lottery draws.

But after arriving in the Central Province, Cao Xuan unexpectedly found himself thinking, Why settle for an ordinary horse-drawn cart when I can have a bicycle? I should be seeing more of this.

As for the fairies of Cloud Province, he could content himself with admiring them for now.

As for the fairies of Central Province, as long as one was bold enough, even the fairies would be sent off on paid leave!

Still, at this moment, even Bai Tianxiang before him was not someone Cao Xuan could covet.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with establishing a good relationship in advance!

While the others of the Azure Cloud Sect from Cloud Province were all standing there stiffly, Cao Xuan stepped forward at once and said, “Fair lady, we are indeed from Cloud Province!”

Upon hearing this, Bai Tianxiang showed a slight smile. “Then it seems there’s no mistake. Elder Xian specifically instructed me to receive everyone during the period of the Azure Cloud Dharma Assembly!”

Hearing this, Cao Xuan hurriedly took out a beautifully crafted jade pendant artifact from his storage pouch.

Its function was ordinary enough, but its craftsmanship was exquisite and attractive.

“Fair lady, you’ve worked hard. We’ve come from a small place in Cloud Province and don’t have anything particularly valuable.”

“Seeing that you have a country-toppling beauty, this jade pendant suits an incomparable beauty perfectly!”