The other martial arts, other than <Cloud Dragon Divine Walk> and <Nine Demon Gods Art>, had basically all become useless after entering the Transcendent Realm.
Although he was reluctant, he had to abandon them to some extent. There was no other way.
……
Early next morning, Ling Xiao took back his sword soul clones and left the cave dwelling.
“Senior Brother Ling, you are quite early!”
Jian Xing and Lin Feng were already waiting outside. They treated Ling Xiao respectfully, regarding him as the main pillar or simply their boss.
They must have also heard of the pains of joint training with the inner disciples.
Whether they could save face or not depended on Ling Xiao.
In any case, although their strength was not lacking, they were weak compared to the inner disciples.
After all, in the Inner Sect, the worst cultivation base was Initial Rank One Transcendent Realm while they were just Half Great Masters.
Both of them looked at Ling Xiao with surprise.
It was obvious that Ling Xiao was also a Half Great Master, but his aura made them feel like they were incomparable to him.
Naturally, they didn’t know that Ling Xiao’s confidence stemmed from his own strength.
One should know that he seemed to just be a Half Great Master, but his cultivation base had already reached Initial Rank Two Transcendent Realm.
Of course, this kind of strong confidence was not just due to his cultivation base.
In addition to his cultivation base, he also had two terrifying trump cards, the first being his Landscape Martial Soul.
He truly had never used it in battle and only for support, such as analyzing and deducing an opponents’ attacks or a martial arts’ weaknesses.
When in Crouching Dragon Mountain Range, he had tried to summon the Landscape Martial Soul, but its aura alone had been so terrifying that heaven and earth had shook.
His Landscape Martial Soul could even directly swallow the Ancient Golden Dragon.
One should know that the roar of this Ancient Golden Dragon triggered a change in the laws of the Profound Realm and shocked countless experts.
Nevertheless, the Landscape Martial Soul was even more terrifying than the Ancient Golden Dragon’s aura, not even a Heavenly Realm powerhouse could notice its existence.
The other trump card was naturally the strength of ‘Ancient Golden Dragon.’
In his human form, with just a trace of the Ancient Demon King’s primordial power from his mystic art, his strength would increase by roughly 50%.
In his humanoid dragon form, he could use more primordial power, which would at least double his strength!
In his Ancient Golden Dragon form, he could use even more primordial power, and his strength would increase by at least ten times.
However, because of the huge consumption and burden on his body, he could only maintain this form for at most ten breaths.
Although ephemeral, it serves as the perfect ultimate move.
He wouldn’t easily use such a thing unless it was a matter of life or death.
After all, once the Ancient Golden Dragon form was used, information about him resurrecting a primordial behemoth would leak out, leading to a lot of trouble.
“Let’s go! We’ll immediately go to the Inner Sect’s Main Hall!”
Ling Xiao took a deep breath and said.
Going to the Inner Sect’s Main Hall as an outer disciple gave a subtle feeling.
In the Inner Sect, the news of the joint training spread like wildfire.
In fact, this kind of thing couldn’t be hidden. After all, it was the usual practice of the Moonlight Sect. As long as one was slightly familiar with the sect, all should be able to guess it.
“Heh heh, I heard that among the people coming for the joint training this time, there is a person who has even killed a Rank One Transcendent Realm martial artist.”
“Yes, he seemed to be called Ling Xiao. He killed the two disciples of Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy——Xu Ying and Wang Feng.”
“What’s the background of this kid? He’s actually so terrifying.”
In this joint training, the inner disciples’ talks focused on Ling Xiao.
After all, in the eyes of many inner disciples, outer disciples were ants. Looking through the history of the Moonlight Sect, although there were records of the top-three outer disciples defeating inner disciples in the past, there had never been a precedent of a single person instantly killing two inner disciples like Ling Xiao.
Moreover, those inner disciples defeated by the outer disciples had all been wastes who were about to be eliminated.
Besides, their victories had barely been eked out.
But what about Ling Xiao?
There was a rumor that he had used two moves to kill two inner disciples.
In addition, those two people were genius-level inner disciples. (Editor note: Lol one was an outer disciple) Xu Ying’s death, who had already been accepted as the true disciple of Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy and reached the level of Ming Tian and Leng Hao, was especially shocking.
Since she had died so easily, there was no wonder that Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy had disregarded his identity and attacked Ling Xiao in person.
“Humph, you just know the first but not the second. Don’t listen to outside rumors. In fact, as far as I know, the one who truly attacked and killed Xu Ying and Wang Feng was someone else, a Celestial Realm powerhouse.”
“Could it be Vast Wintry Celestial Worthy? This does make sense.”
“Shhh, it’s good that you know, but don’t dare talk randomly. Otherwise, you will attract a fatal disaster.”
“Humph, how could a trifling outer disciple easily kill two genius-leveled inner disciples? This makes more sense.”
“Since that kid came to participate in the joint training, we must take good care of him!”
In the Inner Sect, other than Zhao Zhi, Lan Yu’er and Dai Yuling, no one else liked Ling Xiao.
Perhaps, it was because Ling Xiao’s performance in the Outer Sect was too brilliant or that he had killed two inner disciples, Xu Ying and Wang Feng.
Envy, jealousy, unhappiness, resentment…
Ling Xiao had yet to reach the Inner Sect. Therefore, he naturally didn’t know about these discussions, although he could easily guess them since they occurred wherever he went. Now, he was on his way to the Inner Main Hall.
Jian Xing and Lin Feng looked very worried.
Only Ling Xiao was happy, eagerly looking forward to what waited for him.
Wasn’t it fun to practice with inner disciples?
Of course, he was very happy.
……
The Inner Main Hall could also be said to be the core of the Moonlight Sect.
The spiritual qi here was a lot thicker than in the Outer Sect.
However, deep into the Inner Main Hall were the stronger auras.
It was unknown whether it was intentional, but these powerful auras seemed to attack Ling Xiao, Jian Xing and Lin Feng.
Although it was not killing intent and merely some pressure, it was absolutely devastating for the three outer disciples.
Allegedly, three outer disciples had commited suicide in the past upon collapsing under this terrifying pressure.
Furthermore, there were also disciples who had directly gone crazy.
Later, the Moonlight Sect had made a rule forbidding inner disciples from injuring outer disciples like this.
However, there were always some people with strong backers who dared to violate the sect’s rules.
Jian Xing and Lin Feng turned pale, their legs seemingly filling with lead. They were almost unable to move.
Their foreheads dripped with sweat as if they had a serious illness.
Ling Xiao, however, just smiled faintly and raised a hand.
Then, a warm aura enveloped the two people beside him.
