“Papapa~”
“Ahh~, ohh~”
“Will there be a next time?”
“No, never.”
“Have you learned your lesson?”
“Yes, yes…”
“You’re not lying, are you?”
“It’s the truth! Ahh~”
Li Mo raised his hand and let it fall heavily on Ye Xiaolu’s perky rear until she screamed bloody murder.
Li Mo was at it for a good ten minutes. He was so thorough that Ye Xiaolu kept holding her butt cheeks while groaning.
“Jie Taoism’s first rule, don’t pick on the weak and no grudge fights. Whoever breaks it will receive severe punishment.”
“That gnoll was no saint either. Offending others without rime or reason would one day come back to bite you.
“And you even found some bitches for me. How kind of you!”
Li Mo sighed then gave another smacking.
“Goddamn it! Didn’t I mute you? Yet you still speak?”
“Papapa~”
“Ahh~, ohh~”
With Ye Xiaolu’s Emulsion Spirit Body, any and all magical arts were mere dust in the wind. One moment Li Mo sealed her voice, the next she talked like it never happened.
“No, never. I’ll stop.”
Ye Xiaolu begged.
“I don’t feel any sincerity from you!”
“Papapa~”
“Ahh~, ohh~”
“You’ve been having your way with me for too long. Are you done or not?”
Ye Xiaolu was pissed. She jumped to her feet and tried to steal his peaches. Li Mo was always on guard around her and easily caught her hand.
“I was wrong.”
Ye Xiaolu flipped tunes faster than a violin, showing a beaming smile.
Li Mo let her go.
Ye Xiaolu gnashed her teeth as she left, wobbling.
“I have to work harder! I have to cultivate!” She roared to the world.
She never truly listened to Li Mo, but seeing how powerless she was, she chose to fake it.
“This may not be such a bad way to motivate her into cultivating.” Li Mo laughed.
On the morrow, a Daoist kid brought the trio their cultivation method. Li Mo took ten minutes and already knew its ins and outs.
Ye Xiaolu’s mind and body were focused on one thing, cultivating in the circle of enlightenment. While with Su Daji, Li Mo had to go at her house to get her out.
But she said she had some private matters to attend to.
With their soul fused, Su Daji was no longer Whitey. She now had the memories of both people. It was up to her what future she chose.
Every Jie Taoism disciple started out as an average disciple. Through a yearly examination, as long as one’s cultivation speed was in the top ten for a decade, they would become a personal disciple.
With how Jie Taoism got new faces on a daily basis, and the disciples’ numbered in the hundreds of thousands, it was pretty darn obvious what a daunting task this was.
There was no shortcut in entering the top ten, only your own skills.
Of course, even if that failed, one could become a first, second, or third generation disciple. Like Daoist Opulence, Sacred Maiden Glamour, Sacred Maiden Invaluable, and Sacred Maiden Tortoise of the first generation, who were all fond of taking in disciples. And their disciples were by no means weak.
Time on the island fleeted by and half a year whooshed past.
Ye Xiaolu pulled out all the stops, reaching the fifth level in this time. Li Mo, well, he was still at peak sixth level. Only his body toughness increased somewhat.
Su Daji didn’t leave her house for three months. Her power showed no obvious increase, but her personality looked more and more similar to that vixen who ruined kingdoms.
“The yearly tournament of Jie Taoism will take place in five days. Be it Penglai Island residents, or outsiders, all will rush over to get in the top ten.”
“Per usual, the top ten can request Daoist Opulence to refine them a magic weapon.”
“His refining is second only to Grandmaster of Heaven.”
“That’s why I’ll give my all today and win a magic weapon from Daoist Opulence.”
“I know my limit, that being in top ten for ten years is out of my reach, but one time is very possible for me.”
“True, didn’t Tu Hua and Wen Zhong did it last year and were taken as Sacred Maiden Glamour’s personal disciples?“
“Grandmaster of Heaven hasn’t seen a new disciple in decades. Beings a personal disciple to one in the first generation isn’t much worse.”
“Yeah.”
“Senior brothers, let’s all do our best this year!”
“Oh!”
As the news spread, the disciples got fired up.
Ye Xiaolu ran to Li Mo, “Did you get any stronger?”
Li Mo shook his head.
“Why not? You used to be so fast, but look at me. Now I’m in the fifth level.”
“Until fifth level is easy, while growing exponentially harder with each subsequent level. Each level after implies a qualitative change and of great difficulty to achieve. If talent is lacking, you’d be stuck for all your life. For one to stay in place for half a year is the norm.”
“Eh, what? You’re saying you could get stuck in the sixth level?”
“Yes.”
“And me?”
“I don’t know, but the fifth level is fairly hard to overcome as well. The faster you break through the higher your chances to go even further.”
“Where’s Ye Xiaolu?”
A voice came from the sky, making Ye Xiaolu jump.
On a rainbow cloud stood a beautiful immortal. She sparkled golden and made it hard to look her straight in the eye.
“Ye Xiaolu greets Sacred Maiden Glamour.”
Staying for half a year in the Green Water Palace, she met every first generation disciple at some point.
Sacred Maiden Glamour smiled, “Ye Xiaolu, your constitution and mine are related. Are you willing to take me as your master?”
“Eh? Sacred Maiden, won’t that make Grandmaster of Heaven my venerated master?”
“Is that bad?”
“That’s a generation difference. I can’t do it.” Ye Xiaolu shook her head.
Sacred Maiden Glamour was stumped.
Sacred Maiden Glamour rarely took disciples. And on this rare occasion she was turned down flat.
“Fate governs all. It seems we are not fated.”
“Waaait!”
Ye Xiaolu saw her leaving and cried.
“Can you teach me to fly on clouds?”
Sacred Maiden Glamour laughed, “Of course.”
“Then teach me how to glitter as well.”
“Alright.”
“I like your style. I’ll call you senior sister so teach me in master’s stead.”
Sacred Maiden Glamour laughed.
“Perhaps this is our real fate. Alright, come with me!”
Two days later, a rainbow flashed somewhere in Green Water Palace straight for the heavens.
Ye Xiaolu entered the sixth level!
Hum~
Three days came and went and with another rainbow flash, Ye Xiaolu had gone up to the seventh level!
