Shen Qingyi has always taken pride in being a disciple of the Kunlun Sect, and she still does, with an indomitable spirit.
However, when Kunlun faces Luohua, she truly lacks any confidence.
Currently, Feng Jun is already at the ninth level of the Out-of-Dust stage, just one step away from the Golden Core. Moreover, from what the Luohua people are saying, the challenge facing Mountain Master Feng isn’t whether he can form the core, but how long it will take and how to continue cultivating after reaching the Golden Core.
Shen Qingyi has secretly analyzed Feng Jun as well. Just from the food supply alone, it’s obvious that Feng Jun should have access to a small world; otherwise, the origin of so much Spirit Beast at can’t be explained, not to ntion the abundant Spirit Rice and Spirit Valley.
Feng Jun also possesses many tos, which speaks to the depth of a sect’s foundation.
A high cultivation level is not terrifying, and abundant resources are not terrifying either, but combining both is truly terrifying.
Not to ntion that once Feng Jun forms his core, he will be able to lead the Daoist sects for hundreds of years. As long as he can hold on a bit longer, Luohua can rely on its rich resources to continuously cultivate more strong figures—just as Kunlun once did in the past.
Yet these two points aren’t what makes Shen Qingyi feel incomparable; what makes her despair is that Feng Jun’s brain seems to work in mysterious ways—he has actually developed electric-powered formations!
Like the consensus reached by other Daoist sects, she also believes that this disruptive innovation is enough to change the major trends in the Daoist sects!
Kunlun would love to catch up, but the overwhelming gap is impossible to close with re effort.
And this is without even knowing about the existence of the Earth Spirit; otherwise, she would only feel more despair.
Thus, she has to keep many things secret from Kunlun, even though they will inevitably find out eventually. But it’s good to keep it under wraps as long as possible—in the anti, she can focus entirely on her cultivation.
However, so things can’t be hidden forever. Kunlun learned through other channels that four people from Luohua advanced to the Qi Refinent Realm, and even Yu Kun Daoist couldn’t hold back and ca to Shen Qingyi, asking, "What exactly is going on with Luohua, being able to mass-produce Qi Refinent realm cultivators?"
Shen Qingyi finally sighed long and hard, "They have electric-powered Spirit Gathering Arrays now, no longer constrained by Spirit Stones!"
Yu Kun Daoist was taken aback, "This thing actually exists, isn’t it just a rumor?"
Shen Qingyi shook her head helplessly, "Does Luohua need to boast like that now?"
Yu Kun Daoist’s eyes rolled, a fierce light flickering, "Qingyi, analyze for , if we gather the entire Kunlun and launch a surprise attack on Luohua, what are the odds of success?"
Shen Qingyi shook her head and sighed again, "Not even a half chance. Sect Leader, you aren’t serious, are you? Is Luohua soone we can provoke right now?"
"Alas," Yu Kun Sect Leader sighed deeply, "I’m well aware of that. But if we don’t provoke them now, we definitely won’t stand a chance later."
"Then let’s not provoke them," Shen Qingyi suggested earnestly. "Kunlun has its own ways of survival. Let’s mind our own business while they mind theirs. In fact, Kunlun has never truly led the Daoist sects, so why fight over irrelevant matters?"
Indeed, this is quite true. Kunlun has a renowned reputation, but they have never actually led the Daoist sects—they value their own Daoist legacy, even resorting to plundering for it.
As for being the leader of the Daoist sects... what even is that? Can it be turned into Spirit Stones?
"Our survival paths... have also been taken a lot by Luohua," Yu Kun Sect Leader sighed again, "They aren’t lacking magic artifacts, so why rob us? Now we can’t even co up with decent gifts to present!"
Shen Qingyi glanced at her sect leader, "Are you really going to send gifts to Luohua?"
"Of course," the Kunlun Sect Leader replied dully, "if we can’t fight them, we have to resolve the enmity. We desperately need the electric-powered Spirit Gathering Arrays... everyone else uses electricity, while we use Spirit Stones; would that not make us fools?"
He even thought about sending Yu Baiyi to extend congratulations, as courtesy dictates, but Shen Qingyi considered it inadvisable. After all, there weren’t many who had a favorable impression of Kunlun; should a commotion occur, it would only bring sha to Kunlun.
Actually, Yu Kun Daoist had other thoughts, such as having Yu Baiyi replace Shen Qingyi to be stationed at Luohua, thereby also benefiting from the spiritual energy to aid in breaking through to mid-stage Qi Refinent, but he ultimately didn’t bring it up.
In late April, Luohua’s Qi Refinent celebration was held at the manor, with nearly 300 guests present. This was despite their efforts to control the number—otherwise, exceeding a thousand would have been easy, as there were over 500 Daoist practitioners just outside the mountain gate.
Nominally speaking, if counted by invitation only, not that many people would have attended, but many wanted to bring along one or two disciples for the experience. Could Feng Jun turn them away? Thus, there were nearly two hundred Daoist friends present,
in addition to over a hundred relatives and friends from various families. The Yang Family, Gu Family, and Yu Family also sent people. These individuals had long been aware of Luohua but had not been able to visit; this ti, they were very pleased to finally witness it firsthand.
In fact, Sofia also had friends coming over this ti. She ca to Luohua properly by plane and entered through customs, accompanied not only by her collaborator Avril but also by her maid Rose and bodyguard Johnson.
In addition, five mbers of the Jansen Family from the Mai Nation ca, all of whom were Sofia’s cousins and her two friends from the Mai Nation.
These people were fortunate to know Sofia; otherwise, they might never set foot in Luohua Manor in this lifeti. So, even if it’s just this once, it’s enough for them to brag about their entire lives — although they haven’t realized this point yet.
Foreigners entering Luohua put a lot of pressure on Beauty Lin, so she approached Feng Jun, "Aren’t you worried they’ll see sothing they shouldn’t about Luohua?"
"Haven’t they already seen it?" Feng Jun replied nonchalantly, "There are so many satellites overhead every day, so what they see on the surface is fine, as long as they don’t grasp the essence."
Beauty Lin knew he was speaking the truth, so she made a concession, "Then inform those people that we need to inspect them!"
"No need," Feng Jun waved his hand dismissively, "My inspection skills are better than yours, with around, you can rest easy, secrets won’t get out."
Beauty Lin insisted, "Elder Yu is staying inside, and among the guests this ti are the Yang Family and the Gu Family..."
Feng Jun interrupted her without hesitation, "If you’re worried about their safety, I can clear them all out, Elder Yu has been to the Stroke Rehabilitation Center before."
"Are you kidding ?" Beauty Lin looked at him in astonishnt, like looking at a madman, "Do you know whom you might be kicking out?"
"Do I need to know?" Feng Jun shrugged with a smile, "This is my territory, be grateful for being able to get in, don’t be so fussy... honestly, I was planning to turn this place into a Daoist sect residence!"
Beauty Lin replied unhappily, "You need to understand, so people have security levels, if we don’t arrange it, it’s our dereliction of duty... More importantly, even if we neglect this duty, others will take over."
"No need for you to worry about that," Feng Jun said straightforwardly, "Just take care of your people."
"Alright then," Beauty Lin had no choice but to agree after he said this, thinking she’ll wait and see if he can live up to his boasts.
However, Feng Jun did go ahead with it. He didn’t contact anyone else, just ntioned it to Gu Jiahui and Yu Qingzhu, saying, during the days of the celebration, anyone approved by can enter Luohua, and no one is allowed to be searched casually, those who can’t accept it need not co.
Yu Qingzhu and Gu Jiahui didn’t think his conditions were excessive and readily agreed.
However, what Gu Jiahui didn’t know was that her uncle initially wanted to stop by, but upon hearing Luohua’s feedback, decided against it — even if he insisted on coming, his security team would have to agree first.
On the other hand, Yu Zhiyuan and others, although having security privileges, chose not to use them and were able to enter the manor.
The celebration lasts for three days; it actually starts the evening before, followed by the next and the third morning.
The first evening, as expected, was about dining, but this ti, Feng Jun went all out, serving Spirit Rice and Spirit Valley along with Spirit Plant and Spirit Beast at. Considering many were not cultivators, he also added so ordinary dishes.
Among these ordinary people, the Yang, Gu, and Yu families made up a large part, yet Yu Qingzhu and Gu Jiahui, after all, would remind their family mbers that the als over these two days would be sothing outside they would never experience, so they should save room for it.
This advice indeed helped; take Yu Zhiyuan, for instance. He was at an age where he cared for his health and needed to maintain his figure, and his als were always of high quality, so he usually doesn’t eat much at night, just having so light food and fruits.
Upon his daughter’s reminder, he adjusted his diet three days beforehand, just to eat well at Luohua for a few days — it’s not like the third child of the Yu Family hasn’t tasted good food, but the key is, his daughter implied, the food has Spiritual Energy!
Anyway, he stuffed himself with a lot, even having two bowls of Spirit Rice and wanting a third, but Yu Qingzhu stopped him — there’s more tomorrow, and eating too much would be hard to digest at night.
He wasn’t the only one who ate a lot; in fact, Gu Jiahui’s second uncle ate quite a bit too, and he’s over fifty, but that night he ate more than many young people.
Generally speaking, everyone that night ate beyond their usual capacity, including those from the Daoist sects, nobody talked about health at this mont — who knows when Luohua would lavish such a feast again.
Then... many people ended up overeating, but it didn’t matter, because there were activities after the al — watching fireworks.
A fireworks display in the suburbs of Zhengyang City required special approval, but that posed no problem for Luohua, as the reason was very straightforward — to celebrate the completion of the main structures of the Cultural Town.
However, the public wasn’t that easy to fool. At least the people of Baixing Town in the vicinity knew, "Is this Luohua setting off fireworks? Looks like more mysterious phenona again?"
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