Simple and Straightforward

Hearing this, Lin Xiao knew that He Yi had already emerged from the Heart-Seeking Path and had successfully entered the sect.

Seeing how excited Liu Yunan was, he did not interrupt. He waited until Liu Yunan had repeated everything He Yi had told him before speaking.

“An Illusory-Spirit Immortal Peach Tree? That name certainly suits the cultivation world.”

“Exactly, Brother Xiao! It sounds so impressive! Oh, right—He Yi was also extremely shocked when he later saw our floating island. He said he observed it for quite a while but still couldn’t figure out what kind of formation our floating island used to remain suspended. Although the island isn’t very large, he figured maintaining it must require a great deal of spirit stones. He kept saying that he never would have expected a sect in the mortal world to be so full of hidden talents, or to possess such profound foundations as ours…”

“Brother Xiao, does maintaining our floating island really cost that many spirit stones?”

Liu Yunan was somewhat anxious. He was even considering whether he should persuade Brother Xiao to stop wasting spirit stones on it if that really was the case. After all, whether the island floated or not wouldn’t make much difference.

“No. Don’t listen to his nonsense. Our floating island works differently from the ones he knows about, so it doesn’t cost us much. Settle him in according to the standards for Azure Cloud Peak disciples. We’ll discuss the rest after I return later,” Lin Xiao said.

“Understood, Brother Xiao. Ah, no—there’s one more thing. Yesterday, the village chief sent someone to tell us that we should return to the village when we have some free time.”

Liu Yunan suddenly remembered the message Yuan Jinsheng had relayed to him after returning the previous day and quickly added it.

“Fine. Once we’re back, we’ll find a time to go together.”

…

After closing the lock ring, Lin Xiao asked the system, “You’ve always displayed its name as the ‘Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree.’ So why did He Yi say it was called the ‘Illusory-Spirit Immortal Peach Tree’?”

[Kind reminder: The Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree’s original name is indeed the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree. The name Illusory-Spirit Immortal Peach Tree was given to it by people who did not recognize it, based on the fact that its leaves can transform. The Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree’s main characteristic is that its fragrance spreads for ten li, which is why it was given its name.]

The system’s mechanical, emotionless voice echoed in Lin Xiao’s mind.

“Because its fragrance spreads for ten li?” What a simple and straightforward reason.

[Correct.]

Fine.

Lin Xiao still felt that something was off. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, “Is that really all? Is there anything else you’re hiding from me?”

[What is the host referring to? This system supports the host in personally exploring the various unknowns of the boundless world. However, none of the information already provided contains any errors.]

Hearing this, Lin Xiao knew that the system was definitely hiding plenty of things from him without telling him everything.

“You’re always being so evasive. For a system, your behavior is hardly open and aboveboard,” Lin Xiao complained.

[Oh.]

…

By evening, Lin Xiao had returned to the Lingxian Sect. After greeting Liu Yunan, he went to the Azure Cloud Peak disciples’ residences to look for He Yi.

He Yi adapted to his new identity in the Lingxian Sect remarkably quickly.

After learning that new disciples of the Lingxian Sect were required to build their own residences, he readily followed Liu Yunan’s arrangements. Using one of the existing courtyards as a model, he soon built a new one right next door.

Its size and layout were exactly the same as the original courtyard, without the slightest intention of making it stand out.

He had even constructed every part of the courtyard, including the deep pool found in every residence.

He left only five other plots vacant for future residences.

At that moment, he was sitting inside the house, staring blankly at the meal box filled with food on the table before him.

It was a spirit-food meal prepared with an abundance of ingredients.

He had heard that one was delivered every evening.

Yesterday, because he had arrived so suddenly and Elder Liu had been busy showing him around the sect, no dinner had been arranged for him.

Today, it had been delivered immediately. The meal box had arrived with it as well. According to the disciple assigned to guide him and help him settle into Azure Cloud Peak, every disciple had one.

Oh, right. Elder Liu had also said that because He Yi had missed the sect’s previous recruitment period, a special arrangement had been made to help him integrate into the group as quickly as possible.

For the next month, a disciple named Baizhu would take him through all aspects of “the daily life of an Azure Cloud Peak disciple.”

He thought back to that morning, when Baizhu had taken him to the Cultivation Hall to attend a lecture.

At first, everything had seemed normal when He Yi entered the Cultivation Hall. The spiritual energy inside was quite dense, and there should have been a Spirit-Gathering Formation installed there, which was very common in sects.

However, when he had first arrived near Xiushui Village, he had already noticed that the spiritual energy in the surrounding area was much denser than in most parts of the mortal world.

Since the Lingxian Sect was nearby, he had not thought much of it. Sects were generally established in places with relatively dense spiritual energy.

But after entering the sect through the Heart-Seeking Path the previous day and touring the place with Elder Liu for quite some time, he had finally realized that the spiritual energy within this sect seemed to be no weaker than that of the cultivation world!

That was far beyond the spiritual-energy density found in the territory of ordinary mortal-world sects.

And the spiritual energy inside the Cultivation Hall was even denser than that of the sect itself.

It was not inferior to that of many small sects in the cultivation world.

Small sects had the advantage of being located in the cultivation world. Moreover, they either possessed a weak spiritual vein of their own or survived by relying on branches of the spiritual veins belonging to larger sects.

Could this obscure little sect in the mortal world actually possess a complete spiritual vein?

And the sect also maintained a floating island… Though it was not particularly large, it would certainly require a considerable number of spirit stones…

Not to mention that the sect even had a spirit chef capable of preparing spirit food.

He looked at the spirit-food meal before him.

It had been prepared by a highly skilled, advanced spirit chef.

Many of the ingredients used in the meal were very common spirit-food ingredients. Most such ingredients lost a great deal of their spiritual energy during the cooking process, yet that was not the case with the meal before him.

Even the cheapest ingredients retained a visibly abundant amount of spiritual energy.

He knew about the sect’s Spirit-Food Hall. It was located on the floating island, and Elder Liu had taken him there to familiarize him with the route the previous evening.

However, because it had already been late and they were in a hurry, he had not met the elder in charge of the Spirit-Food Hall.

He had heard that this elder’s surname was Jiang and that he was very easygoing.

Baizhu had told him that the Immortal Cuisine Chapter of the Primordial Core Scripture in the Cultivation Hall had been created by this Elder Jiang himself, based on the sect’s cultivation method, the Primordial Core Scripture.

That was not all. There was also the cultivation method in the Cultivation Hall…

When classes had officially begun, He Yi had not yet chosen a cultivation method and therefore had not received a copy of one for himself. So Baizhu had lent him his own copy to read.

It was the Primordial Core Scripture.

It was actually a Heaven-grade, mid-tier cultivation method!

This was something even the Talisman Sect, the number-one sect in the Northern and Southern Spirit Domains, did not possess. One had to understand that regardless of spiritual root, the highest-grade cultivation method available to the Talisman Sect was only Heaven-grade, low-tier!

What was more… After He Yi had roughly skimmed through the Primordial Core Scripture, he was astonished to discover that it had absolutely nothing to do with the cultivator’s spiritual-root aptitude.