Upper Grade Earth Tier

Only Little Luan, who was still at the second level of Spirit Awakening, looked up at them with a confused little head.

Life in the sect was very pleasant, so comfortable that Little Luan only wanted to nestle in the thatched shed and sleep every day.

If it weren't for Jiang Youfu occasionally running to the shed to carry it to the cultivation room to nest, and Yang Jinshu feeding it spirit grain every day, it probably would have stayed at the first level of Spirit Awakening for a while longer.

Hearing Liao Pantu's answer, Lin Xiao was a bit surprised, yet also felt it was somewhat expected.

Fortunately, when he passed by the cultivation room, he clearly felt the breathing of everyone earnestly cultivating inside.

Since everyone was cultivating so calmly, there shouldn't be any problems in the village.

So he temporarily put this matter aside.

Since a Nascent Soul cultivator had arrived in the sect, of course he had to start carefully interrogating—ah, no, inquiring about what the cultivation world of this realm was really like!

Lin Xiao quickened his pace, leading Liao Pantu and Sun Yigao into the sect's main hall.

Seeing them run into that empty building, Little Luan found it boring and trotted back to the grass near the large stone at the secret realm connection point to look for bugs to eat.

Arriving at the main hall, Liao Pantu saw the plaque on the door reading 'Lingxian Hall' and felt something was off.

When he followed Lin Xiao inside, he heard him cheerfully introduce:

"This is the main hall of our Lingxian Sect, and I am the Sect Master of the Lingxian Sect."

Liao Pantu wondered if he had been out of touch with the changing times after not coming out for decades.

Why was there an eighth-level Qi Refining toddler telling him that he was the master of a sect?

Could it be that after a few decades, it had become popular in the cultivation world to let toddlers be sect masters?

Liao Pantu digested this for a good while before finding his voice:

"You... where are your elders? Your master?"

Sun Yigao glanced at Lin Xiao and said to Liao Pantu:

"He is my master."

Liao Pantu's eyes widened as he pointed at Lin Xiao and asked Sun Yigao:

"Isn't he your brother?"

Lin Xiao, being pointed at, spread his hands:

"A brother can also be a master. We just keep the relationships separate."

Liao Pantu still looked at Lin Xiao in utter disbelief:

"You yourself are only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and you already have a disciple at the seventh level of Qi Refining?"

Lin Xiao said innocently:

"I can't help it. I took him in when I was at the third level of Qi Refining. As for cultivation, the higher you go, the slower it gets. Besides, our aptitudes aren't that different, so it's normal for our cultivation levels to be close."

Liao Pantu: Is that what I was asking?!

Although as a Nascent Soul cultivator he considered himself knowledgeable enough, what he was currently learning was completely outside his scope of understanding!

A sect master was a twelve-year-old minor cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining!

And he was the master of a fifteen-year-old cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining!

This, this, this.

Liao Pantu felt a bit dazed. He cast his gaze around the interior of the sect's main hall. It was okay, barely looking the part.

Suddenly, he thought of a possibility and said in a tone of disbelief:

"This sect, it couldn't just be you two kids, right?"

Hearing this question, Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao shook their heads decisively, and Lin Xiao retorted:

"How is that possible!"

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Liao Pantu breathed a slight sigh of relief in his heart, thinking that perhaps this sect was just a bit strange, but there should still be sect elders presiding over it.

Then he heard Sun Yigao add:

"Apart from the two of us, our sect has eight other people, all of whom are the sect master's disciples."

"Pfft—"

Liao Pantu: You guys are playing cultivation house, aren't you!

But then he remembered the good things Lin Xiao casually took out.

So he thought of a possibility.

This must be some super-large noble family letting their children play a massive game of sect house!

Thinking of this, Liao Pantu felt he had discovered the truth.

Then he saw Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao each grab a straw mat and sit down around him.

Lin Xiao's eyes sparkled as he asked:

"Senior Liao, can you tell us where the cultivation world is?"

Hearing this, Liao Pantu only thought they were too well-protected by their family and didn't know much about the outside world, so he said patiently:

"Our cultivation world is extremely large. It should be said that in our entire Shifang Continent, the mortal realm takes up less than a corner, and the rest is all the cultivation world."

Sun Yigao then asked:

"Then where is our Pusi Country? How far is the journey to the cultivation world?"

It was the first time Lin Xiao learned that the country where their Xiushui Village was located was called Pusi Country. However, it wasn't just Lin Xiao who heard this name for the first time; Liao Pantu did too.

He was stunned for a moment and said:

"Pusi Country? I've never heard of this name. There are no countries in the cultivation world; those are only found in the mortal realm... Wait, this is the mortal realm?!"

Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao exchanged a glance and nodded, not quite understanding.

Seeing them nod, Liao Pantu was completely dumbfounded.

This was the mortal realm, so there definitely couldn't be any super-large noble families. Then?!

And in the mortal realm, without powerful elders from noble families or sects, they could actually produce a fifteen-year-old at the seventh level of Qi Refining and a twelve-year-old at the eighth level?!

Liao Pantu immediately said excitedly:

"What mental cultivation method are you practicing? Let me take a look!"

Lin Xiao blinked at him and said:

"Our sect's mental cultivation method can only be read and practiced by our sect's disciples. It is absolutely not to be spread to outsiders."

Liao Pantu waved his large hand:

"I will join your Lingxian Sect!"

Lin Xiao blinked again:

"Empty words are no proof. You have to swear a Heavenly Destiny Oath."

Liao Pantu:

"I'll swear it!"

Lin Xiao:

"Then what about your Tianluo Sect..."

Liao Pantu:

"I don't want it! I haven't been back in decades anyway! That bunch of trash hasn't found me in decades either!"

Lin Xiao looked at the excited Liao Pantu and asked:

"Does it count if just this small portion of your soul body agrees? Can it represent your whole self?"

Liao Pantu choked on his question, then said angrily:

"Of course it does! I only split my soul! I didn't create a clone! My soul bodies can sense each other!"

[Ding—Liao Pantu has joined the sect. Congratulations to the host for acquiring a Nascent Soul cultivator as a sect member. The hidden reward has been issued to the private treasury. Please remember to check it.]

Hearing the system's notification sound in his mind, Lin Xiao finally confirmed that he had truly joined.

So he very generously took out the Peach Blossom Spring Ten Thousand Voids Mantra from his private treasury and handed it to Liao Pantu.

It wasn't that Lin Xiao was reluctant to give him the Origin Heart Sutra.

It was just that compared to the Origin Heart Sutra, the Peach Blossom Spring Ten Thousand Voids Mantra seemed to be more acceptable to everyone, so Lin Xiao chose this one.

Seeing the mental cultivation method handed to him, Liao Pantu immediately took it and started reading through it.

Then he became completely engrossed in this mental cultivation method, unable to extricate himself.

After a good while, when Sun Yigao and Lin Xiao were both preparing to head down the mountain to check on their homes, he finally looked up at Lin Xiao and said in a tone of disbelief:

"This, this is actually an Earth-Rank High-Grade mental cultivation method!"