Mysterious mirror hanging high

"I'm going to practice Xuanjing and meet Master Qin!"

Jing Yu had done his homework before coming to Songfeng Pavilion to study. Although this [Master Qin] Xiao Guanyue has the same surname as Xiao Beiyue, this [Xiao] is not that [Xiao]. Xiao Beiyue is a true civilian cultivator who has cultivated step by step to where he is today, but the [Xiao] in Xiao Guanyue is your surname!

He is the true direct descendant of [Penglai Heavenly Monarch] Xiao Buyi, and even in [Penglai Holy Land] he has the highest status.

If the [Penglai Holy Land] had not closed its mountains for no reason when he was traveling, making it impossible for him to return home, how could [Songfeng Pavilion] have accepted him as a disciple?

This is also why Xiao Guanyue was able to sit in charge of [Dong Yue]. Her background was really too great. If she didn't sit in the seat of [Dong Yue], no one would dare to sit!

However, the cultivation aptitude of this descendant of Penglai Tianjun has indeed reached a level that is far ahead of others. Although the masters of the four Yue Peaks in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest are all in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, only Xiao Guanyue has now reached the edge of the late Nascent Soul. It is unknown when he will break through the bottleneck and be promoted to the Great True Lord.

But she is the youngest among the four peak masters!

Jing Yu thought to himself, "It's said that Xiao Guanyue is a crazy cultivator. Not only is he the most talented, he's also the most diligent in his practice... If we were to discuss which of the Yuanying True Lords among the Songfeng Five Mountains is most likely to reach the Divine Transformation Realm, it would probably be this [True Lord Qin]!"

"Jinghua Shuiyue, you two go down and wait."

The two maids who were in the late Jindan stage bowed slightly and slowly retreated, leaving Jing Yu alone to face the Zhenjun who was in the middle Yuanying stage.

"Are you Taoist Xuanjing?" Xiao Guanyue stared at Jing Yu for a long time, as if thinking of something in the past. There was a trace of reminiscence in his eyes. After a while, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and his tone returned to being cold.

"Old Man Xiao told me that he wanted me to teach you how to practice. My time is limited and I can't delay any longer. I don't have the time to teach you! But considering that we have been fellow disciples for many years..."

"Just sit on that cushion and meditate and breathe for me."

Jing Yu was a little confused, but Xiao Guanyue was, after all, a Yuanying Zhenjun and a big man like the Lord of Dongyue Peak. He was under his instruction, so naturally he had no room to refuse. He sat down on the cushion obediently and began to practice the [Questioning the Mirror to Observe Fate Method], absorbing and exhaling spiritual ideas, sorting out magic power, and strengthening his foundation.

After a quarter of an hour, Jing Yu circulated the technique for a full cycle and slowly ended it. However, he saw Xiao Guanyue's face full of disbelief. He asked, "Is this how you usually practice?"

"Ah." Jing Yu was stunned and thought to himself, "What else?"

There was a disturbance in the abyss of the void. Xiao Guanyue instantly teleported in front of Jing Yu and gripped his shoulder. Jing Yu instantly felt a huge force radiating from his shoulder. He was startled. "This True Lord Qin is actually practicing both Dharma and physical cultivation?"

Xiao Guanyue frowned and took a breath, "Bone age is less than 200 years old?"

"God damn it, I thought you were just bragging and lying about your age, but I never thought you were really that young."

Jing Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm still no match for Master Qin..."

This was not entirely flattery. The Penglai Holy Land was closed only a thousand years ago. When Xiao Guanyue went down the mountain to train, he was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator in his thirties or forties. Now he is only a little over a thousand years old, and only one step away from the late Nascent Soul stage. Among the Nascent Soul cultivators who often waste hundreds of years on a small realm, he is already outstanding.

In contrast, Master Shu Xiao Beiyue is three hundred years older than Xiao Guanyue. He has only accumulated more than half of the merits of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and has not even reached the small bottleneck between the middle stage and the late stage.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Guanyue looked melancholy and waved his hand, "I am nothing. There is a True Lord Suying in the Tiannan Demonic Path who is about the same age as me. He is already in the late Nascent Soul stage. He is the true peerless genius."

Jing Yu was puzzled. "If a late-stage Thousand-Year Nascent Soul cultivator practices a moderate, peaceful, and gradual righteous cultivation method, he could indeed be called a genius. But why would a Demonic Path Master from the Tiannan Demon Territory practice righteous cultivation methods? Demonic Path techniques inherently favor quick success. While a late-stage Thousand-Year Nascent Soul Master is still exceptional, he's not as outrageous as Xiao Guanyue claims, is he?"

He suppressed his doubts and said, "Please give me some advice, Master!"

Xiao Guanyue sighed and said slowly, "In the path of cultivation, besides the major bottlenecks of building an immortal foundation, forming a golden elixir, and breaking the elixir to become an infant, why are there also smaller bottlenecks like the transition from the early stage to the middle stage, and from the middle stage to the late stage?"

"In reality, it's because the cultivator is unable to fully control the mana within his body and doesn't know how to push his spiritual energy to a critical point."

"This is something that requires a lot of trial and error. It can't be accomplished overnight. Even those with extraordinary talent will encounter bottlenecks when they reach a high level."

"But the essence of trial and error lies in perfecting a small realm, so that the spiritual energy in the body is full and the magic power cannot be improved..."

"But absorbing and releasing spiritual energy, organizing mana, circulating the Qi, and accumulating merit... this is another extremely patient and tedious process. Even after becoming an infant, even if the infant has nine orifices and the efficiency of absorbing and releasing spiritual energy reaches its highest level, it will take at least two hundred years to cultivate a small realm to its peak."

"Therefore, regardless of your aptitude, it is crucial to speed up your cultivation as much as possible without any future problems."

After saying that, Xiao Guanyue flipped his hand, took out a talisman and stuck it on Jing Yu's chest.

"This is……"

Xiao Guanyue said calmly, "This is the [Qi Circulating and Spirit Swallowing Talisman], which can speed up the speed of swallowing and releasing spiritual energy and transporting mana."

Then he took out more than ten small formation flags and inserted them around the cushion. "This is the [Small Spirit Gathering Formation]. This is not the shabby [Small Spirit Gathering Formation] used during the Qi training period. This is a portable spirit gathering formation."

Jing Yu took a breath and indeed felt that the spiritual energy around him had become a little stronger.

The next moment, Xiao Guanyue flicked a pill into Jing Yu's hand. "[Clear Turbidity Separation Pill], this pill isn't a spiritual pill that increases your cultivation, but it has the effect of streamlining your mana and clearing away poison. It can be used in conjunction with other cultivation pills."

Finally, Xiao Guanyue sat back on the zither platform, placed his hands on the Jiaowei guqin, and played a tune with his ten fingers very skillfully.

When the last note ended, Xiao Guanyue said, "Playing this piece of music before practicing can not only soothe your mind and resist inner demons, but if you have a deep understanding of the way of music, it can also magically accelerate the flow of mana within your body."

"Try again."

Jing Yu followed his instructions and sat cross-legged, completing another cycle of Qigong. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and said, "It's almost there!"

"But why is it only 30% faster?"

But Xiao Guanyue sneered, "The further you advance in your cultivation, the less useful external methods become. An extra 30% in cultivation speed is already quite good! If you were a Nascent Soul cultivator, adding these methods together, and you could speed up by even 10%, you'd be incredibly lucky!"