The sacred tree is about to pass, and the cannon fodder's wish countdown is coming

Xu Chenjue probably hadn't expected that the number one cultivator in the world, Xinglan Daojun, would take the initiative to accept him as a disciple. He was so surprised that he immediately performed the apprenticeship ceremony: "Disciple greets Master."

Who would be so blind as to dare to compete with Taoist Xinglan for the disciple she has chosen?

So Lu Shi successfully brought his new disciple back to Xinglan Peak.

Lu Ciyan stared into the void with a dazed look on his face.

During this period, his master never glanced at the crowd and did not notice herself. She did not know that her other disciple watched the whole process from beginning to end.

His heart began to become numb, each beat was unusually slow, and a suffocating feeling of impending death lingered in his heart.

His master really didn't care about him...

Lu Ciyan didn't know how he got back to Xinglan Peak. When he came to his senses, he was standing outside his cabin and just happened to hear his master gently introducing the people around her to him.

"This is my new disciple, Xu Chenjue. He is your junior fellow apprentice. You two must get along well with each other in the future."

Lu Ciyan did not respond, but just stood there quietly looking at a new wooden house that had been erected on the open ground at some point in time.

The cabin was very close to his, very new, and decorated just like his.

A smile suddenly appeared on Lu Ciyan's face. Should he be thankful that his master treated everyone equally and did not favor the new disciple?

But what is there to be happy about? He has been with the master for so many years, why shouldn’t he get any preferential treatment!

Why should the newcomer enjoy the same treatment as him!

But then Lu Ciyan understood.

Xu Chenjue’s talent is really too high.

Lu Ciyan took seven days to draw Qi into his body and successfully advanced to the second level of Qi Refining, but Xu Chenjue reached the third level of Qi Refining in just three days.

It took him two months to reach the fifth level of Qi Refining, but he only took less than a month.

He was able to instantly master the sword techniques taught by his master and incorporate them into his own experience.

In just two months, the other party's name had spread throughout the Qingxu Sect.

In the world of cultivation, young people are usually taught to start practicing before they are ten years old, but Xu Chenjue has already passed his twenties and his talent is higher than anyone else.

I never imagined how brilliant he would be if he had become a disciple of Taoist Master Xinglan ten years earlier.

This is the most common phrase Lu Ciyan hears in the sect nowadays.

Those disciples whispered as they spoke, fearing that he would hear them, but the glances that inadvertently fell on them, either with regret or comparison, revealed what they were thinking.

Usually Lu Ciyan would pretend nothing happened and leave quickly, but it was impossible for him not to care about Lu Shi’s thoughts.

He was madly jealous of the extremely admiring look in his master's eyes when he looked at Xu Chenjue. That kind of look had never appeared in him before.

Like a rat in a gutter, he spied on the master and disciple who were enjoying themselves so happily not far away. The dark side of his heart gradually expanded, about to devour all his sanity.

"Ci Yan, come here." Lu Shi, who was not far away, saw him, smiled and waved to let him pass.

The evil in his eyes immediately retreated into a corner. Lu Ciyan came back to his senses from Lu Shi’s bright smile, raised his foot and slowly walked over.

The smile in Lu Shi's eyes caused by Xu Chenjue had not yet faded, and his whole body exuded a gentle aura, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Ci Yan's cultivation has improved a lot."

Lu Ciyan had just broken through to the early stage of the Golden Core in recent days. This level of cultivation was already a rare talent in the world of cultivation, not to mention that he had cultivated with the most useless pseudo-spiritual roots.

But because he was Lu Shi's disciple, many people ignored his efforts, and because he had done so many bad things in the past few years, everyone only remembered his mischief.

In fact, in terms of qualifications, he seems to be no worse than Xu Chenjue.

"Thank you for the praise, Master." Lu Ciyan responded with lowered eyebrows.

He has been practicing hard recently because of Xu Chenjue. He doesn't want to admit that he is worse than Xu Chenjue, nor does he want to see the look of disappointment on his master's face again.

But now that he had actually received praise from his master, he was not as happy as he had imagined.

After Xu Chenjue arrived at Xinglan Peak, he received praise from his master almost every day, but he had to spend all his energy just for a single compliment...

I'm really not reconciled...

Lu Ciyan took the opportunity to hide the resentment in his eyes by lowering his head, and stood quietly aside, regaining his long-lost well-behaved temperament.

A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Shi's eyes.

In the two months since she accepted the new disciple, she has been silently paying attention to Lu Ciyan. She doesn't think that the other party would be a quiet person, and if he doesn't make trouble, then there must be something wrong.

But he was unusually quiet, and even began to concentrate on cultivation, breaking through the Golden Core Stage in one fell swoop.

In the past two months, she felt an unprecedented sense of peace and tranquility. Both of her disciples were so worry-free that she couldn't help but smile more often.

Now seeing Lu Ciyan being so well-behaved, Lu Shi seemed to be in a trance and saw the other person's childhood appearance, well-behaved, cute and clingy.

She couldn't help but wonder the reason for Lu Ciyan's changes in the past two months.

Is she really repenting because of the previous teachings, or is she influenced by the male protagonist?

Lu Shi thought of the latter possibility and his gaze slowly shifted to Xu Chenjue.

Xu Chenjue is the male protagonist of this world. Like the common routine, he has a tragic life experience. He is not loved by his father and mother, and is even rejected by his family. He has to endure his hated father coveting his top-grade spiritual roots.

After the death of his frail and dependent sister, he was finally free from the constraints of family affection, so he took great pains to escape and happened to encounter the disciple selection competition of Qingxu Sect.

In fact, in the original owner's previous life, she had not accepted Xu Chenjue as her disciple. One disciple was already a headache for her, and it was impossible for her to accept another disciple.

Therefore, Xu Chenjue was accepted as a disciple by an elder who had a demon in his heart. He suffered a lot of torture at his hands, and finally his spiritual roots were dug out.

He was hated by his relatives and abandoned by his family. His only sister has been tormented by illness since childhood. Even his most trusted master has designs on him. Good people don't get good rewards.

From then on, Xu Chenjue fell into the path of evil, became the Demon Lord, and hated the world of cultivation to the core. The Qingxu Sect was the first to be destroyed.

The original owner also had inner demons at the time and was unable to fight against them at all.

The entire world of immortal cultivation is in ruins, and the small world is about to collapse.

This time, Lu Shi made a deal with the Heavenly Dao of this world to protect the male protagonist's safety, save him from the suffering he encountered in his previous life, accept him as his disciple, and prevent him from falling into the evil path.

Lu Shi had exposed the elder's true identity as early as when he entered this world. The sect could not tolerate his behavior and took the initiative to clean up the sect.

The elder also had two disciples. Because they had just developed inner demons, these two disciples had not suffered much torture and had not yet been assimilated by the elder and turned into vicious villains who tortured the male protagonist together and caused him to become a demon.

So they were appeased by the sect and eventually became disciples of the sect leader Ming Changxiu.