The top-level junior sister also wants to act weak today

After returning to the first peak, Chu Ying excitedly pulled Jiang Yingxue and ran towards the school.

Judging from the time, now is the time for the eldest brother to teach them swordsmanship.

"Brother, brother! Look who's here!"

Chu Ying excitedly pushed open the door to the classroom, a warm breeze blowing in. Sunlight streamed through the window lattices, illuminating the neatly arranged desks and scrolls. However, upon seeing the instructor, she was stunned. Today's lecturer was Wan Jinan!

"Master!? Why is it you?"

Wan Jinan snorted coldly: "Oh, your senior brother is on a mission. I finally took time out to teach you, but you skipped class. Tell me, are you——"

"Oh, stop talking, look!" Chu Ying quickly pulled the person over and pushed him in: "I found Yingxue!"

Jiang Yingxue was caught off guard by the push. With an awkward smile on her face, she waved to her classmates, "Hello everyone... Master, long time no see."

"I said he wasn't dead, so where did you find him?"

"Qianling Valley!" Chu Ying answered almost instantly: "Luckily I didn't give up. I go there every now and then."

"Qianling Valley..." Wan Jinan looked at Jiang Yingxue carefully, his brows slightly furrowed, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes: "Oh, I haven't seen you for half a year. Have you made a breakthrough?"

"You can tell that?" Chu Ying blinked, her face full of admiration. "Master is Master, the old ones are the wisest. Yingxue is already in the late Qi Refining Stage. Isn't that amazing!"

Wan Jinan put away his smile and nodded solemnly, "Come in first. I'll talk to you alone after class."

"Yes." Jiang Yingxue nodded.

After class, Wan Jinan deliberately left Jiang Yingxue alone.

"Do you know why I want to keep you here?" Wan Jinan's eyes were as sharp as an eagle, revealing a bit of majesty. He stared straight at Jiang Yingxue, as if he wanted to see through her thoughts one by one.

For some reason, Jiang Yingxue suddenly had a bad feeling. She quickly said, "Master has his own considerations. I don't know..."

"I'll tell you." Wan Jin'an's voice was deep and powerful. "Three months ago, someone broke through and attracted a thunderbolt. It happened in the back mountain, and the Peak Master happened to witness it. So, we followed the direction of the thunderbolt and came to Qianling Valley."

Hearing this, Jiang Yingxue's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and she felt the air suddenly become heavy. It couldn't be such a coincidence... Could they have guessed it? If they found out that I had broken through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, how would my weak image still be maintained?

"I heard that before you left for the back mountains to practice, you asked others about Qianling Valley. And Chu Ying eventually found you there." Wan Jin'an's gaze grew sharper. "Most importantly, your disciple uniform has several marks of lightning strikes on it."

He paused and looked around. The air in the classroom seemed to freeze and was so tense that it was suffocating. Jiang Yingxue's intuition made it almost impossible to breathe.

"Yingxue, it couldn't be you who broke through and attracted the thunder from the sky?" Wan Jinan's voice was as low as thunder, coming straight at him, causing Jiang Yingxue to panic.

A trembling feeling quickly spread throughout her body. No, she absolutely could not admit it at this time.

She pursed her lips slightly, trying to look innocent and calm, then brought out all her acting skills: "Master, you really think too highly of me. I can only reach the middle stage of the Golden Core Stage. I can't even imagine it. That's probably decades away."

Wan Jinan remained unmoved. He stared at her clothes with a sharp gaze and said in a deep voice, "Then how do you explain these marks on your clothes? They were clearly caused by lightning."

"Oh, it's a long story..." Jiang Yingxue's heart tightened and she sighed, various reasons flashing through her mind. She originally didn't want to reveal that she had met the Venerable, but in comparison, admitting the truth about her cultivation level seemed even more terrifying.

"Then tell me what you mean." Wan Jinan's expression became more serious.

"Then I will only tell you, Master. Please don't tell anyone else."

"You said."

Jiang Yingxue took a deep breath and continued, "That day, I went to Qianling Valley to practice the Lanxu Heart Method. After I finished the second level of the method and took the Soul-Returning Pill, I felt a surge in my internal strength. It was the perfect time for cultivation. So, I pushed on and broke through to the late Qi Refining Stage. At that moment, someone suddenly appeared behind me."

Wan Jinan quickly asked, "Who?"

"No, to be precise, it's not a human, it's a deity." Jiang Yingxue paused, stared at Wan Jinan, and said firmly: "It is the spirit of the former Fifth Peak Master, Lingxu Zun."

"What did you say? You saw the soul of Venerable Lingxu! Is that true?" Wan Jinan's expression instantly turned into shock.

Jiang Yingxue nodded, "Really. Then Venerable Lingxu told me that she wanted to pass on her inheritance to the disciples of the Xianyun Sect, but many people had died before because they couldn't bear the weight of their inheritance. She said she had been observing me for several months, and that I had a single, top-grade, ice-attributed spiritual root, so logically, I would be more suitable than others. She asked me if I wanted to accept her inheritance. If I did, I would have to experience several heavenly thunders. If I could withstand them, she would make me the successor."

Wan Jinan's face lit up with delight: "So, she passed on the inheritance to you!"

"No, no," Jiang Yingxue quickly denied. "I only withstood the first bolt of lightning, which already struck me like this. Seeing me like this, she also thought I couldn't handle it, so the remaining three bolts struck sideways and didn't hit me."

Wan Jinan frowned, half believing and half doubting what Jiang Yingxue said.

But it is also true that if one is only at the late stage of Qi Refining, being able to survive a thunder tribulation is already a blessing.

Thinking of this, he asked seriously, "However, Venerable Lingxu wouldn't just show up casually. Since she's willing to see you and even showed you mercy, didn't you ask her for anything?"

"I asked for it," Jiang Yingxue smiled. "So I stayed in the valley for another three months. Under the guidance of the Venerable, I cultivated the Lanxu Heart Method to the point where—"

Before he could finish his words, Wan Jin'an's expression suddenly changed. He pulled out a sharp dagger from nowhere and stabbed it straight at Jiang Yingxue's arm. In an instant, the air was filled with tension. Jiang Yingxue was startled. In the face of danger, her arm instinctively formed an air shield. The dagger pierced the air shield, and it was visibly bent.

"Invulnerable to swords and spears, you've reached the fifth level!?" Wan Jin'an's surprise was beyond words, his eyes flashing with complex emotions, a mixture of wonder and relief. "Did you know that in the entire Xianyun Sect, only the Sect Master and the peak masters have reached the fifth level! The Venerable actually helped you reach the fifth level!?"

Jiang Yingxue originally wanted to be conservative and said that she had practiced to the third level.

But she never expected that her master would draw his knife and stab her!