Chapter 308: Her Favorites Are the Handsome

"Yes, this is the grandeur of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect as one of the Five Great Immortal Sects."

Lian Mi’s eyes curved into crescents when she smiled.

Song Jiulai nodded while eating her noodles. Both of them had a tacit understanding not to ask where the other came from.

’It was a minor detail not worth pursuing, anyway.’

They waited there for two days, until the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect’s selection assembly officially ended.

All the people who passed the second trial had been determined, though neither Song Jiulai nor Lian Mi saw anyone.

But the flags in their hands had already started to react.

The scene before them changed.

Their surroundings abruptly transformed into a mountain cave, and Lian Mi was gone.

Only Song Jiulai was left.

She had already checked the time with her system. This wasn’t an Illusion Realm, because the flow of time matched the outside world.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Sect must have used a Secret Technique to transport them.

That mysterious voice appeared once more.

"Within the flags are Five Elements Colored Stones, each representing a power of the Five Elements. Within one month, you must do your best to refine these Five Elements Colored Stones. The person who refines the greatest number will earn the right to travel to the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect’s grounds and participate in the final disciple selection. To prevent any accidental breakthroughs in your cultivation during this month, the flag will suppress your Level. Once the selection is over, the suppression on your cultivation will be lifted."

As soon as the voice finished speaking,

The light red flag in Song Jiulai’s hand merged directly into her body.

Song Jiulai shuddered.

’There had been many different colored flags on the island; I just grabbed one at random.’

After the flag merged into her body, Song Jiulai heard the system’s voice: "It’s fine, not a big deal. It definitely seals your cultivation."

That meant it only controlled the puppet’s body and wouldn’t affect Song Jiulai in any other way.

’They can even suppress your Level.’ Song Jiulai had heard that Major Sects did indeed possess similar Magic Treasures, capable of forcibly suppressing one’s cultivation when they didn’t want to advance.

The Supreme Mysterious Sect had probably used such a method to send Lü Rufeng and the others into that Secret Realm with cultivation restrictions.

But theirs was even more powerful; it had directly lowered their cultivation.

’How incredible.’

Aside from that, she had truly never heard of the Five Elements Colored Stones.

The system didn’t know either.

The Five Elements Colored Stones were inside the flag. As the flag entered Song Jiulai’s body, the Five Elements Colored Stones appeared before her.

There were only five of them.

Each one shimmered with a different color.

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth?"

They were obviously stones corresponding to the Five Elements. They looked a bit like Spirit Stones, but they weren’t emitting Spiritual Energy.

Instead, it was a type of power that even Song Jiulai didn’t recognize.

’This Immortal Sect certainly has a deep foundation.’ The items they presented were already beyond the knowledge of both her and her system. ’And I have to refine these Five Elements Colored Stones in a month?’

Song Jiulai narrowed her eyes slightly. If that was the case, it proved that refining these Five Elements Colored Stones would be quite difficult.

And the Five Elements Power...

"The Ten Thousand Immortals Sect really is strange in how it selects disciples," she muttered to her system. "Do these Five Elements Colored Stones correspond to the Magic a Cultivator specializes in?"

Every person has a corresponding Cultivation Technique they excel at.

For example, some lean toward Metal, others toward Fire.

The Cultivation Techniques they practice naturally have their own limitations.

But if one wanted to force a breakthrough, it wasn’t impossible.

As long as you weren’t afraid of something going wrong with your cultivation.

But Song Jiulai had no such limitations. She also didn’t know if she could refine all five of the colorful stones.

System: "Why don’t you give it a try first? Start with the Gold Element?"

After all, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth rolls off the tongue.

Song Jiulai nodded. "Alright."

This cave was probably meant for them to refine the Five Elements Colored Stones.

Song Jiulai sat down cross-legged and summoned the Gold Element stone from the Five Elements Colored Stones before her.

As if sensing something, the Gold Element stone shot directly into her body.

It began to spin in her Dantian.

And just like that, Song Jiulai naturally understood how to refine it.

As the colorful stone reacted with the Spiritual Energy inside her body, it continuously released a golden aura that spun together with the Spiritual Energy.

And as wisps of the golden aura flowed out, the colorful stone’s volume seemed to... shrink a little?

But it wasn’t that smooth.

After the golden aura emerged, it became extremely wild, rampaging around her Dantian. The Spiritual Energy in her Dantian was thrown into chaos, and the sudden pain caused Song Jiulai to break out in a cold sweat.

She frowned, composing herself and using her Spiritual Energy to guide the golden aura.

At this moment, her main body, far away in the Dragon Frost Swamp, also began to stir.

’It’s the aura of the Nine Transformations Dragon Bone.’

Song Jiulai’s main body was also cultivating. After sensing the disturbance from her avatar, she hesitated for a moment before having her main body also begin cultivating on the spot.

Circulating the mental method of the Nine Transformations Dragon Bone, her avatar controlled the golden aura on its end.

The two bodies, which should have been completely unrelated and were using entirely different Cultivation Techniques, now shared the same sensation at this very moment.

At first, the Gold Element aura was difficult to control, but the refining process gave Song Jiulai a sense of familiarity.

’Cultivating the Nine Transformations Dragon Bone had been even harder than this.’

With Song Jiulai’s practiced movements, she spent a day gradually taming the golden aura, getting it to spin together with her Spiritual Energy.

The golden aura melted into the Spiritual Energy within her Dantian. Following this, the speed at which she refined the gold stone grew faster and faster.

While Song Jiulai was cultivating here, preparing to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect, things were different elsewhere.

Outside, there was also a stir among the players.

"Wuming."

When Wuming awoke from his cultivation, he saw an Outer Door Manager from the Sea View Sect.

Wuming stood up, cupping his hands in a salute toward the steward. "Greetings, Manager Li."

Manager Li looked at him and smiled with satisfaction. "Your talent is truly extraordinary. How long has it been, and you’ve already successfully reached Foundation Establishment."

Wuming paused. In truth, he had reached Foundation Establishment long ago.

Counting by the in-game time, it had been over two months. With his extraordinary talent as a Metal Spirit Root, he had entered the Foundation Establishment Stage very early on.

During this time, he had been consolidating his practice of the Moonlight Sword Technique.

But the strange thing was,

The Sea View Sect hadn’t reacted to his progress at all.

As a Metal Spirit Root, Wuming was an exceptionally talented disciple in the Sea View Sect. Logically, he should have at least been taken as a disciple by an elder—even as a Registered Disciple, if not a Core Disciple.

Yet, no one had taken him in. He had the title of an Inner Sect Disciple but none of the treatment.

But the Sea View Sect hadn’t assigned him any tasks, either, only telling him to focus on his cultivation.

This was something that both he and his system found baffling.

Until today, when the steward looked at him with a beaming smile. "You’ve been in the Sea View Sect for some time now. Have you been wondering why we haven’t given you any tasks?"

Wuming trotted out a classic, all-purpose line: "This disciple will follow all of the Sect’s arrangements."

Manager Li was even more satisfied. "Wuming, although you have no memories and no known origin, we have found an excellent opportunity for you today. An Outer Elder from the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect has come to our Sea View Sect for their selection assembly."

The system was shocked. "Holy shit, are they really sending you to the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect?"

’What kind of insane luck is this!’

’Song Jiulai would have a complete meltdown if she knew.’

Manager Li’s next sentence, filled with deep meaning, followed.

"She’s most fond of good-looking people."

Wuming: "..."

System: "..."