CHAPTER 412: CHAPTER 412 TIANSHAN SECT INNER STRENGTH (4 UPDATES)

All the girls ran over, giggling as they looked at Yang Xiao.

Having such a formidable figure like Yang Xiao join the Shenming Mountain Sect was truly a blessing for them, something they couldn’t even beg for!

Yang Xiao looked at Lan Xin.

Lan Xin wore a proud smile.

Yang Xiao thought, could it be that he was really fallen into the hands of these girls?

If he were to take Lan Xin as his master, wouldn’t he have to call all these girls in front of him his senior apprentices?

No, that absolutely cannot happen.

"Me, take you as my master?"

Yang Xiao asked again, looking at Lan Xin with a pained expression.

Lan Xin smiled slightly and said:

"Of course, I’m not qualified to take you as my disciple. How about this, you can take my master as your master, and then we’ll be fellow apprentices—no, you’ll be my junior apprentice brother, and I’ll be your senior apprentice sister."

Lan Xin deliberately put on an air of a senior apprentice sister.

Yang Xiao thought that this was better than taking Lan Xin as his master.

"Is it possible for me not to join your Shenming Mountain Sect?"

"What, you’re not keeping your word?"

"Uh, how could that be? I was just thinking, isn’t everyone in the South Garden of your Shenming Mountain Sect girls? That’s your tradition, right? You can’t change it just for me, can you?"

"Hehe, no problem, rules are made by people, and they can certainly be changed."

As Lan Xin spoke, she suddenly became serious:

"Yang Xiao, although our Shenming Mountain Sect does not have the fame of Shaolin or Wudang, our ancient martial arts are no less formidable than theirs. If you really don’t want to join, I won’t force you, but then, I really won’t be able to teach you the secret ancient martial arts of Shenming Mountain Sect."

Yang Xiao was stunned, realizing that Lan Xin had been considering his best interests all along, and his heart warmed at the thought. He said:

"Thank you, I will join the Shenming Mountain Sect."

Lan Xin smiled,

"Good, then let’s have a simple ceremony."

Lan Xin looked around the cave and saw a water cup on a shelf, so she took it and placed it on a table.

"Yang Xiao, this water cup was used by our master when she was in seclusion in the cave; it will temporarily represent the master. Kneel down and knock your head against the cup three times."

Yang Xiao: "@#￥%"

"Hurry up!"

Lan Xin urged.

The other dozen or so junior apprentice sisters watched Yang Xiao with serious expressions; they probably had deep feelings for their deceased master and were emotionally stirred seeing an item used by their master during her seclusion.

Yang Xiao thought to himself, this is absurd, knocking his head against a water cup, but oh well, for the sake of learning ancient martial arts.

Yang Xiao knelt in front of the table and knocked his head against the water cup three times.

Lan Xin then spoke on behalf of the master:

"Yang Xiao, you are now a disciple of our Shenming Mountain Sect. From now on, all your actions must not disgrace our sect’s honor. You must diligently and rigorously cultivate to carry forward our legacy."

"Yes, Mas...ter!"

Yang Xiao bumped his head again, completely baffled.

Lan Xin smiled and said:

"Alright, Yang Xiao, you are now officially a disciple of the Shenming Mountain Sect. Stand up, according to the rules, from now on you’re a junior brother, and we are all your senior sisters."

Yang Xiao reached out a hand towards Lan Xin.

Lan Xin was startled,

"What for?"

"A welcome gift, shouldn’t a newly accepted disciple, a new junior brother get a welcome gift?"

Pfft!

Everyone couldn’t hold back anymore and burst into laughter.

While laughing, Lan Xin said:

"It’s quite difficult at the moment, I’ll give you a gift when I get the chance in the future."

Yang Xiao reluctantly withdrew his hand, then suddenly, an idea struck him, and he leaned close to Lan Xin’s ear and whispered:

"Sister Lan Xin, does the Shenming Mountain Sect prohibit falling in love?"

Upon hearing this, Lan Xin’s face immediately turned red, and she twisted her head to glare fiercely at Yang Xiao.

Next, Lan Xin began to personally teach Yang Xiao martial arts.

"Yang Xiao, all sects are based on Inner Strength. I’ll now teach you the Shenming Mountain Sect’s internal cultivation methods. In the era of Genetic Evolution, the inner power of ancient martial cultivation has been assimilated by genetic evolution. Those with a high level of genetic evolution are naturally endowed with inner strength, it’s just lacking guidance. Cultivating the Shenming Mountain internal methods will help you properly channel the energy naturally existing within your body, a new phenomenon that we’ve only recently understood."

Lan Xin’s meaning was clear, the higher the level of genetic evolution, the higher the Inner Power Cultivation. With Yang Xiao’s current Intermediate Enhanced Gene, once successful in cultivation, he’d have powerful inner strength, far surpassing Lan Xin and the others.

Yang Xiao hadn’t expected this; he originally thought that cultivating inner power would take a long time. Now it turned out, he only needed to properly cultivate the internal methods to stimulate the energy hidden within his body.

Following this, Yang Xiao spent his time with Lan Xin practicing the mental method, first memorizing the mantra, then listening as Lan Xin explained them one by one. After Yang Xiao completely memorized and understood the Shenming Mountain internal cultivation mantra, Lan Xin led him in practicing the method, guiding the energy within his body.

Initially, Yang Xiao felt nothing, but as the cultivation time increased, by the third day, he began feeling a stream of energy slowly snaking through his body, much like an eel wriggling around inside.

Apart from sleeping, Yang Xiao spent most of his time cultivating Shenming Mountain’s internal methods.

Lan Xin didn’t let anything disturb Yang Xiao, focusing solely on helping him cultivate. Yang Xiao quickly mastered the essentials, and by the fifth day, the stream of energy inside him felt stronger and could move at will according to his intentions.

In Yang Xiao’s abdomen, a dantian, as referred to by ancient martial cultivators, began to form, amassing increasingly robust energy.

Lan Xin told Yang Xiao that the energy they now possessed was slightly different from the inner strength of the past. Now, the energy, which came through gene evolution and was originally contained in various parts of the body, is gathered in the dantian through Ancient Martial Inner Power methods to exert a more powerful focused advantage.

Yang Xiao’s Genetic Evolution Level was high, and the accumulated energy grew even stronger. Moreover, over these days of cultivation, his intents carried this energy throughout his body every day, unblocking the meridians, collecting the scattered energy contained within his skin.

By the tenth day, Yang Xiao began to feel a vigorous surge of energy in his dantian growing ever stronger.

Yang Xiao sat cross-legged, facing a stone wall several meters away. He slowly raised his arms, his intentions moved, and a powerful stream of energy burst forth from his dantian, carrying immense energy, erupting from his palms.

Two powerful streams of energy roared out, smashing into the wall meters away.

Boom!

A loud bang, the cave shook slightly, and several stone pieces several centimeters thick fell from the hard wall, fractured off by the force of Yang Xiao’s inner strength.

Lan Xin and the others were overjoyed.

Lan Xin said:

"Yang Xiao, congratulations, you now have a foundation in your cultivation of Inner Strength. With inner strength, you can now start to practice Qinggong and Sword Qi."

(Fourth update complete)