Imperial Cultivation

"Senior Sister, Senior Sister." Shen Hanyue's energetic voice came from outside.

"Coming," Xiao Ruoling said.

She glanced at the small knife stuck under the stone table, turned around, and walked away gracefully.

She pushed open the door and saw Shen Hanyue standing on the white jade street, dressed in white like snow, cheerfully waving at her. "Senior Sister, let's go, let's go!"

Xiao Ruoling said, "Those courtyards are right there; they won't fly away."

"Those courtyards won't fly away, but they can be snatched away," Shen Hanyue said.

"Hmm?" Xiao Ruoling asked, puzzled.

Shen Hanyue harrumphed. "I heard that Zhao Qingying hasn't chosen a courtyard yet either."

Xiao Ruoling said, "There are so many courtyards; one less won't make a difference."

"There are always good ones and bad ones. It's best to get ahead of her," Shen Hanyue said. "It's best to stay far away from her."

Xiao Ruoling shook her head with a smile.

The two of them walked east along the white jade street.

The white jade street became higher and higher as it went east, gradually rising to a high platform.

This octagonal platform had white jade railings, carved with various cloud patterns.

Among the cloud patterns were several strange beasts.

In the center of the platform was a painted image of a door, with a bright moon painted on the door.

The two of them stepped onto this bright moon.

The badges on their waists flashed, and the bright moon under their feet immediately began to glow.

Bright and flawless, silver radiance bloomed, like a bright moon in the sky.

A moment later, the two women disappeared, and the bright moon returned to its dim and unadorned state.

"Senior Sister, I feel both scared and excited," Shen Hanyue said. "It's like when I first entered the Moon Invitation Palace."

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xiao Ruoling revealed a smile. "Isn't this place quite interesting?"

Shen Hanyue said, "With Senior Sister Xiao here, I feel very secure and not afraid at all. On the contrary, I'm very excited."

When she first entered the Moon Invitation Palace and became a Holy Maiden, she suddenly left her mother's side and came to a strange environment all alone. It was Xiao Ruoling who took care of her and accompanied her.

Replacing the role of her mother, Xiao Ruoling was both a mother and a sister in her heart, someone she relied on and trusted.

Xiao Ruoling said, "It's fortunate that we have better cultivation methods and rare treasures here, allowing us to continue cultivating upwards."

Shen Hanyue nodded vigorously. "It's indeed a good thing. I wonder what our courtyards look like."

Xiao Ruoling walked forward.

Descending from the high platform, they were on a street paved with white jade, ten zhang wide. On both sides were courtyards, stretching out endlessly, so far that they couldn't see the end, like a huge city.

In the distance were palaces.

Further away, all around, was the azure sky.

Under their feet were towering snow-capped peaks, condensed from white clouds.

They continued to walk east, arriving at a large hall.

On the hall was written "Micro-Dust Hall" in three ancient and simple characters, shining brightly in the sunlight.

In the empty hall, four young women in green robes were surrounding a young woman in white robes, talking beside a white jade round table.

All five of them were as beautiful as flowers, with well-proportioned figures, like five blooming flowers.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, they all looked over.

Shen Hanyue exclaimed, "Zhao Qingying!"

The young woman in white robes surrounded by the young women in green robes was Zhao Qingying.

Zhao Qingying saw them and narrowed her eyes slightly.

Her cold gaze swept over Shen Hanyue and landed on Xiao Ruoling.

Xiao Ruoling smiled and nodded. "Junior Sister Zhao."

"Senior Sister Xiao."

Zhao Qingying nodded slightly, then turned her gaze away and continued to look at the small courtyards on the table.

Chu Zhiyuan was inside the saber, his ultra-sense covering a radius of ten meters, without expanding the scope of the cave illumination.

He saw that the small courtyards on this round table were carved from white jade, but they were models reduced by nearly a hundred times.

There were hundreds of small courtyards in total, scattered in a well-arranged manner, with green trees separating the courtyards, each far apart from the others.

In front of these small courtyard models, some had a small sign with a name written on it.

He deduced that these were the owners of the courtyards.

He instantly looked at all the signs, and there were a total of sixty-three signs with names written on them.

Obviously, these were the number of true disciples of the Profound Yin Palace.

According to Xiao Ruoling, the Profound Yin Palace had tens of thousands of disciples, more than eight thousand outer palace disciples, more than a thousand inner palace disciples, and then there were sixty-three true disciples.

Now, with the addition of the three of them, there were sixty-six.

"Senior Sister Xiao, Senior Sister Shen, are you also here to choose a courtyard?" a young woman in green robes asked with a smile.

Xiao Ruoling nodded slightly. "Can we choose freely?"

Another young woman in green robes said with a smile, "Apart from the ones that are already occupied, you can choose any of the remaining ones."

Xiao Ruoling and Shen Hanyue stepped forward, looking at the small courtyards on the round table.

Shen Hanyue curiously looked around, and finally helplessly looked at Xiao Ruoling. "Senior Sister, which one should we choose?"

Xiao Ruoling looked at the courtyards and raised her head to look at Zhao Qingying. "Junior Sister Zhao, how about we choose to be together?"

Zhao Qingying slightly furrowed her brows and looked at her, her cold gaze flashing with incomprehension.

She felt that her attitude was already very cold, and there was no need for Xiao Ruoling to get closer.

Xiao Ruoling said, "It's better to have someone to look after each other if we live closer together."

They all came from the Small Extraterrestrial Heavens and had all comprehended the Taiye Marrow Cleansing Technique to become true disciples, so they had more common topics.

In fact, it was to form a small group.

In a strange place, sticking together for warmth was the best choice; fighting alone was too fragile.

Shen Hanyue immediately widened her bright eyes and looked at Xiao Ruoling in confusion.

Xiao Ruoling smiled and looked at Zhao Qingying. "I'm very curious about the situation in Biyuntian."

"Senior Sister!" Shen Hanyue hurriedly tugged at her sleeve.

Xiao Ruoling smiled and glanced at her.

Shen Hanyue reluctantly pouted.

She really didn't want to be with Zhao Qingying; she was too arrogant and too annoying.

"...Alright," Zhao Qingying glanced at Shen Hanyue and nodded slightly.

Xiao Ruoling smiled. "Then how about we choose here?"

She pointed to a place near the west side, where a total of three courtyards were vacant on the left and right.

Shen Hanyue stepped forward and looked around. "Senior Sister, isn't it too far west?"

Looking at the occupied courtyards, she knew that the occupancy rate of the houses in the east was much higher than that in the west.

Obviously, the east side was better.

But Xiao Ruoling chose a place that was biased towards the west, although it wasn't the furthest west, it was no longer in the most densely populated east.

Xiao Ruoling said, "This side is already pretty good. I'll live here, this one on the east side is for Junior Sister Zhao, and Junior Sister, you live in this one on the west side."

"Okay," Shen Hanyue agreed somewhat aggrieved.

Xiao Ruoling shook her head with a smile, then raised her eyes to look at Zhao Qingying.

Zhao Qingying nodded. "Alright."

Afterwards, they followed the three young women in green robes out of the hall and went to the small courtyard they had chosen.

Their current courtyard was about the same size as the courtyard below.

After that, what they had to do was choose a master.

True disciples could choose their own master; they could apprentice under any elder they wanted.

These elders were all Venerables, with profound cultivation, more than enough to be their masters.

The Profound Yin Palace had a total of twelve cultivation methods. True disciples could first choose the method they wanted to practice, and then choose a master based on the method.

They could also choose a master first and practice a certain method with the master.