After handing Tantai Lingyan several bottles of Body Refinement Liquid, Duanmu Jingjing immediately left them to help Mu Yan and Sun Xiang.

"Aren’t you going to come out, Master?"

Tantai Lingyan shook her head at Tang Xiao. "I’m used to seeing your naked body, so you don’t need to mind me."

Tang Xiao sighed and took off all his clothes. After that, he got into the wooden bathtub and sat cross-legged, with his head above the water’s surface.

Tantai Lingyan immediately poured a bottle of Body Refinement Liquid into the water. "When I used it the first time, my whole body still ached from the effects, but I thought you wouldn’t feel anything."

"Let’s see." Tang Xiao felt the liquid begin to seep into his body. He immediately closed his eyes and didn’t block the liquid. Unlike Tantian Lingyan, he didn’t feel any pain when the liquid entered his body, and he only felt like a swarm of ants walking inside him.

Tantai Lingyan took a wooden chair and sat beside the bathtub, paying attention to Tang Xiao’s face. She looked into the water a few times but quickly turned her red face aside. ’I missed those days; he was still so cute back then. Now, he’s a grown man, and he already has three wives by his side. Besides, there are still Xiang’er and Yan’er, and they will also be his wives in the future.’

Unlike Tang Xiao, Mu Yan and Sun Xiang felt excruciating pain when Duanmu Jingjing mixed the liquid into water in their wooden bathtubs.

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Huangfu Lingxuan sat in front of his granddaughter, Huangfu Meizhen, listening to her story about what happened to Zhao Meiyu last night. "Who do you think did it, Grandfather? Could it be that person came from the demon race?"

"No," Huangfu Lingxuan denied with a shake of his head. "If the demons were the culprit, they wouldn’t have left that woman on the street, and they would have killed her. What was she doing before that incident?"

Huangfu Meizhen chose to cover up the truth. "I don’t know what she did last night, but I think she wanted to go into town to find some entertainment as usual."

"I see." Huangfu Lingxuan stood up. "I’m sure the culprits aren’t demons, but I need you to increase our sect’s security for the time being and order some of them to patrol every night."

"Yes, Grandfather." After Huangfu Lingxuan disappeared, Huangfu Meizhen leaned back in her chair, thinking about last night’s events. "Could the culprit be Tang Xiao or someone protecting him?"

Huangfu Meizhen walked to the window and spread out her senses, searching for Tang Xiao’s whereabouts. She found him soaking in the body cultivation hall. "So, he decided to join that hall, huh? Could it be that he joined there because Tantai Lingyan was there?"

After that, Huangfu Meizhen used her senses to check Zhao Meiyu’s situation, but she found her in the middle of dual cultivation with her partner, Luo Feng. She pulled back her senses and grumbled. "She really has no restraints! It’s still early, but she’s already dual cultivating with him."

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When she woke up, Huo Yan was a little confused to find Tang Xiao there. She wanted to go get cleaned up, but someone knocked on the bamboo house door.

Huo Yan frowned as she opened the door and found Fei Cangyu. "What are you doing here?"

"Cough." Fei Cangyu was flustered by her cold voice. "I’m here to look for Tang Xiao, and I want to invite him to go on a mission with me."

"He’s not here, and I don’t know where he went."

"Oh." Fei Cangyu nodded nervously. "Sorry for bothering you; I’ll be going now."

Huo Yan knitted her eyebrows as she watched him run away so quickly. "What exactly happened? Why are he and the others always so afraid of me?"

Huo Yan decided to ignore that and went to clean herself. After that, she went to all the halls to find the one that suited her. She was actually lazy to join those halls, but she had thought about her conversation with Tang Xiao before, and she decided to choose one.

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Soon, Huo Yan arrived at the body cultivation hall, which was her first destination. All the disciples there gave her strange looks, but they immediately looked away as soon as she looked in their direction.

"What are you doing here, Huo Yan?"

Huo Yan looked at Duanmu Jingjing, who had just emerged from inside. "Elder Duanmu, I want to look for a hall that suits me, but I’m confused about my choice. Do you think this body cultivation hall will suit me?"

"Have you studied body cultivation before?"

"No," Huo Yan replied with a shake of her head. "I am a swordmaster, so I have never thought about learning body cultivation."

Duanmu Jingjing nodded in understanding. "Honestly, the body cultivation path is suitable for everyone, but not everyone wants to learn it because they are focused on other fields. I am actually a speed cultivator, but I study body cultivation because it can help me in several ways, including increasing my physical strength. Additionally, the soul cultivation path is also suitable for everyone, but not everyone can study it seriously due to certain limitations. As a swordmaster, the strength of both your body and soul is important, so you can choose between the two, and you will definitely feel your improvement after learning either one."

"My mother is a soul cultivator, and she once taught me about the soul cultivation path. Unfortunately, my understanding in that field was too mediocre, so I decided not to continue it and focused on the sword path."

Duanmu Jingjing wasn’t surprised by that. "Why don’t you join the sword hall?"

"I’ve seen the people in the sword hall practice, but their practices don’t align with my sword path, so I abandoned my intention to join them." Huo Yan thought for a moment before speaking to her again. "The other halls wouldn’t be suitable for me, so I decided to join the body cultivation hall, Elder Duanmu."

"Are you sure you want to join this hall?"

Huo Yan put on a serious expression as her hands clenched at her sides. "I’m serious, Elder Duanmu. I have to return to my clan in five years, but my progress is too slow, so I have to find other ways to improve myself. If I fail to defeat my sister, I won’t have a place in my clan, so I hope you’re willing to help me."

"I see." Duanmu Jingjing embraced her. "Honestly, I already knew your problem, and I’ve long wanted to help you. However, I saw that you didn’t want to depend on anyone, so I canceled my intention to help you, and I waited for you to come to me of your own accord. Even though you were ten years late in coming to me, I can help you to be better in the next five years, and I believe you can beat your sister by then."

"Do you think I can do that, Elder Duanmu?"

"Yes," Duanmu Jingjing brought her to the back room. "Why did you suddenly decide to join one of the halls?"

"Tang Xiao." Duanmu Jingjing looked at Huo Yan in surprise. "He’s my roommate in the inner courtyard, and he’s told me a few things. After I thought about his words, I decided to look for a hall that suited me, and my first choice was this body cultivation hall."

Duanmu Jingjing smiled slightly. "Actually, Tang Xiao decided to join this hall this morning."

"Huh? Has he really decided to join this hall, Elder Duanmu?"

"He’s currently undergoing his body tempering process in another room." Duanmu Jingjing looked at her. "I didn’t expect Tang Xiao to be your roommate."

Huo Yan twirled her hair. "I still don’t know why the other disciples were avoiding me, so I was a little surprised when Tang Xiao chose our bamboo house. However, I found that the king-level disciple area was already full, so he had no other choice but to join me. However, I rarely spoke to him, and we were both focused on our cultivation."

"I’m not surprised by that."

When they arrived at the back room, Huo Yan saw Sun Xiang and Mu Yan enduring the pain in their bodies from the effects of the Body Refinement Liquid.

"Who are they, Elder Duanmu? Are they new disciples?"

"They are Tang Xiao’s future wives." Huo Yan looked at Duanmu Jingjing in shock, but she remembered that Tang Xiao was a dual cultivator. "They only joined this hall today, so I helped them temper their bodies. I’ll have someone fill the wooden bathtub, and you’ll go through the same process as them for three days."

"Yes, Elder Duanmu."

Some time later, Huo Yan was already soaking in the wooden bathtub, and Duanmu Jingjing immediately explained a few things to her. "The pain might be excruciating, so you should endure it until it subsides."

"Yes, Elder Duanmu."

Huo Yan quickly looked like she was in pain after Duanmu Jingjing mixed a bottle of Body Refinement Liquid into the water in the bathtub, but she tried hard to endure the pain without complaining at all. ’Tch! The pain is so terrible!’

Duanmu Jingjing observed Huo Yan for a while. She turned her gaze to Sun Xiang and Mu Yan, who were also experiencing excruciating pain. Then, she went to Tang Xiao’s room, but she was slightly surprised to see that he didn’t feel anything, and he was able to cultivate in the wooden bathtub. "Your Disciple is truly extraordinary, Elder Lingyan."

"Hehe," Tantai Lingyan giggled. "What I told you about him before has been proven to be true, right?"

"Yeah."