A month passed in a fsh.

  The otion caused by Lin Hao being the disciple of the Great Bamboo Peak's master gradually settled down.

  After all, everyone here was a cultivator and uood that fate couldn't be forced. No matter how envious or jealous they were, they couldn't ge the fact that he had bee a direct disciple.

  During this time, aside from studying the mysterious manual, Lin Hao was busy establishing a new cave dwelling.

  As a direct disciple, he could reside at the six-thousaer mark on Little Bamboo Peak. This area was closer to the mountain's summit, where the dense spiritual energy from the peak master's secluded cultivation could reach.

  Moreover, a third-grade Gathering Spirit Array had been inscribed at the six-thousaer point, making the cultivation effect a huimes better than where Lin Hao previously stayed.

  He chose a retively secluded part of the mountain to carve out a cave dwelling, pg his personal belongings inside, which were just a bed and a desk.

  pared to other direct disciples, or even inner disciples, his pce was quite humble.

  There was no helping it; his cultivation speed was so fast it felt like a leap, leaving him no time to accumute ah.

  As he stepped out of the cave dwelling for some fresh air, he saw four or five people approag from a distance. Surprised, he asked, "Senior Sister, what brings you here?"

  He g the group of women behind his senior sister, all of whom he had some e with.

  Li Qiushui gracefully walked up to Lin Hao and said sweetly, "Junior Brother, I want to move into your cave dwelling. Is that alright?"

  "Of course, Senior Sister," Lin Hao replied without hesitation.

  This woman had helped him greatly, and now that he could repay her, he certainly wouldn't refuse.

  "There's one more thing," Li Qiushui said, her long eyeshes slightly lowered as she softly spoke, "These three would like to bee your maids."

  Lin Hao looked at the three women, paused for a moment, and said, "That's fine, Senior Sister."

  Upon hearing this, the three women beamed with joy, gazing at him affeately.

  That night.

  They pyed a game of stag, passing the days in such a manner for three days before Lin Hao remembered he had important things to do.

  Now that he had reached Foundatioablishment, besides cultivating, he also po delve into the art of sed-grade talisman crafting.

  For this, he decided to visit the inner sect's Scripture Repository.

  Just as he reached the entrance, he heard a cold voice.

  "Halt."

  Lin Hao thought it must be the elder guarding the repository and quickly took out his identity token.

  Swish!

  Before he could react, the token engraved with a fire lotus was sucked away.

  An elder in a gray robe floated cross-legged in mid-air, his eyes vat as if blind.

  To Lin Hao's surprise, this elder seemed to be the same one from the outer sect.

  "Boy, why are you staring at me?"

  Uh... Lin Hao quickly averted his gaze and said respectfully, "I thought you resembled someone, Senior."

  "You meaer sect's guardian? He's my good-for-nothing brother."

  Lin Hao g the dried corpse hanging from the aree and thought, no wohey're brothers; they kill in the same way.

  In fact, Lin Hao's remark wasn't off the mark; the warnings he heard were the same.

  The elder tapped the fire lotus ooken, and three palm-sized Fire Phoenixes flew out.

  "So, you're that girl gyue's disciple. Has she finally taken on a student again?"

  With a wave of his hand, the token flew back to Lin Hao.

  "Since you're her st disciple, you browse all the texts below the Golden Elixir stage and exge three teiques without tribution points."

  Lin Hao was most intrigued by the elder's mysterious methods, as he couldn't detey presenless the elder spoke first.

  This was truly a skill of the cautious path. He mustered up the ce to ask, "Elder, is your cealment teique recorded in the Scripture Repository?"

  "Heh, you have a keen eye. If you want to learn my secret teique, bee the master of a peak first."

  "Go on, and if you disturb my cultivation again, I'll hang you from the tree."

  Lin Hao felt a chill and dared not say more, quickly entering the Scripture Repository.

  There weren't maris here; one could browse freely, but without tribution points, it ointless.

  Having just bee a direct disciple, Lin Hao hadn't pleted any tasks yet, so he had no tribution points.

  Fortunately, Feng gyue had granted him three opportuo exge for any yellow-grade teiques or spells.

  The inner sect's Scripture Repository had three floors, each teers high, housing tless teiques and spells, collected painstakingly by the Xuan Yi's predecessors and written by prodigious talents.

  These jade slips covered everything: teiques, spells, secret arts, aes, cultivation insights, and more!

  Lin Hao felt like a foodie in a ary paradise, sing through the teiques and manuals, and after a long while, he finally picked out some det talisman manuals.

  Among the manuals, he found the sect master's talisman notes.

  He had only heard that the sect master's talisman skills were unparalleled, able to create a talisman treasure with a casual stroke.

  Lin Hao was overjoyed and eagerly picked up the notes, dev every detail, even starting from beginner-level talismans.

  He was so engrossed ies that he read for aire day and night, only stopping when the elder's cold snort interrupted him. Otherwise, he might have read them all standing.

  The elder was ushering him out, and Lin Hao remembered he still had two more exges left, so he chose a group attack spell, "Wildfire Burns the Pins," an advanced version of "Starlight."

  The other was a siarget spell, "Starburst," which could press fmes to the extreme, simir to the thueique "Palm Thunder."

  He took the three jade slips to the elder for exge and the.

  Back at his residence, he eagerly took out talisman paper ao draw first-grade talismans, with surprisingly good results, as his success rate improved by ten pert.

  He hadn't expected the sect master's o be so effective, so he tinued reading them voraciously.

  Time flowed like water, and another month passed.

  "It's done!"

  Lin Hao picked up the middle-grade sed-grade talisman from the table, feeling an urge to shout to the heavens.

  After studying the sect master's notes, his uanding of talismans deepened, signifitly improving his success rate with low-grade talismans and even breaking through to create middle-grade sed-grade ones!

  He wao share his joy with someone, but his senior sister wasn't around. Retly, he had been so absorbed in talisman crafting that he had ed her, and she ofte early aure, seemingly busy preparing for Foundatioablishment.

  Never mind... Lin Hao sighed lightly, leaving his resideo find Cui Qing'er and also to seek a formation master to set up a formation barrier for his cave dwelling.

  Just as he was about to fly on his sword, he heard a loud noise and looked in the dire of the sound, only to see the sect's Demon Suppression Tower colpsing!

  tless bck mists surged out from the tower.

  Demons... demon cultivators, all of them, a massive riot, Lin Hao's pupils tracted!

  g!

  The bell tolled thunderously!

  The sect's great bell summoned all disciples within the mountain gate to stop what they were doing ao the Point Immortal Ptform!