Early m.

  The sky was just beginning to lighten.

  Li Qinghai, his heart surging with excitement, had eyes brighter than the sky outside.

  He couldn't sleep, not at all.

  With a flip, Li Qinghai got up straight from his bed.

  The early bird catches the worm, and the early Qinghai reinates well.

  Li Qinghai put on the uniform of an Outer Disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect.

  He washed up first.

  Then swallowed a Fasting Pill.

  After all, if he was going to die, he wao die with dignity, even if it meant dying on a full stomach.

  This was his st bit of stubbornness before death!

  Once everything was ready, Li Qinghai walked out of the Green Bamboo Resideh his head held high and chest out.

  Li Qinghai naturally had a pn for seekih.

  Yesterday, he had asked Wang Dafu about the pces with the most people ier area.

  Because Li Qinghai khat the more people there were, the more flicts there would be, making it easier for him to die.

  Wang Dafu, though not particurly gifted in cultivation, was quite well-informed.

  Acc to him, it was all due to the influence of his family.

  After all, to make big money in business, the basic requirement is to gather information and analyze potential profit opportunities.

  And within the Azure Cloud Sect, having enough information is even more crucial.

  Only then one know what not to do and whom not to offend, thus keeping oneself alive.

  Wang Dafu also taught Li Qinghai many survival tricks yesterday.

  Li Qinghai nodded and said he uood, but he fot all those tricks pletely.

  As someoermio die, he had no use for those tricks.

  Li Qinghai headed east.

  Along the way, he saw many houses like his Green Bamboo Residence.

  Looking inside, he could see spiritual herbs pnted in the courtyards.

  If anyone wao steal these spiritual herbs, it ractically impossible.

  Once spiritual herbs were pnted in the courtyard, an automatic protective formation would be activated.

  Only the owner of the house, with ay token, could enter a freely.

  This ily protected the safety of these Outer Disciples.

  For the Azure Cloud Sect, these small protective formations absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven ah to operate automatically, requiring no cost.

  Yet, they gained a disciple who worked for the sect for free, a sure profit.

  ***

  After about half an hour.

  Li Qinghai finally arrived at his destination.

  M Cultivation Mountain.

  Every m, the spiritual energy at this mountain peak was much dehan in other outer areas.

  Cultivating here for an hour was equivalent to two hours in one's own room.

  And this was just at the foot of the mountain; at the peak, it would be more than three hours.

  Therefore, a rge number of disciples gathered here every day.

  Of course, not all tens of thousands of Outer Disciples would e.

  There were over a dozen such peaks elsewhere, and many disciples cultivated nearby.

  Li Qinghai g M Cultivation Mountain and clicked his towice.

  He thought he had gotten up early enough, but these cultivation fanatics were up even earlier.

  At a ghere were already hundreds of people.

  Some were at the peak, some at the foot, and some even on the mountainside.

  The entire mountainside was densely pocked with caves where the cultivators practiced.

  Every cultivating disciple was very disciplined, keeping a certain distance from others and not disturbing anyone.

  A harmonious and orderly se of cultivation.

  Li Qinghai was in no hurry; he wasn't there to cultivate but sat down by a rge tree.

  He casually plucked a bde of grass and held it in his mouth, muttering.

  "I don't believe that when more people e, you won't start fighting."

  ***

  After a while.

  Suddenly, a voice came.

  "Junior Brother?"

  Li Qinghai turned his head and saw Wang Dafu's chubby face approag.

  "Oh, it's Senior Brother Wang."

  "So it really is Junior Brother." Wang Dafu sat down, "Why aren't you going to cultivate, Junior Brother?"

  "I actually have social ay."

  "Social? Ay?"

  "It's a saying from my hometown, meaning being afraid of crowded pces, not daring to talk to people, not daring to speak loudly."

  "I see. Hopefully, Junior Brother will bee braver as your cultivation improves."

  At this moment.

  Not far away, a graceful figure walked towards M Cultivation Mountain.

  Li Qinghai's gaze was drawn, and he couldn't help but take a few mnces.

  Even though the woman was wearing the ordinary Outer Disciple attire, it couldn't hide her graceful figure.

  Tall, with long hair down to her waist, her face was exquisite, like a fairy stepping out of a painting.

  The only fw was her extreme ess.

  Li Qinghai could feel a frost that kept people at a distance from afar.

  Wang Dafu saw Li Qinghai looking at the beauty and chuckled.

  "Junior Brother, are you moved?"

  "Hmph, women are like clouds to me," Li Qinghai said disdainfully.

  Wang Dafu assumed Li Qinghai was too embarrassed to admit it and teased.

  "Junior Brother, truly unmoved? Lu Beixue's beauty is among the top iire sect, tless disciples dream of getting close to her."

  Li Qinghai pursed his lips, too zy to expin.

  Lu Beixue was indeed beautiful.

  But it wasn't like Li Qinghai hadn't seen women before; so many girls in the small fishing vilge who secretly liked him couldn't win his heart, let alone Lu Beixue, whom he had just met.

  Li Qinghai's determination to die, his resolve to pursue the Dao, was as firm as a rock!

  Seeing Li Qinghai silent, Wang Dafu lost i in joking and became serious.

  "Junior Brother, let me give you another survival tip: no matter what happens with Lu Beixue, don't get involved, or your life won't be safe."

  Life won't be safe?

  Such a good thing?!

  Li Qinghai was instantly wide awake.

  "What do you mean?" Li Qinghai asked curiously.

  Wang Dafu lowered his voice, "Do you know why so many people like Lu Beixue, but no one dares to bother her? Because Ye Fan, a true disciple from the first peak, siders her his exclusive, so naturally, no one dares to interfere."

  "Oh, I see." Li Qinghai's eyes sparkled, as if he could see his owh se.

  Li Qinghai looked over.

  Sure enough, as Wang Dafu said, wherever Lu Beixue passed, many disciples voluntarily stepped aside.

  They liked her but didn't dare to get close.

  After all, pared to a woman, their own lives were more important.

  And Lu Beixue didn't use this retionship to bully others.

  She didn't choose to cultivate at the peak but casually found a spot at the foot of the mountain.

  At this moment.

  A voice rang out not far away.

  "Lu Beixue, who allowed you to cultivate here?!"

  Three male cultivators in Inner Disciple attire swaggered over, looking very arrogant.

  Li Qinghai was dumbfounded.

  Wasn't it just said that Lu Beixue was favored by a true disciple and no one dared to touch her?

  What was happening now?

  The speed of this face-spping was too fast, wasn't it?

  Li Qinghai turo Wang Dafu, hoping he could expin.