Mo Qingchen hastily stepped into the Huamen, no matter who was strong or weak, being an outsider here was clearly not a wise thing to do, it's better to cultivate early.
As soon as she entered the flower gate, Mo Qingyun felt a sense of clarity in her chest and breathed easily. However, before she could even enjoy this feeling, she saw several gazes turning towards her simultaneously.
Mo Qingchen quickly swept a glance over the situation in the room, and saw that on the emerald green floor were scattered more than ten rush mats, with five people sitting cross-legged on each mat.
Among the five, two were young men of fourteen or fifteen years old. One of them glanced at Mo Qingchen indifferently and then closed his eyes to meditate again. The other looked him up and down, making Mo Qingchen feel very uncomfortable with his gaze.
Among the three remaining, two were boys who looked slightly older than himself. The only girl was about ten years old, wearing a yellow dress, with thin and long cheeks, although beautiful but with a sharp look that made Mo Qingchen instinctively dislike her.
Mo Qingchen saw that these people had been sizing him up without saying a word, so he could only nod and smile at them: "Hello, I'm Mo Qingchen the Sixteenth."
Several people still didn't speak, Mo Qingchen also didn't mind, looked around and casually chose a corner's bamboo mat to sit down.
Who would have thought that as soon as she sat down, the only girl spoke up and said: "Xiao Shi Liu, how can you sit there?" Her voice was sharp, causing Mo Qingchen to wrinkle her brow involuntarily.
Mo Qingchen furrowed his brow. The girl suddenly stood up and walked to Mo Qingchen's front, saying condescendingly: "Didn't you hear me speaking, Little Sixteen?"
Mo Qingchen didn't get up either, and raised his head to say faintly, "You don't have to speak so loudly, I heard you."
Although she has not yet entered the gate, she already knows some common sense of refining her true self. The first two layers of the Refining Qi period are just that her body is slightly better, her strength is greater, and her mind is more agile, which is equivalent to a mortal with good physical quality. Only when she reaches the third layer of Refining Qi can she learn the Wind Control Technique, which is the technique that Fourteenth Uncle used when he took her to his uncle's house that day. It wasn't until she reached the fourth layer of Refining Qi that she could learn a defensive technique called Earth Shield Technique.
In other words, unless you cultivate to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, you can't learn attack-type magic, otherwise your combat power is at most slightly stronger than that of ordinary people.
The girl in front of her was not yet fifteen years old, and it was obvious that she couldn't reach the fifth layer of Qi refining. Mo Qingchen was certain that with her temperament and age, her cultivation wouldn't be high anyway. In that case, why should he lower himself?
That girl obviously did not expect the sudden arrival of Mo Qingchen to speak like that, and immediately raised her eyebrows: "Indeed, it's a child without parents, no upbringing!"
Mo Qingchen saw the girl's furious expression and smiled slightly: "What you said is right, I wasn't taught to speak like this by my parents."
"Heh heh——" The young man who had been sizing her up all along let out a low chuckle.
"Ba Ge, you're not helping me, and yet you let a little girl bully me!" The girl turned her head, stomped her foot and scolded.
The young man known as Ba Ge walked up, looked Mo Qingchen up and down again, before slowly saying: "Little girl, newcomers should understand the rules!"
Mo Qingchen was speechless, is this what they mean by turning black and white upside down and speaking nonsense with their eyes open?
"What rules?"
The red-clothed girl and the pink-skirted girl who had been seen before walked in.
What surprised Mo Qingchu was that the red-clothed girl's originally bright and beautiful clothes were now tattered, and her face was also covered with dust.
Could it be that she just had a fight with Second Master? Mo Qingchen secretly suspected.
"Ah, tenth sister, what's this - " The girl in yellow hurriedly asked, her voice suddenly becoming softer.
The girl in red glared at the girl in yellow and said: "Little Eleven, what's with the big fuss? It was just a fight with an old man."
"Ah, tenth sister, you're really formidable, daring to fight with that old guy." The girl in yellow clothes flattered, her fawning smile making Mo Qingchen feel like she was a different person from just before.
The red-clothed girl raised her chin and said, "What's that got to do with anything? He and I are both at the fourth level of Qi refinement. What is there to be afraid of?"
The girl in pink pulled the red-clothed girl and said: "Tenth sister, after all, Second Grandfather is an elder."
The red-clothed girl poked the forehead of the powdered girl with a "tsk" sound: "Little Fourteen, with this temper of yours, you'll be bullied to death when you go out. What if they're elders? The old codgers in our clan who don't have spiritual roots are willing to be slaves and servants for us, there's no shortage of them. That old man may have spiritual roots, but after a lifetime of cultivation, he's still only at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, what's the difference between him and an ordinary person?"
"That's right, how can you compare with Sister Shi? Sister Shi was already at the fourth layer of Qi refining at the age of ten." The yellow-clothed girl smiled and pulled the red-clothed girl's arm.
"Ten little sister, you really are making your brother look at you in a new light! Just the other day, weren't you still at the third layer of Qi refinement? And yet, you've broken through so quickly. But I recall that Ninth Little Sister, who is about the same age as you, has already reached the seventh layer of Qi refinement." The youth with a hint of arrogance said.
The girl in red turned pale: "Mo Xiao Ba, don't speak with such a strange tone. Mo Fei is an abnormal Ice Spirit Root, and being at the 7th layer of Qi Refining isn't weird. But you, I remember correctly that you're already 14 years old, yet you're only at the 3rd layer of Qi Refining. By the time you turn 15, don't think that just because your grandfather is the clan leader, you can break the rules!"
The white-clothed girl who was originally the Ice Spirit Root was called Mo Feiyan, and she had already cultivated her Qi to the seventh layer at just ten years old. Mo Qingchen sighed.
She coldly observed the commotion of several people, and found that the boy who looked the oldest, had been meditating with his eyes closed from start to finish. The others were led by a young boy named Xiao Ba and a girl in red clothes named Xiao Shi, although they didn't draw their swords, their words were sharp as knives.
Mo Qingchen was delighted to be out of the way and didn't want to waste any more time, so he closed his eyes and prepared for his first meditation.
"By the way, what rules were you just talking about?" Xiaoshi finally spoke up and asked.
Mo Qingchen only felt that several gazes were staring at her face, and she secretly sighed that the rules of the Mo family were so strange. They gathered a group of children together to cultivate, and there was even an uncontrollable Second Grandfather. How could they cultivate properly like this? They quarreled every day, it was almost tolerable.
"Ten Sisters, it's her! She came and put on a big show, not putting us in her eyes, and even sat in your position to cultivate. I told her to get up and she didn't move!" said the yellow-clothed girl, Little Eleven.
"Are you the new little sixteen?" asked Xiao Shi, looking at Mo Qingchen, whose body and face were covered in dust, but didn't give off a disheveled impression.
When facing Little Eleven earlier, Mo Qingchen was still able to sit calmly, but this young girl's aura was intimidating, and she had no choice but to stand up. She slightly raised her head and said, "I am Sixteen Mo Qingchen, nice to meet you."
The red-clothed girl, Xiaoshi, gazed at her coldly with a slanted glance, just about to speak when the yellow-clothed girl, Xiaoyi, suddenly said: "Elder sister Xiaoshi, I heard from the maid yesterday that everyone in the manor is talking about this new arrival, number sixteen. They say she's even more beautiful than you by three points!"