After resolving the matters of the two, Lu Xin sought out Yu Sanxuan and Hu He, who were currently squatting together, gnawing on a lamb leg.
"I told you to urge your junior brother to cultivate, and you've been bought off by him like this?"
"Master."
Lu Xin's sudden appearance startled the two, who hastily pulled the roasted lamb legs back.
"Give it here."
Lu Xin reached out his hand.
Yu Sanxuan quickly handed over the roasted lamb leg.
Lu Xin took it, took a bite, and found it quite flavorful, having not eaten it in a long time.
"It's a little overcooked."
Seeing that Lu Xin didn't seem to be blaming them, the two breathed a sigh of relief.
Hu He quickly offered his own, trying to please him, "Master, this one is roasted just right."
Lu Xin snorted coldly, "Why didn't you offer it just now?"
Hu He chuckled.
Lu Xin took it, tasted it, and lectured him, "You only know how to hide behind your senior brother when something happens.
When will I be able to count on you to stand alone?"
Hu He scratched his head, "But these are all things you taught me, Master, not to be a show-off."
"Then your senior brother was also taught by me, why does he stand up for you?"
Hu He's face turned red.
Lu Xin sighed.
Among these disciples, Hu He had the highest talent.
After consuming the Amethyst Star Pattern Fruit, he possessed a high-grade spiritual root, on whom he placed great hopes.
Unfortunately, he had developed a lazy disposition, and was only at the peak of the Qi Training stage, showing how much he slacked off usually.
Honestly, he didn't really count on these disciples' cultivation to produce much magical power.
These people were low in cultivation, and couldn't refine more than a few hundred thousand points of magical power in total, which was negligible.
But he still strictly urged them to cultivate, because at his cultivation speed, ascension was imminent.
If they lost his protection, the Donghua Divine Palace, relying solely on Yunhua and those Nascent Soul cultivators, would definitely not be able to hold on, so these talented disciples had to grow as soon as possible.
"After you finish this lamb leg, go into seclusion.
You are not allowed to come out until you break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."
Lu Xin returned the lamb leg to him.
"Yes."
Seeing that Lu Xin didn't punish him to copy the Way of苟道 Divine Art, Hu He quickly agreed happily and ran off to seclusion.
Lu Xin shook his head and looked at Yu Sanxuan, pointing out the shortcomings in his cultivation technique, and then had him call all the senior brothers and sisters over.
Soon, except for Xuan Cheng Shangren and Hu He, all the disciples gathered together.
"Greetings, Master."
"You may rise."
Lu Xin glanced at the cultivation levels of the crowd and discovered that among these disciples, only one was currently at the Nascent Soul stage, namely, Tie Mengqi, the woman from the former Evergreen Sect.
The rest were all Golden Core, but several had reached the peak of the Golden Core stage, and he believed that it wouldn't be long before they became Nascent Soul.
"Do you have any doubts about your cultivation?"
Lu Xin planned to teach his disciples well today.
"Master, this disciple still has some confusion regarding the matter of Nascent Soul formation," a Golden Core peak disciple asked.
Lu Xin explained it to him and also explained the process of Nascent Soul formation to everyone.
Then the others also asked their own questions, and Lu Xin resolved them specifically for them.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.
Lu Xin didn't do anything else during this time, but focused on tutoring his disciples, in addition to resolving their cultivation doubts, he also taught them some techniques such as alchemy and talisman-making according to their interests.
"Alright, on the path of cultivation, cultivation is fundamental, and protective measures are secondary.
These myriad immortal arts can be studied, but not indulged in.
Now the palace is not short of your resources, you should focus on improving your cultivation."
"We respectfully obey Master's teachings."
"Alright, go."
"Yes."
The crowd took their leave, and Lu Xin didn't stay any longer, heading towards the Pure Yang Palace.
On the way, he happened to meet Yan Qinglu, who had returned.
She had been following Li Wenshu to manage the Donghua Merchant Guild for some time.
"Greetings, Palace Master."
Yan Qinglu saluted.
"There's no need to be so polite between you and me."
Lu Xin waved his hand, looked her up and down, and found that she no longer looked as dull as before, presumably having let go of a lot, "Is the Merchant Guild doing well?"
Yan Qinglu nodded, "We are now planning to hold the Golden Core Hidden Dragon Competition, and the location for the first session has been chosen, which will be held in our Donghua Domain."
Upon hearing this, Lu Xin inquired about some specific details and found that they had considered everything very carefully, so he was no longer worried.
"Palace Master, this time Sister Wenshu asked me to come back to ask you, whether you can attend the opening ceremony of the Hidden Dragon Competition at that time?"
"Me?"
Lu Xin was a little surprised.
Yan Qinglu continued, "Although we are giving generous rewards, some of the participants are proud sons of heaven from super forces, and they are inevitably arrogant."
Lu Xin understood that they wanted him to stand up for them, but he didn't understand why Li Wenshu didn't contact his clone directly to say this, but instead had someone run back specifically.
"I know about this matter, and I will go there at that time."
He didn't refuse, and then said, "By the way, I heard that people from the Yan family in Tianque Domain went to find you, they didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"
Yan Qinglu shook her head, "They wouldn't dare."
"That's good."
Lu Xin talked with her for a while, and then left.
In this way, time passed in a blink of an eye for several months.
During this period, with the continuous momentum of the Southern Region Daily, the top topic of discussion in the Southern Region was undoubtedly the Golden Core Hidden Dragon Competition.
"I didn't expect the Donghua Merchant Guild to be so generous, offering such generous rewards for holding a competition."
In a city in Tianshan Domain, a burly man with a beard looked at the reward content listed in the newspaper, his eyes shining.
A person next to him ridiculed, "Don't even think about it, this competition has age restrictions, you can't be considered a young generation, you are not qualified to participate."
"Damn it, I just turned one hundred and one years old some time ago, it's only a little bit off, they shouldn't be able to tell, right?"
The person next to him helped him point it out on the newspaper, "There, bone age detection magic weapon, don't even think about trying to fool it."
The burly man sighed disappointedly when he saw it, and then said, "But with such a big event, I must go and join in the fun."
Such discussions filled the streets and alleys of various domains.
Of course, there were also those who were disdainful.
Lu Xin turned a deaf ear to outside affairs, and focused on making puppets.
"Go!"
In front of a small mountain, Lu Xin waved his hand, and a colorful tiger was released.
After landing, it let out a tiger roar, and then opened its mouth and sprayed out a beam of light, blasting towards the small mountain.
With a loud bang, the small mountain was immediately shattered by the beam of light.
"This strike should have the power of a full strike from an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator."
Lu Xin glanced at the destructive effect of the beam of light, came to the colorful tiger with satisfaction.
This was exactly a fourth-order puppet he had created, using top-grade spirit stones as an energy source, capable of firing seven such beams of light just now.
And it doesn't need much control, just a little mana to activate it.
That is to say, even the Qi Training stage can activate it.
It's just a pity that the manufacturing difficulty is a bit high, he has been busy for half a month, and only made such a piece.
If it were easy to mass produce, this thing would be a great weapon of war.
"The Palace Master's puppet art is truly superb."
Next to him, a white-haired and white-bearded old man in the late Nascent Soul stage praised.
His name was Gu Fengzhu, and he was the person who Lu Xin went to the edge of the Flowing Sand Sea to replace the guard before the demon invasion.
He has always been obsessed with mechanics, so Lu Xin has been bringing him with him during this period.
"Have you learned this tiger-shaped beast?"
Lu Xin put one hand on the colorful tiger's butt and asked, looking at him.
Gu Fengzhu nodded, "The techniques have all been memorized, just need to try it a few times, and I should be able to manufacture it."
"Not bad, go down and try it."
"Yes."
Gu Fengzhu took his leave.
Lu Xin put away the tiger-shaped beast and was about to leave, when Yunhua Old Ancestor came to report that Tian Zijing had come to find him, and looked like he had something urgent.
Lu Xin frowned, thinking, could something have happened?
He had to step forward to meet him.
