Chapter 21: Ice Heart Art
Su Lingxi left her room and walked towards the source of the voice. When she reached the main road of the sect, she found that many people were heading in the same direction.
These people were clearly also new disciples. Su Lingxi silently followed behind them.
The journey wasn’t far, and they arrived shortly.
The foot of the mountain was already densely packed with people. Su Lingxi found an empty spot and sat down with them.
A few new disciples who had just met were discussing near Su Lingxi, “Such a grand occasion. The mentors must be about to teach us cultivation techniques.”
“Cultivation techniques? Is it the Snowfall Sect’s Ice Heart Art?” another disciple asked.
“That’s right, but we outer court disciples can only practice the first three levels.”
“The Ice Heart Art has a total of seven levels. The remaining four can only be learned in the inner court at least.”
“That’s great! If I can learn the Ice Heart Art, my attainments in the way of ice-type spiritual energy will improve even further.”
Su Lingxi pricked up her ears to listen. It was only then that she realized she didn’t seem to have any decent cultivation techniques.
She then called out Xiao Bai’s name in her sea of consciousness, “Xiao Bai, I remember the Demon Clan has its own cultivation techniques, right? Logically, I should know them.”
“There are, but you can practice them if you’re not afraid of death.”
“To put it bluntly, even if you had the Demon Clan’s cultivation techniques, your demonic energy was scattered by the protagonist. You can’t cultivate them at all.”
“But…” Xiao Bai paused for a moment.
“You can learn this Ice Heart Art.”
Su Lingxi: “Is this Ice Heart Art very powerful?”
“In terms of ice-type spiritual energy alone, if you can cultivate the Ice Heart Art to its peak, you will have reached the pinnacle of ice-type attainments in the Mortal Realm.”
Hearing this, Su Lingxi’s eyes lit up. “I want to learn it! I want to learn it!”
Almost everyone had arrived at the plaza. The loud, bell-like voice echoed from the sky again, “Silence!”
A brief ringing in their ears left the disciples in the plaza dazed, with cold sweat dripping down their faces.
Some even collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.
Su Lingxi was no better off, feeling nauseous from the sound.
An old man with the air of an immortal, treading on flying snow, descended from the sky and landed on the platform in front of the plaza.
Some sharp-eyed disciples were shocked and recognized the old man’s identity. “That’s… the Fifth Elder of the Snowfall Sect. His strength has reached the terrifying Body Integration realm.”
“The elders of the Snowfall Sect rarely show themselves. We’re truly lucky to have an elder come and teach us!”
The Snowfall Sect had dedicated mentors to train new disciples, but in rare cases, an elder would teach in their place.
An elder’s lecture often carried a higher understanding of the cultivation technique. Some talented disciples had broken through their bottlenecks just from a few words from an elder.
Therefore, an elder’s lecture was particularly precious, no less than a fortuitous encounter for the new disciples.
The new disciples immediately perked up, their attention fully focused on the Fifth Elder, afraid of missing a single word and a great opportunity.
“Is he that amazing?”
Even Su Lingxi, who often skipped classes, sat up straight after hearing the praise from the people around her.
The Fifth Elder sat on the high platform, his consciousness sweeping over the disciples below.
There were a thousand new disciples in total. The Fifth Elder just casually swept his divine sense over them and then retracted it. After a long while, he nodded.
“This batch of disciples has good aptitude. It wasn’t a wasted trip for this old man.”
The Fifth Elder had his own selfish reasons for coming to teach the new disciples. The Snowfall Sect had five elders in total.
Four of them had their own personal disciples, more or less, but the Fifth Elder did not.
It wasn’t because the Fifth Elder couldn’t recruit disciples, but because he was unwilling to settle.
So, as soon as the new disciples entered the sect, he planned to come and teach, and at the same time, see if there was anyone suitable to be his personal disciple.
“The aptitude is acceptable, but I don’t know about their comprehension and talent.”
With that, the Fifth Elder waved his horsetail whisk, and a cloud of mist rose in the sky.
After rolling a few times, the cloud of mist actually started to snow.
The new disciples looked at each other, not knowing what was happening. But soon, one disciple exclaimed, “These snowflakes are actually identity waist tokens!”
The other disciples also reacted and began to grab at the snowflakes.
Fortunately, there were enough snowflakes, so it didn’t cause a commotion.
Su Lingxi casually picked up a snowflake. It melted in her palm and turned into a pale blue, glowing stone.
This stone was a bit like the one on Luo Chuxue’s waist, but its blue light was obviously not as dazzling as hers.
“This is the outer court’s identity waist token. With this token, you can move within the designated activity areas of the outer court, but remember not to go to places you shouldn’t.”
The Fifth Elder’s meaning was clear. This waist token was a symbol of identity, but it also restricted their range of activities.
But for most people, just being able to enter the Snowfall Sect was good enough.
After the waist tokens were distributed, the Fifth Elder officially began today’s lecture.
The content of the lecture was, as Su Lingxi had overheard, the introductory incantation of the Ice Heart Art.
At first, Su Lingxi listened attentively, but she gradually found that something was wrong.
The incantation taught by the Fifth Elder was obscure and difficult to understand, no less difficult than an obscure classical Chinese text.
In less than two hours, Su Lingxi was already sleepy, yawning constantly.
What’s the difference between this and being in class? It’s practically a lullaby.
As Su Lingxi listened, her eyelids began to droop…
After an unknown amount of time, a commotion broke out in the crowd again.
“Look, it’s Young Master Ye! He seems to have… entered a state of enlightenment.”
As the news spread, most of the people on the field focused their gazes on Ye Changsheng.
Even the Fifth Elder nodded with some satisfaction. “An ordinary disciple would take at least half a year to comprehend it. For this child to have a glimpse of it on the first day, his talent is clearly exceptional.”
Putting other things aside, Ye Changsheng had at least gained the Fifth Elder’s approval in terms of comprehension.
The flying snow in the sky was suddenly drawn to Ye Changsheng, revolving around him. This was a clear sign of affinity with the ice element.
Ye Changsheng’s eyes were tightly closed, but his expression was unprecedentedly relaxed. He was clearly immersed in it.
Before long, a few more people on the field entered a state of enlightenment.
This caused a roar in the plaza. The other disciples no longer stood by and watched, but began to comprehend the incantation.
Su Lingxi was a little envious. She watched as the good students handed in their perfect scores one by one, while she had no reaction at all.
She had even… forgotten most of the incantation the Fifth Elder had just taught.
“Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, look, they’ve all had an epiphany. What should I do…”
“Don’t worry. You’re a transmigrator. You have your own way of cultivating,” Xiao Bai said unhurriedly.
“Uh… then what should I do?”
“Take a nap. It’ll be time to eat soon.”
Su Lingxi: “…”
Although Su Lingxi didn’t know what Xiao Bai was going to do, she still chose to obey and go to sleep.
In the huge plaza, other disciples were nervously comprehending the incantation, while Su Lingxi was the only one conspicuously sleeping.
The Fifth Elder had noticed Su Lingxi early on. After all, her cultivation was among the best of the thousand disciples.
She was sleeping when he was teaching the incantation, and she was still sleeping now.
The Fifth Elder sighed. “Such cultivation and talent, yet such an unfocused attitude. I’m afraid she will end up as just another face in the crowd…”
