That night, feeling sullied, Xia Hui spent a full half hour in the bathroom scrubbing herself clean, trying to wash away the fox’s scent lingering on her body.
After that, she clung to Hua Jian for quite a while, insisting on using Hua Jian’s fragrance to overpower the fox’s smell, leaving Hua Jian at a loss for words.
Fortunately, not long after, the teacher assigned by Ten Thousand Flowers Valley arrived.
Xia Hui wasn’t bold enough to act spoiled in front of an outsider, so she quickly jumped off Hua Jian.
Ten Thousand Flowers Valley had clearly put thought into who they sent, dispatching Hua Xinyuan, one of the few people Hua Jian could tolerate within the valley.
Even though Hua Jian was still annoyed by Hua Xinyuan’s earlier deception, she had to admit that her former Flower Queen sister had helped her a lot. She wouldn’t forget those debts.
“I didn’t expect Flower Queen Sister to be the one teaching me.”
“A capable person does more work. I’ve been back resting for so long; if I don’t do something serious, I’ll get assigned a mission again.”
Hua Xinyuan sat down on a chair in the living room and placed several jade tokens on the table.
These must be the spirit techniques she brought.
“That fox already told me your requirements. The spirit tool is still being made; bear with it for a few days.”
Hua Jian noticed from Hua Xinyuan’s nickname for Foxheart that these two bad women didn’t have a great relationship—perhaps mutual repulsion between the same type?
As she thought, Hua Jian picked up the jade tokens on the table and used her divine sense to examine their contents.
They were indeed the combat spirit techniques she needed now—comprehensive in variety and abundant in quantity.
Among them seemed to be the true secret teachings of Ten Thousand Flowers Valley…
Giving out things like this, wasn’t Ten Thousand Flowers Valley afraid she’d learn them all and make them public?
Confused, she directly asked Hua Xinyuan this question. The answer she got made her understand that Ten Thousand Flowers Valley wasn’t running a charity.
These spirit techniques could only be used by Hua Jian; if anyone else tried, they’d at least suffer from Qi deviation.
“The Cultivation Method you practice was specially designed for you by the Valley Master, and combined with your unique physique, the spiritual power you cultivate is highly attractive to us ordinary Valley disciples.” Hua Xinyuan casually revealed a not-so-secret secret to Hua Jian.
Hua Jian’s cultivation method was custom-made, giving her a psychological and physiological double special attack against Valley disciples, but it only worked on those with weak souls.
For soul emperors like Hua Xinyuan and Foxheart, the effect was almost negligible.
A counterexample was Hua Xinrui. That silly girl would be affected soon after being near Hua Jian, becoming dizzy and unable to control her actions.
“To put it more bluntly, if you use the secret techniques in here on us, the effect would be many times stronger than on ordinary people.” Hua Xinyuan slid another jade token toward Hua Jian.
Hua Jian picked it up and scanned it, then dropped it on the table as if electrocuted.
After calming down, she picked it up again and carefully examined its contents.
Incredible, incredible. The image quality was so clear. As expected of Ten Thousand Flowers Valley—their technical prowess in this area was truly impressive.
As for what was inside, it was naturally a cultivation secret art with Valley flavor.
The kind that required intimate contact between two people.
“If I have an extra effect when using these on you, aren’t you afraid I’ll go berserk and drain you dry?”
“I think the elders would love to see that happen.” Hua Xinyuan chuckled.
If Hua Jian actually used these secret techniques to cultivate with Valley cultivators, it would mean she was completely one of them. How could the Venerable Saint not be happy?
As for the disciples she drained—what? Just some lost energy and cultivation base? It wasn’t hard to replenish.
Being a power bank for Hua Jian was their honor, understand?
“Then wouldn’t using these techniques on me also…”
“Since you can revert to your true form, how could we use these techniques on you? Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re human, dear sister.” Hua Xinyuan’s words dispelled Hua Jian’s concerns.
Undeniably, there might be people in the valley with ill intentions toward Hua Jian.
But Hua Jian was naturally immune to attacks from such techniques. She looked human, but she wasn’t; she was merely wearing a layer of human skin.
Could you use a dual cultivation secret art on a plant without even a humanoid form?
Hua Xinyuan considered herself quite skilled in this secret art, but facing Hua Jian, she genuinely felt at a loss.
Before, when Hua Jian wasn’t aware of her true form and remained in a little girl state, there might have been a chance to make a move.
But now that Hua Jian was gradually finding herself, that opportunity was gone.
If she tried to force it, Hua Jian would just revert to her true form and drive all Valley cultivators away.
The main issue was that their absorption methods were completely different. Valley techniques were designed for humans.
For those seeking thrills, they could also be used on beasts. But Hua Jian wasn’t human or beast—she was a plant of unknown origin!
She was even the kind of fierce character who could devour secret realm demons alive. Who would dare to force a relationship with her?
Halfway through, if she opened her big mouth and swallowed them whole, that would be quite interesting.
“So, rest assured. You’re very safe here with us. You can play with others, but no one gets to play with you.” Pointing at the jade token in Hua Jian’s hand, Hua Xinyuan gave an ambiguous smile.
“Don’t rush to return it to me. Learning more things isn’t bad. Even if you don’t use the secret art, the little tricks inside are quite practical.”
As she spoke, she mimicked a pair of dragon horns above her head with her hands.
What that meant, no matter how naive Hua Jian was, she could guess.
“If you like someone, you should give them the best experience, right?”
That kind of experience? Hua Jian was momentarily speechless, but her hand obediently tucked the jade token into her sleeve for now, planning to study it thoroughly when she had time.
Hua Xinyuan wasn’t wrong; it was normal for people who liked each other to do embarrassing things.
Hua Jian didn’t want to be a pillow princess, so learning some techniques was fine.
And in this field, Ten Thousand Flowers Valley was unquestionably the expert. She needed to study it critically.
“Alright, enough about that. I won’t teach you those things; figure them out yourself.” Seeing Hua Jian accept the jade token, Hua Xinyuan smiled even more brightly.
It wasn’t because she had completed some scheme; she was simply amused by Hua Jian’s attitude.
Putting on such a serious front on the surface, but she was actually a mischievous girl inside—no wonder she was the child she had personally guided.
“These are all the spirit techniques you might use in battle. Tell me, which ones do you want to learn first?”
Hua Jian wanted to learn them all, but time was limited. She chose to fill her weaknesses first.
Today’s battle made her realize that her long-range methods had fallen behind her current strength, so she focused on that area.
Learning spirit techniques wasn’t extremely difficult nor particularly easy.
The power of spirit king-level techniques surpassed spirit master-level ones, and their complexity increased.
Spirit master-level techniques took Hua Jian a day or two to grasp the general structure and use.
For spirit king-level ones, with Hua Xinyuan’s guidance, it took nearly five days before she could barely form a crude version.
From this, it could be inferred that as one advanced in cultivation, time became less valuable. Learning a single technique could take years or even decades.
According to Hua Xinyuan, Hua Jian’s learning speed was already very fast.
For instance, a certain Miss Hua Xinrui, who wished to remain unnamed, took nearly half a month to learn this technique. Compared to Hua Jian, she might as well be thrown away.
Even she thought so herself.
As someone with good relations with both Hua Xinyuan and Hua Jian, Hua Xinrui naturally joined the teaching, mostly sharing her insights on spirit techniques as a fellow cultivator at the same rank.
Incidentally, she was heavily crushed by Hua Jian’s strong understanding and practical ability, making her realize the vast gap between them.
By the seventh day, Hua Jian finally formed her first spirit king-level technique, cracking the shell of a spirit king-level turtle that Hua Xinyuan had brought as a target.
“This Blood Cherry Arrow is the most commonly used spirit king-level technique by our Valley cultivators. Simple, powerful, but its weakness is high spiritual power consumption, and once fired, it cannot be controlled further.”
Seeing that Hua Jian could already use this technique, Hua Xinyuan moved on to teaching the next one.
They couldn’t let Hua Jian rely on just one move forever. As the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley Saintess, she had to learn more Valley techniques to live up to the title.
After learning the first spirit king-level technique, Hua Jian’s learning path became smoother.
Various Valley techniques had connections, and many cultivation tips were interchangeable.
After learning one, she could grasp others by analogy.
In just over half a month, Hua Jian evolved from a spirit king who couldn’t use any spirit king-level techniques into a true spirit king.
Compared to close combat using her cheating physical abilities for a bloody exchange, Hua Jian preferred being a long-range artillery turret, picking off enemies.
Especially when learning the technique linked to the Valley’s Flying Flower Evasion, Hua Jian became even more energized.
That evasion art was her favorite technique. Being able to enhance it further made her want to learn all these techniques without sleeping or eating.
As a result, she often needed sparring partners. At first, Hua Xinrui barely managed, but as Hua Jian mastered more techniques, Hua Xinrui could no longer keep up.
So, upon Hua Jian’s request, the Valley selected some powerful spirit king-level cultivators from outer disciples to be her practice partners.
This wasn’t actually strange, but for various reasons, weird rumors soon spread.
It wasn’t the Valley cultivators’ fault for overthinking. This was Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, after all. Everyone knew what the Valley’s secret arts were like.
Now, this Saintess was selecting powerful spirit king-level cultivators to enter the inner sect as practice partners.
When those spirit kings returned, regardless of gender, they all looked drained of blood and energy—how could that not make people think?
Was this practice? It had to be serving in bed!
The Saintess was playing too wild. Summoning so many people at once, and with no preference for gender—truly terrifying.
When those spirit kings who served as practice partners heard these rumors, they didn’t even bother to refute them.
Let the ignorant keep fantasizing. When they got chosen by the Saintess, they’d know why they were so drained they couldn’t even walk steadily.
The Saintess was indeed squeezing them dry, but not in the way Valley cultivators were familiar with—rather, in the conventional sense.
Normal people had limited energy, but their Saintess was like a perpetual motion machine. No one knew where her limits were.
After fighting all day, they’d all collapse from exhaustion, while the Saintess was still full of energy.
These spirit kings seriously doubted that if the Saintess really did that kind of thing with them, they’d be drained dry just like those whose energy they had drained.
Based on their current understanding of the Saintess, they considered this possibility a certainty.
What could they say… As expected of the Saintess. No wonder she was the Saintess.
Slap!
Hua Jian slammed the paper file onto the table, her face red with anger.
“Is there nothing but trash in their heads? I find people to practice spirit techniques with, and they interpret it like this!”
Hua Jian was furious about the slander spread by those outer members. How did she, an innocent maiden, become the pervert they described?
How desperate would she have to be to summon so many people to serve her in bed?
Couldn’t those people think in a more normal direction? Why did everything have to go that way? Didn’t they know there was no future in that?
“Those shortsighted people naturally can’t understand Miss Hua Jian’s depth.” Hua Xinrui, who had brought her the news, nodded seriously.
She was quite at ease with this. After all, this was Ten Thousand Flowers Valley; everything was easily viewed through a colored lens.
These rampant rumors didn’t actually affect Hua Jian that much.
If Hua Jian were a Saintess from a Saint Sect, such rumors would be a big problem. But unfortunately, she was the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley Saintess.
In people’s minds, the Valley Saintess should be exactly like this. Upon hearing these rumors, they’d just sigh and say the Valley plays dirty.
As for developing a prejudice against Hua Jian… Come on, she was already the Valley Saintess. That was the biggest prejudice.
“Find the ones spreading the most rumors. I’m going to discipline them properly tomorrow!”
Hua Xinrui might be at ease, but Hua Jian wasn’t.
She didn’t want to be seen as a bad woman forever, so she was going to teach those rumor mongers what she had been doing with the people she summoned!
Coincidentally, Hua Xinyuan had told her today that her new weapon would arrive soon. Tomorrow, she’d test her blade on those rumor spreaders!
Give them a lesson.
Let them know what happens to those who slander Hua Jian. The only outcome was death!
The next day, a long-unseen guest came to Hua Jian’s home.
As the host, Hua Jian showed no goodwill toward this guest.
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