The Carnation Goddess

The teleportation across the vast distances had caused most of the protégés to be nausea as they landed on a soft grassy ground that was surrounded by tall trees and mountains.

In theory, they were supposed to be outside the Fenghua Great Continent now.

There were actually several senior protégés and an elder that were waiting for them on the other side as they had arrived in this place first to setup a secret teleporting array.

As Shen Lie had stepped into this new place, he calmly walked to one step and he could see many of the protégés that were feeling dizzy and staggering after they had stepped from the teleporting array.

He saw that Jie Ying and Yu Lingyue were also feeling dizzy so he caught hold of their waists. He would have caught hold of Mei Xuan too if he had three hands.

When he had caught of Jie Ying and Yu Lingyue, it caused him to look flustered as they looked coyly at him.

This was not lost on Wang Xiao who saw that he had caught hold of the waist of Yu Lingyue and he immediately shouted at Shen Lie, "Let her go now! You lecher! Are you trying to take advantage of the female protégés?"

Shen Lie immediately let them go and said politely, "I was only trying to help and I didn't mean anything else."

This was not exactly true as Shen Lie had been moving his fingers on Yu Lingyue's waist and tickling her.

Wang Xiao tried to rush forward to seize Shen Lie up and to beat him up but Yu Lingyue stepped between them as she said coldly to Wang Xiao, "This isn't what you think it is…"

Then Yu Lingyue shyly said, "I've requested for Shen Lie to support me and he is only being helpful."

Wang Xiao said angrily, "Why don't you ask me instead?"

Yu Lingyue hummed coldly, "He is near to me so that's why. Stop embarrassing yourself in this place."

Elder Hua Zixia who had just stepped into the vicinity quickly issued a stern warning to Wang Xiao, "You may be the core protégé of the Holy Saintess Qian Yufeng but you should learn to be mindful of your manner and stop bullying Shen Lie."

Wang Xiao hummed coldly but not before he stared coldly at Shen Lie as he walked off.

Shen Lie had actually displayed a finger to break Wang Xiao's ribs in secret if it was not for the intervention of Yu Lingyue and Elder Hua Zixia.

Wang Xiao's ribs won't break until a certain amount of profound strength had been used and it was a very subtle attack.

Shen Lie did not want to use his superior cultivation realm on an insignificant ant like Wang Xiao but he remembered that this Wang Xiao had tried to plot against him and his maidens when he saw him in the secret room with the Great Heroine Yao Chi.

He had plenty of patience due to his years of cultivation and he was normally a cool guy who was not easily angered.

If one has to cultivate to become a Sage Cultivator like Shen Lie, then they cannot allow emotions to get over to them.

That was why cultivators with a lot of emotions are unable to cultivate much higher than the 7th cultivation realm as they had failed to temper their hearts and allowed their heart demons to take control of their emotions.

Cultivation is all about quiet meditation and a peace of mind to breakthrough to a higher state of divinity.

Cultivation stories with unstable and emotional MCs are fake cultivation stories to make the cultivators lose their dao heart as they embroiled into revenge and revenge killing. Little do they know that this will only affect their future cultivation.

Cultivation is never about killing or killing to become stronger. Those that walked this path are the unorthodox cultivators and they had a low chance of ever ascending as an immortal as the Heavenly Wrath will punish them when they attempted to ascend.

That is why many of the high level cultivators have to seclude for tens of years or even hundreds of years to remove their bad karma in order to cultivate to a higher state of divinity.

No matter how strong a cultivator is able to be with his profound arts, the higher state of divinity cultivator can easily suppress him because the profound strength from a higher state of divinity transcended beyond the profound power of any profound arts.

Hua Zixia was now saying to everyone, "Now form into your respective groups in one straight line and I will brief all of you again. Group 1 will start from my right."

Many of the protégés were still wobbly after the teleportation warp as they quickly formed into their respectively lines.

Wang Xiao was in group with Di Shitian, Shortie Lai and Lie Dun.

As they looked around to see who was in their group, they were all shocked to see that there were no female protégés in their group!

As for Shen Lie who was in group 13, he was the only male cultivator in his group and the rest of his group was some of the most beautiful female protégés.

Everyone was quite stunned when they saw that and were cursing Shen Lie secretly: This Shen Lie has all the luck… this is so unbelievable!

Elder Hua Zixia said to the groups, "The 14th group will be the elders and the senior protégés. We will be camping here to safeguard the teleporting warp so that we can return you to the Holy Carnation Sanctuary…"

"All of you shall remain in this place tonight and shall setup camp in your respective group so that you can get to know each other…"

"The senior protégés from my group will be patrolling the perimeter for all of you tonight so you can all have a good rest tonight before your experiential training starts…"

"Your experiential training will last for 5 days and you have to kill at least a third realm demonic cultivator or at least 10 demonic cultivators that are below the third realm. The staff of leadership in your respective group will be able to capture the cultivation realm of your opponents and your battle. Be wary though that if you lost the staff of leadership and come back without it then you shall fail your experiential training…"

Shen Lie was muttering to himself: You forget to say that only Shen Lie won't fail his experiential training no matter unless I've earned enough contribution points for the cultivation sect...

Then he was also sighing: All these expenses just to kill a single low level third realm demonic cultivator? I am truly impressed by these wastes…

Elder Hua Zixia continued, "The purpose of this experiential training is to create future bonds and unity for everyone to perform under stress and force your potential out. This experiential training won't be easy and you may even meet with many high level demonic cultivators in these mountains. Therefore you should all plan your tactics and movements through the mountains in a careful manner…"

"Now, does anyone has any questions?"

A protégé from group 6 asked, "Is there a demonic cultivation sect nearby? What if there are no demonic cultivators in these parts then won't we be screwed?"

Elder Hua Zixia answered casually, "The Crimson Blood Sect holds domain over this region as far as I know."

Another protégé asked curiously, "Is it a third rate cultivation sect? And what type of a cultivation sect is this Crimson Blood Sect?"

Hua Zixia said, "It seemed to be a second tier cultivation sect and so it is a mid-power cultivation sect. I've heard that this Crimson Blood Sect is renowned for making their enemies into their living cauldron and it also practices the evil dual cultivation. So, all of you should be wary of this fact and do not allow yourself to be captured by them. Remember to swallow the poison that has been given to you or your fates will be woeful if you fall into their hands."

Then she smiled wryly, "Don't worry. This place may be their domain but it is quite far away from their cultivation mountains so you won't be so unlucky to meet so many of the evil demonic cultivators."

When she had said that, many of the protégés in the various groups were all laughing with great relief.

Shen Lie muttered to himself: Weird. I could sense numerous demonic cultivators that are quite near here…

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