Chapter 924 – The Taoist Nun and the Imperial Clearance Temple

　　Hearing this, the white-robed young man naturally didn’t dare to stop Han Li and the two of them again, instead directly leading them along a corridor inward.

　　After walking for a few moments and crossing over a few courtyard doors, Han Li vaguely heard the sound of reading aloud, which sounded like it was generally the same as an ordinary academy, but he was slightly startled, his gaze flickering a few times inadvertently. Although it was said that this place was called a calligraphy academy, but did these low-level Immortal Cultivators, instead of meditating and refining their qi, really waste most of their time on reading for nothing?

　　”This is the lower courtyard disciples of our White Dew Academy, doing their routine lunch reading. If you want to enter the upper courtyard to cultivate, just having spiritual roots and mana won’t do, you must cultivate the vast qi of our Confucian Sect. After all, most of our Confucian Sect’s techniques are aided by the Vastness of Qi, and the more and stronger the Vastness of Qi, the only way to cultivate in the future will be by leaps and bounds, with an unlimited future.” The white-robed young man seemed to see Han Li’s surprise and explained with a smile. To the youth with a similar cultivation level that this Yan Confucian had personally brought, he had some intention of making friends.

　　”I see!” Han Li sensed this person’s goodwill and nodded and smiled at him.

　　At this time, the three of them passed through a large number of attics, and after rounding a few corners, they suddenly came to an elegant small courtyard. As soon as Fang walked into this courtyard, the original clear sound of reading immediately disappeared without a trace. The courtyard was actually arranged under the soundproofing prohibition.

　　Yan surnamed Confucian see this situation, look as usual, seems to have come here more than once look. And that white-robed young man arrived here, will not dare to enter, directly stopped outside the courtyard door to the two people after leaving after saying goodbye.

　　Witnessed the youth’s back in an attic side of a flash disappeared, Yan surnamed Confucian only slightly organized under the clothes, towards the largest room slowly walked, to buckle up the door look.

　　But he just took a step to go, the original tightly closed door of the house but after a light sound, opened on its own. At the same time, overhead, that Mr. Lu’s voice once again came: ”Brother Yan, please enter! Huang Qing Guan’s Immortal Aunt Hua Lian happens to be a guest at the humble abode. Mister Lu happens to introduce Brother Yan.” Mr. Lu’s words were calm and steady, and he could not hear any specific feelings in them at all.

　　”Huang Qing Guan?” A trace of surprise appeared on Yan’s face, but his feet did not hesitate at all as he walked in. Han Li naturally followed closely.

　　Upon entering the door of the house, there was a living room in which a man and a woman were seated amongst the hosts and guests.

　　Male more than forty years old, face C cut, three wisps of beard, a look is the kind of joy and anger does not show the color of the four flat people, on the body temperament and the strict surname of the Confucian has a few similar, but there is another kind of indescribable sense of solemnity.

　　Female is more than twenty years old, hair snow skin, wearing a yellow robe, single hand holding a silver brilliant duster, but there is a graceful and noble temperament, is a Taoist nun.

　　As soon as the Confucian with the surname Yan and Han Li entered the hall, the eyes of these two naturally swept over.

　　”Is this the famous Mr. Yan Yao? Although the poor Taoist doesn’t ask about worldly affairs in the Guan, he has heard of Mr. Yan’s great name from the Yonghua Academy.” Greatly surprisingly, before Mr. Lu had even opened his mouth, this young and beautiful Daoist nun greeted him with a faint smile before her gaze casually swept over Han Li’s body for a moment before she withdrew it without further attentiveness.

　　This woman was only a late stage Foundation Establishment female cultivator, but she settled down in front of Mr. Lu and spoke freely, clearly a person of great origin.

　　”Don’t dare! The great names of the Imperial Clearview Immortal Aunties, Mister Yan has also heard of them for a long time. I have met Immortal Aunt Hua Lian!” The Confucian scholar surnamed Yan did not dare to be slow in the slightest and hurriedly arched his hand and said.

　　”Late generation, meet the two seniors!” Han Li also took half a step forward and respectfully saluted.

　　”This young friend is ……” that Mr. Lu asked noncommittally as his eyes narrowed.

　　”This Han Li’s nephew, is a distant relative of a close friend of mine, because he has heard of the reputation of the Bai Lu Academy, the old man couldn’t wipe out his old friend’s face, and specially brought him to the academy to try out, to see if he could qualify to stay in the academy.” The Confucian with the surname Yan said unhurriedly.

　　”Oh! It’s the son or nephew of Brother Yan’s old friend, and his spiritual root qualification seems to be ordinary, but he still has to carefully identify his attributes before he can do so. Little friend Han, come over here for a moment.” Mr. Lu Da measured Han Li for a few moments before saying without moving.

　　”Yes, senior!” Hearing this, Han Li walked over without hesitation, and was grabbed by the other party’s wrist with a slightly cool palm.

　　With Han Li’s powerful divine sense, he was not at all afraid that the other party could really tell anything. Regardless of spiritual root attributes or root bones, the body’s true condition could be easily concealed, only giving the other party false information that they wanted to give a look at.

　　However, Han Li didn’t want to make himself too noticeable, which would not be conducive to his low-profile cultivation in the academy in the future, so he completely revealed his spiritual root attributes in terms of spiritual root qualifications, without doing anything. The four spiritual root attributes were basically enough to join the minimum standard of an Immortal Cultivation Sect.

　　It was only in the root bones that he concealed his true bone age, so that the other party could not see anything fishy about it.

　　”Oh, the four spirit roots lack gold, so it’s barely enough to qualify to move into the academy. However, you have mana in your body and have already practiced some low-ranked spells. It’s a good thing that you are practicing pure wood attribute techniques, not evil magic techniques, so this aspect won’t be a problem. However, your age, this qualification can build the foundation of the possibility, basically minimal, at best the last is the seventh or eighth layer of the refining stage, right. If that’s the case, it would actually be better to be a casual cultivator, more free and easy!” After probing, Great Mister Lu released Han Li’s wrist and calmly said.

　　”This kind of evaluation is something that latecomer has also heard from other seniors. However, senior believes that diligence can make up for clumsiness, and still intends to try his hand at the path of cultivation.” Han Li stood with his hands hanging down in front of Great Mister Lu and replied back in a sincere and unusual tone.

　　Mr. Lu’s expression moved, and after glancing at the Confucian scholar surnamed Yan on the side, he nodded and said, “Little friend’s heart for cultivation is so resolute, so I am not in a position to say anything more. However, since little friend is a casual cultivator who has started out, can you have any specialties in the cultivation of miscellaneous arts?”

　　Hearing this, Han Li was slightly stunned and a bit surprised, not thinking that the other party would ask him a Qi Refining Stage cultivator this kind of question, could it be that he really wanted to take care of Yan surnamed Confucian for his face?

　　The mind like electricity rotates ceaselessly, but Han Li’s mouth did not hesitate in the slightest to return: “The late generation in the refining of the road slightly involved, just with the late generation’s cultivation and insight, naturally can only refine some of the most basic artifacts only, can’t talk about any refining of the artifacts at all.” After saying this, Han Li seemed to be a bit embarrassed, a hint of coyness appearing on his face.

　　”Oh, knowing how to refine artifacts? Nowadays, very few casual cultivators go to learn the art of refining artifacts, after all, the expense involved is really non-trivial.” Mr. Lu Da said with some surprise.

　　When the Daoist nun on the side heard this, her face flickered with a strange color before revealing a hint of joy.

　　”The latecomer also obtained a jade slip for refining weapons and refined it haphazardly.” Han Li naturally tried his best to minimize his own weapon refining skills, if he wasn’t concerned that if he really said that he knew nothing, it might have a big impact on joining the academy, Han Li really didn’t want to mention anything about alchemy refining skills or something like that to ask for trouble.

　　However, compared to weapon refining, those who know the art of alchemy and the way of formations are few and far between, so I’m afraid that saying it out loud will attract more attention.

　　”Fellow Daoist Han, you know how to refine weapons? That’s really great. Elder Lu, I don’t think there’s any need to borrow any more refining disciples in your sect, since this Fellow Daoist Han hasn’t yet entered your academy, why don’t you let him to the poor Taoist, how about joining my Huang Qing Guan?” That Daoist nun even suddenly opened her mouth to say such words.

　　At this moment, both the Confucian scholar surnamed Yan and Han Li were startled, and were subsequently stunned.

　　”Immortal nun Hua Lian, this isn’t too good! Your Guan is a female Guan, how can you allow a man like Han Xian Nephew to join?” The muscles on Yan’s face moved a bit, and he couldn’t help but say with a straight face.

　　”Although the Imperial Clearance Temple is a female temple, it’s not like there aren’t any fire-dwelling Taoist priests and male disciples in it to join. These people enter my Huang Qing Guan, but they actually reside outside the Guan, Mr. Yan is overly concerned.” The Daoist nun pursed her lips and said with a light smile.

　　”I see, Mister Yan indeed doesn’t know much about Huang Qing Guan matters. It’s just that Xian Nephew Han is trying to join the White Dew School, joining your Guan is still a bit inappropriate, right?” This Mr. Yan was really very attached to the matter of Han Li joining the academy, knowing full well that the other party was really an extraordinary being, he still spoke up and argued.

　　”With Fellow Daoist Han’s qualifications, even if you join the academy, you will only be an ordinary disciple with little future, while this Guan is preparing to refine a few treasures, and right now it is just lacking a low-ranked disciple who understands the art of refining weapons as an understudy. As long as you are willing to join this view, not only in the art of refining a higher level, and even poor Taoist can also be the Lord, on his cultivation can be more care of one or two. I’m not hiding it from Mr. Yan, the poor Taoist came to the academy this time, originally wanted to borrow a disciple from the academy who knows the art of refining weapons, and now that there’s a ready-made one, naturally there’s no need to trouble fellow Taoist Lu anymore.” Immortal Nun Hua Lian was not the least bit impressed, instead she explained with a smile.

　　”This, what do you think, Brother Lu?” After hearing the other party say this, the Confucian scholar surnamed Yan hesitated for a moment before he couldn’t help but raise his head to look at Mr. Lu.

　　”Fellow Daoist Han has yet to join this academy, and is still free, so naturally, whether or not he is willing to pay homage to the Imperial Clearview, it’s up to him to make up his own mind. But just like what Immortal Aunt Hua Lian said, even if Fellow Daoist Han joins this academy to cultivate under this academy, Mister Lu can’t possibly help with anything, there is not much of a future to speak of. As for Immortal Sister Hua Lian, she came to this academy this time to look for a low-ranking disciple who knows how to refine weapons. Worshipping under the Imperial Clearview is a good choice.” Mr. Lu’s expression remained unchanged as he said in a deep voice.

　　As the words were spoken, the gazes of the three people in the hall all landed on Han Li, some worried, some curious, and others faintly excited.

　　”Huang Qing Guan?” I seem to have heard of this name, and it seemed to be a Daoist temple on another peak on Mount Yutian. However, Han Li did not know beforehand that this Daoist Temple was even a female temple, and not knowing anything about this sect, he could only show a blank face and a head of fog.