Xianggong servant zone extends for several kilometres, but at the core of it was the main areas where almost all the deacons, servants and initiated miscellaneous disciples reside.

At one of the cabins.

"Jiang Yun, how's it going, have you sensed the spiritual energy" Jia Xinyue asked with some concern.

"Haha, who do you think I'm, my father is the lord of Luoyang City and my body flows with his blood, and the difference of my talent with the general peasant's muds is worlds apart. One month to sense the spiritual energy, and for five months I have been refining spiritual energy only one more month I can enter the 1st stage of Qi Refining."

"How can I lead you if my talent wasn't exceptional", Jiang Yun proudly looked at the sky and laughed.

"By the way, the two of you haven't entered the 1st stage yet, have you?" Jiang Yun stopped laughing and suddenly asked.

"No, Cheng Xian and I didn't even start refining the spiritual energy yet, whether we can finally enter the 1st stage his not in a month or two" Jia Xinyue answered with his voice in a low tone while his eyes flashed a hint of discolouration as he quickly shakes his head while replying.

"Cough cough, It is normal you don't have to become gloomy, even I just barely started, so you don't have to worry much if you can't enter the 1st stage for a long time just come to me that I help you out. Unfortunately, I didn't enter the 1st stage of Qi Refining so the experience is still lacking" Jiang Yun said generously.

"Thanks for your guidance Jiang Yun", Jia Xinyue hurriedly thanked him.

"Well, you are my brother, so you don't have to be so formal with me" Jiang Yun tiptoed up and patted Jia Xinyue shoulder.

Jia Xinyue origin was just of a normal low business family, there were many brothers and sisters, the wealth they had were small, the fact that he had a low aptitude for cultivation was not different from a blessing from the heavens.

"Speaking of which, did you heard about sister Luo Jian?" Jia Xinyue decides to change the topic trying to lighten up the atmosphere around.

"Yoh, something important happed?" after hearing Luo Jian name, Jiang Yun immediately raised his attention, because he was focused on practising he didn't go out at all, even his food was brought by Cheng Xian and Jia Xinyue.

"Yes, you know that after retesting her aptitude it was found out that she had a medium aptitude" Jia Xinyue said while recalling some memories.

One thing that defines the initial progress of the cultivator is aptitude. Generally, the mortal aptitude is divided into lower, middle and high, but beyond that, it was said that exists some cultivation aptitude that falls above the basic classification.

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"Lately there are some rumours that an outer elder of Xianggong had considered taking her as a disciple," Jia Xinyue said some rumours that he had heard lately

"Wow, really!" Jiang Yun clearly perceived the nuance of these rumours, his father was a city lord and have some minor knowledge of how the power structure is on the cultivation sect, and being considered a disciple of an elder is already a status that even him doubt he could ever achieve.

"Jiang Yun we should do something to gain favour from sister Luo Jian" the two of them could help but keep talking about this rumour as they delve deeper into it, Jia Xinyue could help but comment.

"Yes, I agree, we should gain favours with her, let's prepare some gifts for her, it is just that now is too early. Let's wait for a bit and see what in what the rumours turnout." although it was just a rumour Jiang Yun couldn't help but agree with Jia Xinyue, even if the rumours turned out to be false Luo Jian was still a beauty that had fallen into his eyes, but now he didn't have anything of value on in that could impress her.

"Oh, I see, brother is wise, but if you could gain sister Luo Jian graces now it would be better than even that time we have beaten that boy that touched her" Jia Xinyue seemly unconsciously blurred his mouth out.

"Oh I just had I idea, let's teach that boy another hard lesson" After hearing Jia Xinyue mention that incident, Jiang Yun suddenly draft a plan in his mind. In fact, Jiang Yun was the main instigator in beating Zhang Chang when they were being transported here, and when he started practising he had completely ignored Zhang Chang and if wasn't for Jia Xinyue maybe it would keep being that way.

For a while, Jia Xinyue keeps condemning Zhang Chang and strengthening Jiang Yun mind against Zhang Chang and happily walk away.

Jia Xinyue walks down on the road, his face did not have the inferior look that it had in front of Jiang Yun, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and the corners of his mouth had slightly upward bent.

"It turns out that Jiang Yun aptitude is not as good as mine, although it took me some time to start practising, but now I'm just a step away from the 1st stage of Qi Refining, today I specially came to inquire about his progress, ah, I didn't expect it to be inferior." Jia Xinyue and Jiang Yun were from the same city and he used to be one of his followers.

"Hmm, now while he entangles with Zhang Chang, it just a matter of time for me to outshine Jiang Yun, now there is no benefit from being his follower". When he was just a mere mortal he used to climb onto Jiang Yun for status, after all, Jiang Yun father was the city lord from where he came from.

"But now, I will become your master" Jia Xinyue understood the deepest of a cultivator, before he was a mortal and had to bow his head, but the Jiang Yun worldly identity doesn't wight the slightest now.

Jia Xinyue pushed open the door of his cabin and went straight to cultivate. The moment one has ambitions they are bonded to clash with other peoples, even if his talent was more promising than average, he had no time to waste.

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"Hm" Zhang Chang walked down the road to the Administrative Hall, it had been a day since he entered the 1st stage of Qi Refining. As he walks, from now and then he would stop and jump funnily as he cast his eyes around, now he was more perceptibly of the spiritual energy around.

Given this new sense of spiritual energy, he could feel some of its fluctuation around, and he could miss this opportunity to do some tests. Although at naked eyes everything seems normal, with the help of Chip every slight fluctuation of spiritual energy is detected.

'Chip Characterize the new data under the Spiritual energy Fluid' Unknowly Zhang Chang had arrived at the Administrative Hall so he quickly stopped his experiments and mended his robe.