The back of the mountain of the Academy had always been mysterious in the cultivation world. Third Sister Yu Lian was even more low-key. Not many people knew of her existence. The West-Hill Divine Palace knew a little more, but they only knew that she was a powerhouse in the Seethrough realm.
It was also recorded in the "Ri" Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane.
But the Lord Headmaster and the other true bigwigs never believed this.
The Academy was a magical place. The Eldest Brother learned the Tao in the morning and entered the Tao in the evening. He jumped two levels from the No Doubts State to the Knowing Destiny State in a day. The Second Brother reached the No Doubts State in 14 days.
Yu Lian was the Academy's Third Sister, just below Eldest Brother and Second Brother.
Even though the Second floor of the Academy was ranked according to the time of entry, Eldest Brother and Second Brother were extraordinary figures. They had suppressed the World Wayfarers of the Buddhism and Taoism sects in the autumn rain at the Lanke Temple, and forced Liu Bai, the Sage of Sword, to not dare to draw his sword. How could she be weak?
There were also many geniuses in the Dao Sect. Ye Su had broken through the Close of Life and Death at such a young age. Ye Hongyu disdained to compete with Chen Pipi for the title of being the youngest to enter the Knowing Destiny State. She suppressed her cultivation state to the Seethrough State for several years with great determination and clarity of Taoism. It was not until she reached perfection that she casually stepped over the threshold on the snow cliff, which was similar to the situation now.
That was why the Hierarch Lord was not surprised to see Yu Lian walking slowly on the mountain path and instantly breaking through the Seethrough Realm to the Knowing Destiny State. Until her aura continued to rise … the Peak of the Knowing Destiny State!
The Lord Headmaster's expression finally became serious, but his voice was still dignified and confident.
"Haotian bestowed upon me the divine power to shepherd sheep in the human world. Before the boundless light, even your two senior brothers are no match for me. Even if you reveal your true strength today, you can only become a sacrifice!"
The Hierarch Lord looked at the beautiful girl outside the veil and said, "Haotian Taoism respects the Headmaster of the Academy. For the sake of your teacher, hand over the array eye pestle and I will spare your lives."
Yu Lian took out an object wrapped in cloth from her sleeve and placed it on a wooden stool by the side of the mountain path. She looked at the giant sedan calmly and said, "My eyes are blinding. I'll spare your life for the sake of your stupidity."
The Sect Leader was slightly startled, then he laughed out loud.
His laughter shook the layers of gauze and echoed in the quiet back mountain of the Academy.
"You're as short as a little girl, but you sure talk big."
The Headmaster stopped laughing and shouted, "Do you really think you have the ability to defeat me? What a joke! "
His voice was cold and loud, like thunder in the deep winter.
Yu Lian had already walked to the front of the giant chariot. Looking at the tall figure behind the gauze curtain, he smiled and said, "You are shorter than me. What right do you have to mock me?"
The figure on the carriage was clearly so tall and imposing, but she said that he was shorter than her.
The Lord Hierarch suddenly fell silent.
He stared at the Aokiji girl outside the curtain and said slowly, "Who are you?"
The Sect Leader's voice was extremely solemn, and there was even a hint of uneasiness in it.
"I've always known who you are, but you don't even know who I am. Everyone says that you and I are the two most mysterious people in the cultivation world, but now it seems that this saying is really laughable. "
In the quiet back mountain of the Academy, a cicada suddenly chirped.
The four seasons here were all spring, and there was no true autumn. Following the sound of cicadas, autumn arrived. The autumn wind blew, and yellow leaves fell, because these cicadas were autumn cicadas.
Under the pine tree, the Fifth Brother and the Eighth Brother were a little surprised and suddenly understood. They looked at each other and smiled. Then they bowed to Yu Lian and left the cliff yard quietly.
The Hierarch's voice became more and more uneasy. He said coldly, "Who … are you!"
He heard the cicadas and vaguely guessed something. But he could not believe it no matter what.
Yu Lian's aura suddenly became indifferent. Her delicate and beautiful facial features seemed to be covered with a thin layer of frost. She looked extremely mysterious and arrogant.
She clearly looked up at the tall figure on the chariot.
But it seemed that she was looking down at an ant.
An extremely cold voice came from her lips.
"Xiong Chumo, you damn dwarf, what right do you have to stand higher than me?"
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As soon as she finished, countless cicadas chirped in the back mountain of the Academy.
Cicadas, cicadas, what did they know?
The whole mountain was filled with cicadas' mournful and frightening chirping in autumn.
The autumn wind was getting stronger, and the yellow leaves fell.
Countless yellow leaves fell on the giant chariot.
The chariot was covered with layers of gauze. It was not destroyed in the battle with Xu Shi, nor was it damaged after breaking the chess game of the Academy. However, it looked so fragile in front of the falling yellow leaves and was torn into countless pieces!
The broken gauze flew away, and there was nothing left on the chariot.
Few people had seen the real Hierarch Lord of the Divine Halls of West-Hill.
That was why he was called one of the two most mysterious people in the world.
At this moment, his real body finally appeared in the daylight.
He appeared in the mountains of cicadas.
An old Taoist priest appeared on the chariot with a very ordinary appearance.
But the old Taoist priest was very special.
He was very short, even shorter than a boy of eight or nine years old.
He was very thin, even thinner than the victims of the famine.
He looked like a doll made of several pieces of dry wood.
He looked so pitiful and ridiculous.
This was the real appearance of the Hierarch Lord of the Divine Halls of West-Hill.
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The Hierarch was not used to the sunlight.
There was a look of panic on his face.
Because his secular name, which no one knew, was shouted out by Yu Lian. Because he found that without layers of gauze covering his body, the tall and stalwart figure was no longer there. He became very flustered, like a naked man who was stripped of his clothes, and did not know where to put his hands.
The big white goose on the roof of the water cart behind the smithy squawked shamelessly when it saw this scene.
Amid the chirping of the cicadas, Yu Lian's aura was still rising. In an instant, she had surpassed the high threshold above the Five States. Everything was clear!
The Hierarch Lord finally came to his senses. He looked at the girl outside the chariot, and a shrill and angry scream burst out from his dry lips.
"Lin Wu!"
"Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation!"
"You're hiding in the Academy!"
"You've become a woman!"
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There were thirteen disciples in the back of the mountain of the Academy, and the most inconspicuous one was Third Sister Yu Lian.
The other disciples were all peerless geniuses in their own fields, but she seemed to be the only one who did not stand out. She seldom talked to people, and rarely stayed in the back of the mountain.
She sat by the east window on the second floor of the old library every day, quietly drawing Hairpin-style Small Regular Script. It seemed that nothing in the world could arouse her interest, and it was difficult for her to arouse the interest of others.
Not to mention the people in the cultivation world, even Ning Que and the other disciples sometimes forgot that they had such a Senior Sister, because she was too quiet and easily forgotten.
At this critical moment, Eldest Brother arranged for the disciples of the Academy to go to different places to do what they should do, but left her in the Academy.
It was not that he was not worried that the Academy would be attacked, nor was he like Ning Que and the Empress who gave up Helan City. It was because he believed that as long as Third Sister was in the Academy, the Academy would be safe.
Because she used to have a name, Lin Wu.
She was the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation.
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The Headmaster of the Academy once said this to his disciples.
There was a kind of cicada in the arid land of the far west. It hid in the mud for twenty-three years, and only woke up when the snow melted and the flood came. It bathed in the mud, dried its wings in the cold wind, and flew into the void.
At that time, Chen Pipi was fascinated by it.
Eldest Brother and Second Brother smiled and said nothing.
Yu Lian was also there, and she cooked a bowl of noodles with vegetables for the Headmaster.
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He was the most talented person in the Devil's Doctrine in the past hundred years.
Master Lotus had wholeheartedly wanted him to inherit his mantle.
But his father died in the hands of Lotus, so he calmly refused the opportunity.
He chose a path that no one had ever walked before.
He wanted to practice a unique skill that no one in the Devil's Doctrine had ever succeeded in.
He was the youngest and the last Suzerain in the history of the Devil's Doctrine.
He had a few students who were older than him.
He continued to cultivate.
Finally, he succeeded, and then he disappeared.
From that day on, he became the most mysterious person in the cultivation world.
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That year, the Headmaster met a little girl.
The little girl was like a jade carving, extremely cute, but her eyes were extremely calm.
Only the Headmaster could see the confusion and fear in the deepest part of her eyes.
"What's there to be afraid of?"
The Headmaster said to the little girl, "Everything is just the appearance. Is this body so important to you?"
The little girl understood and bowed with hands folded in front of her chest, looking elegant.
The Headmaster shook his head.
The little girl clumsily put her hands on the side of her waist and bowed. She was very shy.
The Headmaster nodded with satisfaction.
When the Devil's Doctrine was destroyed, the West-Hill Divine Palace hunted down the remnants of the Devil's Doctrine. The little girl was just a little girl. She had no ability to protect herself. She did not know how to live the next 23 years.
But she did not beg the Headmaster.
Because she had her own pride.
The Headmaster did not wait for her to speak and said, "Come back to the Academy with me."
The Headmaster said it casually, as if she had always been in the Academy.
From that day on, the Headmaster had a female disciple.
As more and more disciples entered the Academy, she began to be called the Third Sister.
A few years later, there was a female professor in the Academy, Yu Lian.
The female professor sat by the east window and wrote the Hairpin-style Small Regular Script for many years.
Cicadas were chirping outside the window.
She was very inconspicuous. She did not care about the world, and the world did not care about her.
She was the legendary Twenty-Three-year Cicada Lin Wu.
What a big fog.
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The Hierarch Lord's shocked and angry roar was still echoing in the back mountain of the Academy.
The roar was like winter thunder, but it could not suppress the chirping of the cicadas.
He looked at the young and beautiful girl and said incredulously, "How did you become a woman?"
Yu Lian said sarcastically, "Haotian can become a woman, why can't I? If I can't even see through the appearance, how can I cultivate the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation? If Ye Su was standing in front of me, he would not ask such a stupid question. If he could see through life and death, he could naturally see through these details. "
The Hierarch still could not suppress his shock and said, "Although you are a demon, you are still a Suzerain. You are shameless to change your sect and become an outsider's disciple!"
Yu Lian looked at the sky and said, "The Headmaster of the Academy is worthy to be the Teacher of All Ages, let alone me."
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