"Eh? Where's Sister Anda?" Senior Sister June asked after noticing that Anda wasn't there.
"Madam entered seclusion. She wanted to break through to the Core Formation realm as soon as possible," Layla replied.
"Is that so? Oh my, what a pity. I wanted to see her again. Oh right, this graceful lady here is my master and the current Sect Mistress of the Multi-Elent Sect, Bulan Raela," Senior Sister June introduced.
"Welco to Bara City, Sect Mistress Bulan." Layla bowed slightly to show respect.
Although Sect Mistress Bulan was a Soul Formation expert, she, as the city lord, held a higher status here.
"Good girl. Although your realm is sowhat low, your ntal fortitude is quite impressive," Sect Mistress Bulan praised Layla with a graceful smile.
Suddenly, the handso middle-aged husband of Bulan Raela stepped forward. "Are you that Leyvi kid? I heard that you have the sa dream as . I'm Dahni. How about you beco my disciple? Hahaha!" Dahni's laughter bood across the room, startling Leyvi slightly.
Huh? What is he talking about? What dream? Leyvi was confused. His thoughts raced as he tried to piece together what Dahni could an by "the sa dream."
"I'm sorry. I don't have any plans to join any sect because I already established a cultivation family," Leyvi politely declined.
"Hahaha, who said you can't join a sect even if you have established a family? Beco my disciple, and I will teach you the art of living off your wife." The handso middle-aged Dahni said.
What the heck! I thought you wanted a disciple for cultivation. But you actually wanted to have
as a disciple for that reason. Also, why do I need your lessons for that? I'm doing quite well on my own.
"Handso Elder, I really don't want to join any organization. I don't like responsibilities," Leyvi replied truthfully.
"Elder Dahni, stop pressuring him. We already made a deal with the city lord," Senior Sister June reminded him. What if Leyvi avoided the Multi-Elent Sect if he kept pestering him like this?
"Ugh, fine. I just like this youngster. I'm not trying to force him or anything," Dahni gave up. "Leyvi, if you want to learn more about how to live off your wife, you can co to . I even wrote a few books about this, and they sold well. Hahaha!"
Leyvi was speechless. Aren't you supposed to research multi-elent stuff?
He secretly glanced at the Sect Mistress. Is she soone who is fine with her husband living off her too? She might get along with Anda. Unfortunately, she's in seclusion.
Afterward, they requested to see Leyvi's five-elent ability, which he demonstrated the exact sa way he did last ti.
And just like Senior Sister June, the older generations of the Multi-Elent Sect started to look at him like a Heavenly Treasure. Leyvi could see the stars in their eyes, a mix of hope and admiration that made him feel uneasy.
Uhh...Can you please not look at
like that?
Later, Layla, Senior Sister June, and Sect Mistress Bulan discussed so more things before she gave them the city lord's mansion key token.
Just as agreed upon, it would be where the Multi-Elent Sect would operate from now on. They only had a total of 23 mbers in the sect, so the mansion was big enough for them.
Before they left the Leyan Family mansion, Sect Mistress Bulan gave Leyvi a jade slip containing the martial skill manual of their sect's progenitor.
Although sowhat reluctant, Leyvi accepted it since it was the agreent after all. He couldn't let Layla's reputation be tarnished because of him. If he couldn't even do this small thing for his wife, how could he beco the Bara City model husband?
The Multi-Elent Sect wanted their progenitor's legacy to be passed down, and he was the only one who could do it right now. This was the reason why they agreed to cooperate with Layla in the first place.
At the end of the day, it was just learning a martial skill. It shouldn't be that hard, right?
In the basent training room.
"What the heck! Why is this so hard to do?" Leyvi complained.
He already hit a snag as soon as he tried to learn the martial skill. It turned out that he had great difficulty using multiple elents at the sa ti. When he showed off his five-elent ability previously, he did it one by one, which was quite simple.
But when he tried to produce three elents at the sa ti, they beca totally unstable and were dominated by the fire elent, the one he used the most.
"Weird, the manual didn't ntion anything about the difficulty in producing three-elent Qi at the sa ti. Don't they have any problem with this at all?" Leyvi scratched his head, his brows furrowed.
What Leyvi didn't know was that although he could use five different elental Qi due to the benefits from the talent bead, he fundantally had never used more than one elent at once and had zero experience in balancing them.
The way a multi-elent cultivator cultivates is slightly different from the average single-elent cultivator. A multi-elent cultivator could just use the sa cultivation manual that a single-elent cultivator uses without any problem.
If they have a dual-elent spirit root, for example, fire and water, they could either focus on any one of the elents or both.
Even if they chose to focus on just one elent, that is absolutely fine. There would be no downside at all. It just ant that they would beco a single-elent cultivator like many others.
On the other hand, if they chose to cultivate both elents, they would have to use two cultivation manuals suitable for converting the absorbed spiritual energy to fire and water elental Qi. Then, these two Qi would have to be balanced in their dantian, most of the ti, with the sa amount of Qi for both elents.
The advantage for multi-elent cultivators was that they got to use more types of Qi or a combination of them, making them more versatile.
However, the downside was that they had a smaller Qi pool since they had to balance them equally in their dantian. If the user only used a fire-type martial skill, only the fire-elent Qi would be used up, and vice versa. So, they had to learn martial skills for both elents, forcing them to use both martial skills in a fight. In many situations, this could be troubleso for them.
To mitigate this downside, they ca up with the idea to create martial skills that combine the elents they use, like how Senior Sister June demonstrated with her coral martial skill, combining earth and water elental Qi. It solved the half Qi pool problem entirely.
This was the reason why the Multi-Elent Sect existed and why they valued Leyvi so much.
With Leyvi, they might be able to create martial skills that combine any combination of those five elents, paving an easier path for future multi-elent cultivators.
The reason why there were so few cultivators in the Multi-Elent Sect was that in addition to the already rare nature of multi-elent spirit roots, most cultivators they found were unwilling to go through the hardship of creating a new martial skill, delaying their cultivation. The path was seen as too slow and arduous, even for those with the natural talent for it.
In the future, when more martial skills for combined elents beca available, more cultivators with multi-elent spirit roots would choose to join the sect.
But unbeknownst to them, their valued treasure was having great difficulty balancing the different-elent Qi he produced, and couldn't even enter the first step of learning their progenitor's martial skill.
Balancing different-elent Qi was the most basic skill for them, already like breathing air, but to Leyvi, it was an entirely new experience.
His dantian was filled with only attributeless Qi, which ant he never had to balance them. His elental affinity benefit allowed him to transform his attributeless Qi to any of the five elents with ease.
Leyvi felt like crying. It seed that he had to learn to balance the five-elent Qi first before anything else. He lanted the fact that he had to add another routine to his training and cultivation regi. Ugh, now he has less ti to learn about pressure, sothing that he has co to be passionate about recently. Leyvi complained endlessly in his mind.
After a while, Leyvi cald himself down and stopped complaining. By helping his wives now, it would only help him to live leisurely in the future. Yup. He repeated this thought like a mantra, determined to push through his current struggles.
Six months later, after a few more successful operations crushing criminal groups in the city, Layla announced to the citizens of Bara City that, as the city lord, she had reached a cooperation agreent with the Multi-Elent Sect, who would be her backers from now on.
The announcent ca during a grand public gathering in the city square, where Layla addressed the citizens from a raised platform. Her steady and commanding voice echoed across the bustling crowd. The Multi-Elent Sect's top-echelon mbers stood behind her, showcasing their aura, and showing the people the level of strength backing their city lord.
Most people didn't know what the Multi-Elent Sect was, but a few who were knowledgeable quickly spread the information about them to the public. Whispers rippled through the crowd as rumors of the sect's strength and prestige while only having small numbers began to circulate.
A sect with three Soul Formation experts!
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