Chapter 65: The Five-day Battle Begins! The Lingyun Sect is No Longer a Fifth-rank Sect!

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Looking at the young man in front of him, who was continuously gathering his energy, Jiang Yiming’s joy was already visible on his face!

This was merely a cultivator in the Qi Meditation Realm in the process of advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm, but more than ten days ago, this cultivator was still a cripple whose meridians had been completely severed!

Such a miracle could only happen in the Lingyun Sect.

Jiang Yiming took a deep breath and looked at Shangguan Qingyun.

“Master! Is… Is this the Foundation Establishment Realm?” Feeling the changes in his body, Shangguan was in disbelief.

Only by reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm could one be considered to have truly entered the path of cultivation!

“shangguan, oh, Shangguan, for you to have been able to reach the threshold of cultivation by yourself even when you were injured,” Jiang Yiming nodded with a smile and continued, “Now that your injuries have been completely repaired, I think your path of cultivation must be a broad and bright path!”
“Twill definitely focus on cultivation and not make Master lose face!”

In the residences at the side, the other disciples had also felt the breakthrough.

Although it was such a simple breakthrough that the aura that had rippled out was completely inferior to the energy that Huang Chaoyu had released when she had broken through, it still affected the residences next door.

“Has junior brother broken through as well?”

“The Lingyun Sect must be going to prosper again soon.”

After recruiting Dong Mi, another few days passed.
Within these few days, the sect was peaceful.

As Jiang Yiming exhaled the last mouthful of turbid Qi, the circulation of spiritual energy in his body had been completely cleansed.

“Finally! The next step is to stabilize my realm. Although there’s not a big problem for me to go into combat, with my unstable foundation and erratic spiritual energy, I’m afraid my Incarnation Realm doesn’t live up to its name.”
Jiang Yiming got up, stretched his body, and walked out of his residence.

As soon as he walked out, he saw Gu Lingfei and Ye Yunfan walk into the sect with displeased expressions.

“Why do the two of you look so displeased?”

“Master, our strength has increased greatly and we have all kinds of facilities. I think we should be able to remove the title of a fifth-rank sect, right?”

Jiang Yiming nodded. How could he not have thought about upgrading the rank of the sect?

If he wanted to upgrade the sect, he had to get the approval of other sects.

Right now, the Lingyun Sect was only a fifth-rank sect, as such, it needed the approval of the various fourth-rank sects.

The standard of approval was strength.

It was not just the strength of the sect leader alone.

More importantly, it was the strength of all the disciples under the sect leader.

Both Ye Yunfan and Dong Mi were on the verge of breaking through, it was just that they hadn’t found the chance for them to do so.

If he were to issue a letter of challenge to the various sects and announce that the Lingyun Sect wanted to become a fourth-rank sect, not only would raise the sect’s rank, but it was also an opportunity to train his disciples.

It would be the best of both worlds!

After pondering for a while, Jiang Yiming nodded.

“Tm sure you all know the procedures for a sect’s rank upgrade, right?”

“Yes, we know!” Hearing their Master’s words, Gu Lingfei and ye Yunfan’s eyes were filled with joy.

“Master! You don’t know this, but when it was just the three of us, even after seeing your strength increase greatly, the few of us knew that it wasn’t the right time yet. However, of the two new disciples you’ve recruited, one has extraordinary talent in cultivation, and the other is only second to you in
realm. We think it’s time for the sect to rank up, right?”

Gu Lingfei and Ye Yunfan echoed each other’s words.
From the looks of it, they had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

After all, they had both experienced the worst days of the Lingyun Sect!

At that time, Lingyun Sect was like a pile of trash on the roadside that anyone could step on!

But now, as the Lingyun Sect’s disciples, they wanted to tell the world, “The Lingyun Sect is back!”

“Tsay, this isn’t just the idea of the two of you, is it? Stop peeking and hurry up and come out,” Jiang Yiming smiled helplessly.

Following his order, his other disciples came out of nowhere.

“The five of you must have discussed for quite some time, right? Good! Very good, the few of you are very thoughtful. However, I am not the one who has the final say in the matter of upgrading the sect’s rank.”

“We know! These few days, with Old Ling as well as my senior and junior brothers as sparring partners, even I face an opponent with higher cultivation than me, I can still fight! Master! Don’t worry!” Shangguan spoke first.
Since even Shangguan was so full of confidence, Jiang Yiming simply couldn’t refuse no matter what.

“Since all of you are aware that I can’t help you this time yet are still so eager to try, I suppose you are all determined to achieve your goal, right? If that’s so, I will write the letters. My dear disciples, please prepare yourselves.”

“The Lingyun Sect finally can’t sit still? Are they finally unwilling to be a fifth-rank force?”

“Ha! What are you talking about?! Have you all forgotten about the incident not long ago with the sect leader of the Lingyun Sect! To have destroyed an Incarnation Realm cultivator without getting injured, I think even most fourth or even third-rank sect leaders can’t do it, right?”
“If [had to say, this time the Lingyun Sect is definitely determined to break away from being a fifth-rank force. I reckon that they are about to open up their sect gates and recruit disciples!”

“Determined to break away from being a fifth-rank sect? I don’t think so. The Lingyun Sect seems to only have a few disciples now!”

“Although the sect leader is powerful, if he’s the only one who is powerful, then isn’t he no different from those unaffiliated cultivators?”

In less than a day, the news that the Lingyun Sect was about to become a fourth-rank sect had spread throughout the Divine Phoenix Region.

The people on the streets were all discussing animatedly.

“Yes, yes, that’s true. There were only a few disciples in the Lingyun Sect, to begin with, and just these few are all cripples!”

“Dear friends, there isn’t a single useless person in the Lingyun Sect!” Hearing someone speak rudely, Dong Mi, who was buying supplies in the market at the foot of the mountain, spoke up.

“What business do you have with us talking? Hehe, don’t tell me you’re also from the Lingyun Sect? Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at by others when you come out?!” The leader of the group was a tall man. He was obviously a cultivator as well.

Dong Mi didn’t show any emotion. He just bowed and replied, “It’s true that I’m from Lingyun Sect. My sect leader has already informed the world that anyone who disagrees with us upgrading out rank can come to the sect for martial arts competitions within five days from tomorrow.”

“Don’t use your sect leader to pressure me! He probably just used some lewd technique to increase his strength in a short period!” The person, Zhen Lei, stood up and pointed at Dong Mi’s nose, “Since you’re from the Lingyum Sect, you must have a senior brother called Gu Lingfei, right? That person came
to me not too long ago and begged for our help! He was all tears and the whole thing was so touching! Hahahahahaha!”