Xiaoyi comes for a visit!

Shu Yidan laid his back against the throne while Duan Shanwei had taken a seat upon a smaller chair beside him. He thought over his conversation with Duan Shanwei earlier.

All of his exchange with Duan Shanwei was without falsity: White Lotus cultivators increased their karmic binding with the red dust of the mortal world, making it harder for them to reach Divine Transformation. They incurred higher mental attacks and had to fight off Heart Demons as they cultivated. The requirements for dual cultivation increased steadily, requiring orgies with double-digit number of cultivators for daily cultivation at Divine Transformation realm.

That was all true. But what he didn't explain was the true battle ability of White Lotus cultivators – illusions.

Until Peak Nascent Soul, they could fast-track their cultivation with ease. And at Peak Nascent Soul, when their crazed cultivation speed struck a bottleneck – they began to crazily train their battle abilities.

Illusions. They required a powerful soul and spirit to train in – and the Nascent Soul stage specifically focused on training the soul! At Peak Nascent Soul Realm, all the disadvantages of the White Lotus dual cultivation path were leveraged to refine battle ability and transform the power and lethality of these illusions!

The karmic binding of the mortal world's red dust would transform their souls. The mental backlashes and heart demon tribulations would forge their spirits. The countless orgies would refine their Dao Hearts.

The majority of the White Lotus Cult's cultivators would go insane, anyway, turning into crazed beasts. But of course, a few would achieve Divine Transformation, becoming peerless in the era. And these peerless Divine Transformation cultivators could easily seize control over the minds of the crazed beasts who failed to break through to Nascent Soul, turning these liabilities into assets!

These Divine Transformation cultivators could harness about 36 of these crazed beasts pf culivators in battle, even using them in tandem with formations. Even without these crazed beasts, their illusory and mental skills could allow them to easily dominate the minds of even their Divine Transformation peers!

Shu Yidan didn't know about Duan Shanwei, but he was confident that Feng Shiyao could easily break through to Divine Transformation by following the way of White Lotus. If he told her everything he knew about dual cultivation, she could easily avoid all disadvantages and quickly become a figure capable of shaking the world!

That said, he would rather not have her take this path.

The first reason was of course the White Lotus Cult. If Feng Shiyao rose using the path of the White Lotus, they would assuredly take notice of her. They would take Feng Shiyao away to train in the White Lotus Cult, either by force or otherwise.

He certainly wouldn't trust his woman in the clutches of these madwomen!

The second reason was that it would cheapen sex. Feng Shiyao would quickly build resistance to normal stimulation and they would quickly descend to deviancy. After a certain point, Feng Shiyao would completely lose her sense of morality and thus, Shu Yidan would be forced to end his relationship with her.

The third and most important reason was illusions, especially their effect on him.

Shu Yidan was under no illusions about his ability to resist them. His True Immortal Divine Sense had all but scattered and the Transcendent Aura was like a hollow remnant now that he was no longer a True Immortal. He could still resist illusions of all types, but slowly but surely this mighty bulwark would shatter. And then…

If Feng Shiyao earnestly embarked on the path of the White Lotus, she would gain the ability to manifest limitless illusions. Her breath, blood and qi could bring forth illusions. Her dreams, desires and stray thoughts would bring forth illusions. Shu Yidan would be facing an infinite assault from illusions!

While Feng Shiyao would be able to restrain her nascent ability of casting illusions for most of the time, during their dual cultivation… Well, Shu Yidan would slowly be affected by… a rare and unheard condition.

[BIMBOIFICATION (MALE)]

Shu Yidan felt a cold chill run down his back thinking of it.

'…Fuck that. I fought so hard for the chance for my soul to survive that tribulation! I fought so hard so that my personality at my peak would make it through even my death!

I definitely won't let anything affect it! Not now, not ever!!" Resolving himself, he slowly emptied his mind off all the horrifying possibilities of the myriad ways Feng Shiyao could butcher his personality.

Just then, Shu Yidan suddenly felt the array indicate the arrival of a guest. He immediately put his stream of thoughts to the back of the head. Telling Duan Shanwei to stand guard before Feng Shiyao, he went to open the door.

"Good afternoon, fellow apprentice brother!" Xiaoyi's cheerful voice was nice to hear as always.

After the morning attack on the Wang father and son, Shu Yidan sent off Xiaoyi from the Azurewind Peak.

"Oh, good to see you've learnt your lesson. I still have to fix the arrays and formations, so is good of you to not break them further." Shu Yidan said with a smirk.

"Ugh, don't remind me, it is embarrassing… Anyway, Master transmitted me the Heaven-Wind Two-Trigram Divine Law!" Xiaoyi's grin was infectious.

"The entire thing? Not the first part or something?" Shu Yidan asked with some concern.

"Well, Master has put a jade slip in my mind. I can only see the Qi Refining portions of the manual, but he said that I would be able to access more with cultivation base increase…" Xiaoyi told carefreely.

"Huh, so the old man has truly chosen you as a successor, huh…" Shu Yidan was a little surprised.

Looking at Xiaoyi's unknowing expression, he began explaining, "That old guy cut off his Divine Sense, sealing his memories of the Heaven-Wind Two-Trigram Divine Law within them. With your every breakthrough, you can read more of the Divine Law and fuse with the old man's Divine Sense."

With a final thoughtful expression as if he actually cared about the old man, Shu Yidan patted Xiaoyi's head. "The old man sacrificed his Divine Sense, so you have to live up to his expectations…"

"I won't fail him." Xiaoyi said with a resolved expression. Seeing her like this, Shu Yidan couldn't help but think about the terrible fate she suffered in the past timeline…

"Anyway, brother Shu! Master told me to pick up some techniques from the Sect's Scripture Hall! Can you help me choose? I need the techniques you told me last night about, the ones that can help me defeat a Nascent Soul like you did today!" Xiaoyi's words broke Shu Yidan out of his thoughts.

'Damn, I am getting caught up in my thoughts a lot today… Is this the side effect of my mental age?!" Thinking this, he told Xiaoyi to wait for him outside, for he would take a while.

Of course, he had to make some arrangements with Duan Shanwei first and leave Feng Shiyao with the best defenses so that she could rape her Sect Master without being interrupted by anything.

What if Yang Yi fell from the sky to his undefended cultivation residence when he was away? Of course, the most extreme possibilities had to be accounted for as well!