9th Mountain

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After becoming a Spirit Warrior, Yin Xiu did not stop and quickly popped a Qi gathering pill. She started stabilizing her Qi State. It took her a few minutes for the Qi to settle down in her Dantian.

After the Qi settled, Yin Xiu quickly started the next cycle of Qi. Her goal was to reach the intermediate level of the 1st Stage.

Each stage of the realms could be divided into 4 parts - early, intermediate, high, and peak. The peak level meant that the person was close to breaking through to the next stage.

Yin Xiu felt that her body was even free than she expected after becoming a Spirit Warrior. She completed several cycles of Qi before she even realized it.

Yin Xiu crossed the Early and Intermediate Stages and entered the Late stage. Without stopping there, her cultivation level finally stopped at the peak of the first stage.

Yin Xiu opened her eyes and saw her master beside her.

"Master! I broke through to the Spirit Warrior realm on my own!"

Chen Jiang smiled at Yin Xiu's excitement.

"Good job. Now take some rest. Maybe go around the Sect to free yourself. Make some friends."

Yin Xiu was about to go but suddenly her master stopped her.

"Wait. Take this token with you. You can buy anything you want if you feel like you want it."

Yin Xiu took a token that resembled the token that Chen Jiang had given her at the time when she was accepted as his disciple. It was also hexagonal. However, this token was golden in color and had the number 36 on it.

Yin Xiu quickly went out of the mountain and decided to tour the mountains. She had heard all of the female disciples were in the 9th mountain so she decided to go there to make some friends.

Yin Xiu quickly went to the 9th mountain. While some core sections of most of the mountains were restricted for normal disciples, the rest of the mountain was free for visiting.

The only exceptions were the 9th mountain and the 36th mountain. The 36th mountain was off-limits because Chen Jiang, who was the owner of the mountain, decided not to allow anyone in.

The only reason that Elders allowed other disciples to enter their mountains was so that they would spend spirit stones at the mountain to buy herbs or weapons. Since the 36th mountain did not have any shops like that, it did not need to allow disciples in.

As for the 9th mountain, their situation was peculiar. The 9th mountain was famed because it was an all-female mountain. No male visitors were allowed, and male disciples were not admitted either.

The way that disciples were divided into the mountains was based on the Elder of the mountain. Since Spirit Dukes had a lifespan of 300 years, they would be able to serve as an elder for at least 100 years.

Each mountain advocated a sword style. Only people who were suitable for that sword style were sent there. The sword style of the 9th mountain was tailor-made for females.

As for the 36th mountain, it was a special case.

The 2nd mountain was also a special case. Only exceptionally talented people were allowed to go there. No one would directly be assigned to the 2nd mountain. There was a special competition that was held every three years among the disciples based on the age groups. The best of the best would be allowed to transfer from their mountain to the 2nd mountain.

The 2nd mountain had more resources and better teachers than the other mountains, so everyone wanted to go to the 2nd mountain.

Some mountains actually had more than one person at the Spirit Duke realm. It was expected that more than one person was talented in a single generation. The stronger person would be allotted the Elder position.

As for the ranking of the mountains, it would be according to the positions of the disciples in the competition that would be held every three years.

Yin Xiu was strolling happily to the 9th mountain. Unbeknownst to her, one of the disciples saw her, and suddenly, in no time at all, there was a huge group that was following her.

Yin Xiu finally entered the 9th mountain. Without noticing which mountain Yin Xiu had entered, some of the people who were following Yin Xiu accidentally rammed into an invisible barrier.

"Who do you think you are? Coming into the 9th mountain?!"