Jin Sanniang nodded, "If this matter is truly as we suspect, then it is indeed not something you can interfere with."

"You should focus on your cultivation and breakthrough. Once you enter the Mystical Realm, it will be a whole new world, and you will naturally be different."

After a moment's pause, Jin Sanniang continued, "But before you break through, you should first take your silver badge and enter the Six Doors' Scripture Pavilion to learn from the experiences and summaries of predecessors. Although everyone's experience entering the Mystical Realm is not exactly the same, there are still general patterns to be found."

As she spoke, she grabbed her gold badge on her chest and pressed it against Ye Chuxiao's silver badge.

Ye Chuxiao immediately noticed that his silver badge now had an additional major merit and five minor merits.

Minor merits can be used to exchange for some less advanced, scarce cultivation resources, or they can be directly exchanged for silver.

Major merits are specifically used to exchange for the Six Doors' collection of miraculous skills and spiritual weapons.

"Is Jin Dajie trying to take care of me?" Ye Chuxiao laughed.

Jin Sanniang said, "Dream on. This was put together by me, Zhao Sibai, and Qiao Wuqi. The major merit was contributed by Zhao Sibai alone, as an apology to you."

"If you still consider him a friend, then attend his banquet in two days celebrating his promotion to gold badge candidate. If you don't, then just ignore it."

Ye Chuxiao didn't answer immediately, but instead said, "It seems that Jin Dajie no longer holds a grudge."

Jin Sanniang said, "It's all for the sake of solving the case. He had his concerns, and he wasn't the one making the decisions."

Ye Chuxiao nodded, "That's true!"

But he still didn't say whether he would attend the banquet in two days.

The so-called gold badge candidate is half a level higher than a silver badge, but not yet a full gold badge.

The minimum requirement for a gold badge is Huajing cultivation, and Zhao Sibai's cultivation is still lacking, but his rank has been raised, making him an official of the fifth rank.

"This demon woman is a bigger fish than I thought."

"Zhao Sibai mainly cooperated with Jin Buyi, but he has already been promoted to gold badge candidate," Ye Chuxiao thought.

In the following days, Ye Chuxiao spent all the merit points in his silver badge.

He not only read a large number of predecessors' experiences and insights on breaking into the Mystical Realm, but also found a music cultivation manual called *Yu Long Yin* (Jade Dragon's Chant) in the Six Doors' Scripture Pavilion.

During his battle with Liu Suifeng, Ye Chuxiao felt the effects of the music cultivator's group attacks and large-scale control, and thought it would be useful, so he planned to cultivate it as a trump card.

In the small courtyard, Ye Chuxiao held a long xiao (vertical bamboo flute), and the music he played was intermittent and barely listenable.

"You have already entered the Energy Level. Unless your spiritual roots have left you an opening for music cultivation, even if you practice hard, you will only be spinning in the Sea of Bitterness for the rest of your life." On the wall, a figure wearing a white mask suddenly appeared like a ghost.

Ye Chuxiao was already used to this Primogenitor Church demon's elusiveness.

He put away the long xiao and naturally drew his saber, "I'd like to know if I can kill you with one strike right now."

The white mask walked along the wall, his voice filled with helplessness, "If you let go of the Zhenyin Fu (Vibration Sound Talisman) in your other hand, I might believe you."

"How would someone like you, without seeing through me, rashly make a move against me?"

"Then you're wrong!" Ye Chuxiao's saber had already struck out before he finished speaking.

This strike was both a test and a killing move.

It was completely improvised.

Of course, the framework was extremely correct, without the slightest instability.

Even if he changed his move at the last moment, it would not bring about subsequent flaws.

"Good saber technique!" The white mask didn't take Ye Chuxiao's saber at all.

His figure nimbly jumped around the small courtyard, avoiding Ye Chuxiao's swinging blade time and time again.

"You have good footwork!" Ye Chuxiao, unable to land a blow, sheathed his saber and guarded his center.

At this time, although he still had the means of sword cultivation, talisman cultivation, and array cultivation that he hadn't used, his most skilled martial cultivation saber technique had not been effective. If he rashly made another move, he would only reveal his methods, and the probability of it working was not high.

"You came to me for the demon woman imprisoned on the fifth level of the dungeon?" Ye Chuxiao asked.

The white mask said, "Not a demon woman, a celestial maiden! An Immaculate Celestial Maiden!"

"Do you know what an Immaculate Celestial Maiden is?"

Ye Chuxiao said, "I just happened to have looked up information these past few days. Immaculate Celestial Maiden... how laughable! In my opinion, she's still a demon woman, just a pitiful one. From a young age, she was subjected to having her seven emotions and six desires severed by the Primogenitor Church's elders using the Heart-Cleaving Saber, and then refined into a Heart Pill and consumed. She seems no different from ordinary people, but in reality, all her emotions come from performance, not a shred of it is real."

"The so-called Immaculate is probably because she was born without love, hate, or resentment, so she won't be affected by any emotional increases or decreases. Your Primogenitor Church advocates the original true self, but you came up with this method of cultivating people into plants and stones to resist the Great Dao's Deficiency. Isn't that ridiculous?"

The white mask sighed, "What you said... isn't wrong!"

"This method is radical, but the appearance of the Immaculate Celestial Maiden can effectively connect and unite the Primogenitor Church in various realms, because only the Immaculate Celestial Maiden can unscrupulously travel between different worlds, learn the cultivation methods of different worlds, and freely improve her cultivation."

Ye Chuxiao had heard Jin Sanniang talk about the origins of the Primogenitor Church.

Listening to the white mask's tone, it seemed that he belonged to the branch of the Primogenitor Church that revered the original teachings?

The original teachings of the Primogenitor Church were indeed relatively gentle and upright.

"What you know is only the initial stage of the Immaculate Celestial Maiden."

"When the Immaculate Celestial Maiden's cultivation reaches a certain level, the Heart Pill can no longer replace them in resisting the feedback and backlash of the Great Dao's Deficiency, so they have to find a cauldron, willing to help them bear the Heart Pill."

"This Heart Pill will dissolve into the soul of the cauldron, making the cauldron's seven emotions and six desires more intense than ordinary people, but at the same time, the cauldron must remain restrained, restrain their emotions from overflowing, and restrain themselves from quickly becoming mad and collapsing."

"The Immaculate Celestial Maidens perceive the world's fluctuations through the cauldron's emotions and desires, so they won't really cultivate into ignorant and thoughtless stones and plants."

"Therefore, the Immaculate Celestial Maidens must be very careful in choosing their cauldron. Once the wrong target is chosen, the cauldron can't withstand the pressure and collapses quickly, and even more intense emotional outbursts will act as backlash, destroying the Immaculate Celestial Maiden's mind and directly causing her to collapse and go insane," the white mask carefully told Ye Chuxiao.

Ye Chuxiao was silent for a few seconds, then looked up at the sky and sighed at the moon, "Sure enough... someone like me is always inevitably drawn into such terrible right and wrong. If I am implanted with a Heart Pill and chosen as a cauldron, how can I get rid of it? What are the benefits or disadvantages for me?"

"You should just say it, and give me the answer. What do you need me to do for you?"

The white mask stared intently at Ye Chuxiao, then laughed out loud.

"Your skin... is indeed thicker than the mask on my face. I don't know when you became like this."

"You think that woman Ying Shu chose you? Are you overthinking it?"

"Of course, she chose Jin Buyi, the youngest of the Six Doors' Five Great Divine Arresters, who reached the position of Divine Arrester at the age of thirty, and whose cultivation directly reached the Intent Realm. Such a heaven-defying talent is the target Ying Shu chose... you? Who is Ye Chuxiao?"