Chapter 324 144: Blending In at the Nunnery

That would make things a bit easier.

Having to hide that he was a boy all the time would be quite a hassle.

After that, Xu Lei settled down in the nunnery's inner courtyard.

That night.

Three more nuns appeared.

One was young, one was middle-aged, and one was elderly!

Qing Lian told Xu Lei to call them Martial Aunt, Senior Martial Aunt, and Grandmistress.

The Grandmistress was the head of Cixuan Nunnery.

All of them were quite fat.

The nunnery full of beautiful women he had imagined did not materialize.

The only beautiful one was Qing Lian.

But Xu Lei didn't mind.

He had little desire to have children in this life.

In his previous life, many of the children he had fathered had become Cultivators.

The ages at which these children had their own families varied greatly.

Some of his children had cultivated for sixty or seventy years before finding a Dao Companion and starting a family.

Others for even longer.

When Xu Lei grew old in his previous life, he had checked up on how his children were doing.

So, Xu Lei was fine with not having any children in this life.

He had strived to have many children for two lifetimes in a row.

Xu Lei was getting a little tired of it.

In this life, he just wanted to focus on his Cultivation.

As for women, if he met one, great. If not, he would let nature take its course.

As for children, if they came, they came. If not, he would leave it to fate.

Of course, even though these fat nuns weren't attractive, they were still quite good to Xu Lei.

Each of them gave him a Demon Core as a welcome gift.

The energy within these Demon Cores wasn't actually that much.

Their quality couldn't compare to the ones Xu Lei had obtained in his past life from killing demons in the Eastern Wilderness Marsh.

Still, it was a pleasant surprise.

"Just accept them. Don't worry,"

Qing Lian said, "To be honest, the chances of any of us attaining the Dao are slim.

But you were born with a Dao Seed.

You're most likely a supreme genius.

According to legend, after some powerful geniuses successfully attain the Dao,

they are able to come back.

Then they can bring their companions, human and beast alike, with them in a mass Ascension.

So, we're actually hoping that you'll be able to take us with you one day.

Even if you can't achieve Ascension,

once you become powerful through your Cultivation,

it would still be good if you could protect our Cixuan Nunnery.

After all, we can't let our lineage die out."

Xu Lei nodded and accepted the Demon Cores.

In addition, Qing Lian and the others allowed Xu Lei to benefit from the Cultivation boost of the nunnery's Spirit Gathering Array.

This Spirit Gathering Array felt similar in power to the one Xu Lei had obtained before.

Xu Lei didn't overthink it and began to cultivate at Cixuan Nunnery.

He rarely ventured into the outer courtyard.

He was always cultivating.

He wasn't short on energy from Demon Cores, nor was he lacking anything else.

Plus, he was only seven years old, so he was still allowed to eat meat.

Therefore, Xu Lei wasn't in a hurry to leave and retrieve his Treasure and Phoenix True Flame.

He cultivated like this for three years.

「One day.」

「In the Cultivation Room.」

The Qi around Xu Lei's body surged.

However, he quickly reined it in.

After all, he hadn't let Qing Lian and the others know his true level of strength.

'I've reached Tier Three of the Bodhisattva Pattern Realm.'

Xu Lei was very satisfied. 'The Demon Cores from my martial aunts and grandmistress really helped!'

They usually cultivated independently in their own Cultivation Rooms.

It was just that all the Cultivation Rooms were encompassed by the Spirit Gathering Array.

So, Xu Lei's true Cultivation level had never been revealed.

Qing Lian and the others had no idea.

That night, Xu Lei stepped out of his room.

It was the night of a full moon.

The moonlight was beautiful.

Xu Lei wandered around the inner courtyard, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the moon.

But unexpectedly, Xu Lei suddenly heard loud banging sounds coming from his master Qing Lian's room.

Startled, Xu Lei rushed over at once.

'Did Master have a cultivation deviation?'

"I'm fine."

But to his surprise, Qing Lian's voice quickly came from inside. "My Cultivation just isn't going smoothly. I'm frustrated and just needed to break a few things."

Hearing this, Xu Lei stopped himself from ramming the door open.

Without thinking much of it, he turned to leave.

But suddenly, he found that the four other fat nuns—his various martial aunts and the grandmistress—had appeared behind him at some unknown time, their eight eyes staring right at him.

It made Xu Lei jump.

"Little Jing Kong, what are you doing running over here so late?"

"Is something wrong? What's the matter?"

"Why aren't you asleep yet?"

They asked one after another, smiling.

"It's nothing. Your master is like this sometimes."

"When her Cultivation isn't going well, she gets frustrated and acts out."

"Go back and rest. It's late, you shouldn't be running around."

"Your Cultivation progress is good, but with your talent, you can't afford to slack off."

Xu Lei felt the atmosphere was a bit eerie.

But he didn't say anything.

He obediently returned to his room.

He was, however, now on high alert.

He decided he had to leave Cixuan Nunnery tomorrow.

Xu Lei realized that in the past three years, he had never once left the mountain.

When the nuns had told him to focus on his Cultivation before, Xu Lei hadn't thought much of it.

But no matter how he thought about what happened tonight, something felt off.

He just couldn't put his finger on what it was.

Still, if something felt wrong, the obvious course of action was to leave.

This was because Xu Lei didn't have any explosives on him at the moment.

Although his own Cultivation was decent,

it was no match for the senior martial aunts and the grandmistress.

He was still in a very vulnerable position.

Besides, Xu Lei was now ten years old.

Without his Phoenix True Flame, he couldn't eat meat freely anymore.

He would genuinely be forced to eat a vegetarian diet.

Although Xu Lei had inherited his past life's Cultivation and could technically eat some meat,

Qing Lian and the other fat nuns didn't know that.

So, after Xu Lei turned ten, they stopped giving him meat.

Of course, Xu Lei didn't want to continue the act and be stuck eating vegetarian food here forever.