Xia Dongyi's spiritual roots were that of Immortal Rank, making her a very rare cultivation talent, and she was more focused on Alchemy too, as those two were required to become a great Alchemist.
A mysterious smile formed on Mai's face seeing the confused expression on Xia Dongyi's face.
[Master, how many spiritual roots do you think you have?] Mai asked mysteriously.
A frown appeared on Xia Dongyi's face but she directly answered, "Two, Fire and Wood."
[Are you sure...?] Mai asked slowly.
A thoughtful looked appeared on Xia Dongyi's face, 'Right...do I know anything about my body? No, I don't. I found that I am genderless...I have no memories of the time before I came to this world....so I could say that I know nothing about my body other than how lustful it is...'
Coming out of her thoughts, Xia Dongyi shook her head towards Mai and spoke, "No I am not sure..."
Mai then clapped her hands like she just won something earing a weird look from Xia Dongyi and answered,
[Master, you have no spiritual root. You have a Spiritual Seed that had all the elements in it in equal quantity. You had a greater quality of Fire and Wood due to the things you did before you lost your memories in this world.]
Xia Dongyi gasped in surprise.
Spiritual Seed, and term unknown to her but from Mai's words, she was able to analyze that it included all the elements and at the same time, she got a clue of her memories before she lost her memories.
After a minute, Xia Dongyi looked at Mai with a complicated expression and asked slowly, "Mai, do you know anything about my memory loss?"
Mai nodded.
[Do you want to know about this, Master?]
'Do I want to know?'
'No, I have a good life for now. In the future as I could smell trouble from this...'
Xia Dongyi shook her head and answered with a calm smile on her face, "No, Not for now."
Mai nodded.
Xia Dongyi then sat in the lotus position again and started cultivating, and absorbing the aura of Heaven and Earth in her body and refining it, to fill the pool of pure spiritual energy in her dantian.
The Spiritual Energy roamed through her whole body at a high speed through her meridians while getting purified at 2X more than before making her surprised but after some time, she got used to that feeling and entered her cultivation fully.
Meanwhile, Mai who was floating in the air hovered toward Xia Dongyi's head and laid herself there sleeping.
Next Morning,
Xia Dongyi opened her eyes and looked around before standing on the ground.
"The cultivation speed this time was good and faster too! It felt refreshing too..." Xia Dongyi spoke as she took another robe from her Interspatial Ring and changed her clothes.
She then started to walk out of her room while Mai laid on her head, still sleeping.
But before going out, Xia Dongyi wore her mask back and then walked out of her compartment with bright sunlight hitting her body.
She then started going towards the exit of the Inner Disciple Residence while ignoring the stares and whispers that other disciples were doing as no one dared to come and strike a conversation with her.
'Lin and Lan should be done by evening...and I should be free by that time...' Xia Dongyi thought as she stepped out of the Inner Disciple Residence gate while also feeling a little grateful that she didn't have to face any annoying person in the morning.
Xia Dongyi then started walking towards the left, the direction where you could see the largest mountain or a hill. That hill was known as the Beast Mountain and it was divided into three parts, Outer, Middle, and Inner. With the Outer Part having Beasts around Rank 3 or some Rank 4 that had divided their own territories while the Middle and Inner part had higher Rank beasts.
Xia Dongyi's main objective is Outer Part where she could possibly find 50 Rank 3 Beasts.
After walking for a while, Xia Dongyi reached the foot of Beast Mountain. The whole mountain was hundreds of thousands of Kilometers wide and long making the area it was divided quite large.
Xia Dongyi walked towards the small building made at the foot of the mountain to keep the tracks of the disciple entering the mountain.
This was the second time she was coming here. The last time she had entered the mountain was to collect the core of a beast as a request to earn some Contribution Points.
The inside of the building was like any general government building with a board attached on the left side of the wall with quests hanging on it from different departments of the sect and in the front was the small sitting place behind a table where some old sect members sat while going through the quests that the disciples selected and also looking at the Disciple tokens and noting their information and the time that the disciples wrote to spend in the mountain.
'The sect is paying way too much attention to the safety of the sect disciples...' Xia Dongyi thought and walked toward the Elder that had the smallest line.
She also ignored how the disciples stopped their work and focused on her. She was already way past the time to stop and stare back at them.
The disciples had the right to that. Many Disciples or the older ones know who Xia Dongyi was, and many of them in this place were the regulars and they had never seen Xia Dongyi coming to the Beast Mountain making them more surprised.
"Go and strike a conversation with Senior Sister!" Mob Disciple A clasped the back of Mob Disciple B, encouraging him to talk with the goddess of his dreams.
"N-No...she should have already forgotten about me by now..." Mob Disciple B dejectedly muttered but everyone around him heard him.
Before Mob Disciple A could reply, another girl wearing the Inner Disciple clothing scolded, "Who do you think you are to talk to Senior Sister?! Hah!! Don't think of her! She is a goddess!!"
The others nodded to and chimed their scolding. Mob Disciple B lowered his head in humiliation, he too was wearing Inner Disciple clothing.
After a minute of constant scolding, Mob Disciple B lifted his head and glared at everyone.
He felt angry!
He can't believe that he got this much humiliated just because he want to meet and talk with his Goddess!!
"You all!! Just wait and see! Senior Sister will be in my arms!! In just...." Mob Disciple B wasn't able to continue as a punch knocked onto his guts with a very strong force while other disciples placed their hands onto his back, keeping him in the same position.
Blood started to drip from his mouth slowly as he lowered his head to see the same girl who scolded him first also punched him. And he also realized that the girl was Foundation Realm, Stage 6, while he was only at Stage 3.
He closed his eyes and lost consciousness and fell on the ground slowly in a dramatic way as the other disciples moved away before.
But his eyes showed hatred, deep hatred for everyone that did this to him.
The girl from before looked at Mob Disciple B and spat on his face as she spoke angrily, "Don't talk about Goddess like that!! Next time if I saw you(Turning toward Mob Disciple A) and this bastard, then be careful of what will happen!!"
Mob Disciple A nodded fearfully and picked Mob Disciple B on his shoulder and run away quickly.
The girl from before then took a small poster from who knows where and lifted it in the air.
The words written on the Poster were,
'Goddess Xia's Guards!!'
Other disciples cheered too!!
And the girl then cooly left through the exit with 15 or 20 disciples following behind her while muttering, "Goddess Xia's guards...Goddess Xia's guards"
Those disciple's eyes looked dead like they had been brainwashed to the limit. Their words were like their life depended on them.
While the girl walking in the front had a huge smile on her face as she looked at the picture of Xia Dongyi in her hands, it was the picture of Xia Dongyi without her mask, but it was a joining picture which was cut in half.
The huge smile would have looked creepy to anyone who saw that but the girl took a hand fan with Xia Dongyi's lower face printed on one side and covered her mouth with that side.
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Meanwhile, Xia Dongyi was focused on the quests all the time, to find any interesting quest that she could do while hunting but all were about Beast Cores or finding some herbs, which she had no time for.
Xia Dongyi then looked back and saw a huge amount of disciples unavailable making her surprised, 'Did something happen...?'
And, Mai looked at that place with a look of horror on her face like she wasn't able to believe what she has just seen. She spectated everything expecting some face slapping done by her master, but never in her dreams did she expect to see something that terrifying. And she felt chill in her spine when she saw the picture of Xia Dongyi and the printed Hand fan, as both were modern printed, not something this time would have without the touch of ancientness to it.