After leaving the Outer Sect Disciplinary Hall, Li Yun did not return to Courtyard 95 of the Ren Branch.

Instead, he went to Azure Cloud Residence with Zhang Cong.

"Good kid, your cultivation progress is a bit exaggerated."

"To be able to take on seven people, defeat six older disciples from the C ranking, and leave almost all of them severely injured, you are indeed quite formidable."

"Uh... Uncle Zhang, you flatter me. I'm so sorry for troubling you so late and making you specially come to the Disciplinary Hall..."

"What trouble? You call me Uncle, why are you being so polite with me?"

"Those few kids were really scoundrels, especially that Gu Yunzheng. All this mess was caused by him, right? Hmph, don't worry, tomorrow I'll make him pack his bags and get lost."

"He's not strong enough himself, yet he's envious and secretly stirring up trouble. This kind of sinister and cunning person is simply not qualified to be a disciple of Heavenly Martial Sect. Keeping him around will only cause trouble sooner or later."

Li Yun smiled slightly.

Since Zhang Cong said that, Gu Yunzheng was definitely finished. As for this person, Li Yun had no intention of pleading for him.

He dared to find people to secretly deal with him. If he hadn't found an opportunity yet, he would have definitely sprinkled some corpse-dissolving powder on him.

"Alright, you'll rest in Azure Cloud Residence tonight to avoid any further incidents."

"Yes, thank you, Uncle Zhang."

...

Early the next morning.

After breakfast, Zhang Cong took Li Yun directly to the Outer Sect Elder Hall.

Li Yun didn't know exactly how many Outer Sect Elders there were in Heavenly Martial Sect, but it was quite shocking to visit the Elder Hall, the institution specifically used for Outer Sect Elders to discuss matters, for the first time.

This Elder Hall stood alone on a mountain peak and was a massive building, covering an area of three thousand square meters.

It could almost be called a large manor.

The main building leaned against the mountain wall and was over twenty meters high, looking very imposing.

A plaque hung above the main entrance, with the five large characters "Outer Sect Elder Hall" written on it, in a calligraphic style that resembled a dragon and phoenix soaring, containing the true meaning of Martial Dao.

Li Yun stared at the plaque for a few moments, and the System notifications kept popping up.

The cognitive point gain was as high as 500 per second, which was quite impressive.

However, following Zhang Cong, he didn't have the chance to linger at the main entrance for long.

But after stepping through the main entrance, Li Yun still felt quite a few surprises. Everywhere he went, there were still many buildings and things that contained the true meaning of Martial Dao.

Observing these things, the cognitive points gained ranged from twenty or thirty per second to three or four hundred per second.

From the main entrance to the front courtyard of the main building of the Elder Hall, it took about ten minutes to walk, and his Martial Dao cognitive points increased by a full 100,000 points, averaging 10,000 per minute.

Adding the 600,000 he already had when he returned from the Valley, plus the approximately 100,000 points he gained from the exchange with Wu Yuekong and others last night.

The total number of cognitive points on his panel had reached 800,000 points again, quietly approaching the million mark.

This was very comfortable.

Sufficient cognitive points were undoubtedly Li Yun's greatest confidence.

And at this time—

In the front courtyard of the Elder Hall, in addition to the staff who were already on duty, some people had arrived one after another.

Huang Huazong and Old Li, whom Li Yun knew, also came.

Seeing Li Yun, they proactively walked over.

"Greetings, Elder Huang, Elder Li..."

"No need, don't be polite. But today you are the protagonist, make the most of it!"

"Yes!"

Huang Huazong patted Li Yun's shoulder, then entered the Elder Hall with Old Li.

Zhang Cong said, "I'll go in first too. You wait here, don't run around."

"Okay."

Afterward, Zhang Cong also walked in.

Li Yun followed Zhang Cong's instructions and didn't wander around, but his eyes were still quickly scanning the surroundings. On the surface, it seemed like he was curious about the environment.

In reality, he was looking for suitable objects to observe, taking the opportunity to gain some cognitive points.

Soon, his gaze settled on the beam at the front of the main hall. Not only was there a plaque with "Martial Arts Soaring Through the Sky" hanging there, but there was also an ancient sword without a scabbard.

These two things actually triggered the System's reaction simultaneously.

The plaque "Martial Arts Soaring Through the Sky" contained astonishing true meaning of Martial Dao, allowing Li Yun to gain a full 500 cognitive points per second.

The ancient sword was slightly less, only yielding 200 cognitive points per second.

But interestingly, as soon as he started observing the ancient sword, a new Martial Dao appeared on the Martial Arts section of the System panel, named Zhenyue Mountain Sword, which was still in a loading state.

However, the loading speed was significantly faster than when loading the unnamed Sorrowful Wind Sword Technique in the Valley. Li Yun secretly estimated that as long as he had an hour, he could fully load it.

Therefore, Li Yun chose to observe the ancient sword without hesitation.

Although the "Martial Arts Soaring Through the Sky" plaque could bring more cognitive points, it was just cognitive points. This kind of thing could be obtained anywhere if one put in the effort.

In comparison, Martial Arts were more precious.

Just as Li Yun began to observe the ancient sword, some Outer Sect Elders arrived in the front courtyard one after another, but Li Yun didn't know them, so he didn't deliberately greet them.

After all, there were all kinds of people.

If you are polite, others may not necessarily take your politeness seriously. They might even think you are deliberately trying to curry favor, which would be counterproductive.

And these Outer Sect Elders, upon arriving, only glanced at Li Yun curiously before walking directly into the main hall of the front courtyard.

It wasn't until about twenty minutes later that an old woman with silver hair arrived, accompanied by a young Girl who was barefoot and had red ropes tied around her ankles with bells attached.

The jingling sound once again attracted Li Yun's attention.

And that young Girl also saw Li Yun and actually proactively walked towards him.

"Hey, are you also here to compete for the Chief disciple position?"

"Are you Li Yun from the 95 Courtyard, or Chu Xingyu from the 01 Courtyard, or Zhao Xiaohan from the 35 Courtyard?"

The old woman was precisely Outer Sect Elder Guo Hongyun. Seeing Feng Ling actively approaching Li Yun, her face darkened, and she called out from a distance, "Feng Ling, what are you doing? Come back quickly!"

Feng Ling stuck out her tongue at Guo Hongyun.

Then she said to Li Yun, "Remember, I'm Feng Ling from the 66 Courtyard, and the Ren ranking Chief is definitely going to be me!"

Then she hurried back.

The bells on her feet jingled again as she jogged.

Li Yun's expression was quite strange as he watched.

Because he discovered that the pair of bells on Feng Ling's feet could actually also trigger the System's reaction, generating 10 cognitive points per second.

However, at this moment, Li Yun didn't care about 10 cognitive points per second.

Moreover, they were on a Girl's feet. He couldn't possibly keep staring at the Girl's feet, could he? Wouldn't he be seen as a pervert?

He just secretly complained, "Why hang bells like a pet?" Then he withdrew his gaze and continued to observe his ancient sword. By this time, Zhenyue Mountain Sword had already loaded 35%.

He had to race against time and get this swordplay loaded as quickly as possible.