Chapter 444: A Blank Sheet of Paper

If the Qian Kingdom’s imperial palace was a kingdom of women,

then the Huanxi Sect was another kingdom of women.

In fact, in the Huanxi Sect, because everyone was an “enchantress,” there were no secular rules or constraints.

So to some extent, the Huanxi Sect’s kingdom of women was much more attractive than the Qian Kingdom’s imperial palace.

One could say that Lin Xun could do whatever he wanted in the Huanxi Sect.

Of course.

It was precisely because Lin Xun could do whatever he wanted in the Huanxi Sect

that he couldn’t actually do whatever he wanted.

For three consecutive days, Lin Xun immersed himself in the Huanxi Sect’s Library Pavilion.

In Lin Xun’s view,

if he wanted to restore Bai Luoxue’s normal emotions, he first had to understand the environment of the Huanxi Sect and the Cultivation Techniques she practiced.

Lin Xun even looked for records regarding Bai Luoxue’s Master.

Because Bai Luoxue’s Master had a massive influence on her!

Even now, many of Bai Luoxue’s actions stemmed from her Master’s deathbed instructions.

Three days later, Lin Xun took a brief tour of the various peaks of the Huanxi Sect.

He also took the opportunity to ask about Bai Luoxue’s Master.

During the two days Lin Xun spent wandering and inquiring, he once again felt that the Huanxi Sect was a paradise for men.

A “Land of Gentle Dreams” where most men would be willing to die.

Lin Xun only felt that his will was firm and that he had a certain “mental cleanliness.”

Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

However, after these days of learning, Lin Xun had a more accurate concept of the Huanxi Sect.

Let’s start with the structure of the Huanxi Sect.

The Huanxi Sect was divided into Outer Sect Disciples, Inner Sect Disciples, True Disciples, and Direct Disciples.

But no matter what kind of Disciple they were, their cultivation methods had one thing in common: “Dual Cultivation.”

Aside from the Saintess, basically every Disciple would go out to “cultivate” every once in a while.

These Disciples had no sense of shame; they believed everything they did was merely cultivation.

Furthermore, the higher their cultivation level, the more their so-called “emotions” were completely wiped out.

That Huanxi Sect Disciples must never fall in love was a Sect rule, as well as an issue with their Mind-Cultivation Technique.

Of course, in the tens of thousands of years the Huanxi Sect had existed, it was impossible to say that no Disciple had ever truly fallen in love.

And the price for such feelings was being hunted down and erased by the Sect!

Therefore,

in the Huanxi Sect, the most precious thing was emotion.

And the cheapest thing was also emotion.

In this environment, two thousand years ago, the Huanxi Sect welcomed its most unique Saintess since ancient times.

Her name was Bai Qingmeng.

She was the woman who would later become Bai Luoxue’s Master.

She was a Genius who was once as famous as Jiang Yuerou!

As the Saintess of the Huanxi Sect, Bai Qingmeng was also supposed to choose a peerless powerhouse to control.

But Bai Qingmeng did not do so.

In fact, Bai Qingmeng strongly disagreed with the Huanxi Sect’s Dual Cultivation methods.

Especially what the Huanxi Sect called “severing all emotions and desires”!

This made Bai Qingmeng even more uncomfortable.

In Bai Qingmeng’s view, the rules of the Huanxi Sect were wrong.

And the fact that it was difficult for the Huanxi Sect to produce experts in the Immortal Realm—and even now, experts in the Jade Purity Realm were few and far between—was the best proof.

Bai Qingmeng became increasingly convinced that what the Huanxi Sect needed was definitely not “severing all emotions and desires”!

The Huanxi Sect had existed since ancient times; it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it was the oldest Sect.

Back then, the Huanxi Sect was filled with powerhouses; when did they ever have to rely on controlling men to sustain the Sect?

But as time passed, the Huanxi Sect declined more and more.

Bai Qingmeng felt that the Huanxi Sect had forgotten its most important treasure.

Bai Qingmeng didn’t know what that thing was.

And she spent her entire life searching for it.

Until finally, Bai Qingmeng miraculously reached the Immortal Realm without Dual Cultivation; some thought she had found it.

But in truth, she hadn’t.

“The previous Sect Master felt that our Huanxi Sect is declining because we have forgotten the most important thing, forgotten our roots.

If this most important and fundamental thing is not found, then one day, the Huanxi Sect will gradually decline and even face total extinction.”

Listening to the words of a Female Elder, Lin Xun was deep in thought.

“So, Senior Bai Qingmeng placed her hopes on Luoxue?” Lin Xun asked. “Hoping that Luoxue could find it?”

“Most likely.”

The Female Elder smiled slightly.

“However, what’s hard to explain is that while the Sect Master clearly resisted the Mind-Cultivation Technique that past Saintesses had to learn…”

“…she still made Her Highness the Saintess learn it.

Not only that, under the Sect Master’s guidance, Her Highness the Saintess doesn’t even understand emotions like ‘Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness’.

To this day, Her Highness the Saintess is like a blank sheet of paper.”

Hearing the Female Elder’s words, Lin Xun lowered his head in silence.

However, a guess was faintly forming in Lin Xun’s heart.

Lin Xun felt that the answer Bai Qingmeng finally arrived at wasn’t the Huanxi Sect’s’severing all emotions and desires,’ but rather a state of being ‘without emotion and without desire,’ similar to the Daoist concept of ‘Void of Self’.

That was why Bai Luoxue had always been a blank sheet of paper.

But if that was the case, why did Bai Qingmeng want Luoxue to find him?

Perhaps, in the end, Bai Qingmeng felt her answer was still wrong.

And finally, to ensure that this pure and silly girl, Bai Luoxue, who had become a blank sheet of paper, wouldn’t be deceived…

…was that why Bai Qingmeng told Bai Luoxue, ‘You can only control that Lin Xun, and your body can only be given to that Lin Xun’?

After thinking for a long time, Lin Xun still didn’t have an answer.

After bowing in farewell and leaving the peak, as soon as Lin Xun stepped out, he saw many women in revealing clothes intentionally swaying around not far from him.

There were even a few women whose gazes toward Lin Xun were extremely heated, as if they couldn’t wait to pounce on him.

Lin Xun had already grown accustomed to this.

However, Lin Xun did indeed have a certain feeling.

That was, if the Huanxi Sect continued like this, it might eventually become even worse than a second-rate Sect.

Returning to Bai Luoxue’s side.

Having prepared for many days, Lin Xun was officially going to help Bai Luoxue restore her normal emotions.

After receiving permission from Lin Xun and Bai Luoxue, Mo Wenwen also stood by to observe.

“First, let’s make you realize what happiness is; that will be much simpler.”

“Mhm.” Standing before Lin Xun, the young girl nodded obediently.

But at this moment, Lin Xun found himself in a bit of a dilemma.

Making Bai Luoxue realize “happiness.”

Here was the problem.

How could he make Bai Luoxue realize what happiness was?

“Is there anything you want to eat? Or something you want to do, or perhaps something you want to have?”

Lin Xun asked.

Lin Xun felt that when a person’s desires were satisfied, their mood would become pleasant, and that was happiness.

Bai Luoxue lowered her head and thought carefully.

Finally.

Bai Luoxue raised her arm and pointed a finger as slender as a scallion at Lin Xun:

“I only want you”