Chapter 31

Chapter 31: The Immortal Path Stretched On

Song Ke spoke slowly. “She stayed in the Heart-Seeing Mirror too long and hasn’t fully come out of that state. I let her fall asleep. She’ll be fine when she wakes.”

“Thank you for helping, Senior!” The Wei Family children immediately thanked him in unison.

Song Ke liked polite children, so he smiled and said, “No need. Rest for a while. The third round of testing is about to begin.”

“Yes, Senior!”

After speaking, Song Ke went to prepare the third round. The Wei Family worked together to carry Wei Yun Qing to their resting area, then each of them sat down to meditate and regulate their breathing.

“Yun Xi, keep an eye on your older sister,” Wei Yun Ting said.

Wei Yun Xi nodded, somewhat unwilling.

Wei Yun Ting also felt caught in a hard spot. She was the group leader and could not watch only one person. Wei Yun Ying clearly disliked Wei Yun Qing, and although Wei Yun Xi’s relationship with this older sister was only so-so, she was the only one convenient to look after Wei Yun Qing right now.

As for “looking after,” it only meant reminding Wei Yun Qing that they were still in the middle of the sect entry test when she opened her eyes.

A moment later, Wei Yun Qing slowly woke up. Wei Yun Xi leaned close and said, “Sister, you’re awake? If you don’t wake up soon, you’ll miss the third round of testing.”

Wei Yun Qing was a little dazed. When she saw Wei Yun Xi’s face, her eyes sharpened and she was about to strike. But in the next instant, she realized she could not mobilize the spiritual energy in her body. When she checked again, she found that the spiritual energy inside her was pitifully little. She was not that Fairy Yun Qing who had become famous across the Vast Cosmos Realm.

Wei Yun Xi took in every change in her expression. She even deliberately waved her little chubby hand in front of Wei Yun Qing’s eyes and said, “Sister, are you okay? What did you go through in the Heart-Seeing Mirror? You were really scary when you came out.”

Her words pulled Wei Yun Qing’s mind back. Only then did she remember how she had been the first to enter the Heart-Seeing Mirror and had lived through an entire lifetime inside the mirror.

The younger sister in front of her had been the stumbling block on her cultivation path. Right before she ascended, she had fought Wei Yun Xi and had nearly fallen. Only then had she realized she was in an Illusion Realm.

Because Wei Yun Xi had three spiritual roots in reality, and not the thunder-type mutated spiritual root genius from the Illusion Realm, Wei Yun Qing had finally broken free of the Illusion Realm.

Wei Yun Qing let out a breath and said, “I’m fine. I just stayed in the Illusion Realm for too long. My head hurts.”

Wei Yun Xi did not comment on such a lame excuse. The moment the person woke up, her task was done. She returned to Brother Zong Hao’s side, sat down to meditate, and prepared for the third round.

Wei Yun Qing saw that everyone’s expressions were indifferent. She felt annoyed, but she did not show it. This test was aimed at individuals. She could not blame others for it.

At this time, Song Ke had already recorded the rankings. He appeared again in front of the fifty-two people who had passed and said, “All of you are disciples who passed the second round. We won’t waste words. Next is the final round of testing. Only if you pass this test can you enter the Hao Ran Sect to cultivate formally. Are you ready?”

“We’re ready!” Fifty little radish heads of different heights shouted back.

Song Ke smiled in satisfaction. With a wave of his hand, he released three doors. Then he turned and said, “Each of you choose one door and enter. As long as you successfully walk out of that door, you pass the test. I’ll be waiting for you on the other side.”

After speaking, he turned around and left.

This time, no one rushed in. After all, the first little girl to enter the Heart-Seeing Mirror had been the last to come out.

The Wei Family also stared at the three doors. However, the three doors looked exactly the same. Each was built on a jade base, painted red, with a copper ring knocker on the door.

They looked at one another. In the end, Wei Yun Ting spoke up. “All three doors are the same. We won’t know what’s inside until we go in. Everyone choose one. We’ll meet on the other side.”

“Okay, Sister Yun Ting!”

“Mm, see you later!”

This time, Wei Yun Ting and Wei Zong Han chose the left and right doors. Wei Yun Ying chose the middle door. The rest also chose doors and entered.

Wei Yun Qing kept watching Yun Xi in secret. When she saw Yun Xi choose the middle door, she followed right after her and entered that door as well. Wei Zong Hao grabbed the quiet Zong Yu and went through the door on the left.

After Wei Yun Xi entered the door, she saw that in a sea of mist, there was only a straight bluestone path. Without hesitation, she stepped onto it.

Once she was on the path, she realized the surroundings were extremely quiet. The only sound was her own footsteps on the bluestone slabs, which made her feel a little creeped out.

Wei Yun Xi rubbed her arms and continued forward at her own pace. She walked for a full hour, yet the road seemed endless, with no exit in sight.

When she got tired, Wei Yun Xi sat directly on the stone path and rested for a quarter of an hour. Then she got up and kept walking. She believed that as long as she persisted, she would reach the end.

At this time, all the children undergoing the test had the same experience as Wei Yun Xi. Everyone was hurrying along and picking up speed. Wei Yun Qing was the same. She kept feeling like she should catch up to Wei Yun Xi.

In this way, they walked and rested for a whole day. Wei Yun Xi’s eyelids began to droop. She wanted to sleep, but she did not dare. She forced herself to rub her cheeks hard and kept going, but her speed had already slowed.

Fortunately, she could use the things in her storage pouch. As she walked, she ate to restore her strength. She also drank the stream water she had stored earlier to make sure she had enough stamina to keep walking.

But after one day, Wei Yun Xi really could not hold on. She chose to meditate instead of sleeping so she could recover stamina faster. However, the moment she started meditating, she sensed something wrong – there was not a trace of spiritual energy here.

Wei Yun Xi rubbed her chin and thought for a while. Then she took out a low-grade spirit stone from her storage pouch. This was part of the cultivation resources the Wei Family had given them. She had originally wanted to save it, but now it seemed she could not.

She held the low-grade spirit stone and began cultivating. Back when she studied at the Feng Family clan school, an elder had reminded them that cultivation was not something done overnight. It was a slow process of accumulation, and pills were only assistance.

Once you took pills, pill toxins would settle in the body. Over time, they would clog the meridians. Only top-grade pills could remove pill toxins completely, but the chance of refining top-grade pills from a furnace was too low, and not everyone could afford them.

So even though the Feng Family built its reputation on pills, their clan members rarely relied on pills for cultivation. What they kept on hand were healing pills. As for pills like Spirit-Replenishing Pills, those were for emergencies.

Wei Yun Xi kept this in mind. In her own era, there was also the saying, “All medicine has some poison.” So since she started cultivating, other than Fasting Pills, she had not taken a single Nourishing Spirit Pill.

That was why, in an environment with no spiritual energy, she chose to cultivate using a spirit stone. She did not want the foundation of her cultivation to go wrong.

After absorbing one-tenth of the spiritual energy in the low-grade spirit stone, she returned to full strength. She put the spirit stone away and continued forward.

Three days later, rain suddenly began to fall from the sky. At first it was light, but it grew heavier and heavier. It hurt when it struck her body, and there was nowhere to take shelter.

Wei Yun Xi looked like a tiny shrimp at the first level of the Qi Refining Stage on the outside and knew no spells at all. She could only grit her teeth and keep moving forward through the rain.