Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Asking a Big Shot for Advice

Yun Xi’s exchange with Tribal Warrior went smoothly. After Tribal Warrior gave Yun Xi the items, he logged off. It was the harvest season on his side, and he needed to organize the tribe’s hunting and gathering, so he was busy too.

Yun Xi saw that Ethereal Aura was also online, so she privately messaged them: “Senior, this junior girl has questions to ask. Do you have time right now?”

Ethereal Aura: “What is it?”

“This junior is already at the ninth level of Qi Refining. If I want a perfect Foundation Establishment without relying on a Foundation Establishment Pill, do I need to keep compressing my spiritual power and push for the tenth level of Qi Refining?”

“You can.”

“This junior has a thunder spiritual root. When I undergo Tribulation Transcendence, can I use heavenly thunder to temper my body?”

Yun Xi had thought for a long time before deciding to ask the big shot. In the immortal hero stories she had read, there were always scenes of using heavenly thunder to temper the body. Since she had a thunder spiritual root, she should have even more advantage. It also counted as a way to strengthen her combat power.

But she was not sure how to do it, so she wanted to ask first. After all, in the sect she only showed three spiritual roots to the outside, and thunder was not among them. Her displayed cultivation was only the sixth level of Qi Refining, still a long way from Foundation Establishment.

Ethereal Aura: “Little one, you’re quite ambitious. Do you temper your body? Do you have a thunder-element cultivation method? If you rashly draw in heavenly thunder to refine your body, it’s very dangerous.”

Yun Xi thought it over, then replied: “Senior, this junior has been using the milk fruit provided by Tribal Warrior to temper my body. Compared to others my age, my body strength is twice theirs. I don’t have a thunder cultivation method for now, but I can find a way to exchange for one in the sect.”

Ethereal Aura sent an emote of holding their forehead, then replied: “Then don’t try to rush Foundation Establishment for now. First, find a suitable thunder cultivation method that can work with your body tempering.

“Second, if you establish your foundation too young, your body’s growth will become very slow. Before you reach the Nascent Soul Stage, you will almost not change much. If you want to keep a child’s appearance, then you can try establishing your foundation early.”

After hearing that, Yun Xi had a question mark on her forehead. “Senior, how do you know I look like a child?”

Ethereal Aura: “…I am the chat group’s deputy leader. I have permission to view detailed profiles. But don’t worry, it won’t be leaked.”

“Oh, so that’s how it is.”

Yun Xi temporarily set aside her doubts. She asked two more cultivation questions, then exited the chat group.

But she did not leave the space right away. She felt she needed to re-plan her cultivation pace.

It was obvious she could not establish her foundation too early. Especially with her current height of 1.34 meters, she still had standards for her height. At the very least, she could not be under 1.7 meters, or it would feel like she had no presence.

Second, her age was a hard weakness. She thought her mental age was mature, but that was only compared to her previous life. In the Cultivation World, her age was nothing more than pocket change to a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

So her top priority now was not rushing her cultivation. It was body tempering, finding a thunder cultivation method, and building up real combat experience. She also needed to put alchemy on the schedule – learn a skill to rely on. That way, she could earn spirit stones and also have a good excuse for how she obtained cultivation resources.

After sorting it out, Yun Xi left the space. But before she did, she brought out the green plant that had been kept inside a transparent glass box.

Based on over a year of research from many sources, and even after specially consulting the sect’s planters, she guessed this plant was a mutated immortal spirit grass. It could gather spiritual energy, similar to a spirit-gathering array, and it had already gone extinct in the Cultivation World.

With such a good cultivation support tool, she naturally could not let it go. She decided that whenever she cultivated alone in the future, she would keep the mutated immortal spirit grass by her side. As for the grass’s other effects, she would discover them slowly.

When Yun Xi opened the glass cover, the immortal spirit grass, glowing with a soft green light, swayed a leaf. Then the leaves slowly stretched out, as if it were lazily waking up. The green glow scattered through the entire cultivation room.

A moment later, those points of light slowly gathered again and circled around Yun Xi and the immortal spirit grass. Yun Xi felt pure spiritual energy slowly seep into her meridians. She did not have time for anything else and immediately sat cross-legged to cultivate.

She cultivated like that for four hours. When she finished, it was already night.

This session left her feeling refreshed and clear-headed, an ease she had never felt before. It was like the first time she underwent Qi Induction – that feeling of spiritual energy washing through her body was too wonderful.

After Yun Xi opened her eyes, she stared at the immortal spirit grass beside her, eyes sparkling. She was certain that pure spiritual power had been refined by the immortal spirit grass, or rather, the immortal spirit grass had drawn pure spiritual power to her side.

“Hehe! Little immortal grass, you’re amazing!”

Yun Xi admitted she was grinning a little creepily. Then she hugged the immortal spirit grass and kissed it once. After that, she put it back into the transparent glass box and swept her sleeve, storing it in the space. A treasure like this could not be discovered by a second person.

Because she was so happy, Yun Xi did not notice that when her lips touched the immortal spirit grass, she got a tiny cut. But before any blood could flow out, the cut healed.

A tiny bit of her blood clung to the edge of a leaf, and it was absorbed instantly. When the immortal spirit grass returned to the space, it only shook its leaves and then went still again.

Yun Xi could feel that the spiritual energy in the cultivation room had basically been drained, so she took out her talisman brush and talisman paper and began drawing talismans. When she had gone on missions with Senior Sister Hua before, she had used up half her stock. She needed to replenish it.

But when she drained all the spiritual power in her body, the spiritual energy in the cultivation room still did not recover. Normally, by the usual pattern, it should have returned within less than half an hour. She suddenly had a bad feeling.

Yun Xi did not rush to leave the cultivation room. She took out two low-grade spirit stones and first filled her emptied dantian. Only then did she open the cultivation room door and walk out.

Because she had chosen a relatively secluded cultivation room in the cultivation hall, the surrounding rooms were not full. After walking forward for a short distance, she ran into several disciples leaving their cultivation rooms as well.

After they exchanged looks, someone asked, “Did you come out because your cultivation room’s spiritual energy didn’t recover too?”

“Yeah. How can we cultivate without enough spiritual energy?”

“Then let’s go ask the managing disciple.”

“Let’s go together. I paid contribution points for this.”

“I’m saving my contribution points to exchange for techniques, so I paid with spirit stones.”

Hearing their conversation, Yun Xi knew her situation was not unique. But for some reason, she felt a little guilty.

After leaving the cultivation rooms, Yun Xi saw many disciples surrounding the managing disciple. The managing disciple also looked confused. He soothed everyone while sending a transmission talisman to an Outer Sect elder.

Yun Xi blended into the crowd to gather information.

“This Senior Sister, your cultivation room’s spiritual energy didn’t recover either?”

“Yeah! You too?”

Yun Xi nodded seriously. “Mm. The room I picked is pretty secluded, so its recovery speed is already slow. But today there wasn’t even a trace of spiritual energy inside. That’s why I came out to see what was going on.”