Chapter 292

Chapter 292: She Is About To Break Through Again

A few more days passed, and Shen Sang Ruo felt her Spirit Pact with Snake Maiden grow stronger and stronger. She guessed the breakthrough was about to succeed.

Sure enough, that afternoon, many people sensed tremors coming from a Tribulation Crossing.

The commotion from crossing the Divine Transformation tribulation was no small thing, and people from hundreds of miles around stopped to watch, wondering which side had just gained another Divine Transformation Stage cultivator.

Thirty six bolts of Heavenly Lightning raged until dusk. Shen Sang Ruo suddenly felt her own cultivation rise in a rush, and she knew Snake Maiden had succeeded.

She lifted the corners of her lips and waited for Snake Maiden to return.

As the thunder faded and the tribulation clouds scattered, a beam of light shot from the mountaintop and sped toward Ninghua Sect.

The Warding Seal of Ninghua Sect did not stop it. Once inside the sect, the light turned into a massive black serpent, every scale etched with complex, mysterious lines that glimmered faintly.

Oh, right. Its tail was looped around a Kui Ox that had passed out from fear of heights, dragging a streamer of violet light.

The serpent swept across the sky. The aura of a Divine Transformation Great Demon pressed down in waves, and the disciples below held their breath as they looked up.

Following the pull of the Spirit Pact, Snake Maiden descended straight to Shen Sang Ruo’s cave residence. The snake’s body faded away and turned into a sweet, innocent little miss. She ran into the arms of the one who had been waiting a long time and said with a happy pounce: “Elder Sister, Little Shi is back.”

She tilted her chin with pride and added: “Little Shi is now a Divine Transformation Stage Great Demon.”

Ye Huai, Song Wei Yan, Bai Ruo An, and Su Xi Yu were also there, and all their eyes fell on Little Shi.

Rubbing his chin, Song Wei Yan sighed: “Who would have thought a little girl like this is already a Divine Transformation Stage cultivator.”

Even though Shen Sang Ruo had already formed a pact with Little Shi, she still felt a little unused to this look. She kept thinking of Snake Maiden’s face and felt oddly out of place. Even so, she caught Little Shi and then set her down at once.

She asked calmly: “Was the breakthrough smooth? These are warming tonic pills I prepared. After a breakthrough, they are perfect for nurturing your meridians,” and she handed over a porcelain bottle.

Little Shi took it and beamed: “Everything went well, thank you, Elder Sister.”

“Where is the Kui Ox?” Shen Sang Ruo asked when she did not see it.

Clutching the bottle like a treasure, Little Shi said, “That cow is in the back. It fainted from fear of heights.”

A bold entrance always has a price. The one paying was not her, and the one enjoying the boldness sure was not the Kui Ox.

Following Little Shi’s gesture, Shen Sang Ruo saw the Kui Ox sprawled like a turtle, all four legs limp. Sensing her gaze, the ox wobbled a hoof at her, then struggled to stand.

“It helped Little Shi a lot,” Little Shi said cheerfully, “and at the end it even took half a round of Heavenly Lightning Tribulation for me.”

So this was how she repaid it? The Kui Ox ground its teeth and lifted a hoof toward Little Shi.

Even though a hoof cannot make a hand sign, Shen Sang Ruo somehow felt it was the middle finger. [Was that the middle finger?]

Still, she did sense the Kui Ox’s cultivation had grown quite a bit. Seeing it struggle for a long time without getting up, she pulled it straight into her sea of consciousness and soothed it well: “You worked hard, Kui Ox.”

Then she changed the topic: “But before long, I will trouble you to share a bit more Heavenly Lightning Tribulation.”

The Kui Ox blinked and let out a weak sound: “Moo?” [What?]

Shen Sang Ruo said with composure: “Because I feel I am about to break through too.”

At this, the reaction from her four senior siblings was even bigger than the ox’s.

They stared in shock. Bai Ruo An blurted: “So fast? You just reached Nascent Soul Early Stage not long ago, and you are already about to break through again?”

Shen Sang Ruo smiled and answered: “I have barely trained these days. It is Little Shi’s credit. I borrowed her momentum.”

They had first explored the Starfield Plain for treasures. After returning, she had been arranging and securing the treasures and setting up rules. Without Little Shi, it would have taken her quite a while to break through.

Song Wei Yan could not sit still and sprang up with an excuse: “Junior sister, I still have things to do, I will head back first!”

Among Immortal Lord Chang Li’s disciples, his cultivation was currently the lowest. Junior sister was already close to breaking through to Mid Nascent Soul Stage, while he was still at Late Golden Core. [This is not right. No way. I have to go back and cultivate, right now.] [If I do not hurry, I will not even see the hem of junior sister’s robe!]

Su Xi Yu waved quickly: “Junior sister, I just remembered my alchemy furnace is broken and not yet fixed, I will head back too.”

Bai Ruo An took a step back and muttered as he retreated: “Junior sister, I forgot to water the Bloodtear Jade Bamboo. I will go first.”

They were all thoroughly shaken and rushed to find reasons to leave.

Ye Huai looked calm and collected, but he was the fastest of the four. He only said, “See you, junior sister,” then drew the Nether Shadow Sword. With a Sword Flight, even his shadow vanished from sight. No one understood the pressure he felt as the big senior brother.

The other three, still on foot, stood there staring. Song Wei Yan yelped: “Dang it, big senior brother, that was not fair. You took off by Sword Flight!”

They hurried away after him, afraid to fall even half a step behind. They could not catch up to junior sister anyway, but they absolutely refused to be the lowest among the five.

They somehow rolled themselves into a competition, and even trained harder than before the recent troubles.

Watching their retreating backs, Shen Sang Ruo could only laugh and cry: “Senior brothers and senior sister, travel safely.”

The Kui Ox was happy to help her carry Heavenly Lightning Tribulation. When she broke through, it was thrilled too. After all, it could raise its cultivation as well, and her Heavenly Lightning Tribulation was a richer, purer power for it. That was very different from helping Little Shi.

Who told that snake to fly it like a kite? Hmph. Even if her cultivation is higher, among Shen Sang Ruo’s contracted beasts, by seniority, the Kui Ox is still her senior.

After the four seniors left, the cave grew quiet. Little Shi returned to Shen Sang Ruo’s sea of consciousness. Zhu Miao could not enter her sea of consciousness, so he curled up to rest in a little nest at the side.

The Giant Beetles loved playing with Ji Zi Cang’s contracted beast, Big Chunk, so she sent them and the Swift Snails together to the Beast Taming Branch. That way, people there could feed and care for them.

She picked up the ancient books on the Soul Method that Daoist Wu Wei had sent and prepared to read.

The cultivation room and the Linglong Pavilion would need about two months to finish building, and there was basically nothing else urgent. During this period, Shen Sang Ruo practiced the Soul Extraction Technique in her cave.

Using the method she remembered Ya Lan had used to pull out her soul, she had Snake Maiden and the Kui Ox take turns as test subjects.

She was getting ready to publicly verify Bai Mu Mu at Flying Cloud Sect soon. This time she would not let Bai Mu Mu slip away again.