Chapter 47

A spacious and quiet backyard

Lingxi was standing in the room, looking up at the sky.

The starry sea stretches endlessly, and the bright moon hangs high in the sky.

Suddenly, a strange movement came from her dantian. Lingxi subconsciously covered her abdomen. The spiritual power in her body surged continuously, and the shackles on her body loosened a bit. The spiritual energy in her meridians flowed continuously, and it was difficult to suppress it for a while.

The sudden pain made her body shiver without her realizing it. She endured the pain and hurriedly sent a message to her two apprentices.

The three little ones who were resting downstairs suddenly sensed a hint of danger.

They are still small and not very brave.

The cultivator's oppressive aura caused the three little ones to huddle together, trembling.

Lingxi saw them too, but she couldn't comfort them.

All I could do was offer the three little ones three balls of spiritual light as a form of comfort.

After the puppy ate, Lingxi quickly flew out of the room and went to the spiritual array where she usually meditated. She set up a barrier around herself and began to practice her cultivation technique in preparation for a breakthrough.

The moonlight, starlight, and spiritual energy continuously drawn down from the sky, flowing like water, gathered above the woman's head. They were then combined with her cultivation technique and absorbed into her dantian all at once.

A sudden gust of wind swept through the backyard, and the nearby animals fled in terror.

Yun Qingzi arrived the fastest. Despite the pressure, he led Liangyi and the others out of the villa.

The wind grew stronger, and Lingxi's aura rose higher and higher. Yun Qingzi, who was at the early stage of Qi Refining, was forced to retreat repeatedly by the pressure of her aura. In the end, he had no choice but to return to Linxi Temple. On his way back, he also encountered Jin Moli.

"Junior brother, did you bring out the Two Elements?"

"Hmm, don't go over there. The aura emanating from Master is too terrifying; we can't get close."

"Senior sister, you go back first. I'll keep watch tonight."

Linxi Temple is located at a relatively high elevation, so it can also see what's happening on Lingxi's side.

She nodded and followed Yun Qingzi back.

...

Inside the backyard barrier

A faint white figure appeared silently, standing quietly to one side, its gaze fixed on the woman who was about to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. The event was sudden, and she was still wearing a thin nightgown, her jet-black hair was draped behind her head, and her wing-like eyelashes trembled slightly, as if carrying some unease about the unknown.

His gaze politely rested on her shoulders and above, his aura undiminished, protecting her as she entered seclusion.

For cultivators, the Qi Refining stage is merely about drawing Qi into the body and tempering the physical body; it can only be described as a complete transformation.

Foundation building signifies that you are ready to bear the Great Dao, and only then can you truly be considered to have embarked on the path of cultivation.

He was already in the Immortal Realm when he transformed from his primordial form, so his cultivation level was naturally quite high.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen a human reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

And this person was deeply bound to him; she was in the Foundation Establishment stage, and he was even more nervous than when he himself transformed.

How amazing!

Under the cover of night, countless strands of silver light gathered like a rain of stars. The woman circulated her internal energy faster and faster. When her dantian and meridians were stretched to their limit, a tearing pain caused her to furrow her brows.

After the breakthrough began, the cultivation technique started operating beyond her control.

Lingxi had already realized something was wrong. If things continued like this, she would eventually die from the explosion of spiritual energy.

She tried to stop her cultivation, but with a breakthrough imminent, she couldn't stop immediately.

In a moment of crisis.

With a flick of his wide sleeve, Su Yuan split the continuously descending moonlight in two, one part remaining in place and the other being absorbed by him.

The woman's stress was instantly relieved by more than half.

Lingxi's tightly closed eyes trembled slightly. Sensing the presence of the tree, the panic in her heart instantly subsided. Just then, her spiritual energy reached a crucial point, after several previous attempts had failed. This time, Lingxi seized the opportunity and mobilized her spiritual energy to rush forward.

The moment she broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, before she could even relax, she seemed to see vast expanses of white mist.

backyard

Su Yuan, who was about to leave, paused, then flashed to appear in front of Ling Xi and reached out to touch Ling Xi's brow.

"Buzz—"

The fingertip stopped abruptly about a meter from the center of the forehead, and then a trembling sound, imperceptible to most, came from where the fingertip touched.

Su Yuan's expression darkened, and he withdrew his outstretched hand.

The spiritual energy in the once vibrant array of water lilies has been completely absorbed. Occasionally, a few rays of light fly out from the leaves and land in the empty air, utterly inconspicuous.

The woman sitting in the center of the formation was somehow enveloped by an invisible barrier.

His divine sense couldn't penetrate even a little bit.

Seeing that he could not explore further, he closed his eyes and activated the Covenant of Life.

In a short time, the man looked surprised; he couldn't sense Lingxi's soul.

Even the bond of life cannot be established.

You should know that once you have made a vow of life and death, you will be able to sense the presence of the other person no matter where they are.

Su Yuan's body was filled with spiritual light. When he tried to return to his original state, an overwhelming aura that could not be described in words blocked his movements. Su Yuan immediately stopped and respectfully took a few steps back.

Half a month later

The back window of the living room on the second floor.

A protective barrier was set up in the backyard, so the two senior and junior brothers could only stand by the window to watch their master in seclusion.

"Junior brother, how much longer will Master be in seclusion?" Jin Moli murmured, resting her face in her hands against the windowsill. "I miss her..."

Yun Qingzi shook her head: "Nobody knows for sure. They say that cultivation has no fixed timeframe, but a month or a year must also be possible."

"Ah~ it's been so long?"

Jin Moli hadn't expected so much time to pass. Looking at her master in the backyard, she said softly, "It's been almost half a month now, and the water lily has already sprouted."

"Junior brother, that senior is still guarding Master. Could something have happened to Master..." Jin Moli suddenly had a bad feeling and looked anxiously at her junior brother.

Yun Qingzi had no idea what to do. "It's definitely not going to happen. If something had happened, that senior wouldn't still be standing there."

Before Yun Qingzi could comfort her, Jin Moli started talking to herself, trying to think of things in a positive light.

Upon hearing this, Yun Qingzi looked at the figure standing straight in the courtyard and remained silent for a moment.

That's not a living person!

Instead, a silver-white figure stood alone in the sunlight, elegant and ethereal.

Yun Qingzi could still recall the first time. The two of them were also in front of this window when they suddenly saw it. Before they could say anything, a clear and ethereal voice entered their minds.

"Your master has other opportunities, so there's no need to worry."

Jin Moli looked up at her junior brother, feeling helpless.

Yun Qingzi patted her head, glanced at her master with concern, and then pulled her senior sister out of the Ling family gate.

He naturally knew that this was a transmission of divine sense, and that someone who could use divine sense to transmit sound must be no less skilled than his master.

The two of them, master and disciple, would certainly not survive a single move from the thing before them...

His intuition told him so.

That senior meant no harm.

really.

Every day after that, when they came, he stood there quietly guarding his master, ignoring the two little shrimps.

This finally put Yun Qingzi's mind at ease, even though they didn't know its identity.

I suppose we'll know the answer when Master comes out of seclusion.

...

Linxi Temple

Jin Moli and Yun Qingzi had just stepped through the gate when they heard running footsteps behind them.

The voice arrived before the person.

"Jasmine, Taoist priest, the tree seeds and some flower seeds I ordered have arrived, huff..."

Yang Lanting, who had run over quickly and was carrying a large backpack, was panting heavily, and sweat made her carefully styled curly hair stick to her scalp.

It looks a little comical.

Yang Lanting left Linxi Cave the day after Lingxi went into seclusion.

On the one hand, they wanted to stay in the village to prepare, and on the other hand, they wanted to help the master contact some saplings and flower seeds.

"May the Heavenly Venerable grant you boundless blessings." Yun Qingzi helped take the heavy package. "Young Yang, there's no need to rush. Go back to the temple and sit for a while."

Yang Lanting, having shed his backpack, glanced gratefully at Yun Qingzi and began to catch his breath.

He listened to Yun Qingzi's words, sat down on the bamboo chair under the ginkgo tree, and instantly collapsed.

Young people recover their energy quickly. After sitting down for only a few minutes, Yang Lanting was full of energy again and moved the stool next to Yun Qingzi.

"A car will come to deliver it at this time tomorrow."

"They should all arrive in the next day or two, do you want me to..."

"Oh, so fast."

I can imagine how many fruits I'll have to eat in the future, and how many beautiful flowers I'll see.

Overjoyed, Jin Moli jumped for joy.

Noticing Jin Moli's movements, Yun Qingzi's eyelids tightened, and she reminded her, "Senior sister, be mindful of your image."

As soon as Yun Qingzi finished speaking, Jin Moli was so happy that she was already more than three meters off the ground.

Suddenly leaping up, the girl who had just passed the wall heard Yun Qingzi's warning in her mind. When she landed, she looked down and met Yang Lanting's wide-eyed stare.

Oops!

Master said that we must remember to disguise ourselves in front of ordinary people and not use magic casually.

When she returned to the village, her vigilance dropped considerably, and she became careless, forgetting that there was an ordinary person there.

After landing, she was a little embarrassed and didn't dare to look down or respond.

Yang Lanting looked at Yun Qingzi, then at Jin Moli, and was speechless for a moment: "Master Yun, is this... am I seeing things wrong?"

As he spoke, he squinted and rubbed his eyes.

Jin Moli instinctively grabbed Yun Qingzi, her eyes filled with panic.

Yun Qingzi stepped forward to block Yang Lanting's surprised gaze, her eyelids not even twitching, and calmly said, "I didn't see wrong, Senior Sister is exceptionally talented and learns martial arts quite quickly."

Yun Qingzi's calm attitude made Yang Lanting think he was making a fuss, so he subconsciously nodded without thinking much of it: "Oh, children are indeed very strong."

"Um."

Jin Moli chuckled.

...

The surroundings were eerily quiet. Lingxi was in a daze for a moment, then looked around. She was still in this land of white mist. She knew very well that she was fully conscious and that it was not an illusion.

"Tracing back to the origin~"

She called out Su Yuan's name instinctively, but there was still silence after she spoke.

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but thick, impenetrable white fog.

She couldn't sense the origin either.

It seems she has completely cut herself off from the outside world.

Is anyone there?

Can you hear me?

The surroundings were completely silent; so quiet that she could even hear her own heart pounding in her chest.

Where exactly is this?

Isn't she breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage?

Could this be a test of her resolve as she prepares to break through to the next level?

What about the calamity?

There's nothing here but fog!

No matter what she thought, her surroundings seemed to be trapped in the river of time, without any change.

Lingxi subconsciously wanted to use her spiritual power to check the distance.

No matter how she tried to control it, the power within her seemed to be imprisoned; it was there, yet she couldn't move it at all.

"Lingxi~"

While she was still arguing, a voice that could not be put into words suddenly rang out from the depths of her mind.

It definitely doesn't speak in one's mind.

Instead, it was more like a pure thought, ethereal and magnificent, as if it came from beyond the heavens, or as if it came from the origin of the world.

"Hello, who are you? Can you tell me where this is?"

The deathly silence was finally broken by movement. Lingxi stood still, her head instinctively looking upwards, and hurriedly asked for help.

The celestial voice rang out once more.

"Child, don't be afraid."

"then."

What?

Before she could react, Lingxi felt a chill between her eyebrows, as if something had crawled into her brow.

The surrounding space seemed to stand still. Under the vast white mist, Lingxi's lonely figure looked like an ant in a vast ocean, small and fragile.

A gaze spanning several dimensions quietly closed its eyes again, awaiting its next awakening.

The woman in the center flashed with golden light, and at the same time, a golden lightning-shaped mark appeared on her previously empty brow, which then slowly disappeared.

The moment something unknown burrowed inside, a slight throbbing pain shot through my forehead.

The pain was very mild.

Lingxi accepted it without any problem. She closed her eyes, ignoring the countless messages swirling in her mind, and after calming down for a while, she sorted them out.

After she finished browsing the information, she suddenly realized that the heavenly voice she had just heard was the Heavenly Dao, and what appeared between her eyebrows was the Heavenly Thunder Seal bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

This seal contains two bolts of heavenly lightning.

She is still here as far as the eye can see.

She looked up, slowed her breathing, and continued to call upon the Heavenly Voice.

"Hello?"

Are you still here?

"..."