"Little Ring, how many more years until the female lead ascends to the Immortal Realm?" Qiao Qiu thought about it for a long time and felt that the ring might know the answer to this question.

After a while, the ring said, "Master, according to my calculations, the female lead will need at least a thousand years to ascend to the Immortal Realm."

The ring sounded tired, and Qiao Qiu was startled. She asked with concern, "Little Ring, what's wrong? Are you alright?"

"It's alright. The laws of cultivation are affecting me. I'm about to fall into a deep sleep. I'm afraid I won't wake up until you leave the cultivation world."

A glint flashed in Qiao Qiu's eyes. Perfect, she didn't want the curse to know about it for the time being. Looking at the ring, Qiao Qiu said gently, "You've worked so hard, all for me. Get some rest, and when you wake up, I'll give you a sparkling diamond."

"Master, you're so kind. I just calculated it for you. Although you're only at the first level of Qi Refining now, your meridians have already been expanded. Cultivating will be easier for you than even the best geniuses. In three hundred years at most, you'll be able to recover to the Tribulation Transcending stage. Master, please be careful not to let the female lead bully you..."

The sound of the ring grew fainter and fainter until it disappeared completely.

Qiao Qiu was somewhat touched. Although she was suspicious of the ring, her concern was genuine.

"Go to sleep. As for the female lead, she has no right to bully me."

Qiao Qiu glanced at the contents of her storage bag and saw that they were almost empty. Fortunately, she still had plenty of spirit stones: about a thousand high-grade spirit stones, five thousand mid-grade spirit stones, and ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.

According to Ye Yu's memory, these spirit stones were used by her to set up the spirit-gathering array.

Wow, that's why they call themselves rich; they don't even need to spend money when they go out.

Qiao Qiu looked at the seal at the cave entrance. To open this seal from the outside, one would need to be a Mahayana cultivator, but if she opened it from the inside, it wouldn't be so troublesome; she would only need the ability of a Golden Core cultivator.

Alright, she'll cultivate to the Golden Core stage first, and then return to Kunlun for seclusion.

Qiao Qiu tried to guide her spiritual energy into her body. Soon, spiritual energy surged around her and entered her body. However, the spiritual energy was too scarce; even if she absorbed it quickly, it wouldn't be enough. Besides, spiritual energy has different types, and among such a small amount, she could only absorb water spiritual energy.

Ye Yu is a cultivator with a water elemental root.

Qiao Qiu opened her eyes and decided to use Ye Yu's previous method to set up a spirit-gathering array with spirit stones.

Fortunately, among Ye Yu's few remaining possessions were a few top-grade spirit flags, which were enough to set up an array.

Having no spiritual power, Qiao Qiu couldn't control the flags to fly to their designated positions remotely. So, she had to arrange the flags herself and then activate the formation.

The flags all flew up, quickly gathering the spiritual energy from the spirit stones and the air into the formation. Qiao Qiu went in, sat down, closed her eyes, and began to absorb the spiritual energy.

The cultivation world is divided into eight levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Out-of-Body, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcending.

Aside from the twelve levels of Qi Refining, all other levels are divided into early, middle, and late stages. What Qiao Qiu aims to achieve is the early stage of the Golden Core realm. This requires a vast amount of spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy here is thin, and these spirit stones alone are definitely not enough. But Qiao Qiu has no other choice at the moment, so she absorbs whatever she can.

Qiao Qiu closed her eyes for seven or eight days, rising from the first level of Qi Refining to the twelfth level, then from the twelfth level to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and then from the early stage to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, with her meridians flowing smoothly.

To her, this spiritual energy was like a cup of water poured into a dried-up riverbed—far from being able to flow far and wide.

But the surrounding spiritual energy has almost completely disappeared.

Qiao Qiu opened her eyes, put away the spirit-gathering array, carefully looked around, and then took out a compass for detecting spiritual veins from her storage bag.

This compass can find spiritual veins that are not easily discovered. If she can find one or two here, then she will have no problem getting out.

Qiao Qiu turned the compass around, but it didn't move. She couldn't help but sigh. So, good luck always goes to the protagonist?

But then again, why hasn't anyone discovered this godforsaken place yet? If a powerful being set up such a high-level seal here, shouldn't they be curious about whether there are rare and precious treasures inside?

Just as Qiao Qiu was puzzled, the compass in her hand suddenly emitted a purple light, and the pointer pointed to the stone wall in front of her.

Qiao Qiu looked up but didn't find anything special about the wall. Wait, she seemed to sense a little bit of spiritual energy again.

Could it be that there is a small spiritual vein behind this stone wall?

Qiao Qiu's eyes lit up. She walked over and used a compass to determine the exact location of the spiritual vein. Then, she placed her hand on the stone wall, and spiritual energy flowed, like a wisp of sky-blue smoke. All the water in the small area of ​​the stone was drawn out, and the water dripped onto the ground. The stone turned into fine sand, which slid down to the ground and piled up into a small hill. Then, water droplets continued to drip down in a continuous stream.

The hole, no bigger than a palm, was dug a full meter deep before the spiritual energy inside surged out in large quantities.

Qiao Qiu immediately felt refreshed and relaxed. Before she even started meditating, the spiritual energy rushed into her body as if it wanted to find a place to settle down.

Before long, Qiao Qiu felt a change within her body. She looked inward at her dantian and found a small golden bead inside—that was the Golden Core.

Qiao Qiu was overjoyed and quickly sat down, circulating her cultivation technique to absorb more spiritual energy.

Cultivators who have passed the Foundation Establishment stage can achieve the effect of fasting, can also internally observe the dantian, and are gradually expelling impurities from their bodies.

Qiao Qiu was filthy and constantly expelling filth, all accumulated from her return to the mortal realm. Unlike ordinary mortals, she had been a corpse for some time, so the impurities she was expelling were much more varied.

A month later, Qiao Qiu had absorbed all the spiritual energy from the small spiritual vein, and her level broke through the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages, reaching the early Nascent Soul stage.

Qiao Qiu opened her eyes and stood up. Her whole aura was different, although her clothes were still a terrible sight.

She shredded her clothes into ashes, then cast a dust-removing spell to cleanse herself of the grime, before putting on a new set of clothes.

As for her hair, she simply grabbed a hairpin and tied it into a simple bun.

People who cultivate immortality are generally not bad-looking, so there's nothing wrong with her attire.

Qiao Qiu arrived before the seal, and with a flick of her sleeve, a stream of sky-blue spiritual energy struck the transparent array. The array was instantly activated, revealing a transparent light wave that reflected Qiao Qiu's spiritual energy back. The golden runes at the entrance of the cave shimmered with light.

Qiao Qiu dodged to the side, then turned and flicked out another burst of spiritual energy from her sleeve, which struck the array's core directly. She aimed her hand at the core and channeled spiritual energy into it remotely. (For the latest chapters, please visit Tangkexing---Mobile Address:)

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