She even collected the skin from the large pieces of snake meat on the ground.
The little secret realm sensed its master's arrival but did not summon it; it returned on its own.
Upon returning, it burrowed into Rong Jiaojiao's brow. Rong Jiaojiao tried to enter her sea of consciousness to see what was going on, but was repelled. Rong Jiaojiao had no choice but to return to the cave first.
When Qing Xuanzi, who was recovering, saw Rong Jiaojiao return, his expression was somewhat strange.
Qing Xuanzi asked worriedly, "Has something happened?"
Rong Jiaojiao shook her head: "No, it must be that the treasure needs to digest spiritual energy and has shut down."
"And what about you?"
He remembered that whenever Rong Jiaojiao absorbed something in the small secret realm, she would also level up.
Zi Ling jumped onto her shoulder, looking at her master with concern.
Rong Jiaojiao smiled and said, "I don't feel anything. Let's wait and see. Maybe it will only change after the treasure energy is activated."
Qing Xuanzi nodded: "Then let's find a place to rest first."
Rong Jiaojiao nodded and sat down next to her master: "Master, how are your injuries?"
"Don't worry, you're almost fully recovered."
"That's good. You can continue your recovery now."
"Um!"
Qing Xuanzi took another pill to continue recovering from his injuries.
Rong Jiaojiao also sat down cross-legged and continued to communicate with the small secret realm, but there was no response. She stopped trying and simply started cultivating.
The next day, Qing Xuanzi's injuries were completely healed, but the small secret realm still showed no reaction, so they had no choice but to continue waiting inside the cave.
In the middle of the night, Rong Jiaojiao was cultivating when a tremor suddenly came from her sea of consciousness.
Rong Jiaojiao had been keeping a sliver of her consciousness focused on this little secret realm. When she sensed a reaction from it, she immediately woke up.
As his consciousness sank into his sea of consciousness, he saw the small secret realm slowly grow from a jade bead the size of a fingertip to the size of a quail egg before it stopped growing.
The runes of the small secret realm kept flashing. Slowly, as those runes flowed, they began to outline the phantom images of mountains and rivers on the surface of the jade bead, with clouds and mist swirling around them, appearing and disappearing.
As soon as Rong Jiaojiao's divine sense approached, she was pulled into the small secret realm by a huge suction force.
Unlike before, this time she was no longer under the small black tree in the center of the secret realm, but standing on a lush green meadow.
Ahead, a crystal-clear stream meandered, its waters flowing gently. On the banks grew several rare herbs she had never seen before, their petals shimmering with light and their fragrance intoxicating.
In the distance, there are several small hills, all covered in lush greenery.
"This is... a change in the minor secret realm?"
Rong Jiaojiao muttered to herself, her eyes filled with shock.
She tried to move forward with her consciousness. Just as she got close to the stream, ripples suddenly appeared in the water. A small, crystal-clear fish leaped out of the water and swam happily around her before quickly diving back into the water.
Meanwhile, inside the cave, Qing Xuanzi and Zi Ling, who were quietly cultivating, suddenly sensed a powerful aura emanating from Rong Jiaojiao.
Zi Ling paced anxiously on the ground, asking, "What's wrong with Master? Is something bad happening?!"
Qing Xuanzi frowned, gathering spiritual energy in his palm, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.
Within the secret realm, Rong Jiaojiao sensed that the realm was beginning to channel energy into her body. She couldn't bear to continue admiring the realm and immediately withdrew.
At this moment, a vast amount of primordial energy began to flow from the secret realm into Rong Jiaojiao's body.
Rong Jiaojiao didn't have time to think about why it was vital energy, and immediately sat cross-legged to absorb it.
A surge of vital energy rushed into her body like a tidal wave. Rong Jiaojiao's body glowed with a lustrous blue light, her hair moved without wind, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her skin.
Qing Xuanzi noticed the unusual activity and immediately got up to form a hand seal to reinforce the formation.
Zi Ling cautiously leaped to a higher position, her little paws glowing with purple light, ready to defend herself at any moment.
The surface of the small secret realm in Rong Jiaojiao's sea of consciousness was covered with mysterious patterns, like ancient seal script telling the story of the great Dao of heaven and earth.
The vital energy surged along the meridians, gathering in the dantian to form a rotating vortex. At the center of the vortex, various colored light points flickered, slowly merging the vital energy with spiritual power.
"Boom!" Time passed slowly, and two days later, a loud bang exploded in Rong Jiaojiao's body, and the cultivation barrier that had been stuck at the early stage of the Profound Master Realm collapsed.
Her body was enveloped in a surge of spiritual energy, forming a small vortex that swept up the surrounding dust.
The meridians become stronger under the cleansing of vital energy, and the vortex of energy in the dantian spins faster and faster.
As the last trace of vital energy was completely absorbed, Rong Jiaojiao slowly opened her eyes, a dazzling light flashing in them.
She raised her hand and waved it lightly, and a cyan sword aura shot out, cleaving the boulder two zhang away in two.
"Master, I've broken through to the mid-stage of the Profound Master realm!" She looked at Qing Xuanzi with delight, her voice filled with barely suppressed excitement.
Qing Xuanzi stroked his beard and laughed: "Good! Good! The spiritual energy of this jade mine is indeed extraordinary. However, the spiritual energy fluctuations you caused during your breakthrough were too great. I'm afraid someone with profound cultivation might notice this place. We must leave first."
Before he finished speaking, a bronze mirror appeared in his hand. It was the main array plate of the Mother-Child Array. The runes on the array plate shimmered with a faint light. Qing Xuanzi frowned slightly: "The Mother-Child Array is showing signs of disturbance. Someone has triggered the child array in the house."
Several moving objects appeared within the light. Rong Jiaojiao asked, "What's going on?"
"Is that a radio? And books too?"
"Did someone use magic to send something into my house?"
Qing Xuanzi cast a few spells on the array plate, and the image became clearer.
Sure enough, someone used magic to control paper figures to move those things inside.
They all thought of Xiang Ruyi at the same time. Qing Xuanzi said, "Let's go back and resolve these matters so that we can go on our training in peace."
Rong Jiaojiao was anxious. It was almost dawn, and these things were clearly meant to frame their family. There was no doubt that someone would come to search before dawn.
Seeing her tense expression, Qing Xuanzi comforted her, "Have you forgotten that my formation has the ability to capture the aura of unfamiliar things and destroy it?"
Rong Jiaojiao felt a little relieved, but she still needed to go back and resolve the matter.
She waved her hand to dispel the formation, and the two people and one beast left the cave. Just as they were about to summon their flying swords, Zi Ling said, "Master, I'll take you."
After saying that, she leaped into the sky, her wings spread out. Rong Jiaojiao also wanted to go back quickly, so she didn't delay any longer and jumped onto Zi Ling's back with Qing Xuanzi.
As Zi Ling's wings fluttered, a hurricane arose, slicing through the morning mist like an arrow released from a bow.
Qing Xuanzi stared at the bronze mirror, its surface rippling like water, reflecting a strange scene in the Rong family courtyard—dozens of paper figures were lining up to bury radios, books, and other items into the ground. Although the paper figures were clearly made of paper cutouts, they were able to dig holes quickly, soon creating a large pit.
They move quickly and silently.
Rong Jiaojiao frowned and asked, "Master, why hasn't the formation destroyed anything yet?"
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