Lin Xiaoman was silent for a moment before looking up: "I need to talk to Grandma. Can Uncle take me home?"
Zhao Yuntian nodded: "It's a good time to talk to your grandma, maybe she can give you some advice."
After the two left, Rong Jiaojiao went back to her room, set up an isolation array, and then went into the small secret realm to check on Ziling. Seeing that its breathing had stabilized, she was relieved.
After practicing sword flight in the small secret realm for a while, she practiced the Demon Subduing Sword Technique. After exhausting her spiritual energy, she continued to cultivate. After repeatedly exhausting her spiritual energy to refine the sword several times, Rong Jiaojiao finally left the small secret realm to draw talismans and comprehend spatial power.
As dusk approached, Rong Jiaojiao noticed that Ziling had woken up. With a thought, she took it outside and saw that Ziling's spiritual energy was fluctuating, but it still hadn't broken through to the third rank.
Rong Jiaojiao thought it would be able to break through after absorbing the demon seed, but she realized she had overestimated the power of the demon seed.
However, given its current state, even without the demonic seed, it would only take it a month or two to break through.
Rong Jiaojiao removed the formation and went downstairs. To her surprise, everyone was there, including Zhao Yuntian and Hu Xiaoman.
Su Yuqing enthusiastically shared her various experiences from her initial cultivation with Hu Xiaoman.
When they saw her come downstairs, everyone looked at her. Rong Jiaojiao smiled and said to Zhao Yuntian, "It seems that Senior Zhao has successfully found a good disciple."
Zhao Yuntian smiled and nodded: "Yes, you and she are about the same age, you can get to know each other better in the future."
Rong Jiaojiao nodded: "Okay!"
Hu Xiaoman stood up obediently and bowed to Rong Jiaojiao: "Hello, Senior Sister Rong."
Rong Jiaojiao returned the greeting, saying, "Greetings, Junior Sister Hu!"
She looked at Zhao Yuntian: "What are your plans for Junior Sister Hu tonight?"
If I bring her along, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect her during a battle.
Zhao Yuntian said, "I have already set up an array here, so she can cultivate here."
"I see." Rong Jiaojiao nodded, then looked at Hu Xiaoman and said gently, "Junior Sister Hu, if Senior Zhao is unavailable, you can ask me anytime if you have any questions."
Hu Xiaoman nodded shyly, "Thank you, Senior Sister Rong!"
Zhao Yuntian stood up: "It's almost time, Xiaoman. Go back to your room and cultivate. I'll activate the formation for you."
Not long after, Zhao Yuntian came down, and Rong Jiaojiao and the others set off again.
For half a month, they searched the city and its surrounding areas, finding thousands of people who had been marked with demonic spirits, destroying several demonic seed formations that were being cultivated, and eliminating more than a dozen demonic spirits.
Throughout the operation, Rong Jiaojiao performed exceptionally well, and her Demon-Subduing Sword Technique became increasingly proficient.
Even when fighting a demon spirit whose strength was at the late stage of the Profound Master realm, he successfully defeated it by using talisman arrays and spatial power, and the spirit was purified in a small secret realm.
In the past two weeks, Hu Xiaoman has also demonstrated amazing talent in cultivation.
Under Zhao Yuntian's guidance, she successfully drew in vital energy into her body in just three days, officially entering the Dao Realm.
Her Xuan Yin Spiritual Body has an extremely high affinity for spiritual energy, and her cultivation speed far exceeds that of ordinary people, even surpassing that of Rong Jiaojiao back then.
The screening in Haishi has now ended, and Zhao Yuntian has returned to Beijing with his apprentice and the apprentice's grandmother.
Rong Jiaojiao also informed Leng Muya and went into seclusion in the small secret realm.
At this moment, Rong Jiaojiao was holding in her right hand the spiritual energy of the Celestial Master realm that she had collected that day at Luofeng Mountain.
This spiritual essence was purified more than ten days ago, and the spiritual essence was also erased by the small secret realm, leaving only a ball of energy the size of a quail egg.
In his left hand, he also held the spiritual energy of the Xuan Master realm that he had defeated.
She hadn't known before whether absorbing this energy would change her consciousness, and was afraid of delaying the task of screening demonic spirits, so she hadn't absorbed it. Now she could finally try it with peace of mind.
Looking at Zi Ling, who was preparing to break through to the third tier not far away, Rong Jiaojiao sat cross-legged under a small tree in the center of the small secret realm, holding two balls of pure energy in her hands.
She took a deep breath, preparing to cut the energy into pieces and absorb it into her sea of consciousness, but as soon as her consciousness touched the energy clusters, they automatically burrowed into her sea of consciousness.
The moment the energy merged into her sea of consciousness, Rong Jiaojiao shuddered.
The energy of the Celestial Master realm poured down like a galaxy, stirring up towering waves in her sea of consciousness; the energy of the Profound Master realm transformed into a silver torrent, reflecting and complementing it. A dazzling silver light emanated from between her brows, causing the spiritual energy of the entire small secret realm to tremble.
"Hmm..."
Rong Jiaojiao let out a muffled groan, her heart filled with alarm, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
The two energies were so immense that cracks began to appear in the barrier of her consciousness.
In the critical moment, a beam of emerald light suddenly shot out from the core of the small secret realm, transforming into countless fine threads that enveloped her sea of consciousness layer by layer.
"This is... the primordial power of the minor secret realm?"
She didn't have time to think about how she knew it was the source of the small secret realm, and hurriedly activated her Divine Soul Technique with all her might.
The power of divine sense transformed into a silver millstone, grinding and refining the two energies bit by bit.
With each refinement, her divine sense grew stronger, and her sea of consciousness expanded accordingly.
Gradually, strange changes began to occur—
In the center of his consciousness, the originally blurry phantom of his soul gradually solidified.
Rong Jiaojiao had seen an explanation of this situation in Tian Shu's notes and knew that this was a sign of divine sense breaking through to the Earth Master realm. She immediately gathered all her thoughts and went all out.
Time passed little by little. First, the outline became clear, then the details of the eyebrows and eyes, and finally even the patterns on the hem of the clothes became clearly visible.
The moment the divine soul was completely solidified, a beam of silver light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire sky of the small secret realm.
"The divine soul manifests at the Earth Master realm?"
Rong Jiaojiao was shocked. When ordinary cultivators reach the early stage of the Earth Master realm, their souls only have a vague outline. Only in the later stages can they completely solidify their souls and make them manifest.
And she had already done it as soon as her soul entered the Earth Master realm?
Isn't this a bit unscientific?
Even more astonishingly, she discovered that a mysterious silver rune had appeared between her brows, radiating intense spatial fluctuations.
"Could this be a mark of the laws of space?"
But at that moment, Rong Jiaojiao felt a sudden explosion in her mind, and an image flashed through her mind: a woman dressed in ethereal robes kneeling before several elders, saying, "Master's time is coming to an end, and Jiaojiao is willing to sacrifice herself. Please use your magic to help me..."
The scene froze abruptly. Rong Jiaojiao snapped out of her daze, feeling a sour, throbbing sensation in her heart. She couldn't understand how a breakthrough could still be a dream.
Could it be my past life? No, that can't be. In her past life, she was a corporate slave, not that beautiful fairy.
Shaking her head, she stopped thinking about anything else and tried to mobilize the power of space. She found that the laws that were originally obscure and difficult to understand had become much simpler.
With a casual swipe, a spatial rift about an inch long appeared in front of him.
"His strength has increased at least threefold!"
Just then, a clear, melodious cry came from the edge of the pond.
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