Anyone who attempts to disrupt her path deserves to die!
A cold glint flashed in Lu Fuyue's eyes. An unknown power surged from her dantian, breaking free from the shackles of her cultivation. She then summoned the Weak Water Zither, which transformed into a sharp sword, and with one strike, killed all the men who approached her.
Soon everything around them turned into nothingness and dissipated.
The scene shifts again, returning to the same grove of trees.
Lu Fuyue looked at the zither in her hand and the unchanging scene around her, and felt a little surprised.
Was what she just encountered an illusion, or reality?
Why did she always feel that it wasn't an illusion, or at least that woman wasn't an illusion?
...
After a moment, Lu Fuyue pursed her lips, regardless of what had just happened.
The most important thing now is to find that water harp string, but why has the force that attracted her before suddenly disappeared?
Could it be that it was also an illusion?
No, impossible. She would be affected by illusions, but the Weak Water Harp would not.
Therefore, the water strings must be in this place.
So Lu Fuyue followed the attraction she had felt earlier and kept walking up the mountain.
As she gradually encountered more and more demonic beasts, she fought and killed them constantly, collecting their cores along the way.
Therefore, while her combat experience greatly improved, she also suffered more and more injuries, and her spiritual energy gradually became depleted.
So whenever she was seriously injured, she would find a safe place and start playing the zither to heal herself. Healing with the sound of the zither was very effective, which was one of the reasons why she dared to keep killing monsters.
As time passed, Lu Fuyue got closer and closer to that place, and the force that had drawn her back finally reappeared.
Even the Weak Water Zither in her hand emitted a faint aquamarine light, seemingly resonating with the strings of the zither she was about to meet, as if reminiscing about the past.
A hint of joy flashed in Lu Fuyue's eyes. It seemed her intuition was right; the Water Zither Strings were indeed on the mountaintop.
So Lu Fuyue continued walking up the mountain. She saw it in the distance until a magnificent and spectacular ancestral temple appeared not far ahead.
Suddenly, the Weak Water Zither within Lu Fuyue's body began to emit a mournful cry uncontrollably.
At the same time, on the altar inside the ancestral temple, a long jade box began to stir, as if something wanted to break free, but was firmly trapped by the seal on the box.
Lu Fuyue's eyes darkened slightly, and she became increasingly wary.
Judging from the appearance, this place should be the ancestral temple of the royal family of the Southern Spirit Kingdom. In the cultivation world, under normal circumstances, people with impure bloodlines cannot enter the ancestral temple of their families, let alone an outsider like her.
Forcing your way in will only lead to certain death.
Just as Lu Fuyue was planning to go back first and then think of a solution later.
The giant human-shaped stone statue standing at the main entrance of the ancestral temple suddenly moved, its empty eyes staring intently at Lu Fuyue's back.
Lu Fuyue paused, a hint of shock flashing in her eyes. This was... the aura of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator?
She turned around abruptly and looked up, only to see a huge stone palm slamming down in her direction, instantly stirring up countless dust and sandstorms, and the sky was filled with wind and rain.
Lu Fuyue immediately turned to the side, her toes barely touching the ground as she flew to the other side of the open space. The spot where she had just been was immediately smashed by the giant palm, creating a deep pit about ten meters in diameter.
Seeing this, she quickly summoned the Weak Water Harp, activated her cultivation technique, and began to play the harp.
As the music began, the giant stone statue paused for a moment, but then quickly moved towards Lu Fuyue in a few steps, striking Lu Fuyue's back with a divine sense.
Soon, however, her whole body seemed to be nailed to the spot, and she was unable to move at all.
Lu Fuyue's expression changed drastically. This was a stone statue puppet at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and her resistance had angered it, so the statue used its divine sense to lock onto her and immobilize her.
No, she can't die here. She still needs to find other strings. How can she be defeated here?
She has to survive!
With a determined heart, Lu Fuyue immediately decided to take a gamble. She activated a secret technique she had seen in the Tianyin Sect's inheritance, which could raise a cultivator's cultivation level by one major realm in a short period of time, in order to resolve her current predicament.
However, this secret technique comes at a great cost; at best, it can rupture the dantian, and at worst, it can completely destroy one's cultivation.
However, she couldn't care less about that now. Ever since the Heavenly Dao's incarnation appeared, Shui Ze couldn't help her casually, otherwise the Heavenly Dao would immediately intervene again, and things would become even more serious.
So now, the only person she can rely on is herself.
As the cultivation technique circulated, the essence and blood within Lu Fuyue's body began to burn continuously, quickly transforming into a force that surged into her dantian.
Mid-Foundation Establishment, Late-Foundation Establishment... until her cultivation stopped at the peak of the early Golden Core stage.
At the critical moment, just as the stone statue's giant hand was about to smash down on her head, Lu Fuyue concentrated all her spiritual energy into the red lotus between her eyebrows, and then struggled violently, breaking free from the spiritual energy restraint in the next second.
She plucked the Weak Water Zither with both hands rapidly, and soon a protective shield of spiritual energy appeared above her head, blocking the fierce onslaught of the giant stone palm.
However, at the same time, many cracks appeared on the spiritual energy shield.
Lu Fuyue's face became increasingly pale and bloodless due to the excessive use of spiritual power. The meridians throughout her body also began to become fragile under the impact of this spiritual power, as if they would break with the slightest force.
Her heart tightened, realizing that with her spiritual power, she could only hold out for a short while.
Therefore, she has to think of another way, otherwise, after an hour, the effect of the secret technique will disappear, and all her cultivation will be temporarily lost.
If it really comes to that, then it's a dead end!
The stone golem seemed to sense Lu Fuyue's resistance, so it suddenly pressed down with its hand, increasing the weight of its spiritual power. With a crack, the spiritual power protective shield broke open with another huge crack.
Lu Fuyue's expression changed drastically, and she burned a few more drops of her essence blood to support the spiritual energy shield.
At the same time, she was quickly calculating in her mind which would be faster: if she removed the protective shield now, maximized the Lotus Steps technique, and escaped from the side, or the speed of the stone statue's giant hand slamming down.
Although this stone statue is at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it is a puppet, so its speed is naturally one-fifth slower than that of a normal Nascent Soul cultivator.
With the enhancement of her secret technique, her cultivation level reached the peak of the early Golden Core stage. In addition, her strong combat experience allowed her to barely match the speed of this stone statue puppet.
But if they fail, they will be shattered to pieces and die without a complete corpse.
Fine beads of sweat began to appear on Lu Fuyue's forehead. Her eyes narrowed, and she decided to give it her all!
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