Seeing this, Qin Luo's tense expression finally relaxed, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Luckily it worked, otherwise I would have really lost everything."
At this moment, Xia Zihan opened her eyes again and found herself lying in a pool of water, and her body was frantically absorbing a pure spiritual energy.
Most importantly, she felt that the meridians in her body were no longer blocked as before, and spiritual energy was flowing freely within her body.
"Could this be the Spirit Pool that was created when the Soul-Devouring Willow King died?"
Xia Zihan was shocked. This was an opportunity that countless cultivators longed for. The Spirit Pool could not only help them break through bottlenecks and improve their cultivation.
Moreover, the liquid inside can penetrate deep into the bone marrow, clear impurities from the body, strengthen muscles and bones, and improve physical fitness.
Most importantly, this Spiritual Essence Pool can completely transform a person's aptitude, allowing them to progress smoothly on the path of cultivation!
Thinking of this, she wanted to get up quickly. The appearance of this Spirit Essence Pool must be closely related to Fellow Daoist Wang Wu. How could she monopolize this opportunity?
But just as he tried to get up, a large hand pressed him down again.
"What are you doing? Hurry up and start cultivating! Can't you see the spiritual energy in this pool is dissipating rapidly?"
"Fellow Daoist Wang Wu, I..."
"Shut up! Get back to your cultivation!"
Xia Zihan was stunned by his roar. In her memory, Fellow Daoist Wang Wu had always been a gentle person. She had clearly been thinking of him, yet he...
Thinking of this, she felt a little wronged.
Qin Luo, watching the increasingly dwindling liquid in the pool and then seeing Xia Zihan still lost in thought, felt even more furious.
I risked my life to secure this opportunity for you, and you can't even break through to the next minor realm? Then all my efforts have been in vain.
"Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to use our trump card."
Qin Luo took a deep breath, took out the bottle of Huiling Heavenly Spirit Pills, poured out one pill, held it in his hand, and then put it into Xia Zihan's mouth into the pool.
Xia Zihan felt a pill being forcibly shoved into her mouth, and then she heard Qin Luo's voice soften.
“Fellow Daoist Zhao Jiu, I know you feel guilty towards me, but this is not the time to think about such things. If you don’t seize the opportunity to cultivate, this chance will be lost.”
Upon hearing this, Xia Zihan met Qin Luo's expectant gaze, and her heart skipped a beat. Without further hesitation, she immediately closed her eyes and began to circulate her cultivation technique. The pill rapidly dissolved within her body, transforming into a powerful force that resonated with the spiritual energy of the mysterious liquid.
The spiritual energy began to form cycles within her body. With each cycle, the spiritual energy was refined into purity and merged into her dantian (energy center).
Xia Zihan's dantian was like a bottomless pit, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy. Her aura continued to rise, and the surrounding liquid rippled due to the powerful force emanating from her.
Finally, with a loud "boom," the bottleneck was broken, and a powerful force erupted from her body. Her aura surged instantly, and her cultivation successfully advanced to the second stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm, and it continued to rise.
As Xia Zihan broke through, a long-awaited system notification also rang in Qin Luo's mind.
[Xia Zihan has entered the second stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm. Based on her current affection value for the host: 20 (initial feelings); therefore, this return reward will be randomly distributed between 21 and 105 times the original value.]
[Cultivation points are doubled, with a multiplier of 70, granting seventy times the cultivation points of the second stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm]
Qin Luo was overjoyed; the long-awaited return had finally arrived. In an instant, a surge of powerful spiritual energy erupted within his body. He dared not be negligent in the slightest, immediately sitting down on the ground and circulating the Myriad Manifestations Return to One Technique to absorb this powerful spiritual energy into his Qi Sea.
The spiritual energy poured into Qin Luo's Qi like a tide. After half an incense stick's time, when the last trace of spiritual energy was also swallowed into his spiritual sea, a smile appeared on Qin Luo's lips.
At this moment, his incomparably vast sea of qi was finally tinged with a noble purple, and a large amount of magnificent purple spiritual energy flowed freely in his body. At the same time, a trace of spiritual energy spread out from his sea of qi to strengthen his body.
Just then, Qin Luo's expression froze for a moment, and a system notification sounded in his mind again.
[Xia Zihan has entered the third stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm. Based on her current affection value for the host: 20 (initial feelings); therefore, this return reward will be randomly distributed between 21 and 105 times the original value.]
[Cultivation points are doubled, with a multiplier of 100, granting 100 times the cultivation points of the third stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm]
"This is truly an unexpected delight."
Qin Luo sat cross-legged on the ground, a smile he couldn't suppress showing.
Immediately afterwards, the surging spiritual energy rushed into Qin Luo's body like a torrent. Qin Luo felt his meridians being instantly filled, and a sharp pain struck him, as if his body was about to be burst by this powerful force.
"This is so much larger than the spiritual energy before?"
Despite the excruciating pain, Qin Luo swiftly activated the Myriad Manifestations Return to One Technique. Instantly, his Qi Sea seemed like a bottomless pit, greedily absorbing the vast spiritual energy.
Finally, under Qin Luo's full refining power, all the spiritual energy was successfully absorbed into his spiritual sea. At this moment, a crisp sound rang out from his body, and his aura also rose significantly. At this moment, he successfully broke through to the second stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm!
After breaking through to the second stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm, his absorption of spiritual energy from heaven and earth accelerated considerably, but this had little effect on him. However, the spiritual energy nourishing his body within him increased by more than twice as fast, and he could now clearly feel his physique slowly growing stronger.
The sea of qi within his body was now tinged with a faint purple glow, with an immense amount of purple spiritual energy flowing within it, the sheer quantity of which surprised even Qin Luo.
"Hmm~"
With a delicate shout, Xia Zihan finally finished absorbing the liquid and pills in the pool. She slowly got up and then anxiously searched for something until she saw Qin Luo sitting cross-legged on the ground. Only then did the anxiety in her eyes relax.
"Finished your cultivation?"
Qin Luo absorbed the spiritual energy that had been dissipating from his body into his Qi Sea. Since Xia Zihan had seen it before, there was no need to hide it anymore.
"Hmm, Fellow Daoist Wang Wu, what exactly is the source of your cultivation level?"
Xia Zihan looked at the spiritual energy that had just emanated from Qin Luo and asked him a question, but her voice was less cold and more gentle than before.
Qin Luo turned around, paused for a moment, then turned his head to touch the tip of his nose and said:
"Fellow Daoist Zhao Jiu, I think you should dry your clothes first before you talk to us."
Upon hearing this, Xia Zihan glanced at her robes. The white robes, soaked in water, appeared slightly transparent, revealing a large expanse of skin underneath.
Xia Zihan's face instantly turned bright red.
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