Chapter 59 Cultivation
With improved aptitude, catching up with other geniuses in cultivation shouldn't be a big problem.
Since the cultivation speed has slowed down, I'll just cultivate slowly from now on. According to the timeline in that book, everything is moved forward by seven or eight years.
Song Chi didn't have time to continue his arduous training; he needed to improve his combat skills.
At first, Song Chi stubbornly tried to manipulate the Green Leaf Treasure, attempting to break through the "Moon in the Water" melody. Ultimately, however, he failed.
She was a bit skeptical, so on this day, she jumped onto the wall of Ximozhai.
Ten years later, Ye Qingyu, dressed in a black robe, sat upright in the courtyard, slowly drinking tea under the shade of flowers.
He sat upright, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, his figure inexplicably more imposing than before. Ten years ago, he would have already been a mature young man. But it was only at this moment that Song Chi truly noticed the sharp, commanding presence emanating from him. Perhaps maturity can happen in an instant.
I used to think he was just a teenager.
Ye Qingyu had noticed her long ago. He paused slightly with his teacup before continuing to sip his tea calmly. However, a hint of sarcasm curled at the corner of his mouth.
He then gestured for her to come down and have some tea.
As soon as Song Chi sat down, he elegantly poured a cup of tea and pushed it towards him.
"The snow plum blossoms under the pine-covered mountains and clouds bloom every year, which is quite beautiful." However, Ye Qingyu's first sentence was sarcastic and pointedly addressed the most sensitive topic.
However, unlike before, when his expression would contort. Now, he merely mocks her with a solemn air.
Winter has indeed arrived, and the snow plum blossoms are in full bloom again. In the past ten years, about a hundred more trees have grown, and half of the area around Jade Mirror Lake is now surrounded by the magnificent sight of snow plum blossoms. Master actually loves these snow plum blossoms very much, but every time he thinks of the person who gave them the flowers, he can't help but purse his lips, and even the pleasure of looking at the flowers disappears.
Song Chi didn't discuss these things with Ye Qingyu.
"I need to ask you for some advice!"
"Seeking guidance? I really dare not accept that." Ye Qingyu said in a cold tone, then stood up and gestured for him to speak.
He then solemnly put his hands behind his back, looking as if he was about to go to the training room.
He thought she was there to start a fight, just like before.
Song Chi smiled, not only without moving his feet, but also took out his pipa.
Ye Qingyu was indeed a little angry this time, his back turned slightly heavy, and then he turned around and glared at her fiercely.
He then asked her what she wanted to play. Song Chi instructed him to circulate his five elements (metal, water, wood) to play the tune "Moon in the Water".
Ye Qingyu looked on with understanding. "I've pondered this piece for ten years. The subtlety of the transformation between the five elements (metal, water, and wood) surpasses that of other pieces. However, it's not just about the transformation of the five elements; it also requires sensing a trace of...celestial energy between heaven and earth?"
He was probably unable to describe the source of that ethereal aura, hence his slightly doubtful tone.
However, when he played that piece, just like Mo Shubai, he was able to freely transform between the metal, water, and wood spiritual roots.
After he finished playing, he looked at her. "Why don't you try?"
Try it for what? This kid just wants to see her fail.
Song Chi ignored her and flew away to take her leave. Undeterred, she then went to find Jiang Linyue and Su Qiwu.
Both of them had actually improved their aptitude to the Heavenly Spiritual Root level. Therefore, they were indeed able to switch freely between the three spiritual roots of metal, water, and wood.
Song Chi returned after making his way around, and as he passed Ye Qingyu's Ximozhai, he heard Ye Qingyu's low, soft laughter.
She instantly realized that the mature version of Ye Qingyu was even more annoying and infuriating.
Yes, yes, yes! Your Heavenly Spiritual Root is the most amazing and the most powerful.
When Song Chi returned to Yunhai Songshan, he saw two figures, one in green and one in blue, strolling along Yujing Lake.
It was Master and Senior Brother. They walked to the tall snow plum grove and stood there for a while, stepping on the snow.
The master, who had previously admired the beauty of the white plum blossoms covering the branches, immediately straightened his face and turned back the moment Song Chi flew over.
He didn't want her to linger in the snow plum grove, fearing that if she did, her heart would be captivated by Xue Rongzhan.
Song Chi couldn't help but smile at this feeling of being wary of fire, theft, and Xue Rongzhan.
In fact, ten years had passed, and she had almost forgotten what Xue Rongzhan looked like. There was no affection whatsoever.
Master is completely overthinking it.
She followed along for a while, and her master asked her what she had been doing. She casually replied that she had just wandered around.
He even got glared at. The master slightly turned his head to look at the lake and muttered something under his breath.
"Those few won't do either," he said.
Ye Qingyu and the others' romantic entanglements did indeed lead towards the female lead, Cui Xue Ruo. But she only went to them to exchange musical skills; nothing more.
Then, his master's next words made Song Chi's heart tremble.
"Shu Bai, I see your spiritual energy is clear and flowing like a spring, constantly swirling. This is a sign that you are about to reach the Nascent Soul stage. Have you already gained some insight?"
Upon hearing this, Mo Shubai smiled faintly, her smile even more radiant than the snow-covered plum blossoms on the branches.
"I've gained some insight," he said.
When someone like him says "slightly," it basically means he already knows the ropes.
Venerable Xueqiao immediately stroked his beard and nodded. "In that case, it seems I must prepare matters concerning the righteous path for you."
Mo Shubai smiled and shook his head. "It might not be that fast."
Venerable Xueqiao glanced at him and smiled. "It's only been two or three years. You, a Nascent Soul cultivator, have suffered quite a bit, but now you've finally reaped the rewards."
Then she immediately glared at Song Chi. This guy had already managed to sneak inside. And she figured that she hadn't even managed to get through to Shu Bai.
Xueqiao Venerable had noticed Song Chi's recent distressed state, with her constantly pulling at her hair. He feared that this girl couldn't walk the path of Shubai either, simply because her spiritual root aptitude lacked a touch of immortal energy.
Even he possessed three spiritual roots: metal, water, and wood. He had a metal and water heavenly spiritual root, but his wood spiritual root was only ninety-nine percent, which was still slightly lacking in immortal energy.
Song Chi's path to the Nascent Soul stage is probably going to be difficult!
Song Chi isn't currently troubled by the righteous path of the Nascent Soul stage. Rather, the timeline in the book happens to be based on Mo Shubai's righteous Nascent Soul path.
If he succeeds on the righteous path in the next two or three years, then the Immortal Soul Flower Secret Realm will not be far away.
Sure enough, they moved it up by seven or eight years. Song Chi was in a real bind; she didn't have much time left.
In this way, there's no need to think about any combat techniques.
It seems that this time when I go to the secret realm, I can only play it safe and develop my strength cautiously.
After returning from his walk with his master and the others, Song Chi immediately changed his mindset and began to frantically practice the Instantaneous Movement Technique and the Invisibility Technique. He even went to the library to find a whole bunch of tracking techniques.
After practicing several versions of the Instantaneous Movement Technique, she realized that in order to catch up with Hua Shalan, the young master of a reclusive family with countless secret treasures and profound resources, she had to maximize the Instantaneous Movement ability of the Green Leaf Treasure.
With the increase in wood elemental power from the green fan and green beads given to her by Mo Shubai, this treasure has begun to show signs of developing spiritual consciousness, and it seems that watering the spiritual plants in the spiritual plant garden is helpful.
Fortunately, the task of watering spiritual plants with sound cultivation set up by the Grandmaster in the Spirit Plant Garden also included Golden Core cultivators. However, these were all precious spiritual herbs, extremely delicate, and would die if handled improperly.
No Golden Core cultivator dared to touch this area. Song Chi, thanks to the help of those Purple Spirit Myriad-Herbs, still possessed some assets.
These spiritual plants can withstand damage. Therefore, apart from improving his cultivation at night and training in teleportation and invisibility techniques in the morning, he basically spends his afternoons in the plant garden.
Senior Sister An Yu is still in the late Foundation Establishment stage, but because of her efficiency, she has been promoted to a third-class steward of Qingyun Pavilion.
When Song Chi went to Qingyun Pavilion that day wanting to do a task, An Yu immediately came out to greet her with a smile, saying she was a rare guest. She then learned that Song Chi wasn't going out to do a task, but rather to the Plant Spirit Garden.
An Yu laughed speechlessly. "You seem to have an inexplicable connection with those spiritual plants!"
Then he personally arranged the task for her. Although their statuses were now vastly different, Song Chi remained the same as before. An Yu was very happy and, without any flattery, treated her as intimately as before.
When Song Chi took his leave to go to the Planting Spirit Garden, An Yu, being quite gossipy, came over and asked him some questions.
Which of them do you like best?
Back then, nine out of ten of the deacons working on the second floor, including An Yu, were all ears. Her gossip was still going strong even after ten years.
Song Chi raised his hand to indicate his surrender, and then vanished in an instant.
Which one does she like? She doesn't feel anything for any of them. Honestly, no one believes she has no feelings for anyone now.
If she were even slightly more emotional, she could be quietly developing her abilities right now. After all, a sound cultivator at the Golden Core stage is quite formidable in terms of killing with both metal and water spiritual roots. But this requires extremely intense emotions to trigger the mysteries of heaven and earth.
For example, Ye Qingyu was still one of the most outstanding disciples of his generation. His musical talent, with its dual spiritual roots of metal and water, was extremely powerful.
For Song Chi, walking this path without emotion is a dead end. The problem is, a Wood Spirit Root also needs a Heavenly Spirit Root to possess lethality.
Otherwise, why would she bother with stealthy development? Everyone wants to charge in, unleash a burst of fire, and carve out a path to righteousness.
After watering the spiritual plants in the Spiritual Plant Garden for a few days, Song Chi discovered that the spiritual energy of some medicinal fields was unusually strong, greatly enhancing the abilities of the green leaf magic treasures. She asked the person in charge and learned that these were all spiritual plants watered by Xue Qingyan.
So she started catching Xue Qingyan while he was watering the spiritual plants, hoping to run into him by chance. After a few such encounters, the boy simply started waiting for her at the entrance of the Spiritual Plant Garden.
Every afternoon thereafter, the two of them would stroll through the Plant Garden.
After Xue Qingyan unleashed a round of wood-elemental magic, and her music caused the spiritual plants to dance gracefully, the superior spiritual plants in the Plant Spirit Garden ushered in a beautiful spring.
Song Chi discovered that the green-leafed magic treasure could absorb the faint, ethereal aura emanating from the vigorous growth of the spiritual plant. If one had to describe it precisely, it would be like a life force dissipating into the air, or perhaps the exhilarating feeling of the spiritual plant after being carefully nurtured and grown.
It seems to be a kind of emotion, but it's the emotion of the spirit plants? She didn't quite understand, but doing it was fine.
The green leaves of the magical treasure had gradually transformed from slightly wilted leaves into leaves that looked as freshly picked, and had begun to thrive.
Her teleportation technique naturally began to improve by leaps and bounds.
The triangular cone armor-piercing magic weapon that Mo Shubai gave her also grew along with the Green Leaf magic weapon.
Otherwise, if she activated the Green Leaf Magic Treasure every day, without the Triangular Cone Clear Qi to suppress it, relying solely on Song Yun's Clear Heart Pill, she wouldn't be able to resist pounced on Xue Qingyan, who was so close at hand.
As this young man became more and more adept at using the Wood Spirit Power Immortal Technique, a pure and ethereal aura emanated from his body. His already striking appearance had become even more refined and otherworldly.
She's almost grown into her favorite ethereal, otherworldly type. If the evil aura emanating from the Green Leaf Magic Weapon becomes uncontrollable, it'll be a piece of cake for her to pounce on Xue Qingyan.
On a drizzly spring afternoon, as Song Chi was lazily playing the zither in the Plant Spirit Garden, Dai Jia and Cheng Yao jumped up to her side.
Look at her, one hand playing the zither, the other supporting her cheek, her lazy manner of pressing the strings with spiritual power.
Dai Jia clicked her tongue and shook her head. "You're way too relaxed."
Song Chi chuckled when he saw them. "You busy people, what brings you here to see me?"
Dai Jia and Cheng Yao couldn't help but roll their eyes. Their cultivation progress had been slow these past two years, and they'd started studying magic. Then, in their free time, they wanted to find Song Chi, but to their dismay, they couldn't even get close.
In the morning, Song Chi directly sealed the Scarlet Rose Pavilion for intensive cultivation. In the afternoon, Xue Qingyan went to Cloud Sea Pine Mountain, ostensibly because it was on the way, and invited Song Chi to do a mission at the Spirit Plant Garden together.
What do you mean, "on the way"?
That bastard won't let them near Song Chi. Besides, that kid's wood-elemental magic is incredibly wicked; Dai Jia has suffered a lot at his hands. Cheng Yao's water-elemental root is powerful, but against Xue Qingyan, her water-elemental power actually becomes an asset to that kid. How can they possibly fight like that?
However, Ye Qingyu and his group also disliked Xue Qingyan and always attacked him whenever he came to see Song Chi.
Of course, this sometimes left Xue Qingyan in a rather disheveled state. But if they missed the appointed time, Song Chi would come searching for Xue Qingyan, fanning herself with her white fan. Thus, Ye Qingyu and the others had no choice but to abandon their attack on Xue Qingyan.
But Song Chi was completely unaware of these underhanded struggles. She happily completed her tasks every day, especially after Xue Qingyan watered the spiritual plants; her eyes would light up when she used her sonic cultivation technique. She must have obtained something.
Moreover, it was probably a task assigned by Venerable Xueqiao. In any case, whenever Ye Qingyu and the others went too far in obstructing Xue Qingyan, Venerable Xueqiao would simply flick his spiritual energy and send them back to his own courtyard with a flick of his sleeve.
Therefore, Ye Qingyu and the others could only watch helplessly as Song Chi and Xue Qingyan went to the Plant Spirit Garden "affectionately" every day.
If Song Chi hadn't been so meticulous in his work at the Spirit Plant Garden, only playing the zither and watering the spirit plants, and hadn't just chatted idly with Xue Qingyan about useless nonsense...
There wasn't even the slightest hint of ambiguity; otherwise, those guys would probably be incredibly jealous.
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Author's Note: [Cat head emoji][Cat head emoji] Second update is here!
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