Holding the teapot, Ye Xiruo muttered to herself, "Pressure, aura. She's not some kind of expert, but just standing there, she's the sky and the earth."
What exactly does that mean? Even Tie Sheng, a cultivator himself, couldn't tell at a glance that I was also cultivating. Could this person be a master?! Ye Xiru shook her head. He had absolutely no masterly demeanor or bearing. He inexplicably left behind a single word and departed.
Forget it, I'll never mind. Next time I see this guy, I'll definitely ask him what happened.
Slipping back to her room, she closed the doors and windows tightly, took out the spirit stone, placed it on the table, and studied it intently.
The spirit stone was only half the size of a fist, its radiance restrained, the constantly shifting aura within it barely perceptible without close inspection. Using her spiritual power to carefully sense it, Ye Xiruo's smile grew increasingly radiant. It contained compressed spiritual energy; those orbs of light were pure spiritual energy, so pure that it could be directly absorbed, saving her at least three nights of cultivation time. With that time, she could finish memorizing the *Compendium of Myriad Medicines* much sooner.
Without hesitation, Ye Xiruo sat on the bed, gripped the spirit stone, and began to cultivate. Strands of pure spiritual energy continuously seeped into her meridians, gathering into a small stream that joyfully rushed through the nineteenth major acupoint and headed towards the twentieth.
One major cycle, two major cycles, Ye Xiruo tirelessly and frantically absorbed spiritual energy, a faint green glow constantly flashing across her body.
Three hours later, Ye Xiruo slowly awoke from her cultivation. Her spiritual energy circulated, and she had already opened twenty-five major acupoints. The small plant in her dantian seemed to have grown larger, becoming even more radiant with spiritual energy. She was still unaware that the small plant was her spiritual root.
Looking back at the spirit stone in his hand, he saw that half of the light inside had disappeared. It looked like it would be gone after another round of cultivation.
Ye Xiruo's grip on the spirit stone tightened involuntarily. Cultivating immortality seemed to be incredibly expensive. She was already so poor that she had to borrow money; how was she going to survive in the future?
The world of mortals and the world of cultivators are ultimately different. Gold and silver are the hope for survival for mortals, but for cultivators, they mean nothing.
Spirit stones, elixirs, magical artifacts—she has nothing now. Having been a mortal for decades, she still finds it difficult to see herself as a cultivator.
It's time for lunch.
There was no rice left, so she could only eat pancakes. Today, she didn't make scallion and egg pancakes because she was out of eggs. She just made a few thin pancakes, stir-fried some green peppers and shredded pork, and made a cold dish of shredded cabbage and carrots.
She picked up a pancake, rolled up the filling inside, and started eating. This was one of Ye Xiruo's favorite dishes to make. Simple, quick, delicious, and healthy. Ye Xiruo ate three pancakes in one go before stopping. Then she looked at the remaining two pancakes with a mournful expression.
Well, there's still half a pot of pork rib soup left from this morning, so it looks like I'll have to save these two pancakes for dinner.
After lunch, Ye Xiruo did not continue cultivating, but instead began memorizing texts.
She didn't know how the system calculated time. If three days inside the space equaled one day outside, she still had at least seven days left, right? Even with endless resentment, Ye Xiruo still immersed all her mind in the "Compendium of Ten Thousand Medicines".
Perilla: pungent and warm, it enters the lung and spleen meridians. It releases exterior pathogens and dispels cold, regulates qi and relieves chest congestion, and detoxifies fish and crab poisoning (due to qi stagnation in the spleen and stomach).
Indigo naturalis: Salty and cold in nature, it enters the liver, lung, and stomach meridians. It clears heat and detoxifies, cools the blood and reduces swelling.
Arborvitae leaves: bitter and astringent, slightly cold, enters the lung and large intestine meridians. They cool the blood and stop bleeding, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
Juncus effusus: diuretic, relieves strangury, clears heat and reduces inflammation.
......
One by one, the herbs flew past her eyes, then turned gray, but Ye Xiruo's expression remained unchanged. Only the mental energy within her sea of consciousness circulated faster and faster.
Ye Xiruo was unaware of all this. Only after memorizing about one-tenth of the medicinal herbs did she belatedly realize that her mental strength seemed to have increased slightly. If the outside world knew this, it would surely shock the world.
It's important to understand that cultivating mental strength is far more difficult than cultivating true essence in martial arts, and the strength of one's mental strength is almost entirely determined by fate. Some people are born with no mental strength at all, and thus can only live as ordinary people for the rest of their lives.
Some people are born with weak mental strength, so even if they cultivate diligently for a lifetime, they are destined to achieve little. It can be said that the strength of one's mental strength determines how far one can ultimately go.
As is well known, the growth of mental strength is extremely slow, and drugs that can increase mental strength are also extremely rare. Furthermore, methods for cultivating mental strength are even rarer, and if they were to appear, they would inevitably cause a bloodbath.
It's rare to find someone like Ye Xiruo whose mental strength increases slightly after just a short time of memorizing.
After pouring herself a cup of tea, Ye Xiruo's mind gradually calmed down. The golden gourd seemed to shine a little brighter, though she wasn't sure if it was just her imagination.
While she was drinking water, a sudden, powerful force knocked Ye Xiruo to the ground. She rubbed her arm; although it only lasted a moment, the force was immense and almost irresistible.
It was an earthquake. Ye Xiruo had just gotten up from the ground when another strong force knocked her back to the ground.
"What exactly is that thing?" Ye Xiruo was furious; she really deserved a beating.
I might as well sit on the ground and not get up, so I won't get overturned again in a little while.
If Ye Xi could see a different kind of brilliance in the sky through the window, could it be that some important person had arrived?
Ye Xiruo was about to stand up, but she forced herself to stop. Even if he was some important person, what did he have to do with her? What if she accidentally got trampled to death?
Half an hour later, after confirming that there was no more movement, Ye Xiruo quickly got up from the ground and ran outside.
The sky has returned to normal, but there seems to be a sense of gloom and oppression in the air.
This was different from the oppressive aura of the spirit beasts of the past. This aura contained more bloodshed and domineering force; it was the aura of a human.
Ye Xiruo's face turned pale. What exactly happened just now?
As she was thinking, she was about to leave. She wanted to ask Brother Tiesheng what had happened and why she had a bad feeling about it.
"Xiao Liu, pack your things and come stay in town with my mother for a while!" As soon as the door opened, Tie Shengge, who looked anxious, appeared.
"What happened?"
"A rare treasure has appeared in the back mountain, and all the major sects will soon send people over. Spirit beasts and cultivators will definitely fight, and there will be rivers of blood." This is inevitable.
"Then can our village still exist?" Ye Xiruo's face turned pale.
This is where she was reborn. Although she has only lived here for a few days, she has truly regarded this place as her home. Now she has to watch helplessly as her home is destroyed.
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