If Zhou Xi didn't look anything like Zhou Zhixin, Wen Ziqing would have suspected whether Zhou Zhixin and Zhou Xi were related by blood.
However, Wen Ziqing was not in a position to interfere in these matters. Finding his relatives was something Zhou Zhixin should worry about himself. Before any news came out, all Wen Ziqing had to do was to take care of the little girl and practice martial arts again to make himself stronger.
During these three months, Zhou Yuanyuan's greatest joy was her advancement. The spiritual energy within her was somewhat strange. While ordinary people practiced cultivation, they had to sit cross-legged in a state of meditation to absorb spiritual energy. Zhou Yuanyuan was different. Even when she wasn't practicing, her body was automatically absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world. However, most of the spiritual energy Zhou Yuanyuan had previously absorbed had gone to her sea of consciousness, where it was being refined by Xiaoyu to repair the cracks in her sea of consciousness.
Although Xiaoyu thought Zhou Yuanyuan's "soul-absorbing" ability was impressive, she didn't think much of it at first. There were geniuses like Zhou Yuanyuan in the Lingxiao Realm.
Last month, after Xiaoyu had repaired about 70% of the cracks in her sea of consciousness, she slowed down her work. The later stages of sea of consciousness repair differed from the earlier stages, requiring Xiaoyu to expend greater energy on purifying spiritual energy. This process required slow but persistent effort. Besides, now that Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness had been repaired to this point, she could begin learning some spiritual techniques.
Therefore, Zhou Yuanyuan only retained a small portion of the spiritual energy she absorbed daily into her sea of consciousness. The remaining 90% automatically arrived at her dantian after a large circulation. After a month of effort, just yesterday, the white mist in Zhou Yuanyuan's dantian became so thick that it started a drizzle. After the rain stopped, a thin vortex of air appeared in her dantian, rotating clockwise.
The tenth level of the late Qi Refining stage? If Xiaoyu had a mouth, it would have opened its mouth wide at this moment, stunned by Zhou Yuanyuan's cultivation speed. Xiaoyu couldn't help but sigh to the heavens. If it hadn't been so reckless and damaged Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness during the inheritance, making all the spiritual energy Zhou Yuanyuan had cultivated for months go to waste, Zhou Yuanyuan might have already reached the Foundation Establishment stage by now.
For a cultivator, the transition from the early stages of Qi Refining to the late stages is a major leap. As the thin vortex of Qi in Zhou Yuanyuan's Dantian grows thicker, it will continue to compress. When the spiritual energy reaches its limit, Zhou Yuanyuan will advance to the Foundation Establishment stage. Of course, at Zhou Yuanyuan's current cultivation speed, she might be able to advance again in just a few years.
Xiaoyu lay in the box for tens of thousands of years, nearly fading before she found Zhou Yuanyuan, a person with such profound spiritual roots. When Xiaoyu recognized her master, she thought, "Try it out as a last resort." Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuanyuan was so impressive, reaching the tenth level of Qi Refining in just one month. She was undoubtedly a top-tier cultivator! Even in the Lingxiao Realm, such a rapid pace would only appear once in a thousand years.
Lingxiao Realm? What kind of place was that? Xiaoyu's mind began to foggy again.
Forget it, forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore. I’ll practice with my master and live a beautiful life!
Xiaoyu's figure on the Rainbow Bridge is getting faster. The owner is working hard, so Xiaoyu has to work hard too!
Zhou Yuanyuan herself didn't think much of it. She was a novice cultivator, so naturally, she didn't know what normal speed was. She had learned two techniques last time, which had been driving her cultivation recently.
The techniques of the Soul Forging Technique were too profound, and Zhou Yuanyuan could only learn them after she reached the Foundation Establishment stage. That day, Xiaoyu helped Zhou Yuanyuan choose two elementary techniques: the "Spirit Needle" and the "Spirit Bomb."
"Reiki Needle," as the name suggests, involves releasing the spiritual energy within the body like a needle, piercing the opponent's body. Just like what Zhou Xi did to Xiao Jiang and Scarface that day, piercing the spiritual energy needle into Xiao Jiang's wrist, allowing it to run rampant along his meridians, the pain is unbearable for most people. After a few days, the spiritual energy dissipates, and normalcy returns naturally.
Zhou Xi used another method of using the spiritual energy needle on Scarface. He inserted a thicker spiritual energy needle directly into Scarface's knee, using the impact of the spiritual energy to crack Scarface's leg bones. The spiritual energy immediately dissipated after cracking Scarface's leg bones. Even though Scarface knew he had been tricked, he could not express his pain.
While Zhou Yuanyuan was trying to learn the technique, she specifically recounted the story of Xiao Jiang and Scarface to Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu was knowledgeable, so Zhou Xi's crude technique naturally wouldn't be lost on her. Seeing Zhou Yuanyuan's enthusiastic support for his technique, Xiaoyu found a "reiki needle" and offered it to Zhou Yuanyuan, a beginner, to practice on. With Zhou Xi's example in her sight, Zhou Yuanyuan took her studies with extraordinary intensity. Within a week, she was able to deploy and retract the needle with ease.
This "spiritual energy needle" could sever a person's hand or foot, and could be used to secretly ambush someone. After Zhou Yuanyuan mastered it, she tried it on herself. Unfortunately, the "spiritual energy needle" she sent out immediately penetrated her meridians and merged with other spiritual energy, causing no harm to her.
Xiaoyu helped Zhou Yuanyuan to understand. It turned out that one's own spiritual energy would not harm oneself. Unless a cultivator self-destructed his spiritual energy, the spiritual energy in his body would always be docile. It would be static when not practicing. When practicing, the spiritual energy would follow the direction of his own skills and circulate over and over again.
Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't tested the power of the "spiritual energy needle," and, unwilling to give up, she sought out Wen Ziqing to test it. However, Wen Ziqing was so kind to her that Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't bear to see him lose his limbs. The "spiritual energy needle" only released and then retracted. Even so, Wen Ziqing still broke out in a sweat from the pain.
After receiving Zhou Yuanyuan's special "care," Wen Ziqing sulked for a few days, ignoring the mischievous girl. Feeling guilty, Zhou Yuanyuan and Zhao Yunxiang went to the kitchen to cook a few desserts to appease Wen Ziqing. After spending so many days together, Zhou Yuanyuan discovered that Wen Ziqing had a sweet tooth, especially sweet osmanthus cake.
Wen Ziqing's face was sullen, but he wasn't actually angry at Zhou Yuanyuan. Instead, he felt that their fighting power seemed to be growing stronger. As a man, it seemed shameful to be unable to match the strength of his woman. However, after Zhou Yuanyuan apologized with sweet-scented osmanthus cake, Wen Ziqing finally came to his senses. Even the most capable man could be careless sometimes, and the stronger Yuanyuan's fighting power, the better it would guarantee his own safety.
However, out of apology, Zhou Yuanyuan still sneaked into Wen Ziqing's room at night. After easily knocking Wen Ziqing unconscious, Zhou Yuanyuan used her own spiritual power to comb Wen Ziqing's meridians, leaving a trace of spiritual energy in Wen Ziqing's body to nourish his bones and blood.
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