Chapter 17 Breakthrough
Jiang Weiqing suppressed his thoughts and changed the subject: "The Tianyan Secret Realm is about to open, Master should make preparations as soon as possible."
His gaze shifted to Su Luoxue, "Disciple suggests that Sixth Junior Sister remain in the sect."
"Her cultivation is only at the late stage of Qi Refining, and her spiritual root aptitude is not outstanding. If she rashly enters the secret realm, she will only become a burden to us."
Su Luoxue lowered her head when he looked at her directly, and said softly, "Second Senior Brother is right. I am willing to stay."
Ye Zhao's eyes darkened slightly.
"Su Luoxue is my disciple from Qingyue Peak. Whether she goes or not is up to me."
Jiang Weiqing frowned and said, "Master, this concerns the safety of all disciples."
Jiang Weiqing couldn't hide his astonishment: "You mean, we must take her into the secret realm?"
"She is my apprentice, so naturally she will follow me."
Jiang Weiqing's face was extremely gloomy, and he suddenly spoke after a while.
"If you insist on taking Sixth Junior Sister to the secret realm, then I can only... leave Qingyue Peak on my own and find another way out."
Su Luoxue's face suddenly changed, and her eyes wandered between Jiang Weiqing and Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao lowered his eyes, half of his face hidden in the shadows.
"Oh? You're leaving?"
Jiang Weiqing was feeling uneasy.
He had just been reborn and heard that Chen Yubai, Gu Xingzhi and the others had already left Qingyue Peak, so he naturally didn't want to stay here any longer.
Although Ye Zhao taught her for many years, in the end, all his family members died at Ye Zhao's hands. Ye Zhao and he had an irreconcilable feud!
But what should he do if Ye Zhao doesn't let him go?
"Yes, I am leaving. You insist on doing things your own way and only care about Su Luoxue. You don't care about the lives of the rest of us disciples! There is no future for me following you!"
Every word he spoke was filled with resentment that had been suppressed for a long time.
Ye Zhao chuckled and said, "If you want to go, go ahead."
Jiang Weiqing was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, "Okay, I, Jiang Weiqing, will have nothing to do with you from now on!"
After saying this, he strode away from Qingyue Peak, feeling a long-lost sense of relief in his heart.
Ye Zhao looked at Jiang Weiqing's back as he left, his thoughts uncontrollably drifting back to many years ago.
Jiang Weiqing was born in a small village on the border of the southern wilderness.
There was a severe drought that year, and the crops failed. More people died of starvation than of disease.
In order to survive, his parents sent him to the mountains to seek refuge with the immortals, saying that he was going to study, but in fact they were just sending him to try his luck.
Being accepted as a disciple is certainly a blessing, but if not, it will at least be one less mouth to feed.
He was not born with the talent to cultivate immortality. On the day he joined the sect, the elders from all the peaks shook their heads and sighed.
At that time, he was just a skinny boy, but he had an extremely stubborn temper. There were 9,999 stone steps from the foot of Qingyue Peak to the main peak.
Jiang Weiqing climbed from early morning until nightfall, with blood soaking the stone steps.
Ye Zhao remembered standing in front of the peak gate and seeing the bloody hands tightly gripping the edge of the stone steps. The young man looked up with only the stubborn determination to never give up in his eyes.
Her heart was suddenly touched. She liked this kind of courage to refuse to accept fate.
So, she accepted this child with poor character as her apprentice.
After that, she spent a full seven years, using up part of her own cultivation, to refine six divine essence pills.
This elixir can reshape bones, temper spiritual veins, and change the foundation of a mortal.
She gave one of them to Jiang Weiqing personally.
Shortly afterwards, Jiang Weiqing successfully established his foundation.
Then one day, his biological parents came to visit with a younger boy.
The young man had delicate features and a faint spiritual glow in his bones. It turned out that he was born with a rare spiritual bone.
The parents smiled proudly, wishing everyone knew that their youngest son was a good candidate for cultivating immortality. They also expressed their hope that Ye Zhao would accept him.
Ye Zhao just took a quick glance and felt extremely disgusted in his heart.
She remembered that when she examined Jiang Weiqing's bones, she found that he was missing a piece of spiritual bone. Spiritual bones are born unique and it is impossible for them to disappear for no reason.
She understood almost instantly that the parents, in order to fulfill their youngest son's wish, had dug up Jiang Weiqing's remains and transferred them to his younger brother.
So she ordered people to drive the biased parents down the mountain.
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Several years later, Jiang Weiqing reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, but he still felt resentful in his heart, thinking that it was her who prevented him from meeting his parents.
That day, the master and his disciples faced each other in the main hall of Qingyue Peak.
There was a monstrous hatred in his eyes, and the long sword in his hand flashed with a cold light. She had no time to dodge, and the sword pierced her chest. Warm blood flowed along the blade and fell onto the bluestone in front of the hall...
"Master, several senior brothers have left, you..." Su Luoxue looked at Ye Zhao's expression, worried that she would feel depressed because of this, but she found that the latter's eyebrows were calm, and she didn't seem to take these things to heart.
Ye Zhao took out a crystal clear small jade bottle from his storage bag and handed it to Su Luoxue.
"Xiaoxue, this is the Divine Essence Pill. It's for you."
Su Luoxue took the jade bottle in both hands and opened the bottle cap. A spiritual power so strong that it was almost condensed into substance rushed towards her, carrying an aura that could cleanse the marrow and strengthen the bones, which made people's hearts tremble.
She carefully closed the bottle cap and sighed inwardly.
The master actually prepared such a precious elixir for them, but several brothers always complained that the resources they got from staying at Qingyue Peak were limited and not enough for their cultivation...
"It's great that they've all left." Ye Zhao stretched and planned to find a place to absorb all the remaining five Divine Essence Pills.
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Ye Zhao sat upright on a cushion with an ancient carved box placed in front of his knees.
Inside were five pills that were warm and radiated a faint spiritual light, with fine spiritual patterns floating on their surface.
Ye Zhao used the spiritual power in her sleeves to roll up the first divine essence pill, and the fragrance of the pill instantly dissipated, turning into a warm current that flowed into her meridians and washed her spiritual platform.
Then, the second, third... and fifth pills were all swallowed.
The spiritual power surged in, like a long river bursting its banks and rushing along the meridians.
The golden elixir in her body suddenly lit up, and the light that was originally stable at the initial stage began to become brighter and hotter.
The spiritual pressure around him suddenly rose, and the objects placed in the hall vibrated slightly, making an inaudible humming sound.
Time passed by little by little, and the sky outside the hall was gradually dyed into a sea of clouds with faint light by the fluctuations of spiritual power.
finally……
"boom!"
There was a loud bang, Ye Zhao opened his eyes, a light flashed in his pupils, and his aura had reached the late Jindan realm.
How difficult is it in the world of cultivation to leap from the early stage of Jindan to the late stage of Jindan?
Each small stage in the Golden Core Realm is a chasm that often requires decades or even hundreds of years of hard training and opportunity to complete.
And she, with just five Divine Essence Pills, accomplished a leap that ordinary people could not even dream of in just a short period of time.
Of course, this is also because these divine essence pills were originally refined by her using part of her own cultivation.
Every time she refined one, she had to extract a wisp of her soul. In order to refine these soul pills, her mind was almost exhausted.
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