"Meow..." She didn't know if it was her imagination or if Taxue really made a soft cry. Li Yirou suddenly woke up. What was she complaining about...
He had established his foundation in less than six years of practice, and was able to walk on snow, gain space, obtain beast souls to repair his spiritual roots, and obtain countless natural treasures. This was a fortune that ordinary people did not have.
Although she didn't have anyone she could truly befriend, she did have several teammates and friends who fought alongside her, risking their lives for her. She didn't have a master, but unexpectedly, a powerful female cultivator passed down her true teachings to her son.
Although it wasn't the peaceful life she'd imagined, it was a blessing from heaven. The mist in Li Yirou's eyes receded, and perhaps because of this, her tribulation was even more ferocious.
She calmly accepted everything that fate gave her.
The thunder from the sky accumulated enough power and finally fell.
Li Yiru's spiritual power spread throughout her body, and she took the thunderbolt head-on. The sky didn't fall and the earth didn't collapse...but it didn't happen.
Although it was so powerful that it shook the earth and mountains, it didn't kill her. It just electrocuted her and made her fall to the ground and twitch several times.
The pain in her meridians was even more intense than the first time she tempered her body. She gritted her teeth and persevered, practicing the body-tempering technique.
While absorbing, a group of demonic beasts heard the news and came over. They had long disliked her. She had been wandering around their territory all day long, which was a naked provocation! Seeing that her master was in a bad condition, the strange fire brought a few demonic beasts and fought hard.
When Li Yiru stopped trembling, she distracted herself and pasted a few talismans on them, which greatly enhanced their spiritual power. She was a little fragile at the moment, so she could only seize the time and concentrate on refining the heavenly thunder and consolidating her cultivation.
The mist that was originally surging in the dantian began to condense into liquid drop by drop.
The spiritual energy around her rushed into her body frantically. The five-colored spiritual energy first condensed into colorless mist, then turned into water droplets again, and began to drip from her dantian, gathering into a transparent spiritual water mist like a clear spring.
During this process, the Dantian changes from its original color of flesh and blood to transparent, continuously accumulating and absorbing spiritual energy, and at a certain moment, it turns back to its original color.
She could feel the expansion and strengthening of her Dantian.
At this moment, the first drop of liquid condensed from her spiritual energy began to fall.
The spiritual energy was compressed from gas into liquid, with a higher concentration and strength. The spiritual energy in her body was thicker than ever before, and all the twelve meridians in her body, including her dantian, were tempered!
A burst of fairy music came, and when Li Yiru opened her eyes, just like Li Yi did not see any auspicious signs when he was building his foundation, the scene of her foundation building had also dissipated, and the sound of musical instruments that resounded through the sky also stopped immediately.
Li Yirou felt completely different! Entering the Foundation Establishment stage, her spiritual power didn't simply increase, but multiplied! She now felt like she could kill several spirit-level monsters with a single sword strike!
She had a hard time fighting against her strange fire and spirit beasts. Li Yiru flew forward and successfully killed five of them with one sword. The others were far away and turned around and ran away when they saw her coming.
"Master!" The strange fire and the two demon beasts twisted their bodies and came up, just as they were about to act coquettishly, Li Yirou suddenly had a premonition, "Come here quickly, we're leaving!"
After saying this, he unconsciously used spiritual power in his hands, and at once sucked the two monsters into his hands and put them into the space.
No wonder he could fly after building his foundation. Perhaps because of this, he could also use his spiritual power to control objects from a distance.
She looked inward with her spiritual consciousness and saw that the last enemy insect had withered and become old. She just didn't expect that they had survived for five years.
As Li Yiru was thinking this, she was thrown out by the power of the secret realm.
At this moment, there is no fog in the mountains of the Red Flame Secret Realm, and it is full of greenery, which means that the secret realm has not been opened.
It seems like two parallel time and space stacked on top of each other, which can only be opened when they intersect at a specific time.
Li Yirou wore the spatial jade pendant given by Li Yi around her neck. She had also obtained many valuable items in the secret realm, so it wasn't in vain that she had used up so many of his elixirs and spirit wines. But the puppet still wanted to borrow it, so he wouldn't refuse, would he?
She tried to fly back on her sword. It was a bit shaky at first, but after a few tries, she was able to keep it steady. She flew higher and higher, channeling her spiritual energy into a shield. It was comfortable—except for the hard seat.
It took Li Yiru three days to finally return to the sect and head straight to the cave, but only Yu Mao was inside.
"Who are you? How did you get into our cave..." He saw a young man who looked familiar, taller and more mature. He was a little surprised and didn't recognize him at first. Suddenly he remembered that this was a cave for four people!
"Fang Ye?! Is that you? Fang Ye!" He was extremely shocked. He thought the dead had actually been resurrected. Since they had no grudges against each other, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. "We thought... Bah, never mind. Why did you come back just now? Where's Li Yi?"
"He didn't come back?!" Li Yirou's original excitement and joy were suddenly dispelled when Yu Mao said this. How could it be, how could he not come back!
Did something happen to him? Li Yirou was anxious, but she had lost all means of contacting him. Her communication jade slip was in the storage bag outside, and she accidentally lost it when she was injured.
"No... We thought you two had an accident in the Red Flame Secret Realm..." Yu Mao was also shocked. Could it be that Fang Ye was fine, but Li Yi, who had a higher cultivation level, was in trouble? So... Wait, why couldn't he see through Fang Ye's cultivation level!
What had he been through in the past two years that he had surpassed his Qi Refining Level 5 in such a short time?! He wanted to ask more, but Fang Ye ran out in despair after hearing that Li Yi hadn't returned and hadn't sent them any messages.
Li Yiru ran to Taoyuan Mountain, hoping to find any traces of his return.
Some of the trees they planted successfully took root and survived, but others did not have solid roots and could not survive.
The three little puppets were still hidden underground, seemingly untouched for years. They had only left a few months' supply of spirit stones for the puppets.
Li Yirou collected them, cleaned them, and placed them in the storage jade pendant.
Before the 20-year construction period was up, Li Yiru saw that no one cared about the wind chime trees they had planted. As long as they were planted before the end of the construction period, it would be fine.
Li Yi, is something really wrong?
Li Yiru took out the seeds that she had placed in the space. In the storage bag that she had lost before, there were only a few low-level talismans that she would use casually, as well as a communication jade slip.
Maybe he had sent her a message? But this jade slip could only be received in Wuji City, and she had lost it... What about the promise to help her refine her natal spirit sword?
She had used so many treasures from his jade pendant and hadn't had time to return it. Could it be that because he gave her the jade pendant, he couldn't survive the danger he encountered after leaving the secret realm?
The more she thought about it, the more she felt this was possible, and it made her feel even more guilty. In fact, she didn't need so many good things in the secret realm. She still had space...
Li Yiru blamed herself, thinking that perhaps it was really because of her concealment that Li Yi got into trouble.
Now she could only silently plant more trees on the mountain for the two of them.
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