That day, Lu Li sat in the courtyard in front of his cave dwelling, elegantly sipping tea.
The aroma of tea filled the courtyard, and a gentle breeze caressed the jade tree in front of the yard, causing its leaves to rustle softly. Everything looked comfortable and beautiful.
Lu Li was clearly pleased with the current situation; even the corners of his usually gentle lips were turned up, showing his good mood.
Suddenly, just as Lu Li was about to raise another cup of fragrant tea to his lips, he sensed the surrounding spiritual energy suddenly surging towards the secluded cultivation room deep within the cave, as if it had gone mad.
Lu Li paused, then seemed to remember something. He didn't even bother drinking his tea anymore and immediately disappeared from the spot.
When he reappeared, he was standing in front of a stone chamber with a closed door. The door was covered with high-level talismans for preventing disturbance and soundproofing.
All the surrounding spiritual energy, as if drawn by something, pierced through the stone door and rushed inside.
His guess was confirmed, so Lu Li didn't disturb her or leave. He just waited quietly outside the stone gate, waiting for his junior sister to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
At the same time, more and more spiritual energy surged in. Lu Li, standing in front of the stone chamber, could feel the sharpness of the spiritual energy as it swept past, which was obviously due to the spiritual energy being attracted.
To avoid disrupting his junior sister's breakthrough, Lu Li carefully controlled his body, preventing it from absorbing spiritual energy and competing with his junior sister for resources.
Meanwhile, Shushu in the stone chamber was also feeling unwell. All the spiritual energy rushed into her meridians, making her feel like she had overeaten, and her whole body felt bloated and uncomfortable.
Fortunately, she had tempered her body with the Phoenix Flame beforehand, otherwise she would have been burst by the sheer amount of spiritual energy. However, this feeling of fullness was still very uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the yam was very clever and knew that this was probably the limit and it was about to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
So she quickly forced herself to ignore the strange sensations throughout her body, tried to calm herself down, and focused her inner energy on her meridians.
Then, little by little, the absorbed spiritual energy is sorted out, and this spiritual energy is guided to circulate throughout the body, widening the meridians and tempering the body once again, ultimately leading the spiritual energy to flow into the dantian in an orderly manner.
Focused on channeling spiritual energy, Shushu subconsciously ignored her physical discomfort, immersing herself completely in guiding the attracted spiritual energy again and again.
After an unknown amount of time and countless cycles of energy circulation, Shushu felt that his dantian could no longer hold even a trace of spiritual energy.
Suddenly, a popping sound was heard, as if something had shattered or expanded, and the spiritual energy in the dantian was instantly depleted.
Then Shushu felt his dantian expand more than twice its size, and even his meridians became much wider, and his cultivation level took a big leap forward.
She knew that she had successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, but she did not rush to quit. Instead, she absorbed the remaining spiritual energy before slowly withdrawing from cultivation.
"Ugh, it stinks!"
Then, the sorghum, whose sense of smell had returned, was almost killed by the stench and died on the spot.
Looking down, I saw that my once pink and tender little paws had turned oily black, and the unpleasant smell was coming from them.
"yue~"
The moment he looked down to check, the stench hit his nose again and went straight to his head, causing Shushu to gag.
It's more comfortable to keep your neck raised and away from your body.
Yes, it was his entire body. Shushu's whole body was now covered in a layer of oily black stuff, which was obviously the result of expelling impurities from his body when he broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Compared to the Phoenix Fire tempering process, which directly burns away all impurities, the feeling of successfully establishing a foundation and expelling impurities from the body again is not pleasant at all; the smell is just too strong.
Unfortunately, the potato hadn't learned the art of cleaning yet, so it couldn't even conjure up a magic wand to clean itself or purify the air.
It's also her fault for not thinking of this beforehand; otherwise, it would have been so much better to have prepared a bathtub or something in the room in advance.
Despite her thoughts, Shushu quickly opened the stone door. She remembered that there was a flowing hot spring pool not far from her senior brother's cave, and she needed to go and take a good bath.
It would be best to avoid the senior brother, otherwise she was worried that she would overwhelm him with her odor.
"Junior Sister, where are you going?"
But fate had other plans—or rather, fate had other plans. As soon as Shushu opened the stone door, she saw Lu Li waiting there, looking at her with a beaming smile.
"Senior Brother, you're here!"
Looking at Lu Li's gentle face, Shushu felt as if she had been struck by lightning. It really was a case of what she didn't want coming to pass.
Thinking of his own stinky smell, Shushu carefully took a few steps back to avoid bumping into his senior brother.
"Don't worry, your senior brother has shut down his sense of smell. I'll take you to take a bath now."
Lu Li was surprised that when Shushu saw him, she didn't rush over as usual, but instead backed away several times, which puzzled him.
After seeing that the little one was covered in black, he understood why she was like that. He smiled and explained, then picked her up without hesitation and walked out with her.
He knew that the Foundation Establishment process would expel impurities from the body, and that the smell was quite unpleasant. Shortly after arriving at the stone chamber, he shut down his sense of smell, so he didn't notice anything amiss.
Okay~
Seeing that Lu Li really didn't react, Shushu became happy and let him carry her out.
As for the stains that got on Lu Li's body, Lu Li didn't care at all, so she just pretended not to know. Hehe.
Soon, the senior and junior disciples arrived at the hot spring pool. Lu Li went into the water first, and then put the millet into the water as well.
As soon as the millet and sweet potato entered the water, they headed downstream to avoid dirtying the pond.
Seeing her like this, Lu Li did not stop her and let her play in the water by herself.
Finally, after spending half an hour in the hot spring, the glutinous rice stalk washed away the oily black substance and returned to its original appearance.
She then discovered that her body had grown considerably. What used to be a tiny ball nestled in Lu Li's palm was now a whole size bigger.
Even the previously soft nails have become much harder now, and even have some sharpness, giving them a sharp feel.
Its fur is snow-white all over, and its facial features are beautifully colored; it's so cute it's almost heart-melting.
"Senior Brother, I've grown a lot."
Then, she dropped all pretense, excitedly swam back to Lu Li's side, and boasted to him.
The longer she remained as a potato, the more her mind seemed to be approaching her current physical age. She didn't know why this was happening, but she didn't feel much resistance to it.
"Hmm, the millet is really good. Come on, let's wash it and then we'll go tell Master's wife. She doesn't know you've come out of seclusion yet."
Seeing her like this, Lu Li smiled and patted her head, then said something.
Now that we've successfully established our foundations, it's only natural that we should go and tell Liuying, so she won't worry.
As for their master, Liu Yu, he's still in Wanyue City studying the remnant formation, so we don't need to worry about him.
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