Could it be that True Immortal Yu Yang’s scheme had succeeded?
Mu Qiuhan’s heart skipped a beat.
But recalling Qin Ziyan’s recent actions, Mu Qiuhan again felt that perhaps she was overthinking it.
Perhaps that Shang Ningye was simply born with this skin color?
She quietly scoffed at her own suspicion, then entered the cultivation room with a focused mind, completely ignoring the commotion outside.
Mu Qiuhan tried using the method from the fire-attribute manual to summon the burning spiritual energy within her spiritual core. This spiritual energy was different from the very gentle wood-attribute spiritual energy she had used before. Mu Qiuhan felt that when she channeled the fire-attribute spiritual energy, her meridians throughout her body felt a fiery pain. It took almost half a day for her body to gradually get used to this feeling.
However, Mu Qiuhan keenly noticed that when she channeled the fire-attribute spiritual energy, the surrounding spiritual energy clearly gathered more densely than before, and her cultivation also grew several times faster.
By the time she had committed all the content in that manual to memory, a day had already passed.
Mu Qiuhan withdrew the burning spiritual energy, then circulated the wood-attribute spiritual energy within her body for several cycles, slightly recovering her strength.
After that, she once again tirelessly began studying that pill recipe.
She took an incense burner from within her storage ring and temporarily used it as an alchemy cauldron. Next, following the book’s instructions, she placed one stalk of Qingling Grass into it and enveloped it with fire-attribute spiritual energy.
The dark red spiritual energy, like flames, slowly extracted the essence from the plant.
When she saw that the stalk of Qingling Grass inside the burner had gradually turned a pale blue, Mu Qiuhan withdrew the spiritual energy. She peered into the incense burner.
The plant that had been resting peacefully at the bottom of the incense burner had now disappeared, replaced by a small pile of unformed pale blue powder. It seemed the experiment was successful.
Mu Qiuhan put the powder into a jade bottle from her storage ring. Then, she repeated the process, consecutively extracting more than ten stalks of Qingling Grass. Until the jade bottle was completely filled, the powder in the incense burner had turned from pale blue to deep blue.
Mu Qiuhan nodded in satisfaction.
She began trying to add other plants, using Qingling Grass as a base. Because she didn’t have many usable plants collected in her storage ring, she only succeeded in forming one Spring Recovery Pill used for recovering spiritual energy.
By the time she had completely memorized the content of that pill recipe, another three days had passed.
Mu Qiuhan kept track of the time. After midnight tonight, it would be the fifth. She took out the Qingling Grass powder she had prepared over the past few days from within her storage ring, waiting for the moment the blood worm would act up.
Qingling Grass could somewhat suppress the Gu worm’s activity. Mu Qiuhan decided to test something: how long she could last if she didn’t take the antidote Qin Ziyan gave her.
She couldn’t always be beholden to others like this.
Fully prepared, she sat down cross-legged and began circulating the spiritual energy within her body, focusing on cultivating.
Yet midnight passed quietly, and she cultivated until dawn, but the blood worm seemed completely still. Mu Qiuhan felt some doubt.
Was the effect of this Qingling Grass actually so effective? Even so, it shouldn’t be completely without any activity?
If True Immortal Yu Yang hadn’t overlooked something, then something was wrong with the blood worm. Mu Qiuhan thought the latter possibility was more likely. Although she couldn’t explain the reason yet, this was a good thing for her.
Without the blood worm bothering her, Mu Qiuhan’s following few days all went very smoothly.
Just as the tenth day was about to end, the cultivation room Mu Qiuhan was in was suddenly broken into by someone. At the time, she was working with that metal-attribute cultivation technique and the manual she had obtained earlier, pondering how to merge the two completely different strands of spiritual energy within her body into one. Even though this sudden intrusion didn’t affect her, if she had been trying to fuse spiritual energy at that moment, she would have likely suffered a backlash by now.
Mu Qiuhan gloomily stared at the person in front of her. Outsiders are not allowed to easily enter a cultivation room that is currently in use; this was the sect’s rule. Mu Qiuhan believed this person in front of her must have known. She coldly looked him over, wanting to hear what reason he could possibly offer.
That man in red robes was originally quite arrogant, but the coldness from Mu Qiuhan could even force back several of the Immortal Sect’s great elders, so how could an ordinary disciple withstand it? One could see that under Mu Qiuhan’s gaze, that person stumbled back a few steps. He was unsteady, so he grabbed the door frame.
Then, the man seemed to compose himself. One could see that he regained his footing and took a step back, as if wanting to casually close the cultivation room door and leave.
Mu Qiuhan hadn’t intended to actively cause trouble in this Immortal Sect territory, but this person came knocking on her door himself and pushed his way forward, so Mu Qiuhan didn’t intend to let him go.
With a light wave of her hand, a strand of gentle spiritual energy surged out, and green vines instantly grew and spread, blocking his path backward. Mu Qiuhan stood up at the same time and said coldly to the person in front of her, “Senior Brother, you can come whenever you want and leave whenever you want? Isn’t that a bit too arbitrary?”
The person panicked when Mu Qiuhan blocked his path. When he discovered the person in front of him only had Core Formation stage cultivation and was also a medical cultivator with wood-attribute spiritual energy, he instantly let out a sigh of relief.
He glanced at Mu Qiuhan. “Senior Sister, I’m used to using this cultivation room, but today it’s occupied by you.” He stared at Mu Qiuhan’s dark green robes and said dismissively, “Since when do even medical cultivators need to use fire-attribute cultivation rooms?”
Mu Qiuhan scoffed coldly when she heard this. She had originally intended that if this person in front of her sincerely apologized to her, she would have let this matter go. Unexpectedly, the apology she expected didn’t come; instead, that person counter-accused her first.
Mu Qiuhan curled her lips, but her smile didn’t reach her eyes. “Senior Brother, which sect rule states that medical cultivators cannot use fire-attribute cultivation rooms?”
That day when she entered this library pavilion, Mu Qiuhan discovered the cultivation rooms in this pavilion were divided by spiritual energy attribute. Cultivation rooms of the same attribute would have a certain enhancing effect for cultivating that element’s spiritual energy, therefore each cultivation room would charge a certain amount of contribution points daily. Mu Qiuhan coming this time was specifically to study the fire-attribute spiritual energy within her body, thus she specifically chose a corresponding cultivation room. Although the elder in charge of management in the pavilion was surprised that day, he also didn’t stop her. Therefore, Mu Qiuhan concluded there were no mandatory rules within the sect.
As expected, that person was startled by the words. However, he quickly recovered his composure and said to Mu Qiuhan again, “Although there is no such rule, I am used to using this cultivation room, and the Senior Brothers and Sisters on the ridge can all testify to it.” Within his words, he was surprisingly still accusing Mu Qiuhan of occupying his territory.
When Mu Qiuhan came earlier, she noticed the fire attribute in this innermost cultivation room seemed purer than those outside. This room happened to be available, so that’s why she chose this one. Now it seemed that cultivation room was empty at the time not because others couldn’t notice the benefit here, but rather someone had claimed this place as their territory, and others seemed to have acquiesced.
Others acquiescing to this rule didn’t mean she must obey it too.
Mu Qiuhan ignored that person and just said faintly, “Senior Brother, as far as I know, if you want to reserve a cultivation room, you need to pay a full three hundred contribution points each month. May I ask, Senior Brother, if you have proof of this?”
Mu Qiuhan knew he wouldn’t be able to produce anything. This person in front of her was arrogant and impolite; Mu Qiuhan no longer tried to reason with him.
If you can produce proof, then come in. If you can’t, then just leave quickly!
But she saw that person frowned.
He didn’t know her background; this woman in front of him was surprisingly completely unresponsive. He had already waited outside for her for more than fifteen minutes, and now he was trying to reason with her, repeatedly hinting that this place belonged to him, yet she seemed not to understand. And now, she actually still wanted him to produce proof.
Among the young disciples on Danxia Peak, the man was considered talented and was usually used to being pampered on the ridge. Seeing his repeated attempts to be patient had no effect, he finally got a bit angry.
One only heard him say sternly to Mu Qiuhan, “Senior Sister, your cultivation time is clearly coming to an end. How about you end your cultivation session now?” In his words, he actually wanted to forcibly drive Mu Qiuhan out.
Mu Qiuhan’s eyes grew cold.
Since it was impossible to reason with this person, then it was time to act.
With a wave of her hand, a strand of dark red spiritual energy flew over rapidly towards that person. That person seemed not to have expected Mu Qiuhan would actually dare to proactively attack him. After a moment of scrambling, he finally received Mu Qiuhan’s strike, and it looked like he took it quite easily.
It turned out he was in the late Nascent Soul stage.
Seeing this, Mu Qiuhan’s heart chilled slightly, yet she wasn’t afraid in the slightest. One could see that her fingertips rapidly flipped, creating an extremely complex pattern. At the same time, a large ball of spiritual energy condensed within her other palm. That ball of spiritual energy grew larger and larger, seeming to be gathering strength.
After that man received Mu Qiuhan’s move, his face suddenly turned very cold. “Since Senior Sister made the first move, don’t blame me for abusing my strength to bully the weak.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a strand of fiery red spiritual energy condensed in front of him, then that strand of spiritual energy rushed towards Mu Qiuhan and struck her head-on.
Mu Qiuhan didn’t dodge either. One could see that she formed a hand seal, and the ball of spiritual energy in her palm suddenly burst out and transformed into a giant fire bird. The fire bird flew up towards the sky, rushing towards that fiery red spiritual energy and met it head-on.
A huge explosion erupted in the air. Mu Qiuhan actually, with her Core Formation middle stage cultivation, forcibly endured a full-force strike from someone in the late Nascent Soul stage.
“Enough, enough, if you keep fighting, this old man’s place will likely be ruined by you.”
A silver-bearded, white-haired old man appeared beside the two of them without anyone knowing when. A barrier descended from the sky along with his words, enveloping that ball of violent spiritual energy fluctuations in the air. The two strands of spiritual energy, after completely colliding within that barrier, exploded like fireworks, then slowly scattered and dissipated, yet didn’t affect the surroundings in the slightest.
The old man raised his head, looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, and stroked his beard. After that, he looked at those two little ones in front of him with a half-smile.
“Here, this old man’s place does not permit fighting without permission. Don’t you know that?”
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