Chapter 74 New Krypton Gold Channel
After Qin Yi selected the mission and received it with his sect's jade token, the three of them left the sect hall.
"Junior Sister Ruan, are you really not going? The reward for this mission is quite generous, 500 contribution points. If we divide it among the eight of us, each of us can get more than 60." Zhao Fengchun said to Ruan Xing with regret.
Ruan Xing shook his head. "No, you can handle it by yourselves. If you bring me along, you will have to share more, and the others will definitely be unhappy. I used the spiritual energy of the Spirit Gathering Array to practice yesterday, and I feel that I can break through to the perfection of Qi training in the next two days. Let's start the mission next month."
"Well, it's more important to concentrate on cultivation." Zhao Fengchun felt a little disappointed and didn't say anything more.
Ruan Xing hesitated for a moment, then took out two enhanced versions of the [疾] spell and gave them to her, and warned her, "Your cultivation is not as good as that of other fellow disciples. If you are in danger, you should protect yourself first. These are two spells for escaping. Keep them for yourself."
Zhao Fengchun felt warm in his heart, "Okay, thank you, Junior Sister Ruan."
Although they had only known each other for a few short days, she felt that she and Junior Sister Ruan had become as close as sisters. Junior Sister Ruan had been kind to her with open heart, and she must not let this friendship down. Unfortunately, her cultivation was insufficient, and she could not help Junior Sister Ruan in her cultivation. She could only pay more attention to her daily life.
Ruan Xing could only sigh silently in her heart. They would set out early the day after tomorrow. If she could not get the evil cultivator to dispel their thoughts within this day and a half, then they could only wish for the best.
Don't blame her for being cold-blooded. It is human nature to be selfish. She can't even protect herself. If she leaves the sect, she will die. How can she have the energy to help others?
After the three of them parted, Ruan Xing sent a message to Xie Huai on the sect's jade tablet, asked for his location, and then hurried over.
The two of them had already added each other as friends when they were transferring money last night.
Xie Huai asked her to meet him at his residence. When Ruan Xing arrived, she knocked on the door directly. The door opened after just one knock.
Xie Huai looked down at her and said, "There are too many people outside, come in first."
The houses in Jiaziyuan are much more spacious, a bit like the small courtyard of a farmhouse.
"What's the matter?"
Xie Huai had a faint smile on his handsome face. The moon-white disciple uniform outlined his straight back, giving him the image of a gentleman, but there was a hint of coldness in his eyes and tone.
"I'll return your contribution points." Ruan Xing spoke briefly and to the point. Without further ado, he took out the sect's jade token and prepared to transfer the money.
Hearing this, Xie Huai was stunned for a second, and said in astonishment: "Didn't you say it would take three days? It's already been used in just one morning?"
Ruan Xing raised an eyebrow, "Are you not happy that I'm paying you back in advance? OK, I've finished transferring it, take a look, and if there's no problem, I'll leave."
She was so free and easy that Xie Huai became even more wary.
It's impossible that she borrowed the contribution points just for fun. She must have used it to achieve some purpose, but he didn't know it yet.
The fact that she was so fast was enough to prove that she was not completely ignorant of the Xuanbing Sect. There might be other evil disciples in the Xuanbing Sect who were hiding deeply.
He still needs to make more preparations.
Ruan Xing didn't care what Xie Huai was thinking. She had just passed the contribution points, so she hurried back to her room to simulate it herself.
She had 155 low-grade spirit stones on her, which were enough to pay three months' rent for Jiaziyuan in one go. Unfortunately, she only had more than a month to practice. After careful calculation, it would be more cost-effective to use half of it to buy Qi Gathering Pills and the other half to absorb spiritual energy.
There were only three or four bottles of Qi Gathering Pills in her storage bag, which were definitely not enough for her high-intensity training.
Ruan Xing sat on the couch and started the text simulation. Under her personal will, Ruan Xing in the simulation turned a deaf ear to the outside world and practiced like crazy for 24 hours. She only took a two-hour nap in the middle of two or three days. In more than a month, all the spirit stones, Qi gathering pills and fasting pills in her body were used up.
After the simulation, Ruan Xing chose to cultivate his realm. Suddenly, a pure spiritual power flowed through his dantian, perfectly merging with his original spiritual power.
His cultivation had improved a little, but he was still at the ninth level of Qi training.
Ruan Xing continued to simulate with all her might. The spiritual bones transformed by the ice pool water brought her great benefits. Her cultivation speed was much faster than when she was in Yunyang City. At that time, she had to practice until she was twenty-three to break through a level. Now, it only took her less than ten simulations, and more than a year to complete her Qi training.
However, this was also related to the fact that she had not completely absorbed the water in the ice pool. A lot of the spiritual energy in the ice pool water was contained in her meridians, nourishing her spiritual bones and meridians silently.
After all, it is a derivative of the Hanshan Snow Marrow that can be used to refine spiritual weapons. I'm afraid it will take at least until Ruan Xing reaches the late stage of foundation building before he can absorb all the ice spiritual energy.
The next step is to build the foundation.
Ruan Xing took out two foundation-building pills that she had simulated, and went through the Tongxuan Sutra from beginning to end in her mind. To be on the safe side, she used two real-life simulations to get a feel for the experience of breaking through the foundation.
After being fully prepared, Ruan Xing clicked to start the simulation, and then a hint of joy appeared on his face.
Breakthrough successful!
She couldn't wait to choose the realm to cultivate. The spiritual power in Ruan Xing's body surged like a gust of wind sweeping through her limbs, internal organs, skin, flesh, blood and bones, as if her body was being sifted bit by bit, removing the dregs and leaving only the essence.
However, her body had already been transformed by the ice pool water, so the expansion of meridians brought about by foundation building did not have much effect on her, and the degree of pain was still within the tolerable range.
Moreover, because she broke through the innate Tao through martial arts training, her physical strength is different from that of other cultivators who directly draw Qi into their bodies. The strength of her body tempered after building the foundation is naturally stronger than that of cultivators in the foundation-building stage at the same stage.
Only after all the steps were completed and the spiritual power had been cleansed through her body several times did Ruan Xing breathe a sigh of relief.
The foundation is completed.
All the impurities in the body are expelled, forming a thin gray soft shell on the surface of the body. With a slight tear, the porcelain-white skin underneath is revealed.
It's like shedding its skin.
It is always uncomfortable to have dirty things stuck to the body. Ruan Xing took off his clothes and tore off all the skin fragments on his body in a few seconds. After trying a few times with his spiritual power, he successfully used the Dust-Collecting Technique. After cleaning his body and refreshing himself, he changed into the moon-white disciple uniform.
The Xuanbing Sect did not force its disciples to wear the uniform issued by the sect, but many disciples were proud to be members of the Xuanbing Sect and wore them voluntarily.
Looking at the old clothes taken off on the ground, Ruan Xing felt a little sorry. Forget about the tight little skirt inside, it doesn't matter if it is thrown away. She quite likes the black cloak outside. It was a nightgown customized for her by Hu San. She has been wearing it since she joined the Red Head Gang. There is a hood on the cloak. Putting on the hood to cover her face makes her look cool and fashionable.
Later, ask a servant to come over to help her wash and put on the clothes. If you give them a few taels of silver, those servants who do odd jobs will be happy to help the monks.
There is also a small leather vest that she made by herself. She has no defensive vests now, so wearing this thing can provide some protection. She can't lose it.
Ruan Xing borrowed a fire from the boy next door, burned the skin fragments and the little skirt together, and then used the dust collection technique to clean up the remaining ashes and smell.
After finishing all this, the afternoon passed quietly.
She did not continue the simulation, as the simulator was stuck in upgrading again due to her breakthrough in cultivation.
I have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to continue using it. I don't know how much the points will increase after one simulation... She doesn't have the ability to earn spirit stones now, and there are only more than 500 points left, so she still has to use them sparingly.
After counting the remaining 155 spirit stones in the storage bag, he wondered if the demon cultivator would take his cultivation at the initial stage of foundation building seriously...
After lying down for a short nap, Ruan Xing got up and went to the cafeteria to get today's dinner. She had to hide from the demon cultivator for a day, because she didn't know how the demon cultivator would react when he saw her reach the foundation-building stage. She couldn't use real-life simulation now, and it would be bad if something unexpected happened.
Moreover, her advancement from the ninth level of Qi training to the initial stage of foundation building overnight was easy to explain to the demon cultivator, because he already thought her identity was mysterious. It was also easy to explain to the sect, because she had only been a member of the sect for one day and they had no idea of her background. All they had to do was not reveal that she was practicing the Tongxuan Sutra for the time being.
But for Qin Yi and Zhao Fengchun, it is a bit difficult to explain.
Therefore, Ruan Xing decided to hide together. If she succeeded in stopping the evil cultivator, they would not be too shocked to find her establishing her foundation when they returned two and a half months later.
If they fail to stop her... then it doesn't matter whether the two of them know her cultivation level or not.
After dinner, Ruan Xing started practicing some small spells such as Dust Gathering in the room. These spells were of little help in fighting, but could make life a little more convenient.
By the way, I also practiced the art of shapeshifting, but unfortunately this technique is advanced and cannot be successfully upgraded by practicing it once or twice.
Ruan Xing meditated for a while after being tired from the practice. In the foundation-building stage, she no longer needed daily sleep to restore her energy, so meditation could replace it. However, she was still a little uncomfortable with it and felt that sleeping was more comfortable. So she changed her posture and lay down, and slept soundly until dawn.
Perhaps because she had said before that she wanted to concentrate on her cultivation, neither Zhao Fengchun nor Qin Yi sent her any messages. She stayed in the room until the afternoon, and the simulator was finally updated. She opened it impatiently and first paid attention to the increase in the consumption of simulation points.
Text simulation is worth 100 points each time, and real-scene simulation is worth 10 points each time.
Huh—ten times more again.
Ruan Xing sighed and began to look at the new features added to the simulator.
On the character panel, there is a small + symbol next to each skill with a level in the skill bar.
Eh? Can I upgrade my skills without simulation?
Ruan Xing was delighted and turned on the illusion skill, then rolled his eyes and closed it again.
It takes 5,000 low-grade spirit stones to upgrade from the first to the second level of the Shapeshifting Technique? ? Why don't you go and rob it?
What is the difference between updating this function and not updating it? Ruan Xing firmly believes that with his own abilities, upgrading through simulation will definitely be faster than upgrading through adding points.
The simulator simply felt that she had reached the foundation-building stage and was no longer a rookie without the ability to protect herself, but a mature leek that could be harvested, so it opened a krypton gold channel for her.
Thank you, that's very thoughtful of you, but you overestimate my ability.
She now only had 155 low-grade spirit stones on her body and was extremely poor.
This is probably the cleanest foundation-building period in my pocket.
Ruan Xing held on to the last glimmer of hope, perhaps because the level of the illusion technique was relatively high, she clicked on the Lianyun Sword Technique, Alchemy Technique, and Talisman Making Technique, and saw that all of them were astronomical figures, and her heart grew colder and colder.
He closed the task panel angrily.
Ruan Xing felt even more imminent pressure to make money.
But we still need to see the attitude of the demon cultivator first.
Taking a deep breath, Ruan Xing tremblingly chose the real-life simulation and watched Shi Ji separate from her.
He stood up and sent an angrily message to Xie Huai.
【What are you doing? 】
Xie Huai replied quickly, "I'm practicing."
Ruan Xing spoke passionately, [You are practicing Gou Ba, what use is the low-level spirit gathering array of the outer sect to you? ]
She is now in the initial stage of foundation building, and the spiritual energy that the Bingziyuan can gather is too thin for her.
No wonder everyone is taking elixirs when practicing. There is no such thing as elixir poison here. She originally thought that only people with poor qualifications would choose to take elixirs, but it turns out that this is the norm. Elixirs that assist in practice are a necessity for cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.
If you only rely on the natural spiritual energy between heaven and earth to practice, you may never achieve any results in your lifetime.
Those people in their seventies and eighties who were at the first level of Qi training in those towns might just be lacking in resources...
【If you have something to say, talk in person, don’t send messages. 】
Even through the jade token, Ruan Xing could imagine Xie Huai's frowning expression.
Xie Huai was a cautious person. The sect's jade tokens communicated with each other through the local area network of the magic array. He was well versed in array formations and would definitely feel that this thing was unsafe.
He was quite afraid of his identity being exposed, but since this was a simulation, Ruan Xing didn't care. He went straight to Xie Huai's residence and said straight to the point: "You want to kill Qin Yi and Zhao Fengchun?"
Xie Huai's clear black eyes looked at Ruan Xing and asked slowly, "How did you build your foundation?"
"I'm asking you a question." Ruan Xing knocked on the table in dissatisfaction.
"What does it have to do with you who I kill?" Xie Huai asked back, "You are so concerned, could it be that they are your subordinates planted in Xuanbing Sect?"
"If so, would you not kill him?"
Xie Huai smiled and said softly, "Of course not."
Ruan Xing snorted, "I can guess what you want to do, it's nothing more than framing them, but have you ever thought that if you slander them as a traitor, they will drag you into it too?"
"Drag me into this, and you into this as well. Don't tell me you're not afraid of being investigated." Xie Huai tapped his sect jade token with his sleek, manicured nails. "The record of contribution point transfers is still there. If you and I have nothing to do with each other, how do you explain why I transferred so many contribution points to you for no reason? Don't say you're not innocent. Even if you are, I have a way to make you and me guilty of the same crime."
The words that Ruan Xing used to threaten Xie Huai the day before came back to him again. It seemed that he had figured something out. Ruan Xing frowned and thought.
Xie Huai continued: "Haven't you already established your foundation? You can go and be their savior, but do you dare to leave the sect?"
Ruan Xing was silent. She really didn't dare.
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(End of this chapter)
