LGHTNOVELBOOK 8: Three Sentences to Make Senior Brother Study with Me
[Attribute enhancement successful, Aptitude: 1]
In her sea of consciousness, the lifeless “tree stump” suddenly emitted an intense fiery red light, like a fire dragon spiraling and roaring past the top, an incredibly shocking sight!
As the intense flame-like light dissipated, the once barely alive fire spirit root seemed to have been injected with new energy. The withered branches began to glow with a fiery red light, full of vibrant vitality!
What surprised Chu Sang the most was that new buds had sprouted on the flat surface of the “tree stump” that seemed to have been cut off by a sharp blade.
Although it was just a small cluster of tender yellow fragile buds, it was enough to make Chu Sang cheer with joy.
It worked!
Not only did the fire spirit root begin to revitalize, but she felt that its purity had also improved compared to before.
The higher the purity of the spirit root, the faster the cultivation speed.
For example, both she and Mo Qingchen had single-element supreme spirit roots, but her spirit root purity was only five, while Mo Qingchen’s spirit root purity had reached an astonishing and terrifying nine, so his cultivation speed far exceeded hers.
After the attribute enhancement, her spirit root purity had increased to about 6… Although it seemed like only a one-point change, when this numerical change was applied to actual cultivation, the effect was earth-shattering.
If she could increase her spirit root purity to a perfect ten, her cultivation speed might even surpass Mo Qingchen’s!
She just didn’t know how many points she needed to add for her fire spirit root to fully regrow.
No rush, she would take it step by step.
“Little Junior Sister?”
At this moment, Chu Sang had immersed her entire spiritual sense into her sea of consciousness, her eyes tightly closed, unaware of the outside world. But Tantai Ming could see everything clearly.
The originally thin, almost non-existent spiritual energy in the air suddenly began to fluctuate dramatically. Chu Sang was like a human-shaped vortex, with countless specks of spiritual energy rushing towards her frantically!
Tantai Ming quickly realized that his little junior sister was entering a meditative state!
Entering meditation was very much a matter of fate and comprehension. Some cultivators might not be able to enter meditation even once in their entire lives.
For cultivators, entering meditation was both dangerous and opportune. Successfully entering meditation could lead to sudden enlightenment and receive the favor of the Heavenly Dao, greatly increasing one’s strength and even breaking through bottlenecks. But during this process, cultivators couldn’t perceive the outside world and became extremely vulnerable, easily susceptible to sneak attacks.
At the same time, entering meditation also required a large amount of spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy on this mountain peak was definitely not enough.
Tantai Ming took out all the spirit-gathering formation discs he had saved by living frugally, and arranged them in a circle around Chu Sang. The thin spiritual energy in the surroundings suddenly became several times more concentrated, surging into her body even more vigorously.
Chu Sang’s entire body seemed to be bathed in holy light. Then, in the next second, the aura around her suddenly changed again. She was like a greedy bottomless pit, absorbing all the vigorous and almost terrifying spiritual energy gathered from tens of miles around.
Tantai Ming had never seen such a terrifying aura in his life. Could this… could this really be the commotion caused by a Qi Condensation stage cultivator??
Tantai Ming didn’t understand the intricacies of what was happening, but he knew that this was no ordinary event and absolutely must not be noticed by other sects!
Otherwise, it could very likely bring fatal disaster to his little junior sister!
Tantai Ming’s eyes turned cold. He quickly took out a concealment formation disc and firmly protected Chu Sang, who was in meditation. He was also on high alert, sword in hand, guarding nearby. At the same time, he released his full aura as a peak early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator to deter the restless spirit beasts in the deep forest from daring to approach.
Fortunately, this anomaly only lasted for a few breaths before subsiding.
Chu Sang exhaled a breath of turbid qi. Looking down, she saw several formation discs arranged around her and Tantai Ming’s serious expression. “Seventh Senior Brother?”
“Little Junior Sister, you’ve broken through to Foundation Establishment!” Tantai Ming turned around at her voice and immediately noticed the change in her aura, even more excited than when he himself had reached Foundation Establishment.
“Mm.” Chu Sang carefully felt the spiritual energy within her body. Indeed, the bottleneck that had troubled her for three years had suddenly been broken through at this moment.
Today was truly a day of double happiness!
Chu Sang was cautious. She still had one attribute point left. After careful consideration, she decided to add it to luck.
[Attribute enhancement successful, Luck: 1]
Luck was a mysterious thing. She didn’t feel much change.
“Come on, Seventh Senior Brother, let’s go explore the mountain we’ve reclaimed and see if we can find any treasures.”
“Treasures? That mountain has been abandoned for so many years, not even a blade of grass grows there. The senior brothers and sisters never go there. What treasures could there be?” Tantai Ming pouted, “If there were any treasures, they would have been enshrined long ago.”
“If it’s really a barren land with no resources, why would Liangyi Sect specially send people to seize it?” Chu Sang asked in return.
“That’s true.”
The two diligently conducted a carpet search of the mountain peak. The result was unexpected and shocking! The mountain peak that Tantai Ming had judged to be barren and poor actually showed traces of spirit herbs and spirit beasts.
Those rare spirit herbs that were usually hard to find kept popping up one after another, as if afraid they wouldn’t be seen.
As Tantai Ming and Chu Sang walked along, they did nothing but bend over constantly, filling an entire bag with spirit herbs. Besides those ten-year and hundred-year spirit herbs, there were even several thousand-year spirit herbs, which were said to be almost extinct on the continent. Many pill refiners would pay any price for them, but they were priceless.
Tantai Ming was a bit dazed. Was this really that desolate mountain peak of their sect? Did they seize the wrong one?
“Senior Brother, what did I tell you?” Chu Sang smiled, “You see, this mountain is a rare blessed land. With so many spirit herbs and spirit beasts coming and going, it means there must be a small spirit vein underneath!”
“We can cultivate spirit fields here and grow spirit rice and spirit plants.”
“We can also fence off an area to raise some spirit beasts for sale!”
“After we earn money, we can buy a real protective spirit vein for our sect. Then our Lingqing Sect will have a spirit vein too!”
Tantai Ming was also excited by her words. Fortunately, they hadn’t given away such a good mountain peak, otherwise their sect would have suffered a great loss.
“From now on, this will be our sect’s back mountain.”
Before nightfall, the two went up the mountain and hunted a plump Red Flame Boar, happily having a barbecue feast.
Tantai Ming got sleepy after eating his fill and wanted to go back to his room to sleep.
Chu Sang pulled him back to his seat with a gentle smile, “Seventh Senior Brother, practice sword techniques with me.”
“But I’m sleepy.”
This child really wasn’t ambitious.
The night was when spiritual energy was most abundant. How could he waste such precious time sleeping?
Even an Innate Spirit Body shouldn’t be wasted like this!
Chu Sang’s little face fell, “Senior Brother, think about it. If I didn’t know how to draw talismans during the day, we would have been beaten down by those people! Our back mountain would have been taken by them. Then others would see that our sect is easy to bully, and they would all come to bully us one by one. What would we do then?”
“This time it was just a group of Foundation Establishment and Qi Condensation cultivators that we could defeat with some tricks. But what if higher-level experts at Golden Core or Nascent Soul stage come in the future?”
“If you keep slacking off like this, how can you protect the sect? Protect everyone? Protect me, your little junior sister?” Chu Sang gripped his hand tightly, her words earnest, her clear and lovely water-like eyes misting over, enough to melt anyone’s heart.
Tantai Ming was deeply moved, a sense of responsibility he had never felt before welling up, “Junior Sister, you’re right! As a senior brother, I must guard the sect and protect you well!”
“I’ll practice sword techniques with you right now!”
On how to make Senior Brother willingly study with me in three sentences.
The sun set and night fell, stars and moon shining together.
Until dawn broke, the two dragon-like figures flitting through the forest showed no signs of stopping. Instead, their speed became faster and faster, giving the illusion of mutual competition.
After practicing the first move of the Nine Mysteries Sword Technique a hundred times, Tantai Ming thought they could take a break.
But when he turned his head, he saw that his little junior sister had already practiced it two hundred times.
He quickly picked up his sword again. After practicing five hundred times, he saw that his little junior sister had moved on to the next sword technique.
Finally finishing today’s practice goal, Chu Sang pestered him to teach her Lingqing Sect’s sword techniques.
And so it went, from sunset to sunrise, practicing for an entire night.
Dawn broke.
Tantai Ming collapsed on the ground with a howl, unable to get up no matter what. Surely they could rest now?
The number of times he had practiced sword techniques this night was more than the total of an entire year!
“Senior Brother, it’s dawn, don’t sleep. Let’s quickly go to the back mountain to farm!” Chu Sang produced two hoes from somewhere, grabbed one of his legs, and dragged him to the back mountain.
“Junior Sister, nooo!!!”
Tantai Ming’s wails faded into the forest.
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Half a month later, Tantai Ming reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.