Mu Yanxi was startled awake by her mother’s voice and withdrew from the Taiqing Immortal Domain.
When she returned to reality, she discovered that more than half of the Spiritual Water in the bathtub was gone—it seemed she had just absorbed it herself.
The reason why the Serpent Core Immortal Fish Method didn’t require a spiritual root was that it allowed cultivation by absorbing Spiritual Water through the skin.
Even if one couldn’t sense the ambient spiritual energy in the air, they could still absorb Spiritual Water directly to cultivate.
Other types of Jade Nectar could also be used, and the more precious they were, the better the effects—though, of course, the cost of cultivation would rise accordingly.
“I was meditating and cultivating!” Mu Yanxi climbed out of the bathtub and circulated the Serpent Core Immortal Fish Method once more.
In an instant, she dried all the Spiritual Water from her skin, hurriedly threw on her dress, and opened the bathroom door.
“Cultivating? You’ve never practiced cultivation in the bathroom before.” Her mother eyed the bathtub, now half-empty of Spiritual Water, with suspicion.
“That’s right. The bathroom has a great atmosphere. While I was soaking, inspiration struck me, so I started meditating right there.” Mu Yanxi replied with an awkward chuckle.
“Well, there’s only a week until school starts. Before you head off to Spiritual Moon High Sect, it makes sense to work hard. After all, the real competition begins even before admission.” Her mother nodded, accepting Mu Yanxi’s explanation, and turned to leave.
After her mother left, Mu Yanxi sighed in frustration, “This is trouble. If I have to take a bath every time I cultivate, won’t I end up soaking in the bathroom all day?”
Despite her complaint, the effects of her cultivation were immediate and obvious. Mu Yanxi could clearly feel a significant increase in her internal mana.
Even the spiritual power gushing from her Life Spring had grown slightly, and her Spirit Sense had also become a bit stronger.
If she kept practicing the Serpent Core Immortal Fish Method, she’d surely achieve something remarkable. The only problems were where to cultivate and how much it would cost.
“No problem, Master. When you’re not in the bathroom, you can cultivate the Spirit Snake Shedding Skin. That’s a body-forging technique and doesn’t require spiritual power,” the Terminal Ring reminded her.
“All right, let’s go back to the bedroom and try out this Spirit Snake Shedding Skin.” Mu Yanxi said. Any technique so highly praised and widely spread among cultivators must be worth trying.
The Spirit Snake Shedding Skin was even more obscure and difficult to understand than the Serpent Core Immortal Fish Method.
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Back in her room, Mu Yanxi flipped through a few pages on her bed before losing interest in figuring it out on her own. She chose instead to listen to the lecture recorded in the Heavenly Tome Library.
The lecturer was none other than True Lord Golden Snake. In truth, he was a cultivator of the Spirit Race who, by chance, had obtained the Spirit Snake Shedding Skin. Because of his special constitution, he could cultivate the technique and later modified it so that all races could practice it.
The recording was from when he taught disciples in front of his official hall. Hundreds of new disciples listened as he explained the key points of the technique, the method of entry, common pitfalls, and how to comprehend the more esoteric sections.
As the creator of the technique, his analysis was thorough and precise. After just a little listening, Mu Yanxi found all the points she hadn’t understood moments before were suddenly clear, and she began her cultivation.
But since this was a Serpent Clan inheritance technique, it required the cultivator to contort themselves into strange, flexible, and twisted postures like a snake—and to constantly slither about.
The manual described moving like a snake, but Mu Yanxi felt she only managed to twist herself up like a rope, lacking all the grace and agility of a spiritual serpent.
Before long, she gave up on her own fumbling and chose instead to immerse herself in the experience of a Serpent Clan expert’s cultivation process in the Taiqing Immortal Domain.
This time, the illusion was recorded by a flying serpent—a divine beast of the Serpent Clan.
To give cultivators of other races a clearer demonstration, it had even specially transformed into human shape to cultivate and record the illusion at the same time. One had to admit: with enough resources, even the impossible could be achieved.
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