Chapter 32: Something seems wrong

This question revealed a lot of information.

Su Wenjing stared at Li Yunxian for a long moment before calmly replying, “It’s connected.”

Li Yunxian immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

No need to go through some grand cosmic creation ritual again—that was such a blessing.

Su Wenjing noticed Li Yunxian’s expression and added, “But, there’s no longer a way to cultivate all the way to Ascension.”

Li Yunxian looked at Su Wenjing in surprise. “What do you mean?”

“Spirit Root Severance, Spirit Root Extraction, Spirit Acupoint Destruction.”

Su Wenjing summarized it in a few brief words, “At present, the entire world only has eight remaining Holy Lands, and even combined, they can’t support a single Transcendence Stage.”

These things didn’t sound like they happened naturally.

Li Yunxian sat up straighter, her face full of astonishment. “Who did this?”

Hearing that, it was clearly some peerless devil!

“I did.” Su Wenjing answered lightly.

Looking at Su Wenjing, whose aura was just as pure and upright, Li Yunxian blinked.

She stared at him for a long moment, then suddenly burst out laughing.

“Don’t believe me?” Su Wenjing said with a faint tone.

“No, it’s just that people say a cat that’s been tied up, and a horse with its legs bound—they are controlled for a reason. Now you can add one more,” Li Yunxian said as she pointed to herself, then to Su Wenjing, “a Transcendence Stage that needs to be rebuilt from scratch.”

Su Wenjing:

He gave Li Yunxian a fierce eye roll.

Has this person really lived for thousands of years?

Childish!

Seeing Li Yunxian so carefree and joyful, Su Wenjing immediately wanted to leave.

But there was still one question he wanted to confirm.

“Do you still want to Ascend?” Su Wenjing asked.

“Of course.” Li Yunxian grabbed a bag of snacks and relaxed back onto the sofa again. “Ascending to the Higher Realm is the only chance to see my companions again.”

Since she could bring back merits and survive in her own world, maybe her friends had a chance to bring merit memories or something, to be directly reincarnated?

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As for whether she could cultivate that far—it was definitely not a yes or no dictated by Su Wenjing. Of course, she had to try first.

Who would know the outcome if they didn’t?

Back when she was in the cultivation world, everyone told her the same thing.

But what did that matter?

When she first transmigrated, everyone told her she was a lone girl without resources and couldn’t enter the path of cultivation.

Later when she did start cultivating, everyone said her talent wasn’t enough to go far.

At that time, who believed she could reach the world’s highest Great Circle of Crossing Tribulation?

Nothing in this world is ever guaranteed.

Su Wenjing looked at Li Yunxian.

Seeing how she talked about her companions, the slight curve of her eyes, and the natural joy on her face.

He also recalled that since Li Yunxian left the Blood Pool, he wanted to have a private conversation with her, but until now, she was always surrounded by others.

Su Wenjing:

“Really annoying.”

The Lonely Old Fox Su Wenjing originally had many things he wanted to say, but at this moment, all his desire was gone.

Su Wenjing tugged at the corner of his mouth and sarcastically threw out, “Then you’d better start thinking about your Nascent Soul first,” before vanishing from the room in an instant.

Li Yunxian shrugged.

Talk about Nascent Soul—she was only at Qi Refining Third Layer right now.

The Blood Pool had improved her physical constitution a lot, but that thing was created by magic tools, not some kind of medicinal bath or those Revitalizing Pills she used before, which contained internal Qi.

So whatever cultivation level she entered with, she would come out with the same level.

Thinking of this, Li Yunxian crossed her legs and sat in the Five Hearts Upward meditation posture, wanting to see how fast her cultivation speed was after a round of Body Tempering.

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The answer was…

The absorption speed was extremely fast.

Much faster than before—more than double.

But likewise…

The tempered body required more Qi to fill the Channels and Apertures.

Only by filling the opened Apertures and Channels with Qi could she advance to the next Aperture.

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Now, Li Yunxian needed more than twice the amount of Qi to open a single Aperture compared to others.

The advantage was that from then on, the power of one Aperture in her body could equal two Apertures in others.

The disadvantage was… her cultivation speed slowed down.

In theory, this should be a plus one minus one, balancing out in the end.

But in reality, the concentration of Qi around her was still slightly weaker than her absorption speed.

She had only just arrived at Tiantong and felt happy about its abundant Qi for less than a day!

Why?!

Why was her happiness so short-lived?

Oh, because Su Wenjing destroyed 99% of the world’s abundant Qi spots.

Li Yunxian curled her lips and thought for a moment, then took out her Spirit Gathering Array Disc that she hadn’t used for many days.

She placed a Spirit Stone on it.

Activated it.

Li Yunxian comfortably closed her eyes.

This was more like it.

The Qi was abundant within Tiantong Cultivator University, so this Spirit Gathering Array Disc was only the most basic.

Using it in the Jincheng Hotel would attract a lot of attention, but here it was just a tiny splash.

Like a small fish gulping in the sea.

Other than Su Wenjing glancing suspiciously at the unusual Qi here, no one else noticed anything wrong.

One night passed, and Li Yunxian felt her new Aperture loosen.

If she opened one Aperture every two days, then in about a year and a half, she would reach Great Completion of Qi Refinement.

Of course, actual cultivation became harder in the later stages, so realistically, it would probably take longer.

But without the Array Disc’s assistance… it would definitely take much longer.

Li Yunxian lowered her eyes toward the Array Disc in her hand, as well as the three Spirit Stones that had been consumed beside it.

• The more Qi gathered, the more Spirit Stones the Array Disc consumed.

Calculating the remaining Spirit Stones in her possession, Li Yunxian couldn’t help but ponder a question.

Why can’t Spirit Stones be exchanged in the “All Things” shop?

She had game currency now, the offline star coins from the interstellar world, and even cash in the real world. So why did she still feel like she had no money at all?

Assets.

Li Yunxian couldn’t help but ponder deeply.

But Spirit Stones still had to be acquired.

Game currency and star coins couldn’t be exchanged for Spirit Stones, but her cash still had a chance.

Li Yunxian opened the chat box with Yu Qiyao.

“Yesterday when you were walking around the university, did you find any place where cash can be exchanged for Spirit Stones?”

Yu Qiyao replied quickly and immediately sent a few voice messages.

Li Yunxian asked.

“There’s no such place, right? And few people would want to exchange that way. Compared to money, everyone here needs cultivation materials more.”

“Using cash to exchange here only gets you high prices—it’s a bad deal.”

“Yunxian, if you need Spirit Stones, you can just check the task building.”

“Our freshmen have low cultivation levels, so many online tasks can’t be accepted, but offline, if you talk to the relevant people, there’s still hope.”

Li Yunxian sent a string of thanks to Yu Qiyao, then immediately opened the task center related to the university in her phone’s student information.

As expected, there were lots and lots of tasks.

There were tasks for nurturing Lingzhi, hunting Beasts/Yao, treasure hunting, commissioning or repairing Magic Tools.

The variety was abundant.

Rewards included Spirit Stones, various materials, and also credits.

Each had its own acceptance restrictions, but… none could be taken by Li Yunxian.

Either they required a minimum cultivation of Qi Refinement Fourth Layer or above, or a minimum Magic Tool R&D/Planting level of three or higher.

Li Yunxian could understand the former, but the latter she didn’t even comprehend.

Currently, the student information still showed Li Yunxian at Qi Refining Second Layer.

That meant refreshing her level now and changing it to Qi Refining Third Layer was pointless.

Li Yunxian’s gaze finally landed on the small button at the top right of the task center that read “Tasks I Can Accept.”

She clicked it without much hope.

Originally, she thought there would only be a few tasks, or maybe none at all.

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What appeared before Li Yunxian’s eyes was a whole row of tightly packed tasks.

[Building 1, Room 1302, 2 PM to 4 PM “Qi Refining Aperture Permeation Research and Analysis Class” session 14, find a substitute teacher.]

[Building 3, Gun Usage Combat Class, need an assistant teaching aid.]

[Find someone on the 20th to check the Gravity Room door.]

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Li Yunxian:

“This seems off.”

Where was her task center sending her?

Why did it feel like all these were aimed at various teachers?!

Li Yunxian casually opened a task to take a look and quickly understood.

These tasks didn’t require cultivation levels or research levels; their acceptance criteria were Contribution Value level 3 or above.

That meant over ten thousand Contribution Points.

Normally, Qi Refining stage students couldn’t reach that.

Li Yunxian lowered her eyes and looked at the task descriptions.

Anyway, it never said students couldn’t accept them, did it?