Li Yunxian returned to her villa and began to take stock of her supplies.
The main focus was the small sphere Magic Tool that Du Sen had thrown to her.
The contents inside were more generous than Li Yunxian had expected. When converted into Spirit Stones, the total was over a thousand.
Was it really worth as much as the things she had stopped from Yu Juanshu?
Li Yunxian didn’t quite believe it.
Then she recalled how Du Sen had appeared at first and whipped her once.
It was likely that Du Sen never intended to give her anything from the start, but with Su Wenjing watching, in the end, he probably just handed over what he had originally prepared for the younger generation to settle things directly.
What she stopped from Yu Juanshu wasn’t worth that much, but combined with her holding back from stabbing Du Sen once, it was about right.
Li Yunxian was quite satisfied.
Especially since she had gained a Storage Artifact.
She could fit even more things into the Xuanwen Secret Realm now.
Li Yunxian organized the space in her two Storage Artifacts. Items that didn’t need to be brought into the Secret Realm were placed directly in the villa.
Glancing over the materials, most were for refining Magic Tools.
This didn’t surprise her.
The environment here was similar to the interstellar world in Wanwuwu; the main focus was technology and weapons development, so materials naturally centered around that.
As a sword cultivator wielding the Xiayun Sword, Li Yunxian didn’t have any immediate use for these materials.
However, since Magic Tools and arrays were closely related, she could use these materials to slightly upgrade her Spirit Gathering Array Disc.
Now that she had plenty of Spirit Stones, naturally she wanted to improve her cultivation a bit before entering the Secret Realm.
If she accidentally got knocked out by a Golden Core stage alien inside, Li Yunxian was sure Su Wenjing—who knew her true strength—would mock her.
As for the inferior materials… Li Yunxian logged back into Wanwuwu.
The Wanwu Exchange Mall was incredibly convenient!!
Messages in the game flooded her screen, but Li Yunxian decisively ignored them.
None of it was important to her anyway.
Besides, since she had entrusted reliable people with authorization, she just wanted to be a hands-off manager.
Or to put it more elegantly, trust those you use and avoid doubting them.
Li Yunxian glanced at her account balance.
107,108 game currency.
In less than three days, she had earned over twenty thousand more game currency.
This growth was much faster than before!
And this was right after she authorized others; most were still in production and research stages, not yet mass-selling.
Having lots of authorized products was definitely good!
Seeing the amount, Li Yunxian immediately changed her original plan for exchanging materials.
Since she was upgrading the Array Disc anyway, starting from just barely entering the Yellow Rank was a bit stingy.
Satisfied.
Or… why not directly aim for the mid-level Yellow Rank?
Given the real-world situation, the Array Disc was already almost indispensable.
No hesitation.
This was something to buy early and enjoy; there were no discounts for buying late.
Li Yunxian exchanged a bunch of materials furiously in the mall. By the time she logged off, her balance instantly dropped to 40,000.
Game currency really wasn’t hard to spend.
***
Ignoring the tier of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures she just bought, Li Yunxian sighed softly and logged out.
Carrying all her supplies, Li Yunxian stepped into her villa’s workshop.
This was prepared for students needing to craft Magic Tools, filled with basic forging and processing tools.
There were fewer tools than in the Magic Tool Store’s workshop in Jincheng, but enough.
Even if fewer, they were still products of a scientific society.
In the cultivation world, there was only a forging bench and a pile of hammers; even controlling the fire was a skill to learn.
Li Yunxian recalled the hardships and breakdowns she experienced when learning both the Magic Tool and Array Disc crafts. Seeing the current setup, it was hard not to feel—
She could even multitask processing various materials!
Fully immersed in the art of upgrading the Array Disc, by the time she finished, it was already late at night.
A total of six hours spent.
By cultivation world standards, only a Master-level Array Expert could achieve this.
And…
Li Yunxian caressed the new Array Disc in her hand, smooth and warm like jade.
Yellow Rank, upper tier!
She had crafted something beyond the expected tier!
She loved this precise, controllable technology!!
Placing five Spirit Stones in position, Li Yunxian eagerly began testing it.
Immediately, wind and clouds surged.
The Spirit Gathering Array Disc, requiring five Spirit Stones to operate, instantly absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy frantically.
Students throughout the Qingteng Villa District blinked awake, confused by the sudden surge of spiritual power.
“Which Golden Core stage assistant instructor is so shameless, training in the students’ area?!”
A wave of curses erupted, and complaint letters flooded into the academy’s suggestion box through the network.
The academy responded quickly, and soon the Student Council Office sent teachers over.
After a quick investigation…
The Student Council officers stood at Li Yunxian’s villa gate, expressionless.
“Again it’s you?!”
To them, Li Yunxian’s name was already infamous.
They remembered that since Li Yunxian entered the academy less than two months ago, every major event seemed to be connected to her.
Well, except one.
The energy shrinkage in the Blood Pool of Tongtian’s Qi Refining area over a month ago had nothing to do with Li Yunxian.
That was earth-shattering!
And thankfully, it was confirmed to be caused by a student, not some assistant instructor causing trouble.
That was good news to them.
The Student Council officers chose to end their investigation but couldn’t help exchanging a few words with their colleagues before leaving:
“Let’s hope nothing happens while she’s in the Xuanwen Secret Realm.”
One colleague replied:
“Don’t go planting flags casually!”
No matter what the academy staff thought, Li Yunxian herself felt she was quite honest.
Every day she trained methodically, attended classes, very routine.
Only occasionally glancing at group chats, she learned about the follow-ups to those incidents.
On that very afternoon, Du Sen’s punishment was announced: one year of hunting in the Heavenly Rift Ice Valley.
He had to hunt beasts matching his cultivation level, such as a Nascent Soul middle stage beast, or an equivalent number of other aliens, before he could return.
Afterward, Yu Juanshu went to the Top 100 Arena again.
But this time, he wasn’t accepting challenges—he was challenging the current top 100.
However, he hadn’t won these past few days.
Li Yunxian had spent the last few days intensely guiding him, revealing all his vulnerabilities. The ranking gap between 100 and 90 was small, and this slight disadvantage was already fatal.
Du Rong was unhappy about this and was heard angrily cursing Yu Juanshu, claiming he deliberately lost to prevent Du Rong from entering the Xuanwen Secret Realm.
The two had a serious falling out.
***
In the end, Du Rong obtained a Xuanwen Token—not the one Yu Juanshu held, but the one that Li Yunxian had once used to strike Du Rong.
It was given by the girl who had complained about Li Yunxian under the arena, who provided materials to have her teacher exchange it for Du Rong.
Li Yunxian didn’t care much about these trivial matters and just treated them as gossip.
She found these things less interesting than her recent classes, where students, upon learning she would enter the Secret Realm, subtly asked how her week of lessons would be managed.
Of course, their complex expressions after she answered “It’s a secret” were even more amusing.
But in life, peace is always accompanied by little problems.
BEEP…
Just as Li Yunxian entered cultivation mode, her phone rang.
Normally, no one would call her.
The last time the phone rang was during Yu Qiyao’s life-or-death arena.
Li Yunxian immediately opened her eyes, took out her phone, and her gaze instantly fell on the screen.
The caller ID displayed two large characters: ‘Mom’.
Li Yunxian: