Wherever his eyes reached, there was only darkness. Ye Su raised his hand and gathered spiritual fire, trying to illuminate the surroundings, but the darkness seemed to swallow up the light.
The spiritual fire only appeared for a moment, and before it could illuminate anything, it was absorbed by the surrounding darkness.
Ye Su stood in the darkness, pondering for a long time, and finally raised his hand to mobilize the spiritual power in his soul, releasing it at his fingertips, and tried to draw the first talisman that appeared according to the strokes.
For some reason, in this darkness, it is extremely difficult to release spiritual power, especially when drawing talismans. Ye Su can clearly feel a sense of stagnation.
As soon as a stroke is started, the spiritual power is blocked and the talisman is broken and needs to be drawn again.
The more this happened, the more Ye Su wanted to draw it.
In this realm, spiritual energy is indeed condensed and it is difficult to draw talismans. However, there is one good thing: Ye Su did not suffer backlash like he did before when he drew the immobilization talisman.
In the darkness, Ye Su had long lost the concept of time, and later on there was only one thought left in his mind: to draw this talisman.
Once, twice... after countless failures at the beginning and then continuing, a normal person's patience will be exhausted when encountering such a situation, and he will lose control and his efficiency will be even lower.
However, Ye Su is different. She is too used to failure, and used to not getting results again and again. Failure makes her calmer and her hands become steadier.
The stroke is broken at the very beginning, and then the horizontal and vertical lines are gradually lengthened. By the last stroke, most of the painting is already completed.
As he painted further, Ye Su was able to better control how to release his spiritual power, and his speed became faster and faster, until he had drawn the complete talisman with one final stroke.
Ye Su drew out the spiritual power released from his fingertips at the fastest speed before it was absorbed.
—Successful.
Ye Su looked at the golden talisman drawn in the darkness. The moment the talisman was drawn, it suddenly moved and passed through her body quickly.
She turned back to look, but only saw the afterimage of the talisman disappearing.
No? Meet again
Ye Su frowned, not sure about the current situation.
“Is this a breakthrough?”
"Of course I will. I told you that Senior Sister will be able to ascend to heaven in a few years."
"Shut up."
In the darkness, Ye Su suddenly heard the voices of her fellow junior brothers and sisters, and she subconsciously took a few steps forward.
At this time, a very bright white light came on. Ye Su raised her hands to cover her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to You Fushi's room.
You Fushi sat beside him, fiddling with the Mist-killing Flower with his head down. Ming Liusha, Xiyu and Xia Er stood outside the door and poked their heads in to look.
"Big Sister, you're finally awake!" Xia Er rushed in from outside, "You've been in meditation in Junior Brother's room for five days!"
Five days
Ye Su knew very well that she had stayed in that dark world for more than five days. This was normal because the speed of time flow inside and outside the world was completely different.
"Senior Sister, have you made a breakthrough?" Xiyu also came in and asked.
Ming Liusha said slowly, "Sure."
Ye Su had just returned from the dark world. He sat at the table, silent for a moment, listening to what his three fellow apprentices said. Only then did he finally look inward at his own spiritual palace.
She is in the late stage of foundation building, and if she breaks through again, she will naturally reach the golden elixir stage.
In the Golden Core Stage, as the name suggests, there will be a suspended golden core in the spiritual palace. If an infant is formed later, this golden core will gradually take on its true form, namely the Nascent Soul.
No…
Ye Su did not even see his own golden elixir, but he felt that the spiritual power in his spiritual palace had become much stronger, dozens of times stronger than before.
She subconsciously looked at You Fushi, wanting to ask him if he knew the reason.
"Ye Su, congratulations, you have reached the Golden Core Stage." At this time, Xu Chengyu came in from outside and saw Ye Su waking up from meditation. He smiled and said, "Your breakthrough was even bigger than mine."
"Fellow Daoist Xu has been guarding outside for the past five days." Xiyu explained, "Big Sister, when you were in meditation, the spiritual energy of the entire inn was flowing over here. Many people wanted to come over to investigate."
Xu Chengyu's formation of a baby was already high enough to attract enough attention, but in the past five days, Ye Su no longer just used the spiritual energy in the room. All the spiritual energy in the entire inn was poured into this room, rendering the spirit gathering array completely ineffective.
Even the innkeeper wanted to come and take a look, but was later sent away by Xu Chengyu, who compensated the innkeeper with spirit stones.
"Thank you, Brother Xu." Ye Su stood up and bowed slightly.
Her eyes fell on the table. The fragment of the talisman book that was originally placed on it was no longer there, while You Fushi was playing with the Mist Killing Flower, seemingly unaware of anything.
Xia Er's brainwashing technique was beginning to show results. Ma Congqiu looked at Ye Su and said, "You don't know if you can become a powerful person in the future, right?"
He hesitated for a while and then said, "If you really go to the sect competition, when we form a team, maybe we can go together."
Ye Su knew that the sect competition was not just a one-on-one fight. Some competitions required temporary cooperation. In the original novel, the male and female protagonists formed a team. For this reason, the people on the male protagonist's side had some opinions about the female protagonist. However, after the little junior sister won several times, the male protagonist's relatives and friends looked at her with admiration.
"Of course." Ma Congqiu could lend her 10,000 high-quality spirit stones without hesitation, so she could agree without hesitation.
When Ye Su came out of the room, she felt the situation when Xu Chengyu formed a baby. She knew clearly that countless pairs of eyes in the inn were staring at her.
As soon as she came out, people downstairs gathered together to discuss.
"He is only at the Jindan stage?"
"A Jindan-stage person can make such a big noise. This is the second time I've seen this."
"You have seen him once before. Where?"
"There seems to be a little girl on a mountain."
…
Anyone who can detect her realm at a glance must be above the Jindan stage. Xu Chengyu and the people downstairs can all see her realm, but Ye Su did not find any trace of Jindan in her spiritual palace.
The foundation is laid to determine the spiritual palace. In the later stage, the spiritual palace should be fixed. However, Ye Su's spiritual palace has doubled in size again. The golden elixir can never be found inside, only... a flowing spiritual sea
Ye Su didn't know what this was. She just vaguely felt that this "spiritual sea" that appeared was the thing that she couldn't see clearly when she was building her foundation before.
This is something that already exists in the spiritual palace.
She didn't know the reason, but she didn't tell anyone else, and there was no abnormality on her face.
"It took one year to go from foundation building to golden elixir." Zhou Yun looked at Ye Su, "You broke through much faster than us. It took me three years to reach the golden elixir stage."
And I have been staying in my sword sect all the time, so I don't have to worry about the problem of lack of spiritual energy.
The atmosphere among the group was harmonious. They sat downstairs and ordered seven or eight spiritual dishes and two pots of tea.
After a while, Xu Chengyu listed several secret realms that will appear in the near future: "The nearest of these secret realms will be in three months, not far from Guizong City."
"Brother Xu, what do you have to say? Why don't you just say it directly?" Ye Su noticed that Xu Chengyu had something unfinished to say, so she took the initiative to ask.
"Three months later, two secret realms will be opened, one is a small secret realm, and the other is a deserted city secret realm." Xu Chengyu opened the communication jade plate, which was the news from Wujian Sect, "The deserted city secret realm can only be entered by cultivators at or above the Jindan realm. Inside is a large deserted city, which appears once every fifty years. So far, tens of thousands of cultivators have died in it, and at the same time, more than 2,000 cultivators have continuously advanced because they discovered magic weapons and secret manuals in it.
"You want to go to the secret realm of the deserted city?" Ye Su heard the hidden meaning.
"We didn't originally plan to do this, but you've already reached the early stage of the Golden Core." Xu Chengyu had some bad intentions, "It's a good opportunity for us to go together, so we want to go in and take a look."
Ye Su turned to look at Ming Liusha, Xiyu and Xia Er. The three junior brothers and sisters had just reached the late stage of foundation building not long ago. It was impossible for them to enter the secret realm of the deserted city.
In secret realms like this one with realm suppression, anyone below that realm who enters will be torn into pieces in an instant. These are the experiences summarized by our predecessors.
"I know you went to the secret realm for spiritual energy and materials." Xu Chengyu had obviously thought of everything. "If Ye Su agrees, my sword sect is willing to provide you with spiritual energy for cultivation during this period of time, and also provide all the materials needed for refining. If they are free, they can also help repair the magic weapons for a reward."
Before Ye Su could say anything, Ming Liusha asked first: "We are going to Wujian Sect. Will you protect our senior sister in the secret realm?"
"Yes." Xu Chengyu said, "The secret realm of the deserted city is huge. So far, there are still many places that no cultivators have explored. Although it is dangerous, it must be a secret realm that can allow cultivators to quickly improve their strength."
"I agree." Ming Liusha raised his hand and said slowly.
"I agree too?" Xiyu raised her hand.
Xia Er looked at the two senior sisters and brothers beside him raising their hands, and immediately raised his own hand: "Senior Sister, we must go to the Great Secret Realm!"
You Fushi, who was sitting nearby, saw everyone from Qianji Sect raising their hands, so he also raised his hand to show that he was one of them.
In the end, Ye Su agreed. She wanted to become stronger, only in this way could she protect Qianjimen.
"After you go to Wujian Sect, you can just keep Yi Xuan company." Ye Su said, "I don't know what his current condition is like."
"Okay." Several people responded.
…
After the meal, Ye Su found an opportunity to be alone with You Fushi.
"Putting the two pages of talismans in the fragmentary talisman book together can lead to a dark world." Ye Su stared into You Fushi's eyes and asked, "What's there? What's special about it?"
She wasn't sure whether the lack of the golden elixir was due to her own fault or because of the world.
"I can't remember clearly." You Fushi said after thinking about it seriously.
Ye Su was silent. She shouldn't expect an illiterate junior brother with amnesia to say anything valuable.
"Are you a fish demon?" she asked. "You only have seven seconds of memory."
You Fushi tilted his head: "What's seven seconds?"
"Forget it." Ye Su asked him, "Where is the remaining scroll of the talisman?"
You Fushi reached into his Qiankun bag, took out the remaining fragment of the talisman and handed it to her.
Ye Su flipped through the pages and saw the two pieces of paper sandwiched between the pages. She glanced at them quickly without further reading and closed the remaining scroll. "Do you want to tear all of these?"
"It's useless." You Fushi looked up at Ye Su, then his eyes fell on the incomplete scroll of the talisman book, and said nonchalantly, "It will only be useful if you complete it."
Unable to get any other information out of her, Ye Su gave up. She had too many doubts to answer. Should she draw the remaining talismans in the dark world? What effect would they produce? And where did the golden elixir in her spiritual palace go
After returning to his room, Ye Su sent messages to the head master and Yu Shoumen respectively, asking them if they had ever heard of a cultivator in the Jindan stage who did not have a golden elixir.
The head master probably didn't rest again, and quickly replied: "Eldest disciple, why are you asking this? What if a cultivator doesn't have a golden elixir? Is it the golden elixir stage? Without a golden elixir, how can you form a baby in the future? Are you all well outside?"
From the voice, she knew that the head master had a lot to ask. She replied with a few questions and briefly talked about what had happened during this period. Then she entered into meditation again to check her spiritual palace.
The pale golden spiritual palace was boundless, but her spiritual sense could not explore too far. She only knew that her spiritual palace was big.
There was a golden zone in the middle of the spiritual palace that flowed like sea water, which Ye Su could not ignore. She tried to go over to check it out, but her spiritual consciousness dissipated when she got close and returned to its original position again.
Ye Su: “…”
I can no longer control my own spiritual palace. If I tell others about it, no one will believe me.
Ye Su tried again and again, but still couldn't get close to the flowing 'Spirit Sea Belt'. She didn't have the Golden Elixir, but she had this thing, and there was no way to check it.
Her spiritual consciousness could only watch from a high place and far away. She could not see the beginning or the end. She could only tell from the direction of its flow where it originated and where it flowed to.
The 'Spirit Sea Belt' was flowing slowly, but Ye Su had a strong premonition that a huge force was gathering underneath.
No one could easily accept these messy things in his spiritual palace. After the initial struggle, Ye Su withdrew his spiritual consciousness, stopped paying attention to it, and lay down to rest.
On the third day, Ye Su suddenly received a reply from Yu Shoumen: "There is no golden elixir in the golden elixir stage or... it is dissolved in the sea of consciousness. Ye Su, if this person is you, remember not to tell anyone else."