School is about to start, and the white apricot flowers have also gone. I can only restrain my thoughts and stop overthinking. At night, I sit cross-legged on the bed and begin practicing the secret technique of spiritual cultivation.
Now I have basically grasped some techniques, most importantly, my spiritual sprout has broken through the soil, which is considered as a preliminary step towards cultivating properly. Therefore, as long as I don't rush or mess around too much during practice, my ultimate achievement will not be too low.
At the beginning of cultivation, I entered into the Purple Mansion space with my consciousness and tried to use the spiritual sprout to directly absorb chaotic energy from outside. However, after a period of time in this state it reached saturation point.
It turned out that all chaotic energy absorbed by the spiritual sprout was stored in lower levels of Purple Mansion space where there was already an abundance of chaotic energy present. Thus there were limits to how much chaotic energy could be absorbed by it; once lower level storage became full then absorption stopped.
From this perspective, my utilization of chaotic energy is still very limited because firstly storage capacity at lower levels is limited and secondly due to small size of spiritual sprouts which limits release speed for absorbing chaotic energies. Therefore if I want to truly enhance myself at this stage then using secret technique for absorbing essence from external spaces would be more effective.
Essence is what really allows me to merge spirit with flesh so that it can be used effectively; moreover if one wants their spiritual sprouts growth then they must use essence.
The situation now is quite clear: growth in Spiritual Sprouts can drive absorption rate and release speed for Chaotic Energy while Essence helps cultivate its growth."
Having understood these principles clearly,I began focusing on practicing secret techniques again while YunQingYue came up beside me saying "Stop cultivating your Spiritual Sprouts first."
"What's wrong? Is there something you need?" I asked curiously.
"Didn't you still have some Jade Essence left?" YunQingYue blinked her eyes and said to me, "Help me refine them all. When the time comes, I will absorb them all and then we can cultivate this Spiritual Sprout together."
"Why do we need to do that?" I asked unconsciously.
Hearing my words, YunQingYue snorted coldly and said to me: "Your spiritual sprouts have already grown out. Is your comprehension still so low?"
"I generally don't like guessing uncertain things but I can roughly predict what's going on," I shrugged and said to her, "Is it because this Spiritual Sprout was cultivated by only one person before - myself - so its aura is only connected with mine? And also because the aura is very singular? But if you join in now then its aura will be connected with yours too which would cause a change in its energy.
You're not that stupid," YunQingYue nodded.
"But how do you know all this?" I asked curiously, looking at her.
"I stay here every day. Do you think I sleep all the time? I have studied this spirit bud carefully. I even injected some Yang energy into it, but unfortunately my power is too weak to make a big difference. However, there was clearly a resonance between me and it, so that's how I know." YunQingYue said.
So that's how it is. With what the little girl said, I instantly understood.
"Okay, wait for me. I'm going to refine the jade marrow now," I nodded and snapped my fingers at her. Originally thought she would smile and nod back at me, but she just blinked expressionlessly before turning away like nothing happened.
She really was YunQingYue.
I smiled helplessly and returned to reality with the bottle of jade marrow from my pocket. Then went out and stole another soy sauce bottle from the kitchen hut.
I filled a bowl with soy sauce then used chopsticks to pick out each piece of jade marrow from the bottle one by one until finally washing out every last bit of it with soy sauce three times over before drinking up everything in one gulp.
After swallowing the jade marrow down my throat quickly, I hurried back to bed and sat cross-legged on top of it while beginning to refine it immediately.
There wasn't much left of the jade marrow after refining; only twenty golden rays were produced in total.
Once finished refining them into golden light particles,I entered into Purple Mansion Space where began helping YunQingYue absorb those golden rays infused with Yang energy.
Firstly summoning a ray of gold light over which transformed itself into fine threads raining down onto YunQingyue's body slowly.
Sitting cross-legged on top of green stone ground,Yunqingyue bathed in the golden light, her body trembling slightly. She seemed to be struggling with the intense Yang energy of the golden rays. After all, she was just a soul and although it was a Yang soul, fundamentally speaking there was still Yin Qi at its core. Therefore, if she wanted to absorb this fierce Yang energy, she would have to endure some pain and struggle.
However,YunQingYue wasn't an ordinary person; her character was naturally tough. So even though her whole body trembled and turned red from the heat of the golden rays' power,she persisted without saying a word or giving up.
Finally after enduring such torture for some time,the entire ray of gold light had been completely absorbed by YunQingYue.
Then, YunQingYue couldn't help but open her eyes and suddenly stood up. Then she instinctively shouted and leaped up, with a dazzling light flashing all over her body.
"QingYue, are you okay?" I squinted my eyes and subconsciously stepped back, not knowing what had happened to YunQingYue.
"I'm fine," after a moment, the light dissipated, and YunQingYue fell gently like a fairy. Her voice was crisp and clear, her body delicate and graceful with fluttering silk ribbons and cascading black hair.
At this time, I took another careful look at her appearance only to find an astonishing phenomenon that surprised me greatly.
She had grown taller and older. Her original appearance was that of a seven or eight-year-old girl's face but now she looked almost ten years old. What surprised me even more was that as she grew older, she became more beautiful than ever before - especially those two finely polished legs with their delicate curves giving them an ethereal quality making one want to hold them in their hands.
YunQingYue lowered her head slightly to look at herself; it seemed that she also noticed the changes in herself.
"Indeed," after a moment of silence, she nodded to herself in satisfaction then lifted her head only to see me staring straight at her dumbfoundedly. She frowned slightly then said: "Are your eyeballs going to pop out? Why are you looking at me like that?!