What was going on? They were supposed to guide each other back to their origins, using their souls to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy and travel through the major acupoints, but why was Gu Changnian's soul actually absorbing the spiritual energy from her body?
He Qing frowned slightly and transmitted a message with his soul: "Changnian, calm your mind."
Gu Changnian also frowned, as if he couldn't control his soul from absorbing He Qing's spiritual energy. Moreover, under his tightened control, not only did he fail to stop the situation, but his soul even showed signs of leaving his body.
With Gu Changnian's current cultivation level, it would be bad if his soul left his body for too long.
Seeing the situation, He Qing immediately felt that his magic was not under control and he could no longer care about so many things. He could only remind him again: "Focus! Don't worry about anything else!"
He Qing gritted her teeth and cursed in her heart: Suck it, suck it, it's better to give it to you than to turn into a blank sheet of paper!
After thinking this through, He Qing simply stopped keeping it. Gu Changnian drew spiritual energy from her, and she accelerated the collection from the outside. In this way, an unknown force appeared in the depths of He Qing's sea of consciousness, ready to move, as if breaking out of the ground.
Then, everything went unexpectedly smoothly. After about an hour, He Qing finished the exercise with a sweat on his head. Although he was a little tired, he obviously felt relaxed and his mind was clear.
He Qing immediately explored her own sea of consciousness, and what she sensed shocked her -
Is this a breakthrough?!
She had worked so hard to find a way to break through the realm, but she easily filled up her experience points by just practicing with Gu Changnian once! Her cultivation at this moment had already surpassed the level of the Crossing Tribulation Stage, and it couldn't be more stable. As long as she could experience the test of the Heavenly Tribulation again, she would definitely be in the Mahayana Stage!
Oh my god...finally...
He Qing was so surprised that his hands were shaking with excitement. He quickly put them behind his back and hid them. He pretended to be calm and asked Gu Changnian, who was sitting on the bed and was also a little exhausted: "How do you feel? Have you recovered some of your lost skills?"
Gu Changnian panted for a while and said weakly: "Thank you, Master, for helping me break through two realms in a row."
"Breaking through two realms in a row?" Just now He Qing was only happy about the great improvement in his cultivation and did not notice Gu Changnian's breath. Now after hearing what he said, he took a closer look and found that, indeed, he had already reached the state of out-of-body experience.
He Qing was stunned: How is this possible? Even if it is according to what is said in the book, Gu Changnian will not have the opportunity to break through from the Nascent Soul stage until next year. Now his cultivation has obviously regressed to the Golden Core stage, how is it possible that he has reached the Out-of-Body stage ahead of time?
Could it be because he had just absorbed her spiritual energy?
He Qing's heart, which was ecstatic a moment ago, suddenly collapsed.
Gu Changnian's heart was filled with mixed emotions at this moment. He had never expected that his master would be so unreserved when practicing with him.
Although his current master seemed to no longer have any evil thoughts towards him, she no longer had any intention of getting close to him. Her attitude when she came was also perfunctory. Gu Changnian thought that she was just going through the motions, but he didn't expect that she would actually help him break through.
Gu Changnian recovered his breath, staggered off the bed, bowed to He Qing, and said respectfully: "Thank you, Master."
"Oh." He Qing responded with a blank expression and dull eyes: "It's a small matter. Ask Master Chong Ying to help you. I'm going back to Beifeng."
Gu Changnian then realized that He Qing's mood was completely different from before, and couldn't help but raise his head and asked in confusion: "Master, are you feeling unwell?"
He Qing looked back at him with a numb face, thinking, you used the spiritual energy you stole from me to break through the realm, and you still have the nerve to ask me if I feel unwell? Then he sneered, "No." He left after leaving this word.
Gu Changnian looked at the empty door, full of doubts.
When the master saw that he had achieved a breakthrough, he seemed unhappy.
That is to say, his master had not expected that he could break through, and his master actually did not want to see him get better... right?
As the thought came to his mind, a faint purple aura appeared between Gu Changnian's eyebrows, but he did not notice it. He just fell into deep thought: If the master was so unwilling, why did he help him?
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He Qing returned to Beifeng, but did not show up. Instead, he lay flat on the roof of the highest main hall from day to night.
The North Peak has long been shrouded in clouds and fog, and the sky can only be seen a few days a month. And today, He Qing is in such a heavy mood that it is a luxury for him to look up at the moon to comfort himself.
Looking at the thick fog that covered the sky and the moon, He Qing's mood became worse and worse. He simply raised his hand and shot out countless wind blades towards the entire sky with all his might, as if his mortal enemy was hiding in the thick fog, and he was filled with murderous intent.
It was not until the clouds above his head were stirred away and he saw the deep blue sky with countless stars and the bright moon hanging high in the sky, casting down its cool moonlight, that He Qing finally felt that his mood, which had been depressed for a whole day, had become much more open.
He Qing let out a long sigh, and suddenly she heard a small noise coming from under the eaves, as if someone was moving something. She sat up and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Lu Li carrying a wooden ladder that he had gotten from somewhere and coming to the main hall, as if he was going to climb onto the roof.
Lu Li was wearing the moon-white school uniform of the Yaoguang Sect. His long, slightly curly hair was loose, with only the hair on both sides casually tied behind his head. He held the ladder with one hand and lifted the hem of his clothes with the other, and walked up step by step slowly.
The main hall of the Yaoguang Sect was not short, with two floors, one large and one small, with five ridges. Lu Li's plain wooden ladder could only allow him to reach the eaves at the bottom.
Then, he stopped moving, looking around, as if thinking about how to go up next without using any skills.
He Qing wanted to laugh, because no matter how elegant and calm Lu Li behaved, his silly look was so funny that it was 1000 points funny. Add to that his identity as the young master of the magic sect, and it was 10,000 points funny.
Lu Li felt He Qing's gaze, raised his head to look at her, raised his eyebrows and said: "Master, have you seen enough?"
He Qing chuckled: "No."
Having said that, the whisk in He Qing's hand still changed. The tail of the whisk stretched several times longer and flew towards Lu Li, wrapping around his narrow waist. Then He Qing pulled it lightly, and Lu Li flew to sit beside her.
Lu Li came up, but didn't say anything. He calmly admired the clear night sky that was roughly opened up by He Qing's wind blade.
After a long while, when the clouds and mist gathered again, Lu Li said softly, "Master, you have been sitting here since noon, but have you realized anything?"
He Qing lay down in a big letter shape and sighed, "My understanding is not good enough, I haven't comprehended it yet."
Lu Li turned his head to look at her, speechless for a moment——
She had been sitting in this high place for too long, and the dew had thickened her face, so that her hair and eyelashes were a little wet.
He Qing closed his eyes, as if he was extremely tired, and asked instead of answering, "Can you see the changes in me?"
Lu Li looked at her deeply, and saw a drop of dew rolling down her eyelashes, like a tear sliding into her hair. He paused for a moment before saying, "Your cultivation has greatly increased. Why, are you not satisfied?"