Jian Ruoling's bright eyes flickered as she looked at him, puzzled.
These three Spirit Connection Grasses are harmful and cannot be consumed, but they are still valuable spirit herbs from the secret realm.
She planned to take them to the Moon Invitation Palace to exchange them for treasures or elixirs with other disciples.
Chu Zhiyuan took out a Spirit Connection Grass and closed his eyes.
He visualized the Heavenly Talisman.
His vision went dark and blurred, and then he became the Spirit Connection Grass.
A cup of tea's time passed, and Chu Zhiyuan remained motionless with his eyes closed, but Jian Ruoling wasn't worried.
A quarter of an hour passed, and Chu Zhiyuan still remained motionless with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep, his breathing a little rapid.
Two quarters of an hour passed, and he still remained motionless as if asleep.
Xiao Ruoling became a little restless.
Half an hour passed.
Jian Ruoling stared at him intently, anxiety flashing in her eyes, growing more intense as time passed.
If Chu Zhiyuan's breathing hadn't been sometimes rapid and sometimes slow, she would have couldn't help but reach out to check on him. Chu Zhiyuan suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes shot out like lightning, suddenly brightening the inside of the painted boat.
Only then did she realize that the sun had unknowingly set, and the inside of the painted boat was dim.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
"How is it?"
"Very good." Chu Zhiyuan looked at the Spirit Connection Grass in his hand, a satisfied smile on his face: "Very good."
Xiao Ruoling felt that he was strange today, and curiously sized him up.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "The Spirit Connection Grass has a special growing environment, it needs to grow in the yin within the yang and the yang within the yin."
"Yin within the yang, yang within the yin?"
"Yin within the yang means that during the day, it cannot be exposed to the sun, and yang within the yin means that it needs to be exposed to moonlight at night."
"Not a shady place?"
"How can it get moonlight in a shady place?"
"Then where is it?"
"During the day, something blocks the sun for it, and at night, this thing retracts, not blocking the moonlight."
"A flower?"
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Besides swordsmanship, you now need to strengthen your lightness skill... The Moon Invitation Palace's lightness skill is unparalleled, right?" He saw some scenes of the secret realm through the three Spirit Connection Grasses, and initially understood the Moon Invitation Palace's secret realm.
The three Spirit Connection Grasses were located in different places, one on a mountain peak, one on a mountainside, and the other by a river.
Through these three Spirit Connection Grasses, he could see everything within a hundred meters of each.
The peach tree could only see within a twenty-meter radius, the green bamboo could see within a ten-meter radius, but the Spirit Connection Grass could see a hundred meters. The size of the range depended on their respective spiritual light.
He speculated that it might also be related to the range of their spiritual energy absorption.
Through these three Spirit Connection Grasses, he discovered that the Moon Invitation Palace's secret realm was full of dangers.
Any plant could be poisonous, any animal could be dangerous. A small rabbit could bite a stone into pieces and feed on iron and stone.
A small squirrel could leap ten meters, snatch a bird and send it to its mouth, chewing it into its stomach in a few bites. A beautiful little fish could leap out of the water and poison a giant bear to death with one bite.
The danger of the animals in the secret realm was not related to their weight, animals like giant bears were dangerous, fast as lightning, and extremely powerful, and small animals were just as dangerous.
"Master passed down the Flower Shadow Step to me."
"A footwork that complements swordsmanship?"
"Yes, it's also a top-notch lightness skill. If you can master it, it will be even more powerful when used with swordsmanship."
"Practice it and see."
Xiao Ruoling's graceful body flashed, the curtain of the painted boat swayed, and she had disappeared without a trace.
Chu Zhiyuan followed her out of the painted boat and saw her swiftly darting across the lake like a shadow, silently and swiftly like a ghost.
Chu Zhiyuan nodded in satisfaction.
The Moon Invitation Palace's lightness skill was unparalleled and famous.
This Flower Shadow Step was indeed excellent. Compared with his own Horizon Within Reach Step, the speed might be slightly inferior, but the turns and changes were even better. The Horizon Within Reach Step was similar to a short-distance sprint, fast and swift, but once you started sprinting, it wasn't easy to change direction.
And it instantly emptied the Qi in the dantian.
Without the Earth Origin Art, the Horizon Within Reach Step would be a bit useless.
He observed the flow of true Qi in Xiao Ruoling's body, noticed the stagnation in her aura, and helped her adjust it.
Lightness skill wasn't just about speeding up by activating the aura, it was about the coordination of the body and the aura. The more perfect the coordination, the faster the speed.
Chu Zhiyuan only gave a few pointers, and Xiao Ruoling felt that her speed had increased a lot, and the circulation of her lightness skill was smoother and more comfortable.
For lightness skill, Chu Zhiyuan didn't take a gradual approach like he did with swordsmanship, he didn't have to worry about her not being able to digest it and didn't dare to give too many pointers in one day. For her, lightness skill was easier to practice, without needing to resist, just remember the feeling of her body.
As Chu Zhiyuan's guidance became more precise, her speed became faster and faster. By midnight, when she was covered in sweat, her speed had doubled.
Only then did Chu Zhiyuan leave satisfied.
In this process, Chu Zhiyuan had been using the Nine Chapters of Splendor to help her cultivate, practicing lightness skill while also cultivating. In the morning, Chu Zhiyuan appeared in the Bright Martial Hall.
Chu Qingfeng shook his head when he saw him come: "Don't inquire blindly."
Chu Zhiyuan looked at him helplessly.
"It's best not to inquire about this matter, there's no benefit."
"Grand Uncle, I just want to know why the Everlasting Spirit Divine Sect wants to lead the Great Mongol Iron Cavalry into Fuyuan Town?"
"Your curiosity is too great!"
"It's like a fishbone in my throat, I can't be happy unless I spit it out."
"I can't say."
"Grand Uncle, then I want to know, will the Everlasting Spirit Divine Sect be safe and sound after committing such a great crime?"
"Of course they will be severely punished."
"How will they be severely punished?"
"The Sect Leader of the Everlasting Spirit Divine Sect is now severely injured, and won't be able to leave seclusion for ten years."
"Within ten years, the Everlasting Spirit Divine Sect won't be able to stir up trouble again?"
"Yes."
"That's too cheap for them." Chu Zhiyuan wasn't very satisfied: "How many people died in the fall of Fuyuan Town? Are you just letting it go like this?"
"The Everlasting Spirit Divine Sect will have to pay some price, such as treasures and spiritual medicines. The Heavenly Treasure Department will ask them for it... By the way, for this great victory, the Prince of Ying also requested merit for you, go to the Heavenly Treasure Department and take a look."
Chu Zhiyuan was stunned, then overjoyed.
"Go, go, go and practice your skills quickly, don't inquire blindly."
"Yes."
Chu Zhiyuan sat on the bed in the Listening Wave Courtyard. The windows were open, and bright sunlight shone in.
Chu Zhiyuan sat in the sunlight, slowly opening a small jade bottle, and a golden pill rolled into his palm. In the bright sunlight, this dragon-eye-sized golden pill shone brightly, like gold cast.
The smile on the corner of Chu Zhiyuan's mouth slowly widened. Transcendence Pill!
This was the Transcendence Pill he had been seeking.
The Prince of Ying, Chu Mingrui, gave a large portion of the credit for the great victory in Fuyuan Town to Chu Zhiyuan, causing his merit to skyrocket, finally advancing from the second rank to the first rank. This was war merit.
War merit was the greatest of all merits.
It was extremely difficult to advance to the first rank with merit gained outside the battlefield, but on the battlefield, the difficulty was reduced by more than ten times. So he exchanged for this Transcendence Pill.
Staring at this first-grade spiritual pill, Chu Zhiyuan immediately had a series of beautiful fantasies. At the same time, he also had some worries.
This was already a first-grade spiritual pill, the most supreme among spiritual pills.
Its efficacy meant the ultimate efficacy of spiritual pills, could it help him advance to the sixth level of heaven? If it could only advance to the sixth level of heaven, would he have to slowly grind the remaining four levels? These thoughts flashed through his mind for a moment, making it difficult for him to calm down.
