Spirit Realm

Previously, when the Silver Winged Demon Wolves had attacked them, he had injected an insane amount of thunder and lightning energy into the wooden sculpture. He had thought that its components might be damaged by the violent thunder and lightning energy…

The truth was different.

His probes revealed that, not only were the wooden sculpture’s components not affected whatsoever, even the “artifact’s” interior structures were perfectly intact!

He didn’t know whether it was because the wooden sculpture was adaptive to the injection of lightning powers or that this “artifact” was of enough high rank and could thus endure the destructive powers of lightning. At any rate, the wooden sculpture had no problems whatsoever.

“If this wooden sculpture truly was made by Grandpa, then his artifact forging skills… must be unbelievably superb!”

After a moment’s thought, Qin Lie realized that the current him still could not understand the complex spirit diagrams inside the sculpture and therefore did not dare to change anything on his own. He had no choice but to safely put away the sculpture once more.

He sat down, held his breath, focused his mind, and began channeling Heavenly Thunder Eradication, all while using Spirit Recovering Pills to gather spirit energy.

After an unknown amount of time, he gradually woke up from cultivation and looked up towards the pure white moon, frowning. “There is thunder and lightning energy inside my acupoints and my spirit energy couldn’t get through it. In this case, wouldn’t it be impossible to cultivate the penetration of my acupoints and achieve the eighth level of Refinement?”

Eariler, he gathered spirit energy and tried to break through his acupoints only to find that every single one had thunder and lightning energy inside. All the thunder and lightning energy quickly formed a barrier that prevented the rush of spirit energy.

He had tried many acupoints and all of them returned the same result; spirit energy was completely blocked off.

This could be counted as the first barrier he had ever faced on his path of cultivation. He needed to break through this barrier if he wanted to ascend to a higher realm and push his power to new heights.

“Splash splash splash!”

It was at this moment that he suddenly heard the sound of water splashing in the pond beside him.

The huge tree Qin Lie was by was right beside the pond. In the first place, he was cultivating from behind the tree roots facing away from the pond, so he didn’t notice anything happening inside the pond at all. Now that he had heard something peculiar, he then poked his head out around the tree and gazed at the pond.

A single glance alone caused a great shudder, and Qin Lie felt all the blood in his body rush to his head.

Under the bright moonlight and inside the clear pond water was a white as cream naked body, whose beautiful back had just suddenly appeared right before his eyes!

That thin waist, that cloud-like hair hanging across her shoulders, those long, graceful legs, and those peach-like butt cheeks… Qin Lie saw everything. He lost his cool in an instant, and his eyes became hot. Even his breathing was gradually turning heavier and heavier.

“Ling Yushi!”

Qin Lie shouted in his heart. He only needed to look once at that slightly thin figure to know who the beautiful woman was.

Previously, Ling Yushi was bathing inside the pond. Once she finished washing her body and swam over from deeper part of the pond just now, she stood up with her back towards Qin Lie, and facing towards the center of the pond, she said, “I’m done washing, so I’ll be going back first. Take your time.”

“I’m almost done,” came Ling Ying’s voice from further inside the pond.

Startled, Qin Lie looked behind Ling Yushi towards the deeper part of the pond, and only then did he noticed Ling Ying’s little head on the surface of the water, glittering under the moonlight.

He immediately realized that the two girls must have come to the pond to bathe together after the bonfire had concluded. It’s just that he didn’t realize that they had come there because he was in the state of Thoughtless Tranquility, and since he was behind the tree, Ling Yushi and Ling Ying also didn’t notice him.

“Okay. Then I’ll go up and change into my clothes,” Ling Yushi casually replied. She then turned around and began walking over from the pond.

Qin Lie shuddered again as he dazedly watched Ling Yushi, who was facing directly towards him, with his mind completely blank.