Becoming a Mirror
Yunmeng Kingdom, Pagoda City, government office.
The clerk looked at the junior official before him and said casually:
"In conclusion, how about we send you into the Yin-Yang Plan to undergo the Qi Awakening Ritual as compensation for our inadequate oversight?"
Since Ban Xu had no connections and no one would care if he died, and he was also handsome, Qin the scribe didn't intend to kill him. He just wanted to give him a title and send him to Dao Lord's Selection Camp.
Although Ban Xu were just low-level errand boys and had no right to bear the loss of the spirit fields, special times call for special treatment.
The Dao Lord decrees swept down, creating chaos and making it easy to take advantage of the situation. Those barriers that were firmly in place during peaceful times, worth 388,000, were now easily breached.
The person originally in charge of the Spirit Field Plan was Qin Shuli's nephew, who wanted to take his Ban Xu. After all, once someone was specially recruited into the Yin-Yang Plan, it would be difficult for outsiders to ascertain their original identity and cultivation level.
Once you enter the Selection Camp, it's like a fish entering the sea; who remembers whether you were in Ban Xu or Li order?
"How long does the Qi Awakening Ritual take?"
The person in front of him, who was in a "Ban Xu" position, asked calmly, which surprised Qin the clerk.
"Tomorrow, after the Spirit Awakening ceremony, we will set off immediately. A Foundation Establishment expert will take you to the Dao Lord's Daoist temple," Qin the clerk replied.
"Too slow."
Su Luo dropped her disguise and struck out with her palm, heading straight for Qin the clerk's chest.
Qin, the clerk, was shocked. He never expected that a lowly clerk with no cultivation would attack him, who was at the Qi Refining Perfection!
In his haste, he only had time to summon a magical artifact shaped like a hair bun. The hair bun was entirely emerald green, with a faint halo flowing across its surface. It flew out from his hair, grew longer in the wind, and instantly transformed into a cyan light shield, blocking his chest.
The palm strike slammed into the light shield, causing it to tremble violently, its azure aura flickering erratically. Qin, the scribe, slid back three feet, chair and all, the ink and brushes on his desk scattering across the floor. His hands went numb, his palms sweated, and his heart pounded like a drum.
Who are you?!
Su Luo examined the treasure and felt that its strength was equivalent to that of Awakened at the Qi Refining Perfection, and its overall capabilities were much higher than those of the Awakened of the previous era.
His Divine Power had already spread out, weaving intricate nets throughout the room, and then he controlled the Qi to block and strangle all of Qin the scribe's attacks and shouts.
"A divine soul! You have a divine soul! Why are you toying with me, Foundation Establishment!"
The Qin clerk cried out in despair, and then died.
In this world, cultivators refer to advanced applications and transformations of Divine Power as "divine soul," a realm accessible only to Foundation Establishment cultivators, Qi Refining cultivators can't even begin to grasp.
Su Luo, whose Attribute was 12, was instantly killed by the old man with Attribute 13.5. The old process of Soul Search and extracting memories was used, followed by a formulaic search, attack, and retreat.
Su Luo walked out of the yamen carrying a bag of things. As she passed the gate, she threw a pill to the gatekeeper, telling him to run far away, and then walked away.
After leaving the city, Su Luo stopped at an abandoned earth temple outside the city and began to sort through her spoils.
Nine hundred and thirty low-grade Spirit Stones, nine mid-grade Spirit Stones, one high-grade Spirit Stone, a hair ornament, seventeen Talisman Arts, and a considerable amount of Talisman Arts materials—blank talisman paper, cinnabar, demon beast blood, and some powder.
"The exchange rate between Spirit Stones is one to ten, but their rarity leads to a premium. Treasures go without saying, but Talisman Arts are more interesting."
Su Luo crushed all the Spirit Stones into powder and used her Divine Power to guide the Spirit Stone Qi in the powder into her body.
The purity of the Qi was extremely high, many times purer than the Qi he collected from the air. His meridians gradually widened and grew wildly under the influence of the Qi, generating their own extraordinary power.
The survival version of the cultivation side naturally also has various cultivation arts. Su Luo has some knowledge of them, but not much. The main purpose is to collect knowledge and make connections between different things. The purple Constant Spell is a comprehensive study of various schools of thought.
The rules of this world are different from those of the Survival World, but the general framework is the same, and the survival version is many times stronger.
Su Luo glanced at the low-quality Talisman Arts, modified the survival version according to the environment, adjusted the flow path of Qi, simplified the stroke order of the Runes, and began to gather Qi and Dharma Power to create talismans in the Void, giving it a small trial.
His fingers moved through the air, and streams of magical Dharma Power overflowed from his fingertips, leaving glowing traces in the air and forming a complex Runes structure.
The Qi of heaven and earth was drawn in, surging from all directions and forming a small vortex above the Runes. The concentration of Qi soared several times in a short period of time.
A radiant, Void Talisman Arts materialized before him. Talisman Arts surface shimmered with light and its spiritual patterns flickered. It was a top-grade first-tier talisman, and it was even growing stronger. Qi continued to gather, the Runes continued to improve themselves, the radiance grew ever brighter, and the spiritual pressure grew ever higher.
Within a few breaths, the power of the Talisman Arts leaped to the level of the Early Foundation Establishment stage.
Having spent so much time Constant Spell, Su Luo still knows this little bit of stuff.
"It's alright. The extraordinary environment is truly fantastic, but it's a pity that the Qi in and around Pagoda City is too thin."
After tidying up for a while, Su Luo absorbed most of the Qi from the Spirit Stone, raising her spirit Attribute to 14, and then went back into the city to beg for alms.
By looting the city and taking its Spirit Stone stones and materials, Su Luo might be able to reach 20 in Attributes in a short time!
Converted to this era, he could be considered Violet Palace Adept, but not yet at the initial stage.
Qi Yuan knew nothing.
His memory stopped at the moment Su Luo extracted his soul in the Bloodstained Calamity Nest. Everything after that was Chaos.
When he came to his senses, he found himself transformed into a Mirror, unable to escape!
Upon realizing that times had changed once again, Qi Yuan felt a surge of joy, but this was quickly followed by an overwhelming sense of fear.
An extremely terrifying aura, unlike anything he had ever felt in his life, lingered outside the Mirror!
Just sensing this aura made Qi Yuan tremble with fear, like an ant suddenly realizing the magnificence of a Giant thousands of feet tall.
The aura sometimes moved about, sometimes sat still, as if it were pondering something.
After a period of trepidation, Qi Yuan heard the man suddenly speak:
"The Path! The Path! The path to the Golden Core! Where exactly is it!"
"I have sought the Dao for over two thousand years, yet I have not even glimpsed the Golden Nature, so how can I speak of anything beyond the Golden Core!"
Golden Core!
Qi Yuan memorized the name of this realm, hoping to gain a little more understanding of this world.
Although a realm name is not very useful, in fantasy works, the Golden Core might not even be able to defeat the Great Luck, or Fixed Star might be used directly as the Golden Core.
However, combining this with other information from the Future will allow us to form an understanding of this new era!
After another half day, the figure spoke again:
"Hmm? Why is your destiny not revealed, and your true nature hidden?"
Before Qi Yuan could react to the meaning of those words, he was suddenly pulled away by the figure. An invisible force removed the Mirror from the shelf, and the red cloth covering the mirror was unveiled.
Light flooded in, a blinding white, and a man's face appeared before Qi Yuan's eyes.
His face was as smooth as jade, his eyebrows and eyes were clear and bright, his expression was gentle and warm, and his temperament was elegant and composed. But now, he was frowning slightly, staring at the Mirror where Qi Yuan was.
The scene with just one person and one camera simply stopped.
Qi Yuan immediately sensed something was wrong. He looked inward and found his face pressed directly against the mirror, so from the outside, it looked like a slightly frightened face was reflected in the Mirror.
I was face-to-face with the Golden Core Dao Lord right in front of me!
That's a bit too ambiguous.