Discovered

Pan Yun: Since you can't help me, from now on, don't even think about getting any spiritual energy from me. I want to cultivate, and I can save people on my own.

The Spirit Realm was very confused: You were reborn with your memories, why do you still treat them as your family? Don't you want to go back to find your family from your past life? I can take you back.

Pan Yun: Eight years is enough time to develop feelings for a dog, let alone a person. I was a sickly infant whose spiritual energy you were stealing. How much effort did they put in to raise me to this point? Even if it's not about feelings, just for the kindness of raising me, I can't just stand by and do nothing.

Besides, she had no family in her past life. The only one she owed a debt to was the country.

Spirit Realm: If you want to repay their kindness, then repay mine first. When the laboratory exploded, I wrapped your soul and left. If it weren't for me, you would have been scattered into dust like them.

Pan Yun sneered: If I didn't consider this debt, do you think you could have stayed in my Mud Pill Palace for eight years? Don't make yourself out to be so noble. The reason you wrapped my soul and fled was simply because you needed a vessel, and I was the closest to you at the time. So you saved me, and I saved you. We've long been even. If we're going to be precise, you owe me for these eight years.

The Spirit Realm fell silent, but it flickered and flashed, then with a whoosh, it tried to rush out of her Mud Pill Palace. However, as soon as it rushed out, it was caught in a net, and then lines appeared out of nowhere, quickly binding it tightly.

The Spirit Realm was greatly alarmed: Refining Essence into Qi came first, then Refining Qi into Spirit. Why can you refine spirit first?

Pan Yun, inside the Mud Pill Palace, bared her teeth and grinned at it: Guess?

The tables have turned. Pan Yun was now in control.

The Spirit Realm was adaptable and changed its tune: Since you are one of the researchers, you should know that I am sealed and cannot use many of my abilities. Wait for me to break the seal, and I will help you...

It's been too long. In your past life, the country poured so many resources into you, and in ten years, you've only unsealed a little bit, and you can only record information. Who knows how long it will take for you to completely break the seal? Pan Yun didn't believe it had no solution: Give me back half of the spiritual energy you've stolen from me over the years, let me improve my cultivation, and I'll find someone to save my family.

I've already refined it all, it's gone.

Pan Yun sneered: Do you take me for a three-year-old? If you didn't have stored spiritual energy, how would you maintain your own space?

Spirit Realm: ...It's just enough to maintain that little bit of space, and all your things are in there.

Pan Yun: Lost it. Give me the spiritual energy.

Spirit Realm: Why don't you wait a bit longer? Wait for me to unseal a little more. I am a Realm God, a Spirit Realm that once achieved Deification. Once I break the seal...

Pan Yun sneered repeatedly: Gods cannot cultivate on their own...

Spirit Realm: When I unseal that part, I will be able to...

Pan Yun continued: Gods also need to eat the spiritual energy cultivated by me.

Spirit Realm: When I re-achieve Deification...

Pan Yun: Eating for eight years straight.

Spirit Realm angrily: When I re-achieve Deification...

Pan Yun: Eight years without a single word.

Spirit Realm weakly: When I re-achieve Deification, I will compensate you...

Pan Yun: Eight years. My father and brother were wrongly accused and in distress, and I couldn't help them at all because I had no cultivation.

Spirit Realm relented: I can give you some spiritual energy, but I can't do half. I've refined most of the spiritual energy, and I still need to keep some to run the space.

It said: You should know how useful the space is. If I hadn't opened the space for you to hide things just now, could your family have survived that ordeal?

Pan Yun fell silent. The space was indeed very useful, and it had saved her family's lives just now.

Everything had gone wrong for her since she woke up this morning. She choked on water, fell when getting out of bed, and even the sturdy copper handle of the bowl she was using to pour water broke.

There are no particularly unlucky cultivators. If such a situation occurs, it must be a warning from heaven. So, she used her limited knowledge to divine a hexagram for the Pan family.

Greatly inauspicious!

Her father and two brothers were sentenced to exile in Datong. Why would her hexagram for the Pan family, limited to her grandmother and uncle's family, be greatly inauspicious?

The Pan family's only vulnerability now was her.

As Pan Hong's daughter, she should have been exiled to Datong as well, but her father doted on her poor health. Coupled with the fact that she had almost died in the spring of last year, and no one outside knew she was still alive, Pan Hong decided to keep her hidden.

Harboring a criminal was a serious offense.

So, after calculating the greatly inauspicious hexagram, she immediately thought of setting fire to the house and running away.

She couldn't help it. The house was full of traces of her life. She could run, but her belongings couldn't.

She wasn't even sure if setting fire to the house could erase all the traces. Just then, a voice suddenly appeared in her mind.

She didn't even have time to ask questions. Upon learning that it had space, she immediately put all the daily necessities in the house into the space. Then she ran to the storage room, collected many things, and scattered them in the room to cover up the remaining traces of her life. Only then did she hurriedly meet her grandmother and uncle before fleeing.

As soon as she left the house, the Imperial Guards arrived. She narrowly escaped. It was right; it had saved her and the Pan family today.

Pan Yun finally took a step back, and the person and the spirit temporarily reached a consensus.

The Spirit Realm gave her some spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy originally belonged to Pan Yun, and she could use it directly once it was released. However, she still sat cross-legged, guiding it through a small circulation, and finally suppressed it in her Dantian.

After she finished her cultivation, the Spirit Realm asked: Where are we going next?

Pan Yun lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, then said: We can't go back to the Pan family. The Imperial Guards will be watching. I want to go to Datong to find my father and brother. Come on, take me to travel a thousand miles in an instant.

A moment later, Pan Yun stood outside an alley, silent, silent, endless silence.

Is this your "travel a thousand miles in an instant"? Pan Yun mocked: A wall, half an alley?

The Spirit Realm felt guilty: The spiritual energy I cultivated was all used to break the seal, mainly to open the space and for the cultivation techniques. And I just gave you so much spiritual energy...

Pan Yun emphasized: It's my cultivated spiritual energy! And you didn't give me much, only a little bit of spiritual energy.

Never mind, a sealed Spirit Realm couldn't be expected to do too much. Pan Yun sighed. Just as she was about to discuss how to get to Datong with it, she suddenly sensed an uncomfortable gaze. She frowned slightly and looked up.

Her eyes met Wang Yong's.

He was on horseback, appraising her, his gaze making her deeply uncomfortable.

Why is he here?

Pan Yun's gaze swept around, and she roared inwardly, Damn it, useless Spirit Realm! Traveling a thousand miles only to pass through an alley and end up on the main street, right where Wang Yong just came out of the Pan Family.

Her expression was blank, her gaze sliding smoothly past his face as if she didn't know him. She scanned the people coming and going on the street, then fixed on a broad back and took off running, "Father..."