Alphabetic Grouping and Advancing Forward

Halfway up the mountain, above the clouds, sat three elders.

True Person Moxia dozed off with his eyes half-closed.

As people get older, it becomes harder to concentrate. His interest was in the third level, and he didn't care about the first two. He might as well take a break.

The True Person Moxia was a hundred feet to the east.

Lingzhou Yue and True Person Yinyue, these Peerless Twin Moons, are very close to each other. Although they are nine thousand years apart in age, they are as intimate as good sisters.

Lingzhou Yue, dressed in a loose robe, looked weary. In the fleeting glimpses of light, he listlessly tilted his head back and gulped down wine. Occasionally, a drop of wine would leak from his lips, sliding down his snowy neck and into his robe, where it was quickly dried by the breeze, making him look dashing.

"Every time, the second stage is the most boring, so boring that I regret sitting here as an elder to watch... I remember last time when that Huangfu Little One Sword Succession, in order to save a tiny bit of energy, he fought wits and courage with the Magma Swallowing Beast, from morning till night. By the time he broke out of the rock path, it was already dark. That day, I drank five hundred jugs of wine. Does Master know what five hundred jugs of wine means? And what's the point of watching the Sword Inheritance Assembly? That day, I spent more time watching the weeds in the outhouse than watching him Sword Succession."

True Person Yinyue shook her head and smiled. Her dignified and gentle smile carried a hint of doting. For her, watching a group of geniuses grow into giants step by step was a pleasant thing.

"Perhaps Xiao Ran and Chuyan can give you a pleasant surprise."

Lingzhou Yue pursed her lips.

"What's so surprising? Do you think I don't understand my disciple? His skills are great, but he's limited by his meager Cultivation Level and his stamina is far from sufficient. I don't know what he did last night, but he suddenly developed panda eyes just like Li Wuxie, who has suffered from kidney deficiency for hundreds of years. What kind of thing is that? He has already Qi Refining and hasn't been injured. How could he make such a basic mistake?"

True Person Yinyue glanced at her body, smiled without saying a word, and didn't explain anything. There was a hint in his eyes that she didn't know how lucky she was.

As for the second test of endurance, she felt that it would be difficult for Xiao Ran and his companion to pass it as quickly as the first test of skills.

"Sigh, testing their endurance is too much for them. This time, even the Magma Swallowing Beast is gone. Even with Chuyan's Spiritual Power to help them, they'll have to plan carefully to get through safely. They probably won't make it before nightfall."

Sword Mound Mountain, Fiery Lava Layer, hot magma churns within the rock passages.

The pale green Spiritual Power shield isolated the magma and heat, swaying like a candle flame or a trembling jelly under the rush of heat.

Forming a ball shape from head to tail?

Reverse rotation, riding the current, rolling and climbing?

Xiao Ran frowned and fell into deep thought.

In theory, Chuyan's statement is correct.

With a fixed volume, the sphere has the most stable structure and the smallest surface area. This means that the Spiritual Energy shield covering the sphere has the smallest area and the most stable structure, making it difficult to disintegrate even if it encounters turbulence or rolling rocks.

At the same time, fluid dynamics and the laws of spin Spiritual Power told him that moving forward in a spiral rolling motion as a spherical Spirit Body was the most Spiritual Power.

Xiao Ran understood this principle.

I was just too focused on the distance between men and women before, and for a moment I forgot that we could move forward in this way.

Chuyan was very smart and promptly proposed the idea of forming a group.

However, new problems have arisen.

How should they stick together? It can't be one of those reversed numbers, can it? Xiao Ran ignorance and calmly asked Chuyan, "How do you think they should stick together?"

Chuyan was taken aback and looked up at Xiao Ran's handsome face.

She suddenly realized that the two of them were nearly a foot apart in height, and the original plan might not be able to hook their arms together, so the effect might not be very good. So she had a sudden idea and came up with a new plan.

"How else can we stick together? You grab your feet with both hands to form a big ring, and I grab my feet with both hands to form a small ring. My small ring fits inside your big ring, and we become a sphere, right?"

Oh, it's not numerical, it's alphabetical...

Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

But then he thought again, isn't this a circle? We agreed that the beginning and end would huddle together to form a sphere. Considering Chuyan's slightly flustered blush, he guessed that she might have felt ashamed and changed the plan at the last minute.

This little girl knows her limits! Xiao Ran nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, let's do it that way."

Chuyan bent down.

She was small in stature but exceptionally flexible, her whole body so supple and boneless that she could twist into a pretzel.

Soon, she connected herself end to end, forming a small circle with her feet on the ground. With her round face and extremely serious expression, she looked inexplicably cute, making people want to laugh.

She seemed to notice the faint smile on Xiao Ran's face, and puffed out her cheeks in annoyance, saying:

"Don't laugh."

Xiao Ran nodded solemnly with an icy expression, saying, "I am a professional Master, and I don't usually smile."

After saying that, he couldn't wait to bend down and grab his feet.

After all, holding back laughter is too tiring.

Xiao Ran is tall with a good arm span. He bent down, stretched out his arms, and easily grabbed the foot.

Unfortunately, her spine was too straight. No matter how much she bent over, she could never bend into a circular shape like Chuyan. She looked more like a folded sausage.

Chuyan saw this and was anxious, after all, she was the one maintaining the Spiritual Power shield, which was very hard work for her.

"Boss, could you please bend your back a little more? Use the same amount of force as last night, don't be too careful with your body."

Last night...

Xiao Ran's hands felt numb, and he felt his dark circles under his eyes were getting worse.

His back bent unconsciously, and he even used the Resonance Power in the end.

Sudden!

There was a click.

"Ah--"

Xiao Ran broke his spine and cried out in pain.

Chuyan turned pale with fright, but forced herself to remain calm and said, "Uh... don't be nervous. This is the Cultivation World. External injuries are not considered injuries. Some people can be reattached even if they are cut in half by a sword; some palace eunuchs have had a second bone graft after retirement; there are even experts in soul manipulation who have copied their soul and memories into their Dantian. If their head is lost, they can just get a new head and live. Fractures are nothing. At least you are now in a ring shape, aren't you?"

I'll fucking swear! Believe me or not, after the Sword Inheritance Assembly, I'll mold you into a V-shape, then into a figure eight, then into a straight line, and make you fly south like a wild goose!

Xiao Ran roared inwardly, feeling unbearable pain, and took out a healing and bone-setting pill from his System Space.

Just as he took out the pill, Chuyan quickly stopped him and instead handed him a specially made Anesthetic.

"Don't restore the bones yet. First, use Anesthetic to stop the pain so that the ring can be maintained. After you get through this, I will set the bones for you. When I was a child, I often set the bones for my father and Imperial Brother in the palace. They would get cramps in their thighs or dislocate their lumbar vertebrae every now and then. I am a professional at setting bones."

Are you a devil? There's no other way right now; getting through this is the most important thing.

Xiao Ran reluctantly swallowed the Anesthetic, keeping his body bent into a ring shape so that Chuyan could be encased within it.

Chuyan moved and slipped inside, fitting snugly against him.

Perfect!

To Xiao Ran, this posture was so bizarre that he couldn't even begin to describe it; it was like something out of a strange species.

But at least, it's not as erotic as some other positions.

This is a good thing.

Chuyan then shrunk the protective shield into a ring only three feet high, with barbs on the sides to make it easier to climb against the current.

She was meticulously designing the shape and size of the barbs...

Xiao Ran couldn't take it anymore and quickly urged:

"Hurry up!"

"Alright."

And so, the master and apprentice, in an unimaginable and bizarre way, huddled together for warmth, overcame difficulties, and climbed against the current, spiraling forward into the scalding lava.

One hour later.

Suddenly, everything went white before their eyes, and they finally tumbled out of the cave.

It was propelled high into the sky by a cloud of murky sulfur gas, and then crashed heavily onto another Ring Mountain Road.

Xiao Ran collapsed to the ground, feeling dizzy and disoriented, his mind filled with magma, and his spinal fluid was about to burst out.

Chuyan got up.

He breathed a sigh of relief, calmed himself down, and immediately set Xiao Ran's bones, fed him a few pills, and then helped him up.

"How are you feeling? Are you more comfortable?"

Xiao Ran subconsciously straightened his spine. Not only did it not hurt, but he also felt no misalignment; the connection was perfect.

It must be admitted that this young woman is far too experienced; her bone-setting technique is even more professional than that of German orthopedic surgeons.

It was that faint smile on her innocent little face that infuriated me.

Xiao Ran stood up and spoke in a cold voice.

You're laughing.

Chuyan shook her head innocently, but her tone of voice seemed familiar.

"I am a very professional filial son/daughter, and I usually don't smile."

Xiao Ran that he swooped down on her like an eagle swooping on a chick, and angrily rubbed her head.

"Filial piety my foot! I called you filial piety, do you even have a system? Stop being so ridiculously filial!"

Chuyan was taken aback.

What is a system?

Xiao Ran then realized that he had committed a major taboo for transmigrators, revealing his cheat ability.

But it doesn't matter, who knows what the system is anyway.

"The system is a local saying from my hometown, representing a sincere filial piety. Only those who are truly filial have it, and you do not."

In the air.

Lingzhou Yue was extremely bored, so she drank and dozed off. Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep leaning on True Person Yinyue's shoulder. In her hazy state, the drool from the corner of her mouth dripped into True Person Yinyue's robe.

She dreamt of Xiao Ran, who was doing something strange to her...

Suddenly, he was awakened by the slap of the True Person Yinyue. Startled, he looked up and asked, "Is it dark yet?"

Looking around, I saw blue skies and white clouds, and realized it was just past noon.

True Person Yinyue was slightly surprised, but her face showed gentle approval.

"They passed the test in just one hour. Xiao Ran lost 60% of his Spiritual Power, and Chuyan lost 90%. In the saturated inner river, this is quite an amazing result."

Lingzhou Yue looked down at the mountainside and was suddenly struck by the sight of Qingyan, whose face was stained with wine and yet as beautiful as a painting. The scene from her dream inexplicably appeared before her eyes.

"He's so fast?"