The Birth of Spiritual Dew

As expected, with the decrease in the spiritual energy used for the spell, the amount of rain from the Spiritual Rain Technique also reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye, falling sparsely.

"Haha, this direction is correct!"

Xu Chunniang was overjoyed. She hadn't expected that a simple attempt would actually lead to her success.

With this condensed version of the Spiritual Rain Technique, Xu Chunniang found it much smoother to control the amount of rain.

Under her manipulation, several sparse drops of spiritual rain condensed together, forming a new drop of spiritual rain that fell...

Half a month later, Xu Chunniang had to pause her cultivation. Her Grain Abstinence Pills were gone, and she needed to go to the Dining Hall to collect new ones.

Over the past half month, she had been consistently practicing controlling the amount of spiritual rain, and she had already made considerable progress.

She started by practicing the Spiritual Rain Technique at one-tenth of its power, and after adapting and becoming proficient, she gradually increased the spiritual energy. Now, she could control the Spiritual Rain Technique using one-third of her spiritual energy.

In the span of two months, Xu Chunniang had continuously cultivated the Spiritual Rain Technique. The water level in the pool had risen significantly, and the water even contained a trace of spiritual energy.

With a few agile leaps clinging to the rock face, Xu Chunniang easily jumped out of the cave.

She squinted, finding the bright light outside a bit jarring. It took her a while to adjust.

"When I first learned I was trapped in this cave, I desperately cultivated, only wanting to escape. Who would have thought that later, I would willingly jump into this cave?"

Xu Chunniang shook her head and smiled. She concealed the cave entrance and set off towards the Dining Hall.

Steward Zhao at the Dining Hall greeted everyone with a warm smile. "It's you, little girl Xu."

"Steward Zhao, it's been a while."

Xu Chunniang felt a warmth in her heart. In the vast outer sect, she probably only spoke to this kind senior brother.

Sensing the aura emanating from Xu Chunniang, Steward Zhao's eyes flashed with a hint of a smile. "Qi Condensation first layer, not bad."

He remembered that when this girl first arrived at the sect, she didn't even recognize her own name. Now, only four months had passed, and she had reached the first layer of Qi Condensation, and she didn't look like she had just broken through.

"Senior brother, don't tease me."

Xu Chunniang shook her head. Although she considered herself diligent since joining the Carefree Sect, how could she compare to these senior brothers who had been in the sect for decades?

After all, anyone who could hold a position as a steward of a hall would have a cultivation base of at least the seventh layer of Qi Condensation.

Her cultivation was nothing compared to theirs.

Seeing Xu Chunniang's serious expression, Steward Zhao shook his head speechlessly. He wasn't joking at all. Some disciples who joined at the same time as her had only just completed Qi Introduction.

"How much are you collecting this time?"

Xu Chunniang pondered. A round trip would take nearly four hours. Collecting only one bottle seemed a bit uneconomical.

"I'll take two bottles like last time. One bottle is for this month's allowance, and I'll take next month's allowance in advance."

Steward Zhao quickly processed the request. With two bottles of newly collected Grain Abstinence Pills, Xu Chunniang started her journey back.

"It's been four months since I came to the Carefree Sect. I wonder how things are at home."

On the way back, Xu Chunniang thought of her life in Xu Family Village.

Her family was very poor. She had started taking care of her younger brother from the age of three and began doing chores at six. Since she could remember, she had never stopped working, yet they still couldn't get enough to eat or wear.

It wasn't just their family; most households in Xu Family Village seemed to be the same.

The entire family, old and young, worked year-round just to get by, barely having enough to eat. They couldn't save much money.

Recalling her past life, Xu Chunniang remembered the panic of worrying about not having enough to eat every single day.

It had only been four months since all of that, yet she felt like several years had passed.

"With that hundred taels of silver, my family should have enough to eat and wear."

Xu Chunniang shook her head. She was only at the first layer of Qi Condensation, the lowest cultivation level in the entire Cultivation World. Thinking too much about these things was useless. She should focus on cultivating.

Suppressing her thoughts, Xu Chunniang quickened her pace, returning to the cave to continue her unfinished cultivation.

The practice of controlling the amount of spiritual rain started smoothly, but as the spiritual energy increased, the difficulty also grew.

Xu Chunniang had to control her spiritual energy more precisely, increasing it bit by bit to make it easier to manage. She wasn't aiming for speed, but for stability.

It took her a full month before she finally gained complete control over the amount of spiritual rain.

"Spiritual Qi Manifests as Rain!"

As Xu Chunniang made her move, a cloud of water vapor the size of a teacup appeared above the pool. Then, drops of spiritual rain rich in spiritual energy slowly dripped down. After a total of thirteen drops of spiritual rain fell, the cloud of water vapor disappeared.

Success!

A flicker of excitement flashed in Xu Chunniang's eyes. Not only had she reduced the amount of spiritual rain to the minimum, but she had also further compressed the spell's range. For her, this was also a significant breakthrough.

When she was first learning the Spiritual Rain Technique, she had simply intended to master it and become a qualified Spiritual Plant cultivator. However, as she repeatedly studied the Spiritual Rain Technique, she gradually fell in love with this feeling of continuous exploration and learning.

Watching the spiritual energy transform under her precise control gave her a sense of accomplishment.

The spiritual rain, clearly rich in spiritual energy, fell into the pool, subtly making the spiritual energy within the pool more abundant.

Xu Chunniang secretly felt it was a pity that such good spiritual rain was being wasted.

Although the spiritual rain falling into the pool enriched the spiritual energy in the pool and the cave dwelling, this unowned spiritual energy would dissipate at a not-so-slow pace. Only a very small portion of the spiritual energy could completely remain in the pool.

Watching the spiritual rain fall into the pool, only to find that less than a tenth of the spiritual energy remained, Xu Chunniang felt heartbroken. All this spiritual energy was the result of her hard cultivation!

It would be great if she could collect all this Spiritual Rain. If she needed to water Spiritual Plants in the future, she could directly use it.

However, even if she could collect this Spiritual Rain, without a suitable container to store it, the spiritual energy within the Spiritual Rain would likely dissipate completely within a day.

Her stomach rumbled twice, pulling Xu Chunniang's thoughts back.

She shook her head and skillfully reached for the bottle containing the Grain Abstinence Pills, only to find her hand lighter. It turned out the bottle of Grain Abstinence Pills had been finished again. Subconsciously, Xu Chunniang was about to stuff the bottle back into her Storage Bag.

Suddenly, her hand froze in mid-air as if struck by a immobilization charm.

Xu Chunniang slowly turned her head, staring at the empty bottle in her hand, lost in thought.

The sect used bottles made of a certain type of natural white jade to store the Grain Abstinence Pills. These bottles could better preserve the medicinal properties of the pills and slow the loss of spiritual energy within them.

If she were to use this bottle to collect the Spiritual Rain, could it retain the spiritual energy of the Spiritual Rain?

Xu Chunniang had always been a person of action. The moment she had an idea, she began to implement it in the next second.

A single cast of the Spiritual Rain Technique yielded only thirteen drops of Spiritual Rain, which barely covered the bottom of the pill bottle.

Although the quantity of Spiritual Rain was small, the spiritual energy it contained was astonishingly abundant.

Xu Chunniang had been stuck at the first level of Qi Condensation for three months. Compared to when she first entered the first level of Qi Condensation, the spiritual energy she possessed had more than doubled.

She had used one-third of her spiritual energy to manifest the Spiritual Rain. After such intense condensation, it had only formed thirteen drops. It was easy to imagine how astonishing the spiritual energy contained within this Spiritual Rain was.

Perhaps this was no longer just "Spiritual Rain." After extreme compression, the name "Spiritual Dew" might be more fitting for this liquid.