"Mm."
The moment Lu Yang began circulating the Heaven Mending Scripture, Yun Miaoqing immediately sensed that something was wrong. An indescribable warmth spread from her dantian through her lower abdomen.
The next second, the bottleneck that had troubled her for months—the barrier between Qi Refining Third Layer and Fourth Layer, between the early and middle stages—shattered with a crack. Yun Miaoqing looked at herself in delighted surprise, then turned to her elder sister, Yun Miaozhen. Though the latter had already reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, she was, strictly speaking, still in the middle stage as well.
I'm at the same realm as Sister?
In an instant, an indescribable sense of accomplishment surged through her heart, and Yun Miaoqing could not help clutching her lower abdomen. Yun Miaozhen's expression, meanwhile, grew increasingly stiff.
It must be a Spirit Sword Embryo!
Fusing with such a sword embryo and using its sword qi as stimulation can break through bottlenecks. If I had obtained it, I should already be at the late Qi Refining stage by now!
Why wasn't it mine?
Yun Miaozhen lowered her eyelids, swiftly reining in her negative emotions and returning to her usual calm. "Enough. Since you've obtained the sword embryo, we should prepare to return."
Yun Miaoqing froze. "Sister, haven't you still not found a suitable sword embryo?"
"I've already found one."
Yun Miaozhen shook her head and said evenly, "Time waits for no one. Let's return first. This is not the sect, after all. We could be attacked by the Demon Sect."
At the mention of the Demon Sect, Yun Miaoqing's expression immediately turned tense. To an ordinary disciple like her, the name of Jiangbei's giant, the Chusheng Demon Sect, was still terrifying. Moreover, Jiangnan and Jiangbei had never been on good terms. To say they merely