That soft moan carried an indescribable allure as it drifted through the silent cave.
The instant it left her lips, Qiong Xiao suddenly froze, her hazy mind doused awake as if by a bucket of cold water.
What... had she just sounded like?
Boom!
A scorching rush surged from the soles of her feet to the crown of her head. Qiong Xiao's entire face, along with her snow-white neck and crystal-clear earlobes, instantly flushed red as though they might bleed.
It was over.
It was all over.
In such an ambiguous healing session, she had actually made such a shameful sound.
What would her master think of her?
Would he think she was a... frivolous, wanton woman?
Qiong Xiao was so humiliated and enraged that she wanted nothing more than to detonate her primordial spirit on the spot and bid this world farewell forever.
Just as Qiong Xiao's thoughts had become so chaotic that she was beginning to consider the possibility of destroying the universe, the broad palm pressed against her back slowly withdrew without the slightest ripple of emotion.
That gentle, vast life energy also receded like a tide.
Then Lin Feng's calm voice, as if nothing had happened at all, sounded within the cave.
"It's done."
Done?
What was done?
Qiong Xiao's mind was still lagging, and she failed to react for a moment.
Instinctively, she focused her thoughts and examined herself internally.
At that sight, Qiong Xiao was struck as if by lightning once more, standing dumbfounded on the spot.
Her Dao foundation, once covered in spiderweb-like cracks and seemingly on the verge of shattering completely at any moment, was now flawless and intact, smooth as jade without the slightest blemish.
No!
It was no longer merely restored to how it had been!
Qiong Xiao could clearly feel that her Dao foundation was now more stable and purer than before she had been injured—more stable and purer even than when she had first broken through into the Golden Immortal realm!
The patterns upon her Dao foundation, representing her comprehension of the Great Dao, had become more than ten times clearer, flowing with a flawless, harmonious Dao aura.
Deep within the core of her Dao foundation, streams of incomparably pure origin power were slowly emerging, nourishing her limbs and bones and restoring her depleted vitality at an unbelievable speed.
How... how was this possible?!
Qiong Xiao's beautiful eyes widened round, her red lips parted slightly as immense waves rose within her heart.
In the Primordial World, damage to one's Dao foundation was practically equivalent to having one's path of cultivation severed.
Even if a Saint intervened, he could at most stabilize the injury. To repair it completely, one had to find a legendary Innate Spiritual Root or pay an unimaginable price for even the slightest possibility.
But what about now?
An injury that would leave even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal helpless had been healed in this master's hands in mere moments. Not only that, but her foundation had undergone a transformation as profound as rebirth!
What kind of method was this?
What kind of mighty power was this?
This had already surpassed the limits of her understanding of the words "healing injuries"!
This was not healing at all. This was recreation! This was reversing heaven and earth and remolding one's foundation!
Qiong Xiao stiffly turned around and looked up at the man seated cross-legged upon the stone platform.
In the dim light, Lin Feng's expression remained calm and his gaze indifferent, as if he had merely done something utterly trivial.
Yet to Qiong Xiao, that calmness was more shocking than any earthshaking phenomenon.
For a moment, all of Qiong Xiao's embarrassment and wild thoughts were replaced by an even deeper reverence and gratitude.
She opened her mouth, wanting to offer her thanks, only to find her throat unbearably dry and herself unable to utter a single word.
How great a fortune was it for her to be able to follow such an existence?
It was a supreme opportunity she had obtained only by burning through the fortune of a hundred lifetimes!
Qiong Xiao took a deep breath and suppressed the surging emotions in her heart. Just as she was about to kneel again and express her gratitude in the most devout manner—
Lin Feng's indifferent gaze swept over her, as if he had seen through her thoughts.
"This is only the beginning."
Those five calm words struck Qiong Xiao's mind like divine thunder from Above the Nine Heavens.
Only... the beginning?
Qiong Xiao was completely stunned.
Restoring her severed path of cultivation and transforming her foundation—such a gift as Defying Heaven and Altering Fate was actually... only the beginning?
Then what came next?
What would happen next?
Qiong Xiao's mind had completely ceased to function.
She could only stare blankly at Lin Feng, like a believer awaiting a divine decree from a god.
Lin Feng said nothing more.
He glanced at his system panel.
[Current Points: 700.]
Repairing her Dao foundation had cost five hundred, leaving seven hundred.
Lin Feng's gaze did not waver in the slightest as his thoughts connected with the system once more.
He had never been stingy when spending on his maid.
Besides, the stronger his maid became, the greater the power he could wield.
"System, inject all remaining seven hundred points into Qiong Xiao's body and choose Increase Cultivation."
Lin Feng's command was crisp and decisive.
He did not ask whether seven hundred points would be enough, nor did he care about the system's listed price of one thousand points.
In his view, wasn't this system just like buying vegetables at a market? Couldn't he bargain?
He would do as much as his money allowed.
As his thought fell.
Hum!
A torrent of spiritual energy more than ten times vaster than the life energy from before emerged from the void without any warning. Like the Milky Way Above the Nine Heavens bursting its banks, it crashed down and poured entirely into Qiong Xiao's Purple Mansion!
"Mm!"
This sudden change made Qiong Xiao's expression change drastically.
If the energy from before had been a warm spring breeze and gentle rain, then this energy was a primordial beast capable of destroying everything!
Its purity was unlike anything she had ever seen, surpassing even the Chaos Spiritual Energy within a Saint's Dao Field by an unknown number of levels!
With such an enormous amount of energy flooding into her body, the slightest mistake would result in her body exploding and her death!
Qiong Xiao was terrified out of her wits and instinctively tried to circulate her Immortal Essence to seal her Purple Mansion.
But Lin Feng's indifferent eyes were quietly watching her.
Qiong Xiao's movements instantly froze.
She suddenly remembered that the man before her was her master.
Her master would not harm her.
The instant that thought arose, Qiong Xiao abandoned all resistance. She completely opened her mind and Purple Mansion, allowing that world-destroying torrent of energy to rage and scour through her body!
Rumble!
Qiong Xiao's Purple Mansion Immortal Platform was as insignificant as a lone boat in a raging sea before this power.
For hundreds of years, the Early Golden Immortal bottleneck had plagued her. No matter what methods she tried, she had been unable to shake it. Like an indestructible ancient divine mountain, it stood across her path of cultivation.
But now, before that incomparably tyrannical torrent of energy, this so-called "divine mountain" was as fragile as paper.
Crack!
A crisp shattering sound did not come from the outside world, but rang directly within the deepest reaches of Qiong Xiao's soul.
That bottleneck could not even hold out for the span of a breath before the violent torrent of energy blasted it into fragments, reducing it to dust!
Overwhelmingly unstoppable!
Crushing everything in its path!
She had broken through!
Just like that... she had broken through?!
Qiong Xiao's consciousness fell blank.
Yet at that moment, her aura began to soar wildly, rising level by level!
Peak Early Golden Immortal!
Mid Golden Immortal!
The ascent did not slow in the slightest, charging onward until her Mid Golden Immortal realm was completely stabilized. Only then did the torrent of energy seem to complete its mission, gradually calming and transforming into the purest Immortal Essence, settling within the sea of energy in her Purple Mansion.
The entire process had been unimaginably fast.
Qiong Xiao slowly raised her hand and stared somewhat blankly at her fair palm.
A powerful, surging Immortal Essence unlike anything she had ever known flowed quietly through her body, so powerful that it felt unfamiliar.
With only a slight sweep of her divine sense, she could perceive every movement within a thousand miles.
With every gesture, she seemed capable of stirring a resonance with the laws of heaven and earth.
Was this... the power of a Mid Golden Immortal?
What Qiong Xiao found even more inconceivable was that after such a rapid breakthrough, her foundation did not feel even the slightest bit unstable. Instead, it was more solid and secure than before!
It was as if she had been born a Mid Golden Immortal, as if she had immersed herself in this realm for endless ages!
Shock.
Confusion.
Disbelief.
All kinds of emotions intertwined, eventually turning into a vast blankness that filled Qiong Xiao's mind.
Repairing her Dao foundation.
Increasing her cultivation.
From a cripple whose path of cultivation had been severed and who stood on the verge of death, to a Mid Golden Immortal powerhouse with a stable foundation and greatly increased strength.
All these earthshaking changes had occurred in the brief span of an incense stick.
All at the whim of that man.
Qiong Xiao's beautiful eyes had completely lost focus as she stared blankly at Lin Feng, the man still seated cross-legged on the stone platform without the slightest change in expression.
At this moment, in her eyes, Lin Feng's figure had completely merged with some indescribable, unfathomable supreme Great Dao.
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