Undercurrents Begin to Surge

Seeing Chen Qinglin, Fu Shenxing waved him over to sit and talk.

"I heard you went home recently. How are your parents doing?"

"Thank you for your concern, Master. They're both well."

"What do you think of your senior sister?" Fu Shenxing suddenly asked.

"Which senior sister do you mean, Master? All three are wonderful, of course!"

"I'm talking about your senior sister Ling Ling."

"She's wonderful too. What's the matter, Master?" Chen Qinglin was a bit baffled. His master had called him over first thing in the morning just to ask this?

"..." Fu Shenxing suddenly understood why Senior Brother Ling had looked at him that way before.

Look at you, Master. You didn't learn the good things, but you picked up this lack of romantic sensibility.

His head ached a little. After a pause, he spoke.

"There's something I need to tell you, but you must not tell anyone else." Fu Shenxing sat up straight, his expression serious.

"Master, please instruct me." Seeing his master's solemn demeanor, Chen Qinglin didn't dare be careless and listened quietly.

"Your senior sister has been constitutionally deficient since birth. Her parents are also elders of Qingyun Peak, but they're rarely on the peak. They're always out searching for spirit pills and miraculous medicines to strengthen the foundation and make up for her congenital deficiencies."

"In the future, if you leave the mountain gate, you must not take your senior sister with you. Although she has the cultivation of the mid Inner Qi stage, she can't bring out much of her strength. I'm more afraid that she might suddenly fall ill outside, and we wouldn't be able to save her in time."

"If you ever find any spirit pills or miraculous medicines that can make up for congenital origin, you can come back and tell me. Your senior sister Ling Ling's parents will also be grateful to you..."

After silently listening to his master's words, Chen Qinglin couldn't imagine that the sunny, cheerful, lively little senior sister had such a big problem with her body.

Recalling details he had previously overlooked—that his senior sister was even happy just going to Qingfeng City—he suddenly understood.

"What I've said, just keep it to yourself. There's no need to tell others, and don't show it in front of your senior sister."

"Disciple understands."

"Good. It's been over a month since I last saw you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask..."

"Yes, Master..."

After spending the morning with his master Fu Shenxing, Chen Qinglin couldn't figure out the meaning behind the look of disappointment his master gave him as he left, and went back to Cloud Dwelling Courtyard on his own.

Practicing martial arts is like rowing a boat upstream—if you don't advance, you retreat.

Although his talent meant his martial path showed no signs of regression, Chen Qinglin trained even harder than others every day.

He deliberately found a waterfall spot on Qingyun Peak and practiced with the Profound Heavy Sword beneath it.

This was a training ground he modeled after someone from his past life's memories.

From being washed away by the waterfall from time to time, to gradually standing steadily beneath it, to practicing martial arts on the waterfall floor as if on flat ground, Finally, he began submerging himself in the water to practice swordsmanship.

Half a month passed, and he had long grasped the meaning of Lifting the Heavy as if Light.

When he discovered that practicing swordsmanship in the water helped with the subsequent realm of Lifting the Light as if Heavy, and also benefited other sword techniques, He went directly to the lake in the Rain Curtain Secret Realm to train.

Yun Tianqing was amazed by his methods and praised his ingenious ideas.

Regarding what Fu Shenxing had said about senior sister Ling Ling, he also asked Yun Tianqing about how to solve the problem of her weak congenital constitution.

The answer he got was unexpected.

A Bone-Transforming Pill could solve it, but for someone with too weak a constitution, the medicinal properties of a Bone-Transforming Pill were too violent.

If he could find Solid Yuan Flowers, high-grade Body Protection Pills, and many other gentle spirit pills and miraculous medicines to combine, then it could be handled without worry.

Knowing this, Chen Qinglin decided to pay attention to information in this area when he was outside in the future.

Besides training, he also made time to go to Qingfeng City to see Jiang Qingyue.

With his level of swordsmanship, he could barely guide Jiang Qingyue through the doubts she encountered.

But he didn't stay in Qingfeng City long before Jiang Qingyue left to continue her next journey.

Xie Jingyun and he saw Jiang Qingyue off beyond the bounds of Qingfeng Mountain before returning to the mountain to continue their cultivation.

During this time, he gathered with the Eldest Senior Brother and the three senior sisters twice to maintain their bonds.

Little senior sister Ling Ling, however, came to him more and more frequently, running over every few days.

When she came, she would chat with him, then watch him practice swordsmanship on the side. Sometimes he couldn't just disappear, so he could only go to the small pool under the waterfall he had discovered earlier to cultivate.

After seeing Ling Ling off, Chen Qinglin returned to the small courtyard and activated the courtyard's Formation.

He closed the door and sat cross-legged inside the room.

He glanced at the panel.

Origin Returning Art (Perfection 39986/40000)

He closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and focused his spirit.

Again and again, he cycled the Origin Returning Art.

Origin Returning Art proficiency +10

Origin Returning Art proficiency +10

After just two cycles, he felt a change in the True Qi within his body.

Part of the True Qi gathered at a single point in his dantian, continuously condensing.

Drip!

A single crystalline droplet of water appeared in his dantian, and the surrounding True Qi scattered.

Sinking his mind into the void within his body, he sensed the Heart of the Rain Curtain Secret Realm, and his entire figure silently vanished from the room.

"Ready to break through to the True Essence Condensation Realm?"

Yun Tianqing's figure appeared beside him and spoke.

"Yes, Master!"

"Then follow me."

With that, he led Chen Qinglin to a secret chamber. Yun Tianqing activated a Formation, and in an instant, the room surged with dense spiritual energy, forming layers of white mist.

"Break through here," Yun Tianqing said.

"Thank you, Master."

Chen Qinglin sat cross-legged on the ground, recalling the key points Yun Tianqing had previously explained about breaking through to the True Essence Condensation Realm.

Seeing this, Yun Tianqing vanished from the spot.

Leaving Chen Qinglin alone in the secret chamber.

Before long, a tremendous pulling force emanated from Chen Qinglin's body, and the spiritual mist quickly enveloped his figure.

At the same time Chen Qinglin was breaking through to the True Essence Condensation Realm...

Outside the True Spirit World, within a world in the void of nothingness...

At the highest peak of this world, clouds black tinged with red shrouded the mountaintop.

A domineering demonic shadow flickered within the black clouds.

"Zhan Wushuang, do you think you've won?"

"As long as a species has intelligence, there is endless darkness in their hearts. Not everyone is like you."

"Even in your own heart, there is no lack of a dark side."

"Pass my decree: order those hidden in the True Spirit World to lurk in the shadows, search for those who have gained numerous fortuitous encounters and risen rapidly from now on."

"Send their information back to the Demon Realm, and amplify the darkness in these people's hearts."

"Yes, Devil Master!"

"It's not over yet. The outcome is still unknown, Zhan Wushuang..." The towering demonic shadow murmured to itself, then faded into the demonic clouds...

This was a massive world, as if it were the primordial era of the True Spirit World, with enormous figures visible everywhere.

Among the mountain ranges, cities were enclosed and raised. In the nearby forests, human corpses hung from the trees like dried jerky.

In one corner of this world, the surface appeared like a celestial paradise.

Deep underground, at an unknown depth, a pair of blood-red eyes opened, and an inexplicable sound echoed outward.

Then the blood-red eyes closed, and the depths fell back into darkness and silence.

But the creatures in the paradise above began to stir with activity.

At the same time, the Demon and Demon races lurking in the shadows of the True Spirit World initiated their different schemes...