"Ahh, so boring!"
Liuli wore light clothing as she lounged casually against her seat, idly flipping through the book in her hands before letting out a yawn.
Another month had passed since Liuli broke through to the Dou Sheng realm. It was as though she had returned to the carefree days before she turned fifteen; whether it was cultivation or Pill Refining, she seemed rather content to slack off.
It could not be helped. After reaching the Dou Sheng realm, under normal cultivation, even advancing a single star took years. To achieve results in a short time, one could only keep piling on resources and fortuitous opportunities for even the slightest chance.
Thus, after being left covered in soot by an explosion in her Medicine Cauldron while refining a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill, Liuli had completely embraced idleness. Every day, she either spent the entire day reading storybooks, wandered through the Jian Realm to admire the scenery, or slipped off to play cards with the elders and Sword Saints. Her life could not have been more carefree.
Whenever Gongsun Sanbu saw this, his heart ached with frustration. He wished he could grab the Young Girl by the ears and drag her back before the Medicine Cauldron to make her refine pills. But when he thought of how she had crossed from Nine-star Dou Zun, through the Half-Saint realm, and broken into the Dou Sheng realm in just two years, his complicated feelings of gratification, envy, and awe made him give up.
Forget it. Let the girl relax for a while!
Of course, Liuli had not made no progress at all. After advancing to Dou Sheng, she spent half a month completely unsealing the final seal on her foundational cultivation technique, the "Thirteen Swords Canon of the Two Principles." The technique's