Open a Breach in the Dark Dimension!

"Goodbye. I won't see you out!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Natasha, think this over again!"

Dangling by the back of their collars from the Golden Armored Warrior's hand, the two immediately shouted anxiously.

"With such a huge opportunity right in front of you, you're not even going to fight for it? Have you forgotten what the Sect Master said?"

At that, the Golden Armored Warrior paused, and hesitation appeared on Natasha's face.

Seeing this, Mordo quickly repeated what Feng Xu had said during his lessons.

"The path of cultivation is one that defies the heavens. It is thorny all the way through. Only by fearing no hardship, facing difficulties head-on, and seizing every opportunity to grow stronger can one achieve anything."

"But you're backing down without even trying. If you're this afraid of death, then stop cultivating immortality. Go to the Scripture Pavilion and study those borrowed spells instead!"

"That's right. Why cultivate immortality if you're afraid of dying?" Kaecilius wore a contemptuous expression, looking as though he had only just seen Natasha for who she really was.

Natasha: "..."

Who the hell was afraid of dying?!

If you weren't afraid of death, go to the Dark Dimension yourselves! Why drag me into this?

Wasn't it because you thought that if something really went wrong, I would be there to get my teacher to come clean up the mess?

Though she cursed the two of them bloody in her heart, Natasha put on a pitiful, aggrieved expression.

"Senior Brothers, I'm begging you. My confinement hasn't even ended yet, and you want to drag me into trouble again."

"If Teacher finds out, I'm afraid I'll never be released from confinement for the rest of my life!"

As she spoke, she forcibly squeezed out a few tears. "I just want to get out early and see my family. What did I ever do wrong? Sob..."

Natasha's crying left the two of them at a complete loss.

After exchanging a glance, they each reluctantly took out an item.

"Natasha, let's not beat around the bush. Take these two things. Consider them our protection fee!"

"Protection fee!" The tears Natasha had squeezed out evaporated instantly.

Her eyes lit up as she reached out and took the items Mordo and Kaecilius handed over.

"A broken bone and a red plastic piece?"

Hearing Natasha's description, the two, who had just broken free from the Golden Armored Warrior, immediately darkened.

"What do you mean, broken bone and plastic? These are White Jade Bone and Blood Drop!"

"Kaecilius and I painstakingly nurtured them for three years. We were planning to use them as materials for forging our natal weapons once we reached the Qi Refining Stage!"

Once ordinary cultivators reached the Qi Refining Stage and developed spiritual sense, they could forge natal weapons suited to their cultivation methods and attributes.

Compared to ordinary weapons, natal weapons could communicate with their owners' minds and thus unleash far greater power.

They could also be stored and refined within the Dantian Qi Sea, growing stronger alongside their owners' cultivation.

Seeing that they were useful treasures, Natasha quickly tucked them into her clothes.

Although she had the Immortal Artifact Jade Pendant Feng Xu had given her and had no need to painstakingly forge her own natal weapon,

she still had family outside. Perhaps they might be able to use these someday.

As for Mordo and Kaecilius, they had only just reached the Fifth Level of Body Tempering. They would have plenty of time to gather more materials later.

With that in mind, Natasha asked them as though she had suddenly noticed a flaw. "But aren't you only at the Fifth Level of Body Tempering?"

"What's wrong with the Fifth Level of Body Tempering? Those without foresight will face immediate worries!"

"Mordo is right. We adults tend to look further ahead, so Natasha, you still have much to learn from us!"

Seeing the two show off, Natasha curled her lips and deliberately muttered loudly enough for them to hear.

"So what if you look far ahead? You still don't have an Immortal Artifact Jade Pendant like mine!"

Mordo: "..."

Kaecilius: "..."

Thinking of that jade pendant, which had withstood an explosion comparable to a nuclear bomb and only knocked its wearer unconscious, the two gritted their teeth in envy.

They really had lost.

No matter how hard they worked, the endpoint they could reach was still inferior to someone else's starting point with connections!

It was all because their teacher, Ancient One, had not worked hard enough to let them live lives with immortal artifacts!

Of course, the two only said such things in their hearts to vent their frustration.

In truth, Ancient One treated her two disciples very well.

While everyone else received one Spirit Stone a month, they could at least go to Ancient One every day and claim an extra one.

Although they were only Low-Grade Spirit Stones, inferior to the Mid-Grade Spirit Stones used to set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation,

they could still speed up cultivation a little. And after leaving Kamar-Taj, they would not have to worry about running out of spiritual energy with no way to replenish it.

"Alright, hurry up and tell me how we're going to steal energy from the Dark Dimension. I'm still waiting to reach the Qi Refining Stage so I can get out of confinement!"

Having accepted the benefits and finished roasting them, Natasha felt it was time to get down to business.

"This is simple. We just activate the dark magic recorded in the book, don't release it, and absorb the energy within the spell as hard as we can!"

Pointing at the dark magic recorded in the book, Kaecilius's pale face was flushed with excitement from the thrill.

"However, this method is limited by the energy contained within the spell itself. The absorption speed is slow, only slightly faster than the spiritual energy inside the sect."

"So Mordo and I mainly want to use the second method!"

As he spoke, Kaecilius flipped through the spellbook again, stopping only when he reached the page recording a summoning ritual.

"Dormammu's summoning ritual?!" Natasha's mouth twitched as she stared at the information in the spellbook.

"You two are really planning big. I bet even aliens outside Earth can hear every word of this!"

As she spoke, Natasha swiftly tossed the things she had just put away onto the coffee table.

"You think two trash materials are enough to trade for Teacher beating me to death? My life, Natasha's life, isn't that cheap!"

What kind of joke was this? We agreed to steal energy, and now you're telling me we're going to summon Dormammu so Teacher can beat him to death?

Before Dormammu gets beaten to death, wouldn't I, the one who set up my teacher, get beaten to death first to vent her anger?

"Don't panic. Kaecilius hasn't finished yet. It's not what you think."

Mordo hurriedly tried to smooth things over, stuffing the items back into Natasha's hands while turning to glare fiercely at Kaecilius.

You said I was being mysterious before, but aren't you doing the exact same thing?!

"Come on, we definitely wouldn't do something as stupid as summoning Dormammu."

Kaecilius shook his head, completely ignoring Mordo's murderous glare.

"We've studied this summoning ritual over and over hundreds of times these past few days. Combined with the Sect Master's improved portal spell, we can open a huge breach in the Dark Dimension that can draw in energy!"

"Cultivating near that huge breach would be almost the same as cultivating inside the Dark Dimension itself. There would be more than enough energy for us to absorb until we're full!"

"So you dragged me in because you're worried it'll be dangerous if Dormammu discovers this breach?"

Natasha finally understood why the two had been willing to pay such a high price and take out materials they had nurtured for so long.

"That's exactly it." Kaecilius and Mordo nodded together.

"Although the breach won't be very large, Dormammu could still invade through it if he discovers it."

"So, Junior Sister, we need you to use that Immortal Artifact Jade Pendant to block him for a moment, buying us time to close it."

"Block him with the jade pendant?!" Natasha finally realized this was completely different from what she had imagined. "So you weren't planning to have Teacher clean up the mess!"

After all this, these two had been after her jade pendant!

"Have the Sect Master clean up the mess?"

"Good heavens, don't say things like that! We never had such an idea!"

The two waved their hands in perfect unison, wearing expressions that said, Don't joke around.

They were not adorable, pleasing-to-the-eye disciples like Natasha. At most, she would be confined for causing trouble.

If it were them, the punishment might become heavenly lightning striking their bodies, or their souls being used as fuel for sky lanterns!