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The two of them still could not rest easy. They concealed themselves and watched what was happening below.

Although Li Zi was chattering away with the system, she had not neglected her cultivation.

She sat cross-legged in the courtyard of her cave abode, her palms, soles, and crown facing heaven as spiritual power circulated through her body, completing one cosmic cycle after another.

Had they not been able to hear Li Zi's thoughts, they probably would have assumed she was concentrating on cultivating.

But now, they were no longer discussing Ran Zirou. Instead, they had turned to the cultivation method.

[Host, didn't I tell you last time? Your sect's own cultivation method, the "Primordial Sage Secret Art," has a problem. Just cultivate the first four levels for now. As for the remaining two, I have a cultivation method perfection skill here. Once you've saved up enough points, you can use it.]

The eyes of the two concealed men suddenly lit up.

The system could even perfect cultivation methods?

Li Zi was delighted. [System, sweetie, you're so good to me. When the time comes, I'll secretly put the perfected cultivation method in the Scripture Library.]

The two sect masters felt deeply reassured.

She would even slip it into the Scripture Library in secret. What a wonderful girl.

The system grew so bashful that even its electronic voice became unsteady.

[Attention: Ran Zirou will arrive on the battlefield in five minutes.]

Li Zi's thoughts wandered. [I wonder whether Master has made up with the Hehuan Sect Master. The Hehuan Sect Master refused to return the cultivation method because it's flawed. Cultivating the last two levels causes qi deviation. He's actually a pretty good person; he just has a villain's face.]

The Hehuan Sect Master touched his face.

That description was far too apt.

It was this unattractive face of his that had left him with so few people close to him since childhood. Only recently had he learned that his senior brother had never disdained him back then and had even helped him a great deal. It was truly moving.

The system suddenly said, [Host, is your Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart working well for you?]

Li Zi's inner voice instantly fell silent.

[I'm already using it?]

[Yes. The Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart is a talent for cultivating mental power. I maxed out the skill for you directly, so you can split your attention between two things. See? Just now, you were cultivating and enjoying the gossip at the same time without neglecting either.]

Li Zi realized this with delight.

It really was true!

Although she had been chatting with the system, the cultivation method circulating through her body had not slowed down at all.

Now she could even spare a sliver of attention to check what was happening outside.

Ran Zirou had already reached the courtyard entrance.

She pushed the gate open without hesitation.

Seeing Li Zi meditating in the center of the courtyard, her expression darkened.

As Li Zi circulated her cultivation method, spiritual energy flowed around her like multicolored silk.

Ran Zirou could tell at a glance that this was the effect of the myriad flower divine bone.

After all, that divine bone had been part of her own body in her previous life.

How had it happened so quickly?

This was completely different from her previous life!

Li Zi possessed the divine bone, but she had been poisoned. The poison had permeated her entire body, completely suppressing the divine bone's innate gifts.

The only way to activate the divine bone was to use an exceptionally rare Marrow-Washing Pill.

And now...

When had Li Zi managed to get a Marrow-Washing Pill?

"Li Zi!"

There were only the two of them in the courtyard. Ran Zirou could no longer restrain the viciousness in her heart. Ignoring the fact that Li Zi was cultivating, she shouted to disrupt her.

She strode forward, intending to forcibly startle Li Zi out of her meditation.

But Li Zi opened her eyes first.

The multicolored spiritual energy around her scattered outward, forcing Ran Zirou back several steps.

Ran Zirou retreated a few steps and stared at her in shock, making no effort to conceal the venomous malice in her eyes.

"Your cultivation has already surpassed mine?"

[Host, your Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother are already charging over.]

Li Zi had intended to launch straight into a verbal barrage.

But upon hearing the system's words, she changed her mind.

She could not beat those two senior brothers in a fight.

At once, Li Zi tugged at her gauzy skirt and took a few tiny steps forward, her slender, frail body shrinking back slightly.

"Yes, my cultivation has improved quite a bit."

"Sister Ran, what brings you here? Weren't you taken to the Hehuan Sect by □□? What's life in the Hehuan Sect like?"

She looked like a delicate willow bending in the breeze. Her exquisite, jade-like face held a trace of grievance as she looked cautiously at Ran Zirou, as though tears might fall at any moment.

Ran Zirou's face was livid. "Your myriad flower divine bone has already manifested?"

Li Zi blinked. "Yes. How did you know, Sister?"

Ran Zirou's expression grew uglier and uglier.

Li Zi still wore that innocent, guileless look. "Sister, are you constipated? I have some Dragon Dew of the Pill Cauldron here. It can help you go."

Ran Zirou suddenly stepped forward and seized her wrist.

"Stop playing dumb! How exactly did you get that Marrow-Washing Pill? With your status, you're nothing but a disciple who's just joined the sect. How could that miser Lin Shixian possibly give it to you?"

"Did you climb into Ji Zheng's bed?"

The people in this sect were not particularly strong, and Fifth Elder Lin Shixian spent years in secluded cultivation without seeing outsiders.

In her previous life, she had spent a very long time winning all of them over.

But even after she had won them over, the best medicinal pills they produced were only fifth-grade, and their spirit medicines were all around mystic tier. They had nothing good at all.

Yet this Marrow-Washing Pill was a sixth-grade medicinal pill!

How could Li Zi have gotten her hands on it without sleeping her way into someone's favor?

At that moment, Ran Zirou truly wanted to kill Li Zi.

Ji Zheng possessed a pure yang physique, the constitution best suited to her first time!

Had Li Zi ruined it just like that?

Elsewhere.

The two sect masters glanced at the Fifth Elder, who had just arrived.

The sect master beckoned to him. "Old Fifth, your reputation as a miser has spread pretty far."

Holding Little Fox in his arms, the Fifth Elder's face darkened. "..."

He was a miser?

While Li Zi had been cultivating in seclusion, the absence of that incessant chatter in his ears had left him rather bored, so he had taken Lin Ning'er to various spirit beast forests to gather spirit medicines.