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The two still couldn't rest easy. They concealed themselves and watched what was happening below.

Although Li Zi was chattering with the system, she hadn't neglected her cultivation.

She sat cross-legged in the courtyard of her cave dwelling, her five centers turned toward Heaven. Spiritual energy circulated through her body, completing one Cosmic Cycle after another.

If they hadn't been able to hear Li Zi's thoughts, they might have believed she was cultivating with complete focus.

But now the two weren't talking about Ran Zirou. They had moved on to the problem with 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 it to the fourth level. As for the remaining two, the system has a skill that can perfect the Cultivation Method. You can use it once you've saved enough points.]

The eyes of the two concealed Sect Masters suddenly lit up.

The system could even perfect a Cultivation Method?

Li Zi was delighted. [System, you're the best. When the time comes, I'll secretly put the perfected Cultivation Method in the Scripture Library.]

The two Sect Masters were deeply gratified.

She was even going to slip it into the Scripture Library in secret. What a good girl.

The system's electronic voice grew unsteady with shyness.

[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 won't return the Cultivation Method because it's flawed—the last two levels can drive a cultivator mad. He's a pretty good person; he just has a villain's face.]

The Hehuan Sect Master touched his face.

That description was far too accurate.

His face wasn't pleasant to look at, so few people had been close to him since childhood. Only recently had he learned that his senior brother hadn't despised him back then and had even helped him a great deal. He was truly moved.

The system suddenly asked, [Host, how are you finding the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart?]

Li Zi's inner voice vanished at once.

[Have I already started using it?]

[Yes. The Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart is a talent for cultivating mental power. I maxed out the skill for you, so you can do two things at once. See? You were cultivating and enjoying the gossip just now, without either getting in the way.]

Li Zi discovered, to her delight, that it was true.

She really could!

Even while chatting with the system, the Cultivation Method within her body hadn't slowed in the slightest.

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

Ran Zirou had reached the courtyard gate.

She pushed it open and walked straight in.

When she saw Li Zi meditating in the middle of the courtyard, her face darkened.

As Li Zi circulated her Cultivation Method, spiritual energy like ribbons of multicolored silk flowed around her.

Ran Zirou could tell at a glance that this was the effect of the Myriad Flower Divine Bone.

After all, that Divine Bone had grown in her own body in her previous life.

How had it happened so quickly?

This was nothing like her previous life!

Li Zi had possessed the Divine Bone then, too, but she had been poisoned. The poison had seeped through her entire body and completely suppressed the bone's gift.

Only the exceptionally rare Marrow-Washing Pill could awaken the Divine Bone.

But now...

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

"Li Zi!"

They were the only two people in the courtyard. Ran Zirou finally stopped holding back the malice in her heart and shouted to disrupt Li Zi, caring nothing for the fact that she was cultivating.

She strode forward, intending to startle Li Zi out of her meditative state by force.

But Li Zi opened her eyes first.

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

Ran Zirou stared at her in shock. The venomous malice in her eyes was utterly undisguised.

"Your cultivation has already surpassed mine?"

[Host, your second and third senior brothers are already rushing over.]

Li Zi had been about to give her a piece of her mind.

But after hearing the system, she changed her mind.

She couldn't beat her two senior brothers.

Li Zi promptly tugged at her gauzy skirt and took a few tiny steps forward, her slender, delicate body shrinking in on itself.

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

"Sister Ran, what brings you here? Didn't your m— take you to the Hehuan Sect? What's life there like?"

She looked like a fragile willow swaying in the wind. Her jade-like face was lovely and delicate, touched with hurt as she glanced cautiously at Ran Zirou, as though tears might fall at any moment.

Ran Zirou's face turned livid. "Your Myriad Flower Divine Bone has awakened?"

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

Ran Zirou's expression grew uglier by the moment.

Still wearing that innocent expression, Li Zi asked, "Sister, are you constipated? I have some Dragon Dew of the Pill Cauldron here. It can help with that."

Ran Zirou suddenly stepped forward and seized her wrist.

"Stop playing dumb with me! How did you get a Marrow-Washing Pill? You're nothing but a disciple who only just joined the Sect. How could that miser Lin Shixian possibly give you one?"

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

The people in this Sect weren't particularly strong, and Fifth Elder Lin Shixian spent years cultivating in seclusion, never seeing outsiders.

In her previous life, it had taken her a long time to win all these people over.

Yet even after she had, the highest-grade Medicinal Pills they produced were only fifth-grade, and their Spirit Medicines were all around the Mystic Tier. They had nothing truly good.

But a Marrow-Washing Pill was a Sixth-Grade Medicinal Pill!

How else could Li Zi have gotten her hands on one, if not by climbing into someone's bed?

At that moment, Ran Zirou wanted nothing more than to kill Li Zi.

Ji Zheng had a Pure Yang Physique, the physique best suited for her first time!

And Li Zi had taken him?

Elsewhere.

The two Sect Masters glanced at Fifth Elder, who had just arrived.

One Sect Master beckoned to him. "Old Fifth, word of your stinginess has spread pretty far."

Fifth Elder, holding a little fox in his arms, wore a dark expression. "..."

He was stingy?

During Li Zi's seclusion, it had been rather dull without her constant chatter in his ears. So he had taken Lin Ninger to various Spirit Beast Forests to gather Spirit Medicines.

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