Early morning.
After cultivating all night, Chen Baiqing settled the Spiritual Power within her and slowly opened her eyes.
She did not follow her senior sister's example of sleeping at night. Chen Baiqing spent those sleeping hours cultivating, then read books during the day to fill in her basic knowledge.
That thick book of cultivation basics belonging to her senior sister had also been passed to her to read a few days ago.
Of the sect's current three disciples, she had the poorest aptitude, and she did feel some urgency.
Neither her talent nor her intelligence matched her senior sister's. Her senior sister could afford to sleep while cultivating.
An ordinary disciple like her, brought back entirely out of her master's kindness, naturally could not be so lazy.
If she did not work harder, how could she keep pace with everyone?
Her cultivation had now reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining. With a little more practice, she would probably be ready to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
As dawn broke, Chen Baiqing finished getting ready, picked up the thick book, and prepared to continue reading beside the pool.
Although the book was rather dull and dry, the knowledge inside was genuine.
When her master needed that knowledge, she would be able to help, too.
Chen Baiqing placed the book on the stone table, then took some cloth-wrapped candied fruit out of her robes.
She picked up a piece and put it into her mouth, savoring its sweetness as she turned her gaze to the book.
Everyone had been busy lately. Her senior sister was busy planning disciple recruitment, while her master was planning his alchemy.
They all spoke to her much less now.
Still, they occasionally had some exchanges.
For instance, when her master hit a bottleneck