Late that night.
Lin Heng, who was half asleep, suddenly sensed that something was amiss.
Streams of Qi were constantly flowing around him!
They enveloped his body and slowly seeped into it, making him feel wonderfully comfortable, as though he were being nourished.
Lin Heng knew that these streams were Spiritual Qi!
His mother was cultivating!
When Liu Ling'er had been granted the title of secondary consort, she had also received a cultivation technique from the Chishui Royal Clan.
It was not the Chishui Royal Clan's best cultivation technique, but it was not too bad either.
Liu Ling'er's cultivation talent was considerable, but she had started cultivating too late and had a shallow foundation. Nor had the Chishui Royal Clan favored her with resources, so she cultivated relatively slowly.
Even now, she was only at the second grade of the Spirit Guiding Realm, barely past the threshold.
There were nine cultivation realms on the Divine Firmament Continent. From lowest to highest, they were the Spirit Guiding Realm, Body Tempering Realm, Purple Mansion Realm, Martial Ancestor Realm, Martial King Realm, Martial Emperor Realm, Martial Emperor Realm, Quasi-God Realm, and True God Realm!
Each realm was divided into nine grades!
At the second grade of the Spirit Guiding Realm, a cultivator could only absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into their body. They were unquestionably at the very bottom among martial cultivators!
This mother of mine is wonderful. Every time she cultivates, she shares some of the Spiritual Qi she absorbs with her unborn child. A mother's love is truly great!
Lin Heng had been an orphan in his previous life and had never experienced a father's or mother's love. In this life, he had begun to feel a mother's love before he was even born.
It had been several days since his soul had transmigrated here.
He had felt the nourishment of Spiritual Qi almost every day, and his body had always been in good condition.
Thus, he could recognize Spiritual Qi, and he could tell that the Spiritual Qi seeping into his body this time was different from usual.
Mixed into it were faint traces of a special energy.
Lin Heng found this special energy just a tiny bit familiar.
Th-this couldn't be the energy that formed the Supreme Divine Physique, could it?
Lin Heng was overjoyed. It felt as though he had lost a precious possession and found it again.
Hmm!
That's right!
With these wisps of energy, Lin Heng felt that he might be able to possess a Supreme Divine Physique as well!
A night passed.
The next day, Lin Heng signed in at the Palace of Reflection again.
This time, his reward was a cultivation technique called the Heavenly Heart Profound Maiden Scripture.
As its name suggested, it was a cultivation technique suited only to women.
And that was indeed the case!
Lin Heng was deeply depressed.
He was a boy, plain and simple!
System, what are you giving me a cultivation technique only women can cultivate for?
"The rewards the system grants are directly related to where the host signs in. The rewards may not necessarily be suitable for the host to use."
Related to where I sign in? Can you explain in detail?
Lin Heng humbly sought guidance, not daring to complain about or question the system again.
"For example, the host received the Supreme Divine Physique as a reward for signing in for the first time at the Ancestral God Temple in the Chishui Royal Palace because, among the deceased powerhouses worshipped in that temple, there was someone who had once possessed a Supreme Divine Physique!"
The system cleared up Lin Heng's confusion. "For another example, Mu Wanqing, the person in the portrait on the wall of the room where the host currently resides, once consumed a divine-grade lotus seed from the Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus, and the Heavenly Heart Profound Maiden Scripture is a divine-level technique she created herself!"
So that's how it is!
Lin Heng understood.
The Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus's seeds and the Heavenly Heart Profound Maiden Scripture were bound to be a perfect match!
If his mother never left the Palace of Reflection, the two of them would surely be able to fleece Mu Wanqing for all she was worth!
After a brief moment of thought, Lin Heng continued communicating with the system.
This sort of communication was convenient: he only had to use his consciousness.
System, pass this technique on to my mother!
"Based on the previous two experiences, the host only needs to activate the technique, and the host's mother should learn its contents!"
Should?
Lin Heng was displeased.
This system seemed just a little unreliable!
"Would the host like to activate the inheritance of the Heavenly Heart Profound Maiden Scripture?"
Activate it!
Thus, Liu Ling'er, who was making offerings before Mu Wanqing's portrait, once again felt an unknown energy enter her head.
She immediately felt dizzy and lightheaded.
Like the Milky Way hanging upside down, that unknown energy poured information into the depths of her soul.
The information included words, sounds, pictures, and moving images.
After about another twenty breaths, the experience came to an end.
Liu Ling'er was dumbfounded.
Once she recovered, she quickly read through the information that had been deeply implanted in her soul. Soon, her face showed both wild joy and disbelief.
"Thank you, Ancestor, for passing down this divine technique!"
Liu Ling'er prostrated herself before the portrait and kowtowed in gratitude with utmost reverence.
Lin Heng was speechless.
His mother had misunderstood, yet her misunderstanding seemed perfectly reasonable.
Lin Heng was happy too. His mother was hardly an outsider.
On his third sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the divine artifact Heavenly Heart Zither.
On his fourth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the divine-level martial technique Eight Sounds of the Profound Zither.
On his fifth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the divine artifact Iridescent Battle Robe.
On his sixth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the divine pill Nirvana Pill.
On his seventh sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the divine pill Bodhi Pill.
On his eighth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the quasi-divine artifact Moon Rainbow Sword.
On his ninth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the Quasi-God Pill, the Mystic Comprehension Pill.
On his tenth sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the supreme-grade profound artifact Phoenix Rosy Cloud Crown.
On his eleventh sign-in at the Palace of Reflection, he obtained the supreme-grade profound pill Soul Cleansing Pill.
The rewards he received for signing in did indeed grow worse each time.
However, because the Palace of Reflection was connected to a great sage and mighty figure like Mu Wanqing, there were still plenty of great benefits to be had!
The treasures Mu Wanqing had used, the pills she had taken, the techniques she had cultivated... all landed in Lin Heng's system inventory.
These things were too advanced for Lin Heng, and the same was true for Liu Ling'er.
There were many things she could not use for the time being.
Take the Heavenly Heart Zither, for example. At Liu Ling'er's current realm, she could not activate it at all!
Then there was the Nirvana Pill. Quasi-God Realm powerhouses generally used it to transform and advance their bodies into Divine Bodies, but Liu Ling'er already had a Divine Body—a Supreme Divine Physique, no less. The Nirvana Pill was of no use to her.
Apart from Mu Wanqing, the people who had once lived in the Palace of Reflection could also be "fleeced" by Lin Heng.
The days passed one by one.
Lin Heng accumulated more and more sign-in rewards.
By the time he was roughly seventy or eighty days away from being born, his sign-in rewards had become very ordinary things.
But these relatively ordinary things were precisely the cultivation resources Liu Ling'er needed now and Lin Heng would need after his birth!
With a Supreme Divine Physique and a Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus seed in her stomach, Liu Ling'er displayed astonishing cultivation talent. After more than a hundred days, she had already cultivated to the ninth grade of the Body Tempering Realm!
She was only half a step away from advancing to the Purple Mansion Realm!
At this point, Lin Heng had the system give him an Essence Condensation Pill.
An Essence Condensation Pill could help a martial artist refine the True Qi in their body into True Essence.
When True Qi transformed into True Essence, and that True Essence did not dissipate, but instead filled and expanded the inner world of the dantian in great quantities, the cultivator had reached the Purple Mansion Realm!
If one Essence Condensation Pill wasn't enough, he would just take another. He had plenty, anyway!
This advancement in cultivation went very smoothly.
Liu Ling'er could not understand why, since she had never taken an Essence Condensation Pill.
In any case, advancing smoothly was a good thing, so she did not give it much thought.
On the night of the third day after Liu Ling'er advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm, an uninvited guest silently slipped into the Palace of Reflection!