Nan Chen's gaze settled on the words "ancient times."
Following the map, he searched the surrounding area and soon found a graveyard.
There was even a tombstone, bearing the inscription: "Tomb of Chu Yao."
Jiang Wan looked at the grave built from piled stones. The valley was quiet and secluded, a fine place for burial, but what were they supposed to do now? She had never been to the Cultivation World and had no idea whether grave robbing here worked the same way as on Blue Star!
Right, the Heaven-Overturning Seal. She took the Heaven-Overturning Seal from her Universe Ring and was about to smash it down onto someone's grave.
The system had said smashing it would work.
True Person Nanchen hurriedly stopped her when he saw what she was doing.
"You absolutely can't smash it. Let's try kowtowing first."
Jiang Wan thought about it and agreed. Smashing it right away did seem inappropriate. In novels, didn't people usually receive inheritances or something after kowtowing?
One big and one small knelt there and kowtowed, lacking only fruits, incense, and candles for a proper offering.
But there was no response. They knocked their heads three times, then stared at each other with wide eyes.
Jiang Wan: Should I just smash it after all?
First courtesy, then force. She took spiritual fruits and chicken legs from her Storage Bag. She had no incense or candles, so she casually pulled out a few blank sheets of yellow paper and burned them.
Then she turned to look at True Person Nanchen beside her.
"This should be enough, right?"
Watching her complete the entire ritual, True Person Nanchen silently took out three sticks of incense and lit them.
Jiang Wan looked at him in surprise.
"Martial Uncle Nanchen, you actually have incense and candles?"
Nan Chen gave a light cough.
"That is not important. This should be enough now."
Jiang Wan did not know either. What could a three-year-old child possibly know?
One big and one small knelt before the grave. Anyone who saw them would have praised them as filial descendants.
Yet the grave remained completely motionless, and for a moment, they wondered whether they had found the wrong place.
But the name matched. The offerings had been made, the incense lit, and the kowtows performed. There was not even the slightest reaction.
After kneeling for so long in her three-and-a-half-year-old body, Jiang Wan's knees began to ache.
She simply stood up, took out the Heaven-Overturning Seal, and hurled it at the grave mound. Her movements were swift as a divine weapon. Nan Chen was still wondering what had gone wrong when he saw a streak of golden light crash onto the tombstone with a bang.
The next instant, a dazzling pillar of light shot into the sky, and an immortal mansion appeared abruptly in midair.
The commotion was no small matter. Cultivators within several miles could likely see it.
True Person Nanchen had not expected that smashing it really was necessary. This immortal had quite the rebellious streak.
He quickly grabbed Jiang Wan by her clothes and flew upward.
Dangling from his hand, Jiang Wan casually grabbed the other party's tombstone and stuffed it into her Storage Ring.
She did not know why, but she simply felt that she needed to take it with her.
They flew to the gates of the immortal mansion. By then, cultivators who had seen the pillar of light rising into the sky were all rushing over.
True Person Nanchen brought Jiang Wan to the entrance of the cave residence and reached out, attempting to push open its doors. The opportunity was laid out before them; naturally, they had to seize the lead and enter first.
He pushed once, but the doors would not open. Then, with a bang, the doors were smashed apart.
When he turned around, he saw Jiang Wan holding the Heaven-Overturning Seal that had flown back to her. There were many imitations of this item; it could be said that no one in the entire Cultivation World had ever seen the genuine Heaven-Overturning Seal.
Nan Chen had no time to say anything. This child's hands were far too quick.
After sending a message to the sect, he grabbed Jiang Wan, held her in his arms, and rushed into the immortal mansion. With a flick of his hand, he restored the gates at the entrance and threw down two array disks.
Only after entering the great hall of the immortal mansion did he realize that its doors were so fragile. Perhaps after so much time had passed, many things had lost their spiritual power and were beginning to weather away?
The great hall of the immortal mansion was empty. On either side stood four doors, each marked according to spiritual root attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind, and lightning.
True Person Nanchen chose water and was about to bring her inside when Jiang Wan refused.
"Martial Uncle Nanchen, I want to go to the Lightning Spiritual Root one."
True Person Nanchen frowned.
"I cannot accompany you into the Lightning Spiritual Root one. You yourself—"
"I can go by myself. I have a Lightning Spiritual Root. Master said that getting struck by lightning more often will let me advance, and I still don't have a lightning-element Cultivation Method. This is the perfect chance to go in and take a look.
"Martial Uncle Nanchen, hurry and go in there. Otherwise, someone might get in soon."
Nan Chen thought that made sense, so he first brought her to the door marked with the Lightning Spiritual Root. Only after watching her enter did he turn and head toward the water door.
When Jiang Wan entered, everything was still pitch-black. Then the door behind her suddenly shut, lightning burst forth, and she became like a speck of dust floating through a world filled with thunder and lightning.
As she sensed the power of that lightning, a bolt suddenly struck her, and her hair instantly stood on end.
Every strand of her black hair shot upright. Then all the lightning converged on her. Her tiny body was like a little jar for holding lightning, swallowing every bolt into itself.
Her cultivation began at Qi Refining Third Layer, then rose to Qi Refining Fourth Layer, Qi Cultivation Level 5, Qi Cultivation Level 6, Qi Cultivation Level 7, Qi Refining Eighth Layer, Qi Cultivation Level 9, Qi Cultivation Level 10, Level 11, Level 20—bang!
Spiritual energy condensed into liquid within her dantian. She had reached Foundation Establishment.
Foundation Establishment First Layer, Second Layer, Foundation Establishment Third Layer. The thunder spiritual power liquid in her dantian was compressed again and again.
Her cultivation stopped at Foundation Establishment Third Layer. Jiang Wan opened her eyes. She was at Foundation Establishment Third Layer?
Looking inward, she found that the Lightning Spiritual Root in her dantian had grown much thicker.
Her other spiritual roots remained unchanged. Wait—using her limited cultivation knowledge, she understood something.
Her thunder spiritual power reserves had reached Foundation Establishment Third Layer, but her Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root was still at Qi Refining Third Layer?
What was going on? Only her Lightning Spiritual Root cultivation had increased, while her Five Elements Spirit Root cultivation had not?
How could they even be raised separately?
Forget it. Three spheres floated in midair. Jiang Wan, no taller than a bean sprout, could not reach them even standing on tiptoe.
She did not know how to fly on a sword, but she had the Heaven-Overturning Seal.
Holding the Heaven-Overturning Seal, she smashed it toward one of the three balls of light above. The ball of light was knocked down.
After the Heaven-Overturning Seal returned to her hand, she smashed it toward another ball of light. Oh yeah, success! She knocked down another one.
Just as she was about to smash the third one, the ball of light flew to her on its own. It was a half-circle jade pendant.
The other two were a Purple Lightning Hammer and a Purple Lightning Cone.
After putting away the three items, it felt as though she had been inside for a long time, but in truth, only a few breaths had passed.
After coming out, she found that True Person Nanchen had not emerged yet, so Jiang Wan went to the door marked with ice.
The moment she entered, she felt an intense cold. She did not have an ice spiritual root, so she simply used a Space Stone to fix the space inside in place, then fixed the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice and the ice spiritual power within it as well.
Then she collected them into her Storage Ring. She could let her mother use them as a reference later.
The Space Stone could fix the entire space in place. She repeated the process, fixing the spaces behind the other doors and taking everything within.
When she reached the wind door, she took out the Wind Settling Pearl and settled it easily. Among the three treasures was a drop of White Tiger Essence Blood.
Jiang Wan pulled out Fat Tiger. Fat Tiger stretched lazily on the ground, its entire cat body lengthening as its front and back paws stretched taut in opposite directions.
It had only just turned to look at Jiang Wan when she stuffed the drop of White Tiger Essence Blood into its mouth.
Fat Tiger licked its lips, then suddenly shot out. Its body moved faster and faster until it became an afterimage. The second sphere contained a wind spirit.
Fat Tiger swallowed the wind spirit in one bite. The third sphere held a piece of ore. Fat Tiger did not eat the stone, perhaps afraid of getting kidney stones. It swatted it down with a paw, and it landed in front of Jiang Wan.
It was wind-attribute ore, something that could be added to wind-attribute magical treasures. She immediately thought of the Wind Thunder Wings.
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