In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 50 Gu Yuexi Successfully Establishes Foundation, System Promises
"Wanwan! Wanwan is awake!"

He Wanwan sat up in bed.

Upon seeing this, He Jinzong quickly ran to his daughter's side.

"Oh! That's wonderful! My Wanwan has finally woken up." He cried tears of joy.

"boom!"

Suddenly, He Wanwan seemed to have exhausted all her strength and collapsed back onto the bed.

"Wanwan!" He Jinzong and his wife shouted anxiously, but He Wanwan remained silent.

"Your Majesty." He Jinzong, remembering that the Golden Saintess was here, knelt down with a thud and begged, "Wanwan was clearly awake just now, how could she suddenly fall into a coma again? Please save her."

"No need to rush." ​​Gu Yuexi took out two bottles of recovery pills, each containing one pill: "These are recovery pills. Give them to your daughter, and her body will recover faster."

He Wanwan had been lying in bed for a year, and her body was already stiff. The recovery pill could help her recover faster.

"Give the remaining pill to your wife. She was weakened and sickly because she was subjected to a symbiotic secret technique by a ghost. Now that the symbiotic secret technique has been broken by me, your wife's physical depletion can be restored with the Restoration Pill."

"Brother He, quickly thank the Empress! This is a divine elixir! My mother, wife, and children were able to get out of bed and walk around in less than three days after taking the elixir the Empress gave them. It seems that the essence absorbed by the rat demon has also been restored. As long as Wanwan takes this, I believe she will wake up soon." Luo Yousong said to He Jinzong with great excitement after seeing the Golden Saint Empress bestow the divine elixir.

“Really!” He Jinzong was overjoyed.

He and his wife quickly expressed their gratitude: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for bestowing the elixir. Once Wanwan is fully recovered, I will definitely bring my family to the mountain to pay homage to Your Majesty."

Mrs. He was also deeply moved.

She gave her daughter a recovery pill, and seeing her daughter's complexion gradually become rosy and radiant, she felt relieved and a smile appeared on her face.

She ate the last one.

The cool sensation went down my throat without any discomfort.

"Fire Boy and Water Boy, I am returning to the Divine Palace. You two go to Qingchan Temple to investigate. Pay special attention to the abbot. Besides the secret technique of symbiosis between ghosts and monsters, I also suspect that the abbot is related to Ming Ke's transformation into a red-clothed ghost."

She further cautioned, "Don't act rashly without ascertaining the opponent's strength."

"Yes!"

The Fire Boy and Water Boy transformed into two streaks of light and disappeared.

Gu Yuexi disappeared in a flash.

When everyone came to their senses, the Empress and the two celestial attendants had already vanished.

"The matter here is settled, and Her Majesty has already returned," Luo Yousong said.

"Master, this is Wanwan's boudoir. It's too noisy and not suitable for her to rest. Please take everyone elsewhere immediately," Madam He whispered to He Jinzong.

He Jinzong nodded and said to the maids and servants, "You may all leave."

He gestured for him to join him: "Brother Luo, let's have tea in the front hall."

Luo Yousong nodded: "Perfect timing, I'd like to talk to Brother He about the Stone King."

He Jinzong sighed with emotion: "As you said, the Golden Saintess is indeed powerful and capable of saving people from suffering. It is a blessing that the He family has accumulated over many lifetimes for her to help us."

"Needless to mention the Stone King, I'll find a way to carry the Stone King to Peach Blossom Village and cast a statue for the Goddess. That's part of my job too."

"I understand what Brother He meant by that," Luo Yousong said with a smile.

With household matters settled, He Jinzong and Luo Yousong chatted happily.

Back at the Divine Palace, Gu Yuexi sat cross-legged on the head seat, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy continuously, and her body regained its fullness of spiritual energy.

[Host, the Foundation Establishment Pill has been redeemed.]

Gu Yuexi swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill. Now was the perfect time for Foundation Establishment. As the pill entered her body, she absorbed the vast spiritual energy around her without restraint. Her originally full meridians felt as if they were about to burst. However, Gu Yuexi couldn't stop; if she did, her Foundation Establishment would be ruined. During the Qi Refining stage, spiritual energy enters the dantian in a gaseous form. When using spiritual power, this gaseous energy must first be converted into spiritual power of a certain spiritual root attribute, making spellcasting methods limited.

During the Foundation Establishment stage, the spiritual energy within the body transforms from a gaseous state to a liquid state, nourishing and expanding the meridians throughout the body to allow for the absorption of more spiritual energy in the future, and enabling multitasking when casting spells.

Only when one progresses from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment does one truly embark on the path of cultivation.

Gu Yuexi felt the impact of the spiritual energy changing from a gaseous state to a liquid state, and her meridians were constantly being impacted by the spiritual energy, expanding inch by inch.

The meridians became wider and stronger than before.

The use of spiritual energy has become more refined.

His divine sense increased exponentially, expanding from the eight villages at the foot of Qihuang Mountain to a much wider area, more than doubling in size compared to before.

The differences between the Qi Refining stage and the Foundation Establishment stage are significant.

Gu Yuexi deeply felt the gap between the two.

She locked herself in the Divine Palace for several days. The vast spiritual energy within the Divine Palace destroyed the protective barrier, and the spiritual energy dissipated from the Golden Saint Divine Palace, causing the mountain monsters to stir.

The demons flocked to Qihuang Mountain to absorb spiritual energy.

"The spiritual energy of Qihuang Mountain is even purer than that of the deep mountains."

"Recently, many ancient demons who left before the drought have come to the 365 peaks of the Golden Saint Mountain Range. They have occupied the peaks with the purest spiritual energy, leaving us with little space. Fortunately, we can mooch some off the Seven Emperors Mountain Goddess."

The little demons chattered incessantly.

On an unnamed mountain peak, several ancient demons had just finished a banquet when they were so startled by the commotion at Seven Emperors Mountain that they dropped their wine jugs.

"It's spiritual energy! Even purer than the spiritual energy found in the best part of the Golden Saint Mountain Range."

"Seven Luminaries Mountain? It's near a human village, and it was originally just an ordinary mountain. How could it have such pure and vast spiritual energy?"

"Could it be that the mountain range has changed after the drought, making Qihuang Mountain the most suitable place for cultivation?"

"Let's go take a look. If it's an unclaimed mountain, we can live there and cultivate from now on."

This time, there were not only various lesser demons under five hundred years old, but also newly revived wild beasts such as mountain tigers, silver wolves, and poisonous insects. Most surprisingly, several powerful thousand-year-old demons also appeared.

The system was secretly watching them to prevent them from disturbing the host's cultivation. Fortunately, they were all self-aware and did nothing but absorb spiritual energy.

The Monkey King took a deep breath of spiritual energy: "Such pure spiritual energy! I will find a good place here to cultivate."

Mount Qihuang showed signs of worship, with various spiritual energies circulating among them, completely enveloping the entire mountain.

Down the mountain, villagers were tending to their farm work when they saw the entire Qihuang Mountain emitting multicolored light, a bright and dazzling radiance.

The villagers immediately knelt down: "The goddess has appeared to us!"

The light from Mount Qihuang lasted for three days.

In the past three days, the plants on the Jinsheng Mountain range have grown wildly!

Three days later, at some point, Gu Yuexi successfully advanced to the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

"Zero One, I'm a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator now!" Gu Yuexi exclaimed joyfully.

[Congratulations, host, on advancing your cultivation to the early Foundation Establishment stage. Do you remember the promise the system made to you before?]

Gu Yuexi flipped through her memories: "You said that once I reached the Foundation Establishment stage, you would give me a gift that was no less valuable than the Holy Spirit Root."

She added, "You also said that once I reach the Foundation Establishment stage, I can help you restore your divine power."

Yes, now that the host has reached the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the system should fulfill its promise.

(End of this chapter)