My junior sister sees everyone as a heretical cultivator.

Chapter 186 Harvest (Part )

Meanwhile, in another realm, in the study of a private school.

The scholar Zhou Zi'ang slowly woke up while lying on his desk. He raised his head in a daze and felt a soreness in his neck.

He glanced at the drool stain he had left on the desk, and a strong sense of unreality washed over him.

Is it...

Was everything just a fleeting dream I had while I was tired of reading and lying here?
He chuckled self-deprecatingly. Perhaps so. After all, how could a poor, penniless scholar like himself possibly encounter such a thing as immortals?

but……

In my mind, the image of that immortal, with his flowing robes and his carefree demeanor as if he were nothing, remains so vivid.

Of course, what was even clearer than that, so clear that it made his soul tremble, was the image of that immortal using another living person as a sword, wielding it with great force, smashing the female ghost with loud "bangs"!

terrible!
He felt he would never forget that scene for the rest of his life!
He subconsciously touched his body, trying to find some evidence that it wasn't a dream.

Finally, he pulled out several talisman cards of extraordinary material from his pocket.

It was precisely those things like "a volley of arrows" and "the invasion of the southern barbarians"!
Looking at these things he had never owned before, Zhou Ziang's breath hitched, and his eyes instantly blazed with intense light.

He finally became certain... that everything he had experienced before was not a dream!
It was he, Zhou Zi'ang, who obtained the supreme immortal destiny!
"Master Lin of the Guixi Sect..."

He clutched those "talismans" tightly in his hand, his eyes filled with fervor.

He must find that place!

We must pay our respects to that immortal master again!

You must embark on your own path to immortality!
……

With a flash of light, the eerie and oppressive haunted house scene instantly vanished.

When Su Ling'er opened her eyes again, she was already back in the familiar entrance plaza of the Yinling Academy.

The surrounding area was filled with the excited chatter of players who had survived the ordeal. Many disciples were gathered in small groups, excitedly showing off their loot from the dungeon.

The bustling noise of people contrasted sharply with the deathly silence of the haunted house, giving Su Ling'er a feeling of being in another world.

She subconsciously looked around, her eyes searching anxiously through the crowd.

Soon, she spotted those familiar figures in a corner of the square.

It was those undercover junior brothers who had gotten separated in the haunted house and whom she thought were probably dead!
She even saw the junior brother Jia who had witnessed his "tragic death"!
They...are still alive!

Su Ling'er couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

That's great... Everyone's alright.

However, she soon realized something was wrong.

Although the junior disciples were alive, they were all weak and their cultivation levels were even lower than before they entered the dungeon, as if they had fallen back to the third or fourth level of Qi Refining.

How is this going?

A thought flashed through Su Ling'er's mind.

Could it be... that in this evil illusionary realm of the Guixi Sect, "death" doesn't actually mean death, but rather... a loss of cultivation?!
Just as she was alarmed, a surge of pure, malevolent spiritual energy burst forth from her dantian, instantly spreading throughout her entire body!

This is the reward after clearing the dungeon.

Her cultivation aura began to rise steadily, advancing rapidly until it finally stopped at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage, just one step away from entering the middle stage.

However, no matter how much spiritual energy was poured in afterward, that barrier remained as solid as a rock and could not be advanced any further.

As Su Ling'er felt her cultivation level stuck within her body, an extremely ominous premonition welled up in her heart.

No way?! Could it be... could it be that if I want to advance to the next minor realm, I have to be hammered like a block of iron through the "Sword Refining Technique" again?!
What kind of devilish advancement path is this?!
Despite her inner turmoil, when she recalled facing the Ju-on in the haunted house, she could only watch helplessly as everyone was devoured by the Ju-on.

When faced with the scene where he was unable to protect them, the humiliation and helplessness in his heart surged up again.

She clenched her fists.

Being weak means you can't protect anyone.

The Foundation Establishment promised by the head of Qingxu Temple was no longer a goal for him.

But revealing the truth about this demonic sect to the world and restoring order to the world was still the thought she silently kept in mind when she embarked on the path of immortality.

She once dreamed of one day being able to ride a sword like the immortals in the stories, sweeping away all the injustices of the world with a single sleeve.

However, she had never been so clearly aware as she was now that protecting and saving people could never be accomplished with just passion and knowledge.

Without absolute power, all grand ambitions are nothing but empty talk.

Perhaps... the final outcome is that it will become an ignorant and mindless immortal sword in the hands of the senior brother, one that only knows how to kill.

But that is ultimately the 'final'.

She still had time before that.

Before she was completely forged into a 'sword', she still had her own will and could use these hands to protect those she wanted to protect.

She must find a way to break this deadlock.

Aside from the Sword Refining Technique that brought her so much pain, she seemed to have no other way to grant her pseudo-spiritual root power...

There are three thousand avenues, different paths lead to the same destination.

Su Ling'er slowly loosened her fist, and the confusion in her eyes was replaced by a calm.

If she wanted to fulfill her wish to save the world with her mortal body, even if the road ahead was fraught with danger and devoured by countless demons... she accepted it today.

Wang Xiedi, who was not far away, also felt a leap in his cultivation.

The dungeon rewards propelled him to the peak of the fifth level of Qi Refining in one go, and he even faintly touched the threshold of the sixth level.

But he felt no joy, only a profound sense of powerlessness.

In the dungeon, he was tossed around like a weapon by his senior brother, completely powerless to resist.

This slight improvement in cultivation is utterly insignificant in the face of a true powerhouse.

"If I can't even compare to my senior sister, what right do I have to talk about protecting her, or being a responsible man..."

He thought to himself in a daze, and he also made a silent vow that he must become stronger, no matter what it took!

Meanwhile, Dong Changsheng, the leader who "survived" this undercover operation, was also reaping the rewards of his efforts.

With the boost from the dungeon rewards, his cultivation level broke through the bottleneck in one fell swoop and soared directly to the ninth level of Qi Refining!
Not only that, a jade slip appeared in his hand.

He probed in with his divine sense and was completely stunned.

The jade slip contained a superior cultivation technique called the "Nine Revolutions Profound Origin Technique"!

At first, he felt that this method was just and peaceful, pointing directly to the Great Dao, and he was already delighted.

But when his consciousness delved into the chapters about breaking through realms, his breath suddenly stopped!
No!

There wasn't one!

This cultivation method, from Qi Refining and Foundation Building to Golden Core and Nascent Soul, and even the legendary Deity Transformation Realm, makes absolutely no mention of "Original Dust"!

(End of this chapter)