Back on Earth, I am the only cultivator.

"Brother, my sister-in-law and I are leaving now!"

"You're home alone, so you're not allowed to do anything naughty!"

As Wu Xi changed her shoes, she turned around and winked playfully at Wu Fan.

"You silly girl, you're talking nonsense."

Wu Fan glared at her and deliberately spoke fiercely.

Jiang Chuxue stood to the side and whispered her instructions:

"Wu Fan, you stay home and do your research."

"If you get hungry, there's some millet porridge I've kept warm in the kitchen. Remember to heat it up before you eat."

"Go ahead and have fun. Xiaoxi will be with you. Have a good time shopping."

Wu Fan smiled and saw them out.

Standing in the living room, he touched his chin, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up slightly.

Last night's dual cultivation was truly wonderful. It not only helped Jiang Chuxue stabilize her Qi Refining Level 2, but he even felt that he only needed to cultivate for a little while to break through to the Golden Core Level 4.

"We should study those two ancient artifacts now."

Wu Fan muttered something to himself, then his smile faded, and he turned and walked towards the bedroom.

"Smack."

The bedroom door was closed.

Wu Fan flicked his finger, and a spiritual energy barrier enveloped the entire bedroom.

With this barrier, even if the sky were to collapse and the earth to split open outside, not a single sound could be heard inside, and no one could possibly detect what was happening inside.

Wu Fan walked to the desk and opened the two wooden boxes that were placed on it.

Inside the box was a mottled and damaged black jade pendant and a dusty, somewhat rough stone ring.

"Let's see what's special about this ring first?"

He closed his eyes slightly, and a wisp of divine sense surged out, directly probing into the interior of the stone ring.

As soon as Wu Fan touched the surface of the stone ring, he felt a slight resistance.

It was an ancient seal, with faint fluctuations of array energy flowing across it.

If it were an ordinary grandmaster martial artist, they would probably not be able to shake it even slightly, even if they spent their entire lives trying.

But Wu Fan broke the seal with ease.

"break."

Wu Fan snorted coldly in his heart, and the Golden Core cultivator's vast spiritual power directly impacted the seal.

A crisp cracking sound rang in his mind, and the barrier that was blocking his divine sense shattered instantly.

Wu Fan's divine sense successfully penetrated into it, and after seeing the scene inside, even with his composure, a look of joy couldn't help but appear on his face!

"It really is a storage ring! And the quality isn't bad either!"

Inside the ring was a storage space, several meters long, wide, and high, with a volume of about a hundred cubic meters.

To his even greater surprise, a small pile of crystals emitting a soft white light was quietly stacked inside this empty space.

"Over a hundred low-grade spirit stones!"

It should be noted that on this Earth where spiritual energy is depleted, spirit stones are almost extinct.

These hundred or so low-grade spirit stones, though nothing more than trash in the cultivation world, are priceless treasures on Earth today!

Besides the spirit stones, there was also a porcelain bottle next to it, containing several round pills that emitted a faint medicinal fragrance. These were Qi Gathering Pills commonly used in the Qi Refining stage.

In another corner of the space, there was a small bronze cauldron, about the size of a palm.

"A Qi Gathering Pill, and an ancient alchemy cauldron."

Wu Fan's lips curled up slightly.

"This trip was quite fruitful."

Without the slightest hesitation, he moved his divine sense and directly took out twenty spirit stones from his storage ring, spreading them evenly around his body.

Taking a deep breath, Wu Fan slowly closed his eyes, and the "Heavenly Evolution Chaos Technique" within his body began to circulate!

In an instant, the pure spiritual energy contained within the twenty spirit stones surged out, transforming into visible white energy dragons that frantically burrowed into Wu Fan's body through his pores.

After circulating spiritual energy through his meridians for one cycle, it was then frantically injected into the nine-colored golden elixir in his dantian.

After being nourished by this immense power, the golden core immediately began to spin rapidly.

The aura within Wu Fan's body began to rise steadily.

He was already on the verge of breaking through, and now, under the powerful impact of this pure spiritual energy, he undoubtedly advanced to the fourth level of the Golden Core stage.

In an instant, a terrifying pressure, even stronger than before, swept out from his body. If it weren't for the barrier of spiritual energy, the entire neighborhood would have been crushed by this pressure at this moment!

Wu Fan focused his mind and breath, continuously channeling the remaining spiritual energy from the spirit stone into his meridians, refining and absorbing it all.

As the last wisp of spiritual energy returned to his dantian, the aura within his body finally settled down, firmly rooted at the fourth level of the Golden Core realm.

Wu Fan looked down at his surroundings.

The twenty low-grade spirit stones that were originally beside him had completely lost their luster. Their surfaces were covered with dense cracks, and they turned into ashes at the slightest touch.

"Even with twenty low-grade spirit stones, I was only able to barely stabilize my Golden Core fourth level after breaking through to the critical point."

Fan shook his head somewhat helplessly.

"After the Golden Core stage, each advancement requires a massive amount of spiritual energy."

"However, being able to reach the fourth level of the Golden Core stage brings me one step closer to my goal."

He pulled himself together and turned his gaze to another item on the table, the broken black jade pendant.

The surface of the jade pendant was covered with cracks, and a faint spiritual fluctuation radiated outwards.

"No wonder Li Jing said that prolonged contact with this stuff can affect a person's mental state."

Wu Fan gently stroked the jade pendant with his finger.

"The mental strength of mortals is so fragile. If they are exposed to the influence of such divine thoughts for a long time, it is inevitable that they will become mentally disturbed."

The next moment, Wu Fan's divine sense transformed into a thread and carefully probed into the inside of the jade pendant.

As Wu Fan deepened his divine sense, he discovered that the jade pendant was only damaged on the outside, and the internal spatial array was not greatly damaged.

Passing through layers of broken restrictions, at the very core of the jade pendant, he saw a circular yin-yang fish plate.

This fish plate, only about half the size of a fingernail, emitted a faint glow, and the ever-flowing spiritual power emanated from this yin-yang fish plate.

"Does it contain a psychological imprint?"

Wu Fan raised an eyebrow slightly.

Without any hesitation, he directly connected his divine sense with the yin-yang fish plate.

The moment I made contact, an ancient, melancholic sigh echoed in my mind.

The sound was intermittent:

"Star...withered"

"Ten thousand... sea of ​​stars"

"Preserve this tradition"

"Waiting for..."

The sound stopped abruptly there.

What?!

Wu Fan was greatly shocked and suddenly opened his eyes.

"The first two sentences are missing information, but the last two sentences confirm that there is a lineage of Daoist practices left behind by ancient cultivators on Earth."

"If we find it, the resources inside will definitely be able to quickly improve our cultivation level."

"And the yin-yang fish plate at the core of this jade pendant contains some kind of guiding array."

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the key to finding the 'location of the Daoist lineage'!"

Wu Fan murmured to himself.

Then, with a thought, a wisp of spiritual fire rose from his fingertip and landed directly on the broken black jade pendant.

Chi Chi.

Under the scorching heat of the spiritual fire, the outer shell of the jade pendant began to melt rapidly, turning into wisps of blue smoke.

In the end, the jade pendant completely disappeared, leaving only a small, round yin-yang fish disc about the size of half a fingernail at its core, which floated quietly in mid-air.

Wu Fan reached out and grasped the fish plate in his palm. After confirming that it was no longer radiating excess spiritual energy, he put it away together with his storage ring.

After dispelling the barrier, Wu Fan was about to go downstairs to buy a bottle of cola when a soft knock came at the door.