I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World-Chapter 66 - 56: The Perfect Time to Return to the Sect
Rumble, rumble!
As the day draws to an end, the leaden clouds densely gather, and thunder and lightning crash amidst swirling winds.
A twelve-year-old girl, clad in black clothes and armor, closes her eyes slightly, listening intently, her long black hair flying, her sleeves billowing in the wind.
With a long knife hanging at her waist, she holds the hilt with one hand, standing quietly at the edge of the cliff.
The Silver Dragon howls as it soars, and the girl gently stirs her left hand hanging by her side, seemingly indifferent.
Golden light suddenly appears; thunder crashes as the fierce thunderbolt comes hurtling down.
The girl opens her eyes and draws her knife!
Clang!
The zigzagging sword aura cuts across the sky in an instant, cleaving the thunderbolt thrice.
The knife returns to its sheath, and the lightning falls upon her entire body.
[Your Broken Water Three Blades has advanced to Thunder-Cutting Three Blades, beyond description. Congratulations, Broken Water Three Blades has entered the Grandmaster Realm.]
[The thunder can’t faze you anymore, girl, are you addicted?]
[Your Fierce Thunder Body Refining Technique has reached the peak of the Ninth Layer, unable to advance further.]
Fine electric sparks gradually dissipate, and Jiang Yuebai collects her sharp, lethal energy, like a divine weapon sheathed, with only a hint of silver in her eyes, concealing hidden killing intent.
"Until today, there’s nothing more to learn here; how frustrating it is~~"
Jiang Yuebai raises her hand to stretch her muscles; her figure is tall and slender, with long legs and a slender waist, strong and upright.
Her slender fingers ruffle her messy hair, and the lively smile in her eyes makes her seem like a different person from the one cutting through the thunder earlier.
"Let me take a look at my achievements over these five years."
[Name] Jiang Yuebai
[Spirit Root] Five Elements Spirit Root
[Realm] Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer
[Cultivation Technique] Five Elements Returning to Truth Technique Qi Cultivation Chapter (Seventh Layer: 29995/30000) 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Fierce Thunder Body Refining Technique (Peak of Ninth Layer)
[Miscellaneous Skills]
Talisman Making (Ninth Grade: 980/1000)
Array Dao (Ninth Grade: 95/1000)
Puppet Mechanism Technique (Ninth Grade: 250/1000)
[Spell]
Sharpness Technique (Five Layers) Grass and Wood Technique (Five Layers) Cloud Rain Technique (Five Layers) Red Flame Technique (Five Layers) Earth-Shaking Technique (Five Layers)
Entangling Technique (Five Layers) Ice Arrow Technique (Five Layers)
[Secret Technique]
Chaotic Soul Technique (Perfection)
[Martial Arts]
Chasing Star Step (Great Success Peak) Wood Cutting Blade Method (Great Success Peak)
Burning Hundred Spear Technique (Grandmaster) Broken Water Three Blades (Grandmaster) Furious Wave Fast Blade Technique (Grandmaster)
Jiang Yuebai squints and smiles, "It’s really satisfying to see these without numbers!"
In the past five years, whether meditating or fighting, as long as the cultivation technique was used to mobilize the internal spiritual energy circulation, the skill level would increase.
Talisman painting, arraying, puppet making, Divine Mechanism Stone carving, exhausting spiritual energy to restore, skill levels increased faster.
The Fierce Thunder Body Refining Technique has reached the peak of the Ninth Layer; this Ninth-Grade Body Refining Cultivation Technique can only be cultivated to this extent, allowing her to withstand a strike of lightning weakened by the Great Array Barrier, and endure up to five strikes from a Ninth-Grade magical artifact and spell.
Talisman making couldn’t be improved due to the shortage of talismanic sand, arraying is inherently difficult, and the books and jade scrolls at hand are incomplete, making it challenging to improve.
Puppet crafting with spiritual bamboo had been mastered thoroughly, and the skill level won’t increase anymore.
To improve, she needed to change materials and blueprints, to take on higher challenges; the Puppet Mechanism Technique was like this, with high-level blueprints being crucial.
For spells, there was nothing to say; they had all reached five layers, with delightful transformations.
The self-created Cloud Thunder Break wasn’t recorded among them, for some unknown reason.
The spells have three tiers: low, medium, and high, beyond that are divine skills, with grades corresponding to cultivation levels.
The Spiritual Cultivator’s Technique contained Ninth-Grade Low-Level magical techniques, and Jiang Yuebai estimated that her self-created Cloud Thunder Break could reach Ninth-Grade High-Level, which was truly rare.
The Chasing Star Step and Wood Cutting Blade Method were both Low-Grade Martial Skills, with Great Success Peak being the limit, with the rest having reached the Grandmaster Realm during life-and-death battles in the past two years and unable to improve further.
Only during battle could she comprehend more momentum, just like a sword cultivator comprehending sword intent.
A sword cultivator with high perception can comprehend sword intent even in the Qi Refinement Realm, and the power of sword intent is influenced by one’s cultivation level; nevertheless, a cultivator who understands sword intent and martial momentum surely has the capital to excel among peers.
Day by day observing thunder, Burning Hundred Spear Technique comprehended Thunderbolt Charge.
Broken Water Three Blades is a special move; unleashing a blade uses up more than half of her spiritual energy stamina.
The Furious Wave Fast Blade Technique and Broken Water Three Blades both being fast blade methods, she intended to merge them to comprehend Thunder-Cutting Stance.
Apart from these, her Sea of Consciousness underwent great changes.
A palmful of spiritual soil fertile, with green wheat seedling sprouting.
The wheat leaves covered with dew, the kernel hidden with fire, the awns like needles, the five elements complete.
Snowflakes drifted, thunder and lightning crisscrossed, with ice and thunder added.
Over the years, she gradually discovered in battles that corresponding attribute divine sense could enhance the power of corresponding spells, especially when she employed single-handed seals, without the appropriate attribute divine sense guidance, success was impossible.
Green light like lightning rushed, Jiang Yuebai glanced with the corner of her eye, a slight smile on her lips.
She picked up a stone and threw it out, the green light collided with the stone, unable to slow down.
"Little Green, your speed still can’t match my thunder-struck eyes."
The green palace lantern flashed in front of her, Little Green bobbed up and down, within the lantern seven clusters of dark light were imprisoned, with two words floating on the lantern.
[Wanna eat]
Jiang Yuebai poked Little Green on the head, "Go ahead and eat, we’re leaving anyway, these beast souls are of no use, you can eat them all, no need to convert them into divine sense for me, my brain is about to explode."
[Great Beneficence]
Little Green was overjoyed, the silver flame in the wick shining brightly, voraciously enjoying the feast.
"Come, let’s pack up and go home."
Lightning flashed through the sky, as bright as snow, extinguishing in a moment, leaving the valley in darkness.
Jiang Yuebai was already accustomed to such an environment, even if Little Green wasn’t ahead lighting the way, her eyes could perceive in both darkness and brilliance.
Even with her eyes closed, relying on her ears and divine sense, exchanging a few moves in a fight was no problem.
Passing through the green bamboo grove, walking through the spiritual wheat field.
Jiang Yuebai removed the Five Elements Protection Array, putting the spider-shaped bamboo puppets working in the fields all back into her storage bag, leaving the immature spiritual grains and spirit fruits as farewell gifts for the small beasts here.
Under the eaves, picking gourds; behind the house, digging up wine jars.
These years of battles consumed much, leaving only the last four large stone jars containing the best-brewed Four Seasons Spiritual Wine.
Spring Bamboo Brew, Summer Peach Drink, Autumn Drunk, Aged Cold Clear.
Each has a unique flavor, all can quickly replenish consumed spiritual energy, perfect to take back as gifts.
Jiang Yuebai preferred the Aged Cold Clear, like drinking a cold spring in winter, cooling and refreshing, exceptionally invigorating.
She hung a gourd of Aged Cold Clear at her waist, storing the rest within the jade ring, collecting all the books and jade scrolls in the bamboo house, leaving the self-made tables and chairs worn with age.
A cold gleam flew slowly, landing on Jiang Yuebai’s bean-sized Cold Jade Pendant at her waist, blending into it.
"I thought you wouldn’t come back."
Jiang Yuebai touched the Cold Jade Pendant, inside was the Ice Armor Beetle King now elevated to Eighth Grade, primarily used to cultivate Ice Thorn for her; sometimes, when it was in the mood, it would stealthily assist her in battles.
The pendant was a trophy, a place the Ice Armor Beetle King loved to stay.
Having packed everything, Jiang Yuebai tied her hair with a wooden hairpin, hung the gourd at her waist, and held the horizontal blade, looking chic in black attire.
Looking back at various places within the valley, recalling the day she first arrived, weak and vulnerable, with nowhere to go.
Now seasoned by hardships, a veteran of countless battles, no longer the bullied orphan servant girl.
"Little Green, let’s go see the clear sky over the blue sea."
February 2, the dragon raises its head, the perfect time to return to the sect!
