Chapter 63

  Lin Ruolan was bored out of her mind after wandering around the secret realm for a while, so she decided to focus on cultivating diligently in order to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible.

  Due to the dense spiritual energy in the secret realm, Lin Ruolan's cultivation naturally became twice as effective; plus her somewhat abnormal physique and the Wind-Fire Twin Spirit Roots. All of these factors combined together, making it true that there is no most abnormal, only more abnormal.

  If those people in the Cultivation Realm saw this, they would definitely be shocked to death; damn it! How can someone live like this?! In just a few short days, he successfully guided the Qi into his body and smoothly entered the Qi Refining stage. Now, in just a few months' time, he has already reached the late stage of Qi Refining, and is only one step away from the Foundation Establishment stage.

  It's really true that some people can be more infuriating than others!

  Lin Ruo Lan felt that the bottleneck that had been stuck for a period of time was loosening up a bit, and her heart was slightly moved; hmm... is this going to enter the foundation building phase?

  For Lin Ruolan, "haste makes waste" doesn't exist. In this secret realm, there isn't even a ghostly shadow; what else can she do besides cultivate?

  Although Lin Ruolan thought so in her heart, she still decided to temporarily stop continuing to cultivate; first rest and eat something before saying anything.

  Lin Ruolan's current cultivation has smoothly entered the state of Dacheng from the peak of the 12th layer of Qi refining, only because she doesn't have the foundation-establishing pill in her hand; therefore, she still can't break through to the foundation-establishing period.

  To smoothly transition from the Qi Cultivation stage to the Foundation Building stage, one must take the Foundation Establishment Pill in order to succeed; because without the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, it would be impossible to successfully establish a foundation. In this way, the increasingly abundant spiritual energy within the body will have nowhere to go.

  After a person has successfully built their foundation, the spiritual energy inside their body will naturally increase at an exponential rate. Even if you try your best to compress it, squeezing all the spiritual energy into the body until not even a tiny bit more can be added; however, after building the foundation, the body will still automatically absorb spiritual energy on its own without needing to cultivate. If there is no help from the Foundation Establishment Pill, in the end, there will only be one outcome: exploding and dying.

  Lin Ruolan picked two Tianyang fruits and slightly filled her stomach. This time, Lin Ruolan had learned a lesson; she didn't rashly eat the Tianyang fruit like before, treating it as an ordinary spiritual fruit.

  With her current great perfection, Lin Ruo Lan didn't take the spiritual energy of one or two Tian Yang Fruits seriously; of course, if possible, Lin Ruo Lan naturally hoped to have other things to feast on.

  Unfortunately, Lin Ruolan had already turned the space inside this secret realm upside down, and she hadn't let go of any area where she could move around; unfortunately, apart from these four Tianyang fruit trees, there was nothing else in the entire secret realm that could fill her belly.

  When Lin Ruolan felt that her stomach was not very hungry, she began to search around the bamboo building; hoping that the old ancestors of Yunhe Mountain would leave at least a grain or two of foundation-building pills for future generations, but unfortunately, there was no sign of even a half-page of pill formula.

  At this moment, Lin Ruolan couldn't help but complain about the ancestors of Yunhe Mountain in her heart. What a unreliable guy! A dignified ancestor actually didn't even leave behind a single bottle or half a bottle of Zhudi Dan for his descendants.

  My goodness! You don't even have a foundation pill, and you didn't even leave behind a single pill formula; I'm speechless! Do you really think your descendants are gods? Without a foundation pill, how can one build their foundation? If they can't successfully build their foundation...

  As soon as I thought of getting the jade slip inheritance, the information received; can't leave this secret realm after reaching the late stage of foundation building, damn it? It's really fucking frustrating.

  Just thinking about it, Lin Ruolan had already scolded Yunhe Mountain's old ancestor to death in her heart; but there was nothing she could do about it!

  Lin Ruo Lan thought to herself, "Don't worry about it" - that's definitely a lie!

  But what can be done in a hurry? Without a foundation, everything is empty talk. Lin Ruo Lan's grievances are imaginable.

  At this moment, in the fairy world nine million nine thousand nine hundred and ninety kilometers away from Yunju Mountain, the old ancestor of Yunju Mountain has already let out several more sneezes.

  "What's going on today? Why can't I stop sneezing?" An old man with white hair and beard rubbed his nose, looking puzzled, "Could it be that I've caught a cold? But isn't it said that even immortals don't catch colds?"

  Inside the secret realm, Lin Ruolan kept muttering to herself non-stop. In fact, this time Lin Ruolan was really wronged by Yunhe Mountain's ancestors.

  When Yunhe Mountain's Old Ancestor ascended to the Immortal Realm, he indeed left behind a bottle of Foundation Establishment Pill in the secret realm. In fact, it wasn't just the Foundation Establishment Pill, but many other pills such as the Transcendence Pill, Spirit Supplementing Pill, Marrow Washing Pill, Return to Origin Pill, Severing Mortality Pill, Azure Marrow Pill, and Primordial Yang Pill, among others. The Old Ancestor of Yunhe Mountain left behind a considerable amount of these various pills, and even the pill recipes were also left in large quantities.

  It's just a pity that in the nearly thousand years since the old ancestor of Yunhe Mountain ascended to immortality, many direct descendants have entered the secret realm; but not one person has been able to catch a glimpse of the immortal aura. Even Qingwei Zi, the old Daoist master, has never entered the secret realm. The elixirs and alchemical formulas inside the secret realm were all plundered by that guy long ago.

  As for why Qingwei Zi didn't enter the secret realm but successfully entered the Qi Refining stage by absorbing energy into his body, that was due to Qingwei Zi's own destiny.

  However, the effect of cultivating outside the secret realm and inside the secret realm is self-evident; it's a completely different concept. Even Qingwei Zi, an old Daoist who had cultivated for 70 or 80 years, was still stuck at the fourth layer of Qi Refining and couldn't move forward. Apart from his spiritual roots, the main reason was that the heavenly spiritual energy outside was insufficient.

  After all, the most consumed and the most severe in cultivation is the spiritual energy between heaven and earth; without spiritual energy, even if your talent is good, your cultivation will progress slowly like a snail.

  This made Lin Ruolan want to die, this secret realm was beautiful but what's the use? She didn't have the same mindset as Little Dragon Girl, who could live alone in the Valley of No Emotions for 16 years; if she were left alone in this secret realm, even if she could live for a hundred years, she wouldn't want to; it would be better for her to just take her own life.

  However, a clever woman cannot cook without rice, and Mu Yu had no foundation to build upon, so he couldn't succeed in building one; how could they possibly leave this secret realm? For the time being, Lin Ruolan was indeed stumped.

  Alas... This was already Lin Ruolan's nth sigh, she sat listlessly by the lake; her shoes and socks were casually taken off to one side, a pair of feet constantly playing in the lake; strings of crystal clear water flowers were lifted high by her, this splashing scene added some vitality to this secret realm.

  Suddenly, a strong silver light burst out from the center of the lake, making it hard for people to open their eyes; at the same time, the entire secret realm suddenly shook violently, and an earthquake made it almost impossible for people to stand firm; if Lin Ruolan wasn't sitting by the lake, she might have fallen over by now.

  "What the...? Is it an earthquake?" Lin Ruo Lan muttered to herself after a brief moment of shock.

  But then she thought again, isn't that wrong? This is a secret realm! Can earthquakes occur in this secret realm too? How does it sound like it's not reliable at all.

  "Hmm... what's this smell? It smells so good... it's so fragrant!" Lin Ruolan sniffed hard and muttered to herself.

  The tremors within the secret realm had just subsided, and a rich fragrance wafted through the entire secret realm. The spiritual energy within the secret realm also suddenly became extremely dense, as if it was about to undergo a transformation into something tangible.

  This... Lin Ruolan was searching for the source of the fragrance with all her might, until she saw that what should have been a silver light in the center of the lake had turned into a seven-colored fluorescent light at this time. Only then did Lin Ruolan discover that the fragrance was actually emanating from the center of the lake.

  "Can't you say there's something in the middle of the lake?" Lin Ruolan's small face was almost scrunched up, muttering to herself.

  Since entering the secret realm, many of Lin Ruolan's original abilities were restricted; if this were outside the space, a simple Xuan Guang illusion technique would have revealed what was happening in the center of the lake.

  It's a pity that she can't even cast the simplest wind magic, let alone the mysterious light illusion technique.

  Lin Ruo Lan had already stood up and was a short distance away from the lake, but due to curiosity; Lin Ruo Lan walked back to the edge of the lake again, squatted down and curiously stretched her hand into the water.

  But what surprised her was that she discovered something, originally the water in this lake was clear and transparent, but the spiritual energy was extremely weak, if one didn't pay attention, they wouldn't even notice it.

  Lin Ruo Lan suddenly felt the thick spiritual energy contained in this lake water, which was simply worlds apart from before. Could it be that there were still some heavenly treasures or earthly wonders hidden within this lake? Lin Ruo Lan curiously speculated.

  Lin Ruo Lan was a man of action, and since she already had doubts; without thinking, she casually took off her outerwear and threw it to the ground, and with a "splash" sound, she jumped into the lake like a mermaid.

  At the moment when Lin Ruolan jumped into the water, she suddenly felt that the lake water contained an astonishing spiritual energy; it didn't need Lin Ruolan to mobilize her own spiritual power at all, and the astonishing spiritual energy in the lake water came rushing towards Lin Ruolan on its own.

  What the fuck! Am I seeing a ghost?!

  Lin Ruolan let out a shocked cry, trying to block the surge of spiritual energy pouring into her body; but found that no matter what she did, it was all in vain. As more and more spiritual power poured into her body, Lin Ruolan felt her meridians expanding again.

  "Will I die?"

  Even at this juncture, Lin Ruolan still had the mind to indulge in wild fancies.

  Lin Ruo Lan's body was like a balloon that had been blown up, constantly and rapidly expanding. Soon, her skin and blood vessels began to crack open; in the blink of an eye, Lin Ruo Lan had turned into a bloody person. Strands of deep red blood threads continuously spread out from the lake water, dyeing the entire surface of the lake a bloody red color. At first glance, it gave people a sense of visual shock.