After Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai left, life at the Coffin Home became even more monotonous. Aside from preparing three meals a day, Qiu Xia spent his time researching Taoist arts.
Uncle Jiu, on the other hand, used the power of the sun every day to polish his Yin Spirit, gradually dispersing the Yin energy to transform it into a Yang Spirit.
At this stage, spiritual energy and mana served to restore the Yin Spirit. The more spiritual energy and mana one had, the faster the recovery, and the easier the transformation into a Yang Spirit became.
For instance, after Qiu Xia broke through to the Celestial Master rank in the Naruto World and formed his Yin Spirit, it took him only three months two months in the Zombie World and one month in the Naruto World to reach the Yang Spirit realm.
Qiu Xia simply had too much mana. Moreover, the Star Manual he practiced allowed him to cultivate solar power; more precisely, his star power contained solar energy.
Thus, once his Yin Spirit was formed, it was constantly receiving refinement and recovery. Under such circumstances, three months wasn't long at all; it could even be considered quite a while.
Between the Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit realms of the Celestial Master rank, the cultivation levels cannot be compressed. Once a Sorcerer reaches perfection, they can rely on perseverance and control to break their limits.
A Taoist can also try to expand their Dantian to increase mana without necessarily opening all their meridians. A Human Master can open every meridian in the body, and an Earth Master can refine the soul over and over.
However, in the Celestial Master Yin Spirit realm, once the Yin energy of the soul is completely refined, the soul will advance to the Yang Spirit realm. There is no stopping it. Of course, it's not absolutely impossible to pause,
but polishing the final wisp of Yin energy is extremely difficult. For ordinary practitioners, the bottleneck for advancing from Yin Spirit to Yang Spirit usually lies here. But what was a bottleneck for others was not one for Qiu Xia.
While Qiu Xia and Uncle Jiu were busy competing in their cultivation, Zhegu had already switched her practice to the Fire Lotus True Scripture. After the switch, her already pure mana improved by several grades. Furthermore, she opened many meridians beyond the twelve standard ones, making her mana even more refined.
Zhegu had hesitated for a long time before attempting the Visualization Method for the Earth Master stage of the Fire Lotus True Scripture. She had practiced a different Visualization Method before, and one could usually only learn one;
otherwise, there was a risk of mental derangement. However, considering how powerful the Fire Lotus True Scripture was in other stages and its ability to help her break limits, she figured the Earth Master level had to be possible as well.
After some deep thought, she took out a pill and, under its influence, began to visualize the Fire Lotus. Originally, the image in her mind was the Star Lord of Fire, which was why her temper had been so fiery and irritable. When she began visualizing the Fire Lotus, the Star Lord of Fire in her mind started clashing with it.
To prevent the Fire Lotus from being dispersed, Zhegu had to continuously take pills to maintain it. Perhaps it was the effect of the conflict between the Fire Lotus and the Star Lord of Fire, or perhaps it was the medicine itself,
but her soul realm soared. She had already refined six of her Seven Po, and in the heat of the conflict, she quickly finished the seventh. At the same time, she began refining one of her Three Souls.
During the visualization of the Fire Lotus, the conflict between Visualization Methods was extremely painful, but it accelerated the cleansing of her soul. Under these conditions, she was willing to endure the agony.
However, the Star Lord of Fire was now like water without a source. Unlike the Fire Lotus, which had the support of both Zhegu and the pills, the deity eventually dissipated completely from her mind after helping her refine her Earth Soul, leaving only the visualized Fire Lotus behind.
With the Fire Lotus visualized, Zhegu began the next part of her training. Aside from the Visualization Method, the Earth Master level of the Fire Lotus True Scripture also included a body tempering technique called the Red Lotus Body. Some might wonder why she would bother with body tempering when she was so anxious to break through to the Celestial Master rank.
The answer was simple: this wasn't just any body tempering technique. Besides enhancing one's physique, it allowed for better cultivation and compensated for deficiencies in previous realms, increasing the chance of breaking through to the Celestial Master rank. Zhegu wasn't a fool; she wouldn't miss out on something so good.
The storage ring Qiu Xia gave her contained three types of pills: one for soul tempering, one for strengthening the body, and one specifically for scheming against Uncle Jiu. The Fire Lotus Pill used for strengthening the body was specifically meant for the Red Lotus Body.
The Fire Lotus Pill was a top-tier medicine refined by Qiu Xia using Star Fire, nearly free of impurities. When Zhegu used it while practicing the Red Lotus Body, it greatly accelerated her progress.
As she practiced the Red Lotus Body, both she and her neighbors noticed she was becoming prettier by the day. More and more people came seeking her help. To avoid distractions, she closed her dojo and began secluded cultivation, vowing not to step out unless absolutely necessary. As for when she would reopen naturally, it would be when she broke through to the Celestial Master rank.
With no one to disturb her and all her energy focused on cultivation, her speed was blinding. Relying on the Fire Lotus Pill, she took less than a month to advance her Red Lotus Body from the initial entry stage to the tenth stage of perfection.
Once her cultivation reached the tenth stage of perfection, she looked like a completely different person. Before, she could at most be described as pretty; now, she was a top-tier beauty, the kind that could topple kingdoms and ruin cities.
By the time she reached the tenth stage of the Red Lotus Body, Zhegu's soul and mana had also reached the tenth stage of the Earth Master rank. The Three Souls Heaven, Earth, and Human—had all been refined.
Logically, having reached such a level, she should have gone to Uncle Jiu immediately to ask him to protect her while she attempted to break through to the Celestial Master rank. However, she didn't. She still had many pills left and planned to use them all first.
This would ensure she had even more mana upon a successful breakthrough, and the feedback both of them would receive after she gave Uncle Jiu the third pill would be even greater.
While Zhegu was working hard to implement her plan, Uncle Jiu's eyelids began to twitch incessantly. It wasn't just one; both his left and right eyelids were jumping together, giving him a headache. What was going on? Left for wealth, right for disaster what did it mean when they both twitched at the same time?
This double eyelid twitching left Uncle Jiu restless. Yet, after performing a divination, he found nothing. This frustrated him. Logically, he was already at the Celestial Master rank, and he had a disciple who was also a Celestial Master by his side; he couldn't possibly be in danger. So why the twitching? Could it be that those two idiots, Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai, were in trouble?
At that thought, he calculated again, only to find that those two were perfectly fine. He was baffled. If it wasn't them, what was the situation? Why did his eyelids keep twitching?
They twitched for several days straight. During this time, it could be said that Uncle Jiu couldn't eat or sleep well, and even his cultivation suffered. Unable to find the cause, he could only decide to take things as they came.
One day, while he was idling in the courtyard drinking tea to pass the time, a stunning beauty in a red dress with waist-length hair walked in. Even Uncle Jiu, who had seen many beauties in his time, couldn't help but lose himself for a moment.
"This young lady, might I ask what business brings you to the Coffin Home?" Uncle Jiu said, regaining his composure after the initial daze.
"Senior Brother, we haven't seen each other for a few months. I suppose you didn't expect such a big change in me!" the beauty smiled.
"Senior Brother!?" Uncle Jiu was stunned. He immediately used his Qi-Observing Method to inspect her. Although her mana had become completely different from before, her fundamental aura remained the same. Once he saw that aura clearly, his eyes widened in disbelief.
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