I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 299: Chapter 265: (Cultivation) One Step

Returning to Fengxian Domain, they traveled for more than ten days on the sect’s large Floating Boat before reaching the base of Qingyun Ridge.

From afar, Jiang Yuebai saw the majestic and undulating Thirty-Six Peaks of the Heavenly Interence Sect. Her heart surged with emotions, feeling like a wanderer returning home.

However, before this feeling could ferment, the Floating Boat was suddenly flipped by a sudden fluctuation descending from high above, causing everyone to fall helplessly.

All the Nascent Soul True Monarchs were taken aback and hurried to protect the disciples of the Heavenly Interence Sect.

Supreme Elder Wenn Miao sensed the commotion and appeared in mid-air in an instant. The Heaven and Earth Qiankun Mirror flew out, enveloping everyone with its light, resisting the pressure akin to a mountain crushing down.

Jiang Yuebai was cushioned by a gentle breeze, slowing her descent. She looked up and saw the sky over the Pingjiang Domain swirling with wind and thunder. A gigantic foot, covering the sky, shattered the heavens and shot up into the clouds, stomping fiercely onto the ground.

BOOM!

Heaven and earth trembled, and a violent wind slapped across faces.

That overwhelmingly powerful force instantly tore through the protective halo of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Mirror, causing Jiang Yuebai to experience severe pain in her chest and spit out blood, landing heavily on the Heavenly Interence Sect’s mountain gate plaza.

Miserable cries echoed from all directions, with flocks of birds crashing down from the sky.

Mountains crumbled and lands split, rocks continuously collapsed from Qingyun Ridge.

Jiang Yuebai saw her master and True Monarch Fuyi clutching their chests with pale faces, struggling to resist.

At this moment, thirty-six beams of light shot up from the Thirty-Six Peaks of the Heavenly Interence Sect, piercing the sky and connecting with the stars, forming the grand Heavenly Gang Array, enclosing and protecting the entire Heavenly Interence Sect. The tremors finally ceased.

Under the array’s light, Jiang Yuebai felt the pressure lift and stood up, staring fixedly in the direction of Pingjiang Domain.

The gigantic foot had vanished into a light shadow, but its terrifying presence still lingered between heaven and earth, instilling apprehension in everyone’s hearts.

She glanced at the fallen birds scattered across the plaza, all dead from ruptured bodies, a ghastly sight.

”What on earth happened?”

”What a terrifying presence.”

Everyone was filled with lingering fear, whispering among themselves. Yun Shang tightly clutched Jiang Yuebai’s arm with a worried expression.

Yuu Qiuqi stood before them, pale-faced, staring at the foot-shaped remnant in the clouds.

One by one, beams of Tunneling Light emerged from within the Heavenly Interence Sect and hovered in mid-air. Sect Master Wenn Ci approached the Supreme Elder Wenn Miao, somewhat flustered.

”What happened?”

After sensing for a moment, Wenn Miao gravely replied, ”The Lu Family of Pingjiang Domain... is gone.”

His words triggered an uproar, shocking everyone.

A once-grand Lu Family, just vanished... like that?!

Jiang Yuebai already guessed that the Fang Family Ancestor from the Upper Realm acted.

It’s possible that the Lu Family’s ancestor in the Upper Realm had already been killed, allowing the Fang Family Ancestor to act without hindrance and annihilate the Lu Family.

Just a single stomp—how terrifying is such a Great Power?

And to be so reckless, isn’t he afraid of the Heavenly Dao’s retribution? Isn’t anyone in the Upper Realm governing him?

Jiang Yuebai lowered her head and saw ants hiding in the crevices of the plaza’s blue bricks. Suddenly, she felt just like those ants; even if she became the strongest among them, she could still be effortlessly crushed by a ’human.’

Wenn Ci glanced at the slightly or severely injured people at the mountain gate and sternly instructed, ”Take them back to recover and do not venture out unnecessarily.”

The various Nascent Soul True Monarchs immediately took action, escorting their respective peak’s disciples back.

”Don’t linger; let’s go. This isn’t something you should worry about.”

Lii Jiuchuan approached Jiang Yuebai and led her back to Heavenly Cry Peak.

Throughout the journey, Jiang Yuebai felt no joy of returning to the sect, disregarded seeing how long-lost Huaxi Valley had changed, and locked herself in a secluded courtyard beneath Heavenly Cry Peak as soon as they returned.

Sitting in the Cultivation Room, Jiang Yuebai was lost in thought.

Everything she just witnessed felt like a basin of cold water poured over her, filling her with a deep chill.

Having achieved some success at the Wind and Cloud Meeting, she was very proud of herself, but it now felt like a major blow.

There’s always a heaven beyond the heavens—this is indeed a heaven beyond the heavens!

An unprecedented pressure weighed heavily on Jiang Yuebai’s shoulders, tightening her relaxed heart over the past days.

After being dazed for nearly half an hour, Jiang Yuebai snapped back to reality.

”Wandering and fear are useless. I must seize the moment to become stronger, or else if I provoke such beings in the future, my only fate will be death.”

Jiang Yuebai took out the Green Cicada Flying Coins, which consisted of a thousand copper coins in one set, with one Mother Coin and the rest being Child Coins.

Innate Spiritual Treasures possess unique abilities. By holding the Mother Coin, the Child Coins can move freely, capable of both offense and defense, with a toughness and sharpness comparable to a Spiritual Artifact.

After sacrificial refining and infusing it with her own Spiritual Energy, its power could increase several times.

Previously, she took out a copper coin and lightly scratched herself, causing immediate flesh wounds.

She couldn’t cut through the face of the Eight-Armed Vajra with the Seventh Grade High-Level Magical Artifact Evil Wind Saber, but a single Green Cicada Flying Coin sliced through it as if cutting tofu.

After sacrificial refining, she could probably kill a Golden Core just by casually tossing it, but the biggest drawback is that it’s a money-eater. It requires maintaining with a large amount of copper coins circulating in the mortal world; Incense money would be even better.

This thing is really not something she can sacrificially refine at her current cultivation level; she already finds refining the Taihe Umbrella Spiritual Artifact very arduous. If not for the Crane Spirit being weak, it would at least require Golden Core Stage cultivation to tame it.

Innate Spiritual Objects are even harder; without the strength, forcibly refining them could harm oneself. Fortunately, the Green Cicada Flying Coins have been sealed by her master. She can use the Earth Evil Fire to refine them one by one without much problem.

It’s just that the last Mother Coin might be tricky, potentially requiring her master or the Supreme Elder’s protection.

If not for the need for Core Formation, Jiang Yuebai would be very reluctant to refine these copper coins.

However, she suddenly had a thought, thinking she might preserve the Green Cicada Flying Coins’ properties, though the idea wasn’t yet fully mature. She would need to confer with the Supreme Elder and True Monarch Cang Huo, who excelled in Artifact Refining.

Currently, she needed 600,000 more skill points to reach the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment. A single Green Cicada Child Coin’s Spiritual Energy could increase her skill level by about 1,000, sufficient for her cultivation to reach the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.

”Given the chaos outside, returning to cultivation and handling social obligations is inevitable. Better to hang up a seclusion sign and focus on Cultivation! Taming the Crane Spirit and sacrificially refining the Taihe Umbrella Spiritual Artifact are close, and the second Chapter of the ’Green Lotus Melody’ is also nearly translated.”

”Researching the Spiritual Tree grafting blueprint is also crucial, as it pertains to Huaxi Valley’s expansion and profit strategies; mastering the Golden Core Formation must be prioritized... There’s too much to do.”

With determination set, Jiang Yuebai composedly informed her master of her situation, sealed the Cultivation Room, and activated the Spirit Gathering Array.

This time, she finally didn’t have to risk her life, narrowly avoiding death, to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

Sitting cross-legged on the mat, Jiang Yuebai placed a Green Cicada Child Coin in her palm, closed her eyes, and used the Earth Evil Fire to extract the Spiritual Energy bit by bit, immersing it into her body, injecting it into the Golden Dao Platform.

[You began refining and absorbing the Green Cicada Child Coin, the Innate Golden Spirit Qi entering your body caused minor damage, which was easily repaired by the Cloud Mushroom Grass Bloodline, skill level +99]

[... skill level +99]

[... skill level +99]

At that time, the disciples of the Heavenly Interence Sect, barely recovering from the shock of the Lu Family’s annihilation, were eager to visit each other, to share the tales of the Wind and Cloud Meeting’s tempestuous events.

The news of Jiang Yuebai entering seclusion for Cultivation struck them like a thunderbolt, leaving everyone astounded.

So excellent, yet still so diligent, not giving herself any leisure time at all—too ruthless!

Disciples returning from outside felt teary and wronged, each retreating to their own courtyards for closed-door Cultivation.

Even if they weren’t genuinely cultivating, they had to put on the appearance, lest others look down on them.

This diligence inspired everyone in the entire sect; new disciples, seeing so many prodigies working tirelessly, were immediately motivated.

For a while, the Cultivation Rooms in the Heavenly Interence Sect were packed, and throughout the mountain ridges and valleys, countless children practiced martial arts loudly.

The atmosphere for Cultivation was unprecedentedly intense.

Croak～

Only the Toad Venerable in the pond at Huaxi Valley’s entrance, already at the Golden Core Stage, remained undisturbed, sinking to the pond’s bottom to sleep as usual.