While Wen Jingshu slept comfortably, Wen Shuyi searched without pause for pills that could help nourish her younger sister's body.
Without exception, they were all pills of the fifth grade or higher.
Wen Shuyi kept careful track of the time, feeding her sleeping sister one pill after another.
By the time Wen Jingshu woke up, three months had already passed.
“There is no time like the present. Prepare to draw Qi into your body.”
Having been nourished by Wen Shuyi, her body's various functions had reached their absolute peak. Combined with the thunderstorms of the past few days and her heavenly lightning spiritual root, it was the perfect time to draw Qi into her body.
Wen Jingshu patted her cheeks to wake herself up a bit. With a soft nod of agreement, she sat cross-legged in front of Wen Shuyi.
Counting the cultivation memories of the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu and those of her younger self, this would be her third time drawing Qi into her body.
With her past experience combined with her heaven-defying talent, Wen Jingshu succeeded in drawing Qi into her body almost the exact moment she sensed the fluctuations of spiritual energy.
As Wen Jingshu successfully drew Qi into her body, the thunderstorm in the sky intensified, rumbling like a heavenly tribulation.
Wen Shuyi had just been sighing about the poor weather lately when she suddenly sensed something was off.
Oh no, it really is a tribulation!
Her younger sister had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage on her very first attempt at drawing Qi!
Though caught slightly off guard, Wen Jingshu drew upon the talisman cultivator's experience with tribulations and safely weathered the lightning strikes.
During the tribulation, Wen Jingshu felt a stir in her lightning spiritual root. Relying on Wen Shuyi's protection, she boldly drew a wisp of the tribulation lightning into her body.
In an instant, the powerful tribulation lightning crackled and ran rampant through her meridians.
Wen Jingshu hurriedly circulated the spiritual energy of her wood spiritual root, following closely behind the lightning to repair her meridians.
And so, the tribulation lightning completed one circuit, followed by the wood spiritual energy repairing it. After exactly nine full circuits, the wisp of tribulation lightning was finally completely worn down. It eventually flowed into her primary dantian and was absorbed by her lightning spiritual root.
At the same time, a heavenly phenomenon descended upon Wen Jingshu's location. A vast and misty celestial palace faintly materialized in the air.
Auspicious beasts soared and ran around the celestial palace, creating a spectacle of ten thousand beasts offering their congratulations.
Fortunately, Wen Shuyi had already set up a formation beforehand, blocking any prying eyes from the rest of the Pill Sect.
However, Wen Shuyi could not quite make sense of this phenomenon.
After all, most people's phenomena were merely flowers, plants, or auspicious beasts. When she herself had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, her phenomenon had only been the auspicious pairing of a dragon and a phoenix.
Wen Jingshu, who had just established her foundation, knew even less.
To her shame, the talisman cultivator Wen Jingshu had spent her entire cultivation journey hoarding resources, trading resources, and drawing talismans to exchange for more resources. As a result, she had only reached the Nascent Soul Stage by the age of a thousand, kicking the bucket before she could even find her own Dao.
Once the tribulation subsided, Wen Jingshu was charred black from head to toe, but her eyes shone like bright stars.
“Sister, I succeeded!”
Looking at her pitiable younger sister, Wen Shuyi reached out and smacked the back of her head.
“Using tribulation lightning to temper your body? You certainly are bold!”
It wasn't that no one had ever tried to exploit the tribulation lightning. However, tribulations were born of the heavens and carried the pressure of the Heavenly Dao. Forget about using them to cultivate—one would be lucky if the lightning entering their body didn't completely destroy their foundation.
Even if someone managed to barely absorb a wisp of tribulation lightning using external help, it was a stroke of absolute luck.
Wen Jingshu was an exception for several reasons. First, the tribulation triggered by reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage was incredibly rare and carried very little power.
Second, her wood spiritual root was a mutated wood spiritual root, which was known to possess healing and nourishing properties.
Third, she possessed a heavenly lightning spiritual root, the most premium variation of lightning spiritual roots, giving her a natural affinity with tribulation lightning.
Fourth, she had her older sister guarding her and acting as a safety net.
Only because of these four factors did Wen Jingshu dare to make the attempt.
Fortunately, she pulled it off without any real danger. Her lightning spiritual root had successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, and her wood spiritual root was now at the second layer of Qi Refining!
She would definitely do it again next time!
Wen Jingshu gave Wen Shuyi a cheeky grin and hugged her tightly, acting cute until her sister's anger finally dissipated.
In truth, Wen Shuyi wasn't genuinely angry.
Though she deeply cared for her younger sister, the path of cultivation was inherently an act of defying heaven, fraught with extreme danger. If she forbade her from doing this and that, it would only breed a sense of defeat in her sister, ultimately preventing her from ever attaining the Dao.
After exchanging a few words, Wen Jingshu sat down to examine her current condition.
Thanks to their two heaven-defying parents, their spiritual fetuses had been nourished even before they were born.
Previously, Wen Jingshu's top-grade heavenly lightning spiritual root was already considered a stellar talent. Yet, compared to the effort their parents had poured in, her talent had still fallen short of expectations.
As it turned out, Wen Jingshu's true talent lay in her hidden spiritual root.
The activation of her mutated wood spiritual root had also awakened her special constitution: the Innate Immaculate Spirit Body.
As the name implied, an immaculate body was free of dust and impurities, keeping the physical form at its absolute peak. Her meridians were pure and flawless, and the most obvious benefit was that her cultivation speed would double from now on!
Furthermore, she would not have to worry about pill toxins even if she consumed too many pills. She was also immune to poisons and miasmas; as long as she was alive and breathing, any harmful substances would be expelled from her meridians.
At the same time, the blood of an Innate Immaculate Spirit Body naturally possessed detoxifying properties.
Now, both of her spiritual roots had reached a perfect hundred percent purity. The fact that Wen Jingshu had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage the moment she drew Qi, and had even triggered a tribulation that shouldn't exist during the Foundation Establishment Stage, showed just how terrifying her talent was.
Though she was delighted, Wen Jingshu did not let it get to her head.
On the path of cultivation, while talent and spiritual bodies were important, comprehension was far more crucial.
Whether one possessed a top-grade spiritual root, a single spiritual root, or even a mixed spiritual root, once they reached the Nascent Soul Stage, progress relied almost entirely on comprehension and opportunity.
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, Soul Transformation Stage, Void Refinement Stage, Body Integration Stage, Mahayana Stage, and Tribulation Passage Stage.
The path of immortality was long; only after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage did the journey of cultivation truly begin.
To cultivate was to seek the Dao, and comprehending the Dao was the key.
Having just established her foundation, she had only barely crossed the threshold.
Seeing that her younger sister was not so overwhelmed by joy that she lost her way, Wen Shuyi felt deeply relieved.
The Intelligence Awakening Pill was not wasted.
“I wanted you to go to the Qingyun Sect before because you lacked a foundation in alchemy, and I didn't want your heavenly lightning spiritual root to go to waste. But now that your hidden spiritual root is of the wood attribute, you perfectly meet the requirements for alchemy.”
“With your talent, you must master at least one of the four arts—alchemy, talismans, smithing, or formations. A wood spiritual root is the most suitable for alchemy, so let's put the Qingyun Sect on hold for now. For the foreseeable future, I will teach you alchemy myself.”
“However, I suggest you keep your ability to perform alchemy a secret. Externally, we will still claim you only possess a ninety-five percent purity lightning spiritual root.”
Alchemists were rare, and pills were hard to come by.
Pills were divided from the first to the ninth grade, and each grade was further divided into three sub-ranks: low-tier, mid-tier, and high-tier. An alchemist's rank was determined by the highest grade of pills they could refine.
For example, Wen Shuyi was known to be able to refine eighth-grade, high-tier pills, making her an eighth-grade, high-tier alchemist.
A single cauldron of first- to third-grade pills could yield ten pills at most.
A cauldron of fourth-grade pills could yield five at most.
A cauldron of fifth-grade pills could yield three at most.
For pills of the sixth grade and above, a cauldron would only produce a single pill.
Pills of the seventh grade and above carried an extremely high failure rate, and the refining process could stretch up to half a year.
Ninth-grade pills were even more demanding; a single pill took two years to refine, and its completion would trigger a tribulation.
Furthermore, the higher the grade of the pill, the harder it was to obtain the necessary spiritual herbs.
In the later stages of cultivation, nearly ninety percent of cultivators relied entirely on pills to make breakthroughs!
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