The two didn’t have to wait long before the steward arrived.
The steward arranged for Shao Yumiao to stay in her original small courtyard.
After they got their accommodation sorted out, Song Cha accompanied Shao Yumiao to check out the courtyard. They chatted for a while before Song Cha left.
Returning to her cave dwelling, Song Cha entered her personal space.
The spiritual spring in that space was still rich with spiritual energy.
Song Cha took out a bath barrel and used her spiritual energy to direct the spring water into it.
Soon, the barrel was half full.
Song Cha entered the barrel and began her cultivation.
Cultivating in the rich, spiritual spring water was far better than using spirit stones alone.
In this state, Song Cha felt her absorption rate of spiritual energy increase a hundredfold.
In just a short while, Song Cha felt her body was brimming with spiritual energy to the point of overflow.
But this was exactly what Song Cha wanted.
She didn’t know how others understood cultivation, but as a transmigrator, Song Cha saw it as a process of compression.
In the Qi Refining stage, the spiritual energy in the dantian is gaseous. In the Foundation Building stage, it compresses into droplets. By the time one reaches the Golden Core stage, the spiritual energy is compressed into a solid Golden Core.
In this context, as long as one’s state of mind and foundation are solid, compressing the spiritual energy into a more stable form allows for a breakthrough.
Song Cha continued to absorb the spiritual energy from the spring. Whenever she felt her body was full, she would start compressing it further.
Step by step, she absorbed the spiritual energy and compressed it into a more stable state.
Finally, when Song Cha had absorbed all the spiritual energy from the spring, she had broken through to the early stage of the Golden Core.
To Song Cha’s surprise, perhaps due to breaking through with the spiritual spring, her skin was covered with a layer of dust.
Clearly, these were impurities from her body.
Was it that cultivating with the spiritual spring water could expel impurities, or could the spiritual spring water alone expel impurities?
Song Cha didn’t know the answer.
But she didn’t mind trying it out in the future.
After cleaning her body, Song Cha returned to the spiritual spring.
Despite having taken a whole bathtub of water, the spiritual spring remained unchanged, neither the water level nor the spiritual energy showed any signs of reduction.
However, looking at the spiritual spring, a new idea popped into Song Cha’s mind.
Song Cha didn’t know who had crafted this portable space.
But it was clear that the spiritual spring contained spiritual energy, and if she kept taking water from it, the spiritual energy in the spring would surely decrease bit by bit.
But… what if she had a way to replenish the spiritual energy?
Wouldn’t that make a difference?
Without hesitation, Song Cha took out a bag of spirit stones from her storage ring.
She first placed a low-grade spirit stone into the spiritual spring.
The spirit stone quickly sank to the bottom of the spring, and the spiritual energy remained unchanged.
After checking that the spiritual spring water had no adverse changes, Song Cha relaxed and began pouring spirit stones into the spring.
From the storage bag, spirit stones continuously flowed into the spiritual spring.
Only after emptying an entire storage bag did Song Cha stop.
After finishing with the spirit stones, Song Cha took out some more spiritual spring water.
She wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the spiritual energy in the spring water was denser than before.
Song Cha’s eyes curved into a smile, her mood lifted.
It probably wasn’t her imagination just now; the spiritual energy in the spring water had indeed become denser.
The spiritual energy in this spring water, which was like a golden finger, could actually become denser.
And just now, after pouring in the spirit stones, it quickly became denser. Does that mean that once the spring water is fully nourished by the spirit stones, the spiritual energy will become even denser?
And if she continues to pour in more spirit stones in the future, will it have a positive effect on the spring?
Thinking about the benefits of the spring water, Song Cha became even happier.
It seemed she had obtained a spring that could grow.
When Song Cha came out of her personal space, she had already reached the Golden Core stage.
However, because it was just a minor breakthrough, Song Cha hadn’t spent much time cultivating and didn’t need to see Chu Man again.
After leaving the cave, Song Cha decided to visit Shao Yumiao first.
Shao Yumiao had just arrived at Qingfeng Sect, and if she didn’t go to see her right away… it would seem too indifferent.
With this mindset, Song Cha quickly arrived at Shao Yumiao’s door.
In the past, whenever Song Cha knocked on Shao Yumiao’s door, it would open quickly after just one knock.
But for some reason, this time, even after knocking for a long time, the door didn’t open.
Having just broken through to the mid-Golden Core stage and with nothing else to do, Song Cha decided to wait at Shao Yumiao’s door.
Shao Yumiao had just joined Qingfeng Sect, so she should be back soon.
After waiting for a while, Song Cha finally saw Shao Yumiao returning with a food box from Juxian Pavilion.
“Yumiao Sister,” Song Cha called out as she looked at Shao Yumiao.
Seeing Song Cha waiting at the door, Shao Yumiao’s entire demeanor softened. “Cha Cha, I bought your favorite meat dishes.”
Song Cha’s eyes lit up slightly: “Thank you, Sister Yumiao.”
Shao Yumiao opened the small courtyard door, and the two walked in. They set the food and were about to eat.
But just as they set the food and hadn’t picked up their chopsticks, the courtyard door was knocked on again.
Shao Yumiao opened the door and saw the steward standing outside.
The steward saw Shao Yumiao opening the door and had an awkward smile on his face: “Fairy Shao Yumiao…” He seemed to want to say something but couldn’t get the words out.
Seeing the steward like this, Shao Yumiao frowned: “What’s the matter?”
“Well…” The steward stammered, “I came to ask you to move out.”
“Move out?” Shao Yumiao was slightly stunned.
“Yes, move out.” The steward gathered his emotions and finally managed to say it all at once, “Fairy, you are from the Sword Sect, and it’s against the rules to live in Qingfeng Sect.”
Shao Yumiao: “…”
Song Cha: “…”
Hearing the steward’s words, Shao Yumiao’s thoughts were unknown to Song Cha, but Song Cha was truly at a loss for words.
The Sword Sect and Qingfeng Sect are friendly sects, and the Sword Sect is the number one sect in the cultivation world. When the young master of such a sect visits another sect, they are always welcomed with great respect.
But now… this steward was saying that it was against the rules for the young master of the Sword Sect to live in Qingfeng Sect.
It was obvious that someone was causing trouble.
