Chapter Sixteen: A Year's Time

  The girl with the exquisite beauty across from him, seemingly taken aback by Jiu's sudden speech, slightly furrowed her pretty eyebrows, thought for a moment, before responding:

  "My name is Su Xingchen." The voice was soft and gentle, yet also had a hint of indifference that kept people at arm's length.

  After finishing speaking, he ignored Zhu Jiu and walked ahead with his feet raised.

  Jiu heard that this little girl was Su Xingchen, the other group's first place in the assessment who could skip ranks and take the orange soul guard. With a hint of curiosity in her heart, she quickly caught up from behind and walked alongside Su Xingchen.

  Su Xingchen neither opposed nor reacted, and the two of them silently left the mountain belly cultivation room. Zhu Jiu followed beside Su Xingchen, neither falling behind nor overtaking him.

  When they arrived at the stairs leading from the fifth floor to the sixth floor of the Cultivation Hall, Su Xingchen stopped in his tracks and asked with a tilted head:

  "How did you follow me?" The speaker's eyes blinked rapidly, with a hint of thin anger.

  Jiu Liang heard Su Xingchen's questioning and his reaction was also strange. He immediately turned around obediently and went to his own room. He had originally planned to take his leave, so when he was asked, he happened to turn back.

  Ordinary people, when questioned by a girl, generally have to pretend to be unreasonable and stubbornly argue for a while. However, when Zhu Jiu was questioned, he immediately left, which slightly exceeded Su Xingchen's expectations. The little girl also hesitated for a moment before turning around and going upstairs.

  Jiǔ jìn mén pò bù jí dài de kàn xiàng xī yáng guàn cháng zhàn lì de wèi zhì, shùn shí xīn li yī jīng, xī yáng zhàn lì de wèi zhì shén me yě méi yǒu, jìng shì kōng kōng rú yě.

  But what a coincidence that the connection between Jiǔ and Xīyáng's souls is clearly visible in the sunset there, what's going on?

  At the ninth instant, he thought of that newly tied dark shadow talisman, and after a slight attempt, the sea of consciousness talisman shook, and the eerie green bone frame slowly appeared from its original place.

  Congratulations on your ninth crazy happy thought:

  "Could it be that this Dark Shadow Talisman has the ability to make the Corpse Fairy hide its body, and this increase in combat power is not just a small matter."

  Repeated attempts revealed that it didn't work every time, and sometimes the body of the sunset would disappear while the soul fire was still flashing in its original position. Only occasionally could a complete hiding situation occur.

  Jiǔ did not give up, practicing every evening, and soon he would master it.

  In the following days, Jiu Bian became busy, striving to make every minute count, as if he had transformed into a precise machine, tirelessly absorbing all the cultivation knowledge he could get in touch with, crazily studying and closing up, taking in new knowledge before closing up again, repeating this process over and over.

  Time flies, and it's already the second year since Zhu Jiu arrived at the Cultivation Hall. After a year of recuperation, Zhu Jiu's slender body has improved significantly. The eleven-year-old boy, although still far from being an adult, with his high nose bridge and agile eyes, makes people realize that this young man is not to be underestimated at first glance.

  A year of cultivation, Zhu Jiu's recognition sea symbol remained stagnant in the Bright Realm, he didn't advance quickly, and there were two reasons for this. Firstly, Zhu Jiu had two symbols in his recognition sea, requiring far more energy to advance than others.

  What's more, Jiu knew that although he was aware of the countless Hurrying Corpse Talismans from his past life, and also knew that devouring new talisman knowledge could accelerate the evolution of the Sea of Recognition Talismans, but since he himself had the double Sea of Recognition symbols and the secret of crossing over, he didn't want to surpass others by too much, drawing too much attention.

  Because Zhu Jiu's Shihai symbol had already evolved once, his cultivation speed in the Bright Realm was not lagging behind among the more than ten people in the same group. He is currently ranked third, while the rest of the crowd has just entered the middle realm.

  Only that extremely beautiful little girl Su Xingchen, the speed of her cultivation is as demonic as her appearance, rapidly advancing all the way, breaking through twice in just one year, and now she's already a peak cultivator at the Bright Light Realm. It's said that recently her magical power accumulation speed has been incredibly fast, and soon she'll be making another breakthrough to become a Unity Realm cultivator. Even multiple transmission masters who taught Zhao Jiu and others think that this little girl is a demonic-level genius.

  Jiu shook her head, this little girl was truly enviable, everywhere she went she was different from ordinary people, she was indeed a spirit of heaven and earth, could be considered a small monster.

  Wishing to make up for it, even if it's self-deception, using the previous life's Corpse Driving Talisman to fill in the gaps of the Sea of Recognition Talisman, promoting its evolution. Now, his cultivation speed is almost comparable to that little girl's.

  There is also a boy named Zhao Xingfa, whose cultivation speed is not slow either. Last month, he just broke through the middle grade of the Bright Realm and entered the upper grade of the Bright Realm, ranking second in their group.

  Further down were Zhu Jiu and another youth, both of whom had cultivation at the middle-grade peak.

  Congratulations to Jiǔ for recently feeling the talisman absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth, which is full and overflowing, indicating that he is about to break through to the upper stage of the Bright Realm.

  Today is the day to listen to the law again at the beginning of the month. Zhu Jiu got up early, took a glance at the sunset, this guy had no chance to participate in the battle for a year, but he was nourished by his own cultivation of Fa Li, his strength was constantly increasing, and he had already reached the peak of the Corpse Gradation realm, with more than 900 years of dead force accumulated in his body. As long as there is a slight progress, the dead force in his body exceeds one thousand years, and he can evolve to the Corpse Guard realm.

  This guy must have been extremely eager for battle, it would be great if he could go back to the Netherworld again sometime.

  Jiǔ Yáo shook her head and quickly walked out of the room, leaving behind only the dark red sunset that had reached its extreme, with a hint of orange soul fire as the only dynamic object. The soul fire flashed once, and then the sunset also fell into slumber, and the room was silent and still.

  Downstairs came to the second floor of the auditorium, Zhu Jiu was still one of the earliest, sat down in his own position, took out a book of Fu Lu Shu Initial Explanation and looked at it.

  The book elaborates on the origin and evolution of the Shihai Fu Lu, which were originally a specific frequency of heaven and earth, possessing mysterious powers. When a certain frequency band in the talismans corresponds to the heavenly frequency, it can produce effects such as manipulating the primordial energy of heaven and earth or borrowing the power of heaven and earth for one's own use.

  There are two ways to let the talisman evolve. One is to slowly absorb the power of heaven and earth, where some fragments of laws contained in these powers can gradually enrich the talisman until the absorbed power is enough, and the law fragments contained within it are pieced together, the talisman will automatically advance.

  Another method is to let the talisman absorb other talismans to complete its own, these absorbed talismans are specially researched by the sect's research talisman temple and regularly provided to these primary disciples, equivalent to the ordinary cultivation process of swallowing dan medicine.

  There is another kind of devouring that is cruel and bloody, which is directly devouring the recognition sea talismans of others who are at a similar stage of cultivation as oneself.

  This is because everyone's perception and understanding of knowledge are different, so absorbing others' talismans will have a subtle complementary effect on one's own talisman. However, absorbing talismans that are too high or too low in stage compared to oneself will not be helpful at all, and may even cause one's own talisman to produce message breaks or missing dangers.

  Only then did Jiu realize how precious the knowledge of talismans he brought from his past life was. To know that the talismans of his past life were completely different from those in this world, and were a strange law that could not appear in this world.

  No wonder the recognition sea symbol had a huge promotional effect on itself. In the demon corpse realm, after letting the recognition sea symbol swallow two hurry corpse symbols, it promoted its evolution once, while swallowing the Dan medicine pattern symbols supplied by the research symbol hall for more than a year, the effect on the recognition sea symbol was not obvious.

  It seems that in the future when encountering a bottleneck in cultivation, one can try using the Hurried Corpse Talisman from past lives to fill up the Recognizing Sea Talisman and promote its advancement.

  Wishing you to be immersed in the ocean of knowledge and spiritual practice, losing track of time, when suddenly a heavenly music-like voice is heard beside you, softly asking:

  "Hey! Have you always been so diligent?"

  I hope everyone will support it, recommend and collect it, I really need it, thank you sincerely!