Hearing what the woman said, the old man slightly changed his expression, saying nervously, “Triple Star-stacked Defensive Matrix of Huajian Sect is created, after all, by the one. If it is really controlled by a matrix master… it’s too dangerous for you to be here, so, you’d better go back…”
“Elder Wang, hold on.”
The woman in imperial costume cleaned the powder in her hands, and smiled lovely, “Let’s put it aside first. Even if Hua Yan really invited a matrix master, she had no courage to open the third stack of the matrix, for the price… is too heavy for her to bear!”
Although the old man who was called Elder Wang felt it was inappropriate, he could only nod.
The woman in imperial costume held the rune left in her hand and was silent for a moment. She then suddenly sneered, “I’m determined to obtain Triple Star-stacked Defensive Matrix. If Hua Yan is sensible enough, I don’t mind using the other matrix to exchange it, but if she doesn’t… I, Su Zini, have various means!”
Elder Wang looked slightly serious and whispered, “Miss, our time is running out. If Zhenlou Group realizes something, we…”
“I know.”
Su Zini’s eyes gleamed, “Within a month, Triple Star-stacked Defensive Matrix will surely be mine, and I depend on it to obtain that place… to surpass Su Zipei. I will achieve it soon!”
“Miss, you are wise!” Elder Wang flattered and turned to frown, asking, “The girl who sent the rune is a clue, and we can follow it…”
“No!”
Su Zini vetoed without hesitation, “At this critical moment, I don’t want to get in trouble, for it is not good for us to anger the matrix master.”
Upon hearing this, Elder Wang felt it was very reasonable, and dropped his thoughts of investigating Su Li.
Su Li never went out during these five days. Although Jin Ying came to see her, she could only helplessly leave after seeing that no one opened the door.
On the sixth day, when the first ray of light from the east shone on the wooden door, the girl in the house, like an old monk who settled in, finally moved slightly, shocked off the gray stone powder in her body, and opened her eyes.
At this moment, her sky-clear eyes suddenly condensed with strands of black lines, which turned into a lifelike lotus, swaying in the void for a moment, and suddenly dispersing.
Su Li took a long breath and waved a gust of wind, sweeping away the accumulated stone powder on the futon. She looked inside the dark spiritual lake in her pubic region, which had occupied 70% of the entire pubic region.
“The seventh hurdle of Lianqi Realm?”
Su Li frowned, picking up the seven low-grade spiritual stones remaining on the edge of the futon, which were not enough.
Ninety-three low-grade spiritual stones all together only let her reach the fourth hurdle from the third hurdle of Lianqi Realm?
Too slow!
Such progress was far slower than that as she expected, and the unexpected joy of selling two tunes at a high price also faded.
She had thought that by relying on the one hundred low-grade spiritual stones, even if she could not restore to the first hurdle of Zhuji Realm, she could easily reach the tenth hurdle of Lianqi Realm.
After all, the practitioners who normally had a complete ordinary spiritual root consumed no more than forty-nine stones from the first hurdle of Lianqi Realm to Zhuji Realm. Even when she was in Yuxu Sect in the past life, with her heaven-typed spiritual root, she had only absorbed 110 low-grade spiritual stones and made a successful breakthrough.
But now… it changed so much!
She absorbed low-grade spiritual stones extremely quickly. It was already the limit for ordinary practitioners in Lianqi Realm to absorb one low-grade spiritual stone a day, while she had absorbed nearly a hundred spiritual stones in less than five days, an average consumption of 20 stones a day.
Su Li was astonished and felt that the road ahead was difficult. From the fourth hurdle to the seventh hurdle, she used a hundred spiritual stones. After reaching the third hurdle of Lianqi Realm, she didn’t know how much would be consumed…
Thinking of this, Su Li spread her hands and thought of something, and then a group of inky spirits appeared from her palm and condensed to the extreme black one, shining like a gem in the slightly dark room.
“No wonder… when the quality of spiritual power reaches the fourth hurdle of Zhuji Realm, the low-grade spiritual stones are certainly useless. I should be able to absorb the middle-grade spiritual stones now.”
Withdrawing the spiritual power, Su Li hesitated for a moment and then injected a ray of spiritual power into the ring of Reincarnation Mirror.
She tried this before when the spiritual power quality was still in Lianqi Realm, but the ring of Reincarnation Mirror did not respond at all. Now, as the spiritual power quality reached Zhuji Realm, she wanted to try if she could repair the mirror ring slightly so that she could save the energy of setting up Tactical Matrix for Camouflage.
After five minutes passed, nothing happened in the mirror ring. Su Li said nothing, but continued quietly. With the consumption of spiritual power in her body, her face gradually became pale.
An hour later, Su Li was covered with cold sweat in her forehead, and she was trembling slightly. The spiritual power in her body had been wholly consumed, but at the moment, her eyes were as bright as day.
Under her gaze, there was a hint of black luster on the surface of the ring of Reincarnation Mirror which was originally dim, which could not be seen at all if it was not examined carefully.
A faint suction came from the mirror ring. Su Li looked serious, and caught the remaining low-grade spiritual stones with one hand, which soon turned into powder. All the spiritual power flowed into the mirror ring through Su Li’s body, and the spiritual power scattered in the surrounding void was directly absorbed.
“Not enough!!”
Su Li clenched her teeth, almost bleeding, but she was at the end of her rope. If she continued, her foundation would be consumed, in which case the loss outweighed the gain.
“Should I give up all my previous efforts…”
Su Li was a little reluctant, but still was rational, so, she slowly moved her hand away from the mirror ring.
All of a sudden!
Black Lotus Ring emerged from her ring finger, and the black lotus pattern slowly rotated, and some obscure and esoteric secret words were introduced into her awareness sea.
After understanding the meaning of the secret words, Su Li suddenly became firmed and slapped hard on the heart in a strange way without saying a word.
With the sharp pain that affected the nerves, Su Li looked pale at once, and then spit out a mass of bright red blood.
After spitting out the blood from her heart, she would spend at least half a month to recover.
“Black Lotus Ring, please don’t let me down.”
With a gasp, Su Li squeezed her fingers hard with both hands and pinched a gesture with a strange shape beyond the common sense of Human Clan.
Just when she began to make the gesture, the shape of the blood mass floating in the void suddenly changed, and it seemed to form the outline of one word.
“Kakaka…”
The fingers continued to make overwhelming noises, and the sharp pain from it made Su Li faint.
But she understood that if she gave up now, it would be really a heavy loss, and she had no way out.
“Click!”
Su Li was stagnant and sweaty, and her tail fingers hung down softly. In this way, probably before the gesture was completed, her ten fingers would be broken, so she must speed up.
But the pain of speeding up would be increased hundreds of times!
She flashed a determined expression, and her movements speeded up immediately. The continuous sound of bone cracking sounded like firecrackers. Just a few breaths, the blood mass in the void became a word of “slave” at the speed visible to the naked eyes and the bright red blood suddenly turned into black, just like the black spiritual power of Su Li.
Exhausting her last effort, Su Li gritted her teeth to send the blood mass into the ring, and then before she could see the result, she fainted on the futon.
After a long time, Su Li frowned and opened her eyes. Thinking of what happened before her coma, she quickly sobered up, and sat up directly, which scared Jin Ying, who was holding the bowl. So, Jin Ying threw it to the bed.
Su Li was about to catch it subconsciously, but it made her fingers so painful that she almost fainted again.
Seeing that the porridge was finally not splashed on the bed and it didn’t scald Su Li, Jin Ying was relieved and quickly took a rag to clean the bed, whispering, “Don’t worry. I don’t tell anyone that you are here, so, no bad guys can find you.”
Su Li was stunned, and just as she was in unknown, Jin Ying leaned over and looked at Su Li’s hand, full of distress, and said tearfully, “That group of people are too mad, for they forbade us from practicing and hurt you like this! Don’t worry, when I become stronger, I will definitely avenge you!”
Hearing Jin Ying’s words, Su Li understood that the girl probably counted her injured account on the four maids with silver token.
She looked down, finding that her ten fingers were well bandaged and the blood on her body was also cleaned up. It was difficult to imagine how a princess who grew up in the royal palace learned these things.
As her psychic awareness shrouded the whole body, a feeble feeling emerged spontaneously. She frowned, and the spirit power which was consumed because of the public region’s deficit had not yet been recovered.
But when her psychic awareness flowed to her wrist, she could not help curling her lips slightly, and the ring of Reincarnation Mirror produced a feeling of heart-to-heart connection, which was completely integrated.
In this life, she was no longer a puppet of Reincarnation Mirror. Even one day she could become the… real master of Reincarnation Mirror. Although it was now a broken one, it still didn’t prevent Su Li from being happy.
One day, she would wake up the mirror spirit, and she must be counted back for what she suffered in the illusion!
It was not her style to refuse revenge!
When she looked up, she saw Jin Ying show a worried look, so, her cold eyes were a little warmer.
Admittedly, Su Li never pretended to be a good girl, and did something undue for cultivation without any psychological burden. She had always been indifferent to strangers, but once someone got her approval…
As Jin Ying was also only fifteen years old, it was normal for her to feel fear when she entered the sect at a young age. So, she relied more on Su Li.
But as Su Li faced too much troubles, she didn’t want to have causal effect with others, so, she was naturally indifferent to Jin Ying.
But this girl, though she was ruthlessly rejected from time to time, she still rescued Su Li without hesitation after finding that she was fainted in the house.
It might not be called salvation, or maybe this way was silly, but there was no doubt that she had gained her own favor.
She looked up at Jin Ying with a kind of smile, joking, “I remember someone said that she would never talk to me again, a head-down turtle.”
Jin Ying blushed immediately and stammered, “You… you must have misheard me. I didn’t say that!”
Saying this, Jin Ying suddenly froze, and then looked at Su Li in shock.
Su Li was stunned and asked with a smile, “Is there anything on my face?”
“No… no…”
Jin Ying opened her mouth slightly and finally confirmed that what she saw was not an illusion. She said dumbly, “You… you smiled…”
She had never seen Su Li smiling for so many days after entering the sect, not to mention talking to her so warmly.
It turned out that Junior Sister Apprentice Su was not facially paralyzed!