Imperial Cultivation

She became even more certain that this wasn't luck.

There must be some special treasure, or a special secret technique.

Shen Hanyue smiled and said, "Hehe, Senior Sister, is it the Prince?"

Xiao Ruoling nodded lightly.

Shen Hanyue's spirits lifted, "The Prince, he..."

"He's still in the Qing Prince's Mansion, just helping me with a special method."

"As expected of the Prince." Shen Hanyue sighed, "It's a pity he can't ascend yet, otherwise, he would have become famous long ago."

She felt very regretful that Chu Zhiyuan couldn't ascend for the time being.

A step slow, every step slow.

By the time the Prince ascends, it will probably be ten years later. By then, they will be experts in the Transformation Realm, or even the Transformation God Realm.

At that time, the difference in cultivation will be huge, and the Prince will have to look up to them.

"Senior Sister, after entering the cave this time, we can enter again!"

"When is the next time?"

"A year later."

"A year... that's not certain." Xiao Ruoling said softly, "We're not the only ones cultivating, they're also working hard."

What's more, she felt that the other true disciples had better aptitude and a deeper foundation.

If it weren't for Chu Zhiyuan's help in comprehending the Taiye Marrow Cleansing Art, the two of them would have been left far behind.

Now they can only barely keep up.

It's difficult to surpass their progress, and it won't be easy to catch up.

Shen Hanyue said excitedly, "With these spirit fruits, our cultivation can advance by leaps and bounds."

"There is a price to pay for consuming spirit fruits." Xiao Ruoling frowned slightly.

Shen Hanyue said, "Don't worry about so much, let's improve our cultivation first."

"What if it slows down in the future? Then we'll be calling for help with no response."

Consuming spirit fruits can quickly improve cultivation, but it will lead to a slowdown in the future.

What is saved now will need to be repaid with several times the time in the future.

Spirit fruits enhance cultivation, but not through one's own step-by-step cultivation, which will lead to an unstable foundation, thereby affecting later progress.

An unstable foundation will affect comprehension, thereby affecting subsequent progress.

If one has extraordinary comprehension, one doesn't have to worry about this, comprehension can make up for this.

But she knew that her comprehension was not strong, the truly strong one was Chu Zhiyuan.

So she had always been cautious about consuming spirit fruits, feeling that it should be done in moderation, not greedily.

But Shen Hanyue was completely unconcerned, eating whenever she wanted, making rapid progress.

The spirit fruits they obtained were enough to improve their cultivation to the perfection of the Qi Transformation Realm in one go.

Seeing her like this, Shen Hanyue advised, "Senior Sister, don't think so much, maybe we'll have another lucky encounter by then."

"Lucky encounter..."

"Yes, if we didn't have lucky encounters, we wouldn't be where we are now, we have to believe in our luck."

"You..." Xiao Ruoling was speechless.

Being able to get to this point was indeed due to luck. If it weren't for the good luck of meeting the Prince, she would definitely not be where she is now.

But purely relying on luck is the most unreliable thing.

Also, one shouldn't rely too much on the Prince, otherwise, it would become a burden to him and not be of any help.

"Senior Sister..."

"Alright, let's improve our realm as soon as possible." Xiao Ruoling nodded lightly.

She suddenly understood.

To help Chu Zhiyuan, she still needed a high enough realm.

This world respects strength, and so does the Xuanyin Palace.

With a low realm, even if one has high comprehension and good luck, no one will listen to you.

If you want your words to be effective and help Chu Zhiyuan, then you need a strong enough cultivation.

Improving her cultivation now is the proper thing to do, and the rest can wait.

Thinking of this, she smiled at Shen Hanyue, "Junior Sister, your words have awakened me."

Shen Hanyue was delighted, "It's best that Senior Sister, you can change your mind!"

She had been persuading Xiao Ruoling, but Xiao Ruoling was unmoved. She didn't expect that persistence would pay off, and finally made Xiao Ruoling change her mind.

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Phoenix Dynasty

Imperial City

Twelfth Princess's Residence

Back Garden

Among the green trees, hundreds of flowers bloom, in patches and clusters, competing for beauty.

The pistils attract butterflies, and a faint fragrance wafts.

A small lake surrounds the flowerbeds, like a round mirror reflecting the blue sky and white clouds.

In a red-lacquered pavilion on the lake, a graceful woman is sitting beside a stone table.

She is dressed in white like snow, her face is exquisitely beautiful, and she is aloof and indifferent, with a pair of eyes like cold springs.

On the table are two stacks of files.

Two beautiful little maids are serving beside her.

One little maid takes a file from the stack on the left and hands it to her, then puts the one she has read on the stack on the right.

The other little maid occasionally offers tea or sends a piece of fruit.

The beautiful woman buries her head in the files, ignoring the beautiful scenery outside the pavilion and the swimming fish in the lake below the pavilion.

In the distance, a beautiful young girl comes lightly, turning a few bends along the lakeside corridor, coming to the outside of the pavilion, and bowing lightly: "Your Highness, Miss Li is back."

"Let her come in." The beautiful woman said lightly.

"Yes."

…

Li Yuzhen floats in, faintly showing the color of wind and frost, and walks straight into the palace, bringing in a faint fragrance, and clasps her fists and says: "Your Highness."

The beautiful woman raises her head to look at her: "Why are you back again, what does he want again?"

Li Yuzhen told the cause of the matter.

The beautiful woman frowned slightly, and said lightly: "What knife?"

Li Yuzhen took out two Autumn Water Divine Knives from her sleeve and presented them to the beautiful woman.

Li Miaotan, the Twelfth Princess of the Phoenix Dynasty, was not in a hurry to take the knife, but first glanced at it, and said lightly: "This is the Autumn Water Divine Knife?"

"Your Highness, these two knives are quite magical, but I don't know where the magic is."

"Put it on the table." Li Miaotan said.

Li Yuzhen hurriedly put it on the table.

Li Miaotan waved her hand.

The two beautiful young girls moved away the two stacks of files on the table, leaving the stone table empty.

Li Yuzhen looked at her suspiciously.

A long sword suddenly appeared in Li Miaotan's jade hand, the sword body was slender and far better than ordinary swords.

The sword body faintly had strange patterns, flowing a layer of fiery red light.

She gently picked it up, and the tip of the sword picked up a flying knife, turning it in the air.

Then she picked up another flying knife, and the two flying knives collided in the air.

A cold light flashed.

The two knives seemed to burst out with cold light, faintly containing killing intent.

She let the two knives fall straight down and plunged into the stone table, as easily as inserting them into tofu.

"What a powerful flying knife." Li Yuzhen couldn't help but admire.

Leaving aside other things, just the sharpness of these two knives is extremely amazing.

Li Miaotan stared at the flying knife without blinking, her beautiful eyes were like water.

Li Yuzhen looked at her curiously, and then looked at the flying knife.

She took these two knives in her hands, and realized that they were extraordinary, but she couldn't figure out where the extraordinary was.

She secretly sighed that it was no wonder that the Prince Consort wanted them to enter the extraterritorial battlefield to absorb spiritual energy and enhance their power.

These two knives are indeed worth polishing and cultivating.

Li Miaotan's bright eyes suddenly flashed, her eyes flickered, and she snorted softly: "Sure enough, there is something strange."

Li Yuzhen hurriedly said: "Your Highness, what's so strange about it?"

"It has spirituality." Li Miaotan said lightly: "It is a spiritual weapon."

"It's a spiritual weapon?" Li Yuzhen said in surprise: "It shouldn't be, right?"

She knew the preciousness of spiritual weapons.

She secretly pondered, if it was the Great Prince or Second Prince of the Jade Scene Dynasty, it was possible to have a spiritual weapon, but the Prince Consort was definitely impossible.

Li Miaotan glared at her with her bright eyes.

Li Yuzhen hurriedly said: "The Prince Consort is being squeezed out, and the emperor also hates him very much, how could he have a spiritual weapon?"