Chapter 35: I’ve Grown Stronger!

Su Xiaoyu hadn’t expected to master Plant Growth so quickly. Could this be the effect of a one hundred percent spiritual root affinity?

The plants swayed in the night breeze, a new kind of vitality blooming before her eyes.

“Time to cultivate the next spell.”

Su Xiaoyu quickly reined in her wandering thoughts.

After mastering Plant Growth, her next plan was to cultivate the Rattan Spell.

For disciples of the Qixi Festival Sect, cultivating the Rattan Spell required a cultivation base of at least the third layer of Qi Refining, but in practice, the training progress could be far faster than Plant Growth, taking only about three or four days to master.

Since Su Xiaoyu had mastered Plant Growth in just a single hour, the Rattan Spell was even less of a challenge.

In no time at all, Su Xiaoyu had grasped this spell.

Before her eyes, the green plant stems in the flower pot twisted around themselves, quickly braiding themselves into the shape of a fried dough twist.

Su Xiaoyu continued experimenting, making the plants whip the ground, tangling them together, rapidly familiarizing herself with the Rattan Spell.

Only after practicing for a good while did she stop.

When she had previously cultivated to the first layer of Qi Refining, she hadn’t felt like a true cultivator. After all, she had nothing but her cultivation level.

It was only now, at this very moment, watching the plants before her change continuously under her control, that she deeply felt how different she had become.

She was truly a cultivator now!

This was just the beginning. What kind of heights would she reach if she continued cultivating?

Su Xiaoyu was filled with anticipation for the future.

She didn’t plan on resting just yet. She wanted to master a few more spells.

There were three wood-attribute spells she could cultivate at the third layer of Qi Refining. Besides the Rattan Spell and Plant Growth, the third was called Plant Vision, which allowed her to control nearby plants to act as her “eyes” and see the surrounding situation.

Su Xiaoyu spent a little more time and easily mastered Plant Vision.

Yet, her wood-attribute spells were still not fully complete, as wood also had some extended attributes, and the effects of cultivating these also relied on the affinity of her Wood Spirit Root.

For example, wind. For example, lightning.

Wind and lightning were both born from wood, so cultivation came naturally and easily to Su Xiaoyu.

Currently, the Qixi Festival Sect didn’t have any lightning-attribute spell cultivatable at the third layer of Qi Refining. However, there was one wind-attribute spell, the Wind Chant Art.

The Wind Chant Art could control the wind within a certain area, merely summoning a breeze with no great lethal power. But by mastering the Wind Chant Art, cultivating other wind-attribute spells in the future when her cultivation was higher would become much easier.

Furthermore, once her cultivation level increased, the power of the Wind Chant Art itself would also be enhanced.

At the third layer of Qi Refining, the Wind Chant Art could at most stir up an ordinary breeze. But what about the Golden Core stage? Nascent Soul? Soul Formation? At those levels, this spell could unleash power capable of crushing peaks and splitting mountains.

Su Xiaoyu maneuvered her wheelchair closer to the balcony’s edge, right next to the railing, trying her best to feel the natural wind blowing between heaven and earth.

The wind brushed against her skin, threading through her hair, a cool sensation spreading across her body, as if whispering some message.

She began immersing herself in the cultivation of the spell.

Cultivating a spell is also a learning process, a process that is often tedious and naturally repellent. But if harvests are reaped continuously during this process, it’s easy to become so immersed one cannot pull away.

And so, Su Xiaoyu immersed herself within it.

It didn’t take long for her to learn the Wind Chant Art, and then she turned her attention to other attributes.

The fire-attribute Fireball Technique.

The water-attribute Water Ball Spell and Water Mirror Technique.

The metal-attribute Golden Body Art.

The earth-attribute Earth Sinking Spell.

One spell after another, Su Xiaoyu rapidly mastered them all on this very night.

However, because her own cultivation art was wood-attribute biased, the effects of her wood-attribute spells were the best. The effects of spells from other attributes varied according to the cycle of generation and overcoming among the five elements.

For example, fire-attribute spells worked quite well because wood generates fire.

But the effects of metal-attribute spells were very poor, because metal overcomes wood.

The effects of earth-attribute spells fell somewhere in between, for wood overcomes earth.

The effects of water-attribute spells were between her wood and fire spells, as there was no direct generation or overcoming between them, and water generates wood.

For Su Xiaoyu, spiritual power without any elemental bias might be the better choice. After all, all five of her spiritual roots had a one hundred percent affinity, allowing her full and balanced development.

However, finding such a cultivation art was clearly not easy. The time when she truly needed to pay attention to this aspect was likely still far off in the future.

……

Soon, a new day arrived.

That day, Su Xiaoyu’s new wheelchair was delivered.

After receiving her new wheelchair at the door, Su Xiaoyu looked at the two wheelchairs sitting in the living room and sighed with emotion.

Compared to the old wheelchair, the new one was much more aesthetically pleasing in design, let alone its functionality.

She used her hands to support her body, transferring herself to the new wheelchair.

As a person with a disability, using her hands to support herself during daily tasks had happened countless times. In the past, Su Xiaoyu inevitably felt powerless, often failing many times before she could accomplish what she wanted.

But now, when she supported herself with her hands, she felt an extra strength, steadily transferring herself to the new wheelchair.

The cultivation base of the third layer of Qi Refining had significantly enhanced her physical fitness.

Sitting in the new wheelchair, Su Xiaoyu steered it around the living room. The new wheelchair was controlled by a joystick and also had voice control capabilities. At the very least, she no longer needed to manually turn the wheels like before.

Furthermore, this wheelchair could even climb stairs by alternating between its large and small wheels.

It just went to show—if you’re willing to spend money, the quality of anything you get will far exceed ordinary market goods.

Only after testing out her new wheelchair for a while did Su Xiaoyu recall that she had forgotten to close the door.

‘Perhaps becoming a cultivator has emboldened me, making me unafraid of danger.’

Su Xiaoyu thought to herself, steering the wheelchair toward the door with the joystick.

Just as she was about to close the door, a glance swept over the outside hallway and she saw a furtive figure standing by the stairs, poking his head out as if observing something.

It was a man dressed in black, wearing a black mask, standing at the stairway and peering in a particular direction.

That direction was Wen Wanru’s residence!

Who was this person?

Su Xiaoyu frowned. Her intuition told her this was not a good man—the way he was skulking around was far too suspicious.