Chapter 33: A Double Breakthrough!
An incredibly dense concentration of worldly spiritual energy began to gather around Su Lingxi. Seeing the changes in her body, Su Lingxi had already anticipated this.
She had been suppressing her peak Foundation Establishment cultivation for some time. Breaking through in the Immaculate Pool was only natural.
This was her first breakthrough. She watched as the spiritual energy surged towards her dantian.
The Golden Core realm, as its name implied, involved forming a solid core in the dantian. The successful condensation of the core would signify a successful breakthrough.
Su Lingxi didn’t dare to be arrogant. The breakthrough process was extremely important. The slightest carelessness could lead to qi deviation.
Luo Chuxue had already flown out of the pool and was looking at Su Lingxi with some surprise.
A breakthrough to the Golden Core realm was not uncommon in the Snowfall Sect, but to be able to gather such a dense concentration of worldly spiritual energy, was this really the Golden Core realm?
Or rather, had her spiritual meridians really been damaged before?
Countless questions arose in Luo Chuxue’s mind. Perhaps the Fourth Elder had hidden something…
But the next second, Luo Chuxue saw a scene that would move her for the rest of her life.
Su Lingxi’s eyes were tightly closed, and her breakthrough had already reached the critical step of forming the core. Her body also needed to absorb more worldly spiritual energy to break out of its cocoon.
Spirit gates began to appear around Su Lingxi. This was a reaction of the body needing to speed up the absorption of worldly spiritual energy.
One spirit gate opened. Luo Chuxue’s expression didn’t change much.
Two spirit gates opened. Luo Chuxue was slightly surprised, but it seemed to be within reason.
Three spirit gates appeared! Luo Chuxue’s expression rippled, and her breathing suddenly became rapid. She seemed to have witnessed the birth of another genius.
Because she herself had three spirit gates. It was said that during her talent test, because her fourth spirit gate had also loosened, it had caused a series of strange phenomena. Many people at the time thought that Luo Chuxue would sooner or later break through to four spirit gates.
This was also one of the most important reasons why she had become the Sect Master’s personal disciple.
Just as Luo Chuxue thought that Su Lingxi would stop here, a fourth spirit gate slowly appeared.
This was the first time Su Lingxi had revealed her spirit gate talent in front of others.
Besides being linked to talent, spirit gates had another important benefit: they allowed one to cultivate multiple elemental powers.
But to cultivate multiple elemental powers, one needed at least three spirit gates. Otherwise, the multiple elements might run rampant in the body, leading to death.
Luo Chuxue’s gaze froze, her eyes filled with an unexpected astonishment.
This was the first four-spirit-gate disciple in the Snowfall Sect in a hundred years. The last one had been the Snowfall Sect Master, Jiang Xianyue.
With all four spirit gates open, Su Lingxi’s body began to form a core in her dantian at a visible speed.
This state lasted for less than two hours before Su Lingxi’s spirit gates began to close one by one.
Before long, Su Lingxi opened her eyes, and a powerful wave of qi erupted from her entire body. This fluctuation even caused the barrier to distort for a few seconds.
Luo Chuxue silently watched Su Lingxi break through, her gaze never leaving her for a moment.
After completing her breakthrough, Su Lingxi not only felt that her spiritual energy had broken through its limits, but her Ice Heart Art had also successfully cultivated to the second level.
The second level of the Ice Heart Art was called the First Bloom of Cold Light. This greatly increased the cultivator’s control over the ice element, and the ice condensed was much tougher than naturally formed ice.
The breakthrough to the second level meant that Su Lingxi could officially cultivate offensive ice-type spiritual techniques.
This was also thanks to Su Lingxi’s solid foundation and her thorough understanding of the first level of the Ice Heart Art, which allowed her to break through in both realm and cultivation method.
“Senior Sister Luo, I’ve successfully broken through.”
“Senior Sister Luo?”
Luo Chuxue still hadn’t recovered from her shock. Su Lingxi was already standing beside her, waving her hand.
“Yuebai… you seem to be a cultivation genius. Why would your spiritual meridians be damaged?”
Su Lingxi was taken aback. Only then did she realize that she seemed to have exposed something in front of Luo Chuxue.
“Senior Sister, can I not answer this question?”
Seeing Su Lingxi’s hesitation, Luo Chuxue didn’t press further.
“Senior Sister, I feel like you… are about to break through too…”
Su Lingxi looked at Luo Chuxue a few times with some uncertainty. After reaching the Golden Core realm, her perception of her surroundings had become much sharper.
Luo Chuxue’s body’s spiritual energy was somewhat erratic, yet it was circulating in her body according to some kind of order.
The worldly spiritual energy that Su Lingxi had drawn had not yet had time to dissipate and was floating in the air. But the next second, as if they had a life of their own, they began to fly towards Luo Chuxue.
Luo Chuxue still couldn’t believe it. She had been stuck at the Golden Core realm for so long, and the day had finally come for her to break the core and form a Nascent Soul.
What Luo Chuxue didn’t know was that it was precisely because of Su Lingxi’s breakthrough that a slight celestial phenomenon had occurred, causing the worldly spiritual energy by the Immaculate Pool to reach an unprecedented density.
The previous purification of the fire-elemental power, coupled with the opportunity of Su Lingxi’s breakthrough, had allowed her to touch the edge that she hadn’t been able to for a long time.
Luo Chuxue sensed that her aura was in disarray and anxiously said to Su Lingxi, “You should leave first. The breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm might have some rampant energy. I’m afraid it will be dangerous for you to stay here.”
“Leave this place first!”
A gentle spiritual force carried Su Lingxi towards the outside of the barrier. Su Lingxi was about to say something, but her body was already a little out of her control.
This feeling is a bit like when I fell into the pool.
Outside the barrier, Luo Yunxuan had just returned to his hall to get a few high-grade spiritual crystals and was preparing to cultivate outside while waiting for Luo Chuxue to come out.
He had just entered a meditative state when he felt a gentle breeze on his face.
Su Lingxi was directly pushed out of the barrier by this force, her body uncontrollably falling outwards.
“Senior Sister! Isn’t your strength a bit too much…”
Su Lingxi wanted to grab onto something to stop her fall, but she was sent flying so fast it was almost like she was flying close to the ground.
But there was nothing but snow around, nothing to grab onto to slow herself down.
She vaguely saw a figure sitting motionless in the distance. She quickly shouted, “Get out of the way! I’m not responsible if you get killed!!!”
Luo Yunxuan only felt this strange wind getting closer and closer. He had just opened his eyes when he saw a flying young woman shouting something.
“Get out of the way!” Su Lingxi shouted.
Luo Yunxuan was about to react when he was knocked to the ground by the young woman, tumbling several times before landing on the ground.
With Luo Yunxuan as a huge obstacle, Su Lingxi finally stopped, but her landing was not very graceful.
Luo Yunxuan couldn’t help but curse. This was the Immaculate Pool, not a vegetable market. How could someone crash into him like a cannonball?
But the next second, he couldn’t help but smile. The young woman was pressing him down, and she rubbed her head and looked at him.
Luo Yunxuan: “…”
Su Lingxi: “…”
The two of them stared at each other inexplicably, speechless for a long time.
Luo Yunxuan looked directly into the young woman’s eyes. As their gazes intertwined, the young woman’s eyes were as pure and untainted as the water in the pool. Luo Yunxuan was somewhat entranced. They were a pair of eyes that had stripped away all the colors in his world.
He slowly saw the young woman’s stunningly beautiful face. Her hair, with a few snowflakes, was pressed against his face. A seed full of affection was instantly planted in his heart.
