Cold Clouds

Lin Xiaoxiao brought the things she packed from the restaurant and a bunch of cakes back to Yaowang Valley, and started feeding the animals to relax.

Lin Xiaoxiao, holding a basin, wandered among the many small snakes and dragons: "Everyone is treated the same, no snatching is allowed, those above the Golden Core level are not allowed to come."

"Ah, barely enough, luckily the restaurant is big enough." Lin Xiaoxiao held the basin with some food left in it, turned her head and looked at Mo Hu who had been staring at this place, "What are you looking at? You are not a child anymore, you are almost turning into a dragon, don't think about these mundane things."

Mo Hu turned his head away. What could he do? Living under someone else's roof, he couldn't refute.

"Dad?" Mo Hu, who was swinging his tail alone, suddenly felt someone pulling his paw. He turned around and saw Ye Yu standing next to him with a plate of cakes. "Don't get caught..."

The child has grown up... At that moment, Mo Hu suddenly felt his eyes moist.

Oh, what are you trying to stir up? Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at Mo Hu, rolled her eyes, and handed Song Hanyun a plate of pastries: "Here, the extra ones."

"Oh, thank you." Song Hanyun took it and threw a piece into his mouth. "Osmanthus cake, I like it very much."

"I see." Lin Xiaoxiao's face showed no emotion, she looked calm. "That restaurant happened to be having a promotion on osmanthus cakes, and there are some left. They are all yours."

"Oh, so that's it..." Song Hanyun chewed the osmanthus cake, secretly glanced at Lin Xiaoxiao, and didn't say anything else.

As expected, I didn’t buy the wrong thing... Lin Xiaoxiao leaned back in the recliner, closed her eyes and began to look inward at her dantian.

The fire spirit root still maintained its inexplicable length, while the wood and water spirit roots growing on both sides of it looked very small, especially the newly grown wood spirit root, which seemed several inches shorter than the water spirit root.

The amount of spiritual energy stored in the body can be judged by observing the number of spiritual liquid beads hovering around the spiritual roots. Lin Xiaoxiao has a total of nineteen spiritual liquid beads, which is equivalent to one for each small stage. She belongs to the most ordinary type of cultivator.

But the more normal it is, the more wrong it seems. After all, the elixirs that Lin Xiaoxiao has taken during this period of time may be more than other people have taken in their entire lives, and she still relied on secret techniques to reach the golden elixir stage. If the elixirs that Lin Xiaoxiao has taken are given to a person with four spiritual roots, they would probably reach the middle stage of the golden elixir stage, not to mention the Medicine King Valley, a treasure land for cultivation.

This doesn't make sense! Lin Xiaoxiao sat up and woke Mo Lun up.

"I don't know. How can I possibly know about your human race's cultivation? How about you try transforming into a snake and then a python?" Mo Lun, who was called up, looked bewildered. "You should go ask the elders of your human race."

"How come you've lived for so long and you don't even know the cultivation process of the enemy forces? You've lived in vain." Lin Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes, opened a space door and left.

Mo Lun was helpless. He was an old antique who only knew how to practice and had never left the Jiao Clan's pool...

"Ye Lan, where are you? Something happened." Lin Xiaoxiao dialed Ye Lan's mental communication, and after learning the location, she rode Xuan Ming over there.

Ye Lan, who was originally soaking in a pool of diluted dragon blood, hurriedly cleaned up the scene after receiving the call and waited obediently for Lin Xiaoxiao to arrive.

"Here? It's not a good place..." Lin Xiaoxiao saw the cave secret realm next to the original site of Lingxia Sect, which only existed in the original owner's memory but still made people dislike it, and grinned, "I remember there are a lot of killing arrays here."

"Hehe~ I've already dismantled them all, and turned this place upside down, but I only found some junk," Ye Lan placed the things she had looted from this secret realm on the stone table and shrugged helplessly, "The best is just an earth-level spell."

“Is that so…” It was originally just a low-level Nascent Soul secret realm. These things were actually quite good, but compared to Lin Xiaoxiao’s Medicine King Valley and Li Tianyuan’s various treasures, they were really nothing.

"But the formations here are quite powerful," Ye Lan took out a stack of papers, "I copied them all!"

"Ye Lan is really amazing~" Lin Xiaoxiao praised with a smile, why? Because Ye Lan looked like she wanted to be praised.

"Ah, I forgot. What does Sister Xiaoxiao want to talk to me about?" Ye Lan was a little proud for a while, and suddenly remembered that she had something important to do, so she turned around and asked Lin Xiaoxiao.

"Ah...actually I..." Lin Xiaoxiao sat up straight and began to tell the story, while Ye Lan looked as if she understood.

"Master," Ye Lan asked Li Tianyuan in her heart while listening, "How could this happen?"

“Looking at your expression, I thought you really knew…” Li Tianyuan laughed, “There are generally three possibilities for cultivation stagnation. Everyone knows the first two, which are poor spiritual roots and talents, but not many people know about the third one because not many people study it.”

"That is the way of cultivation," Li Tianyuan stroked his beard, looking unfathomable, "There are countless great ways in this world, such as the Way of Questioning the Heart, the Way of the Common People, the Way of Killing Whales and the Way of the Universe... In addition, there are many other great ways."

"What is the Whale Killing Universe Dao?" Ye Lan was a little puzzled. What is this? I have never heard of it...

"Don't worry about it. You just need to know that the path a practitioner practices will also affect his or her progress in practice. Aren't you practicing the path of the common people that I taught? It's hard to slow down your practice if you respond to the world!" Li Tianyuan continued, and Ye Lan repeated it selectively, "The influence of choosing a path can be divided into two situations. One is that the practitioner voluntarily chooses a path that is extremely difficult to practice. The second situation is relatively rare, that is, the practitioner is born with a Dao body of a great Dao, and that great Dao happens to be a difficult Dao to practice."

"In my opinion, if I take a peek at your sister Xiaoxiao's dantian, I'll know what's going on." Li Tianyuan said so, and Ye Lan just did so.

"Hmm? Choosing a path? I don't seem to have this process..." Lin Xiaoxiao muttered and nodded in agreement. After all, she had no reason not to trust Ye Lan's wonderful grandfather.

Although she was not sure what they were talking about, Lin Xiaoxiao was sure that Ye Lan had absolutely no idea about this. But she would not expose Ye Lan as it would not do any good.

"Let me see..." Li Tianyuan separated a trace of his mental power and entered Lin Xiaoxiao's dantian along with Ye Lan's mental power.

"This...what is this!?" Li Tianyuan exclaimed after seeing the scene clearly, and Ye Lan was also shocked.

"What's wrong?" Ye Lan thought to herself that something was wrong. Could this be a bad sign?

"No, I'm just surprised that it's this avenue," Li Tianyuan laughed, "Now it can be confirmed that your sister Xiaoxiao is born with the body of Minghuo Dao. To grow up, you need extremely strong flames to forge your body. This is not an easy path to practice!"

Ye Lan repeated Li Tianyuan's words. Lin Xiaoxiao nodded and left thoughtfully.

Ye Lan went back to take a diluted dragon blood bath, while Li Tianyuan looked heavy-faced in the stone talisman.

He lied to Ye Lan. Although that spiritual root looked like Minghuo Dao, it was definitely not the one. Moreover, even if it was Minghuo Dao, it would not have only this level of cultivation with the help of such powerful medicine.

There are definitely not three spiritual roots in Lin Xiaoxiao's body, there are two more spiritual roots lurking.

"Mutual growth and mutual restraint, one fire is stronger than the other, all external forces retreat, wait for my divine light..." Li Tianyuan said in a low voice, "How is it possible? How can there be in this lower world..."

"The Path to Nirvana."