Digging up spiritual roots and seizing blood? You scumbags, wait and tremble.

Although Zhong Ran was famous before, it was only because she was good at alchemy, formations and talismans. There were rumors that she was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining and was not good enough for those people.

However, after emerging from the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, her rapid rise in power attracted the attention of the evil and demonic paths.

Whether it's her, Zhong Yan, or A Sheng, they are all in the top three of their kill list.

"They've put a bounty on your head. The reward for taking your head is a sacred weapon and a Heaven-level divine power."

Zhong Ran paused for a moment, then realized.

Sacred weapons and heavenly-level supernatural powers held no appeal for her, but they held a fatal attraction for others.

"If they send out experts at the Integration or Mahayana stages, wouldn't I be reduced to dust in no time?"

With such a generous reward, even some old guys would be tempted, right?

President Jin coldly replied, "No, at most they are only Nascent Soul level cultivators. If a Void Refinement level expert makes a move, our righteous path will not stand idly by."

"If they send out strong fighters, we old guys will also step in."

Zhong Ran's lips curled slightly: "So, this is a contest between young people?"

Chairman Jin nodded: "We must not be careless. Whether it is the evil path or the demonic path, they will not care about morality. They are evil and crooked, and will use all kinds of means, even attacking in a group."

"What we need to be more careful about is that they may use some demonic souls, ghost paths, etc. Wuchen has some experience in this area, and having him by your side is also a kind of training for him."

Zhong Ran nodded: "In that case, let's go together."

"But let me state beforehand that I cannot guarantee his safety."

“He has his own protectors, and when it really comes down to a life-or-death situation, his protectors will step in.”

“We should have arranged protectors for you, but since Lou Ying is with you now, we won’t bother.”

Zhong Ran wanted to say that it was necessary, really necessary.

She's fine with it; she has enough confidence in herself.

But her parents and relatives were ultimately weaker.

However, if it is all the younger generation who are involved, it is also an excellent opportunity for parents and relatives to gain experience.

Or perhaps, if they are careful, they might not encounter those evil and crooked paths.

Back at the courtyard where they were staying, Zhong Yan and Mu Jinning were waiting for her.

"We heard what the president just said to you."

A fierce fighting spirit flashed in Mu Jinning's eyes: "We still need to make some preparations."

Zhong Ran nodded: "I'll refine more pills and draw more talismans to cover everyone's needs in the next couple of days."

Zhong Yan waved her hand, setting up a barrier to prevent others from seeing her: "Sister, are you going to Thunder City to prepare for a promotion?"

"Are there enough spirit stones?"

Zhong Ran sighed softly, "I don't know either, we'll see when the time comes."

She paused for a moment, then asked softly, "When you were cultivating, what level did you reach?"

She had heard before that cultivation is about returning to the origin, and that one can advance to the next level once one reaches the perfect state.

But her own cultivation required reaching the twelfth level, something I'd never heard of before.

What bothered her even more was that the higher she went, the more spiritual energy she needed to advance doubled.

She already needs hundreds of billions of top-grade spirit stones just to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. How will she advance further in the future?

"Nine levels, huh? You can advance after reaching perfection." Zhong Yan frowned slightly. "Is yours different, sister's?"

Zhong Ran released her cultivation aura, her tone extremely helpless: "I am currently at the twelfth level of the Nascent Soul stage."

"what!"

Zhong Yan and Mu Jinning both stared wide-eyed, because due to her physique, no one could see through her cultivation level, and they had never known what level she was at.

Hearing her mention the twelfth floor, the two exchanged a glance; they had never heard of such a thing before.

"Could it be related to your physique? After all, no one really understands what the Chaos Divine Body is like."

Mu Jinning also said, "It may also be related to the Source Pearls you obtained. Those are not ordinary things, which may be why they have more layers than ours."

The Chaos Divine Body is extraordinary; it took several years just to activate it.

Now that he has cultivated three levels more than normal people, they can only guess that he has a divine body.

"I don't know, but the cultivation resources required for each advancement are multiples of those required for the previous advancement."

Zhong Ran sighed softly: "This is still within the realm. I don't know how much it takes to advance to a major realm."

Zhong Yan and Mu Jinning exchanged a glance, and then handed over all the top-grade spirit stones they had to her.

"Sister, I also have several billion here, it may be just a drop in the bucket, but please use it first."

"Ranran, I also have billions here. If you take some too, you'll have more opportunities."

Zhong Ran didn't take it: "No need, I'll have Chairman Jin help me deal with a batch of pills, I think I can still make over 10 billion."

"When the time comes, it shouldn't be difficult to find a place with abundant spiritual energy in Thunder City to advance in cultivation."

"Take this first, in case it's not enough, it will be a problem later."

Mu Jinning handed her the spatial ring: "If you don't use it all up, you can share some with us."

Zhong Yan will have it relatively easier. His advancement is not difficult either. With the Tree of Life as a safety net, he will grow on his own even without cultivation, although it will take a longer time.

Zhong Ran could also do it, but that would make her even slower.

"Alright then." Zhong Ran didn't stand on ceremony with them and accepted them all.

He's right. The biggest fear during promotion is insufficient spiritual energy, which will cause a lot of trouble.

The three parted ways; she went back to refine pills and draw talismans, while Mu Jinning went to inscribe array plates, which could also be sold for money.

Although his fame is not as great as Zhong Ran's, it is not bad either, and he can now inscribe sixth-order array plates.

The price of array plates is slightly better than that of talismans and pills because array plates can be used repeatedly.

Of course, his array plate is not as good as Zhong Ran's pills and talismans; it is only much better than others.

Zhong Ran condensed two more batches of Rising Dragon Pills, and then let the small cauldron refine various fifth-grade pills on its own.

She draws talismans herself, mostly various sixth-rank talismans.

Strength talismans, speed talismans, teleportation talismans, space-breaking talismans, lightning talismans, fire talismans, etc., are all useful in battle.

Especially when facing evil or demonic paths, they fear fire and thunder.

That's their nemesis.

Therefore, she refined more fire talismans and thunder talismans, and also made soul-suppressing talismans, immobilization talismans, and soul-fixing talismans, all of which were aimed at evil paths.

Outside, hearing that Zhong Ran had one last batch of pills to deal with, everyone rushed to the Array Master Guild to buy them.

It was impossible to buy peacefully, and in the end it turned into malicious competition.

Baili Duojin rushed to the Array Master Guild, hoping to see Zhong Ran but failed. In the end, he only met Zhong Yan.

"Junior brother, junior sister has good pills, why don't you think of me?"

I'm so angry! He asked for so long, and his junior sister still didn't give it to him. I'm so mad!

Zhong Yan smiled faintly, "We're preparing to leave here. Would you like to come with us?"