Even hybrid monsters have their day

This is where?

She looked around in confusion, but there was nothing but white. She tried to sense Huangfu Aohan and Xu Ruwen in her mind, but felt nothing.

Geng Miaowan felt her pocket; the beads were still there. She sensed them and could faintly detect Luan Hao's presence. She felt a little relieved.

The spiritual energy here was incredibly dense, so dense that even the air she breathed seemed to carry a trace of it. What surprised her even more was that, since entering this place, she felt the spiritual energy within her body was exceptionally active.

She closed her eyes, sensing the aura that belonged to this place. Slowly, she established a connection with the surrounding spiritual energy, which seemed to be alive, guiding the spiritual energy within her body to react. She had never felt this way before; it was as if a blood relative she had been searching for for many years had suddenly found her, and they joyfully gathered together, merging into her meridians.

As the spiritual energy flowed in, Geng Miaowan noticed that the meridians along the path of the mixed spiritual power were slowly tinged with a faint golden halo.

Spiritual energy flowed into his body, circulating through his meridians before rushing towards his demon core. The luminous white demon core within his body gradually absorbed a trace of gold.

Geng Miaowan didn't know why, but since she didn't feel any discomfort, she didn't stop absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world. As the color of the demon core changed, she felt an indescribable sense of comfort within her body.

Gradually, she forgot where she was, forgot everything around her, and even forgot what she was doing.

When she opened her eyes again, she found Luan Hao sitting cross-legged beside her, watching her.

Seemingly surprised that she would suddenly open her eyes, he looked away awkwardly when she saw him looking at her. He quickly concealed the complex emotions in his eyes.

"Luan Hao, what brings you out here?" Seeing a familiar face in a completely unfamiliar place was a source of immense joy for her. Especially since it was someone she was happy to see.

Luan Hao closed his eyes, refusing to look at her. "I felt something was strange here. So I came out to take a look."

"This place is really strange. The spiritual energy here seems to be very close to the spiritual energy in my body. My cultivation is becoming more efficient." Geng Miaowan said, standing up and stretching her arms and legs. "Try it and see if it works."

Luan Hao did not answer and closed his eyes.

He was a spiritual being, and his cultivation only served to solidify his own cultivation level, not to improve it, so he didn't have the same intense feeling as her. However, he also felt that this spiritual energy was very similar to the spiritual energy in her body, and he could even easily convert it into the energy he needed.

Seeing that he was focused on his cultivation, Geng Miaowan read through the "Ode to All Spirits" again in her mind and then began to cultivate as well.

"You broke through?" Luan Hao asked casually, noticing her eyes darting around in her eyelids.

"Yes." Geng Miaowan opened her eyes, a fleeting glint of light in them. She looked at Luan Hao, a faint smile appearing on her face, extremely faint. Although it was a smile, it looked even colder than when she was usually expressionless.

That smile seemed to appear unconsciously, because soon her signature warm smile appeared on her face.

Luan Hao was stunned. In that instant, he saw it clearly. In his mind, that familiar figure would often smile at him with that same smile, a smile that, though genuinely smiling, carried a feeling of keeping people at a distance.

Two similar faces slowly overlapped in front of him, making it difficult for him to tell who the person in front of him was...

Yun'er... is it really you...?

Geng Miaowan noticed his strange expression. She moved closer to him and waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Are you alright?" Why did he keep looking at her, yet she also felt that he was looking at someone else through her?

"I'm fine." As if to cover up his lapse in composure. Luan Hao stood up. "Congratulations, you've actually reached the Golden Core stage directly."

If either Xu Ruwen or Huangfu Aoxuan were present, they would be surprised to find that this breakthrough not only brought her cultivation directly to the Golden Core stage, but also made her appearance more similar to the woman on Mount Buzhou.

Luan Hao's words made her temporarily forget his strange behavior earlier. She had never imagined that she could go directly from the Enlightenment stage to the Golden Core stage; it was practically a miracle.

but……

Seeing that she quickly wiped the smile off her face, replaced by a look of confusion, Luan Hao asked, "What's wrong?"

Geng Miaowan glanced at him, then sat down on the ground, supporting herself with her hands behind her back. She looked up at the sky, which was as white as the surroundings, and said, "Is it normal that some gold has been mixed into the demon core in my body?"

"Gold has been mixed into the demon core?" A look of confusion flashed across Luan Hao's face. Clearly, he had never heard of such a thing in all his years of life. "Then do you feel that something is amiss?"

"No, on the contrary, I feel like all my senses have become much more acute."

Hearing her say that, Luan Hao breathed a slight sigh of relief. "If that's the case, then it should be alright, right?"

So they began to cultivate in this unknown place.

It was mainly Geng Miaowan who was cultivating; Luan Hao was at best a sparring partner. Most of the time, he just sat quietly to the side and watched. When Geng Miaowan was cultivating, he would watch her; when she wasn't cultivating, he would look elsewhere.

Luan Hao is a demon who has lived for tens of thousands of years, and can be considered an encyclopedia of cultivation. Therefore, whenever Geng Miaowan encounters any problems in her cultivation, she will consult him. Although he is a man of few words, he will still answer her questions carefully.

As they went back and forth, the initial awkwardness seemed to disappear, and they became much more familiar with each other.

The place remained a vast expanse of white, and neither Geng Miaowan nor Luan Hao knew how long they had been there. They only knew that when Geng Miaowan emerged from meditation for the tenth time, she had reached the Integration Stage.

The sheer speed, as if she'd been on an airplane, left Geng Miaowan utterly bewildered. She even felt like she was dreaming, only that the dream was unusually long. (To be continued.)