Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

"Your soul has been corrupted by the outside world for too long. From now on, every time you advance, I will integrate the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning into the Marrow Cleansing Light Pillar."

The result of this was that the filth washed away from someone's body was almost ten times more than that of others. Black impurities covered Gao Zhun's body, turning him into a mud figure. As a result, he gained several sizes. When the beam of light faded, Madam Zhu saw a black mud sculpture sitting on her daughter's bed in an inexplicable state. After waiting for a long time, the sculpture began to move slowly, creating an extremely terrifying and eerie scene.

"water……"

Under normal circumstances, Madam Zhu might have thought that Gao Zhun was thirsty because he had been unconscious for many days. However, in this situation, she knew that Gao Zhun wanted to take a bath. Fortunately, she had already filled the pool in the room connected to the central sanitation pool with water after learning that her daughter had entered the country. Now, she did not mind Gao Zhun's dirty body and helped the person whose vision was completely blocked to the edge of the pool.

"Zhun'er, we've arrived."

Although her cultivation was destroyed, Madam Zhu's face still retained the appearance of when her cultivation was at its peak. She now looks to be only in her early twenties, but the black stains on her light purple outer robe are really incongruous.

"Mother."

The water in the purification pool had an extremely powerful cleaning effect on the grime left after the marrow cleansing. Almost as soon as her whole body was immersed in the water, the thick layer of black grime quickly peeled off Gao Zhun's body. Although she was prepared to accept everything in this world of immortals and heroes, Gao Zhun was still momentarily stunned when she saw that her mother, who was nearly a hundred years old, looked almost exactly the same age as before. However, the memories rooted in her mind still made her subconsciously call out. She still respected and felt close to this Bamboo Lady, who occupied almost all of Gao Zhun's memories after her soul had been scattered.

"Zhun'er, you've broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage! Come on up, you can't stay in the sludge removal pool any longer."

Although Gao Zhu fully understood Madam Zhu's good intentions, he still found the name of the pool he was in—the "Defilement Pool"—utterly ridiculous, making his lips twitch involuntarily...

Hey, did they pour dozens of packets of scouring powder into this?!

Leaping cleanly out of the purification pool, Gao Zhun still found it incredibly unbelievable that she possessed cultivation and could disregard many physical laws. Moreover, according to her memories, Gao Zhun's previous talent was in swordsmanship. At such a young age, after only three years of cultivation, she had mastered the "Azure Glazed Sword," one of the Gao family's top sword manuals, to the beginner level. She was one of the few Gao family members from the collateral branches who had the best chance of rising to the direct line. It's just that beauty is often short-lived, as such a mediocre person had taken her place. Gao Zhun didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse. After all, cultivation requires comprehension and talent, both of which originate from the soul. Gao Zhun deeply doubted whether her soul, born in an atheistic mechanical world, truly possessed those qualities.

However, since she was already there, she might as well make the best of it. Gao Zhun had some idea about how the heavens and earth had forcibly stuffed her soul, which had not yet dissipated after her death, into this body. This was not a matter of transmigration or rebirth. Perhaps it was similar to the possession of a body by a cultivator who practiced some evil cultivation methods. However, she was passively triggered, so there was no such thing as dying in this world and being able to travel back to the original world.

In short, Gao Zhun has started a completely different life, in a different time, in a different space, and under different world rules.

In contrast to the healthy competition and survival of the fittest in a society governed by the rule of law on Earth, the Immortal Spirit Continent she arrived in is a world where the strong are respected under the rule of cultivation. A slight misstep could result in becoming a trivial act of slaughter on someone else's path of cultivation. However, as a member of the Gao family, even if from a collateral branch, outsiders must still fear the Gao family's authority. Let alone killing them, even tripping them up requires careful consideration of whether they can afford to offend this behemoth of the cultivation world. The Gao family, a cultivation clan that has existed for tens of thousands of years, possesses an incredibly formidable foundation. Almost every member of the Gao family is born with at least a third-grade composite immortal root, and single-line first-grade immortal roots are also commonplace. With such a bloodline, how could the Gao family not stand tall in the cultivation world of the Immortal Spirit Continent?!

The extent to which the Gao family has benefited from such a bloodline continuation, the number of experts they have gained over the millennia, and the prosperity of their fortune are truly difficult to estimate.

Only those super-grade sects that only accept disciples with third-grade immortal roots or above and whose lineage has lasted for tens of thousands of years can rival its glory!

Gao Zhun was quite satisfied with being in the body of someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth. After all, back on Earth, she was a member of a powerful and influential family. Being kidnapped and murdered was an accident, or perhaps not an accident at all, but that didn't matter anymore. Since she couldn't go back to get her reward anyway, she might as well analyze the current situation and her future plans instead of wasting her brainpower thinking about useless things.

Although being a member of the Gao family already meant that Gao Zhun had latched onto a very powerful patron, how could Gao Zhun be the kind of person who would sit idly by and wait to die without any ambition? If she were that kind of person, perhaps she would still be living a luxurious life on Earth, enjoying a life of extravagance that 99% of people could not afford, and moving around the decadent world of the upper class, instead of ending up being kidnapped and killed by someone.

Of course, if one wants to rise to a higher position in the Gao family, one must also bear great risks. First of all, reaching the Nascent Soul realm before the age of twenty is an extremely difficult task. You should know that anywhere outside the Gao family, anyone who reaches the Nascent Soul realm before the age of twenty is a genius, a person with great fortune and favored by heaven and earth. However, in the Gao family, this is merely the minimum requirement for promotion to the direct line of the Gao family.

The Gao family has millions of collateral branches and hundreds of thousands of direct descendants. Even if she were to advance to the direct line, so what? She would still be just another ordinary person. Her minimum goal is to become one of the thousand core direct descendants. The competition among the core direct descendants is more intense than Gao Zhun can imagine now, and that is what she needs to do next. Her primary task now is to advance to the Nascent Soul stage before the age of twenty.

According to Gao Zhun's previous memories, her current body is exactly thirteen years old. According to Gao Zhun's previous calculations, if she could achieve Foundation Establishment at thirteen and Golden Core at fifteen, then she would definitely achieve Nascent Soul at twenty, just in time to step into the threshold of becoming a direct descendant. Of course, this was under the condition that there were no unexpected events. Now, her foreign soul is the biggest unexpected event...

Realizing this, Gao Zhun was somewhat resentful, wondering if her presence would cause his failure to become the head of the direct line. After all, her father, who had passed away early, was one of the thousand core members of the direct line, and her mother, Lady Zhu, had already reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage before she was even a hundred years old. In addition, one of them had a single-element fire-type immortal root, and the other had a single-element wood-type immortal root. They were both considered elite geniuses with exceptional comprehension and talent in the Gao family. This family's elite tradition should not be ruined in her hands.

The more Gao Zhun thought about it, the more frustrated he became. He could only say to Madam Zhu with a bitter face, "Mother, I have just broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage and need to go into seclusion for a period of time to consolidate my cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Madam Zhu nodded, activated the protective array in the room specifically for Gao Zhun's seclusion, and then left.

Seeing that Madam Zhu had left, Gao Zhun sat down cross-legged and began to circulate his internal energy according to the mental cultivation method he remembered. Foundation building is about creating a Jade Palace for cultivators. This Jade Palace is like a foundation, and how well it is built directly affects future cultivation achievements, so it cannot be taken lightly.

However, as soon as Gao Zhun started circulating his true qi, he twitched his lips. Sure enough, she was surprised. The speed of his true qi circulation was much slower than the speed of the peak Qi Refining stage in his memory. It was almost equivalent to the speed of the middle stage Qi Refining. This speed of true qi circulation was difficult to maintain even daily cultivation, let alone talk about Foundation Establishment and Jade Palace. What the hell!

Despite her resentment, Gao Zhun recalled the voice that had appeared in her consciousness earlier. She knew it was because her soul had been excessively polluted in the terrible environment of a certain imperial capital on Earth. The impurities in her soul had not been completely removed, and continuing her cultivation was simply a pipe dream. Only by using a treasure or blessed land to cleanse the soul to a certain extent could she proceed to the next stage of cultivation.

But as a powerless and insignificant member of a collateral branch, where could she possibly find such a treasure and a sacred place? To obtain a soul-cleansing elixir, one must at least reach the Golden Core stage and earn points by completing tasks assigned by the family to exchange for it in the medicine storehouse. Furthermore, the sacred place, the Spirit Cleansing Pool, is only open to direct descendants who have achieved the Nascent Soul stage or higher. This is practically threatening to wipe out her lineage.

"Hoo~" Exhaling the last breath of turbid air, Gao Zhunjiang, who had barely managed to close the protective formation that had consolidated her cultivation at the early stage of Foundation Establishment and was not in the Jade Palace state, touched the storage ring on her hand. Inside were some spirit stones she had saved up over the years and her sword, the Azure Light Sword. When she first started practicing the Azure Light Glazed Sword, her family rewarded her with a sword embryo of the Azure Light Sword. After several years of nurturing, this century-old sword embryo had begun to show its sharpness. For her, who was determined to go out and train, it was definitely a life-saving weapon. With some spiritual weapon-level protective equipment, she could protect herself even if she went to a barren region.

Indeed, after much deliberation, Gao Zhun's solution was to go out and gain experience. Apart from the daily necessities, all the cultivation techniques and pills in the family needed to be exchanged using points or battle achievements. This was also the reason why she didn't have many spirit stones, even though she possessed them. In large families where spiritual energy was abundant and spirit stones were not used as currency, collateral descendants like her with low cultivation levels were usually short of money.