A useless person with five spiritual roots? I sacrificed the proud daughter of heaven.

Schools of fish occasionally swim across the lake bottom, creating ripples.

Although the ice was thin, it was very solid. There was nothing unusual about stepping on it. Sheng He steadied himself and began to look down and observe carefully.

The old man said that to find the "Great Void Soil," one must first find a strange fish.

But since we must search for the Void Land in the direction indicated by this strange fish, the fish will either remain motionless or keep swimming in the same direction.

Sheng He spotted a golden-tailed carp among the fish that had just swum by. While the fish were constantly searching for food, this one fish kept swimming towards the right front.

Moreover, golden-tailed carp are not common to begin with, and are even known as koi in the human world, so Shenghe immediately followed.

But before she could catch up with the golden-tailed carp, a red-tailed carp swam towards her.

One after another, Shenghe saw white-tailed carp, blue-tailed carp, finger-sized, bright red crucian carp, and grass carp larger than her body...

Sheng He: ......

He searched for several days, bending over, and saw all kinds of fish, but after comparing them, he could not find the legendary "strange fish".

Exhausted, Sheng He collapsed onto the ice, looking up at the sky.

Above the gray sky, a lake appeared that looked exactly like Mirror Lake.

The only difference is that all the positions on that lake are reversed.

Sheng He raised his hand and pointed east, and the reflection in the sky also raised its hand, pointing west.

She instantly understood that the so-called Mirror Lake, as its name suggests, was a mirror image of everything. No wonder the old man had found the strange fish, but what he dug up was not the Taixu Soil, but the Biluo Grass.

Sheng He perked up and was about to get up when he saw that in the reflection in the sky, the fish that had just gathered together seemed to be frightened and instantly scattered in all directions.

A black loach covered in mud slowly floated to the surface from the bottom of the lake. Sheng He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. The loach had suddenly appeared from the bottom of the lake and then slowly floated to the surface.

Sheng He immediately went to find it. It was a black fish about the thickness of a wrist, resembling a loach, with six long whiskers around its mouth and small, round fins like seashells.

Among a group of colorful fish of various sizes, this fish is quite ordinary.

But it remained motionless, continuing to float until it reached the surface of the water, where it was only a layer of ice away from Sheng He's palm. Then, it flipped over and lay on its back on the water.

It looks like it's dead.

No fish approached within a few feet, and the blackfish's mouth was indeed pointing in the same direction the whole time.

If this is indeed the strange fish, it seems plausible.

Sheng He gently tapped the ice with his finger, and the blackfish symbolically twitched its tail, as if to prove that it was still alive and had not died.

Sheng He then took out his compass and smashed it against the ice. With a loud "bang," huge ripples spread across the lake, startling the fish in half of Mirror Lake into scattering in all directions.

The wooden compass had cracked slightly, but the ice beneath her feet remained completely undamaged, not even a single piece of ice fell down.

The closest blackfish didn't even bother to move, its long whiskers swaying with the ripples of the lake, all pointing in the same direction.

Only then did Sheng He dare to confirm that the fish was indeed the "strange fish." He put away the compass and walked in the direction the black fish was pointing.

After reaching the shore, Sheng He took out a shovel and began digging without hesitation, breaking through the top layer of snow and frozen soil to reveal fertile black soil underneath.

A rich spiritual energy rushed towards her. Sheng He picked up a small piece of black soil, and a small wisp of spiritual energy flowed into her dantian through her fingertips. Sheng He immediately felt comfortable all over, and the earth spirit root in her dantian seemed to have grown stronger.

This is indeed the Great Void Land!

Sheng He sat cross-legged on the snow, took out a bottle of pills from her storage ring and swallowed them. She did not intend to refine the Taixu Soil to temper her earth spirit root immediately.

She had been in seclusion for a year, and her cultivation was already unstable. When facing the assassins of the Seven Kill Pavilion, she forcibly increased her cultivation, which damaged all her meridians and caused her cultivation to regress. If she were to forcibly refine the Void Soil now, she would probably suffer hidden injuries, which would be detrimental to her future Core Formation.

It would be better to heal and stabilize one's cultivation before refining the Void Soil.

……

Five years later, by Mirror Lake.

Sheng He slowly opened her eyes. Because of the rich spiritual energy brought by the Taixu Soil here, her cultivation was twice as effective. Not only did she successfully refine the Taixu Soil, but her cultivation level was also constantly rising.

Now, she has reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, and is only one step away from the Golden Core stage.

Sheng He stood up, brushed the thin layer of snow off her clothes, and said that it was time to leave.

However, she had one important thing to do before leaving.

Sheng He took out a shovel from behind him and started digging at the Taixu soil on the ground.

She still remembered that at the last Wanbao Auction, a small box of Taixu Soil sold for a high price of five thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

Although her provocation played a part, it also demonstrates the immense value of the Taixu Earth.

What she was standing on wasn't Taixu Soil, but piles and piles of spirit stones!

Sheng He filled a large bag with Taixu Soil into his storage bag, and then, satisfied, took out the Aoshuang Frost Sword and left Mirror Lake.

She did not leave the far north directly, but instead came to Snowstorm City.

In that familiar snowy field, Sheng He waited quietly with his sword on his back.

In no time, a huge city appeared before her.

The city lord still wore a kind smile, but his face looked inexplicably haggard.

"You're back? Did you change your mind?"

"No, I've come to repay the city lord for saving my life."

Sheng He reached out her hand to the city lord, and a seed of the Azure Grass lay quietly in her palm.

"Although the roots, stems and leaves of the Azure Grass are all highly poisonous, if they are taken together, they can remove inner demons. I think, perhaps the city lord needs this."

"It's very easy to grow. It will grow and bloom in less than an hour after you plant it. However, you'd better keep an eye on it, City Lord. If it turns out to be a Biluo Grass that has developed sentience, it will grow legs and run away on its own."

Sheng He kept talking, then suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "How is Xiao Zhi?"

The city lord's face paled even more. He recalled the great fire, in which Xiaozhi was huddled in her grandmother's arms, her face contorted in pain. The fire had charred her body, and the black dog lay on top of her and her grandmother's charred corpses, whimpering softly.

"it is good."

"Okay, she's fine, and Grandma is fine too."

Sheng He placed the seeds into the city lord's hand and said with a smile, "That's good, city lord, take good care of yourself."

The city lord nodded, watching Sheng He's departing figure, then lowered his head to look at the Biluo Grass seed in his hand.

"Father, don't you want An'an anymore?"

"Are you going to use this to kill An'an and Xiaozhi?"

"no no."

The city lord quickly denied it: "Father will never abandon An'an again."

As if to show his determination, he clenched his right fist and with a little force, the seeds of the Azure Grass turned into powder.