Oh no, I accidentally cultivated three spiritual roots and became an empress!

Zhong Lingxin laughed and said, "I'm not that I'm amazing. We come from a small town and have to do all kinds of labor since we were young. We go up the mountain to dig every day, so naturally we know that we have to take it easy when climbing mountains."

The little boy nodded.

That makes sense; it's experience they gained from practice.

Soon, the little boy whispered, "Don't exert yourself now. The first six thousand steps are fine, but after six thousand, the real challenge begins. The further you go, the harder it will be to climb. It will feel like your legs are tied with huge stones, and the more you walk, the heavier it will become. When you get to the last hundred steps, you'll have to use all your strength for each step. Some of them you'll really have to crawl. Anyway, I've already decided that when I get to the last hundred steps, I'll lie down and climb all the way up, saving as much energy as possible."

Zhong Lingxin smiled. Back then, her father had only climbed a little over three thousand steps when someone knocked him down from behind and twisted his ankle. He had to climb a few hundred steps before stopping at a little over four thousand.

Her father was always indignant whenever these things were mentioned.

They said fighting is prohibited while climbing the ladder!

Someone bumped into him from behind, and he simply said it was an accident.

Otherwise, why would he have been assigned to guard the sea area?

Zhong Lingxin had been carefully gathering information about the Heavenly Ladder for half a month.

As a required subject for entering the Qingyun Sect, the servants of the External Affairs Hall told the children not to be afraid, because at the very least, they could become servant disciples like them.

Zhong Lingxin has three spiritual roots.

As far as she knows.

With her spiritual root, it would be difficult for her to become an inner disciple in a top-tier sect.

But in a second-tier sect, as long as you take a chance, a bicycle can still become a motorcycle, and there's hope of entering the inner sect.

From what she's learned over this period, there's a significant difference between the inner and outer sects.

First of all, inner disciples all have masters and can live on various peaks.

Outer disciples not only lack a master to guide their cultivation, but they also have to live at the foot of various mountains in the Qingyun Sect, where the spiritual energy is much thinner.

Some outer disciples even complained that if they had known they would become outer disciples, they would have preferred to stop at around the 7,000th step and become a menial servant in the inner sect.

Secondly, there's cultivation. Inner disciples have far fewer sect missions, which means they have much more time for cultivation.

Outer disciples are often assigned by the sect to perform various tasks in its affiliated areas, which means they have much less time for cultivation.

Finally, and most importantly, inner disciples receive several times more in monthly allowances than outer disciples, plus occasional subsidies from their masters, and they can also grow some spiritual herbs and fruits on their own peaks.

Over time, this led to a much higher income than that of outer disciples.

As Zhong Lingxin was making her plans, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

She pretended to walk to the side of the ladder to heaven to take off her shoes. When she looked back, she saw Qu Xin looking at her.

When Qu Xin saw Zhong Lingxin looking over, she quickly put on a smile and said, "Zhong Lingxin, what a coincidence, you've come here too."

Zhong Lingxin sat on the steps with a smile, tapping her shoes as she said, "Miss Qu, it's you! Long time no see. You've come to climb the steps with us too?"

Qu Xin chuckled awkwardly, "Yes, I climbed the ladder too."

Zhong Lingxin rubbed her legs and laughed, "You're already a genius with a mutated spiritual root, why are you still climbing the ladder? Even if you don't climb it, people will be fighting over you." Qu Xin continued to chuckle, "Not at all, it's just an entrance exam, it's all the same."

Zhong Lingxin smiled faintly and said nothing more.

Qu Xin was a little frustrated, unable to tell whether the timid Zhong Lingxin from a while ago was the same person as the fluent Zhong Lingxin in front of her.

The difference between the two is too great.

However, I saw several people chatting and laughing with Zhong Lingxin.

She felt relieved again. After spending half a month with familiar companions and living in a group at the Qingyun Sect, Zhong Lingxin had perhaps changed.

The only thing that hasn't changed is that Zhong Lingxin still doesn't like to talk or interact with people.

fair enough.

She had already made arrangements; she needed a few people to hold Zhong Lingxin back, preventing her from climbing the stairs as quickly as possible.

At that time, she changed Zhong Lingxin's fate.

Zhong Lingxin could only participate in the sect's small secret realm trials as an outer disciple.

As a core disciple of the inner sect, she could naturally order Zhong Lingxin to team up with her.

After entering the secret realm, she stayed with Zhong Lingxin the whole time, and every time Zhong Lingxin found a treasure, she would take it first.

Even Liang Zhonglingxin, an outer disciple, didn't dare to compete with her, an inner core disciple.

Thinking of Qu Xin, in her previous life, as a genius with a wind spirit root, she should have been a favored daughter of heaven.

Who would have thought that Zhong Lingxin would suddenly appear out of nowhere, and with her three spiritual roots, she would overshadow all the geniuses with mutated, single, or double spiritual roots.

Whenever people talk about the new generation of prodigies in the Immortal Spirit Continent, they invariably mention Zhong Lingxin: Zhong Lingxin obtained a book called "Illusory Heaven Realm," making her unrivaled in illusion techniques among her peers; Zhong Lingxin formed a contract with a nine-tailed fox; Zhong Lingxin overpowered the prodigies of first-tier sects in the sect competition, becoming the biggest dark horse and winning the first prize; Zhong Lingxin…

In short, Zhong Lingxin's name resounded throughout the entire Immortal Spirit Continent, making these geniuses a laughing stock.

I still remember that competition, when Zhong Lingxin began to sing, she revealed her truest thoughts. She had repeatedly sent people to intercept and kill her junior sister, simply because she was jealous of the junior sister's favor with the master and the affections of the senior brother...

That time, she became the laughingstock of the entire Lingyun Sect and the entire Immortal Spirit Continent, and also received the most severe punishment from her master.

Heaven have mercy, all her resentment turned into a chance for her to be reborn.

If she could do it all over again, she would definitely steal Zhong Lingxin's "Illusory Realm," steal Zhong Lingxin's nine-tailed fox, steal everything from Zhong Lingxin...

Looking back, when she has all of this, she will kill that vile woman Hua Qinglian, and also that old codger Ji Mie who is unworthy of being her master, and steal her senior brother to be her Daoist partner.

Zhong Lingxin lowered her head and tapped her shoes, pretending that something had gotten inside.

In reality, her heart was in her throat.

As she was talking to Qu Xin, she sensed the twisted madness in Qu Xin's eyes, as well as an indescribable sense of pleasure.

It seemed as if they had made up their minds to do something and were certain they would achieve their goal.

I remembered what my father said about how he got into a quarrel with someone on the ladder to heaven and was pushed over.

It seems that Qu Xin was also trying to create an accident for her.

Seeing the children walking past Qu Xin, they all gave her several ambiguous, cold glances, and even exchanged glances with her.

It seems these are the children who are planning to harm her.

Zhong Lingxin sighed helplessly.

Right now, she's no match for these children.

It seemed she had no choice but to quicken her pace and try to reach the exit before them.