Although the interior of the building lacks a glittering and luxurious feel, it is clean and tidy, with hardly any dust.

Xi Heng sat down to the side, watching the person who was greeting him help him process the contribution token.

Soon after you receive the token, you can send it out using your spiritual light to see your accumulated contribution points and the items you can redeem.

"Contribute 373.23 cents." Xi Heng read it silently and then looked at the exchange area: "Five Elements Spirit Fruit requires 1,400 cents, and fruit embryo requires 1,330 cents... The price difference isn't that big."

"The fruit embryo also has its own merits. When it matures, its quality may even surpass that of other spiritual fruits. It is also a rare commodity, so its price is not low."

"I'll just buy the regular stuff from now on," Xi Heng muttered to himself, shaking his head as he looked at his meager contribution of only three hundred.

The cultivators from Duguang Pavilion who were standing to the side did not say anything more and just waited quietly.

The white-haired girl flipped through the many options for contributing tokens, and then, in a flash of inspiration, she put the ring on her finger into one of them.

A moment later, Xi Heng rose and left amidst the respectful farewells of the greeters at Du Guang Pavilion, transforming into a ball of fire and flying far away.

On the way back, thinking about how to accelerate the growth of contributions, the direction of the firelight changed from the courtyard to his own Phoenix Register Company.

As they approached, the firelight transformed into the figure of a young girl on the ground, who walked slowly along the empty sidewalk.

Along the way, one can see that the company has booked billboards along the surrounding roads to advertise storage bags of various sizes and shapes.

During her time away from the company for training, the style of her storage bag also changed. Sometimes it was combined with other companies and the other party's body was pasted on it, and sometimes some holiday pictures were added.

Upon entering the company, the spirit beings there worked calmly, and everything proceeded smoothly.

Xi Heng walked through the office area and returned to his studio as the boss after several months. He gave instructions to the company's senior management to submit a development plan.

The spirit-created entity worked quickly, and in no time, five documents were placed on her desk.

The main proposal mentioned is to manufacture more specialized products to supply other companies that have recently approached us for cooperation.

For example, the general transportation company wanted to order a small storage bag that could be directly attached to the belly of the bird-shaped unmanned flying boat to significantly improve its transportation efficiency.

Goodwill Crafts, on the other hand, wanted a storage cabinet with multiple entrances and exits to facilitate rapid communication between different departments...

Xi Heng reviewed them one by one and felt that most of the plans were difficult to implement.

Her Phoenix Register texts are relatively few, making it impossible to create such an ingenious storage solution; only the cooperation mentioned by the General Transportation Company could achieve this.

"I haven't been in charge of the company for so long, I should get back to work." The girl nodded gently, preparing to start another production line.

Immediately afterwards, they began purchasing spirit-created bodies from company employees, clearing out a new floor to build a studio, and communicating with the transportation company about the style, space specifications, and cooperation terms, having them send over several spirit bird-shaped flying boats to be used, and so on...

Xi Heng spent a week at the company and established a new production chain. His own Fenglu Company made some contact with the largest transportation company in Xiping City.

Various advertisements were launched to announce a significant increase in the efficiency of the general transportation company's medium-sized freight transportation, and the stock price rose accordingly.

After completing this collaboration, the girl did not stay at the company any longer. She left an unconscious avatar to make the production and adjustments, and then leisurely returned to the courtyard to do her daily routine and resume her cultivation at will.

Time passes slowly.

The firewood-making technique further enhanced the quality of the spiritual fire, expanded the spiritual fire space, and gradually increased the number of people who awakened spiritual bodies within it.

Seventeen people, thirty people...

Six months later, the number reached over a hundred.

As a result, news of spirit entities going missing often emerges, but these cases are ultimately left unresolved.

As for the Great Spirit, there is still no news regarding a plan to lift the lifespan limit on spirit beings.

Meanwhile, the awakened spirits within the space are still developing, establishing their own moral concepts through their interactions.

They believe that the root of all evils in the outside world is the imbalance of power and human nature. The spirit creations themselves, regardless of age or appearance, have some similar physical qualities and power. Furthermore, the spirit creations can achieve memory and mind communication. Once a conflict arises, it can be resolved simply by connecting their minds—at least that's what the awakened spirit creations themselves believe.

They believed they could prevent all human evils and make this Penglai world a harmonious paradise.

This concept was jointly determined by the spirit beings, overheard by Xi Heng, and passed on to the Great Spirit during a casual chat during a break.

After Daling learned of this, for some reason she embellished it and spread these words deep into the consciousness of her children.

Gradually, the reputation of this 'Shangri-La' began to spread among the spirit beings who showed signs of awakening:

Legend has it that there is a free world for spirit beings, where milk and honey flow across the fields, and gentle breezes caress every free and awakened individual.

This is the only promise to the spirits who are busy all their lives and suffer oppression; it is a beam of light that pierces through the eternal darkness, an eternal ideal land and a world of poetry and painting, Penglai.

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Volume 1: Chapter 303, Ascension to the Dragon

Six months later, inside the repair room.

The girl sat cross-legged, her soft, white hair falling gently down her body onto the carpet on the ground.

The side window was half-open, and the air inside circulated gently, causing the strands of hair at her temples to sway slightly.

Xi Heng closed his eyes and relaxed, breathing in and out, his spiritual energy flowing, and wisps of blue light gently swirling around his body.

The air was calm, and the condensed light occasionally seeped into the skin.

In addition to the spiritual light, there were two intertwined red and white flames forming two rings in front of the girl.

Inside the intersecting rings, the essence of highly concentrated third-tier spirit wood floats, while spirit flames interweave and cover it, stripping away its essence layer by layer in order to grow themselves.

The method of "firewood extraction" involves using spiritual wood as fuel to continuously extract its essence and enhance the nature of spiritual fire.

In the early stages of cultivation, since only first- and second-tier spirit wood was used during the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, the improvement obtained from burning such spirit wood was relatively weak for Xi Heng's spirit flame. He could only perceive a slight improvement in the essence of the spirit flame from the increase in the range of the spirit flame space.

Now, by cultivating with third-tier spiritual wood, equivalent to the Golden Core realm, one can clearly perceive the changes.

“The spirit flame is composed of red and white... The deep red is the resentful fire that I initially mastered, and the white is the pure fire of the white phoenix that I obtained after absorbing the white phoenix feathers.” Xi Heng clearly distinguished.

"Spatial abilities are generally superior to those of white flames, while resentful fire is imbued with a powerful force of hatred and destruction."

"When practicing the Firewood Cultivation Technique, these two abilities will gradually acquire some of the other's attributes as the essence of the spiritual flame grows..."

Half a month later, Xi Heng completed another cycle of cultivation and took a short rest.

This time, unlike her usual days off, she didn't immediately open the network to check on the company's situation, chat with Yin Wanluan and Jin You, or check on the progress of the artificial beings in the Spirit Fire Space.

Instead, a wisp of spiritual fire rises from the fingertip, flickering slightly before the eyes.

"During my cultivation just now, the resentful flames also acquired some spatial attributes. What specific effects will they have?" Xi Heng transformed the red and white spiritual flames burning on his fingertips into pure red flames, and then waved them forward.

With a shout, the flames of resentment erupted rapidly, spreading to a width of more than a meter.

When Xi Heng retrieved it, the space in the area where the red flames had just burned was strangely distorted.

The originally solid and stable space was bent as if metal had been melted by a blazing fire, and it showed dense, layered ripples like water being stirred by many arms.

If someone with trypophobia saw this, they might feel nauseous and want to vomit on the spot.

"The flames of resentment are now burning into the space itself..." The white-haired girl calmly reached her hand into the already distorted space.

click -

The moment the fingers touched it, a snapping sound rang out.

The first finger to approach turned ninety degrees to the left, and the human skeleton shattered without any hindrance.

Xi Heng cut off the pain and stretched forward again, only to see his five fingers immediately twist into a pretzel shape, and then disperse and reunite in the twisting of space.

The bones in his hand were almost shattered, and his five fingers slumped like mud in the air.

When she withdrew it, her right hand had become a bloody mess.

She casually flicked her wrist, and a burst of fire appeared on her right hand. In an instant, it returned to its fair, slender, and bony form, without a trace of the hideous crack it had just displayed.

“Scorching space will cause severe distortion to things within that space.”

The girl looked at the strange sight before her for a moment, then looked at her own fingers.

"This kind of damage seems unstoppable. Even the spiritual light shield and protective techniques of the Nascent Soul cannot withstand this twisting and oppressive force," Xi Heng murmured to himself.

At least, she herself couldn't find any way to defend against it.

She might be able to cleverly dodge or neutralize using spatial abilities, but the enemy would need to completely overwhelm her in terms of spatial abilities to do so.

“Hmm…” Xi Heng muttered to himself, “In the Senluo Realm, there should be no one with stronger spatial abilities than me. This move can easily crush many cultivators.”

"However, the nascent soul of a high-level cultivator, being a divine soul, may not be restricted by spatial distortion... If we want to improve our combat power, we may have to target the divine soul body."

Although this world is relatively stable and orderly, unlike the Zhao Kingdom which is full of strife.

However, Xi Heng was used to the feeling of overwhelming others in combat power, so he would do as much as he could to improve in this aspect.

She thought that, at least after advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, she would reach a level where she was invincible among Nascent Soul cultivators.

"But," the girl muttered to herself, "this world isn't the domain of some demonic sect or evil faction, so is there really any power that can target a Nascent Soul cultivator..."

Righteous cultivators do not need to kill others in their cultivation; they can basically just focus on quiet cultivation. Conflicts will only inevitably arise when they are competing for resources.

The only ones who would research methods to attack and kill Nascent Soul cultivators are probably demonic and evil cultivators who make killing people and other cultivators their way of life.

"Perhaps I should do some research myself?"

"Hmm...maybe we'll meet again if fate allows. Let's talk about it another time."

Xi Heng put these thoughts aside and, as was his habit, pointed out the wide-area array network, chatting with Yin Wanluan for a long time.

On the way, he took out the contribution token from his storage ring, but found that he was still short of contribution points, so he took it back.

After spending some more time on the wide-area network array, the two-day rest period quickly passed, and it was time to continue cultivating...

One day, while preparing his spiritual fire, Xi Heng suddenly heard faint fluctuations and some sounds coming from inside his spiritual fire space.

She spared a fraction of her attention to listen and realized that it was the prayer of the spirit beings.

The spirit beings held a small ceremony in the space to send a message to her, the master of the space.

Xi Heng initially thought the spirit beings had some kind of request, such as not being used to life without the array network and asking her to send them a local array network.

After listening carefully for a while, I learned that the spirit creation body had asked her, the space master who controlled the small world, to make an arbitration because a special event had occurred in the space and they did not know how to deal with it.

Specifically, a white snake climbed onto the divine tree in the Spirit Fire Space, bit off a spiritual fruit and tried to swallow it, but it couldn't because its throat was too small.

A few days later, the spirit beings discovered the white snake coiled above the divine tree and forcibly captured it.

The spirit fruit disappeared as soon as it touched the ground. The white snake struggled desperately but was trapped in the cultivation chamber.

Overall, nothing serious happened in the space; at most, some unripe fruit fell to the ground, so the impact of the renovation was minimal.

However, the spirit beings could not determine how to deal with the white serpent on their own. Although they had established laws and set out in their first article the prohibition against offending the sacred tree, the rules were for the spirit beings and they did not know what punishment to give to the white serpent or other animals that had little spirituality.

After listening, Xi Heng could only think, "I guess that's what androids are... They always have a mechanical feel to their work and are hard to adapt to."

"It may be because the civilization in this small village is still in its very early stages, and various concepts have not yet been fully established."

"Let them decide this themselves; it might even help with the development of their ideas."

After thinking it over, the girl responded with a message to the Spirit Fire Space: How to punish them, whether to kill, to dismember, or to simply imprison them, is up to you to decide. There is no need to entrust it to the Lord of the World or the gods.

The main reason is that, as a newly emerging race and civilization, the awakened spirit beings need confusion to develop.

Also, Xi Heng was too lazy to bother with their trivial matters.

After sending the message, she stopped paying attention to the fluctuations inside the space, only glancing at the diameter of the spiritual fire space. She calculated that it was already over seven hundred meters before returning to her cultivation.

She is still a long way from reaching the peak of the Golden Core level in the Cuoxin Gong.

Now that they can burn space to the point of distortion, one wonders what their spiritual fire quality and spatial abilities will be like when they cultivate to the peak of the Golden Core stage, or even reach the Nascent Soul stage.

Two rings of fire were summoned, slowly rotating around the spirit wood.

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

Once, when Xi Heng cultivated in the courtyard of the Fire Hell, there was a cycle of the four seasons, and one could see snow turning into rain and rain turning into wind.

But upon arriving at the golden tree in Changpingjing and being bathed in its golden light, the concept of the four seasons vanished.

The sacred tree replaced the sun and moon, keeping the length of day and night constant throughout the year, and the temperature also remained relatively stable.

It was suitable, but also monotonous.

Xi Heng now understood why ordinary people who didn't cultivate and low-level cultivators with no future in the city preferred to immerse themselves in virtual worlds and games.

This city is too monotonous, with little change day or night. The virtual world is far, far richer than the real world.

Several things have happened during this year of cultivation: the space storage bag product has become part of the central city, and has had a significant impact on the storage and transportation industries.

For example, a few months ago, when the virtual world giant YuanYuan Huanyu launched its new infiltration pod, the transportation company deployed 100,000 bird-shaped unmanned flying boats equipped with new storage bags, and completed the pre-sale distribution in just ten minutes.

The scene of countless white doves filling the sky was captured during this time, earning the photographer numerous awards.

Xi Heng's contribution points have also increased rapidly over the past year, and with the help of Da Ling, he is not far from purchasing spirit fruits.

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