[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-borrowing-the-sword":3,"chapter-borrowing-the-sword-borrowing-the-sword-chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Borrowing the Sword",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2214609,3888,"Chapter 44: Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Ruan Ci, there were no difficulties in the Qi Refining stage of cultivation; it was merely a matter of grinding work. Every day, she visualized the sword diagram to strengthen her induction with the East Flower Sword, so the speed at which the East Flower Sword delivered spiritual energy increased. Gradually moving the cycles and refining the spiritual energy, she gained progress for every day of effort. When she was free, she would take out the \"Complete Collection of Zhou Tian Talismans: Qi Refining Section\" given by Tianlu and practice drawing many of the daily-use talismans. The great array in the mountains was not opened, and she attended few monthly lessons. Every few days, the sect sent daily necessities, and Tianlu often came to visit, playing with talismans and frolicking in the clouds with her, which was a rare pastime in her daily cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten years passed like turning a page. Ruan Ci still looked like a young girl; her physical body had been tempered by sword intent, so even if she hadn't opened her meridians and entered the Dao, she wouldn't easily grow up or age like a mortal. Now that she had opened her meridians and was nourished by spiritual energy, the changes were even slower. According to Wang Panpan, even if her cultivation stopped here, she could live for three to five hundred years. Some short-lived Foundation Establishment cultivators could only live for that long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of lifespan and Dao practice, Ruan Ci had been immersed in the pursuit of immortality for a long time and gradually learned many common facts—although all cultivators in the world could be categorized into the five major realms of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Cave Heaven, and Dao Ancestor, if there was anything certain in the Langhuan Universe, it was that nothing was certain. The world was vast, and there were so many cultivators that there were no constant rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the taboo of true names: why was it so strict in the Central Continent? Because the Central Continent did not have a continent-wide protective array and did not forbid the coming and going of the Demonic Sect. Demonic methods were common, so they were naturally cautious. However, the Southern Zhuzhou had limited entry and exit points, and the Demonic Sect was in decline, so many Southern Zhuzhou cultivators would never encounter a Demonic Sect cultivator from birth to death. Over time, low-level and loose-sect cultivators would frankly show their true names and didn't feel it was inappropriate. When such knowledge fell into the eyes of Central Continent cultivators, they naturally felt that the Southern Zhuzhou was a country place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lifespan and Dao practice were the same; they could only be called general theories, but there were many special cases. Generally speaking, the lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator was at most three hundred years, while a mortal martial artist would not exceed two hundred years. This was where Qi Refining cultivators firmly surpassed mortal martial artists. Cultivators were good at nourishing life; at this stage, they might not necessarily win in a fight, but they would definitely win in lifespan. Of course, there were also people with congenital deficiencies, or those who had suffered serious injuries, or those who had other opportunities like Ruan Ci, which could not be generalized. Take Ruan Qian, for example; joining the Forget-Sorrow Temple was actually very suitable for him. He had suffered a great change in his youth and was seriously injured, leaving only that last bit of vitality. Although he was saved, his lifespan was far lower than others. The Forget-Sorrow Temple was a prosperous Buddhist sect, best at prolonging life, and had many secret healing techniques; perhaps they could really find a way to make up for the hidden injuries in his body. However, now that the East Flower Sword had been nailed to the mountain gate of the Profound Heaven Sect, whether Ruan Qian could be valued by the Forget-Sorrow Temple would depend on himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the lifespan was three hundred years, if one failed to reach Foundation Establishment by the age of one hundred and fifty, it could be seen as the path ahead being cut off. Even if one barely reached Foundation Establishment, one could only build a low platform. The lifespan of such cultivators would not be extended much after Foundation Establishment. The lifespan of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators was determined by the height of the platform. If one could build a nine-story high platform, the lifespan could be extended by another eighteen hundred years, while a one-story platform could only extend life by two hundred years. Many Qi Refining cultivators, after the age of one hundred and fifty, felt that there was no hope ahead, so they would seek Foundation Establishment pills to force a breakthrough; being able to live for another two hundred years was a gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Foundation Establishment to Core Formation, there were also grades of cores. There were nine grades of cores, and in the future, one would have to practice nine turns, each turn being a thousand hardships. However, because of this, one could extend life by four thousand five hundred years. Similarly, if one only had a first-grade core, one could extend life by at most five hundred years. Calculating this way, from Qi Refining to Core Formation, if everything was barely passable, the lifespan would be around a thousand years, but for those outstanding cultivators, the lifespan of the Core Formation stage might be six or seven thousand years. Although both sides were in the same realm, there was a huge difference in lifespan and Dao practice; they were completely two different kinds of people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the same token, even with realm suppression, the outcome of a fight was hard to say. For example, Ruan Ci, with Qi Refining cultivation, had a sharp weapon and heavy treasure like the Sword Qi Jade Disc. The East Flower Sword was the remnant of a Great Dao spiritual treasure. Even if the sword qi was not operated by anyone, it was at least at the Nascent Soul level. A single strand of sword qi could force a Golden Core True Person to flee. Although there was also the reason that Elder Can dared not truly make a move, it could also be seen that in the Langhuan Universe, there were many factors that influenced the outcome of a fight, and realm was only one of them. Killing across realms was not uncommon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with the fact that the Langhuan Universe had never liked the strong bullying the weak, a trend of strictly distinguishing by grade within each sect gradually formed. Those small sect cultivators, although they also had Nascent Soul cultivators, and prosperous sects also worshipped Cave Heavens, could not compare with the prosperous sect cultivators. In a contest of the same level, prosperous sect cultivators always occupied the upper hand first, so they were naturally arrogant and looked down on others. Moreover, prosperous sect cultivators had many foundations. Ruan Ci had the Sword Qi Jade Disc; did others not have any protective magic treasures?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also because of this that prosperous sects, unlike prosperous sects, did not like to hold any Core Grading Conferences. After all, the foundation of prosperous sects was relatively shallow, and there were not many external tricks that disciples could compare between each other. Comparing the inner scene and heaven-and-earth landscape was meaningful, which could weigh the Dao practice and determine the order of seniority among peers. However, prosperous sect cultivators had their own backgrounds and disdained to make such comparisons; they had their own ways to determine seniority. Each was a piece of fine jade, and one could see the clues of their future prospects just by observing their conduct in the sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the Southern Zhuzhou disciples who entered the sect with Ruan Ci, for example. The sword envoy Ruan clan naturally didn't need to be mentioned. Although she was an outer sect disciple, she had an extraordinary status. After taking a master, she didn't enter Spirit Valley Peak and had never appeared in front of people, being kept by the Sect Master in the Seven Stars Small Abode to cultivate wholeheartedly. It was rumored that her cousin, Little Ci, was sheltered by her, and her treatment was not bad either. She was favored by True Person Wang of the Purple Void Cave Illumination Heaven, and sect members often came to bestow spiritual medicines and treasures. The abundance of supply even caused controversy. It was said that Qi Refining cultivators had limited capacity for spiritual food. Eating a little was fine, but eating too much would hinder cultivation if they couldn't refine it. However, the Purple Void Cave Illumination Heaven bestowed a large amount of spiritual beast dried meat, spiritual rice, and spiritual jade, and Catching the Moon Cliff accepted them without doubt, which also made people look sideways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two women were the most favored by their teachers, so even if their aptitude was not better than their peers, their future achievements would naturally be a cut above. In the future, the disciples from the Southern Zhuzhou might have to be led by these two, which was also a very natural thing. The Profound Heaven Sect’s sect rules were lenient, and they rarely asked about the disciples, but the supply was limited, so disciples naturally had to form cliques and help each other. Outer sect disciples did not have formal masters, and they might not be able to successfully take a master in the future. Without the relationship between master and apprentice, mutual assistance based on hometown was natural. What Liu Jizi said at the time, that if the Song State had not been blocked by the great array, Zhou Ao and Ruan Rong and others should have helped each other, was because of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Ruan Ci closed her doors to cultivate and rarely went to Spirit Valley Peak for classes, the Southern Zhuzhou disciples could visit her door, and they could slowly cultivate human feelings in their daily lives. Among them, Lin Xianen was the most enthusiastic. She was the young girl who talked to Ruan Ci that day. She was a descendant of a prosperous sect’s Nascent Soul True Person and was accidentally taken a fancy to by Zhou Yanqing, who took her in casually. But after entering the sect, the care became sparse. Lin Xianen knew that although her aptitude was thick, let alone being valued by her teacher, even if she was valued, Zhou Yanqing was only a Golden Core True Person, and the help she could give her was really not much, not even as good as a batch of spiritual materials casually bestowed by True Person Wang to Ruan Ci. Therefore, every three or four months, she would come to Ruan Ci’s place to walk around. Her intention to rely on her was not hidden, and she did it very generously. She also served as a channel and eyes and ears for Ruan Ci to communicate with her peers, which was also a help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Ruan Ci, since she was born, she had always been trapped in some place, not the Ruan Mansion, but the Junping Prefecture. Only the two years she was a clerk in the Altar City were the most comfortable. Now at Catching the Moon Cliff, to prevent right and wrong, she could only close her doors and not go out. Her nature was actually very active, and she also yearned for freedom. Although she could control herself, she also felt very bored. Lin Xianen’s occasional visit was a very good adjustment to her monotonous life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This day, Lin Xianen brought a basket of spiritual fruits and came to visit again. It happened that Ruan Ci had finished her cultivation, so she invited her into the room to talk. Lin Xianen said, \"A few days ago, I went to visit and ask for advice from True Person Yanqing. The Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit in the True Person’s cave dwelling accidentally matured, and he was about to brew wine for sale, so he bestowed a basket on me. I also got a bottle of spiritual wine, called 'Great Dream Three Thousand Fields.' I kept half a bottle for myself, and there is half a bottle left. Junior Sister can taste it when you are free. However, according to True Person Yanqing, this spiritual wine is for Golden Core True Persons. A Golden Core True Person can drink a bottle and be drunk for three thousand days, dreaming three thousand dreams, which is very useful for cultivation in the Golden Core realm. And we Qi Refining disciples can be drunk for three thousand days just by inhaling a wisp of fragrance. I am not talented and cannot afford it at this time, so I plan to seal it up and wait until at least the late stage of Foundation Establishment to drink a sip. But Junior Sister usually has a preference for spiritual food and has a wide capacity, so maybe you can try it. However, I have said it first; if Junior Sister drinks it and something happens, don't blame me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a descendant of a Nascent Soul True Person and had already opened her meridians in the Southern Zhuzhou, so she was naturally older than Ruan Ci. However, her cultivation progress was very slow, just because after coming to the Profound Heaven Sect, she felt that her Jade Pool was still small and the pattern was not big, so she was expanding her Jade Pool, otherwise she would have already reached Foundation Establishment. Ruan Ci also knew her needs. It happened that among the treasures pulled by Tianlu from the Purple Void Heaven, many were inedible and had no spiritual energy. They were all external medicines used to reconcile the foundation in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages. Ruan Ci didn't need these treasures at all, and it was too much to reward the servants, so Wang Panpan let her send some to Lin Xianen, not to let her go back empty-handed, saying, \"Since the True Person gave them to you, they are all useful. Even if she can't use them, she can give them to other fellow villagers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, when Lin Xianen came to Ruan Ci’s place, there were always some benefits. She herself was not addicted to it, visited frequently, and the external medicines she got were also shared with fellow villagers. She also thought of returning the favor when she got benefits. In such details, one could see her character, so both sides could often come and go, and they became friends day by day. Ruan Ci said, \"I can accept the fruit, but the spiritual wine is so precious. Even if it is sent to the market for consignment, it can receive a lot of spiritual money. How can I accept it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xianen smiled and said, \"If Junior Sister says so, I will be ashamed to death. Every time I come, I have taken your good things. If I think so, how can I be embarrassed to take so many things from you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Ruan Ci, external medicines were useless to her, and for True Person Wang, they were things that could be obtained at will, just pulled by Tianlu, so it was not a pity to give them to others. If it weren't for Wang Panpan being good at managing and setting up a set of rules, and also being very fierce, she would have wasted them long ago. But Lin Xianen was different. The monthly allowance of outer sect disciples was always not enough, and there was no sect position, so it was very difficult and accidental to get some good things. A basket of fruit was nothing, and spiritual wine was also a precious thing in the Golden Core stage. She originally didn't want to take it, but when she heard the wonderful use of this wine, her heart moved, so she was no longer polite and smiled, \"Then thank you, Sister. In the future, if Sister lacks anything, just come and ask me. If I have it here, Sister can take it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this half bottle of wine was calculated by value, it was enough to offset her previous gifts. Lin Xianen had also returned the favor before. Calculating it, Lin Xianen still paid more. However, in the immortal sect, if you calculate too carefully, you will inevitably fall into the lower class, which is the style of the countryman that True Person Wang dislikes. Therefore, both sides never said it too clearly, just understood each other. Ruan Ci asked again, \"This time I have been favored, I think it is because your sincerity moved the True Person. After Foundation Establishment, is there hope for being recorded?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Profound Heaven Sect disciples, Foundation Establishment was a crucial pass. Not only because after Foundation Establishment, one could go out to work without being trapped in the sect, but also because after Foundation Establishment, whether there was a master to record in the sect gate determined the achievements of a lifetime. If one was not recorded in the sect gate after Foundation Establishment and was still an outer sect disciple, the best result would be to be an outer sect elder, and even if one formed a core, it would mostly be the lower three grades. Wanting to form a core of the upper three grades was extremely difficult. I don't know how many disciples with thick aptitude, because they were not amazing enough among their peers and were not old and sophisticated, were appreciated by their masters, so even after Foundation Establishment, they could not be listed in the inner sect and could only be bleakly in the outer sect to take a position, manage affairs for the sect, and gradually end their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xianen brought this half bottle of spiritual wine today, and the Foundation Establishment external medicine could be solved by exchanging with Ruan Ci first. Foundation Establishment was not a problem, but whether there was a sect to join after Foundation Establishment was the point. Therefore, she was also diligent in walking around True Person Yanqing’s mansion. Hearing this, she smiled, \"When I entered the sect, the Jade Pool was more than ten feet in diameter, which was rare in the Southern Zhuzhou, but it seemed insufficient in the sect. The True Person was busy with the Nascent Soul formation, so he asked less. Now the Jade Pool has doubled. When I asked for advice the day before yesterday, the True Person, on the eve of the Nascent Soul formation, actually took time to meet me and said that he pitied my sincerity and was not afraid of cold eyes, and still came to ask after ten years, and bestowed so many benefits. It seems that although this matter has not been clearly stated, there is a bit more certainty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had hope of taking a master, so she was naturally jumping for joy. Ruan Ci also nodded, \"After opening the meridians, it takes a lot of hard work to expand the Jade Pool by one point. Senior Sister not only doubled the number, but also the Jade Pool water rose and did not fall. The hard work is truly rare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the truth. It was only in the Profound Heaven Sect that Lin Xianen was treated as ordinary and had to plan her own future. If it were in other prosperous sects, she would have been a genius disciple, and the treatment would be compared to where Ruan Rong went. However, it was precisely this ordinary treatment that could temper the Dao heart. In the atmosphere of the Profound Heaven Sect, only cultivators whose Dao-seeking heart was moving forward could make progress step by step. If they were slightly lazy, in a position like Lin Xianen, they would not have the perseverance to grit their teeth and expand the Jade Pool while running around to make friends. You must know that she was also a descendant of a Nascent Soul in the Southern Zhuzhou and grew up pampered. Not everyone could put down their face and turn around to flatter Ruan Ci, a former merchant clerk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xianen was also happy to be praised like this and smiled happily, \"How can it compare to Junior Sister’s Jade Pool that is two or three miles wide? However, I know my own affairs. Expanding the Jade Pool to this point is the limit. I have some induction in my heart, and it is not suitable to use force here anymore. Otherwise, I am afraid I will miss the best time for Foundation Establishment. Tomorrow, when I return to the cave dwelling, I will refine spiritual power with all my strength. When the Jade Pool water is full, I will take that step. I only hope that True Person Yanqing has already formed the Nascent Soul and left the closed-door meditation by then. If a Golden Core senior can protect me, it will be my blessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci could not help with this matter, and Lin Xianen did not hint, just chatting. The two counted with their fingers, and Lin Xianen could try Foundation Establishment in fifteen years. If there was any more realization, the cultivation speed would be faster, so ten years would be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foundation Establishment in twenty-five years, this speed was not fast or slow, and it could keep up with the pace of this batch of disciples. However, Lin Xianen had expanded the Jade Pool, so this calculation was a fast progress. Compared with the Southern Zhuzhou sect, Dong Shuangcheng of the Taibai Sword Sect was a Foundation Establishment cultivation at the age of forty. She did not say at what age she reached Foundation Establishment, but thinking that she would not go down the mountain immediately after Foundation Establishment, most people usually spent a few years practicing cultivation methods and talismans, and most ordinary people opened meridians at more than ten years old, so it was twenty years of Foundation Establishment. She lacked the effort to expand the Jade Pool, and the speed was about the same as Lin Xianen, which showed the difference in foundation between the prosperous sect and the prosperous sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xianen couldn't help but sigh when talking about this, \"Everyone says that the world looks at people by the sect grade and mocks them as mediocre and snobbish. Little do they know that the vision of the prosperous sect is far beyond that of others. When I opened my meridians, I could have expanded the Jade Pool to the current size, but my elders were afraid that I would not be able to refine spiritual power, so they signaled me to stop at fifteen feet, saying that fifteen feet was quite rare in the Southern Zhuzhou. Now it has cost me so much effort. If I had joined the prosperous sect since I was a child, I am afraid that my future achievements would be even higher. Even if I had Junior Sister’s determination, I would have suffered a lot less if I opened my meridians after entering the sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci’s Jade Pool was so wide that everyone was not worried that she would not be able to refine spiritual power, just because they all believed that this was the result of the protection of the Purple Void Cave Illumination Heaven. Some also said that her Jade Pool was opened too large, so the Purple Void Heaven often sent spiritual food, which was to speed up her refining spiritual power and filling the Jade Pool. Before Lin Xianen left, she held Ruan Ci’s hand and said, \"Junior Sister should be careful in her actions recently. There seem to be rumors in the sect that True Person Wang’s bestowal is excessive. However, it has only been ten years, so they can't say much. In short, Junior Sister should still be diligent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci sent her away and returned to the room. Wang Panpan had already jumped out from somewhere, sniffing around in the basket. Seeing Ruan Ci returned, it smiled, \"Your senior sister is interesting, and it is right for her to offer this wine to you. You say, how much of what she said today was passed on to you by the Changyao Baoguang Heaven through her mouth?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under True Person Qiu of the Changyao Baoguang Heaven, quite a few people were on good terms with Ruan Ci. Chen Jun brought her back from the Southern Zhuzhou and was now raising Wang Panpan’s true body—looking at the fatness of this black-and-white cat, Wang Panpan, its true body in the Junping Prefecture was probably eating and drinking well. Not to mention Lin Ji, Green Silk also showed kindness. Now Zhou Yanqing had taken in Lin Xianen, who was walking closely with Catching the Moon Cliff. Ruan Ci said, \"Sister Lin is sophisticated but not snobbish, has the aptitude for Dao cultivation, and has the perseverance to seek the Dao. True Person Zhou taking her in is not entirely because of me. Even if it is, it is her own luck. I still have to accept this wine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Wang Panpan noncommittal, she added, \"It seems that True Person Qiu is gradually leaning towards the Sect Master’s line. The Sect Master should be happy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Panpan sneered, \"Zhou Yanqing just took in a small disciple, this cannot be said to be leaning, at most it is a move on both sides. Only when Chen Jun and the Purple Void Cave Illumination Heaven disciples start walking around will True Person Qiu be considered determined. However, you are right. Your Senior Sister Lin, who drills and looks around for human feelings every day, can still raise her cultivation to this level, which is also a talent. She said that she would reach Foundation Establishment in fifteen years at the longest and ten years at the shortest, so you should calculate it as ten years. I see that your Jade Pool is also seven or eight percent full. It is best to break through the pass within ten years, before Lin Xianen, otherwise, I am really afraid that she will usurp the host in the future and suppress you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci originally calculated that she could fill the Jade Pool in ten years without sleep, but this was naturally impossible. She had to visualize sword intent every day, learn talismans, and occasionally rest. It was not bad to cultivate for three hours a day. However, her cultivation speed was faster than originally expected. After all, she had visualized the sword intent diagram these years and was more closely connected with the East Flower Sword, so the spiritual power delivery was faster. Now it seemed that the Jade Pool was seven percent full. If she worked hard, she might be able to expand the Jade Pool water within five years and reach Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her Foundation Establishment was different from others, and she did not need external medicine to reconcile. If it was the path of a tool cultivator, she only needed to strengthen the induction with the East Flower Sword, draw in sword qi, and mix it with the Jade Pool water to build a high platform. After the water was full, she would naturally change the inner scene and heaven-and-earth, thus reaching Foundation Establishment. Moreover, the sword qi was endless and absolutely pure, which was definitely the top external medicine in the world. The divine intent was tempered by sword qi in that visualization, and it was many times richer than ordinary cultivators, so building a nine-story high platform was not a problem at all. Wang Panpan urged her to reach Foundation Establishment, just as simple as eating a spiritual fruit, and it was not without reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She must beat all her peers and reach Foundation Establishment first. Wang Panpan had emphasized this several times, and Ruan Ci also knew that there might be some attention to it. And although she could use many excuses to prevaricate and not talk about the problems in her cultivation, the Jade Pool water could not be hidden. One look would know how many inches and points were left, and its accumulation had its own speed to calculate. Therefore, after the water was full, she could not delay for long and had to reach Foundation Establishment. If she used the method of a tool cultivator to mix sword intent and water, then this Dao foundation could be converted between the East Flower Sword and herself. When she lost the East Flower Sword, it would also crack into two halves. Ruan Ci naturally wanted to advance with the method of an intent cultivator. In her view, she should always use the method of an intent cultivator to push her cultivation to the limit. If there was really no way, then she would switch to a tool cultivator. By that time, Xie Yanhuan would return, and returning the sword would be nothing more than retreating to the beginning of a tool cultivator, and she would not die at that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in these years of diligent practice, she was also waiting for the opportunity, but that kind of strange dream never appeared again. Ruan Ci naturally had various guesses in her heart, one of which was that this strange dream would not appear out of thin air, but required a certain stimulus. The first time she dreamed of Chang Chunfeng was stimulated by that \"Yin Lord Pill Song Annotation.\" Ruan Ci read that cultivation method and opened the possibility of intent cultivation, sensing the East Flower in the dark, which led to that strange dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had also flipped through the handwritten copies many times afterwards, confident that it was exactly the same as the original, but she never had such an induction again. According to Ruan Ci’s thoughts, she was afraid that one opportunity could only open one strange dream, but what counted as an opportunity was hard to say. This time Lin Xianen sent spiritual wine, saying that one could be drunk for three thousand days and dream three thousand dreams. This word \"dream\" touched her, so she kept the spiritual wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xianen could not drink this Golden Core spiritual wine because she could not digest the medicinal power. In Ruan Ci’s case, it was naturally different. She could eat one Foundation Establishment stage monster in one go. If she drank a sip of Golden Core spiritual wine, she should not die from being unable to refine it. Wang Panpan was not worried about her safety, but it also took the spiritual wine away for safekeeping, saying, \"Now is the time for you to race against time to work hard. If you drink a sip now, you will definitely not die, but if you are drunk for thirty years, wouldn't it be a big joke?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This worry was also reasonable. More importantly, Wang Panpan swallowed the bottle into its belly, and Ruan Ci could not break this supernatural power of it. She could only wait for this cat to be happy and slowly seek it. She said, \"Or I will eat a piece of fruit first and taste the medicinal power. If it is bearable, then consider the things behind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Dream Three Thousand Fields was brewed from Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit, and the medicinal power could be inferred. Wang Panpan did not object to this and introduced, \"This Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit, it is rumored that the Dao Ancestor of the past planted a peach tree in the mountain gate. The peach fruit contains a trace of time law power, called the Dream-Returning Immortal Peach. After the peach fruit is planted, it will bear fruit and divide branches. After several generations of inheritance, the spiritual power gradually lost. The one planted by Zhou Yanqing is far from the mother generation, so it can only be called a spiritual fruit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also said with disdain, \"It doesn't matter if you eat one of these spiritual fruits. Anyway, after a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator eats it, except for the progress in spiritual power, at most they will sleep for two or three days and have a vague dream. Some people say that the dream will contain the karma of the previous life, but that was also in the ancient times, before the Netherworld Li Fire Dao Ancestor achieved the Dao. At that time, cultivators could reincarnate and practice again. Eating the immortal peach could recall the memories of the previous life. Now, the cultivator’s true spirit does not enter reincarnation. Even if you remember the previous life, so what? You were just a mortal in the previous life, which is of no help to the current Dao path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci thought, if this Dream-Returning Immortal Peach is paired with \"Yin Lord Pill Song Annotation,\" isn't it a complete set of blue cloud path for great ability reincarnation? From these relics, one can also infer the demeanor of ancient cultivators. Thinking about it, at that time, the acquisition of power was more convenient, and the disputes were much more intense than now. Although heroes emerged one after another, worthy of being praised and remembered by future generations, if one lived as a mortal in that generation, the taste must not be very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up the spiritual fruit and looked at it, couldn't help but hesitate, gritted her teeth and ate it in one bite. She only felt the fragrance full of mouth. Not long after eating, the rare sleepiness rose, and she leaned on the bed, confused, and fell asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Updated. Sorry for the long wait, everyone. I had beef soup made by my dad for lunch today! It’s my favorite! The soup is clear and the meat is slippery, and there are tofu, cauliflower, and taro. It’s delicious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will send comment red envelopes to everyone in this chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I actually forgot to say yesterday that Xie Yanhuan’s Heavenly Demon Dual Aspect is also a point I like very much. I think the most interesting point of cultivating immortality is that some things that exceed the limits of common sense can be realized in the world of cultivating immortality, so we can freely look at it from many perspectives, such as gender. In fact, in the world of cultivating immortality, it can be completely meaningless, such as Xie Yanhuan’s Heavenly Demon Dual Aspect. Then what does it matter whether Xie Yanhuan’s original gender is male or female? Of course, this is just my own opinion. Everyone will have their own thoughts on reading, which is very normal, and I welcome free communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>. Thanks to the little angels who gave me overlord votes or poured nutrient solution between 2020-08-03 12:04:09 and 2020-08-04 12:01:02~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angel who gave a hand grenade: Yu Wanyao (1);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who gave landmines: Mo Yu Jun Zi Zhou, Li Zhi who had been stolen, Feng Guang, Luyona_, Time’s Delusion (1 each);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who poured nutrient solution: Jun You Yi Xi (65 bottles); Second Person (20 bottles); ss, Mie Wan De Zi Chuan (10 bottles); Xun Xi, Afternoon Sunshine, ingrideagle (5 bottles); Hu Shanshan (4 bottles); Fan Zhou (2 bottles); Zou Zou, Dan Dan, mf4ever (1 bottle);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 49 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",5920,"2026-06-17T08:48:53.797Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a1bc547799867195265a224e505a068dc558fb122d513aedeac310d546e33134","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-45","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-43",286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fborrowing-the-sword-cover.jpg"]