Chapter 16: Breakthrough! Foundation Establishment Middle Stage

【Detection: the host has suffered dual cultivation, the reversal effect has been automatically triggered!】

【Original effect: suffering dual cultivation, yang energy decreases, cultivation regresses】

【Reversal effect: suffering dual cultivation, yang energy increases, cultivation advances】

"Junior Brother, I've been in the Demonic Sect for so many years, I feel so lonely...... I really want to return...... sigh......"

The night was as dark as ink, and before we knew it, it was deep night.

Because she was tired, Gu Xiangxiang quickly fell into a deep sleep.

However, before she fell asleep, she whispered a few words from her heart to Lu Chen, but unfortunately her voice was too soft and Lu Chen didn't hear it.

"Senior Sister, let go of the hand you're holding, I have to leave."

Lu Chen gently let go of Gu Xiangxiang's hand and carefully wiped away the sweat she had left on his body, as well as the sweat on her body.

After covering her with a blanket, he left the room.

As he walked out of the room, he felt the changes in his body after dual cultivation, and a hint of excitement that could not be concealed appeared in his eyes.

"Soon, another round of dual cultivation should be enough to break through!"

But soon after, a hint of a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"After working so hard at cultivation, it's not as good as the boost from one dual cultivation after the system's reversal......"

However, this is not a bad thing for Lu Chen.

The Reversal System is not only advantageous in dual cultivation, but also very powerful when cultivating various demonic path techniques.

Use it well, the future is promising!

"Cough cough."

Although it was already late at night, he still had no time to sleep, after all, he had dealt with one senior sister, and there was another senior sister.

To him, this wasn't a task but a huge amount of cultivation.

Gu Xiaoxiao's room is not far from Gu Xiangxiang's; he only walked a few minutes to get there.

Compared to her sister's gentle nature, Gu Xiaoxiao is much more mischievous.

Moreover, she has a special fetish: she likes role-playing.

This she has shown only to Lu Chen alone; not even Gu Xiangxiang knows about it.

Lu Chen still remembers that time when she had him pretend to be a male cultivator who couldn't defeat her in a secret realm; after losing the fierce battle, due to lack of stamina, she ruthlessly drained him through dual cultivation.

"Hiss...... Sometimes I really can't believe these two are real sisters."

As expected, upon seeing Gu Xiaoxiao, she quickly assigned Lu Chen an identity.

"This time, you will play the male cultivator who fought me in the Grand Competition." She closed the door and began to explain the various details of Lu Chen's identity.

"In the Grand Competition, we fought a bloody battle for three days and three nights, using every means at our disposal."

"But in the end, you still lost to me due to a slight margin."

"Because you lost the bet, you came to my room......"

"You stripped naked, awaiting my judgment......"

As for the identity she arranged for him, Lu Chen had no resistance.

Although it indeed sounds a bit perverted, as long as it doesn't involve some fourth something, he is happy to accept it.

When not acting, he also wholeheartedly cooperated with her performance.

During this period, Gu Xiaoxiao appeared deeply immersed and enjoying herself.

Only at dawn did Lu Chen leave her room.

Before she fell asleep, she stuffed Lu Chen with a lot of things all at once.

Among them were spirit stones, evil qi vessels, and so on.

"Sigh, finally it's over."

Just as he did with Gu Xiangxiang, after covering her with a blanket, he left.

After one night, his gains were enormous.

Moreover, as he expected, he was only one step away from breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

"Go back to cultivate and break through as soon as possible."

Lu Chen has had almost no rest time since a few days ago.

After returning to his residence, he hurriedly took out the Myriad Evil Magic Canon and began cultivating.

After the cultivation technique cycled for several rounds, spirit and evil qi gradually gathered in his body and surged madly toward his dantian.

Generally speaking, before a breakthrough, any cultivator will feel the existence of the realm barrier.

But because he had established the Supreme Dao Foundation, Lu Chen never felt the barrier's existence from beginning to end.

With a soft "pop" sound, his realm broke through smoothly.

"Foundation Establishment Middle Stage! Unexpectedly fast!"

Feeling the completely different aura on his body, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

"The improvement from the breakthrough is so great—could it be because of the Supreme Dao Foundation?"

Generally speaking, each major realm of a cultivator brings a huge increase compared to the previous realm.

For example, in the Foundation Establishment Realm, after establishing the Dao Foundation, one can manipulate spirit and evil qi more freely.

And in the Elixir Accumulation Realm, a profound elixir condenses inside the body, and the spirit and evil qi it can contain will undergo a qualitative increase.

Put simply, if the spirit and evil qi inside a Foundation Establishment cultivator's body is a lake, then in the Elixir Accumulation Realm it is a vast ocean.

And yet, Lu Chen felt this huge increase when he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

"Although there is no profound elixir inside his body yet, the space in his dantian can actually hold hundreds of times more spirit and evil qi than before."

Based on his previous battle with Wang Qun, Lu Chen guessed that his current strength is already enough to rival the Foundation Establishment Perfection stage.

「Foundation Establishment Perfection, still not enough. 」

The core disciples of the sect basically have strength at Foundation Establishment Perfection or above.

If Lu Chen wants to obtain a certain ranking in the grand competition, he must further increase his strength.

Moreover, don't forget, although Su Qian took over the matter of him killing Wang Qun.

But Wang Lan and the others will definitely not let him off so easily.

Although Su Qian, who is at the Condensing Spirit stage, is present, but the other side has the Second Elder behind them; if they really fight, Su Qian might not necessarily be able to help, and in the end he'll still have to rely on himself.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly lost his sense of security.

Being in the Demonic Sect, he has no choice!

I originally thought that after enslaving Su Qian, the crisis would be somewhat alleviated.

But upon further reflection, I still lack confidence.

「If you want to increase your strength, besides breaking through your realm, there are also cultivation techniques. 」

「The Female Yama King, having consumed her soul twice, still hasn't awakened; to obtain a better cultivation technique, the only option is to go find Su Qian again. 」

「By the way, check whether she has cultivated the dual cultivation technique. 」

When he said those last words, there was no lecherous look in Lu Chen's eyes; it was utterly pure.

After successfully breaking through, he ended his cultivation state, heavily lay on the bed, and his whole body relaxed considerably.

Because of the busyness of the past few days, after he relaxed, he quickly fell asleep.

In his dream, his consciousness went to the depths of his sea of consciousness and found the sleeping Qi Luo Empress.

The Qi Luo Empress appeared extremely weak, her form very blurry, as if a gust of wind could scatter her.

From her, Lu Chen could feel that the two of them were connected through a contract.

Moreover, at this moment the empress, through the contract, is slowly absorbing something from his body; Lu Chen guesses that this is probably how the Female Yama King recovers her soul.

「It seems that last time, to conceal the anomaly for me, the Female Yama King expended a great deal of soul power. 」

「I don't know when she will wake up. 」

「Forget it, just sleep; tomorrow I still have to go find Su Qian. 」