I Know What You're Up To, Miss!

Each Spirit Root has its own advantages.

Lu Xingyan felt as if there were ten little demons tempting her at the moment.

After much deliberation, she held her heart, endured the pain, and chose to max out her Fire Spiritual Root first.

It wasn't that she favored it over the others, but because it offered the best value for money.

Whether it was controlling the Spiritual Fire in alchemy or Artifact Refining, both were what she urgently needed.

Plus, the Fire Spiritual Root naturally had high damage and strong burst potential.

"Goldie, Greenwood, Bubble, Mud, Little Whirlwind, Ice Cream, Pizhalei, Righteous Light, Little Dark Six, it's not that I don't like you, you must wait for me," Lu Xingyan said with a sorrowful face after upgrading her Fire Spiritual Root.

Before the upgrade, the ten light spots representing different Spirit Roots in her dantian coexisted peacefully, each minding their own territory.

But after she maxed out her Fire Spiritual Root Aptitude, her dantian became a sea of fire, with the nine other light spots each representing the other Spirit Roots trembling in the corner, looking pitiful and helpless.

Yuezheng Yan, holding a food container, had just arrived outside Lu Xingyan's Immortal's Cave when he heard her cries.

He paused his steps, and after no longer hearing Lu Xingyan's crying from her Immortal's Cave, he approached and knocked on the opened wooden door.

"Junior brother, is something the matter?" Upon seeing an outsider, Lu Xingyan immediately switched faces like in a Peking opera, her face adorned with a proper smile.

"Senior sister, the food container has been cleaned. Where should I put it?" Yuezheng Yan replied.

"Just put it in the Immortal's Cave next to me," Lu Xingyan continued smiling.

"Alright, thank you for letting me know, senior sister," Yuezheng Yan didn't stay any longer.

However, he couldn't help but recall the strange cries he unintentionally heard earlier.

All that talk of babies, bubbles, and ice creams, the names were odd and weird.

It made Yuezheng Yan think of Lu Xingyan's Contracted Beast named Old Sixth.

The crying earlier sounded genuinely emotional and sad; could that string of names she recited all be her Contracted Beasts...

With Old Sixth, that would make ten Contracted Beasts, wouldn't it? Is that even normal?

As soon as the thought of self-doubt arose, Yuezheng Yan immediately dismissed it.

He had been reborn, after all, and there was a Blackening value between him and Lu Xingyan. With such peculiarities, he wouldn't find it odd even if she had ten Contracted Beasts.

Once Yuezheng Yan had left, Lu Xingyan's attention returned to the Point Mall.

Having spent 900 Points to max out her Fire Spiritual Root, she was left with 110 Points, which weren't enough to exchange for anything, and increasing Spiritual Root Aptitude wasn't in whole numbers.

She had a bit of a compulsion for round numbers, so she decided to save these 110 Points, hoping to snag some from Yuezheng Yan later, and then decide whether to exchange for pill recipes or for that Artifact Refining Manual that she coveted the most.

Heavenly Craft - Artifact Refining from Foundation Establishment to Divinity Transformation, eh.

Just imagine, a Junior Artifact Refiner with a Foundation Establishment Cultivation, forging an immortal-grade magic weapon that could only be produced by someone with a divine transformation cultivation level, how cool would that be!

Not to mention others being envious, even her Master Xiao Qingge would have to call her "Master" once she knew about it—no joking!

By then, she intended to wield ten immortal-grade swords all by herself!

Indeed, good spirits accompany good fortune. Just after maxing out her Fire Spiritual Root Aptitude, Lu Xingyan felt a breakthrough in the Cultivation Level that had been stuck for a year.

The rich Spiritual Power from the surroundings began to burrow into her body, with the Fire Spiritual Power being the most active.

Its fiery-red light fiercely pushed the other Spiritual Powers aside, surged into Lu Xingyan's meridians, traveled throughout her body, and finally returned to her dantian.

[Congratulations host! Kudos to the host! You've finally shed the title of Junior Qi Practitioner and stepped into Foundation Establishment!]

"My Spiritual Power is abundant now, especially the Fire Spiritual Power," Lu Xingyan could feel the heat at the location of her dantian, giving her the illusion that she could conjure up a sea of fire with a wave of her hand.

Of course, she just entertained the thought and didn't dare to actually wave her hand.

After all, she was still at Xiaoyao Peak, in the Immortal's Cave where she lived, surrounded by forests.

Starting a forest fire could land her in prison, and even though the cultivation world didn't concern itself with such things...

With no outlet for the newly enhanced Fire Spiritual Power, Lu Xingyan simply took out two Alchemy Furnaces and lit them up simultaneously.

[Host, what are you planning to do? You're not actually thinking about refining two batches of Pills at the same time, are you!] The 666 system's voice was filled with surprise and fear.