Chapter 52: Back Down? No Way!

Bai Yue turned around and looked at Xiao Yueluo, who was still rooted at the entrance with a face full of despair, and Su Qingyan, who was examining the structure of the room.

The corner of her mouth curled into a satisfied smile.

She walked over to the stone table and pulled up a stool to sit on.

“Su Qingyan, take out everything you bought in the city today.”

“Oh, okay!”

Su Qingyan immediately pulled out the storage pouch from her sleeve.

Clatter—

A pile of dark refined iron ore, mixed with several dozen pieces of jade, spilled onto the stone table, quickly forming a small mountain.

“Bai Yue, why did you ask me to buy so much jade?

This kind of jade can’t even hold a trace of spiritual energy—it shatters at the slightest touch.”

Su Qingyan wiped the dust off her hands and asked curiously.

“It can’t hold spiritual energy, but it’s insulating and thermally conductive.”

Bai Yue pointed at the pile of scrap on the table.

“If you make that conversion chamber on your blueprint out of ordinary refined iron, the moment the gas inside turns into high-temperature steam, the iron will melt instantly.

This jade is your best thermal insulation coating material.”

Su Qingyan’s eyes lit up, and she slapped her thigh: “Exactly!

Why didn’t I think of that!

Grind the brittle low-grade jade into powder, mix it with gel, and coat the inner wall…”

She immediately started sifting through the pile of ores, muttering technical jargon that no one else could understand.

“Alright, enough studying for now.”

Bai Yue rapped on the stone table, the crisp sound pulling both of their attention back.

“Until the Ascension Assembly begins, we’ll be in seclusion here.

There are only two tasks.”

Bai Yue raised one finger and pointed it straight at Xiao Yueluo, who was spacing out.

“First, completely restore your shattered spiritual roots.”

“Bai Yue…”

Xiao Yueluo snapped out of it, looking up and voicing a question she had been holding back for a while.

“There’s no spiritual energy here at all.

Can we really do something like restoring spiritual roots in this dead zone?”

“Do you remember those water spirits I soaked your feet in?

They are born in the depths of the purest spiritual springs, and within their bodies, they nurture a wisp of extremely faint primordial qi.

That is the only material that can repair your damaged spiritual roots.”

Bai Yue leaned against the edge of the stone table, arms crossed, looking at her calmly.

“Spiritual energy is merely the fuel that nourishes and drives the spiritual root.

What can truly rebuild the vessel itself is only the most fundamental primordial qi.

So the presence or absence of spiritual energy has no effect on the restoration of your roots.”

Xiao Yueluo froze at this, staring blankly for a few seconds.

Then, as if remembering something, her face flushed red.

—She had been so focused on all the… lewd thoughts back then that she hadn’t listened carefully.

How embarrassing….

Bai Yue paid her no mind and continued her explanation.

“Primordial qi is the original, primal energy from the beginning of heaven and earth, before all things were born.

What cultivators in the cultivation world usually absorb as spiritual energy is merely a derivative of that source energy, tainted with mundane impurities after it scattered across the world.”

Bai Yue paused, her gaze sweeping over Xiao Yueluo’s slightly reddened face.

“And actually, it’s better to do the restoration in a place without spiritual energy.”

“Why?”

Xiao Yueluo snapped back to attention and pressed further.

“Because if you restore your spiritual roots in a place rich in spiritual energy,” Bai Yue raised a finger, her tone tinged with mockery, “every time the primordial qi repairs a bit of your spiritual root, it will instinctively absorb a bit of the surrounding spiritual energy.

Repairs and replenishment happen simultaneously.

By the time your spiritual root is fully restored, your cultivation will also have naturally returned to the level it was before you were crippled.”

“Isn’t that good?”

“That’s just mediocrity.”

Bai Yue cut her down without mercy.

“No harm done, but absolutely no benefit either.

You’d simply be back to where you started.”

“But if you’re in a dead zone.”

Bai Yue leaned forward slightly, her gaze growing deep.

“Since there’s no spiritual energy at all, while your root is being repaired, it will have nothing to absorb.

It will remain in an utterly pure state throughout the entire process.”

“When we leave this godforsaken place and step back into a world with spiritual energy again—” Bai Yue lowered her voice, her tone carrying a fanatical, almost hypnotic intensity, “that external spiritual energy will rush into your body like sharks that have smelled blood!

Completely out of control, flooding into you in a frenzy!”

“The sheer volume and speed of that influx will shatter everything you’ve ever known.

It will forcibly expand your meridians.”

“This is equivalent to directly reshaping your foundation and elevating your aptitude!

If you’re lucky, breaking through several realms in a row will be effortless.

And with that explosive breakthrough, there’s a high chance of triggering heavenly phenomena, granting you the baptism of Heavenly Dao’s blessing!”

Xiao Yueluo’s heart raced, her breathing quickening.

Breaking through the old to establish the new!

Jumping several realms in one go!

But before she could celebrate, Bai Yue doused her with cold water.

“However.”

Bai Yue’s voice dropped, sharp and chilling.

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

When that violent spiritual energy surges into you all at once, your original meridians simply won’t be able to withstand that kind of terrifying volume.

They will be stretched and torn apart.”

Bai Yue reached out and tapped Xiao Yueluo lightly on the shoulder.

“It’s like trying to force a thigh-thick iron rod through a blood vessel that’s only as wide as a thread!

Every inch of flesh, every single acupoint will undergo tearing and reconstruction.

And during this process, you absolutely cannot lose consciousness.

The moment you do, the primordial qi will dissipate, and you will explode on the spot.”

She withdrew her hand and walked to the door, pulling open the heavy wooden door.

“So if you’re afraid, you can pack your things.”

“Take a few mortal businesses, live your life as a cripple who can never cultivate again.

Have a peaceful hundred years—you won’t have to suffer this.”

Bai Yue gestured to the pitch-black night outside.

“Choose.”

A gust of night wind, laden with sand and grit, blew in, making Xiao Yueluo shiver.

She bit her lip hard, tasting a hint of coppery blood in her mouth.

Back down?

Live as a cripple?

She turned her head and glanced at Su Qingyan, standing not far away, still maintaining her composure.

Su Qingyan’s talent and character were destined to shine brightly in the cultivation world of the future.

And the Bai Yue before her—she was unfathomably deep.

If she backed down now, she would only ever be able to stand below, watching their light like a pathetic admirer?

Never!

Having experienced the humiliation of falling from genius to waste, having endured all those cold stares and mockery, she would rather die in the agony of her meridians shattering than live as a groveling mortal!

“I won’t go!”

Xiao Yueluo stared directly into Bai Yue’s eyes.

Her body trembled slightly from fear of the unknown, but her voice carried an unmistakable fierceness.

“As long as I can get stronger, I can endure any pain!

Even if you have to break my bones and rebuild them, I won’t make a sound!”

Seeing the fire burning in Xiao Yueluo’s eyes, Bai Yue nodded silently to herself.

This was what a true protagonist should look like—not a mind full of garbage, just oohing and aahing all the time.

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