After awakening, the female supporting character in the abused novel only wants to ascend to immorta

Chapter 130: Late Jindan Period
Lin Zhao touched the Heavenly Fox Tear, finding it quite strange. She had often treated it as an ornament, never expecting it to have the ability to locate objects.

"It can still work even where the Heavenly Mirror fails; that's amazing."

When Su Bai arrived, he saw Lin Zhao deep in thought, studying the Heavenly Fox Tear, almost biting his lip in frustration.

"Sister Zhao Zhao." Su Bai quickly pulled her back.

Lin Zhao withdrew her wicked teeth and awkwardly touched her nose: "You arrived pretty quickly, huh?"

Su Bai breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was alright, and said, "Sister probably knows where this place is, right?"

Lin Zhao nodded. "Do you have a way to get out?"

Su Bai said, "Yes, there is, but my spiritual energy is not enough to open it. Normally, only powerful beings at the Nascent Soul stage can break through the formation here. However, because the cultivation level of the person using it is too low, this restriction has been reduced quite a bit. But relying solely on my spiritual energy, it is still difficult to break through."

Lin Zhao raised an eyebrow. "You mean, you still need my help?"

Su Bai nodded: "Yes, if we both attack at the same time, targeting the weakest point in this world, there is a one in ten chance."

Lin Zhao acted immediately, gathering spiritual energy to break the formation, but Su Bai grabbed her wrist: "Sister's current spiritual energy foundation is not enough to break through this formation."

Lin Zhao brushed his hand away and asked, "How much backing do you need?"

"At least thirty strands of spiritual energy foundation."

She fell silent.

After a long silence, Lin Zhao pointed to herself and said, "Little Bai, although I really want to fulfill all your wishes, I am not omnipotent."

She was still five spiritual energy foundations short of thirty, making it impossible for her to condense them quickly in this spiritually sparse scroll space—it was simply a pipe dream.

Su Bai looked at her wrist and said, "Then we can only wait until my sister breaks through, or I advance to the Fusion stage, before we can possibly leave."

Waiting for the Golden Core to advance and merge? Wouldn't that be waiting forever?

Lin Zhao asked Granny Honghu, "Master, do you have a solution?"

"If there's no other way, would I still tell you to wait until your... younger brother arrives?" For the first time, Grandma Honghu was somewhat disgusted with her disciple's brain.

Lin Zhao's lips twitched. "But what method allows me to condense so much spiritual energy in such a short time?"

"Pills." Granny Honghu laughed, "Do you remember when Master made you buy medicinal herbs until you went bankrupt? Actually, besides pills to restore spiritual energy and heal injuries, there were also pills that relied on some external means to gather spiritual energy."

Lin Zhao was traumatized by that experience.

Even now, with the Lin family's substantial financial support, she still doesn't dare to go on a shopping spree like she did last time.

"Look at how stingy you are. Once you learn alchemy, you can earn as much money as you want. If all else fails, just ask your little husband for money."

Lin Zhao couldn't help but ask, "And who is this young master?"

Before, he was just my boyfriend, but now he's calling me his husband? Master, aren't you being a bit disrespectful to your elders?
"That kid named Qu Shu, he must be minoring in weapon crafting. Weapon crafters are rich."

Lin Zhao shook his head, sighed, and held out his hand: "Master, please give me the pills quickly."

Although she didn't admit it, her grandmother, an old witch who had lived for so many years, couldn't help but chuckle when she saw that Lin Zhao didn't deny the relationship she was teasing about for the first time. Her disciple had finally been stimulated to the point of getting a little enlightened.

"Take this, and remember to use it to expel the poison."

Lin Zhao looked at the perfectly round red pill in his hand and couldn't help but ask, "Master, is there only one?"

She was a little skeptical; how much improvement could one pill provide?

Grandma replied irritably, "Let's see if you can get through this one first."

Sensing her grandmother's displeasure, Lin Zhao reluctantly gave up. After instructing Su Bai to protect her, Lin Zhao sat cross-legged, circulated the Phoenix Meridian Technique, and adjusted her physical state to its optimal condition. Then, she used her spiritual energy to lift the round, red pill and slowly put it into her mouth. As the pill entered her body, it transformed into countless gases that filled her body. These gases were not spiritual energy; instead, they disrupted Lin Zhao's own spiritual energy, creating a chaotic mess.

Lin Zhao's lips twitched. Had she let a wolf into her house?

Without much thought, Lin Zhao quickly circulated her cultivation technique to guide her spiritual energy back to the right path. However, the spiritual energy entangled by the pill's energy was like a child out of control, completely disobeying her commands and still running rampant in her body, almost causing Lin Zhao to spit out a mouthful of blood.

This was the first time Lin Zhao had encountered such a situation since he began cultivating.

Lin Zhao slowly opened his eyes. "You think you can control me with this little bit of drive?"

A golden light flashed across her body as she activated the Undying Golden Body Technique, combining it with the Phoenix Union and Phoenix Vein Techniques. She finally managed to balance the medicinal energy within her body and barely managed to guide some of the spiritual energy back to the right path.

Grandma Honghu was somewhat surprised, but more pleased, to see that she had regained control of herself so quickly: "Not bad, now try circulating your spiritual energy to absorb external spiritual energy."

Lin Zhao formed hand seals and activated the Phoenix Vein Technique to quickly adjust her state. When she absorbed a wisp of external spiritual energy, the medicinal energy within her body suddenly erupted with a powerful suction force. Lin Zhao was surprised to feel that all the spiritual energy in this space was converging towards her.

When the spiritual energy of this world becomes somewhat thin, the flow of medicinal energy seems to weaken, but it is still terrifyingly concentrated. It circulates, constantly emitting a blazing light because it cannot obtain spiritual energy.

The next moment, this world seemed to be stirred by something, and invisible spiritual energy drifted down from the sky.

Su Bai was also somewhat shocked after sensing it.

Is this someone cultivating by mobilizing the primordial spiritual energy of this world?
What he could sense, Lin Zhao could naturally sense as well. "Master, this is..."

"That's why I didn't let you take this pill before. Its way of gathering spiritual energy is too domineering. It might drain a piece of the world in a short time, so it's most suitable for this kind of imprisoning formation. The formation itself requires a lot of spiritual energy to mobilize and maintain. People trapped in the formation generally can't mobilize this spiritual energy, but with my pill, it's not that difficult to mobilize it."

Grandma Honghu's voice was tinged with laughter. This scroll space is a seventh-grade formation. So what if only the Nascent Soul stage can break through it?

Many Nascent Soul cultivators perished at her hands.

Lin Zhao felt the domineering medicinal aura and was shocked by Granny Honghu's methods. He had always thought that his master was kind and gentle, but he never expected that when he really became domineering, he would leave no way out for his enemies.

Sensing Lin Zhao's thoughts, Granny Honghu said, "Whether in ancient times or now, if you want to become a unique person, you must never have any mercy towards your enemies, otherwise, only death awaits you."

Lin Zhao could sense a flash of sadness in Grandma Honghu's voice when she said those words, but she quickly suppressed it.

Thinking about the character of the Honghu clan, Lin Zhao seemed to have guessed why his master was left with only a wisp of a soul, and nodded heavily: "Master, I understand."

Lin Zhao lowered her eyes, letting the medicinal energy circulate freely within her body, absorbing the spiritual energy from this space. Each time, she would only begin to circulate the Phoenix Vein Technique when her body reached its limit, slowly transforming the absorbed spiritual energy into her own spiritual flow.

After an unknown amount of time, until all the red medicinal energy in her body had disappeared, Lin Zhao slowly stood up. After transforming the last trace of spiritual energy in her body into a part of the spiritual flow, she exhaled a breath of turbid air, checked her physical condition, and curled her lips into a smile.

"Xiao Bai, how much time has passed?"

“It’s been three days and three nights.” When Su Bai heard her ask, he turned to look at her and sensed Lin Zhao’s cultivation level. Even he was somewhat surprised at this moment.

"Sister's cultivation level?"

"Hmm, thirty-three streams of spiritual energy, that's much more than I expected."

Lin Zhao believed this was mainly due to the effectiveness of her master's elixirs.

Little did people know that the real reason was that she was acting as if she had never absorbed spiritual energy in eight lifetimes. Not only was she frantically extracting spiritual energy from this space, but she was also constantly pushing her body to the limit during the cultivation process, which led to such an increase in her spiritual energy reserves.

Grandma Honghu was also somewhat frightened by her disciple's desperate efforts.

Others take on disciples because they're afraid the disciples won't work hard enough. She looks at her disciple, afraid that one day she'll work herself to death.

At the same time, Lin Zhao, who now possesses thirty-three streams of spiritual energy, has officially entered the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

(End of this chapter)