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Chapter 217 Cultivation World 6
As the duel began, frost swept across the arena. Si Lingle's Qingchu sword hummed softly, its blade trembling as it emitted a cold, blue light. Spiderweb-like cracks quietly appeared on the blue bricks beneath her feet.

Jian Lan stood ten feet away, surrounded by a pale blue spiritual mist. The ground beneath her feet was covered with ice crystals an inch thick, and even her breath carried a bone-chilling cold.

The two powerful forces collided, and the air crackled with the sound of tiny ice crystals bursting.

Si Lingle moved like lightning, her sword energy preceding her sword strike, a three-foot-long azure light carrying a sharp whistling sound aimed straight for Jian Lan's throat.

Where the sword light swept past, the frost on the ground exploded in a radial pattern, which turned out to be the trajectory of ice crystals condensed from the sword energy.

Jian Lan made a hand seal and retreated quickly, three ice walls suddenly appearing behind her, but they shattered like thin paper under the sword light.

Si Lingle's offensive continued. As she spun and leaped into the air, her sword shadows split into nine paths, alternating between real and illusory, like cold stars falling to the ground.

Jian Lan clasped her hands together, and the spiritual mist around her suddenly transformed into ice crystal armor, which she used to withstand the sword shadows before retreating.

With fingertips drawing out mysterious runes, hundreds of ice spikes instantly condensed above the arena, pouring down like a torrential rain.

Even more insidious are the "Ice Soul Needles" hidden within, which are as thin as a hair but specifically designed to break through protective qi.

Si Lingle swung her sword in a circle, the sword net weaving into a blue lotus phantom, shredding the ice spikes into dust, but her clothes were still scratched by the ice needles, leaving several bloody marks.

Jian Lan unleashed her natal magic weapon, the "Mystic Ice Fan," which emitted beams of extremely cold light, freezing even sword energy like amber wherever it touched.

Si Lingle's dantian surged with spiritual energy, and her sword energy was pushed to its limit. The Qingchu Sword burst out with dazzling green light, actually splitting the cold light in two.

Jian Lan used a secret technique, turning the arena into an ice cave. Si Lingyue's movements became visibly sluggish, and her eyelashes were covered with ice shards.

Si Lingle bit her tongue to forcefully raise her consciousness, becoming one with her sword and transforming into a streak of light as she charged forward. At the same time, the sword pellet also transformed into silver light and shot out. Jian Lan's pupils shrank suddenly, detonating the pre-set "ice explosion array," and the phantom of an ice dragon appeared in the sky full of ice mist.

The moment the two forces collided, the sword energy pierced through the dragon's head and reached Jian Lan's chest, while Si Lingle's left arm was also pierced by the ice dragon's fangs, and the blood droplets turned into ice beads before they even hit the ground.

As the smoke and dust cleared, Jian Lan's ice armor crumbled inch by inch, revealing thousands of swords hanging above her head. Si Ling Le's sword tip hovered three inches from her throat, and her right arm, which held the sword, was covered in frost patterns.

The arena beneath their feet had long since transformed into a battlefield of ice crystals and sword marks, so much so that spectators couldn't even distinguish between the remnants of magic and the condensed ice from sword energy.

"Qiancengfeng Silingle wins."

Si Lingle retrieved the sword pellet and sword, and took out a pill to consume.

Xi Yanmo, watching from the arena, had a serious expression on his face.

He hadn't expected that in just four years, Si Lingle would break through from the Qi Refining stage to the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage, surpassing his own cultivation level.

His cultivation level is only at the late Foundation Establishment stage, still some distance from the Great Perfection stage.

The reason he was able to improve so quickly was because his master sent him to the Thunder Pool for cultivation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to advance from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the late stage in just four years.

He thought his cultivation was already quite fast, but he didn't expect that Si Lingle was even faster than him!
It's unclear whether he forcibly boosted his cultivation level by taking elixirs or used some secret treasure for cultivation.

In any case, Si Lingle is a formidable opponent.

It seems that if he encounters Si Lingle again, he will have to use all his strength to deal with her.

It would be best to befriend her. If we could get closer to the ancestor through her, the ancestor might be able to take care of the family again.

Si Lingle left the arena and went back to Thousand Peaks to recuperate.

In just over an hour, Si Lingle's injuries were fully recovered.

After recovering, Si Lingle continued her meditation and cultivation. The next day, Si Lingle participated in her second duel.

Her opponent was Pan Hong, the third disciple of the peak master of Zhenyi Peak, who was a fourth-level array master with a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.

The moment the competition began, Pan Hong produced twenty battle flags from his sleeves one after another.

Si Lingle's figure blurred into afterimages, and the moment her sword technique was unleashed, sword light poured down like a torrential rain.

Pan Hong clasped his hands together, and nine layers of tortoise-shell patterned light screen rose from the ground. This was a tortoise-shell defensive array, with a total of nine layers.

Suddenly, ripples appeared on the third layer of light screen. Si Lingle condensed half of her sword energy into a hair-thin strand, which was seeping and corroding along the array patterns.

Pan Hong sneered and made a hand seal. The pierced formation suddenly twisted into a mirror, reflecting the sword energy towards the sky.

The array patterns formed chains that bound Si Lingle's right wrist, which was holding the sword. But then the sword turned, and a phantom of a blue lotus bloomed, shattering the chains inch by inch.

Si Lingle moved swiftly, forming a hand seal with one hand, and unleashed a series of lightning-based spells.

Xi Yanmo in the stands was shocked. He remembered that Si Lingle had both water and wood spiritual roots, so how could she cast lightning spells so quickly and smoothly?

Xi Yanmo himself has a mutated lightning spiritual root, so casting water-based spells will be much slower because he needs to convert lightning spiritual energy into water spiritual energy, and this conversion process is very slow.

Therefore, in this era, most cultivators practice spells that are compatible with their own spiritual roots.

They rarely learn spells that are incompatible with their spiritual roots.

Si Lingle quickly broke through the first three layers of the tortoise shell defense formation. The swords from the sword pellet flew out and formed a sword formation, which hung above the tortoise shell defense formation.

Tens of thousands of sword energies shot out.

Seeing this, Pan Hong remained calm and activated the "Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation" by performing a hand seal. Instantly, space shifted, and the sword energy that should have struck the center of the formation was repeatedly refracted in the sixteen mirror spaces, eventually transforming into a sword net that rushed towards Si Lingle.

At the critical moment of life and death, Si Lingle abandoned her sword and formed hand seals, rapidly changing the sword formation to a stronger one, with the cyan sword energy colliding violently with the net.

Si Lingle made a hand seal and retreated swiftly, dodging the impact of the air wave. While dodging, Si Lingle silently threw out countless seeds, which spread throughout the entire arena with the air wave.

Si Lingle used her divine sense to summon the Qingchu Sword, which returned to her dantian.

Once the shockwave dissipated, Pan Hong looked at the entire arena, which had turned into a thicket of thorns, and his divine sense could no longer find Si Lingle's figure.

A few dozen breaths later, Pan Hong looked at the thorny vines emerging from the array's core and realized something was wrong.

The next second, his defensive array shattered, and the array plate in his hand was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

Just then, Si Lingle, who had been invisible, appeared behind Pan Hong, with the Qingchu Sword at Pan Hong's neck.

Pan Hong: "I concede."

After Pan Hong conceded defeat, Si Lingle appeared, cupped her hands, and said, "Thank you for the concession."

"Master Uncle is amazing."

Si Lingle won two matches and successfully earned a spot to participate in the Secret Realm Battle.

The subsequent competitions are for the top ten, who will receive rewards from their respective sects.

Si Lingle came in second place. The first place went to Meng Jing, a disciple of Hongyu Daojun, who was at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, possessed a mutated wind spirit root, and was skilled in both swordsmanship and cultivation.

Moreover, Meng Jing has also comprehended the sword intent, while Si Lingle, although possessing sword pellets, can form sword formations for attacks.

However, Meng Jing also understood formations, and Si Lingle's sword formation was broken by Meng Jing's sword intent. In the end, Si Lingle was defeated by the sword intent.

By securing second place, Si Lingle earned the opportunity to go to the fifth floor of the library, receive 2,000 contribution points, and the chance to choose a magic weapon and a bottle of Qi-Nourishing Pills from the Treasure Pavilion.

On the day the competition ended, the top three went to the Treasure Pavilion to choose their magical artifacts. "You have one hour to choose your magical treasures. There are magical treasures on floors three through five. Go ahead," said the elder of the Treasure Pavilion.

"Yes," Si Lingyue and the other two said in unison.

The three then entered the treasure pavilion.

Upon entering the treasure pavilion, all three were stunned; the pavilion was enormous.

The first layer contains magical artifacts, probably worth over 100,000 each.

The three of them went upstairs. Si Lingyue stopped on the third floor, while Meng Jing and Xin Xiahe went straight to the fifth floor.

Both of them knew that the more powerful the magical artifact, the higher it was placed on the floor.

Seeing that Si Lingle had not continued, Xin Xiahe reminded her, "Junior Sister Si, the more powerful the magic weapon, the higher the floor it is placed on. Let's choose from the fifth floor."

Xin Xiahe's master, Xun Zhen, is also a Nascent Soul Dao Lord. Therefore, Xin Xiahe and Si Lingle are of the same generation. Si Lingle entered the sect later than Xin Xiahe. Although Si Lingle is one year older than Xin Xiahe, she still has to call Xin Xiahe her senior sister.

"Thank you for the reminder, senior sister. I'd like to start by looking at the third floor."

"Alright." Xin Xiahe nodded and continued upstairs.

Si Lingle released her divine sense and began to search.

After a while, Little Purple came out.

Xiao Zi led Si Lingle to the innermost bookshelf, where they found a box in the corner filled with tattered magical artifacts, all covered in a thick layer of dust.

Si Lingle made a hand seal, and the dust on the magic weapon disappeared.

Si Lingle then searched around and found the magic weapon that Xiao Zi wanted.

It was a dilapidated mirror, its surface covered with countless cracks.

"Little Purple, what kind of mirror is this?" Si Lingle couldn't tell what kind of powerful magic weapon this mirror was.

She is sorry, but she has no expertise in appraising antiques.

Xiao Zi's soft, sweet voice echoed in Si Lingle's mind: [This is the Reincarnation Realm.]
"Reincarnation Realm?" The word "reincarnation" told Si Lingle that this mirror must be extraordinary.

[The Reincarnation Realm contains a supreme Chaos Spiritual Treasure imbued with the power of reincarnation.]
A chaotic spiritual treasure; I never expected this mirror to be of such a high grade.

In the cultivation world, artifacts are classified into the following ranks: magic artifacts, spiritual artifacts, magic treasures, acquired spiritual treasures, ancient treasures (spiritual treasures left over from ancient times), profound treasures (spiritual treasures left over from the upper realm and falling to the lower realm), immortal artifacts, divine artifacts, Dao artifacts, innate spiritual treasures, primordial spiritual treasures, chaotic spiritual treasures, and primordial supreme treasures.

[This Reincarnation Mirror possesses the function of reversing time and space: it can reverse the cycle of life and death, bringing the user back to a specific point in time to start their life anew, preserving past life memories and key items.]
[Causal Manipulation: When altering the causal chain, it can modify the fate trajectory that leads to the user's death, for example, by creating a "tool" to forcibly interfere with the course of key events.]
[Reincarnation Illusion: Reflects the enemy's past sins, materializes their deepest fears, and directly leads to mental breakdown.]
[Reincarnation Reflects the World: Traps the opponent into an endless cycle of life and death, weakening their fighting spirit.]
[Soul Repair: Purifies the corrupting influence of evil spirits, restores damaged souls, and assists ghost cultivators in reshaping their souls.]
[Fate Gaze: Foresee fragments of the future, but consumes lifespan.]
[The Reincarnation Mirror can also help cultivators break through their cultivation levels. Cultivators can simulate reincarnation within the Mirror, experiencing a lifetime within it, accelerating their mental growth. By comprehending the meaning of reincarnation, understanding the essence of the life cycle, and increasing the probability of breaking through to a higher realm, cultivation can be significantly improved.]
[The Reincarnation Mirror can also be used as a combat aid, activating "Severance of Cause and Effect" to cut off the enemy's connection with the magical artifact/spiritual power, temporarily sealing their power. Even a broken Reincarnation Mirror can still release light that counters ghost cultivators.]
[The greatest function of the Reincarnation Realm is reincarnation: after one's lifespan is exhausted, a cultivator can bring certain items (such as their natal magic weapon or spirit beast) into the next reincarnation and choose their destiny to reshape their life trajectory.]
[Those who possess the Samsara Sphere must maintain mindfulness; otherwise, they will suffer a backlash and be trapped in an eternal illusion. Users will also have to bear the karmic consequences and moral dilemmas.]
Although Xiao Zi described the Reincarnation Realm as incredibly powerful, Si Ling Le reacted with extreme indifference, her cold voice ringing out: "But Xiao Zi, with the Reincarnation Realm shattered like this, its functions are probably limited." Even though the Reincarnation Realm was so powerful, the current state of it... emmm~
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[But if you repair the Reincarnation Realm, you will possess an immortal soul in the future, allowing you to reincarnate indefinitely.]
"This Reincarnation Realm is so powerful, the materials needed to repair it must be difficult to find."

[These are all top-tier, rare and precious materials.]
“I knew it.” Si Lingle said calmly, “Alright, I’ll choose the Reincarnation Realm.”

After making her choice, Si Lingle took the Reincarnation Mirror and left.

The elder of the Treasure Pavilion was somewhat surprised to see Si Lingle come out with a broken mirror. He asked, "Are you sure you want to choose this mirror?"

"Mm." Si Lingle nodded.

"Do you recognize this mirror?"

Si Lingle shook her head. "I just feel that this mirror suits my taste."

"Alright." After the elder registered Si Lingle, Si Lingle left the Treasure Pavilion and returned to Thousand Layer Peak.

As for Meng Jing and Xin Xiahe, they both found satisfactory magical treasures on the fifth floor.

Meng Jing chose a magical artifact that could protect the soul.

Xin Xiahe chose a magic weapon that could attack with spiritual senses.

In the following two months, a competition was held between disciples at the Golden Core stage and those at the Nascent Soul stage.

Si Lingle went to watch everything, especially the battles between Nascent Soul cultivators, which made Si Lingle think to herself that high-level cultivators are indeed powerful, with all sorts of strange and wonderful supernatural abilities and spells.

I have no idea what kind of supernatural powers I will be able to cultivate in the future.

After the competition ended, the top thirty disciples who won boarded the sect's spirit ship and headed to the Qingxuan Sect in Zhongzhou. The people escorting them to Zhongzhou included the Fifth Elder Yang Hui (late stage of Refinement Void) and Daoist Bi Fan (mid stage of Transformation God).

After flying for two and a half months, they arrived at the Qingxuan Sect in Zhongzhou.

The territory of the Qingxuan Sect stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles, with towering mountains and numerous pavilions. There are also 999 towering pagodas that form a protective array for the sect. The mountain gate is forged from millennia-old cold iron and carved with dragon and phoenix totems, with statues of spirit beasts guarding the four directions.

The Qingxuan Sect has hundreds of thousands of disciples and controls secret realms and rare mineral veins.

They also established the Qingxuan Pavilion, which opened branches throughout all the states of the Qingxuan Lower Realm, and even in other Lower Realms.

There is also a city within the sect.

There are eight cities in total, named after the eight trigrams: Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Li, Kan, Dui, and Xun.

It is said that beneath these eight cities lies an ancient array. In times of crisis, these eight ancient arrays will activate, forming a protective barrier to safeguard the sect's disciples.

Members of various sects who came to participate in the battle for the secret realm slots were all settled in Kun City.

Each sect was provided with a courtyard house for living.

"You can choose your own rooms. There's still a month before the battle for the secret realm spots begins," said Daoist Bifan. "Take this month to explore the Qingxuan Sect."

"Yes." Everyone said in unison.

"By the way, the Qingxuan Sect arranges cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above to teach and impart knowledge during the competition for these secret realm slots. You can also inquire about where the classes are held and go listen to them."

"Yes." Everyone nodded again.

Then everyone went to choose their rooms.

Si Lingle chose to stay in a secluded courtyard.

The Qingxuan Sect was very thoughtful; each room was equipped with a defensive array, and the tokens for entering the rooms were hung on the doors.

Si Lingle used the token to enter the room.

The room was fully equipped with bedding, sheets, and other amenities.

In addition, there was a jade slip.

After reviewing the jade slip, Si Lingle sighed again, "As expected of a major sect, they are truly thoughtful, meticulous, and righteous!"
This jade slip mentions three events.

First, the location and time for lectures given by cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage and above in the Qingxuan Sect.

Secondly, the Qingxuan Sect has also opened the Wuhai Peak Library, where disciples from various sects can browse cultivation manuals and books.

Thirdly, if you want to properly explore the Qingxuan Sect, you can follow the following route.