After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 256 The Contemporary Spirit Mountain
As the concentration of spiritual energy increased, the cultural relics within the spirit dwelling also benefited, transforming into ownerless spiritual objects at a faster pace.

Every day, the little paper servant can pick out a few unclaimed spiritual objects that are about to transform, store them in the ghost shop warehouse which has no spiritual energy, and then take out new cultural relics to continue absorbing spiritual energy.

Song Miaozhu has to take some time out every day to collect spiritual essences.

The speed at which she accumulated spiritual energy far exceeded the speed at which she digested it.

More and more spirits were preserved in her spiritual space.

The spiritual platform space, which is not enough to store spiritual stones and spiritual energy, has yet to reach its limit when it comes to storing spiritual souls.

The number of spirits in the Lingtai space had exceeded one hundred, but Song Miaozhu still felt nothing.

Even with the five spirit crystal steps—red, cyan, blue, yellow, and white—combined within the spiritual space, they still couldn't reach the height of the seven-colored light gate.

Clearly, we still need to keep working hard.

After reaching the White Spirit Rank, Song Miaozhu clearly felt that relying on her past experience was no longer enough. When making the paper offerings that she had mastered, she could hardly condense much spiritual energy into White Spirit Crystals and convert it into her spiritual power.

Only when there is progress in paper-crafting skills and new paper-crafting works are created can the speed of condensing spirit crystals be comparable to before.

The feeling of encountering a bottleneck at each major stage before reaching the White Spirit stage is similar; one needs to seek breakthroughs in skills in order to advance further in cultivation.

After reaching the White Spirit Rank, the condensation of each spirit crystal becomes a bottleneck. It is no longer possible to improve one's cultivation level by simply making paper offerings when there is sufficient spiritual energy, as before.

She has mastered all the paper crafting techniques recorded in "The Secret Art of Paper Crafting," except for the Spirit Rhinoceros Paper Doll and the Mirage Paper Realm.

Compared to the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage, Song Miaozhu had absolutely no confidence in the Spirit Rhinoceros Paper Puppet and the Mirage Paper Realm.

Song Miaozhu then shifted her focus of cultivation from the "Paper Emanation Secrets" to the spiritual soul.

By collecting spirits of similar abilities, learning and assimilating the craftsman's experience, and comprehending the spiritual power within the spirits, one can design new paper-craft patterns and corresponding methods of spirit infusion, thereby increasing one's cultivation.

Although it wasn't as convenient and quick as directly studying the paper-crafting blueprints in "The Secret Art of Paper Crafting" in the past, my cultivation was slowly but steadily increasing. Occasionally, I would encounter difficulties and pause for a while, but I would quickly overcome the obstacles and make further progress.

Following the methods of exorcising evil spirits and the exorcising gold paper bell, Song Miaozhu further developed the method of protecting and ensuring safety by invoking spirits, based on the spiritual power of the spirits that possess the ability to protect and ensure safety, as well as a gourd for ensuring safety that is suitable for it.

Song Miaozhu made four peace gourds, one for herself and one for each of her three cats.

At this time, the spiritual energy of Xiaozhushan Mountain had become so concentrated that it began to condense into dewdrops on the bamboo leaves and papyrus flowers.

The area near the old locust tree where the spirit house is located has the most spiritual dew, which drips onto the ground drop by drop.

The mountaintop area where the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage concentrated its spiritual energy gathered into clouds and mist, and a small-scale spiritual rain began to fall.

However, the land and plants of Xiaozhushan remained unchanged, unaffected by spiritual energy, and did not transform into the spiritual soil and plants mentioned in ancient cultivation books.

Although she didn't know where those spiritual dewdrops ended up, Song Miaozhu knew that with the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage there, they couldn't possibly have flowed outside of Little Bamboo Mountain.

As long as it's still on its own territory, no matter where it goes, it's still hers, and she can always find it when she really needs it.

So Song Miaozhu didn't care where the spiritual dew went.

Anyway, the spiritual energy gushing from Xiaozhushan is so abundant that even if she used it all, she couldn't use it all up.

The spiritual energy continued to surge, so much so that it condensed into dew, making it a completely different world from the outside.

While Song Miaozhu was engrossed in digesting spiritual energy and researching new paper offerings and methods of spirit infusion, the spiritual energy in other places had stopped gushing out a month earlier.

The spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth is rapidly decreasing as cultivators absorb it through their practice.

At this moment, shrouded in thick white fog, Xiaozhushan, radiating a seven-colored spiritual light, became particularly conspicuous.

"Look! Little Bamboo Mountain!"

"Is this color spiritual energy?" "How come the spiritual energy in Xiaozhushan is so strong!"

"The world's number one cultivator is in Xiaozhushan. Why do you think the spiritual energy there is so strong?"

"I mean, why does that spiritual energy only stay in Xiaozhushan and not spread to places where spiritual energy is scarce?"

"Yes! Why does all that spiritual energy stay only in Xiaozhushan?"

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The practitioners gazed in the direction of Little Bamboo Mountain, filled with longing.

Having enjoyed such a long period of time without worrying about spiritual energy, how could they possibly adapt to the sudden decrease in spiritual energy in their environment?

But no matter how much they longed for it, no one dared to cross the rusty barbed wire fence that any cultivator could easily scale.

The Global Practitioners Competition was less than two years ago, and the exorbitant ransom notices from back then were quite memorable.

Even the top cultivators from various countries got stuck in the quicksand river's silt after walking just a few meters in and couldn't move. Not to mention them, they were captured and no country would help pay the ransom!

Having experienced the difficulties of accumulating spiritual energy and advancing in cultivation levels, no one believes that Song Miaozhu, who consistently ranks first in the global cultivation rankings, got to where she is today through luck.

The video of Xiaozhushan went viral online, and all sorts of rumors circulated, but Song Miaozhu was completely unaware of it.

There were too many spirits that needed the little paper servant's care, so Song Miaozhu also called the little paper servant who usually looked after the phone back to do chores.

She replaced one of her newly made little paper servants with one to take over the task of watching over the phone.

The newly made paper servant lacks spirit and its grasp of current online events is not as good as the previous one.

Song Miaozhu told it not to bother her unless it was urgent, and it sat back and did its job.

It wasn't until she contacted her close friends, the elite masters, via spirit paper kites to gossip about this matter that Song Miaozhu finally managed to spare some attention for the phone at Anshou Paper Shop.

The little paper servant in charge of the phone was diligently browsing posts on the Spirit Investigation Bureau app.

I was browsing the app while my phone was charging.

The first thing you see is a post called "Contemporary Lingshan - Xiaozhushan Ancient Town in the Distant Mountains".

Song Miaozhu glanced at it again, her heart filled with surprise and doubt: "The contemporary Spirit Mountain? Little Bamboo Mountain?"

The picture accompanying the main post is indeed a photo of Xiaozhushan.

It was only after seeing this photo that she realized the spiritual radiance of Xiaozhushan Mountain was reflected on the white mist-like paper curtain, and was seen by people outside the mountain.

1st floor: "This is Xiaozhushan? The legendary abode of immortals, a blessed land of immortals, must be just like this!"

2nd floor: "Could Master Song have already transcended the mortal realm and become an immortal?!"

3rd floor: "How could that be? I'm from Yuanshan Ancient Town, and I've never seen lightning strike Xiaozhushan!"

4th floor: "Struck by lightning? Tribulation by lightning? I think you're the one who's been struck by lightning, mistaking a novel for reality."

5th floor: "Although the duration of this surge of spiritual energy was long, this calm period is a bit too long!"

6th Floor: "If you ask me, a longer period of calm is better. We all know how many places across the country have suffered disasters during this time. The recent floods in Yuncheng were terrible. If we weren't all cultivators and could run fast, many more people would probably have died. Without spiritual energy, the things our ancestors buried underground won't come out to scare people!"

7th Floor: "Didn't you see the news from the Spirit Investigation Bureau? Those are all unclaimed spirits. Killing them will yield precious spirit souls, which are very useful for improving skills and making spirit items. Whoever solves the problem of the unclaimed spirits that are causing trouble gets their spirit souls!"

8th Floor: "I'm not talking to you guys anymore, I'm going to subdue the unclaimed spirit and extract its soul!"

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