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

Chapter 277 Rainbow Spirit Rank

To save some spirit stones, Song Miaozhu stopped offering all spirit objects, leaving only the five spirit paper dolls, including Zhangli and Yuelin, to keep her company.

They can not only help her nurture cultural relics and extract their spirits, but also learn the craftsmanship knowledge within those spirits; what they learn is equivalent to what she learns.

You can also prepare paper offerings for her at dawn and dusk, quietly wait for her when the night rain taps on the window, and accompany her to Fengdu City to relax and have fun when she is in a bad mood.

The bewitching paper grass on Xiaozhushan Mountain stopped swaying, the bamboo horse boundary marker was dug out, the paper mist curtain stopped flowing, and the nine-turn paper spirit cage also fell into silence.

Only the Lingxi Paper Building and the spirit house on the old locust tree still have spiritual energy flowing through them, like the last two lanterns in the dark night that refuse to go out.

All the spirit stones were prioritized for nurturing her soul, supporting her research into new paper crafting and spirit infusion techniques, and improving her cultivation.

I didn't realize how quickly spirit stones are used up when there was a constant flow of spirit stones in and out. But now that there's only consumption and no new ones being added, I've discovered just how fast they go.

Those spirit stones that were once piled up like mountains are now melting away at a visible rate in the warehouse, like the last snowflakes in spring.

One after another, the Spirit Stone Mountains were shrinking and disappearing at an alarming rate.

Every time Song Miaozhu opened the storeroom, she could see that the outline of the spirit stone pile had become even thinner, as if an unseen glutton was gnawing at it day and night.

Compared to the rate at which spirit stones are consumed, Song Miaozhu's rate of condensing colored spirit crystals is much slower.

Those crystal-clear, colorful spirit crystals slowly took shape within her spiritual platform; each one required a vast amount of top-grade spirit stones to condense successfully.

Fortunately, she had enough artifacts to collect spiritual essences, and her cultivation was steadily improving. Those bronze artifacts that had been dormant for thousands of years, the mottled ancient paintings, and the tattered books all revealed their purest spiritual charm under her spiritual infusion technique.

Now it all depends on whether we've saved up enough spirit stones.

Yan Feng repeatedly used a tray to take spirit stones from her treasury, secretly calculating the rate at which she consumed spirit stones and the rate at which her cultivation increased, telling her that she still had enough spirit stones to reassure her.

Even so, apart from researching new paper crafts, Song Miaozhu no longer uses spiritual power to make other spiritual paper crafts. When she is practicing her techniques, she uses yin energy to create yin paper crafts.

These paper offerings made in this way can be sold in the underworld. The spirit-infusing power of the paper offerings doesn't require any spiritual energy; it simply draws upon the lifespan power within the paper money.

This achieves the purpose of practice while saving spirit stones.

Even so, the number of spirit stones is still visibly decreasing.

About twenty years after the spiritual energy was cut off, the last spirit stone in the Ghost Shop's vault was taken out and integrated into the colorful spirit crystal in Song Miaozhu's spiritual space, making the colorful spirit crystal completely solidify.

From the beginning of the spiritual energy revival until the complete cessation of spiritual energy, all the top-grade spirit stones she earned from exchanging ghost money were completely used up.

Those spirit stones that once piled up like mountains in the warehouse are now just empty wooden frames, emitting a faint sandalwood fragrance.

At this point, she had only condensed 800,213 colorful spirit crystals.

She remembered this number very clearly because for every grain that was condensed, Yue Lin would draw a stroke on the cloth hanging on the wall of the paper-crafting studio.

There are still 787 more needed to complete the Rainbow Spirit Rank.

This number hung like a slender sword over her head, preventing her from truly relaxing. Fortunately, after the Nine-Turn Paper Spirit Cage was set up, the spiritual energy of Little Bamboo Mountain accumulated over time, forming a spirit stone mine.

Those crystals buried deep in the mountain were her wealth accumulated over many years, and now they have become her last hope.

Over the years, the spiritual energy has been eroding the minerals, resulting in high-quality spirit stones. Each stone mined is of the highest grade.

The spirit stones in the veins are also colorful, and their spiritual energy is as rich and abundant as that of top-grade spirit stones.

After the surge of spiritual energy at Xiaozhushan ended, Song Miaozhu sent her little paper servants and paper soldiers to mine the spirit stone mine, put it in a dark wooden box, and store it in the ghost shop's warehouse.

With these spirit stones, Song Miaozhu finally managed to condense the remaining 787 colored spirit crystals.

When the last colored spirit crystal was fully formed, she heard a clear and melodious jade chime sound coming from within her spiritual platform. The first six steps—red, cyan, blue, yellow, white, and black—suddenly transformed into the same colors as the last spirit crystal step.

Song Miaozhu suddenly felt her perspective had been raised, and this time her line of sight was truly level with the colorful light gate in the air.

The patterns on the door were clearly visible, and every ray of light spoke of its extraordinary nature. Just one step was all it took to enter.

It wasn't until this point that Song Miaozhu realized things were getting a bit tricky.

The Lingtai Space is a void space existing between the eyebrows. Although her gaze rises step by step as the spirit crystal steps condense, her body is not in the Lingtai Space!

She tried to "step" within her spiritual platform, but it was like walking in a dream; her consciousness was clear, yet she couldn't actually move an inch. Taking a single step would allow her to enter, but how could she do it?

She frowned, her fingertips tapping unconsciously on the table as she pondered a way to break the deadlock.

When Song Miaozhu had this thought, she suddenly felt her spiritual energy boiling over, flowing out from her spiritual space and washing over her body.

The spiritual energy surged like a river, flowing through the meridians, as if every inch of flesh and blood was ignited, yet it also carried a strange coolness.

Her robes moved without wind, her hair fluttered slightly, and a faint seven-colored halo emanated from her body.

"Miss, look!" Yue Lin suddenly pointed to the sky, her voice filled with undisguised surprise.

Song Miaozhu shifted her attention from her spiritual space and looked up—the sky in reality was now filled with countless rays of light, and the clouds spread out in layers like dyed silk.

The source of the rosy glow was a magnificent seven-colored light gate, hanging high in the sky, with beautiful light patterns flowing around the gate, as if connecting to another world.

Upon seeing the seven-colored light gate, Song Miaozhu felt a strong attraction, and her body became lighter, with a faint feeling that she was about to fly upwards.

Her toes barely touched the ground, her clothes fluttered, and she seemed to be slowly floating in the air, as if pulled by invisible threads.

At the same time, she noticed that all the paper-made spirit objects she had made stored in the ghost shop warehouse, along with the spirit house on the old locust tree in Xiaozhushan, the Thousand Illusion Paper Building, the Four Symbols Paper Horse, and the five Spirit Rhinoceros Paper Dolls, were being drawn by a strange energy.

The energy, like fine threads, wrapped around each spiritual object, connecting them closely to her.

This energy, like spiritual energy, is seven-colored, yet it seems somewhat different—it is purer and more spiritual, but like her spiritual power, it is under her control.