destiny eternal calamity

After leaving Long Bilin, Long Xiaoxiao's worldview was severely shaken.

She never expected that her sister would actually not care that Li Wei had a fiancée.

As a princess, she was always taught by Long Bilin to be devoted to one person for life.

Even if having multiple wives and concubines is the norm in this world, they, as princesses, do not have to compromise themselves.

Unexpectedly, it was Long Bilin herself who first shattered this perception.

Long Xiaoxiao tossed and turned in bed.

"Li Wei, he really is a good person, no wonder my sister can tolerate him..."

Long Xiaoxiao recalled the way Li Wei composed a poem for her in the imperial court that day.

There's also the image of him selflessly shielding Long Bilin from a sword.

And scenes of holding her and telling her stories.

"Since my sister doesn't mind, could I marry Li Wei...?"

"And that way, I can be with my sister forever..."

Long Xiaoxiao is playful, but not stupid. She knows that after she gets married, it will be extremely difficult to see her sister who is also married. Even if she is a royal princess, she can't run to other people's houses all the time, right?

Long Bilin is like an older sister and a mother to her. Although she is sometimes too strict, she really can't bear to be separated from Long Bilin.

But if she also married Li Wei, these problems wouldn't exist, right?

Besides, I actually like Li Wei a lot, otherwise I wouldn't have made him my brother-in-law in the first place.

Long Xiaoxiao became increasingly lost in thought, and finally, for some unknown reason, she fell asleep with a blush on her face.

A month later.

The first snow of the year fell in Beijing.

Inside Xiaoxiang Courtyard, after Li Wei and Long Xiaoxiao finished their snowball fight, Li Wei forcibly carried the losing girl back to her room to practice the zither, and she was still somewhat unconvinced.

After all, if she lost, she would have to practice the zither for an extra hour.

"You stinky brother-in-law, you definitely cheated!"

The two agreed not to use martial arts, but she always felt that Li Wei was using his divine sense, and could predict her direction of movement every time.

"No, it's just good luck."

Li Wei did not use his divine sense, but when he was watching Long Xiaoxiao's actions, he had a hunch that she would definitely move in a certain direction in the next instant.

There was no analysis of Long Xiaoxiao's actions or habits; it was just a subconscious intuition.

Li Wei guessed that this was the "super-predictive ability" that he had exhibited after his divine sense had become powerful enough.

He can control himself from using his divine sense, but he cannot control the instinct that arises from his overly powerful divine sense.

For almost every night of the past month, Yaoyue would come over to cultivate with him without fail.

At first, he would clean himself with a towel after having sex with his princess wife, worried that Yaoyue would be angry.

Later, he realized that the other party probably didn't care about this kind of trivial matter at all. In fact, several times, as soon as Long Bilin finished her part, he was hypnotized by her and she would immediately barge in.

It was as if they were just completing a task.

The two worked together for a month, and Li Wei couldn't see any emotion in her eyes other than disdain and disgust.

This puzzled him greatly. What happened to the saying that a night of marriage brings a hundred days of kindness? Could it be because he didn't go through the main entrance?

Putting aside these details, after a month of dual cultivation, Li Wei's spiritual sense had increased to about ten times its original level, and he had entered the late stage of the Spirit Bridge realm.

Moreover, because his physical foundation far surpasses that of ordinary people, his spiritual sense is also far beyond that of ordinary people. In addition, with the blessing of the mirage, he is now able to sense the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

The so-called primordial energy of heaven and earth refers to the power of the five elements that permeate heaven and earth.

After entering the Divine Treasury Realm, cultivators can absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth, temper their internal organs, and greatly enhance their qi and blood power once again.

After reaching the Dharma Aspect Realm, cultivators can also control the elemental energy of heaven and earth outside their bodies, enabling them to fly and construct Dharma Aspects.

Ever since Li Wei discovered that he could sense the primordial energy of heaven and earth in advance, he began to cultivate beyond his current level.

To be precise, Lingqiao and Shenzang practiced together.

Normally, a cultivator needs to reach perfection in the Spirit Bridge Realm before they can sense the primordial energy of heaven and earth and thus begin cultivation in the Divine Treasury Realm.

However, Li Wei sensed the power of heaven and earth in advance.

He was already able to learn those fifth-tier cultivation techniques, and the system had also set his cultivation level at the early stage of the Divine Treasury realm.

However, Li Wei clearly felt that his divine sense was still growing rapidly and had not yet reached perfection.

Just like Xiao Shuying used acupuncture and medicinal baths to help him strengthen his body, Li Wei is now also cultivating his spiritual bridge realm through dual cultivation.

His system panel looks like this at this moment:

[Host: Li Wei]

Age: 19

[Qualification: Excellent]

[Cultivation Techniques: Myriad Laws Return to Nothingness Force (Perfect), Blood and Flesh Contract (Perfect), Absorbing Yuan Technique (Perfect), Five-Step Plum Blossom Stake (Second Tier/Perfect), Pulse-Grabbing Technique (Second Tier/Perfect), Six Harmonies Saber Technique (Second Tier/Perfect), Carefree Sword Technique+ (Second Tier/Perfect), Ethereal Qin Melody (Third Tier/Perfect), Eight Steps to Gazing at the Sunset (Third Tier/Perfect), Nine Refinements of the Cloud Bed (Third Tier/Perfect), Mind's Eye Sword (Fourth Tier/Perfect), Flying Sword Technique (Fourth Tier/Perfect), Everlasting Spring Finger (False Qi Technique)+ (Fourth Tier/Perfect), Profound Yin Refining True Technique (Fourth Tier/Perfect), Nine Cauldrons Technique+ (Fourth Tier/Perfect)...] (Other internal cultivation techniques omitted here)

[Learnable techniques: Unwavering Return (Level 5), Luo Tian True Technique (Level 5)]

[Martial Arts Cultivation: Early Stage of Divine Treasury Realm]

[Recharge Points: 466480 (One tael of silver can be exchanged for one recharge point.)]

This month, the combined profits of Wenhaige, Juweixuan, and Xu Niangzi amounted to 126,000 taels of silver, more than 20,000 taels more than last month, mainly because Xu Niangzi's high heels and modern underwear were launched on the market.

However, because they were so novel, these items were not as well-received as perfumes, and their profit margins were far lower.

Although it still makes more money than other shops.

After deducting the five thousand taels needed to open a branch of Juweixuan and the one thousand taels left as a reserve, the remaining one hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver, along with the thirty thousand taels of silver bestowed by the emperor, were all deposited into the system by Li Wei.

Needless to say, the fifth-tier body-refining technique, Thunder God's Bone Forging, was directly maxed out and fed to the Myriad Laws Returning to Nothingness Force.

He also mastered unorthodox methods like the Blood Pact and the Essence Absorption Technique, and even experimented on animals with them.

Li Wei discovered that these two methods had something in common: both could absorb vital energy.

The difference is that with the Blood and Flesh Contract, the contract holder must first lose their life essence in order to inscribe the totem. Only if the person being inscribed voluntarily uses the power within it will their life essence be absorbed by the blood essence and then absorbed by the contract holder.

Simply put, it's an equivalent exchange, and the judgment is very strict, as if there's a divine authority acting as the judge.

Creatures without intelligence, such as ordinary animals, cannot trigger the blood pact.

The Life-Sucking Technique is much more domineering; it can directly devour the life essence of a weaker life form.

However, Li Wei discovered that the efficiency of the Yuan-Capturing Technique was far lower than that of the Blood-Flesh Contract.

For the same animal, the life force that the Life Force Absorption Technique can absorb is less than one percent of that obtained through the Blood and Flesh Contract.

Moreover, it contains a large amount of mixed blood energy, which would be harmful if absorbed rashly.

Li Wei didn't know if the Longevity Sect had solved this problem, but in any case, this technique was unusable as it was.

As for the flesh-and-blood contract, if the contract cannot be recovered, losing essence and blood is a losing proposition.

In general, both of these techniques are currently useless.

In addition, the Nine Cauldrons Technique can be upgraded again, but Li Wei is not yet ready to step into the river of time again.

Moreover, apart from the Luo Tian Zhen Jue, he has not yet collected any other Five Elements cultivation techniques to balance the Five Elements True Qi.

However, probably because this advancement did not involve the path of cultivation, the Heavenly Dao did not seal off his cultivation.

Therefore, upgrading the Nine Cauldrons Technique is not necessary.

Of course, if you want to help the Kongsang Sect exorcise demons, you'll need to upgrade the Nine Cauldrons Technique sooner or later.