Please control me, my divine being!

"The life-threatening hurdle seems to be a metric for measuring a cultivator's level. Passing through a life-threatening hurdle will increase a cultivator's various abilities."

Zhou Qing looked at the skill point allocation diagram for the second layer.

Centered on the [Lifeline] node, there are four paths radiating outwards.

At the end of every path lies a mundane art.

【Black Pact】, 【Blood Pact】, 【Thousand-Faced Merchant】, 【Life-Changing Network】.

The four common arts are all located at the very top of the four paths.

"To acquire a new mundane technique, you must complete all the attribute nodes along this path, and the divine power consumed increases with each node."

Li Qinghe's three basic attributes have all been upgraded to level three.

If you continue to add points, each point of increase in basic attributes will consume four points of divine power.

"Furthermore, new attributes have appeared in the second-level skill point allocation chart."

On the stat-adding chart, a brand new attribute, "Humanity," shines with a light that is different from the other attribute nodes.

[Humanity: Enhances the cultivator's efficiency in absorbing and utilizing human energy, making it easier to use popular energy enhancement techniques and increase the success rate of transactions.]

Zhou Qing had fifteen points of divine power left.

However, even at level one, [Humanity] requires five points.

With a try-it-out mentality, Zhou Qing directly lit up a [Humanity] node and then closed the stat allocation chart.

……

Huangshui Town.

The courtyard was secluded and the doors to the rooms were tightly shut.

Jiang Chuling clutched her head, drenched in sweat, as waves of excruciating pain spread from within her body.

It was accompanied by excruciating pain.

There is also a wealth of extraordinary knowledge and cultivation methods about the "Candle Master".

Beside her, Li Qinghe was also feeling unwell.

Blood kept flowing from her left eye, and on the back of her right hand, the pathways formed by countless blood vessels were constantly dispersing and reforming.

She felt that every blood vessel, meridian, bone, and flesh in her body was undergoing some kind of transformation.

It is transforming in an even more bizarre direction.

At this point, she had no choice but to endure the pain.

In particular, the knowledge about the path of the Tooth People gave her a headache so bad she almost fainted. Much of this knowledge was poured into her mind and buried deep inside.

The two of them were wailing and holding each other in the room.

As night deepened, Shen Cishuang was summoned to the courtyard by officials. Hearing the wailing sounds coming from inside, she had no choice but to open the door to investigate.

The result is.

One of them was lying on a chair, and the other was lying under the table.

The ground was littered with ritual materials, and the floor was covered with ritual diagrams smeared with blood. On the table were human skulls and white candles. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a sacrificial ceremony of some cult.

"Is this some kind of initiation ceremony? It looks like it involves communicating with ghosts and spirits."

Shen Cishuang glanced at Jiang Chuling and determined the lineage she belonged to based on the type of ritual.

just,

She couldn't quite understand Li Qinghe's situation.

How could the other party's initiation ceremony involve Li Qinghe, and it even seems that Li Qinghe received more blessings?

"This seems to be a sign of breaking through a critical barrier!"

Seeing Li Qinghe's condition, she closed her folding fan and hurriedly prepared a large bath tub.

For someone who has just broken through a critical juncture, a medicinal bath is the fastest way to recover. When she broke through that critical juncture, she spent two whole days steaming in a medicinal bath.

"She broke through her first life-threatening barrier so quickly; her advancement speed is really too fast. I would believe it if you said she was the illegitimate daughter of a god."

Shen Cishuang sighed as she thought about how much torment she had endured and how she had almost lost her life when she broke through a life-threatening barrier.

People are more mad than people.

However, with Li Qinghe's improved strength, this trip will be safer.

And having broken through the first life-threatening barrier, it can be considered that the journey has officially begun, and one has come into contact with the core abilities of this path.

……

Jiang Chuling recovered after only a few hours of rest.

It wasn't until the third day that Li Qinghe had the strength to wash off the blood and grime and change into clean, athletic clothes.

"Oh, Miss Li, you really scared me to death! You're finally awake." In the courtyard, more than a dozen strong zombies followed behind Granny Yang, each carrying a large bundle on their backs.

Li Qinghe stretched her limbs and got used to her newly bought short knife: "I'm fine, let's set off when we're ready."

Grandma Yang nodded.

Now that Miss Li's power and influence are growing stronger, she often feels constrained and restricted.

Shen Cishuang chuckled and joked, "Grandma, if this caravan of corpses were a normal merchant ship, they really wouldn't let us aboard. Fortunately, Master Xi from Lushan, out of respect for Miss Li, gave us travel permits and boat tickets."

Grandma Yang said somewhat embarrassedly, "Once we get to Jiang'an, we'll sell these zombies, and after deducting costs, we'll split the profits equally."

"That won't be necessary. I have the skills of a storyteller. I can open a venue in Jiang'an and make a living." Shen Cishuang shook her head and refused. "However, Miss Li will probably need it. She is just starting out in the brokerage business and needs money right now."

Li Qinghe looked puzzled.

Shen Cishuang continued to explain, "In Jiang'an, you can't move an inch without money. Whether it's worldly silver or the blood money used in the cultivation world, the more the better. Plus, Miss Li's path of cultivation requires even more money."

Li Qinghe had a lot of knowledge in his mind about how brokers cultivate themselves and facilitate business deals, but he hadn't had time to digest it yet.

"Moreover, to do business in Jiang'an, you have to join the local guilds. Whether it's a storyteller, a broker, a corpse-driving merchant, or even Miss Jiang's path, you have to join the corresponding guild."

Shen Cishuang recalled the prosperous cultivation world of Jiang'an: "In short, with money, everything is easy; without money, you can't move an inch."

In a short time.

The other three all encountered some difficulties in their journey to the destination.

Grandma Yang had visited Jiang'an when she was young, but she didn't stay long and didn't know much about the local practitioners.

Jiang Chuling grew up at home and had almost no contact with independent cultivators.

As for Li Qinghe, needless to say, the farthest place he had ever been since he was a child was Lianshan City.

With the zombie caravan around, the four of them didn't have to carry their own luggage. A large group of zombies marched through the street, and thankfully the constables on the side of the street maintained order.

Master Xi, holding a whisk, stood by the dock. Seeing Li Qinghe approaching, he immediately smiled and said, "Miss Li, I have already instructed the boatman to arrange everything. If there is an opportunity in the future, you are welcome to come to Lushan to discuss metaphysics and Taoism."

"Thank you, Master Xi." Li Qinghe expressed her gratitude.

"It's nothing, it's getting late, and the boatman is getting impatient, so let's get ready to set off."

Li Qinghe looked at the passenger ship in front of her. It was thirty meters long from bow to stern, which was already considered top-class luxury in a small place like Huangshui Town.

Xi Daoren went to the extravagance of booking an entire cabin so that the four of them could rest.

This way, they wouldn't interact with other passengers and cause unnecessary trouble. After all, they were accompanied by more than ten zombies, and although they had taken precautions, they still had to be careful around strangers.

After the wars in Yuyang and Beidi, many wealthy families who had survived the turmoil spent exorbitant amounts of money to buy boat tickets, hoping to escape to other places.

As a result, almost every passenger ship is now fully booked.

Li Qinghe did not linger any longer. Xi Daoren was clearly eager for them to leave as soon as possible, so she had no more worries about being here.

There are still many things to do on this trip to Gangnam.

Firstly, it was commanded by the gods to establish a society, spread the faith of the gods, and at the same time help them achieve their goals.

Then you need to find Bai Tieya's daughter, Bai Qing'er, and give her her father's belongings.

Next comes self-improvement and understanding of the entire cultivation world.

The cultivation world remains a mystery to her.

Shen Cishuang may know more, but she is only a cultivator at the critical juncture of life and death; she cannot access anything higher.

"A life-or-death situation..."

Li Qinghe muttered to herself.

After surviving a life-threatening ordeal, her understanding of the path of the brokers deepened.

The so-called breakthrough of one's destiny means that the cultivator and the entire path of Tao and the divine are more deeply integrated, understand the path of Tao better, and get closer to the divine.

Therefore, breaking through a barrier requires certain mundane skills, popularity, and worldly objects corresponding to the path of cultivation.

Now that she has broken through the first barrier of life, her insight and ability to conceal her inner power have improved. She also knows how the clerk should cultivate on a daily basis, that is, how to increase the life line of her own, so as to make it easier to borrow the popularity in the ocean of popularity.

The lifeline is the thread that Li Qinghe saw earlier, connecting her body to the ocean of human energy.

It seems that one's own special interactions with others and those one has helped form a kind of lifeline. The more and thicker the lines, the more popularity one can draw from the ocean of popularity.

A common training method for people who work as brokers is to do brokerage business.

This is the most stable source of the lifeline.

Splash!

As the passenger ship sailed in, it broke through the waves on the water.

Li Qinghe walked down from the deck and into the cabin.

In cabin number three, a group of zombies were all moved to the edge by Granny Yang, leaving a large open area.

The other three were all doing their own thing.

The trip to Jiang'an had a significant impact on their individual emotions.

Li Qinghe also found a place to sit down and took out the bronze wine cup from his body.

This was an unconscious action on her part.

But upon touching it, the rusty bronze wine vessel underwent a surprising change.

After a slight rubbing of the surface, the rust peeled off, revealing the brand-new copper base underneath.

Li Qinghe's eyes became serious.

She stretched out her hands and placed them on the bronze wine vessel, rubbing them back and forth with her knuckles.

Large areas of rust have fallen off.

Before long, a brand new bronze wine cup appeared in her hand, containing a thin layer of blood left over from when the corpse was removed last time.

On the surface of the blood.

A familiar figure appeared on the water's surface.

Li Qinghe stretched out her finger and gently stirred the water, creating ripples.

But the figure did not disappear; it continued to smile at her.

Li Qinghe gripped the seemingly brand-new bronze wine cup, her hand trembling uncontrollably: "That's right, that's right. Since there's a way to communicate with ghosts and spirits, then there must be ghosts! The dead cannot be brought back to life, but in this world, there are still ghosts!"

She felt a lump in her throat and quickly stared at the wine cup to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

On the water.

The familiar figure was still there, even reaching out and pointing at her eyes.

"It really is a ghost!"

Overjoyed, she wiped away her large tears, stopped sobbing, gripped the wine cup tightly, and finally laughed.