Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

His spiritual senses emanated from his body, covering Jiang Shi's entire body within three feet.

Although the distance is short, whether a cultivator has spiritual consciousness or not makes a qualitative difference.

With storage bags like these, you no longer need to use your hands to store or retrieve items.

Any item within the range of spiritual awareness can be directly accessed.

Furthermore, one can only leave a unique spiritual imprint on storage bags, magical artifacts, and other items by using one's spiritual sense.

If someone gets hold of your storage bag, they must first eliminate your spiritual consciousness before they can use it normally.

Generally, spiritual awareness can only be awakened in the later stages of Qi Refining.

Jiang Shi's current ability to awaken his spiritual consciousness may be related to the fact that he has awakened his memories from his previous life.

His soul was naturally stronger than others.

A strong soul naturally leads to a strong spiritual awareness.

Furthermore, after mastering the Fire Spirit Technique and the Earth Spirit Technique,

The four techniques he practiced underwent a miraculous transformation together.

When the "Fire Spirit Technique" reached its peak, the technique's level was upgraded to the Yellow Grade, Upper Rank.

When Jiang Shi broke through the "Earth Spirit Technique", all of his cultivation techniques were elevated to the low-grade Xuan level.

The four techniques complement each other and are integrated.

Jiang Shi's magical power has become even stronger, and he can now cast spells with greater ease.

Of the five spiritual techniques—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—only the "metal spiritual technique" remains unlearned.

"Looks like I need to get the Golden Spirit Manual as soon as possible."

Jiang Shi felt that as long as he could obtain the "Golden Spirit Technique" and cultivate it to perfection, these five techniques would definitely undergo some earth-shattering changes.

However, we cannot act rashly for the time being, as the Qingyun Sect is particularly wary of cultivators with five spiritual roots.

Sects are usually unwilling to accept disciples with the aptitude of five spiritual roots.

If people were to learn that he had cultivated the five spiritual techniques of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, it would certainly attract their attention.

At that time, he, who came from a humble background as a servant disciple, would certainly not have a good ending.

If his cultivation level at the fifth level of Qi Refining wasn't too low, making him unable to protect himself, he would have run away long ago.

We still need to bide our time and endure hardship for a while.

Jiang Shi calmed down and focused on his cultivation.

Three months have passed. During this time, Jiang Shi has been diligently cultivating, except for occasionally going out to deliver spirit talismans to the talisman-making hall.

He dared not stop for a moment.

The path to immortality is long and arduous; only by enduring loneliness and relentlessly practicing can one have the chance to reach the summit.

On this day, a knock came at the door.

"Junior Brother Jiang." Zhou Yuan's voice rang out from outside the door.

Jiang Shi finished his practice and opened the door.

"Senior Brother Zhou, it's been a long time. What brings you here?"

"Junior Brother Jiang, the sect competition is about to begin, and Senior Sister Lin asked us to get together beforehand to discuss things," Zhou Yuan said.

"The Sect Grand Competition?" Although Jiang Shi knew that the Sect Grand Competition was about to begin, he knew nothing about its contents.

"Okay, Senior Brother Zhou, you go first, I'll be right there."

Now that his cultivation has been consolidated, Jiang Shi cannot break through his cultivation level without the "Golden Spirit Technique" for the time being.

After Zhou Yuan left, Jiang Shi first went to deliver the spirit talismans that were due for this month.

Then they went to the outer gate restaurant.

"Junior Brother Jiang, you've arrived! I'm so glad to finally meet you." At the entrance of the restaurant, Li Ze looked at Jiang Shi with teary eyes.

"Junior Brother Li, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Shi asked when he saw Li Ze's condition.

"I……"

Just as Li Ze was about to complain to Jiang Shi, he was interrupted by someone else.

"He was punished by his senior sister to work in the mines for three months because of a mistake he made before. He was just released."

Zhou Yuan walked over and patted Li Ze on the shoulder.

"This is also to teach you a lesson. Places like the Pleasure Courtyard are not places that poor cultivators like us can go to casually."

"Yes, Senior Brother Zhou." Li Ze obediently admitted his mistake and dared not say anything more.

"Alright, let's go in. The senior brothers are all waiting."

Li Ze and Jiang Shi entered the private room together.

When the senior disciples saw Li Ze, they gave him another lecture.

Jiang Shi sat in a chair, chatting with his senior brother beside him.

A moment later, Zhou Yuan came in from outside and respectfully opened the door to the room.

Lin Yanyi walked in quietly.

"Is everything ready?" Lin Yanyi asked Zhou Yuan.

"Senior Sister Lin, everyone has arrived."

"Let's begin." Lin Yanyi said, then sat down alone at the table.

As Lin Yanyi finished speaking, the gathering officially began.

Each person still receives one year's supply of spiritual fruit.

Jiang Shi hadn't even started eating when Li Ze, who was standing next to him, stopped him.

"Wait a minute, Junior Brother Jiang," Li Ze called out urgently.

Jiang Shi looked at Li Ze with a puzzled expression.

"Junior Brother Jiang, can you do me a favor?" Li Ze pleaded.

"My senior brother made a mistake a while ago, and thanks to Senior Sister Lin's help, he was able to get out of trouble."

"After what happened, how could I possibly eat this spiritual fruit? I want to return it to Senior Sister Lin, and also give her the one hundred spirit crystals I earned from mining over the past three months."

"I'm a little scared right now, could you come with me?"

Jiang Shi thought about it and realized it wasn't a big deal, so he agreed.

So he went with Li Ze to find Lin Yanyi.

"Lin...Lin...Senior Sister." Li Ze was both afraid and ashamed in front of Lin Yanyi.

He used to have a crush on Lin Yanyi, but now when he sees her, he stammers and can't say a word.

"What is it?" Lin Yanyi replied coldly.

That's exactly her personality—cold on the outside, warm on the inside.

He's usually aloof, but he's helped a lot of his junior classmates.

"..."

However, when Li Ze saw Lin Yanyi, it was as if he himself was in a world of ice and snow, and he became even more nervous and speechless.

Li Ze stammered and couldn't get the words out. Lin Yanyi frowned, feeling a bit annoyed. She didn't like having too much contact with others.

Seeing that one of them was stammering and the other was as cold as snow, Jiang Shi knew that if he didn't speak up, he wouldn't be able to leave today.

He quickly spoke up to explain for Li Ze:

"Senior Sister Lin, Li Ze has come to apologize to you. He has been reflecting on his mistakes recently and now he has a deep understanding of them."

Then he took the spirit crystal bag and spirit fruit from Li Ze's hand and handed them to Lin Yanyi.

Lin Yanyi took it instinctively.

Then she looked at the bag and the spirit fruit in her hand, and her brows furrowed even deeper.

"Quickly apologize to Senior Sister Lin." Jiang Shi whispered a reminder to Li Ze when Lin Yanyi wasn't paying attention.

"I'm sorry, Senior Sister Lin..." Li Ze finally realized what was happening and quickly apologized.

"I understand, you can go now." Lin Yanyi placed the bag and spirit fruit on the table and then spoke.

Her words remained cold and emotionless.

However, Jiang Shi and Li Ze dared not stay any longer and quickly withdrew.

When the two of them returned to their seats,

Senior Brother Hu walked over.

"Well done, Junior Brother Jiang," Senior Brother Hu said to Jiang Shi.

"And you, Li Ze."

As they spoke, Senior Brother Hu looked at Lin Yanyi with some concern from time to time.

"Senior Brother Hu."