I run a casino in the immortal realm.

There are ten drops in the bottle.

Zheng Yifei held up two fingers and waved them in front of everyone: "But don't be too happy yet. I have five elemental roots, so my eating efficiency is one-fifth of yours. Theoretically, I have to swallow five drops to achieve the effect of one drop for others."

He uncorked the bottle, and a rich, almost solidified golden spiritual energy immediately filled the air, causing the temperature in the sealed room to rise several degrees.

"Wanqing, Ling'er, Jianfeng, and Changsheng, one drop each."

Zheng Yifei used his spiritual power to suspend four drops of golden liquid in mid-air and presented them to the four people respectively: "The remaining six drops are mine."

Su Wanqing took the drop of dragon marrow but didn't consume it immediately. Instead, she looked at Zheng Yifei and asked, "Are you sure? Are six drops enough? Should we wait for you to break through first?"

Zheng Yifei put the jade bottle back into his storage ring and stood up: "No need. We will go into seclusion from now on. No one is allowed to come out until we break through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage."

In the backyard of Xiaoyao Palace, there are five secluded chambers built specifically for core members to cultivate in seclusion.

The array provides soundproofing and gathers spiritual energy, preventing outsiders from detecting any fluctuations in the internal energy.

Zhang Biao was in charge of guarding the palace, while Zhao Wenyuan was in charge of all the daily affairs of Xiaoyao Palace.

All five secret rooms were sealed off simultaneously.

Inside Su Wanqing's secret room.

She sat cross-legged on the jade platform and put the drop of dragon marrow into her mouth.

The moment she stepped into the mouth, her entire body froze.

It wasn't the gentle nourishment of ordinary spiritual liquid, but rather like an ancient, dormant beast suddenly awakening within her.

The golden liquid transformed into a scorching torrent, flowing straight down from her throat to her dantian, slamming violently into her nascent soul.

Su Wanqing's nascent soul suddenly opened its eyes within her dantian.

The tiny ice and snow figure, only an inch tall, began to develop golden patterns on its surface. These patterns spread along the meridians of the nascent soul, and with each inch covered, the nascent soul expanded in size.

This process is not gentle.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Su Wanqing's forehead, and her jaw was clenched.

The medicinal power of the dragon marrow was too domineering. Her meridians felt as if they were being filled with scalding magma, and every meridian was undergoing extreme expansion.

But she did not hesitate at all, and used all her strength to absorb and refine the medicinal power of the dragon marrow without missing a single drop.

Eight days later.

A clear, sharp sword sound rang out from the secret chamber.

Su Wanqing's aura suddenly rose a level, and the pressure of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator emanated from the secret room, causing even the spirit lamps in the corridor to sway three times.

Almost simultaneously, a rich medicinal fragrance wafted from Zhao Ling's secret room next door. Her breakthrough became more stable and gentle, like spring rain nourishing all things, and her aura quietly rose to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

tenth day.

Li Jianfeng and Wang Changsheng both made breakthroughs.

Li Jianfeng's breakthrough was the most dramatic, and the array in the secret chamber only stabilized after withstanding two sword energy impacts; Wang Changsheng, on the other hand, was much quieter, with only a sliver of earthy yellow light leaking through the crack in the door.

All four broke through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm within ten days.

But there was still no movement in Zheng Yifei's secret room.

Day 15.

Zhao Wenyuan stood at the end of the corridor, looking at the tightly closed stone door, his brows furrowed.

Even after Su Wanqing emerged from seclusion, she did not leave. She would come here every day to sit for a while, showing no signs of anxiety, but the sword in her hand remained unsheathed.

Still no movement?

Li Jianfeng walked over and handed over a pot of spiritual tea.

"His five elements spiritual roots require five times the potency of our medicine."

Zhao Ling leaned against the wall, pondering something: "Six drops of dragon marrow should be just enough in theory. But based on my experience at the Golden Core stage, his breakthroughs are always slower and more difficult than expected."

Day .

A muffled tremor finally came from inside the sealed room.

Su Wanqing suddenly stood up.

But then, everything returned to calm.

It was a false breakthrough; only one of the five Nascent Soul cultivators reached the critical point, while the other four were still a step short.

Day 25.

There was another tremor, stronger than the last one.

Day 28.

Three consecutive sounds.

Zhao Ling stood outside the door counting, her lips moving silently: "Two more to go..."

Day 30.

early morning.

Suddenly, countless cracks spread across the stone door of the secret chamber. A terrifying five-colored spiritual pressure surged out from the cracks in the door, and all the spirit lamps on both sides of the corridor shattered.

"Back off!"

Su Wanqing pulled Zhao Ling behind her, and spread out her sword energy to protect everyone.

next interest.

"boom!"

The stone gate exploded open, and five beams of light of different colors shot into the sky from the secret chamber, piercing directly through the roof of the Xiaoyao Palace and forming a brief five-colored halo above the Tianmo City.

A moment later, the light faded.

Zheng Yifei emerged from the smoke and dust, shirtless, his muscles sculpted like knife cuts, and his skin shimmering with faint, five-colored patterns.

He stretched his neck, and his bones cracked repeatedly.

"One month."

Zheng Yifei looked down at his hands, his five fingers taking turns glowing with five different colors: gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow. "Six drops of dragon marrow, five of them used."

He raised his head and grinned: "Mid-stage Nascent Soul."

Zhao Ling leaned closer, her brow furrowing slightly: "Five drops? Weren't we supposed to prepare six drops? Is there one drop left?"

"Save it for the first person to break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

Zheng Yifei took out a clean robe from his storage ring and put it on: "Let's go see the sect leader in the back mountain."

The back mountain.

The construction site for the teleportation array is already taking shape.

In a valley that had been razed to the ground, hundreds of array masters from the Heavenly Demon Sect were carving basic array patterns on the ground according to the drawings personally drawn by Ouyang Tian.

The black iron pillars were driven deep into the ground to serve as the supporting framework for the array nodes.

Ouyang Tian stood on a boulder at the edge of the valley, overlooking the entire construction site.

Ye Tianqiong stood behind him, holding a stack of material lists, checking them item by item.

"metropolitan."

Zheng Yifei's voice came from behind.

Ouyang Tian turned around, and paused slightly when his gaze fell on Zheng Yifei.

He didn't speak, but simply swept his divine sense across the area.

Then his pupils contracted.

Mid-stage Nascent Soul stage.

All five Nascent Souls have advanced to the mid-stage.

From the initial to the middle stages, a normal cultivator, following the established path, would need at least several decades or even hundreds of years to cultivate in the spiritual environment of the Southern Wilderness.

Zheng Yifei took a month, which exceeded his understanding of cultivation.

"you……"

Ouyang Tian was speechless for a moment, which was rare for him.

Ye Tianqiong, standing next to him, was even more outrageous, dropping the list of materials in his hand directly to the ground.

"You were only in the early Nascent Soul stage a month ago, how did you manage that?"

Ye Tianqiong stared at Zheng Yifei, his voice tense.

Zheng Yifei shrugged, took out the jade bottle from his storage ring, and waved it in front of the two of them: "Dragon Marrow, a gift from a friend. One drop can raise your cultivation level by one small realm."

"Dragon marrow?"

Ouyang Tian's brows furrowed sharply.

He stepped forward, took the jade bottle, and probed it with his divine sense. There was still a drop of golden liquid inside the bottle, as well as a faint aftertaste clinging to the bottle wall.

Ouyang Tian's fingers trembled slightly.

He had lived for hundreds of years and searched through all the ancient books and records in the Southern Wilderness, but he had never seen anything like it.

However, his Nascent Soul consciousness could clearly perceive that the purity of the laws contained in this drop of golden liquid far exceeded the upper limit of the power of heaven and earth in the Southern Wilderness Region.

"This is not a product of the Southern Wilderness."

Ouyang Tian returned the jade bottle to Zheng Yifei in a low voice.

"A wandering cultivator, whose strength is unfathomable, who comes and goes without a trace."

Zheng Yifei carefully put the jade bottle away without explaining further; it was Xu Tianyang's secret and couldn't be revealed casually.