Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

"Will the items in my inventory be restored after loading the save file?" Xi Heng wondered.

This was probably a good thing, so she didn't think much of it after a while and put it back in her inventory.

"The mad emperor wanted to use the Spirit Absorption Technique to cultivate immortality and refine Qi. In the end, I perished together with him, so I used the Sacrifice Sword. Before I died, I sensed the Qi and blood entering my body..." She recalled the events of her previous life.

And now, the physique of a martial artist who has reached the level of mastery has been brought back to this life after the save file was loaded.

Xi Heng closed his eyes and began to experience the strange energy within his body, letting it flow slowly with his thoughts.

At first, the process was quite difficult, as if you were trying to pinch an extremely sticky thing with two weak fingers. You could only hold it for a short while, and it would slip away and return to your lower abdomen after a few seconds.

After dozens of attempts, Xi Heng was finally able to carefully guide the blood and qi along the meridians to his palm.

As you clench your fist, your muscles tense up, and your blood and energy seem to seep into your muscles, causing a slight depletion of energy.

The next instant, Xi Heng felt a strange force land on his hand.

She suddenly slammed her fist on the table.

A loud thud sounded, followed by a crack.

Some moldy, rotten wooden tables couldn't withstand the blow at all, and a hole was smashed in them.

"This is the power..."

"It's so simple. No wonder Senior Sister never explained how Qi and blood can be transformed into strength."

As long as you control and circulate your Qi and blood to certain parts of your body, a force will naturally arise as you exert your muscles.

Currently, her circulation of qi and blood is still quite slow. Once she becomes more proficient and can easily circulate her qi and blood to the desired location to generate force at will, she will have achieved minor mastery of Ming Jin.

"My physique has indeed become much stronger..." Xi Heng clenched and unclenched her fists. Her body no longer felt weak and was better than ever before.

"In my previous life, I achieved my goal of becoming a martial artist. In this life, am I trying to find immortal techniques to cultivate my Qi?"

"No, no." Xi Heng immediately shook her head. As a novice martial artist, she had no access to the rare materials required for the Spirit Absorption Technique.

Her blood relatives were all members of the Great Zhao royal family, making even contact with them extremely difficult, let alone using them to refine spirit stones.

"I'm just a beginner martial artist, I should continue practicing." She recalled her days at the Red Thread Academy and the people she met. Although she worked hard every day, she still felt a sense of preciousness.

Furthermore, becoming a martial arts master should make everything much easier.

After making up his mind, Xi Heng grabbed his money pouch from the table; it was quite empty.

She tilted her head, opened her purse, and found only a few worthless copper coins inside, about seventy-odd coins...

To attend the Red Thread Sword Academy, one would need twenty taels of silver for three months.

In the capital, an ordinary family of three or four people spends less than twenty taels of silver a year.

“Money…” Xi Heng then took out his jade pendant, which symbolized his status as a princess.

"Don't sell this jade pendant in this life. Even selling it on the black market isn't necessarily safe."

"I originally planned to keep the jewels sent by the emperor and exchange them for money in this life, but in the end I exchanged them for a wicked book... In this life, I need to make money first, but how do I do that?"

She tilted her head left and right, looking at the oddly shaped jade pendant in her hand, wondering if she could polish off the patterns on its surface before selling it.

However, in that case, the jade pendant would definitely become much cheaper, and you wouldn't be able to get a large sum of money like you did in the previous life.

The girl put the jade pendant back in her hand, rested her chin on her hands, and began to think about money.

What about robbing the rich to help the poor?

Xi Heng glanced westward.

Just a few hundred meters away through the wall was her workplace in her second life, Kangcao Pavilion.

In the entire remote mountain village, only that pharmacy was the wealthiest.

Furthermore, having worked there, Xi Heng was well aware of the personnel flow and the layout and specifications of Kangcao Pavilion.

She knew exactly where the small change was kept, where the large change was kept, and where the finest medicinal herbs were stored.

They even knew that they could easily exchange a single high-quality medicinal herb for more than ten taels of silver.

With his skills as a martial artist at the Energizing Realm and his knowledge of Kangcao Pavilion, it should be relatively easy for him to take some money from it.

After thinking about it for a while, Xi Heng finally gave up on the idea.

"Let's not." She still retained some moral principles.

Although my indifference has grown due to my inability to load save files, it still exists.

"Think of something more serious..." The girl looked up and peered into the distance through the gap in the drafty paper window.

Under the moonlight, a towering mountain loomed heavily there.

The mountains are lush and verdant, with overlapping peaks and ridges, ancient pines and giant rocks, covered by clouds and mist, exuding a sense of mystery in their stillness, and a blend of grandeur and beauty.

That is Yaowang Mountain. This small village lives off this mountain and relies on it for its livelihood.

This mountain was formerly known as Lingxiu Mountain. Decades ago, a lingzhi mushroom the size of a face appeared there. It was said to be a 5,000-year-old fragrant blood lingzhi mushroom, which caused quite a stir.

The Ganoderma lucidum was presented to the Emperor of Zhao by a high-ranking official of the prefecture. The Emperor was overjoyed and renamed Lingxiu Mountain as Yaowang Mountain. He also granted the person who harvested the Ganoderma lucidum a noble title and official position, and assigned him to take care of and cultivate the flowers and plants in the palace gardens.

In the following decade, countless people hoped to replicate this achievement, hoping to gain official positions and elevate their entire families to new heights.

However, over the course of more than a decade, the influx of people nearly depleted Yaowang Mountain, and no more large Ganoderma lucidum over a hundred years old were discovered.

As a result, the medicinal herbs and treasures on the mountain and the wild animals there became fewer and fewer, and naturally no more people came. Even many of the villagers moved away.

Nowadays, only some common miscellaneous medicinal herbs remain on this mountain, most of which cannot be exchanged for much money. Those who collect herbs have to dig up more wild vegetables every day just to barely make a living.

Xi Heng lived a life of poverty in her first life until she saw a purple Ganoderma lucidum on the edge of a cliff.

At the time, she thought her luck had finally turned and she could escape this life of poverty.

Then, mustering his courage, he slowly moved closer, step by step, along the cliff face.

When I stepped into the middle section, the stone under my feet suddenly gave way and shattered with a crack.

She then fell down.

Awakening the save/load system, he finally reversed his fate and became a martial artist after two lifetimes.

"Thinking about it this way, it's all because of that Ganoderma lucidum," Xi Heng muttered to himself.

"With the physique of a martial artist in this life, and with some preparation, I should be able to easily obtain it."

"That Ganoderma lucidum should be worth quite a bit of silver... I'll use this silver to go to Jinshi City to learn martial arts."

She had been doing bookkeeping at the pharmacy for two years and still had a lot of confidence in her own estimates.

Xi Heng looked up at the sky outside.

It's not good to move around at night, so she plans to go out again tomorrow morning.

……

During the day, Xi Heng carried a basket bag containing a sharp knife and some tools for gathering herbs, along with a water bottle and other items hanging at his waist.

After making some preparations, we headed directly to the familiar Yaowang Mountain.

The mountain road is long but not dangerous. Over the decades, countless people have climbed the mountain and have already traversed many paths.

Just keep going uphill following the yellow soil on the ground.

Previously, it would take Xi Heng two or three hours to climb this mountain and reach the mountainside area rich in various medicinal herbs. Now that he has mastered martial arts and his physique has improved, he can reach it in just one hour, and he can even remain calm and composed.

"I remember the Ganoderma lucidum is on the cliff..." The herb-gathering girl discerned the path and slowly walked towards a cliff.

The higher you go, the narrower and steeper the path becomes.

When you get close to a cliff on the side, you have to climb over a rock every now and then.

“The usual path doesn’t lead to the cliffs around Lingzhi. I think I slipped somewhere and ended up taking a long detour down the mountainside.” Xi Heng reached a high point and looked around, but couldn’t find the exact location of the cliffs for a moment.

Looking at the beautiful scenery on this mountain made me feel much more relaxed.

She crouched down and sat on a large rock.

The fresh morning breeze caressed her face and stirred her hair. Her healthy physique, free from any pain and fatigue despite being active for so long, filled her with joy.

After resting for a while, Xi Heng continued to look around and soon found the hillside where he had slid down.

Just as she got up and climbed down the boulder, about to head towards it, a long howl of a wolf came from afar in the mountains.

The wailing sound was long and drawn out.

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Chapter Fifteen, Lingzhi on the Cliff

"Woo——"

Xi Heng turned to look at the source of the wolf howling, which was deep in the dense forest, hundreds of meters away from her.

She glanced at the sky; it was early morning, not the time when wolves would hunt.

During her first life gathering herbs, she heard wolves howling, but never encountered them.

Perhaps because Xi Heng was very careful, he would immediately go down the mountain whenever it got dark, and return to the village before the wolves were active.

"Even if there are wolves, there shouldn't be many." Xi Heng turned his gaze back and continued with his work.

This mountain was once scavenged, and now creatures such as rabbits, pheasants, and wolves are quite rare.

Furthermore, she was already a martial artist, had studied sword techniques for three months, carried a dagger at her waist, and possessed internal strength. Xi Heng was confident that even if she were surrounded by several wolves, she could easily kill them.

"Ouch——"

The wolves were still howling, but she ignored them, treating them as background noise like the chirping of kingfishers at dawn.

The girl descended a landslide and continued along the route she remembered; the location of the Ganoderma lucidum was still far away.

She didn't know how long she traveled in her first life before she finally found that cliff and saw the Ganoderma lucidum.

Perhaps it was precisely because of its secluded location that the Ganoderma lucidum was not found during the great sweep decades ago.

The sun gradually rises from the east, remaining high in the sky, casting a clear and warm light.

As I walked forward, my shadow moved, and the sun drifted from the east to the south, sometimes obscuring it and sometimes revealing it again.

As the sky changed color, Xi Heng gradually felt a bit tired as he walked.

"I've been walking all morning," she murmured to herself, looking at the position of the sun.

"How did I, so sickly back then, manage to survive for so long?" Xi Heng could no longer recall the hardships he had endured.

Another hour later, Xi Heng still hadn't found the cliff where the Ganoderma lucidum was hidden.

The clouds were blown from the north to the south by the long wind, and then gradually disappeared into the distance.

She walked through a thicket of bushes and heard the chirping of kingfishers gradually fade away, replaced by the babbling of a stream.

Xi Heng drank all the water in his water bag, then squatted down by the stream to refill it with clean spring water.

Small fish, tadpoles, and shrimp dart back and forth in the stream, and the clear spring water is covered with colorful pebbles.

They ate some of the dry rations they had brought and continued on their way.

As the sun began to set in the west, and Xi Heng felt as if he had almost circled the entire mountainside, a sheer cliff, with a constant gust of wind blowing through it, finally came into view.

A dead tree stands on the edge of the cliff. Its trunk is dry and yellow, without any leaves, and only a few twisted branches that seem to reach out like outstretched hands towards the other side of the cliff.

She walked to the withered tree, reached out and touched it, then went to the edge of the cliff and looked down into the bottomless abyss.

The bottom of the abyss was shrouded in mist, making it difficult to discern its exact shape.

"This is it."

She had seen this withered tree before, and the Ganoderma lucidum grew next to a decaying tree on a cliff.

Xi Heng continued walking slowly along the edge of the cliff, glancing down every now and then.

After walking no more than fifty meters, I saw the tree and noticed a purplish-red tinge growing at its base.

Looking at it from a different angle, it really is that Ganoderma lucidum.

Xi Heng put down the woven wooden basket in his hand, took out a long enough thick hemp rope from it, found a relatively sturdy broken wooden stake next to him, tied the hemp rope tightly, and then wrapped it around his waist and tied it in a knot.

Then, after taking the medicine shovel, I went to the edge of the cliff, surveyed the terrain, and found a place that was barely a foothold before carefully falling off the cliff.

With the help of this thick rope, Xi Heng's movements gradually became smoother and more skillful.

With her back pressed against the cliff, it took her almost two or three minutes to walk the short ten-meter distance.