……

Xi Heng returned to the save/load space.

She had already entered inventory mode, skillfully clicking on the items in the inventory to select what to save, and then pressing load to return to Hellfire.

In this way, over and over again, dozens of treasures she carried with her in the Fire Prison Archives—such as the Pure Bright Broken Sword, the fire egg transformed from the sword cultivator Yi Fei and her hiltless longsword, along with the pills, talismans and the Pure Fire Emblem used to enhance the cultivation speed of Foundation Establishment cultivators, and her clothes—were all preserved.

Even after loading the save file dozens of times, it didn't take much time.

Xi Heng swiped his finger across the inventory, nodded, and then pressed load.

At this moment, all the items on my person have been saved, but the enemy's spoils and the wrathful beast's possessions have not yet been saved.

After reloading, she no longer used the Deadly Sword at the start, but instead defeated the enemy to obtain the loot before using the Heart Sword to return to the save space.

After several dozen more hurried attempts, they first obtained the spoils of the purple-robed cultivator, such as the thunder magic talisman used by this person, the purple Daoist robe which was a high-grade spiritual artifact, the jade pendant hanging at his waist that could increase his affinity with spiritual energy, and the storage ring on his little finger, etc.

Then they entered the Pure Fire and reached the Death Realm, where they slaughtered the vengeful beasts several times.

Now, the nine black crystal cores are neatly arranged in the inventory.

"It seems there are still many things that can be obtained through cheating... such as the many treasures and cultivation techniques in the Treasure Pavilion."

However, she didn't know where the secret vault containing the truly important items was located in the Wanbao Pavilion, and exploring it would probably be quite troublesome.

"Never mind, I'll just use it when I need to later."

Xi Heng gently waved his hand, and the inventory in front of him turned into blue light and disappeared.

After resting for a while, I clicked on the word "load save" again.

However, this time, the chosen location was changed to the first save file—the village at the foot of the Great Zhao Medicine King Mountain.

This is the earliest archive she has.

Next, all she wanted to do was return to the Fire Prison and quietly cultivate until she reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and then achieve the Pseudo-Core Formation realm.

Naturally, the file with the longest available time for cultivation should be selected.

Tap with your finger, and your vision gradually blurs.

When the vision cleared, I could see my own simple little wooden house again.

Having returned to this place countless times, Xi Heng felt no emotion whatsoever. He simply changed his clothes and left.

Arriving at the distant riverbank, release the enormous dragon head, as large as a small mountain. Then, remove the dragon's tongue, slice it open with sword energy, wash it clean, and put it back into your inventory.

Having prepared the meal, he snapped his fingers and summoned the flying boat to board.

He activated the flying boat's magic array with a flick of his fingers, sending out spiritual light to control it as it slowly floated up.

The bow of the ship soared high into the sky, pointing towards the center of the heavens, its speed increasing rapidly, like a falling meteorite flying towards the distant horizon.

……

Gululu.

Boil water in a pot, and the seasonings float to the surface and then sink.

Beyond the boundary, in the void, aboard a flying boat.

Xi Heng hummed a song as he sliced ​​the dragon tongue meat and threw it into the hot pot. A moment later, he picked it up and ate it with a gulp.

Before they knew it, the flying boat had already approached the fiery hell.

Having absorbed a large amount of the resentment of the Fire Hell, she was able to easily sense the location of the Fire Hell in the void.

"Almost there."

She turned her gaze and saw a tiny crack emitting a faint light not far away in the boundless void.

The gap may appear no bigger than a fingernail from a distance, but behind it lies an entire world.

Xi Heng began to think about his future cultivation plans.

"Entering through normal channels is a bit cumbersome, so this time we'll sneak into the Fire Prison, carve out a cave in a secluded spot, and then conceal it with array formations and illusionary spells of the Purifying Fire..."

Given her control over the Pure Fire, it's unlikely that any of the cultivators here would be able to detect her.

I've already collected quite a few pills for cultivation; all I need to do is manipulate the Spirit Locking Array to attract enough spiritual energy.

As for matters other than cultivation, I will not concern myself with them in this world.

Only reaching the realm of pseudo-elixir.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 247, The World of Cultivation

Xi Heng maneuvered the flying boat to break through the thin membrane-like barrier between the boundary and the outer void space, like a tiny water bubble merging into a large bubble.

Then, looking down over the clouds, at the dusty world, the green countryside, and the vast, seemingly endless sky before me.

The world looks very vast.

But as she crossed boundaries time and again, she gradually gained a deeper understanding—compared to the boundless void beyond the world, even an entire realm seemed small.

In her memory, the Chonghai Realm was slightly larger. When she was in the Jinghuo Realm, her activities were mostly limited to a single spirit array, which always made her feel cramped.

At the same time, when crossing the void and returning to the human world, one also feels a sense of restriction due to the pull of gravity.

Xi Heng stood on the ship's railing, gazing at the verdant landscape below. He casually swept his vast divine sense across the passing cities, towns, and villages, gradually approaching the edge of the Purifying Fire Great Lock Spirit Array.

Such a voyage takes only two hours to reach the destination.

After retracting the flying boat, Xi Heng used the flight technique inherent in his Foundation Establishment cultivation to reach the Spirit Locking Array. After simply concealing his aura, he took out the array disc and began to calculate the array's shortcomings.

After a moment, he found the missing location and the exact time, nodded, and sat down to wait.

Now, the spirit-locking array is riddled with holes in front of her, making it easy for her to sneak in.

Even if she couldn't find any gaps, she could still envelop herself in a large amount of resentful fire, preventing the spirit-locking array from triggering its blocking mechanism and forcibly breaking into its interior—although this would likely be discovered by the cultivators inside.

As the sun sets in the west, it transforms from a perfect circle into a semicircle, then into a rosy glow and gradually disappears.

The moonlight rose from the distance and hung in the sky, occasionally brushed aside by thin clouds, making it appear exceptionally hazy.

Crows cawed in the wild, and wild beasts growled in the distance.

The shadows of the leaves sway gently, and the wind rustles softly.

The girl got up and went to the edge of the Spirit Locking Array where there was a flaw.

The array disc in his hand shimmered with a faint light, steadily pointing forward.

She pinched her fingers to draw a simple talisman and gently patted it forward, and the small space in front of her slowly began to distort.

Stepping inside, accompanied by the ripples of spatial teleportation, when I opened my eyes again, I was already outside the Pure Fire Capital.

Before us, the pristine white stone walls stand tall, reflecting the hazy, bright moonlight in the sky, making the city walls appear like pure jade.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like it will eventually burn to a crisp.

The black robe that concealed her aura rippled, and her figure flashed and disappeared dozens of meters away in an instant.

The residence that Xi Heng booked this time was not in the capital city, but on the edge of a region where few people lived and no one would disturb him.

……

An hour later, Xi Heng traversed the passage between the Pure Fire Capital and the Market, first infecting the Pure Fire of the Stone Valley Market, and then detouring to the far end.

In the middle of a small hill at the edge of the Fire Prison Spirit Locking Array, a cave was carved out, a stream was introduced, and then the wood and earth methods from the "Hundred Methods of Cultivation" were used to build a barely passable house in the cave.

Take out the camping equipment that you've saved in your inventory, and a simple training ground is easily built.

Although it was simple in appearance, the environment was much quieter than her little wooden house in the mountain village, and Xi Heng got used to living there.

Then comes setting up concealment and energy-gathering formations—this takes a long time.

As night fell, Xi Heng used the nearest Pure Fire Split as a medium to activate the Spirit Locking Array, adding another layer of illusion to his residence and drawing in a large amount of spiritual energy from underground.

With everything prepared, she swallowed a fasting pill and began her first cultivation practice in this world.

Close your eyes, focus on your nose, and then focus on your heart; gather your spiritual energy and concentrate it in your dantian.

"The concentration of spiritual energy is good; although it's on the edge, it's still a notch higher than inside the Pure Fire City..."

"Indeed, as long as the purifying fire can be controlled to infuse spiritual energy, every place in the spirit-locking array can be a sacred place for cultivation."

The energy-gathering array was working, continuously increasing the concentration of spiritual energy.

In the days that followed, he either refined spiritual energy or meditated and rested.

Every ten days or so, take one fasting pill and then continue your cultivation.

Time flies, and after using up thirty fasting pills, a year and two months have passed.

The girl opened her eyes and scanned the outside world with her spiritual sense. She saw that it was already autumn and immediately thought that only two months had passed.

But after calculating with my fingers, I realized that the four seasons had already gone through a cycle, and after thinking about all the fasting pills I had taken, I realized that a year had actually passed.

"My sense of time is getting weaker and weaker..." she sighed softly.

It seems that once a cultivator begins their practice, they no longer inquire about the sun, moon, and seasons.

He just sat there, motionless like a statue.

"And the higher the level, the more so."

Xi Heng vaguely thought that when he achieved the Golden Core or found a way to advance to a higher realm, such as the Nascent Soul or Deity Transformation realms recorded in books, would a single closed-door cultivation session take a lifetime?

The difference between cultivators and ordinary people is truly enormous.

"Then, what about a true immortal?" she wondered.

"What if you close your eyes and fall asleep, and millions of years have passed?"

Xi Heng pondered for a moment with his limited perspective, slowly regaining his senses amidst the changing times.

He reached his fingers to the wooden table beside him, picked up the porcelain bottle containing the Bigu Dan (a type of fasting elixir), and shook it.

The room was empty, and no sound came out even after shaking it several times.

"I've finished my strawberry-flavored fasting pills... I'll go out and buy some other flavors."

She casually pushed the porcelain vase to a corner of the table, changed her clothes, and went out.

The concealment array opened, and the girl's figure appeared within it.

A spiritual aura surrounds him, causing him to fly naturally.

The Shigu Market has been around for a long time. There are few people on the outer perimeter, but many cultivators stroll leisurely in the inner commercial streets.

When Xi Heng arrived at this place, he first bought a white robe, the most common garment in the Fire Hell, and put it on. Then he took out the Pure Fire Emblem that he had saved from his inventory and went to the Spirit Stone Shop to exchange it for a hundred Fire Hell standard spirit stones.

He then went to the medicine shop and bought over a hundred fasting pills of various fruit flavors for fifty spirit stones, enough to last for nearly four years.

Next, he used ten spirit stones to buy several sets of exquisite clothes to change into, and put them into his storage bag.

Nothing happened along the way.

After buying some everyday items, she returned to her cave dwelling.

After putting away the newly purchased futon, I took out a few fresh fruits from my inventory, washed them with spring water from the cave, and then used them.

He gave up and continued his spiritual cultivation.

Having cultivated for over a year, the only improvement I could experience was the continuous accumulation of spiritual energy.

The original twenty-odd drops of liquid spiritual energy have now increased to thirty-eight drops.

On average, an ordinary cultivator needs to condense fifty drops of liquid spiritual energy to reach the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

However, the Heavenly Spirit Root is different from other cultivators; it is said that it takes hundreds of drops to break through to the middle stage.

Xi Heng muttered to himself in his cultivation room:

"I can refine about ten drops of liquid spiritual energy a year. It will take me seven or eight years to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage..."

"It's been so long." She pouted.

The Fire Prison is only about fourteen years away from its demise, and I will have to reload my save shortly after advancing to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

It might take even longer to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

"Time flies like water," the girl sighed softly.

The only redeeming quality is that the increased physical and mental lifespan after promotion is longer than the cultivation period.

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