After breaking through the first layer of the Refining Qi period, the scattered spiritual energy within Qin Lingyun gradually condensed into a controllable spiritual power that could be called upon at any time, transforming from gas to liquid, a process of quantitative change to qualitative change.

  However, Qin Lingyun currently has relatively little spiritual energy in her body. If she can break through the third layer of the Qi Refining stage, she will be able to use her spiritual energy to cultivate simple spells. She is cultivating the water-based foundational technique "Soft Water Technique", so she can only cultivate water-based spells.

  At the same time, if she breaks through the three layers of the Refining Qi period, she can also open the storage bag left by Li Haoze. As for the storage bag left by that Li Haoze Shixiong, because his divine consciousness exists, it cannot be opened temporarily. Li Haoze Shixiong is already dead, and after a long time, the remaining divine consciousness will automatically dissipate, and Qin Lingyun can open it.

  "The most important thing now is to break through the three layers of Lianqi, and after getting the spell, we can go deeper into Luoxia Mountain. Now the mushrooms at the foot of the mountain have been picked almost clean, only by entering the depths of Luoxia Mountain can we pick more mushrooms, and even find some rare herbs."

  Qin Lingyun, since she started cultivating immortality, had long abandoned those unrealistic fantasies. She knew that the technique of turning stones into gold, regardless of whether it truly existed or not, was impossible for low-level cultivators to possess. Moreover, once one embarked on this arduous path of cultivation, there was no turning back.

  In the following time, Qin Lingyun never went to Qinghe Town again. Every time her family members advised her to go, she refused with various excuses. Her cultivation also deepened in her practice, and after half a year, she broke through the second layer. After more than half a year, she successfully broke through the third layer of the Refining Qi period.

  Qin Lingyun went from being an ordinary person to reaching the third layer of the Qi Refining stage, taking nearly two years, from the age of twelve to fourteen.

  At the age of fourteen, Qin Lingyun was already vastly different from the ugly duckling she once was. Her skin had become smooth and lustrous, with a faint layer of radiance surrounding her. She had also grown taller, exuding an ethereal aura that set her apart from ordinary mortals. The villagers naturally took notice of this transformation, with many secretly marveling at it, ultimately attributing it to the old adage "a girl changes completely by eighteen".

  Qin Lingyun rarely went out anymore, as she had already turned 14 and was not stunningly beautiful, but rather had a lively spirit. The teasing from before had stopped, and instead, there were many people coming to her house to propose marriage, however, all of them were rejected by Qin Lingyuns father, Qin Dahu, on the grounds that Qin Lingyun was still young and not yet discussing marriage.

  But in recent days, another matchmaker came to propose a marriage, and this time Qin Dahu was worried because the one who proposed the marriage was Huaran, the powerful and influential Master Li from a nearby village.

  Mr. Li is already over 40 years old, and unintentionally caught a glimpse of Qin Lingyun, he was attracted to her unique temperament, now he has asked the matchmaker to come and wants to marry Qin Lingyun as his concubine.

  Qin Dahu naturally refused, how could his own daughter be given to someone as a concubine? However, after refusing, he was very worried in his heart. Its known that Li Laozhu is notoriously arrogant and domineering. Now that he has been displeased, if Qin Dahu provokes him, how can an ordinary family like the Qins contend with Li Laozhu?

  Qin Dahu has been worried for days, while Qin Lingyun is now standing in a secluded place between the mountains.

  "Li Laohu doesnt come to provoke me, thats fine. But if he dares to come, Ill have to give him a show of color." Qin Lingyun is now different from ordinary people, and her way of thinking is naturally also greatly different from ordinary people.

  She mobilized the spiritual energy within her body, her fingers dancing in the air as she formed a hand seal. A flash of insight gleamed in her bright eyes, and she softly shouted: "Go."

  Suddenly a palm-sized ice cone suddenly appeared in the air, and under Qin Lingyuns control, the ice cone fell from the sky and hit a gray stone on the ground.

  With a "bang", fine ice fragments appeared on the surface of the gray stone, and a small pit was knocked out on the hard stone surface.

  "Not bad, two days of training and I can barely cast a low-level ice arrow spell." Qin Lingyun clapped her hands in satisfaction.

  Qin Lingyun, who had just broken through the third layer of Lianqi, couldnt wait to start practicing her Ice Arrow Technique. At first, she was nervous and unsure, but as she began to practice, she realized that it was a completely different story from what she had read in books.

  To successfully release the Ice Arrow Technique, the hand gestures and the flow of spiritual energy within the body must be precisely coordinated, with no room for error. Fortunately, Qin Lingyun had a strong memory, and she was able to recall all the complex steps in her mind. Despite this, when she first attempted to release it, she still ended up with a series of chaotic failures.

  Through repeated failures, Qin Lingyuns gestures and internal spiritual power gradually began to coordinate, and after many failures, Qin Lingyun finally successfully released the Ice Arrow Technique. This simple technique had already made Qin Lingyun overjoyed.

  However, although she successfully released the Ice Arrow Technique, her accuracy was really poor. As a result, Qin Lingyu spent a long time again to cultivate her accuracy.

  Qin Lingyun was barely satisfied now, and it wasnt until then that she remembered there was still one thing she hadnt done - opening Li Haozes storage bag.

  After collecting some mushrooms in the mountains and returning home, Qin Lingyun locked herself in her room and only then took out Li Haozes storage bag.

  The storage bag was only the size of a palm, and it was hard to imagine that such a small storage bag could hold so many items. Qin Lingyun followed what was said in the "Soft Water Technique", slowly outputting a thread of spiritual power into the mouth of the storage bag.

  The thread of spiritual energy was then absorbed by the storage bag, but the storage bag did not change as Qin Lingyun had expected.

  After some thought, Qin Lingyun muttered to herself: "Could it be that the input spiritual power is insufficient?" So she continued to input spiritual power, and the storage bag kept absorbing. Suddenly, her mind seemed to have an inexplicable connection with the storage bag.

  This connection became tighter and tighter, Qin Lingyun was like using her hearts eye to see everything, without even using her eyes, she could clearly sense everything in the storage bag.

  "Could this be the divine consciousness of the Primordial Spirit?"

  The yuan Shen is the soul of the living, transcending physical existence, not only humans possess it, but other lives also have it. Qin Lingyun had truly understood the relevant knowledge from "Xiuzhen Secret Records". Ordinary people cannot feel their own yuan Shen, and cultivators who cultivate to a certain level will sense the existence of the yuan Shens divine consciousness.

  The yuan Shen is the foundation of life, and the physical body is just a shell. When the physical body perishes, the yuan Shen does not perish, and life will also not perish. On the contrary, when the yuan Shen disperses, even if the physical body has not died, the entire life becomes a walking corpse, and the root of life no longer exists.

  Masters attach great importance to Yuanshen. When cultivating Lingli, it not only affects the physical body but also nourishes and strengthens Yuanshen.

  "Jiuyin Scripture" records that as long as one cultivates to the fourth layer of the Refining Qi period, they can experience the sensation of their yuan Shen leaving the body, and with their divine consciousness extending outward, they can even perceive things at a great distance.

  Qin Lingyun has now cultivated to the third layer of the Qi Refining stage and naturally felt the existence of her Primordial Spirits divine sense.

  Without using physical eyes, one can "see" the items in the storage bag with just spiritual awareness, as if having a pair of invisible eyes.

  There were quite a few items in the storage bag, including three rhombus-shaped stones that emitted a faint white glow. A dark iron plaque with the words "Lingmu Gate" engraved on it, and a pale green jade slip.

  Qin Lingyun followed the method of taking out objects in "Xiuzhen Secret Records", and with a movement of her divine consciousness, she thought about taking out the jade slip, and sure enough, the jade slip immediately transformed into a green light that appeared in mid-air, falling perfectly into her hand.

  "The Jade Tablet requires mental energy, fortunately I have already cultivated to the third layer of Qi Refining."

  The Master recorded the secrets of Gongfa and other things, except for a few that used special leather paper, most of which were recorded on jade slips. The contents were printed inside the jade slips using a special technique, and when viewing was required, the divine consciousness had to be used.

  Qin Lingyun stuck the jade slip to her forehead, because she only had a cultivation of three layers of refining qi, so she was still unable to release her divine sense externally. In order to view the contents of the jade slip, she could only do it this way.

  Sensing her spiritual consciousness, Qin Lingyun naturally mobilized her spiritual consciousness to probe into the jade slip, and what she thought was a difficult task turned out to be very simple.

  After reading the contents of the jade slip, Qin Lingyun let out a breath: "It turns out that Li Haoze is a disciple of the Spiritual Wood Sect. The Luoxia mountain range is located within the borders of the Great Wei Empire and is considered one of the larger mountain ranges. Among the top ten sects of the Great Wei Orthodox Demon Gate, two major sects are actually located on Mount Luoxia, namely the Spiritual Wood Sect and the Magic Sound Sect."

  The Jade Annals recorded some basic information about the Great Wei Xianxia, where the Orthodox and Demonic forces were evenly matched and interdependent. Among the top ten sects of the Orthodox and Demonic paths, there were five major Orthodox sects, and similarly, there were also five major Demonic sects. The Lingmu Sect, to which Li Haoze belonged, was one of the five major Orthodox sects. Every five years, it would hold a recruitment ceremony for new disciples in the nearby area. Meanwhile, within the Luoxia Mountain Range, there was also the demonic Mo Yin Sect.

  After understanding the Xianjie of the Great Wei, Qin Lingyun put down the jade slip and picked up the storage bag. The mouth of the bag was aligned with the jade slip, and she input her spiritual power. With a white light, the jade slip gradually shrunk before her eyes and finally entered the storage bag.

  Qin Lingyun tried it out and succeeded, she couldnt help but feel a great joy in her heart: "This is great, with the storage bag, I can put the two magical artifacts and several books inside, no need to leave them at home where they might not be safe."

  Qin Lingyun put the five books into her storage bag one by one, and then her eyes fell on a small green sword on the table. The green spirit sword was of low grade, it was the lowest grade of inferior spiritual instrument, but even if it was an inferior spiritual instrument, it was still a treasure. Qin Lingyun wanted to drive the green spirit sword, but with her current cultivation, she was not enough.

  "Its only at the fourth layer of the Refining Qi stage that one can control low-grade magical artifacts, and this square cloth, Im afraid even a Refining Qi stage cultivator wont be able to use it."

  After putting the Qingling Sword into the storage bag, Qin Lingyuns gaze fell on that square handkerchief again.