Yong Shanling waved her sword menacingly. With a wail, the monster in front of her instantly reverted to its original form. Mu Yijie, seizing the opportunity, stepped forward and stabbed it, causing the monster to disappear immediately.
After killing the monster, the intense killing intent on Yong Shanling gradually faded. She snapped out of her fierce state and saw Mu Yijie wiping his wooden sword. She skipped over to him and said, "Uncle Mu, you're so amazing! You timed it perfectly."
Mu Yijie chuckled. "It's because I had Ling'er cooperating with me that I could perform so well."
After they swapped back their bodies, to get more familiar with their own bodies again, they came to a forest filled with monsters. In the past few days, they had been hunting monsters, and they quickly got used to their previous abilities.
Yong Shanling immediately jumped up happily, gave Mu Yijie a peck on the cheek. Just as Mu Yijie was about to grab her, she ran away at once. Seeing Mu Yijie's somewhat annoyed expression, she let out a "giggle" laugh.
Mu Yijie shook his head helplessly, took a deep breath, and suppressed the desire in his heart. This girl's favorite game recently was to tease him but wouldn't let him kiss her. She claimed it was a test for him.
But she didn't think about the fact that teasing a man who had been celibate for nearly thirty years every day. He could still bear it now, but when the day came that he couldn't bear it anymore, it would be her turn to suffer.
Just as they were about to leave, they suddenly discovered a cave filled with rich spiritual energy. They walked in and found that it was actually a medium - grade spiritual stone deposit.
Yong Shanling's hands trembled, and her eyes turned into the shape of coins. She excitedly said to Mu Yijie, "Uncle Mu, I've never seen so many spiritual stones piled up together. We're rich!"
Mu Yijie looked at Yong Shanling's money - grabbing appearance amusingly. He was so in love with her that he rubbed her head and said, "These spiritual stones are all yours. Now you don't have to worry about not having enough spiritual stones."
The little girl nodded repeatedly. Feeling the rich spiritual energy here, she excitedly grabbed Mu Yijie's hand. "Let's quickly collect the spiritual stones. If there's spiritual marrow, we'll leave it so that it can develop into the next spiritual stone mine."
"Okay." They'd better collect them first to avoid any trouble.
After Mu Yijie and Yong Shanling made their decision, they immediately started to act. They began to collect the spiritual stones from two different directions. The shining spiritual stones in the cave decreased at a visible speed. Soon, they had almost collected all of them.
Just as Yong Shanling was happily collecting the spiritual stones, she suddenly felt that the bottleneck that had been holding her back for a long time began to loosen. She shouted excitedly at Mu Yijie, "Uncle Mu, I'm about to break through!"
Without saying anything more, she quickly sat cross - legged on the ground and started to meditate.
Mu Yijie quickly walked in front of Yong Shanling, set up several formations in front of her, and then sat in front of her to guard her.
Soon, the spiritual energy on Yong Shanling's body surged continuously, as if there were a dragon tumbling in the spiritual energy. The surrounding spiritual energy rushed towards Yong Shanling crazily.
Mu Yijie was forced to step back by the rich spiritual energy. Looking forward, he saw the pained expression on Yong Shanling's face. He was extremely anxious, but he couldn't do anything to help with the breakthrough. He could only wait there impatiently. Seeing Yong Shanling's tightly wrinkled cheeks, he wished he could take her place.
Just as he was waiting anxiously, his face suddenly changed. He quickly walked out of the cave and saw a hideous - looking woman covered in all kinds of strange patterns approaching.
"Ho - it's the smell of merit and spiritual energy - so delicious. I want to eat... I want to eat..." Only intermittent sounds came from the woman.
Mu Yijie's face darkened. Thinking of Yong Shanling who was breaking through inside, his heart tightened. He mustn't let it discover Ling'er.
"Monster, leave now. I can still spare your life." Mu Yijie firmly blocked in front of the monster, and his gaze swept across the monster's huge belly.
"Leave? No, I want to eat delicious things and get energy." The strange woman suddenly split her lips, showing a greedy and twisted smile. She suddenly leaped forward and rushed towards him quickly.
At the same time, white threads appeared in her hands and were continuously sprayed towards him.
Mu Yijie was startled and quickly dodged. Looking at the plants tightly wrapped by the white threads, he realized how difficult this monster was to deal with.
This should be a spider demon, and it was a demon in the breeding period. Monsters in this period needed a lot of energy all over their bodies to hatch their children. If there wasn't enough energy, the pregnant mother would be sucked to death by the little demons, resulting in the death of both mother and child.
Mu Yijie had already figured out the pros and cons in an instant. He immediately decided to lead the monster away first. The formation he had set up at the door must be able to protect Ling'er.
He immediately took out a bow, put a special arrow on it, and shot it hard at the monster's eyes.
The monster felt the danger and quickly dodged. However, it only narrowly avoided the vital part, and finally a long scar was drawn on its cheek. It felt the pain. It didn't expect that a monster that had practiced for more than a hundred years would be injured by a human. It was a great humiliation!
It immediately shifted its gaze and fixed it firmly on Mu Yijie. Its eyes were full of greed and anger.
"Human, I'll... make you pay the price..." The monster let out a shrill scream and suddenly pounced on Mu Yijie.
Mu Yijie quickly dashed forward, jumping constantly between the branches. He didn't stop until he was far away from the place where Yong Shanling was in seclusion.
He wiped his wooden sword with his hand, suddenly turned around, and rushed towards the monster.
On the other side, Yong Shanling, who was breaking through the meridians, seemed to sense something. Her eyelids fluttered as if she wanted to open them, but the next second, the intense pain pulled her attention back.
She could only continuously gather energy and constantly impact the barrier of the Nascent Soul.
Once.
Twice.
Thrice.
...
Until the forty - second impact, her face had already turned extremely pale, and her head was full of sweat. Only then did she finally feel a little looseness. Overjoyed, she suddenly continuously impacted that meridian. This time, the spiritual energy in her body finally successfully circulated through that meridian.
Feeling that the spiritual energy in her body had nearly tripled, and the little girl in her body had turned light purple. She finally showed a happy smile. She observed her sea of consciousness again and was pleasantly surprised to find that the merit in it had nearly doubled without knowing when.
It seemed that ever since she was with Uncle Mu, her merit had increased faster. Uncle Mu was really lucky for his wife, Yong Shanling thought happily in her heart.
When she opened her eyes happily and wanted to share the news with Uncle Mu, she was startled.