Volume 1, Chapter 16 – Special Character Summon Card

“Master Mother, what is inside this little bottle? It smells so nice.”

A-Yao came over while holding the lotus platform. Her tiny nose twitched, and her big eyes looked curiously at the jade bottle.

“These are pills for your junior sister. They can help her cultivate.”

Gu Han explained patiently.

“Oh!”

A-Yao nodded as if she half understood, then gave Liu Ruyan a sweet smile.

“Junior Sister, you have to become strong quickly!”

Liu Ruyan looked at this jade-carved, innocent Eldest Senior Sister, and warmth filled her heart. She nodded hard.

“Mm! Thank you, Eldest Senior Sister. Ruyan will definitely work hard!”

Gu Han nodded slightly and said to Liu Ruyan, “Come with me.”

She turned around, her robes fluttering, and led Liu Ruyan toward a quiet chamber in the side hall beside the main hall.

A-Yao followed step by step as well, holding her Flowing-Light Lotus Platform in her arms like a little tail.

The furnishings inside the quiet chamber were simple. There was only one meditation cushion and one incense table.

But the spiritual energy was especially dense and pure. Clearly, a high-level spirit-gathering formation had been arranged here.

“You may refine it here,” Gu Han said.

Liu Ruyan took a deep breath and sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion. First, she tucked the jade slip of the Samsara Dao Scripture close to her body.

Then she solemnly opened the jade bottle and poured out that Heaven-Earth Creation Pill.

When the pill landed in her hand, it actually felt somewhat heavy. Nine Dao patterns flickered faintly across its golden body, and its strange fragrance rushed into her nose, making even her spirit jolt.

She hesitated no longer and placed the pill into her mouth.

The pill melted as soon as it entered her mouth. A vast medicinal force beyond words surged instantly into her limbs, bones, organs, and viscera.

“Mm…”

Liu Ruyan could not help letting out a muffled groan.

This power was far too immense, completely beyond her imagination.

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She did not dare be careless. She immediately gathered her mind, circulated the spiritual power in her body, and tried to guide this medicinal force through her meridians.

However, just how mysterious was the medicinal power of the Heaven-Earth Creation Pill?

It did not strike with crude force. Instead, like the most meticulous craftsman, it began from the smallest details inside her body, combing through, cleansing, and reshaping Liu Ruyan’s constitution and meridians.

First were the lingering pill toxins accumulated in her body, the hidden injuries left behind by improper cultivation, and the impurities stained upon her after birth.

Like ice and snow beneath sunlight, they rapidly melted away, turning into specks of gray-black filth that were expelled through the pores all over her body.

Immediately afterward, her meridians were gently yet firmly widened and reinforced by this force, becoming even tougher.

Her bones gave off a faint hum, becoming denser and glowing with a jade-like luster.

In her eyes, light and shadow flowed, as if reflecting fragmentary illusions of her past life and present life. They carried a sense of vicissitude and insight, as though she had seen through the mortal world.

This was precisely the sign that the Samsara Dao Body had begun to awaken.

At the same time, the jade slip of the Samsara Dao Scripture seemed to sense the transformation taking place within her body.

It actually warmed slightly on its own, and a strand of profound scripture Dao resonance silently flowed into her sea of consciousness.

It formed a wondrous resonance with Liu Ruyan at this moment.

It was as if countless tiny runes representing the laws of samsara were merging into her flesh, blood, soul, and spirit along with the medicinal power, laying the most solid Dao foundation for her.

Gu Han stood quietly at the side. Her powerful divine sense enveloped Liu Ruyan as she closely observed every single change inside her body.

Seeing that the medicinal effect of the Heaven-Earth Creation Pill was so gentle yet thorough, and that the awakening of Liu Ruyan’s constitution had even drawn out a resonance from the Samsara Dao Scripture, she nodded inwardly.

As expected, the pills and cultivation methods produced by the system were extremely compatible.

A-Yao sat quietly at the side, her little hands propping up her chin.

Her big eyes stared without blinking at Liu Ruyan, whose entire body was shrouded in a halo.

Although she could not understand the details, she could feel that this junior sister was becoming “powerful,” and a happy smile appeared on her little face.

Time passed bit by bit.

Inside the quiet chamber, medicinal fragrance and Dao resonance intertwined. Liu Ruyan’s aura rose steadily, while the filth on her body was expelled again and again, then casually purified by Gu Han.

Her skin became increasingly crystalline and translucent. Her appearance had not changed much, but there was now an added trace of depth and mystery between her brows.

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Finally, after an unknown amount of time had passed, a faint sound came from within Liu Ruyan’s body, as if an eggshell had cracked.

The barrier between Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment, under the accumulation that had come naturally and the push of the Heaven-Earth Creation Pill, burst open with a rumble.

An even purer and vaster spiritual power surged through her newly born meridians. Within her dantian, the illusory image of a Dao foundation slowly condensed.

Foundation Establishment, achieved!

Moreover, the depth of this Foundation Establishment base and the purity of its spiritual power exceeded those of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator by far more than a hundredfold.

Liu Ruyan slowly opened her eyes.

First, a faint light flashed through them. Then it seemed as if countless lights and shadows flowed within, before finally settling into clarity and depth.

She sensed the reborn changes inside her body. Vast spiritual power surged through meridians that were several times wider than before.

Her soul also seemed to have become more condensed, and she had gained a faint connection with some mysterious law between heaven and earth.

One had to know that ordinary cultivators generally had to reach at least the Void Return realm before they could begin to try touching laws.

Yet now, she was only at Foundation Establishment, and she could already do this.

On top of that, she had built a perfect Dao foundation with limitless potential.

All of this had been bestowed by the beautiful Master before her eyes.

Liu Ruyan suppressed the surging excitement and gratitude in her heart, rose to her feet, and once again bowed deeply to Gu Han.

“Disciple Liu Ruyan kowtows in thanks to Master for the grace of remaking me!”

Gu Han calmly accepted this bow, a hint of satisfaction flashing through her eyes.

“Your Dao foundation has been shaped well.”

“The Samsara Dao Body has initially awakened. In the future, when you cultivate the Samsara Dao Scripture, you should gain twice the result with half the effort.”

“Yes! This disciple will definitely cultivate diligently and will not fail the teachings Master has passed down!”

Liu Ruyan’s voice was firm.

“Very good.”

Gu Han nodded, her gaze sweeping over the two disciples before her.

One was a pure and flawless reincarnated immortal. The other was a reborn person who had experienced samsara and whose Dao Body had just awakened.

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The foundation stones of Yaochi Immortal Palace finally looked a little more proper.

“A-Yao.”

“Master Mother! A-Yao is here!”

A-Yao also imitated Liu Ruyan and puffed out her little chest as she answered, looking extremely adorable.

Gu Han looked at A-Yao’s serious little expression, and a smile flashed through the depths of her eyes.

“A-Yao, take your second junior sister around for a look.”

“Okay!”

A-Yao immediately perked up. She stretched out her little hand, took Liu Ruyan’s hand, and raised her small face.

“Junior Sister, I’ll take you to see the flowers by the Jade Pool. They’re super pretty!”

Liu Ruyan looked at her innocent and lively Eldest Senior Sister, nodded, and said gently, “All right. I’ll trouble you, Eldest Senior Sister.”

Watching her two disciples, one big and one small, leave hand in hand, Gu Han finally withdrew her gaze.

This sect finally had a little more life in it.

With a flash of her figure, she returned to the depths of the main hall.

She sat cross-legged upon the cloud bed. Her mind sank into her sea of consciousness, and she summoned the system interface.

[Host: Gu Han (Gu Tianyi)]

[Sect: Yaochi Immortal Palace]

[Disciples: 2 (A-Yao, Super Ten-Star; Liu Ruyan, Ten-Star)]

[Master Dao Points: 20,000]

[Sect Buildings: Basic facilities complete]

[Special Items: Primordial Source Liquid (two drops remaining)…]

“Twenty thousand Master Dao Points…”

Gu Han’s gaze quickly swept over the shop list.

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Pills, magical treasures, cultivation methods…

There was a dazzling array of items, and many of them tempted even her.

But the ones suitable for her own use were far too expensive. They cost tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand, at every turn.

She could only wait until the sect recruited more disciples, or until her disciples made major breakthroughs in cultivation.

Right now, what she needed most was a capable assistant.

Her divine sense focused on the search bar. With a slight thought, she entered keywords such as “character” and “summon.”

The light screen shifted, filtering out most of the items, and finally stopped on several pages of special cards.

[Random Servant Summon Card (peak Foundation Establishment): 100 Master Dao Points]

[Random Deacon Summon Card (peak Spirit Transformation): 500 Master Dao Points]

[Random Elder Summon Card (peak Body Integration): 2,000 Master Dao Points]

[Random Protector Summon Card (peak Mahayana): 4,000 Master Dao Points]

[Special Character Summon Card (ninth layer of Tribulation Transcendence): 5,000 Master Dao Points]

It really existed!

Gu Han’s gaze locked firmly onto the final [Special Character Summon Card].

Its price was 5,000 Master Dao Points, and it could randomly summon a cultivator at the ninth layer of Tribulation Transcendence.

Although it could not be specified and had a certain degree of randomness, this was undoubtedly the best choice at present to raise the sect’s high-end combat strength.

“This is it!”

Gu Han did not hesitate in the slightest. She locked onto it with her mind and confirmed the exchange.

[Ding! 5,000 Master Dao Points consumed. Successfully exchanged for “Special Character Summon Card” x1!]

[Use immediately?]

“Use!”

As Gu Han silently spoke in her heart, the card radiating mysterious starlight shattered inside her system inventory, turning into countless motes of light that scattered and vanished.