For three or four months, Luo Chen remained on the greenstone ledge outside the cave to keep watch while Fu Qinglan cultivated within. In all that time, she never once stepped out, and he himself barely left his post.

A breeze passed through the forest, setting the sea of treetops swaying until they rolled like waves. Luo Chen watched them for a moment before glancing back at the cave with a trace of uncertainty in his eyes.

Is that just the wind, or is it coming from her?

At first, Fu Qinglan's cultivation seemed perfectly ordinary. As Luo Chen observed her more closely, however, he began to notice something strange. She had actually allowed her Nascent Soul to leave the protection of her Purple Mansion and was using her main body to absorb the ambient spirit energy! 

Under normal circumstances, doing something like this was practically courting death. Without the protection of the Purple Mansion, exposing one's Nascent Soul to the outside world...