The Call of the Wushi Seal

Ning Fan held his breath and concentrated. He sensed a faint, almost imperceptible aura calling out to him. No, to be precise, it wasn't calling to him; it was calling to the Wushi Seal within his body.

That was correct.

The Wushi Seal was in Ye Honglian's hands, but Ning Fan also possessed the aura of the Wushi Seal within him. This aura was currently being drawn by something.

"Wife, do you feel an inexplicable pull?"

Ning Fan asked.

"No."

Yun Qingyao tilted her head, her eyes revealing clarity and innocence.

Ning Fan found it strange.

But he still decided to follow that mysterious pull forward.

"East..."

Ning Fan murmured to himself.

He followed the pull, step by step, advancing eastward. After roughly a hundred steps, the pull shifted to the west-that is, behind him.

Ning Fan: ???

What was going on!?

How had the pull of the aura shifted behind him? If he walked backward, wouldn't he just be retracing his steps!?

Ning Fan refused to believe it and continued forward.

But the moment he took a step, that faint, elusive pull of the aura vanished, as if it had never existed.

Ning Fan: "..."

No.

No way!!

Ning Fan refused to accept it. He returned to his original position, and instantly, that mysterious sense of pull struck him again. Ning Fan continued eastward for another hundred steps.

After a hundred steps, the pull of the aura shifted to the rear.

Ning Fan walked backward again.

After thirty steps, the pull shifted to the south.

And so it went.

Ning Fan followed the pull of the aura for roughly several thousand steps. Because it was essentially a back-and-forth, left-and-right ordeal, Ning Fan and Yun Qingyao hadn't actually traveled very far.

Gradually.

Ning Fan noticed the scenery around him becoming blurry. The originally dim sky turned a dark red. Then, with his final step, the surroundings around Ning Fan suddenly changed!

"This is..."

Ning Fan's eyes widened in surprise at the transformation around him. He had been standing at the foot of Changming Peak, but at this very moment, he stood before a massive mountain gate. The gate was enormous, reaching to the heavens and the earth, exuding a dense spiritual pressure.

Behind the mountain gate was a vast plaza.

Stretching endlessly.

A crimson full moon hung in the sky.

A shadowy figure stood before the mountain gate, its face indistinguishable, as if guarding the entrance.

Ning Fan was extremely astonished.

Following the pull of the Wushi Seal's aura, he and Yun Qingyao had actually arrived in such a mysterious space. It was truly peculiar.

The reason Ning Fan and Yun Qingyao could enter this space was due to the pull of the Wushi Seal's aura. Therefore, this space must be related to the ancient ruins.

Ning Fan cautiously moved forward. As he approached the mountain gate, the figure guarding it suddenly looked up, fixing its gaze on Ning Fan.

"Um..."

Ning Fan scratched his head, mentally preparing his words. But the figure before him seemed to lack intelligence, its hollow eyes staring in Ning Fan's direction.

"Wushi Heavenly Palace, Novice Disciple Trial Ground."

"Those who have not reached the Yellow Extreme Realm and infused Spirit Marrow into the skin cannot enter."

"Wushi Heavenly Palace, Novice Disciple Trial Ground?"

Ning Fan murmured to himself.

"Wushi Heavenly Palace should be the name of this ancient ruin. The Novice Disciple Trial Ground is the place that determines whether a disciple can enter?"

"And what is 'infusing Spirit Marrow into the skin at the Yellow Extreme Realm'?"

The translucent figure did not answer Ning Fan's questions, instead shifting its gaze elsewhere.

Ning Fan's eyes roamed the surroundings, landing on a stone tablet before the mountain gate.

The stone tablet was covered in the same incomprehensible scribbles as before.

So...

Ning Fan looked at Yun Qingyao.

After a moment, a white light flashed.

Ye Honglian's figure appeared before the mountain gate. However, at this moment, Ye Honglian was fast asleep, a hint of cuteness on her face that was usually unseen.

Ning Fan swallowed hard.

Before, he had been the one to stir things up with Ye Honglian. Now, it was Ye Honglian's turn to stir things up for him. Cultivating with a sleeping fairy sister... it was quite a unique experience.

"Mmm, mmm?"

Ye Honglian gradually awoke from Ning Fan's actions, unconsciously making soft sounds. As her awareness slowly returned, a questioning sound escaped her lips.

"Wait, wait!?"

"You little lecher!!"

Ye Honglian finally woke up completely, gritting her teeth as she glared at Ning Fan, a hint of anger flickering in her eyes. But since they were in the middle of cultivation, Ye Honglian couldn't do anything.

"Fairy Sister, calm down, calm down,"

Ning Fan said with a smile.

"You..."

"When you tell me to calm down, can you stop... stop thrusting so fiercely..."

Ye Honglian simply couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence.

She could only remain silent.

"Fairy Sister, there's really something important."

"Look, the stone tablet."

Ning Fan gestured for Ye Honglian to look ahead, at the stone tablet inscribed with the scribbles.

At first, Ye Honglian paid it no mind.

She had seen many similar stone tablets recently, and few held anything of value. The last time they dual cultivated, the only valuable thing they found was a single Earth-grade martial technique.

An Earth-grade martial technique was hardly valuable to Ye Honglian.

But after clearly reading the content of the inscription before her...

Ye Honglian was suddenly stunned.

"This is the Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method!? And it's the complete Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method!?"

Ye Honglian exclaimed.

"Hiss-"

Even though Ning Fan had been prepared, he was still squeezed painfully. But at the same time, he realized that this so-called "Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method" might be a great fated chance.

"Little lecher."

"Do you know that what determines a cultivator's strength isn't just their realm, but also..."

"Also speed, endurance, reaction, and so on."

"Right."

Ye Honglian was slightly surprised. She hadn't expected Ning Fan, a mere Profound Extreme Realm initial stage cultivator, to understand the nature of strength so thoroughly.

In truth, this wasn't Ning Fan's own understanding.

It was from Miao Tian's words not long ago.

"This Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method is an ancient secret technique. During cultivation, it infuses the most core Spirit Marrow of Spiritual Qi sequentially into the skin, flesh, blood, internal organs, bones, and bone marrow. Finally, the bone marrow generates blood, achieving overall harmony and proving the supreme saintly path."

"But this cultivation method is too slow."

"Too rigid."

"Thus, it was gradually abandoned. However, as cultivation civilization developed and realm advancement simplified, people gradually realized that realm advancement and the Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method could be pursued simultaneously."

"But because the Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method had been abandoned for so long, even the various Holy Lands only possess incomplete versions of it. Tianxuan Holy Land is no exception."

"And the content on the stone tablet before you is the most complete version of the Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method!!"

Ye Honglian murmured to herself.

"Hiss-"

Ning Fan drew in a sharp breath.

The Spirit Marrow Saint-Piercing Method.

Infusing the most core Spirit Marrow of Spiritual Qi sequentially into the skin, flesh, blood, internal organs, bones, and bone marrow, finally generating blood from the bone marrow, achieving overall harmony, and proving the supreme saintly path. What a marvelous cultivation method! Even though Ning Fan knew nothing about it, just hearing about it made him realize the extraordinary nature of this secret technique.

And such a technique was laid out right before Ning Fan's eyes!!

"Fairy Sister."

"Can I cultivate it!?"

Ning Fan asked excitedly.

"No."

"You cannot."

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