Chapter 44: This Good-for-Nothing Has Never Done a Single Decent Thing

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"Xiao Qi, what are you looking at? If you don’t eat soon, the food will get cold. This isn’t the Ji residence, you know. There’s not always food whenever you want it." Ji Shaowen tugged Ji Yin by the arm.

Ji Yin glanced at the dishes before her—bland and tasteless. How could she possibly eat?

"You mustn’t provoke Chu Yu. Otherwise, Father will never forgive you."

"If he doesn’t trouble me, I certainly won’t trouble him," Ji Yin replied softly. Suddenly she leaned closer to Ji Shaowen and asked, "Do you know what Third Brother has been busy with lately?"

"No idea," Ji Shaowen shook his head. Seeing that Ji Yin hadn’t taken a single bite, he felt his own appetite fade. "I really wish we could get through the Body Cleansing Day quickly and go home for some real food."

Ji Yin smiled, thinking of the trunk of delicacies she had hidden away. She took a couple of bites of rice, then stood up and headed outside.

"Xiao Qi, where are you going?"

"Back to bed!" Ji Yin replied without turning her head.

Her words drew the attention of everyone around. Heads lifted, all eyes following her.

Ah, this Seventh Young Master was truly incorrigible. In all the days since he’d arrived at the Tianyuan Sect, not once had he been seen training properly.

While everyone else meditated, he slept; when they studied heart techniques, he wandered aimlessly around the great hall, never doing anything right. He even went so far as to raid the bird’s nest atop the Tianyuan Hall.

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In comparison, Young Master Chu was far more diligent—not only did he have real ability, but he was also approachable and, most importantly, willing to share his own experience and help others.

Even his maid was ambitious.

Shuang’er meditated for two hours every day, focused solely on her cultivation.

Ji Yin returned to her small courtyard, picked up a packet of dried meat, and lay down on her rocking chair, swaying contentedly.

It was deep into the night, when everyone else had fallen asleep, that Ji Yin slipped out of her courtyard and melted quietly into the shadows.

Bathed in moonlight, the earth was shrouded in a hazy glow, but Ji Yin’s vision was unaffected as she made her way up a mountain peak.

She’d found this place while wandering during the day. Here, the spiritual energy was noticeably denser than elsewhere—perhaps because it was deep within the mountains.

With the surrounding peaks as natural barriers, she wouldn’t be discovered. If anyone approached, she would know immediately.

Though her soul power had been drained by the Seven Star Meridian, she couldn’t simply do nothing.

"Let’s begin."

The Demon Cauldron immediately began to draw in the spiritual energy around her, purifying it.

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Ji Yin guided the spiritual energy into her body. The amount drawn in by the Demon Cauldron was hundreds of times greater than what others could gather through meditation. If not for the Seven Star Meridian, Ji Yin was confident that she could catch up to Chu Yu’s strength within three months. Then, she could utterly defeat him.

As the spiritual energy nourished the meridians throughout her body, Ji Yin noticed subtle changes—her meridians felt stronger than before.

Could it be that the soul power taken by the Seven Star Meridian was actually fortifying her meridians?

The spiritual energy’s nourishment continuously strengthened the soul power within her, and before she realized it, several hours had passed. Ji Yin sensed a marked increase in her soul power.

As the flow of energy from the Demon Cauldron dwindled, Ji Yin exhaled slowly.

"Great Demon, the spiritual energy here is still too thin; once it’s absorbed, it doesn’t recover."

She stood up, gazing at the sky, now pale in the east.

Such weak spiritual energy was a real problem. Would it ever change?

The place with the strongest spiritual energy in this world had to be Kunlun.