"Look! What is that woman doing?"
Around the ship's protective shield, someone suddenly shouted from the front left of the deck.
A female cultivator in goose-yellow robes was seen grabbing a half-meter thick purple-red lightning bolt with her bare hands, her entire body immersed in the electrical current!
"Heavens! It hurts just watching."
"Is that Bai Shengyi? Does she not know there's lightning ahead?"
The cultivators hiding within the protective shield shivered, goosebumps rising on their arms.
Bai Murong watched from afar, muttering under her breath, "Smash her to death, smash her to death..."
To her disappointment, however, Bai Shengyi not only survived but emerged unscathed from the lightning, her hands emitting smoke, but showing no other signs of injury.
Furthermore, Bai Shengyi continued to walk towards the next streak of lightning.
"Thankfully, I discarded the useless items in my storage necklace when I arrived," Bai Shengyi muttered as she tossed the lightning crystal into her storage necklace.
She possessed two storage items: one was a storage necklace given by her cheap father, which was bondable and approximately five square meters; the other was a storage bag given by the butler, which was not bondable, about one square meter, and contained some food and daily necessities.
The Samsara Brush asked in confusion, "You spent so long just to retrieve one lightning crystal. Even if you stayed for another three hours, you'd get at most five. Why worry about storage space?"
"I'm concerned about future opportunities to snatch treasures!"
Bai Shengyi, bathed in the lightning, searched for lightning marrow.
The Samsara Brush seemed exasperated. After a long silence, it finally spoke, "Are you really doing this? You're the owner of this brush, at least maintain some dignity."
"I'm poor!" Bai Shengyi declared righteously. Earning resources through her own efforts was dignified enough!
She had her own plans. Given the Duke of Rong's character, he wouldn't have changed his attitude towards her or shown her favor without wanting something more from her. Therefore, before her cheap father returned, she would rely on the Duke of Rong's mansion as little as possible.
As for the Grand Princess's mansion and Qin Zhao, she had already offended them to the hilt. This meant she had to cultivate harder and harder.
With this thought, Bai Shengyi took out another lightning crystal and plunged into the shimmering lightning once more.
A piercing pain spread through her skin, but Bai Shengyi dared not indulge in the agony. Instead, she diverted most of her attention, guiding the lightning along the fine meridians within her body.
Her meridians gradually widened, her wood element spiritual energy circulated non-stop, and her spiritual sea suddenly erupted...
"Boom!"
Thunder exploded in her ears, but Bai Shengyi could no longer afford to pay attention.
"What in the world are you doing!" the Samsara Brush exclaimed furiously. Its body vibrated incessantly, trying to get a clear look at the changes in Bai Shengyi's spiritual sea, but it was directly pushed out of her body by her spiritual power.
"Master!" The Samsara Brush trembled, suddenly filled with worry.
Bai Shengyi was in immense discomfort. She never expected that while tempering herself with lightning power, her spiritual power would spontaneously capture and devour the lightning power, causing her to be promoted unexpectedly!
If this had happened naturally, it would have been fine. But now, the spiritual energy, lightning power, and spiritual power within her body were in chaos, fighting fiercely. Her body was like a vessel that couldn't contain such violent reactions.
"Uh... Hmph..."
Bai Shengyi let out a muffled groan of pain, her consciousness briefly returning. She then realized blood was flowing from her nose and eyes.
She dared not delay any further. After a moment of thought, she released all her suppressed cultivation realms, "forcing" the black mist to expel the spiritual energy it had secretly absorbed during this period.
The spiritual energy overwhelmingly gained the upper hand, suppressing the spiritual power and slowly moisturizing the cracked meridians according to Bai Shengyi's will. Gradually, the spiritual power calmed down, and then it devoured the lightning power...
"Promoted? This is... Foundation Establishment! Two levels at once?"
The Black-Eyed Tiger astonishingly raised its upper body and said to the Vice Principal, who was staring in the distance, "Master, this young girl's spiritual root quality is not low, more talented than you."
"But aren't you relieved now? Hua Ye and Wen Jiuyin are still waiting for you."
The Vice Principal turned his head, placed a palm on the Black-Eyed Tiger's head, and snorted, "I wasn't worried at all. What nonsense are you spouting!"
The Black-Eyed Tiger, its fur ruffled, flicked its tail, "Yes, yes, then hurry to your meeting." He wondered who it was that had been standing by the window ever since he noticed that woman entering the lightning sea.
He found this display of saying one thing and meaning another truly eye-opening!
Bai Shengyi was unaware that she was being watched by people not far away.
She used her spiritual power to create a barrier for herself, tidied herself up briefly, and then used her spiritual healing technique to soothe the cracked skin on her body. Seeing that her wounds had all healed, she finally let out a sigh of relief.
"It hurt like hell!"
Bai Shengyi sighed, realizing that possessing both spiritual power and spiritual energy simultaneously was a dangerous matter.
The Samsara Brush burrowed into Bai Shengyi's body and said fearfully, "You scared me to death! Is your spiritual sea okay?"
"It's fine. I even broke through a realm," Bai Shengyi replied. "Your conscious form should be able to last longer now, right?"
The Samsara Brush was silent for a moment, as if verifying. After a while, it replied dully, "It should. But don't take such risks again in the future."
Its voice held a rare tenderness, "This brush doesn't want to get a new master."
"It won't happen again. This was an accident," Bai Shengyi said softly, sensing the Samsara Brush's low mood.
With this incident, two of the three hours had passed. Bai Shengyi comforted the Samsara Brush for a few more moments, then suppressed her cultivation realm back to the sixth level of Qi Condensation and plunged back into the lightning sea.
Feng Wuya perhaps sensed the fluctuations from her direction and came over to inquire, but Bai Shengyi brushed him off.
Seeing Bai Shengyi deliberately picking the purple-red lightning bolts, he waved a small handkerchief and tentatively asked, "Are you collecting lightning crystals? I tried just now, but there are no unformed lightning crystals in the lightning marrow of this lightning sea!"
"Ah?"
Bai Shengyi had also learned from the Samsara Brush that the method of collecting lightning crystals was not a secret, so she wasn't surprised that Feng Wuya had also tried to collect them. However...
She pinched a lightning crystal between her thumb and forefinger and asked Feng Wuya, "Isn't this a lightning crystal?"
"Damn it!" Feng Wuya, who had always considered himself a refined male cultivator, cursed for the first time.
His chest heaved unnaturally. "I tried five lightning marrows and found not a single lightning crystal. I thought this lightning sea didn't have any lightning crystals!"
So it wasn't that there were none, but rather that he wasn't worthy!
"I didn't find any either," a cold voice came from nearby.
Bai Shengyi looked over at the sound. It was the male cultivator who had previously charged into the lightning sea holding a hammer. She had initially thought this lightning sea was a good thing because of his reaction.
Bai Shengyi didn't recognize him, but he clearly recognized her.
He said to her coldly, "You... are very strong."