This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 51: Poor!

Chapter 51: Chapter 51: Poor!

If you can’t figure it out by thinking, it’s better to practice and find out the true knowledge.

Liang Yi sat cross-legged, planning to test his own potential. But before he began, a series of hurried footsteps came from the stairs, accompanied by a familiar voice as crisp as a oriole’s.

"Senior Brother! Are you still here?"

The junior sister’s figure appeared at the stairway’s entrance, immediately spotting Liang Yi sitting in front of the talisman.

"Eh? What’s wrong? Is it the next day already?"

Liang Yi was a bit confused. Could it be that he was so engrossed that he lost track of time?

"No, no, I just came to ask..."

Su Youyi stood in front of Liang Yi, with her hands clasped behind her back, her left foot’s tip unconsciously sliding on the floor, and a faint blush on her face.

"I just wanted to ask, Senior Brother, will you... continue your cultivation tonight?"

"I want to hear you tell a story!"

Finally, having mustered the courage to ask, Su Youyi could feel her heart beating "thump thump thump" wildly. She was distracted during her cultivation today, thinking about this question the whole time.

"Cough cough cough!"

Lying on a boulder by a mountain stream, sunbathing as if he were dead, Chen Hua started coughing without warning. He had been secretly observing Liang Yi after departing, fearing that Liang Yi would encounter troubles during his cultivation or lose confidence because the Qinglian Creation was too hard for a disciple to enter.

He just didn’t expect to see this scene, which made him quite irritated!

His little disciple was exceptionally talented, without equal. Even Endless Dao’s beloved disciple He Zhiqing paled in comparison to his own.

That’s why he had such high expectations for Youyi, after all, he had noticed Liang Yi because of Su Youyi in the beginning.

But this disciple, everything is fine except she does not cultivate seriously, constantly pestering her senior brother since she was little. If it weren’t for him persuading her with emotions, reasoning with her, and earnestly making Su Youyi understand that her senior brother might never be able to cultivate in his lifetime, and that she needs to become strong to protect him, she might still be thinking only about Liang Yi’s bedtime stories!

"Alas, what a sin!" Chen Hua sighed and turned over to let his back get some sun as well.

Inside the Scripture Transmission Tower.

"Today... I won’t cultivate that late!" Liang Yi stammered because of his junior sister’s words.

"If the cultivation goes well, I can even cook dinner for you and Master, how about that?"

"Hehe, Senior Brother always understands me best, then I’ll go and cultivate, too!" Su Youyi, getting an even happier response, cheerily said goodbye to her senior brother.

Liang Yi watched his junior sister leave and smiled affectionately. Her little distraction had dispelled his slight unease about [Qinglian Creation].

"It doesn’t matter whether I can cultivate or not." Liang Yi’s thoughts returned to peace, and he began to run his Cultivation Technique again, wanting to test if he could really do it; a man should never say he can’t.

With the operation of the Daoist Skill, Liang Yi’s spirit gradually immersed itself in the workings of the Cultivation Technique. From the perspective of his thoughts, the nothingness he perceived with closed eyes was slowly manifesting a giant Qinglian. Liang Yi felt as if he were an ant gazing upon Mount Tai.

No wonder this Cultivation Technique, since its propagation to this day, has allowed so many cultivators to draw breath from the Qinglian without causing it any trouble. Its size alone meant that a mere trickle of its breath was enough for his own cultivation.

However, Liang Yi still secretly breathed a sigh of relief, for being able to visualize the Creation Green Lotus proved that he indeed had some talent in this Daoist Skill. The most difficult hurdle had been crossed.

And Chen Hua, who was secretly observing from the mountain, also sighed in relief upon detecting the appearance of the Qinglian’s breath on the land.

"Next, it’s time to draw breath from the Qinglian."

Liang Yi slowed down his body’s rhythm and took a deep breath, beginning to draw in breath from the Creation Green Lotus in the unknowable place according to the instructions of the Daoist Skill using a special breathing technique.

The third floor of the Scripture Transmission Tower grew quieter, with only the faint sound of Liang Yi’s breathing remaining.

An hour passed, and Liang Yi in the void felt somewhat tired; he felt like he had breathed thousands of times. Even though it wasn’t his physical body here, he still felt some discomfort after breathing so much in this span.

"Why is there no response? Could it be that I really have no talent?" Liang Yi’s doubt about himself began to grow.

"Let’s try for another hour; if there’s still no response, I’ll give up." According to the records, if there’s no response after two hours of operating the Breathing Valve, it meant one completely lacked the qualification.

Liang Yi adjusted his state and once again began to breathe at a special frequency.

Gradually, Liang Yi felt a hint of coolness, like a gulp of ice water on a scorching summer’s day, straightforwardly entering from his mouth, traveling down his esophagus to near his stomach and swirling around, a rich Vitality flowing from his abdomen to his limbs and bones, so comfortable that Liang Yi almost moaned out loud.

"Ding! The player has established a connection with the [Creation Green Lotus]!"

"What the heck?"

Liang Yi hadn’t had time to feel if the coolness in his abdomen was the breath of the Creation Green Lotus when he was startled by the System’s notification voice in his mind.

Putting his abdomen aside, Liang Yi first checked out this inexplicable new connection. But as he looked into it, Liang Yi’s eyebrows danced with joy, and the corners of his mouth turned up wildly!

If a cultivator using the breathing technique to draw Qinglian’s breath was like picking from countless pathways, a correct choice would bring the breath along, a wrong choice would mean picking another one.

Now, with the System’s help, the pathway was directly fixed, and all that was needed was to spend some Experience to directly draw breath from the Creation Green Lotus.

Liang Yi did have other thoughts. Since the System had already established the channel, why not directly use the breathing method to draw breath? But this notion of freeloading was mercilessly shattered by the System; following the System’s established pathway, Liang Yi breathed in for half a day and didn’t even draw in a single hair.

"It looks like I must use Experience!" Liang Yi sighed.

Checking, he found that one strand of Qinglian breath required ten thousand Experience Points. And to achieve the best effects after leveling up, he would need 10 strands just in the uninitiated period.

"Ah... I’m really too poor!" Liang Yi collapsed backward onto the floor. He was desperately short on Experience Points.

Character Level, Endless Dao, Wandering Adventure, Qinglian Creation, Immaculate Sword Technique, and a bunch of Escape Skills yet to be chosen. Various other small Daoist Skills also needed to be learned; it isn’t like one can cultivate solely by knowing various kinds of Swordsmanship, and some life skills are also very necessary.

If it’s all just about fighting and killing, then what kind of cultivation is that?

Just the skills he had already learned were enough to worry Liang Yi, let alone the multitude he hadn’t learned yet. Despite his top-level Skill Quality from the start, the experience rewards from early missions were simply not enough to cover the costs.

Only when the Character Level went up would the mission rewards increase; otherwise, a single task in the early stage yielding only a hundred or two hundred thousand Experience Points was not even enough to fill the gaps between teeth.