Little Junior Sister, We Can’t Handle This Grind Anymore - Chapter 30

“Something unique?” Feng Qingran immediately circulated the spiritual energy within her body, her eyes lighting up. “I’m at the twelfth level of Qi Refinement! I… I haven’t cultivated at all this past month. How did I suddenly advance?”

“Seventh Senior Brother, is there something wrong with my body?”

Mo Jinghong raised his hand and tapped Feng Qingran’s forehead, looking at her as if she were a fool.

“Little Junior Sister, aside from the time you spend looking for people, you hide in your room cultivating every day. Plus, do you think all that tea you drank was for nothing?”

Feng Qingran suddenly understood. “So that’s how it is! Seventh Senior Brother, that tea of yours looks really good. Can I have a couple of pounds of it?”

“No.” Mo Jinghong refused outright.

This little junior sister probably had no idea what kind of tea she was drinking!

“Seventh Senior Brother, you’re so stingy!” Feng Qingran pouted, feeling a bit wronged.

“I’ll give you some if you break through to Foundation Establishment within two years,” Mo Jinghong said softly.

Feng Qingran instantly beamed. “It’s a deal! If I break through to Golden Core within two years, can I have a few more pounds?”

Mo Jinghong didn’t respond. He stood up and turned to leave. “Little Junior Sister, rest well and then get back to cultivating.”

“Hey! Seventh Senior Brother, you’re too much! It’s just a few pounds of tea!” Feng Qingran called after Mo Jinghong’s retreating figure.

Mo Jinghong laughed in exasperation and left the cave without looking back.

Feng Qingran didn’t chase after him. Instead, she took out her message talismans and began her daily check-ins:
“Eldest Senior Brother, how many books have you memorized? Any insights? Feeling any breakthroughs?”
“Second Senior Brother, did you cultivate today? How many books did you read?”
“Fourth Senior Brother, how’s your comprehension going? Not slacking off, are you? I’m about to reach Foundation Establishment soon. If you don’t hurry up, I’ll catch up to you!”

After sending them all out, Feng Qingran sighed. “This is too troublesome. If only one message talisman could send messages to everyone at once.”

“Yuanbao, is there a higher-grade message talisman in my space?”

“Master, no. In the Upper Realm… even high-ranking Immortal Lords don’t use message talismans.” Yuanbao inwardly celebrated avoiding a slip-up.

Feng Qingran narrowed her eyes. “Then what do they use?”

“They can shrink the earth to inches, instantly moving to wherever they want. They don’t need message talismans like these.” Unknowingly, Yuanbao had fallen right into Feng Qingran’s trap.

Feng Qingran hummed in acknowledgment, her mind drifting to another question. “Yuanbao, can any cultivator form a contract with you?”

“No. If others form a contract, it can only be with the jade bracelet, granting them a Sumeru Space. Only you, Master, can form a contract with me. If others form a contract with the jade bracelet, they can only access up to the third layer of items.”

The biggest difference between the Void Space and the Sumeru Space is that the Void Space can create a world of its own as long as all source materials are gathered.

The Sumeru Space can never advance to a Void Space; at most, it can become a Qiankun Space.

If a Qiankun Space has sufficient spiritual energy, it can house spirit beasts and grow spirit plants and spirit fruits.

Feng Qingran finally felt at ease. This way, by contracting with Yuanbao, she would have no karmic ties with Su Yanran.

Yuanbao, thinking about how Su Yanran had always coveted its master’s jade bracelet, said, “Master, the jade bracelet is just a container for the space. It’s not important. If you want, you can place the Void Space in any container.”

“But it was left to me by my mother,” Feng Qingran hesitated.

“What was your mother’s cultivation level?” Yuanbao couldn’t know about the outside world before forming a contract with Feng Qingran.

“She had no cultivation; she was just an ordinary person.” The original owner’s memories of her mother were very vague, only remembering her as a gentle woman.

“This couldn’t have been left to you by your mother! The jade bracelet on your wrist is called the Twin Spirit Bracelet. It’s a saint-grade defensive artifact. It can neutralize fatal attacks from cultivators below the Transcendence Realm.”

“As for a fatal strike from a Transcendence Realm cultivator, it can only block it once. But there are no Transcendence Realm cultivators on this continent to date, so Master doesn’t need to worry.”

“However, the Twin Spirit Bracelet can only block spiritual energy attacks, not divine sense attacks. So Master must focus on cultivating her divine sense.”

“Master, you also know that there are no artifact smiths on the Nine Provinces Continent capable of forging saint-grade artifacts. The only way to obtain one is by exploring secret realms, and only cultivators can enter those…”

Yuanbao didn’t need to say more; Feng Qingran understood. Anyone who could explore secret realms and bring back a saint-grade artifact had to be a powerful expert.

Feng Qingran immediately abandoned the idea of removing the jade bracelet.

A saint-grade artifact—how many powerful experts dreamed of such a treasure!

In the world of cultivation, artifacts are ranked from first to twelfth grade, then immortal-grade, saint-grade, emperor-grade, and divine-grade.

Emperor-grade and divine-grade artifacts basically no longer exist on the Nine Provinces Continent. Saint-grade artifacts are already the highest grade. If this were to be sold, the entire Nine Provinces Continent would probably be thrown into turmoil, right?

“Yuanbao, let’s not move it. Keep the Void Space in the jade bracelet.”

Just then—

A strange, milky voice sounded in Feng Qingran’s consciousness. “How ignorant! It’s just a saint-grade artifact.”

“Who’s speaking?” Feng Qingran scanned her space with her divine sense and found that the black egg that had disappeared last time had reappeared.

Next to the black egg was an exquisitely carved bracelet. The bracelet was crystal clear but didn’t resemble jade; it looked more like the ancient seven-colored flowing light crystal described in ancient texts.

Inside the bracelet, there seemed to be a landscape painting.

Green light flowed, rays of light flickered, immortal mist swirled, and mountains and rivers stretched for miles—dreamlike and breathtakingly beautiful.

Feng Qingran reached out, and the bracelet appeared in her hand. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it, unable to put it down. “Yuanbao, I want to move the Void Space here!”

Yuanbao: …

Master, have you forgotten your determined stance from just a moment ago?

“This is a thank-you gift from me. The ancient divine artifact, Seven-Colored Mystic Bracelet. Also, the death energy and resentment in that pile of stuff are gone. You can sell them for money.” The milky voice spoke again.