Baili Muchen took it and almost fainted from anger.
Even though he knew perfectly well it was forged by Feng Xi and the others, he was helpless and could only swallow this loss in silence.
Just as he was gritting his teeth, a wave of exclamations sounded!
"Look! Shen Zhilan seems to have gained enlightenment!"
"Heavens, it's true, a genius is a genius, even something as rare as enlightenment actually happened to her!"
…
Baili Muchen's anger instantly turned into joy, and he hurried toward Shen Zhilan.
Feng Xi thought for a moment, there didn't seem to be an enlightenment scene in the original story.
But since she transmigrated, the plot naturally changes. That's very normal.
She thought to herself, the female lead is truly the female lead. Even after being kicked out of the secret realm early, she could still gain enlightenment. Her fortune is sky-high!
After the enlightenment ended, Shen Zhilan's cultivation directly rose to Foundation Establishment fourth layer.
In less than two months she rose to Foundation Establishment fourth layer, if this wasn't unprecedented, it was close.
Baili Muchen shook off all his previous gloom and was excited like an old fighting rooster!
"The opportunities in the secret realm may be important, but for cultivators, enlightenment is even more important! Sect Master Xiao, don't you agree?"
Xiao Baidao perfunctorily responded, but thinking of his little disciple's damaged dantian, his mood instantly dimmed again.
Seeing Xiao Baidao unhappy, Baili Muchen felt even better.
At this moment, someone came to report, "Sect Master, Lu Xiuhan's injuries suddenly worsened, you should take a look!"
Baili Muchen frowned. Lu Xiuhan was indeed seriously injured, but he should've been able to recover in a few months. How did it suddenly worsen?
After checking, he discovered Lu Xiuhan had been bitten by a Blind Earth Centipede!
Everyone was dumbfounded!
Blind Earth Centipedes did exist around here, but normally, with so many cultivators present, they would hide far away. How did one crawl out to bite someone?
This was too unlucky!
Originally he only needed a few months to recover, but now he'd have to heal for at least a year!
When Feng Xi heard about this, she started muttering to Liu Shaobai and the others, "See? Anyone who gets close to Shen Zhilan never has a good outcome. She's the one with good luck, but everyone around her is unlucky!
So in the future, you guys should stay far away from her!"
Although Liu Shaobai and the others thought Feng Xi was exaggerating, maybe even deliberately smearing her, they still felt a little uncomfortable. It's better to stay away from Shen Zhilan.
Feng Xi continued to chatter, "Cultivation should be taken step by step, like building a house. If the foundation isn't stable, the higher it gets, the faster it collapses!
Advancing too fast leads to an unstable mental state, problems will definitely appear sooner or later.
I'm not talking about Shen Zhilan, please don't misunderstand!"
Everyone: "..."
Are we misunderstanding you, or are you just saying it too clearly?
Shen Zhilan originally thought that after her enlightenment, she would be greeted by admiration, maybe even affection, from Liu Shaobai and the others.
Instead, when she finished meditating, she found Liu Shaobai and the others avoiding her like the plague, even showing faint disdain.
Shen Zhilan: ???
Just then, Feng Xi stared at the sky, and then… gained enlightenment.
Everyone was stunned!
Wasn't Feng Xi's dantian severely damaged?
How could she gain enlightenment?
She wouldn't enlighten herself to death, right?
After a while, Feng Xi ended her enlightenment. Although the light around her flashed so brightly it hurt the eyes, her cultivation still looked like early Qi Refining.
Xiao Baidao, however, was delighted. Because he found that after this enlightenment, his little disciple's dantian injury had improved significantly.
"My disciple, what did you comprehend just now?"
Feng Xi looked very profound, "The clouds in the sky are really white."
Xiao Baidao: "..."
Everyone: "..."
Actually, Feng Xi had seen a cloud that looked like a horse, and for some reason thought of the idiom white colt passing through a crack(1).
In a blink, she had been transmigrated here for over a month.
Time was a wonderful thing.
At first she thought about her past life a lot, but now she's completely used to living in this world.
Time creates everything and erases everything…
Regardless of what she enlightened about, many people started discussing:
"I think Feng Xi's luck is even better than Shen Zhilan's!
She used to be a menial servant in Hunyuan Sect, then suddenly became Xuantian Sect's personal disciple!
Not only did she survive Blood Tiance, she even discovered a high-grade spiritual stone mine, her luck is insane!"
"And this time, she wasn't even planning to enter the secret realm but was forced in, and then ended up in Shenyuan.
Isn't that basically someone shoving spirit herbs into her hands?!"
"She can enlighten just by staring at clouds, and it even healed her dantian. Maybe if she enlightens again, it'll fully heal!"
…
Feng Xi listened, feeling satisfied, and said to Liu Shaobai and the others, "You guys should hang around me more often. Maybe you can rub off my luck and gain enlightenment too!
Your cultivation will go biu, biu and skyrocket several layers!
Cultivation should be fast, we must seize every moment!"
Liu Shaobai and the others: … You didn't say that when talking about Shen Zhilan!
The double standard is legendary!
But they had indeed benefited from being around Feng Xi. This time's harvest was great, not to mention they previously split Lu Xiuhan's belongings.
Shen Zhilan watched Feng Xi steal her spotlight and even chat happily with Liu Shaobai and the others. Her expression twisted.
The future is long, Feng Xi, just you wait!
After dividing up Hunyuan Sect's penalty spoils, everyone left.
After saying reluctant goodbyes to Liu Shaobai and the others, Feng Xi sat on the back of the Golden Maned Suanni.
She suddenly remembered that she hadn't advertised the Ziqiao Linglong Fruit yet. She took one out from her storage ring and lightly bit it, eyes narrowing in satisfaction.
There were many knowledgeable people present, and they recognized the Ziqiao Linglong Fruit.
And then they began to imagine wildly.
"Feng Xi was supposed to be a cripple with a damaged dantian, but now she's lively and even gained enlightenment!
Could it be related to the Ziqiao Linglong Fruit?
I heard Xiao Baidao gave her ten fruits at once!"
"It's probably true, I heard the older the Ziqiao Linglong Fruit tree, the higher the grade. This batch is incredible!
I heard it's limited to only one per buyer, no extra!"
"Who told you that?"
"My second grand-uncle's neighbor's nephew's wife's younger sister, they're real relatives, they wouldn't lie."
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(1):Chinese idiom to describe how time flashes by incredibly quickly, like a white horse darting past a narrow gap.