Stealing Luck from the Heavenly Dao's Favorite

Wei Yunxi gave an awkward laugh. "Hehe, Sister Feng... Cultivation just felt too good. I couldn't help myself."

Feng Xiu shook her head in exasperation. "Miss, you're still too young and haven't started taking Bigu Dan regularly. You can't just cultivate day and night like that. What if you faint from hunger?"

"I understand. Next time I'll take a Bigu Dan before I start."

Wei Yunxi still couldn't bear to let go of the sensation—like her whole body had been drifting in a warm current. She was already planning to prepare properly for her next session.

Feng Xiu gave a faint smile, but just as she was about to speak, she swept the room with her divine sense and suddenly gasped. "Miss, you've already reached the second layer of Qi Refining!"

Wei Yunxi blinked, surprised. Then her face lit up. "Sister Feng, are you saying my current cultivation is at the second layer?"

Feng Xiu nodded with absolute certainty. "Yes. You're already at the second layer. Your spiritual aura is still a bit unstable, but I wouldn't be mistaken."

As she finished, she frowned slightly, her voice turning serious. "Miss Yunxi, you hadn't succeeded in drawing in qi before, but in just two days you've reached the second layer. The Wei family will definitely reevaluate your worth."

She didn't voice the rest of what she was thinking: "This might disrupt the Feng family's arrangements."

But Wei Yunxi understood the subtext clearly. Although she'd suppressed her spirit root information, cultivation level couldn't be hidden so easily—unless she had a magical item or technique that could conceal her cultivation.

"We can worry about that later. I want to take a bath first and eat something."

Now that she had succeeded in drawing qi and reached the second layer of Qi Refinement, it meant she could finally enter the space linked to the redwood token. She had a strong feeling that something inside it could help her.

"Miss Yunxi, I think there's no need to hide your success in drawing in qi. Otherwise, it'll be difficult for you to train in the cultivation hall later. Announcing it also explains why you were absent the past two days."

Wei Yunxi nodded quickly. "Mm-hmm, let's do that. But don't let Zhenzhu near me. I'm afraid she'll figure out I'm already at the second layer."

Feng Xiu agreed and went out to make arrangements.

After soaking in a bath and scrubbing herself clean, Wei Yunxi had a full meal. Then she told Feng Xiu she was going to take a nap.

Worried she'd lose herself in cultivation again, Feng Xiu insisted on guarding her door personally and told her not to bother activating the isolation array.

But Wei Yunxi insisted on activating it. What a joke—if someone discovered she had a personal space, she'd be finished.

Unable to persuade her, Feng Xiu reluctantly handed her a bottle of Bigu Dan, then sat outside the room in meditation. When Zhenzhu came to snoop around, she was sent away immediately.

Once she confirmed the room was secure and the isolation array was active, Wei Yunxi finally reached out with her consciousness to contact the redwood token in her spiritual sea.

Now that she had succeeded in drawing qi, her spiritual sea had fully opened. Because she had transmigrated and carried the soul of an adult, her soul force was naturally strong. Her spiritual sea was much larger than others her age—comparable even to that of a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage.

She didn't know that yet. As a rookie in the world of cultivation, she hadn't grasped all the details, but she did understand how important the spiritual sea was. She was desperate to understand what the redwood token actually did.

This time, when her consciousness entered the token's space, she wasn't repelled. But what she saw stunned her.

The space was barely a hundred square meters, completely gray and desolate. No spiritual herbs, no spiritual plants, no spirit springs—not even a decent patch of land.

Wei Yunxi stood there, dumbfounded."This is my space? Seriously? Why was it such a blessing in Wei Yunqing's hands, but a barren wasteland when it's in the hands of its rightful owner?"

Grinding her teeth in frustration, Wei Yunxi clenched her fists, and finally couldn't hold it in anymore. Hands on her hips, she began shouting at the void:

"You thieving old thing Heavenly Dao! Do you really need to make the bias this obvious? I didn't rob your ancestral tomb, okay?!

You dragged me here without asking, didn't give me any benefits, and now you want to screw me over too?!"

She ranted with great satisfaction, not realizing her soul presence within the space had become noticeably fainter. Just as she was about to pause for breath and continue her venting, a robotic electronic voice suddenly rang in her ear:

[Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to log in now?]

Wei Yunxi froze, clamping her mouth shut. She even rubbed her ears, thinking she'd misheard. But then the voice came again:

[Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to log in now?"]

She stayed silent, feeling the situation was completely unreal. If she remembered correctly, she had transmigrated into a xianxia romance novel. Where the hell did a "chat group" come from? That shouldn't exist in this world.

[Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to log in now?]

[No response detected. System will assume default login.]

[User 'Witch Tribe Maiden' has successfully logged in!]

[Would the user like to view unread messages?]

Wei Yunxi could only stare as the so-called chat group went on talking to itself. A transparent screen unfolded in front of her, text scrolling across it at high speed.

She rubbed her eyes. It felt like they weren't enough. But maybe because she had just cultivated, her vision was especially sharp. Somehow, she managed to read everything that flashed past. Then she frowned and fell into silence.

From what she had seen, this chat group had once belonged to someone called "Witch Tribe Maiden." That was clearly a username, like a screen name. Who the person really was, she didn't know.

Judging by the messages from other users, Witch Tribe Maiden hadn't logged in for a long time. Everyone was worried. They had sent her all sorts of things to help her through a difficult time, and all of it remained unclaimed.

[Witch Tribe Maiden, would you like to receive the sent items?]

The mechanical voice echoed again. This time, Wei Yunxi didn't hesitate.

"Receive!"

She figured it was worth a shot. Who knew—maybe one of those gifts contained something useful. And it wasn't like she was stealing. The redwood token bore the Feng family's crest. Her mother had left it for her. Now that her mother was gone, as her only daughter, she had every right to accept anything inside.

[Beginning transfer. Receiving items…]

The voice sounded again. It didn't take long before boxes began piling up at her feet. Some were wooden, some made of stone or metal, and one was even transparent glass. Inside it grew a green plant that looked like ordinary grass, but it gave off a gentle glowing light.

Wei Yunxi was overjoyed and prepared to inspect her first haul. Just then, a message appeared on the light screen.

[Tribal Warrior]: Witch Tribe Maiden, is that you?

[Star Trek]: Witch Tribe Maiden, did your clan avoid the calamity of extermination?

[Ox-Head Horse-Face]: She's not the Witch Tribe Maiden. Their tribe was already wiped out.

[Survival is the Ultimate Truth]: Big bro above, how do you know? This chat group isn't something just anyone can log into.

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牛头马面 (Niútóu Mǎmiàn) – "Ox-Head Horse-Face"

Origin: Named after underworld enforcers in Chinese mythology.