The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Chapter 11 Purple Cloud Golden Beetle

Zhao Zhen's heart was in turmoil; this was clearly the larva of the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle!

The Purple Cloud Golden Beetle is one of the treasures of the Immortal Clan. Legend has it that the True God raised ten spirit beasts, and the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle was one of them.

These ten original spirit beasts were created by condensing the ten natural forces of earth, wood, water, fire, metal, wind, thunder, ice, air, and soul.

This Spirit Source Beast is produced only once every ten thousand years. Scattered throughout the world, it is extremely rare.

When the True God disappeared, the ten Spirit Source Beasts that the True God had raised also disappeared.

For tens of thousands of years, no cultivator in this world has seen this Spirit Source Beast.

The Purple Cloud Golden Beetle is the original source beast of the Golden Spirit Power.

The secret scroll contains detailed illustrations and text about the larvae of the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle, and the one in my hand is exactly the same as the larvae described in the illustrations and text.

These pictures and texts are all recorded in the True God Sect's library, in the highest pavilion, and are strictly guarded by the library's elders.

This is the most confidential scroll of the True God Sect, and only the Sect Master and Young Sect Master are qualified to read it.

When Zhao Zhen was five years old, her father took her to look through the secret scrolls.

Everything that cultivators have seen will be deeply imprinted in their soul core.

The soul core is the spiritual core that cultivators cultivate; it is the place where spiritual energy is absorbed and stored.

Shortly after Zhao Zhen had read the secret scroll, the library caught fire.

Ordinary fires cannot burn down the library of a major sect; only spiritual fires set by cultivators with high-level spiritual roots can do so.

The library was engulfed in flames, and Father was nowhere to be found.

Zhao Zhen wanted to help put out the fire, but her master, who arrived just in time, grabbed her and dragged her away from the sect.

The master said that his father and second master were both dead, so he had to live.

Zhao Zhen didn't believe it and wanted to sneak back to see, but she saw her father hanging on the city wall with his tendons and bones being pulled out.

My father was hanging there, without any support, his flesh and blood mangled, limp and looking like a lump of mud.

Qi Linzi found him in time and stopped him from rushing out to his death.

From then on, he began a life on the run with his master.

Zhao Zhen looked at the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle with a sorrowful gaze.

Shen Yao felt her legs were about to go numb from standing, and Zhao Zhen finally looked up and asked her, "Luo'er, do you know what kind of insect this is?"

Shen Yao thought to herself, "There are insects everywhere in the world. The sect leader couldn't possibly not know what kind of insect this is. He must be testing her." So she confidently replied, "This is the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle."

Zhao Zhen's pupils trembled.

"Tell me the truth, where did you get this Purple Cloud Golden Beetle?" Zhao Zhen's tone also became serious.

Seeing that the sect leader was becoming serious, Shen Yao made an excuse, saying, "I accidentally encountered this insect in the woods behind the mountain, and it crawled into my sleeve and followed me."

Shen Yao thought to herself, "The golden beetle brought me across dimensions and came for me. It was indeed it that followed me. I can say that I have told the truth."

Zhao Zhen returned the golden beetle to Shen Yao, and sure enough, the golden beetle automatically crawled into her sleeve.

"Hide it well," Zhao Zhen instructed her. "This is an extremely precious spirit insect; do not let other cultivators know about it."

Is it that precious? What kind of vessel did the sect leader choose? Shen Yao was surprised, but she didn't show it on her face: "Disciple obeys."

Zhao Zhen waved her hand: "Go to your early morning class."

Shen Yao cupped her hands and bowed in farewell, saying, "This disciple takes his leave."

Zhao Zhen felt that perhaps his disciple was the long-awaited successor to the token.

Otherwise, the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle wouldn't have appeared here and been so close to her.

But whether it is true or not still needs further observation and testing.

The clan members had gone to their studies early, and there wasn't a single one of them on the smooth bluestone path.

Shen Yao asked the Golden Beetle, "Sect Master, is your vessel very powerful? The Sect Master said it's very precious, just how precious?"

Golden beetle: "The most precious thing in the world."

"So precious? That sounds amazing." Shen Yao started showering the sect leader with compliments again.

Golden Beetle: "Of course, this was carefully selected by this sect leader."

"When it grows up, it will be even cooler and more awesome." The golden beetle's bamboo antennae were pointing skyward: "Just wait and see how your dad will dominate the world!"

"Sect Leader is amazing! Sect Leader is the most amazing in the world!" Shen Yao kept praising him.

The training ground.

The daily morning lessons are the foundation of all skills.

The first step in mastering the fundamentals is the horse stance. Whether it's the martial arts of Earth or the basic techniques of the divine arts in the world of cultivation, the horse stance is essential.

This shows how important it is to master the horse stance.

Since Bai Luo awakened his spiritual root at the age of six, he has been practicing the horse stance for ten years. Bai Luo's body has long been fully adapted to the horse stance.

But Shen Yao felt very uncomfortable using Bai Luo's body to do a horse stance.

It's not that my back aches, my legs hurt, or I'm feeling unwell.

It wasn't that Shen Yao couldn't handle it psychologically. They were stuck in that horse stance for two hours straight; even military training didn't involve standing for that long.

Shen Yao felt like a fool, having spent two whole hours in a horse stance with her fists clenched, feeling free in every way except for her thoughts.

What do Earthlings care about most?

That is freedom.

Freedom of movement, freedom of diet, freedom of money, freedom of speech...

Otherwise, why would Petőfi have written: "Life is precious, love is more precious, but freedom is the most precious of all"?

Finally, the morning class ended. After the elder told her that after a short rest, the disciples with water spirit roots would go to the Hukou River at the foot of the mountain to practice water condensation and hand seals, Shen Yao hurriedly went to ask for leave.

"Elder, I have been feeling a lack of spiritual energy these past two days and would like to return to my room to meditate and adjust."

The elder used his spiritual power to probe and found that her spiritual power was indeed weak and unstable. He took out a bottle of Spirit Strengthening Pills from his pocket, took out two pills and gave them to Shen Yao: "Take these two Spirit Strengthening Pills and hurry back to your room to go into seclusion. Remember to go to the kitchen to get a few days' worth of food first."

"Thank you, Elder!" Shen Yao received the pill and the leave, and left happily.

After receiving a large amount of food and fruit wine from the kitchen and storing it in his storage ring, he went straight back to his residence.

Back at her residence, Shen Yao sprawled out on the bed again: "What should I do? I can't just keep hiding like this, can I? I won't be a useless person forever, will I?"

Golden Beetle: "Don't worry, it won't happen. The elder gave you a low-grade Spirit Strengthening Pill. Although it won't be very effective for your current situation, it's better than nothing."

"Don't lie down. Get up, practice meditation, and keep at it for a few days. Maybe your soul will be able to completely merge with this body."

Not wanting to be a useless person, Shen Yao immediately sat up and began to meditate, recalling Bai Luo's breathing techniques.

After the cultivation technique circulated through her body, Shen Yao could clearly feel the three spiritual roots of wind, wood, and water within her body, but she couldn't use the spiritual power within them no matter what.

Bai Luo's Qi circulation technique is a basic method of circulating spiritual energy. It involves using the technique to drive the spiritual energy in one's spiritual root, circulating it through the meridians within the body. The entire technique requires circulating the spiritual energy thirty-three times.

Once the process is successfully completed, the next step is to use the absorption technique, forming hand seals towards the sky to absorb the corresponding spiritual energy from nature.

Shen Yao was very discouraged, but she didn't want to give up. With the encouragement of the golden beetle, she persevered.

If it doesn't work the first time, the second time, the fifteenth hour, or even the hour, then keep going for two or three hours, a day, or ten days.

Now that she has come to this world and transmigrated into this body with three spiritual roots, she refuses to believe that she will never be able to use the spiritual power of this world.

For the first time in this world, Shen Yao had a goal: to pursue spiritual freedom.