Chapter 1198: Chapter 357: Zhou Qingning’s Method of Survival
According to her, ever since she awakened a sliver of consciousness, she has been inside that piece of Fire Copper Ore.
Then the Fire Copper was picked up by someone, sold to some workshop, crafted into an ornamental lamp base, and finally purchased by someone. However, during this process, her Spirit Body was weak and unable to resume normal activity, remaining in a semi-awake state.
She kept absorbing Li Fire to nourish her Spirit Body.
During this process, she could only resign herself to fate.
Then, after the lamp base was sold, it was taken to this mansion.
She first truly awoke from the lamp base, her Spirit Body repaired almost completely by the Li Fire, recovering some abilities, in this house.
At that time, there were four people living in this mansion.
A wealthy middle-aged couple managing their own company.
There was also a newly adult son and a daughter still in kindergarten.
It seemed just like a typical affluent family.
Family relations were neither good nor bad. But materially, they were rather abundant, clearly a wealthy family.
After Zhou Qingning awoke, she was bewildered for some days, but being inside the lamp base, she realized she was now a Spirit Body, lacking a physical body, unable to leave the lamp base for too long, as if being restricted within this lamp base, unable to stay away for long.
It was as if she was trapped by some Spell within this piece of Fire Copper Ore. She couldn’t escape this Fire Copper Ore; while she could leave for a short period each day, she had to return to it soon or face dispersal of her soul.
Moreover, without a physical body, she found upon awakening that the Li Fire within the Fire Copper had almost been depleted.
As a Spirit Body without a physical body, she could only maintain her existence by absorbing Li Fire, yet the Li Fire substance had largely been consumed during the repair of her Spirit Body, leaving little remaining.
When she awoke, she faced a problem: though awakened, the remaining Li Fire could not support her survival for long.
What she told Chen Yan was indeed correct; if she didn’t find a solution, once the Li Fire was exhausted, she would face dispersal of her soul.
In order to survive, she had no choice but to find her own way.
The first step was definitely to seek methods within the Spells she knew.
She discovered she had mastered a Cultivation Technique.
This Cultivation Technique, well, was a bit hard to speak about.
It was a harvesting Cultivation Technique.
Not the kind of Evil Cultivator who uses people as Furnaces, not so extreme or excessive.
Objectively speaking, it was more akin to a dual cultivation technique.
However, if both parties are Cultivators, then it is mutually beneficial.
But if one side is a Cultivator and the other is an ordinary person, then it is advantageous for the cultivator at the expense of the ordinary person.
This Cultivation Technique was likely one Zhou Qingning originally knew. Although she couldn’t recall many things after waking up, studying the Cultivation Technique allowed her to find a path to survival.
Primordial Yang Qi can enhance her Spirit Body!
Strengthening the Spirit Body won’t free her from vanishing, but once the Spirit Body is strong enough, it can free her from the constraints of the soon-to-be-exhausted Fire Copper.
If she can break free from the Fire Copper, she can immediately leave here completely, enter the outside world, go farther, and then seek other ways to sustain herself.
In simple terms, this Fire Copper both saved her life and became a cage for her.
She wants to escape.
But being trapped inside the Fire Copper, she faces many restrictions.
For instance, trying to use Spell to harvest others isn’t as simple as becoming a female ghost and flying outside to randomly harvest anyone.
She can only harvest one type of person: someone who has touched the lamp base with their own hands!
Otherwise, even if she became a female ghost outside, seeing people all over the streets, she wouldn’t be able to harvest or contact them.
Thus, upon awakening in this mansion, Zhou Qingning, in helplessness, could only harvest the members of this family.
The only target was the newly adult son of this family.
Because the son touched the lamp base inadvertently at home.
Let me add, she only harvested this son and not the family’s male head, not due to any other reason.
It was because her dual cultivation technique had a special restriction.
The first dual cultivation, absorbing the other’s Yang Qi, requires the other to possess Primordial Yang!
Thus, although there were two men in the family, the male head was already of considerable age with children, not a Primordial Yang body.
Therefore, the only target left was the newly adult son still attending school.
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Upon hearing this, Chen Yan couldn’t help but have a thought.
So...
Hu Shangke Hu Licking Dog, he’s still a virgin?!
It’s also pitifully unfortunate.
At school, being a "licking dog" for such a long time, licking several girls one after another, only to end up with nothing?
No wonder Xiaopang despised preaching to him, deliberately fabricating lies to tease him.
Yet he’s still shameless enough to act as if he knows best.
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Zhou Qingning’s harvesting method is somewhat special, rather straightforward and crude.
After all, being a Spirit Body, she can’t truly dual cultivate with humans, nor can she truly do anything.
But fortunately, her Cultivation Technique has a function to extract Yang Qi from the ’human essence’ within the other person.
So the difficulty lies in how to make the other person release that ’human essence’ from their body.
