First Infusion

With the jade stones made, the last step was infusing them with spiritual power.

Lin Wang reminded Yun Ruo in advance that infusing spiritual power took a lot of time.

They were just a small sect, and everyone had limited cultivation.

Moreover, this was her first time learning to infuse magical artifacts with spiritual power, so whether it took time was another matter; being successful would be great.

Therefore, Yun Ruo set a goal for herself: to successfully make at least one barrier jade on the first day.

When she went to Bai Liye’s room, she found that there were only three of them.

Jiang Beishan, who was the most active in doing work, didn’t come.

“Beishan awakened the body meridian, and infusing spiritual power requires the divine sense meridian, he can’t do it,” Lin Wang moved all the jade stones from Bai Liye’s worktable and gave Yun Ruo the batch of stones that were of medium quality.

“This batch requires less spiritual power, so you can try it first.”

“How do I do it?” Yun Ruo picked up a piece of jade stone.

“This, let Ah Ye teach you,” Lin Wang lifted another basket and changed tables.

“You can try to sense the spiritual power first, and learn how to control it.”

So, while waiting for Bai Liye to come in, Yun Ruo watched Lin Wang do it first.

She hadn’t even gone to school yet, but she had learned a lot in Idle Cloud Sect.

He picked up a piece of jade stone, and silver spiritual power lit up at his fingertips.

The spiritual power spun and separated, turning into several thin strands of light, which swam like fish along the carved lines inside the jade stone.

The lines were intricate, and as the spiritual power was injected, the inscription was activated.

In some places, the light strands hadn’t reached yet, so it changed the lines.

The light strands in front were cut off, and the light strands behind filled in, repeating this process.

After a quarter of an hour, Lin Wang stopped.

The lines inside the jade stone were completely filled with spiritual power, emitting a soft silver light, which gradually dimmed, and the flowing inscription also quietly disappeared.

A piece of barrier jade was successfully completed, with the spiritual power successfully infused.

So complicated, it required a high degree of continuous input and control of spiritual power.

Yun Ruo felt that she seemed to understand, and decided to try it with the piece in her hand.

She didn’t wait for Bai Liye, and carefully examined the lines inside the jade stone.

She had seen them once when she came in to deliver food last time, so she wasn’t unfamiliar with the lines.

They were the same in every jade stone, and she had almost memorized them.

When she watched Lin Wang operate just now, the general changes in the inscription were also very clear.

Concentrate.

Yun Ruo took a deep breath, focused her attention on the lines inside the jade stone, and drew them again in her mind, firmly remembering them.

Then, she closed her eyes, and tried to sense the spiritual power flowing in her body.

She could feel it.

The soft silver light was like a boundless and vast starry sky, or a bottomless deep sea.

This was the first time she had felt the spiritual power sleeping in her body.

This feeling was so new and wonderful.

It was as if she possessed the entire world at this moment, and she could even embrace the wind.

A gentle aura suddenly rose in the small courtyard.

The wind picked up a few fallen leaves and sent them high into the air.

Bai Liye noticed the subtle changes in the air, and quickened his pace to enter the room.

Lin Wang in the room also obviously noticed something, and their eyes both fell on Yun Ruo, who had her eyes closed.

A silver light was shining on her fingertips, reflecting on the outline of her face, making her skin seem transparent.

The strands of hair on her forehead were stirred by the aura, flying slightly.

Yun Ruo’s fingertips moved slightly, and the light cluster separated into countless thin strands of light, which drilled into the jade stone in her hand at an extremely fast speed.

There were too many remaining light strands, and they swam towards more jade stones in the bamboo basket.

The inscriptions in the jade stones were quickly activated, changing shape when the light strands swam over, attempting to cut off the intruding power.

But the light strands were extremely tough, and regardless of the shape, they forcefully went through the changing lines, rampaging all the way, not breaking even when twisted.

With a soft buzzing sound, the spiritual power of all the jade stones was successfully infused in an instant.

However, the tough spiritual light strands didn’t stop there, and continued to drill inward.

The engraved inscriptions couldn’t withstand the continuous spiritual power, and were melted into the silver light and completely dissipated.

The jade stones made a small sound that they couldn’t withstand, and cracked.

Yun Ruo heard the sound and opened her eyes to look at the jade stone in her hand.

The cracks on the jade stone spread like a spider web, and then with a “snap” sound, it shattered into pieces.

… Crap, I broke it!

Bai Liye had worked so hard to make it, and she had actually broken the first one, and completely ruined it.

Don’t ask, the answer is very flustered.

She looked up and saw Bai Liye and Lin Wang staring at her with their eyes, and became even more flustered: “I didn’t do it on purpose…”

The barrier jade in Lin Wang’s hand fell with a thud.

He was just stunned at first, but now he was so shocked that his mouth was wide open: “You did it unintentionally?!”

“I wanted to try to do it like you, I didn’t expect it to…” Yun Ruo simply didn’t have the face to look at them.

Bai Liye stepped forward and moved the jade stones in the bamboo basket.

These didn’t shatter completely like the one in Yun Ruo’s hand.

Some just cracked, and some broke into two pieces.

Because the inscriptions were destroyed and they couldn’t store spiritual power, the spiritual power on them quickly dissipated, and they all turned back into ordinary stones.

With such a high intensity of spiritual power infusion, the spiritual power had burst all the jade stones in an instant, and Yun Ruo… she looked very relaxed, and didn’t even realize what had happened.

Yun Ruo followed his movements and saw all the cracked jade stones in the bamboo basket: “…!!”

Her heart was cold and peaceful.

Lin Wang also lifted the other basket over, his expression somewhat serious: “Come, try it again unintentionally.”

His words sounded like sarcasm, and Yun Ruo pursed her lips, choosing not to move.

“It’s okay,” Bai Liye said.

“I’ll teach you.”

He took the barrier jade from Yun Ruo’s hand, picked a piece of jade stone from the basket that Lin Wang had brought over, and placed it in her palm: “Do what you did just now, and try again.”

Bai Liye’s voice was calm and unwavering, and she couldn’t hear any emotions.

The eyes she looked at were also calm, and Yun Ruo had no choice but to do as he said.

This time, she didn’t close her eyes, and felt the surging spiritual power condense at her fingertips.

The silver light split into light strands and drilled into the jade stone.

The inscriptions flowed and changed, but her spiritual power wasn’t afraid at all, and forcefully injected it along the lines, lighting up the formation inside the jade stone.

“Slow down” Yun Ruo stared intently at the jade stone in her hand, feeling a hand reach over and hold her wrist.

There was gentle spiritual power in his palm, guiding her to calm the surging spiritual power constantly rolling at her fingertips.

“Don’t be afraid, you’re controlling it, your spiritual power won’t hurt you.”

However, she still couldn’t control it.

There was too much spiritual power.

Before she could stop, countless light strands overflowed, and swam towards the other jade stones in the bamboo basket.

With a “snap” sound, the jade stone in Yun Ruo’s hand cracked like the last one.

Yun Ruo: “…”

She was really a terrible student, Bai Liye was personally teaching her, but she broke another one.

If she went to the Academy, she might become a problem student that teachers would have a headache over.

“Hey, it worked,” Lin Wang picked up a barrier jade from the bamboo basket, looked at Bai Liye, and then looked at Yun Ruo in disbelief.

“Dirty Face, you’re… a natural.”

Yun Ruo was still looking at the jade stone in her hand, and looked up at him upon hearing this.

Lin Wang saw her blank expression, and snapped his fingers in front of her: “Don’t look at the one in your hand, although that one’s broken, the others all worked.”

Really?

Yun Ruo reached out to take the barrier jade as if she was dreaming.

When she raised her hand, she realized that Bai Liye was still holding her wrist, his index and middle fingers resting on the back of her hand, and the warmth of his fingertips was very clear.

It was this hand that had guided her to calm the spiritual power in her body just now, and told her not to be afraid.

Yun Ruo tilted her head to look at the owner of the hand.

Bai Liye took a flawless and spiritual-power-filled barrier jade and handed it to her, withdrawing his hand, and tapping her palm with his finger on the jade stone: “You did a good job, you’re so powerful for your first time infusing spiritual power.”

Jiang Beishan originally thought that it would take a few days to infuse spiritual power into the barrier jade this time, just like the previous few times.

After learning that Yun Ruo’s spiritual power had exploded and she had done it effortlessly, he was so shocked that he almost waved the spatula in his hand out the window.

Half of the stir-fried vegetables were spilled, and he felt very distressed.

With the barrier jade made ahead of schedule, and the market month in the towns down the mountain not yet starting, Lin Wang went to the place outside the courtyard wall where the jade stones were hidden and brought back a lot.

The few of them started the repetitive action of sorting again.

Yun Ruo felt that Jiang Beishan’s attitude towards her had changed significantly.

In the past, when she worked with him, she always had to compare herself with him.

If she sorted a basket of jade stones on this day, this kid would have to sort one and a half baskets, even if it meant working late into the night.

It was different now.

Now Jiang Beishan’s competitive mentality towards her was even stronger!

If she sorted one basket, he would have to sort out two baskets.

If she moved quickly, he would have to move even faster, as if determined to make up for the regret that he couldn’t help with the spiritual power infusion step.

Yun Ruo didn’t understand, but still maintained respect.

After working hard for a few more days, they made another batch of jade stones.

Bai Liye didn’t rush this time, because Yun Ruo infused spiritual power quickly, their magical artifact production cycle became very generous, and even allowed him to spare a lot of time to do something else.

After engraving the inscription in the last piece of jade stone, it was already late at night outside, almost 11 PM – 1 AM.

He got up, stretched, and came out of the room.

The night breeze was a little cool, making people feel much more energetic.

He walked through the courtyard, and walked to Ji Yueci’s window.

The light was still on in the room.

He placed a light gold measuring spoon on the windowsill, knocked on the window lattice, and after a while, a silhouette was projected onto the window paper.

Ji Yueci opened half the window, took the measuring spoon inside, and said thank you faintly.

“Tell me next time if you want something else,” Bai Liye said.

The person in the room was silent for a while, and the silhouette projected on the window paper nodded.

The lights were quickly turned off.

Bai Liye walked past the room, looked at Yun Ruo’s room, and the lights were already off.

He was about to go back when he found that the ladder that was placed by the grape trellis had been moved over and was leaning against the wall of the house.

Who moved it over?

Jiang Beishan?

He reached out to move the ladder, preparing to put it back in place.

The ladder frame made a sound when it touched the eaves, and a force held down the top of the ladder, preventing him from moving it away.

Voices sounded at the same time from the roof and under the eaves.

Bai Liye: “Who’s up there?”

Yun Ruo: “Who’s moving my ladder?”

A head peeked out from the edge of the eaves, and it was Yun Ruo.

Seeing that it was Bai Liye, she breathed a sigh of relief: “It’s me, I’m on the roof.”

When the ladder moved just now, her first reaction was that there was a thief.

She had completely forgotten that this was an immortal sect, what kind of thief would dare to come to steal things.

Sure enough, the atmosphere of Idle Cloud Sect was too much like a normal household, affecting her judgment.

She had always thought she was living in a farmhouse.

“What are you doing on the roof?” Bai Liye thought of what Yun Ruo had said before: “Looking at the stars?”

“Yeah,” Yun Ruo said, the body she had poked out carefully retreated back.

The tiles were a little slippery, and she didn’t dare to keep squatting by the eaves.

“I’ll move the ladder back, you don’t need to worry about me.”

There was no answer, and there was no sound.

But the ladder was leaning back against the eaves, and the bottom of the house was quiet again.

Bai Liye had probably already left.

Yun Ruo lay back on the ridge of the roof.

Suddenly, she heard the light sound of tiles being stepped on.

Just as she was about to get up, a figure was by her side.

Bai Liye sat down with his back to Yun Ruo, his tone still lazy: “Do you really like to look at the stars?”