After unblocking the Spleen Meridian of Foot Taiyin, the qi and blood throughout her body surged. Then, by using spiritual energy to press the qi and blood into her five Zang-organs and six Fu-organs, she achieved the goal of organ refinement.
Refining the five Zang-organs not only caused Gu Xiao's strength to experience another surge, but the increased intensity of her internal organs also gave her stronger resistance to attacks in combat.
At the same time, a person's five Zang-organs are like a converter, transforming spiritual qi into spiritual power.
When the five Zang-organs are strengthened, the quality of the spiritual power they convert will also increase, thereby enhancing combat strength.
After unblocking the third meridian, Gu Xiao had originally planned to continue cultivating to unblock the fourth meridian.
But suddenly, a powerful spiritual qi attracted Gu Xiao's attention. Opening her eyes, she saw that besides her, many other Cultivators were also cultivating with their eyes closed at Raging Wind Cliff.
Gu Xiao got up and walked in the direction from which the spiritual qi fluctuation came, arriving in front of a cliff face.
In front of the cliff face was an oval stone platform. At the junction of the platform and the cliff, there was a crack from which rich wind-attributed spiritual qi was spewing out.
It seems there's still space behind this.
But why hadn't she sensed it before? Had the entrance just broken open? Or was there a time limit for the spiritual qi to be exhaled?
Gu Xiao came not far from the cliff face. Many people had already gathered here, but there was a barrier outside the cliff face, making it impossible for them to get close.
After everyone tried their respective methods, they gradually lost interest in the place.
Everyone could see there was something good inside, but if they couldn't get in, they could only stare helplessly.
Instead of wasting time here, it would be better to absorb a few more breaths of spiritual qi.
Cultivation within the ruins has a time limit, and it costs money to enter and cultivate, so not many people would waste time focusing on something they couldn't obtain.
"Beauty, don't waste your time. That barrier is impossible to enter."
Someone who had returned saw Gu Xiao walking towards this side and called out a reminder.
"I'll just take a look."
Gu Xiao nodded and came to the cliff face.
Upon reaching the barrier, Gu Xiao had a feeling that this barrier wasn't simply to prevent people from entering.
She raised her hand and gently placed it on the barrier. A cyan spiritual power flowed out from Gu Xiao's palm, gradually coiling around her entire arm.
And just as Gu Xiao's spiritual power touched the barrier, the originally smooth, semi-circular barrier rippled in circles, like water struck by a pebble.
Immediately after, Gu Xiao discovered that her hand could actually pass through the barrier, followed by her entire body.
With no sense of obstruction whatsoever, Gu Xiao entered the interior of the barrier as if passing through water.
"Wow, comfortable."
The spiritual qi spewing from inside the cliff was indeed denser than that on Raging Wind Cliff, even giving a feeling like returning to a warm home from the cold outside on a chilly day.
"Rumble!"
At this moment, more spiritual qi suddenly spewed out from behind the crack, and then the cliff face slowly began to move, finally revealing an entrance wide enough for two people to walk through simultaneously.
"Holy crap, someone went in."
"There really is another world behind there."
"Go, go, go, hurry and see, maybe there's some treasure."
"What if there's treasure? You can't take it with you."
"Spirit artifacts and such definitely can't be taken, but what if it's a spiritual plant that enhances cultivation? There's no restriction on that."
"Moreover, in such a hidden place, it might even be a legacy from a powerful being. In that case, you just need to copy a portion and give it to the higher-ups, and you can still get a considerable reward."
While everyone was discussing, Gu Xiao had already stepped into the stone cave.
As soon as she entered, Gu Xiao felt a gentle, warm breeze, completely different from the outside.
Raging Wind Cliff, true to its name, had constant strong winds all year round. In some places, the gales could even easily grind huge rocks into powder.
For ordinary people without cultivation, the fierce winds here would be no different from knives.
Gu Xiao had originally thought the wind inside would be even more dangerous, but the reality was quite the opposite.
After passing through this ten-meter-long tunnel, everything suddenly opened up before her eyes.
Gentle wind-attributed spiritual qi wafted in the air, and spiritual light emanated from the ground everywhere.
Moreover, although it was inside the mountain, it wasn't dark at all.
Gu Xiao guessed that there must be a mineral vein below, and such a place is also called a Spirit Land.
Compared to a Treasure Land, the spiritual qi in a Spirit Land is more gentle. Cultivators don't even need to deliberately refine it; it will actively nourish their bodies.
Ever since she entered, Gu Xiao had felt it. She didn't even need to meditate and cultivate; her cultivation began to slowly climb under the nourishment of the spiritual qi in this place.
It was like playing a game with a cheat code enabled; as long as you stood there, experience would keep increasing by +1, +1, +1... If being in the barrier in front of the cliff was like entering a warm room from the cold wind, then entering this Spirit Land now felt like taking a hot bath, completely relaxing.
Gu Xiao looked up and found a medicinal field in the Spirit Land, containing spiritual plants that were at least Fourth-tier, with the highest being an Eighth-tier spiritual plant.
However, she merely glanced at it before shifting her gaze; she had plenty of spiritual plants at home.
Even Ninth-tier spiritual plants corresponding to the Emperor-level, she could acquire them if she wanted.
Therefore, this medicinal field, which would drive many people crazy, held no attraction for her. Unless they were extremely rare or difficult to cultivate spiritual plants, she would even find them taking up space in her storage ring.
What attracted her more in the Spirit Land was the villa next to the medicinal field.
Its scale wasn't very large, but the building materials were all quite valuable spiritual materials. It was likely that this was once the secluded cultivation place of a certain powerful being from the Cloud Sea Sect.
Pushing the door open, the interior furnishings were quite cozy.
In the living room on the first floor, furniture such as sofas, a television, air conditioning, and a refrigerator were all available.
Although they were all Old Timers from thousands of years ago, perhaps due to the environment within the Spirit Land, they still looked quite new.
The first floor had the living room, dining room, and kitchen, while the second floor had a bedroom, study, bathroom, balcony, and a cultivation room.
Rather than calling it a villa, it was more like a duplex apartment.
However, judging by the interior decoration, Gu Xiao's first impression was that this place was quite suitable for seclusion.
Upon entering, there was a sense of relaxation, as if shedding a burden.
Gu Xiao walked around the villa and found many cultivation insights in the study, all of which she placed in her storage ring.
As for cultivation techniques, she only took the more advanced sets to expand her family's scripture pavilion, leaving the others untouched.
Actually, for them, the cultivation insights left by predecessors were far more important than inheritances.
Her own family had an Emperor-level peak expert; instead of seeking external inheritances, she might as well go to her grandfather.
But these insights were all experiences from the cultivation paths of predecessors, whether successful or failed, they could all inspire her.