I didn't expect that I was the heartthrob.

Gu Lan bought so many things, so naturally his fellow apprentices were all happy. When they learned that Gu Lan could draw talismans and had opened up the market, they were even more delighted. After dinner, the group of people gathered together to imagine the future.

"If I have spirit stones in the future, I will buy a good sword." Second Junior Brother Xu Fengxi said, leaning against a stone with his head tilted back and waving his hands.

"Buy it." Gu Lan waved his hand with great generosity.

With Ji Yanli, her friend who had been taken advantage of, Gu Lan felt that her future was bright.

"You are a loser. Senior Sister, I don't want the sword. If I want one, I will go to the Xuantian Sword Sect's sword tomb to find my own natal sword." Third Junior Brother Xue Hao clenched his fists, full of fighting spirit and ideals.

Gu Lan's eyes were full of praise. She patted her third junior brother happily. It turned out that her third junior brother had a promising future.

Seeing the senior sister praising the third junior brother, Xu Fengxi couldn't help but pour cold water on them, "You are so arrogant. In this place as dry as a desert, how can there be so much spiritual energy for you to practice? Stop dreaming and be realistic and buy a good sword."

"Shut up and learn from your third junior brother to be a little idealistic, okay?" Gu Lan scratched his ears. He didn't know whether to say that this dejected second junior brother was realistic or decadent.

Fourth Junior Brother Meng Xin interrupted at the right time. He didn't want to hear his senior brothers and sisters quarreling again. "I heard that a good refining furnace can refine a peerless sword, and if the material is good, the sword can even stir up the energy of heaven and earth."

"When I earn enough spirit stones, I will buy you a new and good refining furnace." After Gu Lan said this, she felt her sleeve being pulled. She lowered her head and found that her junior brother was sitting next to her, tugging at her sleeve. From his eager expression, Gu Lan knew that he also wanted a furnace.

"Buy it. Senior sister, please buy our junior brother a good alchemy furnace, okay?"

The junior brother smiled with curved eyebrows.

Ultimately, it’s because Qianji Sect is too poor. The disciples of the sect are just fine, but their dreams are like beggars dreaming about steamed buns.

Gu Lan urged several fellow apprentices to go back and rest, and returned to the house thinking about it.

Everyone else had gone to bed, but Gu Lan couldn't sleep. He took out the newly bought talisman paper and beast blood ink box, picked up the pen and recalled the soul gathering talisman.

Closing his eyes, Gu Lan followed the golden hand's strokes. He had drawn a lot of talismans in the past few days, and Gu Lan also found that his spiritual awareness was gradually broadening as he drew talismans. He became more skilled in drawing talismans, and his pen moved freely and smoothly, feeling extremely comfortable.

But those are low-level, not very formal talismans.

If she wanted to draw the talisman seriously, Gu Lan felt that it would be more difficult. After all, she was not a talisman practitioner, so it was always difficult at the beginning.

The last stroke of the Soul Gathering Talisman was blocked for a moment, and Gu Lan forced her way forward and completed the last stroke. However, her nasal cavity became congested and blood sprayed onto the paper, and the Soul Gathering Talisman was ruined.

Gu Lan did not give up and continued to paint. He was busy until the late night. Finally, his nosebleed stopped and he could draw the spirit gathering talisman more smoothly.

After working all night, Gu Lan finally finished drawing ten soul gathering talismans and then fell into a deep sleep.

At night, Xue Hao opened the door, and opposite was the room of the senior sister. The senior sister had been busy drawing talismans these days. Looking at the figure of the senior sister, he didn't know what was wrong, his heart was churning, and his spirit was encouraged.

Qianji Sect. When he was picked up that year, he felt that this sect was doomed. The spiritual energy was extremely thin. Although the sect's fairy mountain was lush and green, it had not been nourished by spiritual energy. The mountain was like a pool of stagnant water.

He also practiced sporadically, always thinking, if his spiritual roots were better, would he be able to get a place in the Tianyan Sect?

Even if I don't become a direct disciple, being an inner disciple is fine. It's better than wasting time here.

But when facing his fellow disciples and the senior sister, he couldn't say anything and couldn't move his feet.

If he left, how would he face everyone and his junior fellow apprentice? He couldn't bear to leave them.

Xue Hao compared and weighed the pros and cons in his mind, and then it was the turn of the senior sister to build the foundation.

The senior sister who is building the foundation is very different. The senior sister before also had little motivation and did not have any requirements for their cultivation.

But now, the senior sister not only works hard herself, but also often takes care of them, urges them to practice, and gives them any good things as soon as possible.

Xue Hao's fighting spirit was ignited. The senior sister was working so hard, why should he just lie down?

With this mood, he went to the back mountain to practice every night.

At the same time, Xu Fengxi also joined in. Hearing that the third junior brother's door was opened, Xu Fengxi also opened the door. The two looked at each other, and then looked at the bright room of the eldest senior sister. They tacitly lowered their voices and went to the back mountain.

Fourth junior brother Meng Xin was holding the little junior brother who was as thick as a glutinous rice ball. The little junior brother was drooling in his sleep, so Meng Xin helped the little junior brother wipe his saliva while reading a book.

It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have a refining furnace. He can read books first, and then he can practice when he has a good refining furnace.

Moreover, while reading, Meng Xin often entered a state of meditation. He discovered that every time he woke up from meditation, his cultivation had improved a lot. These days, he was about to reach the breakthrough stage and would be able to build a foundation soon.

Yun Tiannan, the leader of Qianji Sect, withdrew his spiritual consciousness. The small fan was slowly turning in his hand as he concentrated on thinking.

These disciples of his seemed to have changed without his knowledge and became more hardworking.

Are the foreign places and foreign people really effective?

The next day, Gu Lan woke up early, woke up his fellow apprentices, and distributed two spirit-gathering talismans to each of them, asking them to stick them around the house so that the spiritual energy could help with their cultivation.

She put two on before going to bed last night and felt refreshed early this morning. The effect is amazing.

After packing up, Gu Lan planned to go down the mountain to continue selling talismans.

He drew talismans day and night these days and earned a lot of spirit stones. He gave a lot of them to his fellow apprentices and put some in a mustard seed bag. When he had almost collected enough, Gu Lan decided to exchange them for some high-quality spirit stones to share with his fellow apprentices.

After all, mid-grade spirit stones still contain a lot of impurities, which are not good for cultivation.

Just as he was about to go down the mountain, Yun Tiannan made a summoning gesture to summon Gu Lan.

It turns out that a small secret realm in Shahu is about to open. Yun Tiannan plans to let a few people go there to experience it together. Of course, the junior brother has to stay because he is still too young.

Gu Lan told his fellow junior brothers the news, and their faces lit up. After all, they had never been to the secret realm before. Only Gu Lan had once been there by chance with a few wandering cultivators.

"Don't worry, senior sister. I feel like I'm about to make a breakthrough in the next few days." Xue Hao scratched his head, seeming a little embarrassed.

Xu Fengxi leaned on his sword, looking calm, "Me too."

Meng Xin raised his hand, "Me too."

"I'm in the middle stage of foundation building." Gu Lan smiled.

"Wow! Senior Sister is so fast." Several people exclaimed in amazement, and instantly felt that even if they didn't have spiritual energy, they would still make rapid progress.

"According to this, we should not sleep for the next few days. We should practice if we can. I saw that Junior Brother has made a lot of Qi-boosting pills. We should make breakthroughs if we can. Maybe all three of you can build your foundation."

Everyone agreed that it was feasible.

So five days before departure, they all began to practice desperately. Gu Lan would sell talismans in between practice, and then buy a bunch of spirit beast bones and some refining materials, watching her fourth apprentice brother Meng Xin refine some things she thought might be useful.

These things seemed extremely strange and inexplicable to Meng Xin. However, he was good at keeping silent, so he completed the task assigned by Gu Lan without saying a word.

It is certainly not easy to build a foundation. By the fifth day, everyone had only made a small breakthrough and still failed to build a foundation. As for Gu Lan, he was practicing sword and drawing talismans to earn spirit stones. He was so busy that naturally he didn't make any big breakthroughs.

After simply packing up, they said goodbye to their master, coaxed their crying little brother, and then set off.