Chapter 14: The Golden Finger Emerges (Part 1)

Wei Yunxi scratched her head and laughed sheepishly.
“Sister Feng, the feeling of cultivating was so wonderful—I couldn’t help myself.”
Feng Xiu shook her head.
“Miss, you’re still very young and haven’t started fasting. You can’t cultivate day and night like this. What if you faint from hunger?”
“Okay, I’ll remember that. Next time I cultivate, I’ll eat a Fasting Pill first.”
Wei Yunxi was reluctant to part with the sensation of warm energy flowing through her. She resolved to prepare ahead next time.
Feng Xiu smiled gently, about to say something when a sweep of her divine sense brought surprise to her voice.
“Miss, you’ve already reached the second stage of Qi Refining!”
Wei Yunxi’s face lit up with astonishment, then she asked happily,
“Sister Feng, am I really at the second stage of Qi Refining?”
Feng Xiu nodded earnestly.
“Yes, Miss, you’ve reached the second stage. Your aura is a bit unstable, but I wouldn’t mistake it.”
Then her expression grew concerned as she voiced her worry.
“Miss Yunxi, you struggled for so long to draw energy into your body without success. Now, in just two days, you’ve cultivated to the second stage. The Wei family will certainly reassess your worth.”
She didn’t say aloud that this would disrupt the Feng family’s plans.
But Wei Yunxi understood her meaning. For now, she could hide her spiritual root, but once she began cultivating, her progress would be hard to conceal—unless she had a treasure or technique to mask her cultivation.
“Let’s set that aside for now. I want to bathe and eat, then we’ll talk.”
Now that she had successfully drawn energy into her body and reached the second stage of Qi Refining, she could enter the Redwood Token’s space. She sensed there was something within that might help her.
“Miss Yunxi, I think you shouldn’t hide your breakthrough. Otherwise, it’ll be hard for you to go to the cultivation hall later, and it also explains your absence these past days.”
Wei Yunxi readily nodded her little head in agreement.

“Yes, yes, we’ll do as you say. But don’t let Pearl near me—I’m afraid she’ll discover I’m already at the second stage.”
Feng Xiu nodded and went out to arrange matters.
After Wei Yunxi took a bath and cleaned herself, she ate her fill and told Feng Xiu she wanted to sleep.
Feng Xiu worried that Wei Yunxi would become engrossed in cultivation again and insisted on guarding the door, so she could rest without activating the formation disk.
But this time, Wei Yunxi insisted on activating the isolation array. What a joke! If anyone discovered her space, she’d be finished.
In the end, Feng Xiu couldn’t win against her little mistress and dutifully handed her a bottle of Fasting Pills. Still, she chose to meditate at the door, sending away Pearl, who came to spy.
Once Wei Yunxi confirmed the room’s safety and the isolation array was running, she used her consciousness to connect with the Redwood Token in her sea of awareness.
After successfully drawing energy into her body, she had opened her sea of awareness. Since she had crossed over with an adult soul, her soul force was strong, and her sea of awareness was far larger than her peers—almost comparable to cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage.
She didn’t yet realize all this, being a novice in cultivation, but she knew the importance of the sea of awareness, so she urgently wanted to learn what the Redwood Token could do.
This time, when her consciousness entered the space, she was not repelled. Yet, all she saw was a dim, gray area less than a hundred square meters. There was no spiritual plant, herb, or spring, not even a decent piece of land.
Wei Yunxi was stunned. Was this really her space? It shouldn’t be! Why did it become such a great aid in Wei Yunqing’s hands, yet, in her own, the true owner’s, it was utterly barren?
Grinding her teeth and bracing herself, she couldn’t resist placing her hands on her hips and cursing aloud:
“You wretched heavens, are you trying to ruin me? Do you really have to show such blatant favoritism? I never dug up your ancestors’ graves!
You dragged me here without my consent, gave me nothing, and now you’re making things even harder for me?”
Wei Yunxi vented heartily, not noticing how her soul in the Redwood Token’s space grew fainter. Just as she paused to catch her breath, a mechanical electronic voice sounded in her ear:
“Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to go online now?”
Wei Yunxi abruptly fell silent, rubbing her ears, thinking she must have misheard. But the voice came again:
“Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to go online now?”
She clamped her mouth shut, not responding. It all felt too surreal. If she remembered correctly, she had transmigrated into a xianxia romance novel—so how was there suddenly a chat group? Clearly, such a thing shouldn’t exist in this world.
“Chat group reactivated. Would the user like to go online now?”

“If the user does not respond, the chat group system will default to online status!”
“User ‘Witch Tribe Girl’ successfully online!”
“Would the user like to read unread messages?”
Wei Yunxi stared in disbelief as the so-called chat group announced her online status, then brought up a transparent screen with rapidly scrolling text.
She rubbed her eyes, feeling they weren’t enough, but perhaps because of her cultivation, she managed to read everything as it scrolled past. She frowned and fell into silence.
From what she could gather, this chat group had belonged to someone called ‘Witch Tribe Girl’—the username was like an online handle, but the real identity was unknown.
Other users’ messages revealed Witch Tribe Girl hadn’t been online in a long time, and everyone was worried about her. They had sent her many items, hoping to help her through hardship, but all were still unclaimed.
“Witch Tribe Girl, would you like to receive transmitted items?”
The mechanical voice sounded again, and this time, Wei Yunxi responded without hesitation:
“Receive!”
She decided to take a chance—maybe among the gifts was something she needed! It wasn’t really cheating, since the Redwood Token bore the Feng character, left to her by her mother. With her mother gone, as the only daughter, she had every right to accept on her behalf.
“Beginning item transfer. Receiving items…”
The mechanical voice sounded again, and soon Wei Yunxi found many boxes piled at her feet—wooden, stone, metal, and even one made of transparent glass, inside which grew a green plant, glowing softly.
Wei Yunxi was overjoyed and resolved to check her first batch of gains. Just then, a message appeared on the screen:

Tribal Warrior: “Witch Tribe Girl, is that you?”
Star Trek: “Witch Tribe Girl, did your tribe escape the calamity?”
Ox-Head Horse-Face: “She’s not Witch Tribe Girl. Her entire tribe was wiped out.”
Survival Is the Hardest Law: “Brother above, how do you know? Not just anyone can log into this chat group.”