When Qin Mu returned to his room, he had just pushed open the door when darkness flooded his vision as familiar softness and floral scent rushed into his nose and mouth.
“Mmph!”
Qin Mu quickly patted Miss Mengyu’s back, and after a long while, he finally saw the light again.
“Phew.”
Qin Mu caught his breath, but Miss Mengyu didn’t let go. She still held him tight.
“Mu’er, where did you go just now?”
Qin Mengyu had panicked the moment she lost contact with her soul mark on Mu’er.
Just as she was about to search, a paper crane flew over and stopped before her.
She opened the paper crane.
Inside, it read:
Young Master Qin is temporarily with me. No need to worry. See you in the room.
Chu Jiujiu.
Seeing this name, Qin Mengyu naturally knew it was Lu Shuanger’s master.
To say she wasn’t worried at all would be a lie.
She waited in the room for a long time and finally sensed her own soul mark on Mu’er again.
Qin Mu’s gaze passed over Miss Mengyu and glanced inside the room.
Lu Shuanger was behind Miss Mengyu.
What about Miss Ruoshuang?
Qin Mu looked around but couldn’t find any trace of Miss Ruoshuang.
Never mind. Miss Ruoshuang’s whereabouts are always hard to predict, but when I’m truly in danger, she arrives quickly.
“Miss Mengyu, I went somewhere with Senior Chu.”
Qin Mu spoke somewhat vaguely.
He couldn’t exactly say, “I took on a task of epic difficulty—to solve the Wildlands’ spirit vein problem.”
If he said that, Miss Mengyu would definitely get involved.
He didn’t want to drag her into this because it involved the Heavenly Dao’s causality.
If something went wrong, it wouldn’t be good.
Speaking of Chu Jiujiu, Qin Mengyu glanced behind Mu’er.
There was no other figure.
“Miss Mengyu, Senior Chu sent me to the bottom of the building and then left.”
Qin Mu knew Miss Mengyu was looking for something.
Although Senior Chu said she would support him unconditionally this time, in the end, it was still up to him alone to complete it.
When night came, Miss Ruoshuang also returned.
After dinner, Qin Mu went straight to sleep.
Since reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could try fasting, but being a foodie, fasting was out of the question.
At midnight, Qin Mu quietly opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was Miss Ruoshuang’s sleeping face.
Even in the darkness, her white nightgown was very conspicuous, and her warm breath brushed against his cheek.
Behind him, Miss Mengyu’s leg was pressed against him.
Qin Mu carefully moved it away and then silently slipped out.
“Divine Dragon Senior, will this secret technique of yours work?”
“Don’t worry. Those two girls definitely won’t notice.”
If the Divine Dragon Senior hadn’t said that only at midnight the spirit veins could be easily detected, Qin Mu would never have gotten up in the middle of the night.
It was too uncomfortable.
Since Qin Mu had a pass token for free passage, he quickly found a small hill.
Gazing at the bright moon in the sky, Qin Mu felt true desolation for the first time.
“Ah-choo!”
Qin Mu hugged his arms, his legs trembling slightly.
“I miscalculated. Should have brought more clothes.”
After reaching Foundation Establishment, he rarely got sick, but he could still feel hot and cold.
Just then, a golden mist appeared beside Qin Mu, vaguely condensing into a dragon shape.
After Qin Mu broke through to Foundation Establishment and stabilized his cultivation base, the divine dragon could temporarily project his form to the outside world.
“Divine Dragon Senior, why did you come out?”
Qin Mu had seen the divine dragon like this before.
The first time was when he talked in his sleep at midnight, saying something like “Divine Dragon Senior is an old geezer,” and got slapped awake.
Good thing he wasn’t a ten-year-old kid, or that slap might have left a huge shadow.
“Boy, do you feel it?”
“Huh? Feel what? Divine Dragon Senior, I only feel freezing cold.”
The divine dragon gave a look of utter disappointment, then tapped Qin Mu’s head with his tail, quite hard.
“Focus the power of Divine Dragon Blood into your eyes and look again!”
Qin Mu rubbed the spot where he was hit.
Truth be told, it hurt quite a bit.
The next moment, Qin Mu’s eyes turned golden.
In the originally pitch-black night sky, faint green threads appeared, their color very light.
“Divine Dragon Senior, is this the spirit vein!?”
Qin Mu was shocked and curious.
He reached out to touch the green threads, but his hand passed right through them.
“Correct. These are the spirit veins. The spirit energy needed for cultivation and the spirit energy needed by all living things are born from these tiny spirit veins. Tens of thousands of these threads gather together to form branch spirit veins, and finally, the branch veins converge to form the main vein.”
“Then, Divine Dragon Senior, the spirit vein problem we need to solve… is it about these?”
Qin Mu looked at the dense mass of green threads before him.
This was probably a massive project that would take at least ten years, even without rest.
“Boy, no. Sit down cross-legged and stare into your sea of consciousness.”
“Oh.”
Qin Mu quickly sat cross-legged and looked inward at his sea of consciousness.
Then a golden light flared in his sea of consciousness, and he felt a lifting force hurl him into the air.
The next moment, Qin Mu saw the bright moon again, except his whole body felt light and airy.
When he looked down, he was startled.
His physical body was sitting cross-legged on the grass.
That meant…
Qin Mu looked at his hands.
They were translucent.
Soul projection!
Reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, one would form a Nascent Soul in the body.
This was Nascent Soul projection.
Before that realm, it was called soul projection.
“Boy, now look up at the sky.”
The divine dragon’s voice sounded in his ears.
Qin Mu raised his head and was stunned.
A green mountain range meandered across the sky, and those green threads were like streams flowing out of the mountain range.
“So this… is the spirit vein…”
Qin Mu’s throat bobbed.
The visual impact was incredible.
“Exactly. And this is only a small branch. The reason the world is divided into the Five Domains and the Four Oceans is based on this—the spirit veins.
Every region has a massive spirit vein. Branch veins extend from it, which in turn extend smaller branches, and finally, these tiny threads.”
After the divine dragon finished speaking, he looked at Qin Mu, who wasn’t listening at all.
Instead, Qin Mu was trying to take something out of his storage pouch near his own body.
“Boy, what are you doing?”
“I want to take a picture, of course!”
Seeing such a scene, if this were his past life, it would be another update for his social media feed.
No matter what Qin Mu did, he couldn’t touch the storage pouch, let alone open it.
If the divine dragon weren’t just a phantom at the moment, his face would probably be as dark as a pot bottom.
“Boy, stop wasting your energy. You can only see this because you’re borrowing my power. You can’t capture it.”
“Then we came here just to take a look at the spirit vein?”
Qin Mu got up in the middle of the night just for a look?
“Of course not. Boy, look over there.”
The golden phantom turned into an arrow pointing in a direction.
Qin Mu looked and saw a trace of blood-red within the green mountain range.
Wait! Blood-red!
Qin Mu had a bad feeling.
This can’t be related to the Demon Clan again, can it?