Chapter 229 Unexpectedly...
Chapter 229 Unexpectedly...
Lingzhou Prefecture, Yin Family —
Inside Huangfu Qian's private courtyard and study—
Huangfu Qian, disguised as Steward Huang, looked up at the sky as he successfully reclaimed all of Yin Rou's luck at the end of summer.
Huangfu Qian's five senses and six perceptions have increased again. Although he still cannot cultivate, he can vaguely sense the changes that have occurred in the world.
While Huangfu Qian was deep in thought, Xia Mo, like a lively and adorable little rabbit, hopped and skipped into the study.
Huangfu Qian withdrew his gaze from the sky and fixed his hawk-like eyes on Xia Mo.
“The water has all been taken back,” Xia Mo chuckled.
In fact, with her current cultivation level, she could directly use the terms "live broadcast system" or "foreign intruder" without being detected by the intruder.
"Yin Rou's matter has been resolved, is it time for the next one?" Huangfu Qian asked.
"Work is never-ending. Now, let me go home and rest for a while," Xia Mo said, deliberately keeping a serious expression.
Huangfu Qian knew he couldn't stop Xia Mo, so he nodded, changed the subject, and asked, "How long will it take you to get home from here?"
Xia Mo was even happier to see that Huangfu Qian was so understanding, and she snuggled directly into Huangfu Qian's arms.
Huangfu Qianlian stopped dodging and let Xia Mo pounce on him, but if Xia Mo wanted to do something more intimate than a hug, he would still block her.
"It'll be about 15 minutes to get home from here," Xia Mo thought, and couldn't help but smile as she considered how her abilities could be greatly enhanced.
Her cultivation level has been partially unsealed.
The abilities she can use now are only one-tenth of what they were in the Celestial Realm.
Huangfu Qianying stared intently at Xia Mo for a long time before saying, "Before we go home, would you like me to take you to the military camp where I used to serve?"
As Xia Mo contemplated converting the earth's ley line energy into immortal spiritual energy that she could use, her eyes flashed, and she excitedly jumped up and down, saying, "Great!"
Xia Mo flinched in Huangfu Qian's arms for a moment, without her noticing, but Huangfu Qian...
“Come on, lead the way,” Xia Mo gestured to Huangfu Qian to point the way.
Guided by Huangfu Qian —
One hour later—
The two had arrived at the border, a month and fifteen days' journey by carriage from the capital.
This time, Xia Mo brought Huangfu Qian, and unlike the previous rapid leaps, this time they flew over.
Huangfu Qian was shocked that Xia Mo could carry him through the air. Even though he was now on the ground, he still felt a sense of unreality.
Xia Mo released Huangfu Qian's waist. Huangfu Qian had an inscrutable look on his face. Who could tell that he was actually in a daze?
Not only was Huangfu Qian shocked, but Jiang Feng, who had been ordered to meet people at the camp gate, was also shocked.
He received the news that his master was in Lingzhou Prefecture, so he had all the important letters sent there!
Jiang Feng was completely confused. Could it be that his subordinates had mishandled the work and gotten the time wrong?
When Jiang Feng saw Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo appear together, he thought of Xia Mo's extraordinary abilities and seemed to understand something.
After figuring it out, Jiang Feng was even more shocked and couldn't help but steal a glance at Xia Mo.
Xia Mo was dressed in men's clothing, making some masculine disguises, but Jiang Feng still recognized Xia Mo at a glance.
Huangfu Qian led Xia Mo into the military camp, to the main tent where Huangfu Qian had lived when he joined the army.
Huangfu Qian had already left the military camp, but everyone in the army tacitly left the main tent empty.
Only Huangfu Qian's trusted confidants regularly clean the main tent, keeping it spotless. The furnishings inside are exactly the same as before Huangfu Qian left the military camp.
Inside the tent, there was a simple bed, a rectangular table, and a cabinet without any decorations; there were no other items.
As Xia Mo walked towards the bed in the tent, he did not sense any earth vein energy.
"Where do you spend most of your time?" Xia Mo asked Huangfu Qian.
Huangfu Qian led Xia Mo toward the tent where the meeting was to be held.
Even before summer reached the tent, from a distance, I knew I had found the right place.
“It’s here,” Xia Mo chuckled, flipping her hand and magically producing a “luminous pearl” which she handed to Huangfu Qian.
Since the appearance of the Spirit Storage Pearl is similar to that of the Night-Shining Pearl, it is normal to mistake it for a large Night-Shining Pearl.
Huangfu Qian took the Spirit Storage Pearl and placed it in a hidden compartment beneath the council table.
Xia Mo then took out jade from her soul space and set up an array under the large square table in the tent, then used earth to hide the array.
The Spirit Gathering Array only gathers the energy of the earth's veins, without extracting it.
The Reverse Energy Formation transforms a small portion of the earth's energy into immortal energy, which then nourishes and strengthens the earth's veins.
Strengthening the earth's veins will naturally generate more earth's energy for the spirit-storing pearl to absorb.
Although storing the earth's energy in this way is not as fast as forcibly extracting it, the earth's energy she collects in this way is a renewable resource, and there is no need to worry about disrupting the operation of this world.
As long as this large square table is not overturned, the earth's energy will remain undetected.
"Have someone keep a close watch on this tent. It can be used for meetings, but no one is allowed to damage it," Huangfu Qian ordered Jiang Feng directly.
Jiang Feng was still confused, but he nodded obediently.
Xia Mo used his divine sense to scan the situation of everyone in the entire army and confirmed that there was no external live streaming system in the army.
"I see many marks on this table, probably from the generals who were holding the meeting. Should I reinforce it with iron?" Xia Mo felt a strange sense of foreboding, a premonition that something bad would happen here.
“Hmm,” Huangfu Qian was about to give the order.
“Give me the iron, and I’ll do it,” Xia Mo said.
Huangfu Qian was somewhat surprised, but still asked Jiang Feng to get a large amount of iron blocks.
The military camp had its own blacksmith's forge for the soldiers to repair weapons. Naturally, it also stored several thousand kilograms of iron to be self-sufficient in weapon repair.
Jiang Feng ordered his men to move all one thousand catties of iron into the council tent. Thinking that there was extra iron, he would have someone bring back the blacksmith's furnace for repairing weapons.
Jiang Feng retreated outside the council tent, waiting for his master's next order.
Unexpectedly...
Fifteen minutes later—
When Jiang Feng returned to the council tent, he discovered that the thousand catties of iron he had ordered to be brought over were all gone!
Xia Mo used his divine sense to transform the liquid iron into a table and hid it under the wooden table. As long as the wooden table was not lifted, no one could see that there was an iron table made of iron under it.
A thousand pounds of iron, and not a single pound more!
Jiang Feng immediately noticed something strange about the council table and went over to it.
"This table weighs at least a thousand pounds?!" Jiang Feng rushed to the iron table, feeling the warm heat emanating from beneath it. Shocked, he reached out and tried to lift the table, only to discover that... he couldn't lift this iron table that weighed at least a thousand pounds at all!
“There’s a formation under the table. I can immediately sense when the formation is destroyed,” Xia Mo’s lips twitched.
She worried that Jiang Feng, who seemed calm but was actually a bit arrogant, would try to lift the iron table after she and Huangfu Qian left.
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