Two months later.
Heavy Equipment Warehouse.
Lin Qiye slowly closed the book in his hands and let out a long breath.
He looked around and saw that the others were still absorbed in their stories. Not wanting to disturb them, he silently returned the book to the cardboard box and headed for the kitchen.
Over the past two months, he had read every novel in the box. From skimming ten lines at a glance in the beginning to savoring every word now, Lin Qiye had grown accustomed to placing himself in the books and experiencing the characters' joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness...
Though he still could not learn any techniques from the books, these two months of quiet reading had greatly changed his state of mind.
For the past two months, Mysteries, believers, the Ancient God Church, Outer Gods... all the things that had constantly plagued him seemed to have vanished completely from his world. He no longer had to rush about for missions or live in constant fear. The taut string in his mind had finally relaxed completely, and the restlessness in his heart gradually settled.
If he had to use one word to describe Lin Qiye's life over these two months, it would be "calm."
Calmly reading, cooking, cleaning, training...
Whether because of the change in his state of mind or the training of the Sword Qi Tide, Lin Qiye could already feel the bottleneck in his cultivation beginning to loosen.
However, Lin Qiye's progress was not the greatest.
An Qingyu had broken through his bottleneck a week ago. Following Baili Pangpang, he became the second team member whose Mental Power had entered the "Sea" realm.
Of course, that was because Zhou Ping often went out and brought him strange Mystery corpses to dissect. An Qingyu did not