Spirit Gathering Array

The fruit of the Purple Smoke Wisteria was the size of a dragon's eye, its entire body a deep purple, almost transparent. Inside each fruit was a soft seed, the size of a sesame seed, from which fine purple veins extended, directly connecting to the tough outer skin. The fruit of the Purple Smoke Wisteria could automatically absorb ambient spiritual energy. The energy absorbed through the skin would then be condensed into the seed via these extremely fine purple veins; the seed was the essence of the entire fruit. The outer flesh was merely exceptionally refreshing and sweet, while the seed could slightly increase one's true essence cultivation.

In the past, when the cultivation world was rich in spiritual energy, the Purple Smoke Wisteria would ripen every three months. Each fruit was the size of a baby's fist, with a seed the size of a finger. A single seed could increase a common cultivator's true essence cultivation by nearly half a year. Nowadays, however, the Purple Smoke Wisteria takes three years to ripen. Not only has the fruit shrunk considerably, but a single seed can only increase true essence cultivation by three to five days. Even so, the Purple Smoke Wisteria is still a rare spiritual fruit because the true essence cultivation it increases comes with no side effects and absolutely no risk of the body exploding.

As for the Cold Osmanthus Brew, Daoist Master Yizhen brewed it using osmanthus flowers from trees over a hundred years old, combined with mountain fruits. It was then buried underground in an area rich in fire-element spiritual energy for over sixty years. The wine was thick like paste, and it was consumed after being mixed with the juices of various spiritual fruits and spring water. The wine's aroma was subtle and elegant, and upon drinking, it felt like a stream of fire rushing into the abdomen, instantly transforming into streams of heat that circulated throughout the body. Immediately, sweat poured down like rain, and a cool breeze blew from under the armpits, bringing a sense of refreshing comfort – a truly indescribable pleasure.

Lin Xiao sat on a stone stool, savoring the spiritual fruit of the Purple Smoke Wisteria and taking small sips of the Cold Osmanthus Brew, appreciating its wondrous flavor. From time to time, he handed a few fruits to Qingchu, who stood behind him, while watching Daoist Master Yizhen bustling about, directing the Daoists from the Artifact Hall. The warehouses storing various refining materials for the Artifact Hall were all located deep underground in this cave. The doors of one warehouse after another were opened, and materials piled like small mountains were carried out by the Daoists, accumulating in an extremely vast cave dwelling.

Slowly drinking a cup of Cold Osmanthus Brew, Lin Xiao gazed blankly at the mountains of various rare and precious materials piled before him, and couldn't help but nod gently. "The Origin Sect's foundation is indeed profound. The 'Pill Frying Furnace' that the ancestor who invented the 'Pill Frying Technique' spent centuries unable to forge, they can casually gather the materials for. Perhaps, there will be hope?"

Gently picking up a fruit that shone with purple light, Lin Xiao slowly brought it to his mouth. He gently bit through the peel, and a sweet, clear nectar spread through his mouth. The tiny seed, no bigger than a sesame seed, immediately transformed into a very fine stream of heat that drilled into his body the moment it touched his tongue. Unconsciously, Lin Xiao ate nearly a hundred fruits of the Purple Smoke Wisteria, and his true essence cultivation increased by about a year.

A strange sound came from behind him. Lin Xiao turned his head and saw Qingchu carefully nibbling on a Purple Smoke Wisteria spiritual fruit, bit by bit. Qingchu's face was filled with emotion, joy, and reluctance. She looked at the spiritual fruit as if it were a rare treasure. Seeing Lin Xiao looking at her, Qingchu quickly put down her hands, carefully clasped them behind her back, hid the half-eaten spiritual fruit behind her, and lowered her head with a slight blush. Lin Xiao saw that her waist was bulging; clearly, the fruits he had given her were all carefully hidden close to her body.

"Hmm, why are you like this?" Lin Xiao meant to ask Qingchu why she was being so cautious just for eating a fruit.

"This, this is a rare spiritual fruit," Qingchu's head was almost bowed to her chest as she whispered in a voice like a mosquito's hum, "Qingchu~ Qingchu hid a few, she wants to let Uncle Li have a taste."

"Oh!" Lin Xiao nodded, turned around, and asked the young Daoist boy standing by, "Fellow Daoist~"

The young Daoist boy quickly bowed, "This servant's name is Qing Feng, honored guest Lin."

Lin Xiao nodded, pointing to the half-plate on the stone table, containing about a hundred or so Purple Smoke Wisteria fruits, and asked, "Are there any more of these fruits?"

Daoist Qing Feng nodded and smiled, "The Ancestor most favors the sweetness of the Purple Smoke Wisteria, so he planted a large patch on the underground spirit vein. There are still plenty of these fruits."

"Good!" Lin Xiao swept his left hand across the jade plate, collecting the fruits along with the plate into his bracelet. He glanced at Qing Feng, whose expression had stiffened slightly, and turned back to Qingchu, saying calmly, "Eat heartily, there's plenty more here." He frowned slightly and continued, "Senior Yizhen has a lot more here, hmm."

Qing Feng's heart twitched. This honored guest Lin was too familiar, wasn't he? If one were to judge by his demeanor, he seemed frivolous, but looking at his cold, ice-like face and sharp, blade-like gaze, he didn't seem like that kind of person. Qing Feng was a little bewildered. What kind of temperament did this honored guest Lin Xiao truly have?

Daoist Master Yizhen took off his Daoist robe, wearing only a blue cloth inner garment, and was hopping frantically at the entrance of the cave dwelling. He waved his arms and shouted, "Faster! Faster! Another thirty thousand jin of Fire Jade! Faster, faster! Hmm, hmm, the material list also says five hundred jin of Purple Wind Copper, why hasn't it been delivered? You useless people, what are you doing? Three hundred more cans of Spirit Condensing Liquid needed for outlining the spirit formations~~~ Damn it, since when are Spirit Condensing Liquids calculated in hundreds of cans? What kind of monstrous furnace is this!"

This was the largest refining cave dwelling of the Origin Sect's Artifact Hall, rarely opened even once in several centuries. In the past, they only refined giant formation core artifacts that were both offensive and defensive, such as sect mountain gates and archways, for sects close to them. Those items were massive, complex architectural Dharma artifacts. To open this cave dwelling for the refinement of a single artifact was truly the first time in the Origin Sect's history! Normally, a pill furnace three to five zhang tall was already astonishing, but the furnace Lin Xiao proposed was a hundred zhang tall!

A hundred zhang tall, capable of producing one hundred thousand pills per furnace – a specially made pill furnace!

The moment Daoist Master Yizhen thought of the pill furnace Lin Xiao had described to him, his entire body tingled. No matter how profound his cultivation or how stable his state of mind, his heart almost leaped into his mouth. His body trembled, sweat streamed down him, and his blue cloth inner garment became soaked, turning dark blue.

Several spiritual lights descended at the cave entrance. Yi Xing, Yi Xin, Yi Yi, and other Daoists rushed down, striding into the cave dwelling. Yi Xing casually pushed aside two disciples who bowed to him and asked loudly, "Junior Brother Yizhen, what are you doing? The materials mentioned in the decree you sent earlier, those ordinary five metals and elites, it's fine, it takes some effort to refine tens of thousands of jin annually. But those rare materials, you're using thousands or hundreds of jin at once, what are you trying to refine?"

Daoist Master Yizhen was frantically comparing the material list given by Lin Xiao with the delivered materials. Hearing Yi Xing's question, he casually gestured towards Lin Xiao and shouted, "The main person is over there, go ask him! Hmm, still missing forty-nine Fire Flood Dragon Pills with over five thousand years of heat, to be used as the core of the furnace! Hurry and get them! Oh heavens, forty-nine Fire Flood Dragon Pills! Are there that many in the warehouse? Also, one hundred and eight Ten-Thousand-Year Red Smoke Cloud Mica Pillars, each ten zhang and eight chi long, to stabilize the fire~~~ Hmm, the furnace lid~~~ Oh heavens, the furnace lid must be made of Heavenly Gold Sand? Even if it must be, do you really need thirty-six jin? Wouldn't three jin and six liang suffice? This, this is really a bit too much!"

Yi Xing, Yi Xin, and Yi Yi heard the materials Daoist Master Yizhen was mumbling about and the quantities that followed. Lin Xiao found it strange that the footsteps of Yi Xing, Yi Xin, and Yi Yi, these top experts of the Nascent Soul Stage, seemed a little unsteady. He looked at the three approaching him in astonishment, wondering, "My Great Luo Pill Dao's ancestor spent centuries of hard work and couldn't gather these materials, which is why the Pill Frying Furnace he designed couldn't be refined. But with the Origin Sect's vast fortune, are they really stingy about these materials?"

At the cave entrance, Daoist Master Yizhen suddenly shrieked, "Heavens! Thirty-six liang of Solar Essence Crystal! Exactly the entire stock!"

Miraculously, Daoist Yi Xing, who already had Nascent Soul Stage cultivation and was even showing signs of breaking through to the next stage, felt his legs go weak and almost stumbled to the ground. Fortunately, Yi Xin, who was beside him, was almost entirely focused on him. Seeing Yi Xing's face change, she immediately reached out and grabbed his arm, barely steadying him. Yi Xing glanced somewhat awkwardly at Lin Xiao, who was slowly standing up, then pulled his arm out of Yi Xin's tight embrace and coughed forcefully.

Yi Xin slowly withdrew her hands and lowered her head dejectedly. Daoist Yi Yi and two other elders of the Origin Sect raised their heads high, as if they hadn't noticed the small interaction between Yi Xing and Yi Xin. Lin Xiao indifferently bowed in greeting and simply greeted Yi Xing, "Junior Lin Xiao, greetings, Sect Leader Yi Xing."

Daoist Yi Xing quickly walked up to Lin Xiao. Just as he was about to say something, Daoist Master Yizhen suddenly screamed again at the cave entrance: "Ah~~~ Help! Why didn't I see this just now? To communicate with the underground spirit meridians and provide enough spiritual energy for the furnace to condense the furnace fire, a three-inch thick, ten-mile-long pillar made of Red Agate over ten thousand years old is needed to connect to the earth meridians? Oh heavens!"

Daoist Yi Xing's face twitched violently. His benevolent and kind face actually showed a hint of a ferocious smile. He said dryly to Lin Xiao with a smile, "Little friend Lin, honored guest Lin, the list you provided at the Medicine Hall, although the quantities are a bit large, our Origin Sect can still afford it. However, the material list you provided at the Artifact Hall is truly astonishing. May I ask what your intentions are?"

Lin Xiao looked at Daoist Yi Xing and said faintly, "Pill Frying Furnace, also called Flowing Pill Furnace, or it can be called 'Pill Sea Furnace'. It was created by our Great Luo Pill Dao's ancestor Luo Yu twenty-seven hundred years ago."

Luo Yu? Daoist Yi Yi's pill refining faltered, and he asked urgently, "Is it the senior Luo Yu who created the formula for the 'Infant Nurturing Pill'?"

"Indeed!" Lin Xiao nodded gently and said faintly, "Ancestor Luo Yu's achievements in the Dao of Pills are secondary. The ancestor's true insights lie in the improvement of spiritual techniques and methods for pill refining, as well as in the Dao of Pill Furnaces and Pill Formations. The Pill Frying Furnace is the culmination of Ancestor Luo Yu's lifelong Dao of Pills, Pill Techniques, and Pill Formations. It is infinitely wondrous, not only a treasure for refining pills but also a spirit artifact that is both offensive and defensive."

"Spirit artifact!" Yi Xing, Yi Xin, Yi Yi, and the others gasped. Yi Xing said with a wry smile, "In today's cultivation world, I'm afraid no one can refine a spirit artifact anymore." Yi Xing gazed intently at Lin Xiao, wanting him to provide a reasonable explanation. With so many precious materials consumed, let alone refining a spirit artifact, it would be enough to refine an Immortal Artifact. But if no one in the current cultivation world has the ability to refine a spirit artifact, wouldn't it be a waste of so many materials? Rather than wasting these extremely precious materials on one artifact, it would be better to use them with other ordinary materials to forge tens of thousands of more practical flying swords and treasures.

"This pill furnace can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and continuously evolve," Lin Xiao's cold gaze became incredibly deep, containing a strange, captivating power. Although Daoist Yi Xing knew that Lin Xiao's cultivation was extremely weak, he inexplicably felt an aversion to meeting Lin Xiao's gaze. Lin Xiao's gaze was filled with the profoundness of an elder with extremely rich and ancient experience; Lin Xiao's gaze held something called 'settled wisdom,' and this impression should not have appeared on Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao, after all, was only a young cultivator just over eighteen years old. How could his gaze be so profound?

Daoist Yi Xing felt a sense of realization and instead overlooked Lin Xiao's statement that the pill furnace could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and evolve on its own. He stared blankly at Lin Xiao, and after a long while, slowly asked, "You, have you actually comprehended the Great Luo Pill Scripture? But how could you possibly have such fate? The Great Luo Pill Scripture is a treasure that only core deacons and elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao are qualified to comprehend. You~~~"

Daoist Yi Yi was also stunned. He muttered to himself, "Great Luo Pill Scripture? The only Soul Condensing Jade in the cultivation world was used by the Great Luo Pill Dao to create the carrier for the Great Luo Pill Scripture. Only Soul Condensing Jade can store the spiritual consciousness of tens of thousands of Great Luo Pill Dao ancestors, preserving their lifelong insights and experiences. Only these crazy alchemists of the Great Luo Pill Dao would go to such lengths!"

Besides 'pills,' the Great Luo Pill Dao had no other specialties. Their lifelong pursuit was 'pills.' Every member of the Great Luo Pill Dao had only one 'Dao,' which was the 'Dao of Pills'! Therefore, the ancestors of the Great Luo Pill Dao could use Soul Condensing Jade to preserve the insights and experiences of tens of thousands of people and stuff them all into the minds of their juniors for them to slowly absorb and digest. Other cultivation sects rarely did this. For example, the Origin Sect had dozens of cultivation methods, divided into countless schools. If they did the same, it would only blow the juniors' minds!

Moreover, other sects did not have such a piece of Soul Condensing Jade!

Lin Xiao merely nodded gently, his lips pursed slightly. He said in a deep voice, "The Great Luo Pill Scripture, yes."

Lin Xiao's words stunned the elders of the Origin Sect. A disciple of the Great Luo Pill Dao with the Great Luo Pill Scripture in his mind, and a disciple of the Great Luo Pill Dao without the Great Luo Pill Scripture in his mind – their value was completely different. Lin Xiao, without the Great Luo Pill Scripture, was merely being supported by the Origin Sect under the guise of an honored guest out of friendship with the Great Luo Pill Dao, fulfilling their obligations. However, Lin Xiao, with the Great Luo Pill Scripture in his mind, was fully qualified to be the highest-ranking honored guest of the Great Luo Pill Dao!

The Great Luo Pill Scripture, this unique marvel of the cultivation world, was enough to transform Lin Xiao from an ordinary bead into a precious, priceless, and invaluable treasure of heaven and earth, filled with spiritual energy!

Daoist Yi Xing's heart also twitched violently. He merely felt that Lin Xiao's gaze was a little strange; his profound gaze should not have appeared on an eighteen-year-old youth, so he had made a casual guess. He hadn't expected his guess to be correct! Although he didn't understand how Lin Xiao obtained the Great Luo Pill Scripture, what did that matter? In short, Lin Xiao had obtained the inheritance of the Great Luo Pill Scripture, the complete insights and experiences in the Dao of Pills from tens of thousands of highly cultivated and skilled ancestors of the Great Luo Pill Dao. That was the most important thing!

It was just a pill furnace! Even ten, a hundred of them, the Origin Sect would grit its teeth and sell everything it had to forge this pill furnace!

Especially~~~ what did Lin Xiao just say?

Nun Yi Xin shrieked, "What did you say? This thing called a Pill Frying Furnace, Flowing Pill Furnace, or Pill Sea Furnace, it can automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and evolve?"

The vast cave immediately fell silent. Even Daoist Master Yizhen, who was hopping at the entrance, turned around blankly and looked over.

Absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to evolve on its own – this was a function possessed by legendary ancient treasures! With Daoist Master Yizhen's refining skill level, he could at most refine mid-grade Precious Artifacts. If mid-grade Precious Artifacts could automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and evolve slowly, then~~~ what if this function were amplified to the flying swords and Dharma artifacts used by the disciples of the Origin Sect?

Lin Xiao nodded gently. Having been prepared long ago, he took out a thick stack of papers from his bracelet.

"Here is the 'Spirit Gathering Array' that Ancestor Luo Yu comprehended from a fragment of an ancient artifact on 'Great Xuan Star' back then. By refining the Spirit Gathering Array into the core of a Dharma artifact, the Dharma artifact can automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and slowly improve its quality," Lin Xiao gently placed the thick stack of papers into Daoist Yi Xing's trembling hands and said in a low voice, "However, the Spirit Gathering Array can only absorb and refine spiritual energy, but it cannot change the material of the Dharma artifact itself. Therefore, I chose the best materials for forging the Pill Frying Furnace."

Daoist Yi Xing instinctively stuffed the thick stack of papers into his sleeve. Afterward, he realized his actions were rather ungraceful and couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.

But no one in the cave laughed. Even Qingchu vaguely understood that if this Spirit Gathering Array were truly so marvelous, then the flying swords and Dharma artifacts used by the disciples of the Origin Sect in the future would slowly increase in grade with the passage of time. They didn't need to improve excessively; as long as those flying swords and Dharma artifacts increased in grade by an average of one level, the Origin Sect's strength would soar by several tenths!

Think about it, the flying swords and magical artifacts used by the Origin Sect's elders are all refined from top-grade materials. If their flying swords and magical artifacts could be re-integrated into the Spirit Gathering Array, what grade would they be able to reach? Top-grade spirit artifacts? Or immortal artifacts that have been lost for thousands of years in the cultivation world?

"This formation diagram is too precious." Daoist Yi Xing took a deep breath, looking somewhat abashedly at Lin Xiao, and said with a wry smile, "This humble one cannot accept it."

Lin Xiao gently waved his hand and said indifferently, "Senior, there's no need to say more. This Spirit Gathering Array has been stored in the Great Luo Pill Scripture for over two thousand years. Because it's a formation, no one has ever been interested in it. Junior has recently experienced great changes, which is why I organized the Great Luo Pill Scripture I recorded and found this Spirit Gathering Array."

Daoist Master Yizhen, who had been hopping over, twitched his face fiercely. He roared indignantly, "It's simply a waste! Such a miraculous formation was left idle for over two thousand years! You bunch of pill-crazy lunatics from the Great Luo Pill Dao are truly damned!"

Daoist Yi Yi covered Daoist Master Yizhen's face and, along with two other elders, dragged Daoist Master Yizhen backward.

Lin Xiao smiled gently and nodded, "In the Great Luo Pill Scripture, junior would not dare to leak any of the pill dao techniques. However, some of the small items left behind by our ancestors that are unrelated to the pill dao, junior will slowly organize and hand over to Sect Leader Yi Xing."

Daoist Yi Xing hurriedly waved his hands, "This, this, absolutely not!" Although he said this, Daoist Yi Xing's heart began to beat violently again. Lin Xiao had only been at the Origin Sect for a day, and he had already presented the Spirit Gathering Array, a miraculous formation of immeasurable value. Who knew what other good things he might unearth after organizing for a while longer? These were all things that could greatly enhance the Origin Sect's potential power! As for the pill dao techniques of the Great Luo Pill Dao, the Origin Sect had no intention of coveting them! But these wondrous methods were truly...

Lin Xiao suddenly knelt before Daoist Yi Xing and kowtowed forcefully.

His voice hoarse, he said solemnly, "Junior's cultivation is low, and I know I am powerless against those demonic disciples. For the revenge of junior's sect, I still trouble Sect Leader Yi Xing to keep it in mind. Junior is also weak and alone. I also trouble all seniors to search for the reincarnated bodies of my fellow disciples!"

Bang, bang, bang, Lin Xiao heavily kowtowed on the ground, and a patch of bright red blood appeared on the ground.

Qingchu behind Lin Xiao was greatly startled. She frantically stuffed the half-eaten Purple Smoke Wisteria spirit fruit into her mouth, swallowed it whole, and also knelt on the ground, accompanying Lin Xiao in repeatedly kowtowing to Daoist Yi Xing and the others.

Daoist Yi Xing sighed to the heavens. He waved his large sleeve, swept Lin Xiao and Qingchu up from the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Young friend Lin Xiao, please rest assured. The Origin Sect will definitely bear this matter entirely." His words were decisive and without hesitation. Given Daoist Yi Xing's status and position, the two matters Lin Xiao mentioned left the Origin Sect no choice but to exhaust the sect's strength to pursue them.

The conditions Lin Xiao offered left the Origin Sect with no choice but to accept. The camaraderie between the Great Luo Pill Dao and the Origin Sect also left the Origin Sect with no room for further discussion. The Pill Frying Furnace, the most material-intensive and precious artifact in the history of the cultivation world, yet one whose finished product could potentially be the lowest, began to be forged under the full effort of the Origin Sect.

The red light on Skyfire Peak receded, and all the heat surging from underground was concentrated by the formation in the huge forging cave. Led by Daoist Master Yizhen, along with the Origin Sect's eighty-one elders who had some skill in artifact refining, eighty-two artifact refining masters, along with nearly a thousand other senior and junior Daoists, poured their entire beings into the refining of this unprecedentedly massive pill furnace.

Skyfire Peak truly became a peak of heavenly fire. The immense amount of fire-attribute spiritual energy surging from the underground spiritual veins transformed into raging flames that poured into the cave where the furnace was being forged. Purple flames soared into the sky, and excess heat was absorbed by the formation, erupting haphazardly from the mountainside. Skyfire Peak was completely burned red, enveloped by a hundred-zhang thick purple flame that churned out waves of heat, driving away all ordinary birds and beasts within a hundred-mile radius.

Lin Xiao stood on the Crimson Dragon Sword, gazing blankly at Skyfire Peak enveloped in flames. His heart was neither joyful nor sorrowful, and he unexpectedly entered the "Enlightenment Realm" that cultivators rarely achieved after years of practice.

The Skyfire Peak before him was like a giant flame, its fire reaching the heavens. As the flames surged, every movement demonstrated to him the essence of fire, describing to him the true nature of the hottest, most passionate, and most violent force in the world.

Lin Xiao was so close to Skyfire Peak that the surging flames almost licked his feet. The heat seared his body, and wisps of spiritual energy transformed from lotus seeds within him continuously churned out, merging into his body after being converted by the fire. The Golden Core in his dantian greedily devoured the pure fire-attribute spiritual energy from the outside. Purple light flickered on the Golden Core, and wisps of thunder and fire intensely steamed.

The Black Tortoise Ring, which tightly encased the Golden Core, also became excited. A thumb-sized phantom of a Black Tortoise suddenly appeared on the Black Tortoise Ring. This northern spirit beast circled a few times on the ring, then suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled fiercely at the outside. Lin Xiao's dantian contracted, and a massive, invisible suction force rapidly surged from his dantian.

Whoosh, a whirlwind suddenly rose from Skyfire Peak, enveloping Lin Xiao's body and drawing in the fire-attribute spiritual energy tens of feet around him, pouring it into Lin Xiao's body.

"Wonderful, young friend Lin Xiao is truly a wonderful person." Standing far away on a white cloud several miles away, Yi Xing smiled, "With this much fire, if we didn't use a fire-avoidance spiritual art to protect ourselves, we would have to stand this far away to endure the heat. He can actually meditate and cultivate under such flames. Truly a prodigy."

Qingchu stood timidly behind Yi Xing, looking at Lin Xiao, who was entwined by the flames, in panic. Her small hands tightly twisted her ten fingers together.

"Brother Lin, he won't get roasted, will he~~~" As she thought of the terrifying scene, large, crystal tears continuously rolled from Qingchu's eyes.

Yi Xin, standing behind Yi Xing and gazing blankly at him, slowly turned her head to look at Qingchu. She couldn't help but float to Qingchu's side, reach out, and gently wipe the tears from Qingchu's face with her sleeve.

"Don't worry, young friend Lin has a pure fire-attribute constitution. This fire-attribute spiritual energy is harmless to him. This is normal cultivation, and he is fine." Gently stroking Qingchu's small head, Yi Xin sighed softly, "Alas, the young lovers of the world~~~ Love is the most hurtful thing~~~"

Yi Xing, with his hands behind his back, gazed at Lin Xiao, as if he hadn't heard anything.

A wisp of breeze blew, lifting a few strands of Qing Yi's hair.

A majestic crane slowly crossed the sky.

A crystal tear slowly dripped down, but it was unclear whether it fell from Qingchu's face or from somewhere else~~~

The hands of Yi Xing, hidden within his large sleeves, suddenly twitched slightly. (To be continued)