In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival gradually came to an end.
On the fourth day of the new year, Ning Wangshu returned to Linchuan with Ning Ruoxuan.
He spent some time with Shen Anran at her home in Linchuan. While there, he taught her a cultivation technique and inscribed several Martial Arts and Magic techniques onto a Jade Slip. He also gave her some Spirit Stones and a few low-grade Magic Artifacts.
He told Shen Anran that if she had any questions about cultivation in the future, she could ask Ning Ruoxuan directly.
He would be going into seclusion to focus on cultivating several of the Nine Secrets Technique, so he likely wouldn't have much time to personally guide Shen Anran. Besides, she still had to go to school and wasn't living with him.
For that reason, Ning Wangshu took the opportunity to give her everything she might need for at least the next few years.
On the fifth day, Lin Qingzhu also planned to return to Jiangnan City. She met up with Ning Wangshu and Ning Ruoxuan, and the three of them returned together.
Over the next few days, Ning Wangshu spent his free time with Lin Qingzhu and the others between cultivation sessions. On the tenth day, he finally went into seclusion to focus on cultivating the Zhe Technique, Dou Technique, and Weapon Technique, which he had gradually begun to comprehend.
Meanwhile.
Deep in a mountain range hundreds of kilometers from Jiangnan City, thousands of people were hard at work building houses. They had no modern machinery, and bringing heavy equipment into the remote mountains would have been difficult anyway.
Yet every one of them was incredibly strong. With their bare hands, they could easily break apart mountains and split rocks, lifting boulders weighing hundreds