Waiting

"Bang! Bang!"

The digging sounds made Feng Xue both nervous and excited. On the one hand, she hoped that someone would come quickly to dig her out of this hellish place, but on the other hand, she was worried that the person coming had ill intentions.

Or rather, it's almost certain that they have ill intentions.

After all, there are only two kinds of people who dig for garbage in this Garbage Mountain: Outsider and locals (referring to transmigrators who have been living in the mountains since they transmigrated). Outsider come to the mountains to make money, and Feng Xue would never believe that they wouldn't have any bad intentions when they see someone like her who is covered in Phantom Object and has been injured.

As for the locals... a bunch of unfortunate souls hunted like wild beasts and livestock, expecting them to treat them kindly is as ridiculous as a slave trader in the pirate world expecting kindness from fish-men—even if he himself isn't a slave trader, since slave traders don't have that mark on their foreheads.

However, this tense state of mind did not last long, not because Feng Xue had come to terms with it, but because the digging sounds had stopped.

Hearing the sounds that had become very faint, Feng Xue frowned slightly. Judging from the previous digging sounds, there should be very few diggers, at most one or two.

So...

"Did they dig enough? Or did they realize they couldn't finish digging, so they went back to call for help?"

Feng Xue frowned, then sighed helplessly:

"I should have kept that bottle of red medicine!"

However, the thought had barely formed when Feng Xue threw it away, because even if the blood vial that required him to eat the bottle was still on him, he couldn't possibly put it in his mouth while he was buried alive.

Perhaps it was the calm state of mind brought about by successfully Entering Stillness that allowed Feng Xue to quickly regain her composure, temporarily banishing those things she couldn't control from her mind, and once again enter an Entering Stillness state to begin in-depth practice of the Bu Tiange.

In her Entering Stillness state, Feng Xue couldn't quite discern the passage of time; she only knew that every so often, the digging sound would ring out and then disappear again.

At first, Feng Xue would snap out of her Entering Stillness state every time the sound rang out, but later, Feng Xue was even able to maintain her Entering Stillness while simultaneously observing the outside world.

Feng Xue wasn't from the Wuxia World, which is why he didn't realize just how exaggerated his current state was.

The so-called "Entering Stillness" means, as the name suggests, "Entering Stillness." In this state, it is absolutely impossible for a person to pay attention to the outside world. In other words, paying attention to the outside world means "the Heart Moving," and when the mind is "moved," it will naturally exit the state of "stillness."

After all, movement and stillness are relative; a person's mind cannot be both moving and still at the same time.

However, Feng Xue's current situation breaks this rule, truly achieving a strange state of being both still and moving. This may be due to the miraculous effect of Bu Tiange after being filled with multiple Peerless Martial Art, or it may be due to Feng Xue's own innate talent, or it may be the power given by the hidden elements of a certain Tag. But no matter what, Feng Xue himself did not realize that he had actually separated a part of his mind and left it in his body, and then allowed most of his consciousness to enter a state of Entering Stillness.

Of course, if that were all, it would just be a problem like split personality or schizophrenia. But what's most incredible about Feng Xue is that these two consciousnesses are still one. They don't show any signs of independence. The consciousness that stays outside the body can sense the operation of the consciousness in the Entering Stillness state, and the consciousness in the Entering Stillness state can also clearly sense the sounds from the outside world.

This is something that can only be achieved with enough time, enough boredom, a little bit of talent, and a lot of coincidences.

Within the broader Chinese cultural sphere, this kind of accidental, unrepeatable miracle has a specific name—

Entering God State.

Also known as, "One Thought Connects to God."

Although this "both static and dynamic" achievement cannot bring him any extraordinary power at present, it has given Feng Xue a "foundation" far superior to others. As long as it is carefully nurtured, it will naturally bear unique fruit when it blossoms and bears fruit.

Several more days passed, and Feng Xue began to be able to maintain a certain level of mental clarity even when no one was digging into her, and her Spiritual Platform Bright Mirror was now covered with inscriptions.

However, Feng Xue was well aware that these words were merely a summary of his current cultivation achievements. Once he had completely filled in the subsequent chapters, the seemingly fully engraved mirror would surely reveal even more gaps.

At this point, the damage to his internal organs had mostly healed, leaving only a few obvious cracks in his legs, spine, and other areas. However, with the help of the Boots of Silence, it was believed that he would be able to regain his mobility in another month or so.

However, before he could recover to that level, the digging clearly needed to be done even faster. Just as Feng Xue Entering Stillness meditating day after day, a sound different from the usual digging rang out. When Feng Xue opened her eyes, she saw a pair of pure and innocent eyes...

... going back in time...

In a valley in the Garbage Mountain of South District, there lives a village of over a hundred people. Like countless other villages in this "mountain range," it is entirely composed of nobodies. They banded together to hide from the Slaver Team, supporting each other to survive in the shadows.

The village has been established for over a decade. Some older members have been arrested, while new members have joined, and there are even some newborns growing up in the village.

Children born here may not have the same wide variety of toys and entertainment as children in the Real World, but they have another special way of having fun—

Search for your own "treasure" in this endless Garbage Mountain.

"Vera!"

As the girl, who looked no more than ten years old, tiptoed out of the village, a voice suddenly rang out behind her, startling her so much that her hair stood on end. However, she quickly recognized the source of the voice and turned around, saying:

"Do you know that people can scare each other to death?"

"I didn't mean to scare you." The boy who spoke emerged from the side; he looked to be in his early teens, and his features resembled the girl's somewhat. After a casual explanation, he immediately declared righteously:

"The Village Chief said that it's Garbage Day again soon, so don't leave the village!"

"The only entrance to that cave is right next to the village. If that were where it would be discovered, we would have been found long ago! And you saw that big thing too; it fell down with something powerful!" The girl clenched her fist and said earnestly, "If you're scared, stay here. I was planning to go alone anyway!"

"Who, who's scared?!" the boy shouted angrily, then lowered his voice and said somewhat weakly:

"Fine, I'll go with you. After all, I'm your older brother..."

"I'm clearly the older sister!"