Shen Le: I'm Really Married? Wait, Who Married Me Off?

Shen Le felt as if he had been planted in the earth.

No, not planted in the earth. Rather, his entire body had become a part of the land itself.

A rich, profound, magnificent power embraced him, enveloped him, seeped into his body, and accepted him as one of its own. Was this the earth?

Was this the element of Earth among the Five Elements?

Was this—"The terrain is Kun; thus the noble person carries all things with vast virtue"?

Heavy soil seemed to wrap around his mouth and nose, encircling his body and completely isolating him from the outside world.

Yet Shen Le felt no tension at all within it.

This was the earth. How could the earth harm him?

He closed his eyes and quietly remained within the embrace of that power, accepting it with all his heart and sensing it. In a daze, he felt as though he had returned to the past.

When he had repaired the Makeup Box in Mountain Lord's cave, that tiny yellow speck and the surging yellow aura had even awakened the Copper Fragment, causing it to activate the map's positioning function.

Back then, he had greedily absorbed the earth energy until his body could hold no more, until he felt as though he were about to turn into a clay figurine.

Luckily, the Copper Fragment had come through, inhaling fiercely and packing away all the power he could not contain. As for now—

Well, perhaps it had assessed that he could handle it and returned it to him?

Shen Le immersed himself in the power that belonged to the earth, feeling its pulse, feeling its growth.

He felt massive rocks crumble into gravel, gravel scatter into soil, soil blend with humus into clumps, delicate roots plunge deep into the earth, plants