"This matter is known. When you return to the mountain, come see me at Little Cloud Dojo."
"Song Wen."
Seeing this, Lu Qing felt reassured. Since the Dao Academy already knew, he no longer needed to keep handling it. Still, he had to remain cautious. Who knew how many demon beasts carrying gourds like that existed, or who might be controlling them from behind the scenes?
If he encountered such a situation again, Lu Qing would have to wonder whether there were even more places where the earth veins had been destroyed.
These days, whenever Lu Qing thought of those consequences, he could not help but sigh. His intuition told him that it had most likely been the work of that Demon Race figure who had flashed past.
Although the Demon Race had fallen into decline within the Profound Heaven Domain, the records suggested that powerful Demon Race clans lived in the Demon Domain. That had been tens of thousands of years ago, however, and that stretch of history was mentioned only in passing, without much detail.
If Lu Qing had not happened to take several missions in succession, witnessed the scene of that Demon Race member being slain, and then come here to see the state of the earth veins, he probably would not have connected it to the Demon Race, which no longer amounted to much today.
"Meeting me should just be to explain what happened here, right?"
Since no danger had appeared, it meant there was nothing dangerous.
With that thought, he first put away the shattered gourd fragments. Though he could not tell what they were, there would naturally be someone who could.
Lu Qing looked once more at the divination image in his mind. The image slowly drew itself in, then vanished with a bang,