This time, Yi Shuyuan had expended an enormous amount of energy, leaving his body with a sense of depletion unlike anything he had ever experienced.
In this state, mountains and rivers manifested of their own accord within his Inner Scenery, while some of the surrounding spiritual energy seemed to answer a summons and began converging on the Library.
It started near the Yuanjiang County Office, then quickly spread throughout the county town.
From there, it extended steadily outward. South of the E River and even in Broad South Mountain north of town, streams of spiritual energy flowed like water toward low ground, gathering at a certain spot within the Yuanjiang County Office.
The spiritual energy came from a wide area, but its quantity was modest and its pace not particularly fast. Yet it was extraordinarily lively.
Like trickles of clear spring water dancing together, it gradually converged on the County Office's Library, until the spiritual energy gathered there was quite substantial.
Like fresh water rushing to fill a dried-up fishpond, the surrounding spiritual energy continually merged into Yi Shuyuan's body, carrying its own vibrant spiritual resonance.
The Ritual Ruler above the desk slowly descended, settling onto the desktop beside Yi Shuyuan's hand and touching his fingertips as it, too, absorbed the lively spiritual energy.
Hui Mian dared not get too close to the Ritual Ruler and could only move to another spot beside Yi Shuyuan.
While Yi Shuyuan remained unconscious, everything around him seemed more natural and finely textured than usual, like a gentle spring rain nourishing all things without a sound.
Only Xiang Changqing, the City God of Yuanjiang County, who was relatively close to Yi Shuyuan, gradually noticed something. He sensed that the spiritual energy throughout the county town had become unusually lively.
Under these circumstances, merely paying