"Strip its skin and drain its blood? Twice the work for half the gain? And he still has to thank us for it!"
Dylan clearly had little patience for the young Mr. Zhang's naïveté. He scoffed. "Inside The Alliance or out, chances to improve your cultivation by 'receiving the world's feedback' without any side effects are few and far between. The Sephrano family has no connections to a Legendary Wizard. He's lucky to have this opportunity at all. What's he got to complain about?"
"Even so..."
The Red-faced Male Wizard felt uneasy. He looked down and scuffed the pale stone beneath his feet, then sighed. Compared with Dylan, who came from the Starry Sky, he seemed far more like a true Nine Provinces Academy man. But this was neither the time nor the place. He pulled himself together, turned to Xiao Xiao, and got back to business.
"How many mountain ranges are left after this one?"
Restoring the Earth Qi was a vast, complicated undertaking.
That was especially true in a world like the Xuanhuang Small World, where the land had undergone violent upheaval. It was nothing like the simple job most wizards imagined: driving earth dragons to connect the Earth Qi, then holding up spellbooks to summon rain and coax plants into growing faster.
It was a grand undertaking and a sacred rite: reconnecting the world's meridians, rebuilding its energy cycle, and bringing yin and yang back into balance.
At its heart, it meant remaking the Earth Veins.
The Earth Veins were both the natural channels that carried Magic Power through heaven and earth and the conduits of energy for the world's fundamental rules. To a world, they were like the meridians and blood vessels of a human body. Earth Qi flowed endlessly through them, nourishing all things. When