Meanwhile, Qiu Wuji used the Earth Escape Technique to burrow deeper and deeper. She soon passed the few dozen meters the Geological Survey Team had originally drilled, reaching farther underground. Only when thick layers of rock blocked her and she lacked the strength to go any deeper did she stop.
She wanted to understand the source of the so-called Spiritual Qi Revival more than anyone else in the world.
Unfortunately, things were not as she had imagined. She had thought she would find denser spiritual energy farther down, then follow the clues to its source. Instead, the deeper she went, the thinner it became. By the time she stopped, there was no spiritual energy left at all...
Then it did not come from below, but from some other direction?
That did not seem right either. If it came from the side, other places should have been full of spiritual energy too. Why was it only in Old Zhu's mine?
How strange.
Qiu Wuji had explored countless secret realms and all kinds of dungeons, yet even she had rarely encountered such a strange phenomenon. No wonder nobody had figured it out after so many years.
Could it have come from the sky?
A scene surfaced in her mind... On some day of some month, clusters of spiritual energy descended from the sky. The places where they landed gained spiritual energy, and the people bathed in them gained esper abilities.
It sounded a little absurd, but it was actually the conclusion that best matched her findings so far.
In fact, it was also the authorities' current preliminary conclusion. Spiritual energy had revived simultaneously across the globe; it did not have a single source.
The strongest evidence supporting her idea was that the spiritual energy in Old Zhu's mine was dissipating. In another