Jimo Xiubai slowly nodded. "On the way here, I heard the snake woman contacting one of her elders. From what they said, I vaguely heard that something seemed to be sealed beneath this Stone Mountain."
The snake woman had come here this time for that very thing.
In light of what had just happened, Xue Fuyao took the initiative to heal Jimo Xiubai's injuries and brought out pills for him to take. Her attitude could only be described as thoroughly fawning.
Seeing this, much of the anger that had built up in Jimo Xiubai's heart dissipated, but he still said, "Children should read fewer of those books full of nonsense."
Xue Fuyao nodded vigorously and said meekly, "I won't read them again."
It seemed she would have to be more careful from now on and not expose her true nature from her previous life.
"Oh, right, what else did you hear?" Xue Fuyao asked.
Jimo Xiubai said quite frankly, "What I just told you was everything. You don't think the snake woman would chatter away in front of a captive like me, do you?"
Xue Fuyao thought he had a point. "Since we've already found the formation's core, let's break this Spirit-Locking Formation first. We might discover something. On my way up the mountain, I passed a place called Rockpile Village, where a group of Sect disciples were asking the villagers about a spirit vein."
"A spirit vein? You mean here? Impossible. There is indeed a spirit vein in the area where Stone Mountain stands, but it isn't here. If there really were a spirit vein, it would have been discovered long ago. It couldn't possibly have remained until now."
As a disciple of an aristocratic clan, even if he was not the eldest legitimate son, Jimo Xiubai still knew