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Drip ~

Drip ~

The sound of water droplets echoed in Chu Mo's ears. His eyebrows twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes.

Everything around him was incredibly familiar.

He was still inside a grotto.

The only change was that the blood pool was gone.

In the deep pit.

Chu Mo got up and looked around.

"Not a single drop of blood left... It's just that my body seems to have undergone some changes..."

Chu Mo sat cross-legged and examined himself internally. After a while, he still couldn't pinpoint what was different about his body, but he felt completely unlike his former self.

Just as he was puzzled, Shen Qingqiu's voice came from above.

"Junior Brother Han, didn't you want to meet my parents? I'll take you now."

Chu Mo looked up.

Shen Qingqiu, dressed in white, was smiling gently.

"Is this... back to normal?!"

Shen Qingqiu was completely normal now, as gentle as jade, entirely different from his previous Devilish Qi-filled appearance.

Most likely, it was as the artifact spirit had said before.

Once he left, Shen Qingqiu would return to normal.

"Senior Brother, how are you feeling?!" Chu Mo's first question upon reaching him was about Shen Qingqiu's physical condition.

To this day.

Shen Qingqiu was still the first line of defense.

If he didn't fall, Chu Mo wouldn't have to bear the pressure alone.

"Me? I'm fine! But you." Shen Qingqiu circled Chu Mo, examining him up and down: "Did Revered Master teach you?!"

"Teach? What did he teach me?!" Chu Mo was full of confusion. That old artifact spirit was evasive, unwilling to say anything directly, only giving him some ambiguous information and letting him guess.

If he guessed correctly, that would be fine.

If he guessed wrong, the other party wouldn't correct him.

With that, what kind of guidance could there be?!

"Junior Brother, that's not right."

This tone was completely different from Shen Qingqiu's usual 'Junior Brother, Junior Brother' address.

At this moment, he truly regarded Chu Mo as his biological Junior Brother. Although he had called him Junior Brother before, it was never as close as it was now.

Now, in Shen Qingqiu's heart, Chu Mo was half a younger brother.

Because Wan Hai had come out to see Chu Mo.

And had personally acknowledged Chu Mo.

This had already marked him as one of their own.

"Junior Brother, you don't know, it's not easy for Revered Master to come out and talk to you so much! From childhood to adulthood, the total time I've spent communicating with Revered Master is less than a month."

At this point, Shen Qingqiu's gaze towards Chu Mo clearly held some envy.

Chu Mo looked at him with disdain.

Seriously, were you deprived of love as a child?!

Does communicating with that old artifact spirit make you so happy?!

"Oh, right! Junior Brother, didn't you want to meet my parents? Come with me, I'll take you to meet my parents!"

"Eh..."

Without giving Chu Mo time to think, Shen Qingqiu grabbed his arm and ran.

Ever since he came to Xuan Magnetic Mountain.

Except for the period when the old artifact spirit possessed him.

At other times, Shen Qingqiu was like a frolicking three-year-old, running so fast that he couldn't be caught.

Before long, Shen Qingqiu brought Chu Mo to two giant rocks. He pointed at the rocks in front and said, "These are my parents."

Chu Mo: "..."

Senior Brother, are you making a fool of me?!

There was indeed a baby-like shape in the middle of these two giant rocks, but these two giant rocks looked very ordinary...

Wait.

Chu Mo walked up to one of the giant rocks, placed his hand on it, and frantically injected spiritual Qi into it.

Instantly, the stony surface completely receded, replaced by amber-colored crystals, which also contained vast life essence.

This was not just any rock.

This was clearly an Origin Stone.

Origin Stones, based on their purity and the quality and quantity of life essence they contain, can be divided into Low Grade Origin Stones, Medium Grade Origin Stones, High Grade Origin Stones, and Supreme Grade Origin Stones.

The most common use for Origin Stones is to refine Longevity Pills using the life essence they contain.

Longevity Pills are extremely rare and can extend one's lifespan.

Even a single Low Grade Longevity Pill would attract Undergoing Tribulation powerful cultivators to fight for it, let alone other grades.

Because of this, Origin Stones became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, and Longevity Pills were only mentioned in a few lines in ancient texts.

And now.

The grade of these two Origin Stones was both Supreme Grade Origin Stones, capable of refining Supreme Grade Longevity Pills.

Of course, Supreme Grade Origin Stones had another use.

That was, to seal oneself within a Supreme Grade Origin Stone. This could greatly stabilize one's life state.

As long as the life essence in the Origin Stone was not depleted, one would not age and would remain in the state they were in before entering the Origin Stone.

Seeing these two Supreme Grade Origin Stones, Chu Mo looked Shen Qingqiu up and down.

This guy's background was not ordinary.

Such two large Supreme Grade Origin Stones could not be obtained by ordinary people, and even Undergoing Tribulation powerful cultivators would find it difficult to keep them.

Unless it was a super-powerful force.

"Senior Brother, your parents have an extraordinary background..."

"I also know my parents have an extraordinary background, but Revered Master always refuses to tell me, only saying that I'm a big idiot, just like an unawakened big rock carved from the same mold as my parents."

Shen Qingqiu felt very wronged. Revered Master talking about him and his parents like that really hurt his feelings.

Chu Mo fell silent.

The old artifact spirit really wasn't wrong.

This Senior Brother truly was a big idiot.

However.

"Senior Brother's parents should be old acquaintances with the old artifact spirit. It's possible that these Supreme Grade Origin Stones were also brought by the old artifact spirit..."

The more he thought about it.

The more tired Chu Mo felt.

The amount of information he had now was too little, and he couldn't make correct deductions on many matters.

But one thing, he was clear about.

And it made him uneasy.

He was always under Xuan Ling's control.

This wasn't the worst part; the worst part was that this Xuan Ling was seriously ill, ruthless, and would kill people without consequence...

Although he, like Xuan Ling, also held several individuals whom he considered protagonists in his hands.

However, he wasn't doing it with the intention of killing them; he was doing it to cultivate helpers.

It's just that getting these helpers to fight against Xuan Ling, the artifact spirit of the Heavenly Emperor's Imperial Weapon, wasn't so easy to accomplish.

"The Crossing Talisman I relied on is Failure, and even messages with other group members through the Chat Group can be intercepted..."

"Could it be... that in front of top-level big shots, the Chat Group isn't effective either?"

At this moment, Chu Mo somewhat questioned the authority of the Chat Group.

As a cheat, to be suppressed so easily, this was too weak.

He now suspected whether the Pangu Axe with a string of nines in the Points Mall was just a grand promise from the Chat Group.

After all, with that sky-high integral, no one could afford to buy it, so its authenticity couldn't be verified.

Isn't this just a grand promise?!

"It's only some low-quality items that we can gather enough integral to exchange for; anything of higher quality, we can't get a single one."