Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the yard, Concubine Jing cried for a long time.
After ten years, she finally saw Li Mu again.
There were many times when she wanted to go back.
She was worried about her son, Liu Yu, who was locked up.
And she was also worried that her son would be concerned about her after she left.
“I never thought that you would look so old. I almost didn’t recognize you,” Concubine Jing said as she wiped away her tears.
“Princess Ruirui has returned and Liu An is now the Emperor, ruling over all the lands.” Li Mu selectively told her the good news.
“Ruirui is back? Then how did Liu An become the Emperor?”
The two of them talked for the entire afternoon.
Li Mu only left when it was almost dark.
He had finally found Concubine Jing and got his peace of heart.
He never expected that Liu Yu would have forged such close ties with the Xia Family and that Xia Shiyin would arrange for Concubine Jing to stay in the Xia Family’s house.
No wonder he couldn’t find her for so long.
Poof!
As soon as he left the yard, Xia Shiyin knelt in front of Li Mu.
“Ancestor, please help me!”
“Huh? What happened?” Li Mu paused for a moment, then came to realization.
Xia Shiyin must have waited outside the Forbidden Grounds for so long because she had a favor to ask of him.
Because he was in a hurry to meet Concubine Jing, he had forgotten all about her.
“Ancestor, please save Liu Yu.”
“What happened to him?” Li Mu frowned.
“He hasn’t come out yet after five years. I’ve tried to reach him several times, but he…” Xia Shiyin’s tears began to fall and she choked up so much that she couldn’t continue.
Without waiting for Xia Shiyin to finish her sentence, Li Mu headed towards the Forbidden Grounds.
When Xia Shiyin looked up, Li Mu was gone.
Entering Liu Yu’s cavern, Li Mu sensed that it was about two hundred meters deep.
“His breathing is weak, but that’s normal! How is he still stuck here after five years?”
Previously, when he came here, there wasn’t anything wrong with the person inside.
“Something’s wrong! He’s almost half a Perfected Person now. What a genius. In just thirty years, he managed to improve from the fifth level of the Spirit Manipulation Realm to half a Perfected Person.”
Though back then, Liu Yu’s foundation had been rather dependent on the pills and skills that he had imparted to him.
That had helped him to catch up on the prime years of cultivation he had missed.
As a Saint-level cultivator, every level of the Spirit Manipulation Realm was a whole new challenge.
The more advanced one got, the more difficult it was to progress to the next stage.
It must have been difficult to cultivate for five years in isolation.
The prenatal qi in the Xia Family’s house was rather strong. In addition, Liu Yu was naturally talented and worked very hard. It was highly possible for him to become half a Perfected Person in thirty years time.
No wonder the Xia Family had focused so hard on cultivating him and even welcomed him into the Xia Family.
With these natural qualifications, he was very likely to reach the Virtual Realm.
Li Mu gently pushed on the stone door.
Crack!
With a crisp sound, the stone door cracked.
Li Mu pushed again, and the stone door slowly opened.
After retrieving the letter he had lost previously, Li Mu continued walking in.
The second door he passed through was made of broken dragon stone.
Behind it was the end of the cavern. He had reached a wooden house with a wooden bed inside.
There were many pills lying around.
Liu Yu was sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, leaning slightly to one side.
He looked as if he had fallen asleep.
“He failed at the sentiment field?”
Li Mu sighed.
Back then, he had the Path Comprehension Pill and Barrier Breaking Pill to help him navigate the field easily.
“You’ve reached your threshold!”
He held up Liu Yu, then he placed both his hands on his back and started to rub his meridians.
True qi swirled around Liu Yu.
Li Mu quickly guessed what had happened to Liu Yu.
He had failed to breakthrough to the next level, and now, Liu Yu was close to being possessed.
In order to prevent himself from dying, his body had shut down, causing him to enter into a deep comatose state.
After a while, Li Mu took out a Path Comprehension Pill and stuffed it into Liu Yu’s mouth and used true qi to strengthen his pulse.
“I hope this pill can help him breakthrough to the next level.”
A day later, Liu Yu started to breathe deeply again as his body got stronger.
Li Mu left the cavern and headed outside.
“Ancestor…”
“I told you that I’m not your ancestor!” Li Mu said.
Li Mu looked Xia Shiyin up and down.
Back then, when she went with the others to visit Concubine Jing in the palace, they had been so haughty that they didn’t notice him.
Li Mu had only caught a brief glance of them back then.
He never thought that they would meet again in a situation like this.
“Then, Liu Yu…”
“He is doing well and will have a breakthrough soon. After that, he will need to rely on his own hard work.” Li Mu said with a slight smile.
“Thank you!” Xia Shiyin said enthusiastically, skipping with happiness.
“It was nothing!” Li Mu headed back to the Xia Family’s house.
If nothing went wrong, Liu Yu might manage to reach the halfway point to be a master of the Virtual Realm.
But Li Mu didn’t think that he would ever reach the Virtual Realm.
He was still stuck at the halfway stage to the Virtual Realm even after taking the Marrow Cleansing Pill so long ago.
It was too difficult for Liu Yu.
Unless he helped him.
Back in the yard, Concubine Jing had written two letters.
One was for Liu An and one was for Liu Rui.
Together, the two letters were almost a hundred pages long.
“Little Li, after you return, please ask them to write back.”
“Yes! I will,” Li Mu replied.
Feeling the thick envelopes, Li Mu silently grumbled about how longwinded women could be.
He stayed in the Xia Family’s house for a few more days.
When Tingting reached the Spirit Manipulation Realm, Li Mu handed her over to Xia Shiyin and headed back to the State of Great Xia.
In Shouning Palace’s backyard, beside two peach trees, Li Mu was planting two jujube trees.
“The yard in my house has two jujube trees.”
Under the jujube tree, Li Mu opened his mouth and one of the fruits from the tree fell into his mouth.
The red and purple robes that eunuchs wore were too striking and he didn’t dare to wear them.
In the palace, the red robes were worn by high-ranking eunuchs, while the purple robes were worn by even higher ranking eunuchs who managed external affairs or were cultivating.
Even the Ceremony Directorate and Admiral wore only red robes.
“The red robe is too striking. If only there was a green or blue robe.”
After searching in the system for a long time, Li Mu found a pile of tattered clothes.
He took them out, along with the green robe and blue robe that he had used previously, and put them on.
Two years passed by very quickly.
Li Mu’s cultivation reached the second level of the Virtual Realm.
“I’m almost there! The demon in the underground palace should be dead by now.”
When he was next to the Demon Locking Well, Li Mu quickly summoned sword qi into the underground palace.
The sword qi swirled around Li Mu, sparkling with thunderbolts.
“Sword Twenty Two! Slash!”
Suddenly, the sword qi in the underground palace formed into a dragon and rushed into the well.
Crash!
Sizzle!
“Ah! You bastard! If I ever escape, I will tear you apart!” A voice raged from within the Demon Locking Well.
“Oh? You’re not dead yet! You’re so powerful. Here’s another sword!”
Li Mu froze for a moment!
He thought that the Demon Locking Well would have dampened the demon’s strength.
In addition, with his power of the second level Virtual Realm and his control over the demon’s thunderbolt, he should have been able to slay it.
But even after that maneuver, the opponent was only slightly injured.
“Sword Twenty-Three.”
Three swords flew down the well.
Sweat beaded up on Li Mu’s forehead.
“It should be dead by now right? If it hasn’t died after this, it’s just too powerful. No wonder it managed to destroy the entire South Continent.”
Li Mu looked into the well.
In the pitch black well, he couldn’t see anything.
After waiting for two days, Li Mu gritted his teeth and jumped into the well.
Following the walls of the well, he drifted downwards.
At the same time, lightning sparked from his body, burning the walls of the well that Li Mu came into contact with.