Chapter 121: Ocean of Yin Qi

His mind seemed to merge into the earth, wandering within it.

He also felt that the earth was like his own limbs, his home turf, allowing him to unleash immense power and miraculous abilities, even enabling him to perceive the entire area around Bei'an City in an instant!

Li Heng immediately realized that this was the ability to traverse the Earth Veins.

The earth naturally gathers Yin Qi; beneath the earth, or more precisely, within a realm that does not belong to the Present World but exists within the earth of Bei'an City, he sensed dense Yin Qi.

The density of this Yin Qi had even formed an ocean, occasionally churning and boiling as if about to erupt. However, it seemed to be suppressed by the earth while situated within it.

Therefore, it still appeared relatively calm.

Yet, Li Heng estimated that if not for the earth suppressing it from within, this dense Yin Qi could instantly turn Bei'an City into a Human Ghost Domain, and could even spread to the surrounding villages...

Within this ocean of Yin Qi.

He even saw dense, crowded figures wandering and drifting about; observing closely, Li Heng was shocked to discover that these figures were all souls, human souls.

At this moment, these souls had long since lost their intelligence, only wandering aimlessly in between. But strangely, even with such dense Yin Qi, these souls were not disturbed by the Yin Qi or transformed into Weird.

Li Heng immediately thought of some legends from his past life.

Could this area be the Yin World, the Yin Fu?

After the initial shock in his heart, he quickly calmed down. This was likely a place similar to the Yin World or Yin Fu, but it was definitely not the true Underworld, and its scale was not too large.

Or perhaps.

In reality, this World does not have a true Underworld, but rather, like this, every region has an ocean of Yin Qi similar to the Yin Fu to preserve souls?

It's just... what is the purpose of preserving souls?

Even if this World lacks Reincarnation, the most likely outcome for souls is to simply dissipate into Heaven and Earth, or if they are lucky, to be invaded by Yin Qi and become Weird. That is the normal mechanism of Heaven and Earth.

Li Heng felt that the traces of human intervention were very heavy...

And this method was also extremely dangerous.

If something were to go wrong with one of these oceans of Yin Qi, the souls wandering within would instantly turn into Weird, becoming a Wave of Weird that would sweep across the Present World...

Upon sensing more closely, he further discovered that the attire of these souls was somewhat mixed. Some looked quite ancient, surprisingly wearing the garments of the previous Great Ming dynasty. Others looked very modern, wearing the attire of Great Li, appearing as if they had not been dead for long.

Looking even closer.

There were even garments older than those of Great Ming!

Li Heng's scalp tingled; how long had these oceans of Yin Qi existed? Spanning three dynasties, or even more? How many souls had been gathered within?

And this was only within the scope of the earth of Bei'an City.

If this were extended to other cities, or even the entire territory of Great Li, would there be more and larger oceans of Yin Qi? And would the souls wandering within them be even more ancient?

He was slightly shaken.

If these oceans of Yin Qi were generated naturally due to the earth's characteristic of attracting Yin Qi, that would be one thing, but if it were man-made, how terrifying would the mastermind be? How large of a scheme would this be?

Perhaps only the anomalies he saw previously.

On the Sun could compare to this!

After his exclamation, Li Heng withdrew his mind.

He had wanted to split off a wisp of his mind to roam that ocean of Yin Qi and see what exactly was underneath, allowing souls to wander in Yin Qi without turning into Weird.

But as soon as he thought of the risks hidden within.

He immediately dismissed the idea.

In any case, even if he went down to investigate, there would be no obvious gains, and he would have to risk being detected by the highly likely mastermind, which was simply not worth it.

Burying this matter in his heart, Li Heng calmed down.

Through the previous roaming, he had roughly figured out the details of the Boundless Earth Dharma Aspect. To describe it in four words: Child of the Earth! He would be incomparably compatible with the earth, able to mobilize the power of the earth and unleash various miraculous abilities, as if he were on his home turf.

Just like a Weird in its own Ghost Domain.

And this was just the icing on the cake.

He could vaguely feel.

If he fully unleashed the Boundless Earth Dharma Aspect, he could, like the Great Sun Dharma Aspect, use the might of the Boundless Earth to suppress the surrounding Void, and it would even be more solid than the Great Sun Dharma Aspect!

But this was not strange.

The characteristics of the earth are heaviness and solidity.

Tomorrow night, he would also have a plan for the trip to Baishou Ridge.

Because he had just roamed the Earth Veins, he had detected some places in Bei'an City with dense Yin Qi, which he estimated to be Ghost Domains or the hiding places of those Weird.

However, he did not want to alert the enemy now.

Tomorrow night, he would first slaughter the Weird heading to Wan Shou Ridge and settle everything. Then, he would return to use the Boundless Earth Dharma Aspect to sense the many remaining Weird in Bei'an City and clear them out, which would not be too late.

Thinking this, Li Heng began to meditate and practice Visualization.

The long night was slow, and he could not waste the night time.

In a deep mountain far away from Bei'an City.

At this moment, all was silent, and the entire mountain was wrapped in an invisible aura, incomparably oppressive, as if one had stepped into a realm of silence.

On the mountain peak, Wang Xuanji stood with his hands behind his back.

He looked at the bright moon in the sky, his robes fluttering, appearing like an exiled immortal who had descended to the human world from the Moon Palace. However, soon, this exiled immortal became impatient, his brows tightly furrowed.

What is going on? Why hasn't the person arrived yet?

That old fellow from the Ye Family wouldn't be playing me, would he? His heart sank, and he felt it was increasingly likely; after all, the information in the Divine Sense he sent to the Ye Family was all exaggerated.

And it was the kind where he added ten times more each time.

After that old fellow saw through it, it was very possible he couldn't be bothered to pay attention. But this shouldn't be; logically speaking, even if he exaggerated, your Ye Family still had people die in Bei'an City, so you should have sent someone over; why is there no one here now?

Wang Xuanji expressed that he could not understand.

It couldn't be that the Ye Family expert who was supposed to come got lost, could it?

How could that be possible!

Outside the territory of Great Li, in that desolate land.

That schoolteacher walked slowly through it, ten miles with every step, feeling somewhat helpless. This area of Void Turbulence seemed a bit too large; having walked for so long, how had he still not walked out of it?

Hmm? White things again?

He frowned, seeing not far ahead a vast expanse of white directly occupying his entire field of vision, rushing toward him rapidly. Soon, it arrived before him.

This schoolteacher raised his eyebrows.

Oh, so it is another sea of skeletons.

Watching the stark white expanse that had almost occupied the entire desolate land before him, stretching a hundred miles, a sea of skeletons surging truly like an ocean, he pondered in his heart: which batch was this?

Could it be that he had stumbled into some forbidden ground?

He walked while thinking, doing nothing. But when he stepped into this rapidly moving sea of skeletons, these stark white skeletons all parted ways very fluidly, continuing forward.

It was as if the strength of one person could part the vast sea.

Over in Bei'an City, the night passed without incident.

Except for the middle of the night, when strange howling sounds rang out from the Demon Suppression Division, causing the young ladies of noble families in the Inner City to worry and fear...

At dawn, the Haohan Dari hung high in the sky.

Li Heng withdrew from his state of Visualization.

The higher one's cultivation, the faster the speed of Visualization. This night, he had directly pushed the progress of the Great Sun Visualization forward by another two percent, bringing the total progress to thirty-seven percent.

The fifty percent milestone was not far off.

He opened his room, intending to push open the courtyard gate.

He planned to go to the street to buy some food and, while at it, gather some intelligence to see if there was anything he had missed, then head straight to Baishou Ridge to start killing once night fell.

But when he opened the courtyard gate.

Li Heng was surprised to find two figures reflected in his eyes. One was the minor official from the Merit Hall, Wang Donglai. And the other was the young woman who had intercepted him halfway the previous night.

"Brother Li, we two have come presumptuously and disturbed you."

Wang Donglai bowed to Li Heng and smiled awkwardly.

"I have come this time to bring my younger sister to apologize to Brother Li. She has been used to being wild since she was young, so she was somewhat reckless, which is why she intercepted Brother Li yesterday; I am truly sorry."

"I... I..."

After Wang Donglai apologized, the young woman was also fidgety, her face flushed red, but she could not stammer out a word.

Li Heng smiled lightly.

"So that is how it is. Brother Wang, there is no need to mind it, but it would be better for your sister to change her temperament. Although there was no malice, it was too reckless. It is fine to run into a good person like me, but if she ran into others, walking through the city at night carrying gold bricks..."

Li Heng could not help but shake his head.

This young woman's behavior could not be called wrong.

Who doesn't like a rich woman?

It is just that in such a dangerous World, even in the peaceful and stable Inner City, one must guard against others. Fortunately, she met him; if she had met someone else, losing money would be a small matter.

If the matter were any bigger, it would likely be a loss of both life and wealth.

One could even say, it would be better if one died; if one did not die, heh... the dark side of the World has never had a bottom line.

"I... I'm sorry, I know I was wrong." The young woman finally said it fidgetily, with a trace of a sob. This also made Wang Donglai beside her feel a bit heartbroken, and he hurriedly comforted her.

But even so, an apology was necessary.

Wang Donglai knew in his heart that if Li Heng had not acted, his sister would likely have already fallen into the clutches of that Ye Xuan. It could be said that Li Heng was the great benefactor of the two siblings.

What kind of behavior was it to intercept one's own benefactor in the middle of the night?

Even if he did not know beforehand, it was still not acceptable!

However, once this matter was spoken of openly, it was actually quite simple. The young woman had apologized, Li Heng did not mind, and after chatting for a few sentences, both sides intended to leave.

At the moment of departure.

Li Heng thought for a moment, called Wang Donglai back, and told him about his discovery from last night—the special nature of the young woman's bloodline.

Immediately after, he left directly, detaching himself from this trouble.

Arriving on the main street, he bought a few crepes with fried dough sticks at random and ate while walking, investigating several places where he had sensed dense Yin energy the previous night. But unfortunately, he found nothing.

He figured that with the Yang energy rising during the day, the Ghost Domain was not manifest.

He did not care about this, and after strolling around casually.

He headed straight for Baishou Ridge!