[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-75":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231491,4184,"Chapter 75","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-75",75,"\u003Cp>Only then did Dugu Qingli discover that A-Nuo, who was always inseparable from Lu Xingzhou unless he was being intimate with a woman, was not there this time. She curiously entered the room, intending to see what she was doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she stepped in, she felt a boom in the room. A-Nuo was covered in charcoal, with only her eyes left white, blinking and blinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli asked strangely: \"A-Nuo, what are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A-Nuo sniffed: \"I dug out their meta-magnet from the Incense Burning Tower's secret vault and wanted to try controlling it myself, but I didn't succeed...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meta-magnet...\" Dugu Qingli looked at A-Nuo's palm, where a strange, black-hole-like magnetic field was flickering with fine electric light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could the Incense Burning Tower have this thing...\" Dugu Qingli was a bit puzzled: \"This thing is very restrictive to us sword cultivators. Even Daoist cultivators carrying magic treasures mixed with metal would be disrupted and suppressed. It doesn't look like something the Incense Burning Tower has the ability to possess and control.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could really control it, the Incense Burning Tower could make those sword cultivator sects very uncomfortable if they took this to fight them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it looks like this ball of stuff is still small; maybe the range of influence isn't large?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A-Nuo said: \"The Incense Burning Tower has ancestors too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister Qingli, do you think it's good if I refine this into my own magic treasure? My own pancake is becoming less and less useful... Hmm, or should I knead it into my pancake?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then the material of your pancake will have to be changed; you'll have to find something non-metallic but strong enough.\" Dugu Qingli didn't like this thing; she felt like she could barely hold her own sword, so she retreated outside the door: \"Stop holding it, put it away first... use a jade box.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her came Lu Xingzhou's voice: \"Is this the attitude of a sword guest aspiring to train, facing something that can restrain her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli was stunned: \"It's just this small ball of dead matter, what do you want me to do, fight it and conquer it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even Melon Sister knows how to trace the source...\" Lu Xingzhou sighed and took out the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remnant soul of True Person Yiyang appeared blankly before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou pointed his finger at his brow: \"What is the origin of this meta-magnet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Person Yiyang said: \"There is a large area of strange magnetic fields at the bottom of our Incense Burning Mountain, born within the magnetic field... This magnetic field changed the soil quality of Incense Burning Mountain in the early years, making it suitable for planting many types of medicinal materials. But in recent years, it has expanded more and more, already affecting living conditions, and has begun to interfere with the growth of medicinal materials, so we set our sights on Danxia Mountain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there was this underlying cause... Dugu Qingli's heart stirred: \"Have you explored the magnetic field?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have, and took away the meta-magnet. But the magnetic field is still expanding; we have no way to stop it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does the magnetic field have any special effects? After exploring it, did you think it was man-made or natural?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It interferes with cultivation and seems to have some effect on disturbing the mind; there is no benefit... It should be natural.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou looked at Dugu Qingli, and Dugu Qingli was also looking at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou laughed: \"How about it, does it count as a good place for your adversarial training?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It should count.\" Dugu Qingli said readily: \"But we must see it on the spot; blind guessing won't work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou nodded: \"I'll go with you. The remnant soul of True Person Yiyang can provide a lot of experiential reference.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\" Dugu Qingli summoned the Frost Heaven Sword, seemingly wanting to leave by sword, but hesitated and turned to look at him: \"Can you fly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, the wheelchair floated up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wheelchair really is a flying magic treasure... This Lu Xingzhou is too good at hiding things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou knew what she was thinking and explained: \"Daoist cultivators must reach the middle three grades to drive flying magic treasures. A few days ago, I was only at the seventh grade and couldn't use it... The sixth grade was just broken through when my legs were reattached.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli squinted at him: \"Then why did you take a carriage back and forth to Dongjiang Commandery?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Bai Mao, asking questions when he knows the answer, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou didn't answer her directly and shouted to A-Nuo in the house: \"A-Nuo, you play at home first. Your Sister Qingli and I will go see the magnetic field and come back; it won't take long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A-Nuo sniffed. She really wanted to say that A-Nuo could also fly by pancake... forget it, Master likes little Bai Mao, so better not go be a lantern. Anyway, there must be no danger there; the people from the Incense Burning Tower have already explored it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, A-Nuo has been less and less able to help Master... because Sister Shen Tang and Sister Bai Mao are both very powerful, A-Nuo must be even more powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl angrily stuffed the meta-magnet she couldn't figure out into a jade box, hid it in her ring, and took out a handful of elixirs to eat like a meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is being fourth grade under eighteen years old amazing? Just wait, A-Nuo can do it at ten!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a journey that only takes half a day by carriage, if one can fly, it's almost not a distance at all. Even though both of them were flying slowly at the moment, it only took half an hour to arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down, there were still many cultivators from near Dongjiang Commandery rummaging through the ruins of the Incense Burning Tower, hoping to find some leaked resources. It is really not easy for ordinary people without background or sect support to cultivate in this world; resources are too scarce, cultivation methods are missing, and ruins after such wars are often their opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You know, there are still many corpses in the ruins that haven't been cleared yet...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether there are any gains, there really are... The Heaven-Walking Sword Sect and the Dongjiang Gang often look down on some low-grade medicinal materials and magic treasures, as well as the medicinal materials planted in the medicine garden that haven't grown up, which are all big gains for ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even started fighting over a bottle of ninth-grade Qi Refining Pills, both ending up with broken heads and bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was accustomed to such things; he had a much worse time in his childhood... Dugu Qingli, however, looked down for a while, her expression somewhat dazed, as if it was her first time seeing such an ecology where people could fight over picking up trash, and she was a bit shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying she had been wandering the glaciers with a sword since childhood, that was just a harsh training environment. In terms of resources and cultivation methods, she was not lacking; after all, she had the world's number one master and the world's strongest sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou glanced at her, feeling a bit amused. Whatever machine, whatever ice block, in the end, she was just a young girl with insufficient knowledge of the world, and her database was not rich enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, don't let them discover us, so as to avoid trouble.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli looked at him strangely: \"By logic... the things here all belong to you, you... don't you mind them taking them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou shook his head: \"It's not easy for anyone, why make things difficult.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli fell silent and didn't speak again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With True Person Yiyang leading the way, it was like going home; they easily found the underground passage amidst the chaos. Lu Xingzhou set up an array to seal the entrance and another array that could sense the situation outside, and the two headed straight down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, they arrived at the center of a hollowed-out mountain belly. Indeed, there was nothing, only a faint magnetic field radiating here, making Dugu Qingli's sword unstable and her mood inexplicably restless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Person Yiyang said honestly: \"Earlier, the meta-magnet was floating in the center. We originally thought that taking the meta-magnet would be fine, but later we realized the root cause was wrong. The magnetic field was not caused by the meta-magnet; rather, the meta-magnet was gathered and formed due to the magnetic field's vibration.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of magnetic field vibration is very unfavorable to soul bodies. True Person Yiyang felt like he was about to be shaken apart after saying just this much, so Lu Xingzhou immediately took him back into the banner and pondered, stroking his chin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This so-called magnetic field is not the same concept as a magnetic field in physics; it belongs to the affairs of the immortal Dao's earth veins. Physics doesn't work too well in this kind of world... The so-called \"Spirit Mountain Treasure Land\" is actually a type of this, just not the type suitable for living, but it is a good choice for creating a special trial ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, it is very beneficial for Dugu Qingli to exercise her control and stability over the sword, as well as to exercise her \"Heart Like Cold River\" mental method. Similarly, it is also very beneficial for him, Lu Xingzhou, to exercise the stability of his spirit platform. Who knows, this kind of magnetic field vibration might have some use for blending water and fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, there is a certain possibility that some treasures are hidden inside... The Incense Burning Tower explored it and thought there were none, but that doesn't mean there really aren't any.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about it?\" Lu Xingzhou asked Dugu Qingli: \"Do you plan to cultivate directly here, or explore with me to see if there are any treasures?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not formed by treasures.\" Dugu Qingli shook her head: \"This is a phenomenon of the earth veins. My sect has records of it, called 'Mysterious Magnetic Earth Veins', which have both advantages and disadvantages. If this magnetic field continues to spread, the people of the Incense Burning Tower living in it for a long time probably won't live long. But it also has the possibility of curing certain special diseases and changing the nature of the soil, etc.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou pondered for a moment: \"That's fine, you cultivate, and I'll try to see if I can set up an array to stop it from spreading further. We still have use for this mountain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli didn't say much more and sat cross-legged directly, holding her sword across her knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword trembled uncontrollably, and Dugu Qingli didn't use her hands to hold it, but gathered her spirit to drive it, thereby honing her control over the flying sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, being in such a place, her strength was equivalent to being weakened by a large margin. Lu Xingzhou was better than her; although the Ten Thousand Soul Banner was also quite restrained, his main focus now, the Yin-Yang Extreme Intent Technique, was an empty-handed technique and didn't rely on any weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is equivalent to Lu Xingzhou acting as her protector now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when it comes to the impact on the spirit, she was much better than Lu Xingzhou. She could almost ignore that kind of interference and irritability to the spirit, while Lu Xingzhou had to suppress it hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enduring the nausea and irritability, Lu Xingzhou studied for a long time and frowned, shaking his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't figure out how to stop the magnetic field from spreading... This thing was too intangible and formless; he felt it couldn't be stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that after finally occupying the mountain, he had to abandon it? Abandoning it was a small matter, but what if it continued to spread? What about Dongjiang Commandery?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This matter felt like he should find Wan Cheng of the Demon Suppression Division to study it; maybe the official side had an idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to greet Dugu Qingli and go out to find Wan Cheng, Lu Xingzhou's heart suddenly stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensing array he had set up outside earlier had feedback, and he faintly heard screams coming from outside, and someone shouted sternly: \"Who are you! Even the Heaven-Walking Sword Sect didn't stop us, what right do you have... ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou frowned tightly. He didn't expect that there were still people coming to kill and occupy the ruins so arrogantly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carefully sensing the outside, the array's feedback sent faint images—a group of people in black robes appeared abruptly in the ruins, killing and refining corpses without a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hems of the black robes were embroidered with skull patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou, who came from the demonic path, naturally knew who they were; he had had dealings with them in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The famous demonic path, the Corpse Yin Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Great Qian, where official and righteous forces are very strong, most demonic path people act in the dark and are rarely seen. The most arrogant Yama Hall only had Yuan Muyu being arrogant; others were still well-hidden. Lu Xingzhou had to rely on secret codes to find his old subordinates, and he didn't even know where they were hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time Lu Xingzhou had seen demonic path people be so arrogant, appearing in broad daylight in front of a large group of ordinary cultivators and killing indiscriminately, and it was on his, Lu Xingzhou's, territory!\u003C\u002Fp>",2288,"2026-06-18T01:46:09.112Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8a00502035f34bb0f8b8cde64b8f1fa1b076f50257ae4910c6e84f306b74a1a6","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-76","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-74",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]