Chapter 429 – As the Spirit Turtle Wills, the Heavenly Secrets Become Unfathomable (2/2)

Something seemed to be brewing and growing restless within the spirit turtle’s daemon core that was shaped like a turtle shell, like the birth of the universe. Suddenly, the turtle shell shuddered, and a pair of eyes lit up, deep and sagacious.

Li Qingshan opened his eyes. His pupils shone with deep, blue light. In that instant, he seemed to feel what regular people described as “something clicking into place”. Many questions and problems that he had racked his brain over suddenly seemed to become clear. Even the entire world became clear.

After breaking through to the fourth layer of the spirit turtle, the profound inscriptions on the spirit turtle’s daemon core became clearer. He began to radiate with an invisible power that spanned deeply into the vast river of fate, kicking up a ripple.

The Divining Elder snapped open his eyes in surprise. Just when the answer was about to be presented before him, the ray of sunlight vanished completely, like it had been obscured by a dark cloud. He was unable to find its source anymore.

“You’ve finally roused.” Xiao An let out a long sigh of relief.

“What’s wrong?” Li Qingshan scratched his head. Although he did not exactly know how to use the spirit turtle’s ability of divination, hiding and obscuring had always been the spirit turtle’s instincts. It did not just hide him as a person from divination, but his entire fate; in particular, it hid the fate of those closely attached to him.

“You didn’t sense it? Someone tried to use divination to find us, or should I say, it.” Xiao An looked at the sumeru ring in her hand.

With that, Li Qingshan seemed to recall something. He frowned. “It felt like… someone was spying on me earlier, which made me very uncomfortable, so I just hid… Why would I think of something like this?”

Xiao An brought her palms together and smiled. “According to the buddhist scriptures, twenty moments pass within a flick of a finger, and twenty thoughts occur during a single moment. This is just one of your thoughts. You obviously won’t sense it normally.”

Li Qingshan bent his finger and flicked it. He smiled. “So that’s four hundred thoughts. That should be the so-called unconscious mind, right?”

Many thoughts would flash past at lightning speed, such that even the person themself would not know they had thought of something like that. After reaching the fourth layer of the spirit turtle, not only had Li Qingshan’s daemon qi increase drastically, but he had become more meticulous and intricate with his thoughts too, reaching an unprecedented state.

Li Qingshan paced around. He even understood the protection that the black ox’s soul sense offered now. He was very touched. Brother ox must have calculated his cultivation progression accurately. After reaching the fourth layer of the spirit turtle, even if he could not foresee everything, at least he would not be killed through something like this. That had basically eliminated one of his worries.

He smiled. As for how he would take his next step, he already had an idea.

The Sword Collection palace definitely had a way to locate the Soaring Dragon sword, which was why Fu Qingjin had asked him a question like that. If he wanted to remove any items from the sumeru ring or make the Soaring Dragon sword his, he had to find a suitable location that could both allow him to avoid the Sword Collection palace’s search and weaken the Soaring Dragon sword.

A place like that was not actually difficult to find. It was right below Li Qingshan’s feet. If he continued to venture downward, to even greater depths, he could use the interference from the underground magnetic field.

“Xiao An, what do you think?” Li Qingshan told Xiao An his thoughts.

“Smart.” Xiao An praised sincerely.

Li Qingshan laughed aloud before sighing again. His fate had been led underground once more. However, he was in no hurry to set off. There was no need for Northmoon to appear so soon.

Talking with Xiao An a little more and checking on her results, Li Qingshan calmed down. He then took out the Illusory Water Sword of Invisibility to refine. It would be a combination made in heaven if he used it with the Glazed Mirror of Invisibility.

In the blink of an eye, over a month had passed. Autumn went and winter came. The mountains became covered in snow.

The Crystal Resin cauldron opened once more. Ru Xin stretched her neck and stood up, taking out the refined pills from the cauldron and storing them into bottles. She took a glance and found that still a lot of the spiritual herbs from Li Qingshan remained.

I wonder how he’s doing, getting me to do all the hard work! Let me go get some air!

Just as she thought that, someone touched the formation. Li Qingshan’s voice rang out from outside, “Ru Xin, open up.”

Ru Xin opened the formation and the entrance to the dwelling, erupting on a rant right off the bat. “Don’t yell out like that in the future! If I were refining pills, what would happen if I become distracted? Is it going to be on me or on you?”

“I knew you weren’t refining pills. How’s the refining going?” Li Qingshan entered without any invitation.

“How did you know?”