Once the problem was identified, the weight of confusion lifted from Mo Qian's chest entirely.When you are afraid of ghosts in the dark, you lose your bearings. Find the problem clearly, and you can treat it directly.Zhu Xiaoqi lifted the buns from the steamer, peeled away the dry lotus leaves, and wrapped six of them up for Mo Qian.Mo Qian took them with a smile, holding the warm bundle, and offered his thanks as he walked out."Still Xiaoqi's buns, the best around!" he called back cheerfully from the kitchen doorway."That silver tongue of yours. If you have that kind of energy, use it to make things right with the master." Zhu Xiaoqi gave him a look."I know." Mo Qian dismissed it lightly and left.Zhu Xiaoqi glanced at his retreating back and sighed, then turned back to her work.After that, Mo Qian visited every few days, each time bringing something thoughtful for Xiao Zongting.As the saying goes, even the angriest person does not strike someone who comes to them smiling. Gr

The data panel trembled for a moment, then slowly dissolved. By the time it had fully faded, Gu Suxiu had already come back with two medicine packets. Mo Qian set the palm beads down, took the packets, and said, "Thank you."He paid for the medicine, and his eyes continued to scan the room, checking whether there was anything else worth absorbing. If there was, he could find an excuse to linger.Gu Suxiu noticed the restless movement of Mo Qian's eyes and felt more certain than ever that Mo Qian had come with another purpose. He could see that Mo Qian, having paid, was still hesitating and looking around rather than leaving. Gu Suxiu's heart moved, and he thought: Perhaps what this boy came for has something to do with my family's plum blossom needle technique. He seems honest enough but appears embarrassed to ask directly.Gu Suxiu cleared his throat and decided to raise the matter himself. "Young friend Mo, your acupuncture technique carries some traces of my Gu family's style. I ho

Although Mo Qian now had a thorough grasp of the properties of almost every known herb, that understanding was built upon the framework of treating disease in ordinary bodies. The way those same herbs acted on inner breath cultivation was an entirely different subject.Mo Qian came to a clear realization. To solve this problem, he needed someone who both practiced martial arts and medicine, and was more inclined toward medicine. Without the martial arts practice, how could such a person understand the relationship between medicinal properties and inner breath in motion?But was there such a person in Xiangu County?Mo Qian had never heard of one.He had no doubt such people existed somewhere in the wider world. The single-ingredient cultivation prescriptions had to have come from somewhere, which meant someone had worked out that relationship at some point. It was simply that Xiangu County was too isolated and remote to have produced or attracted such a rare combination of talents.Mo

Seeing how hard Mo Qian was driving himself, neither of them wanted to disturb him further and they left, though not without some reluctance.After more than ten days of relentless training, Mo Qian finally broke through to the third level of inner breath.He was naturally pleased, but he did not allow himself to relax. He slept well for one night and immediately threw himself into the work of pursuing the fourth level.After beginning, Mo Qian found that the fourth level of inner breath was fundamentally different in nature from the first three. No wonder Xiao Yu, Xia Shuangshuang and the others had been stuck at this threshold and could not push through.The advancement of inner breath at the fourth level was worth almost as much as all three preceding levels combined.And the complexity of the circulation pathway at the fourth level could only be described as extreme.That Ximen Kankan had reached the fourth level relying purely on his own natural mental power talent was genuinely

The verse was clear and light, sketching in a few words the shy, natural charm of a young girl, innocent and unguarded, vivid enough to feel as though the scene were there before the eyes and alive in the heart.That final line, the girl stepping back and catching only the scent of green plum, was the best of it. It seemed to pull the reader back into some carefree early time, before the world had grown heavy.Lan Ying read it, and her eyes brightened. She carried the paper to the performance platform and began to find the melody. Lan Ying had a natural sense of rhythm and took to it quickly. Before long, she was singing.When the song ended, even Hong Xue noticed the difference and said, "The girl sang just now like a bird set free."The tune was light, the words were clear, and Lan Ying's voice moved easily through it, bright and unencumbered, everything that had been subdued and weighed down in the earlier song now lifted away.Lan Ying looked at Mo Qian with clear eyes and said, "