MMB Chapter 2 Spiritual Veins
Chapter 2 Spiritual Veins
"The Green Mountain Sect...sixteen years of arduous cultivation..."
Sun Ran stood there frowning and read the instructions for the cheat system several more times, and soon realized something was wrong.
Qingshan Sect......
Is this referring to Qingshan Village?
And this so-called sixteen years of arduous cultivation...
Primary school, junior high school, high school, plus university, that makes exactly sixteen years.
He scratched his head, looking troubled, and shoved the toothbrush into his mouth.
It's true that cheat codes are good, but now that we've finally got one, why is it so abstract?
It's clearly the real world, yet they're making me cultivate immortality and activate some kind of spiritual vein.
This is just an ordinary little mountain village of mine. Where am I supposed to find some kind of spiritual vein? Isn't this just making things difficult for me, Fatty Tiger?
[Low-grade spiritual vein - Water (abandoned)]
The thought had barely crossed his mind, and he hadn't even had time to brush the toothpaste evenly in his mouth, when he looked down and saw another row of large green characters appear on the ground.
Pfft~ Cough cough cough!
Sun Ran sprayed a mouthful of toothpaste foam out on the spot, and quickly picked up her cup, took a sip of water, and rinsed her mouth.
What the hell?! There really is a spiritual vein?!
He tossed his toothbrush aside and stared blankly at the ground.
The wellhead is made of a ring of bluestone, and a stone slab is placed on top of it. Isn't this the old, dry well in the house?
I remember when I was in elementary school, I was still feeling this way.
More than a decade has passed, and now it has transformed into a spiritual vein?
However, according to the golden finger, I still need to set up some kind of spirit-gathering array to activate it?
Spirit Gathering Array...
What the hell is that? How do I set it up?
"What are you doing so early in the morning, you brat?"
As he was pondering whether to draw a Bagua or a six-pointed star for the spirit-gathering array, he suddenly heard a voice in his ear.
He looked up and saw his mother, Zhou Yue'e, standing opposite him, her face as black as the bottom of a pot.
Looking down at her again...
Good heavens, his gray-blue clothes were covered in tiny white toothpaste suds. No wonder his face looked so pale.
"Hehe, I just choked a little by accident."
Sun Ran quickly pulled the towel off his shoulder and went over to wipe the old lady's clothes with a fawning expression.
"Get out of here! How old are you? Still acting all clumsy!"
Zhou Yue'e pushed her son away with a look of disgust and snatched the towel from his hand: "Ping An'an is much less troublesome than you!"
"Yeah?"
Sun Ran chuckled at her, then pointed ahead with his chin: "Mom, look, what's that?"
?
Zhou Yue'e was stunned by the sly smile on his face, and couldn't help but turn her head to look behind her.
In the corner of the yard, a large rooster stood looking around, strutting about proudly.
Behind it, a small figure was stealthily creeping closer...
"Sun An'an, what are you doing?!"
Out of curiosity, Zhou Yue'e shouted it out.
"what?"
The little girl was just two steps away from getting close to the rooster, and she was holding back her energy when the shout startled her and she froze on the spot.
"That rooster is naughty! It kept An'an awake this morning, so An'an is going to pluck its feathers!"
The little girl turned around angrily and answered, but then turned her head away again...
Just then, the rooster turned around and stared at her with bright, piercing eyes.
You want to pluck my hair?
How am I supposed to seduce a hen if I don't have any hair on my butt?
You're incredibly audacious!
With a flap of its wings and a step of its claws, it clucked and charged toward the little girl.
"what!"
Upon seeing this, Sun An'an screamed and ran away, crying, "Grandma, Uncle, help!"
giggle~
Waaah~ Ah...
A chaotic scene ensued, with the rooster's crow mingling with Sun An'an's screams echoing throughout the yard, making Sun Ran, who was standing to the side, almost laugh herself to death.
No, no, this little girl is both terrible at the game and loves to play!
Snapped!
He was laughing happily when he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. When he turned around, he saw his mother glaring at him through gritted teeth.
"What kind of time is this to be gloating like this!"
Zhou Yue'e glared at her son, veins throbbing on his forehead: "Aren't you going to go help?"
"Okay, okay, I'll go right now."
Sun Ran suppressed a laugh, quickly ran over and picked up the little girl, then kicked the rooster.
After several back-and-forths and being pecked a few times, he finally managed to chase the chicken away.
"Alright, alright, An'an, don't cry anymore. Uncle has chased the rooster away."
Seeing the little one in her arms crying his eyes out, Sun Ran couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy, and quickly offered words of comfort.
"Waaaah... The rooster is so naughty, bullying An'an..."
The little girl was still sobbing as she clung to his neck.
"Yes, yes, we can't bully An'an no matter who we are. How about we stew it for An'an tonight?"
"Um!"
Hearing her uncle say this, the little girl stopped crying and smiled, straightening up in his arms and nodding heavily.
Zhou Yue'e couldn't stand it anymore, so she walked over and slapped her son hard.
"Don't talk nonsense, we're keeping this chicken for breeding."
"what?"
Sun An'an was filled with disappointment upon hearing this. Had she been pecked several times for nothing today and not even been able to get revenge?
She turned her head and saw that the rooster had already returned to the coop, standing proudly with its head held high, surrounded by several hens...
"Waaah..." It would have been better if she hadn't looked, because the little girl was even more upset after she saw it.
Zhou Yue'e was also speechless. What kind of nonsense was this?!
She gritted her teeth and glared at her son: "It's all your fault! You'd better make things right now!"
After saying that, she turned around and walked towards the kitchen, leaving Sun Ran standing there dumbfounded.
How can you blame me for this?
Looking at the little girl still sobbing in his arms, Sun Ran gave a bitter smile.
What else can we do but coax them?
"Don't cry, An'an..."
"Waaaaah, it hurts~"
The little girl, with tears welling up in her eyes, lifted her short legs, revealing a dark bruise on them—the mark of being pecked by a chicken.
"Ouch, that hurts! Shall I blow on it for you? Whew~ Does it still hurt?"
"pain!"
"Okay, let Uncle rub it for you again~ Does it still hurt?"
"pain!"
"Then how can I stop the pain?"
"Uncle, can you help me pluck its fur?"
The little guy pointed at the rooster in the chicken coop, and Sun Ran's face darkened upon hearing this.
So you were actually after those few hairs on someone's head, and you wanted me to pluck them? That's like asking me to go up there and get pecked!
No, I need to think of a way to distract her quickly.
As he pondered this, Sun Ran turned to look around his own yard.
What could possibly make her...?
Just as he was hesitating, a splash of green caught his eye, and Sun Ran's eyes lit up.
Oh right, how could I have forgotten that!
He carried Sun An'an to the well covered by a stone slab: "An'an, look what this is?"
"well……"
The little girl glanced back, then turned and hugged him, saying in her childish voice, "Grandma said it's dangerous up here, we can't play hide-and-seek up there."
Who wants to play hide-and-seek with you!
Sun Ran was speechless: "Right, can you see what's written on it?"
"Where are the words? You stinky uncle lied to me!" The little girl glanced back, then turned and hugged him unhappily.
"Would you like to see Uncle perform a magic trick for you, An'an?"
Sun Ran put the little girl down with a dark face. "You brat, you dare call me a stinky uncle?"
Can we still have fun together?
"A magic trick?"
The little girl's eyes lit up, and she immediately clapped her hands: "Okay, okay, Uncle, what magic trick are you going to do?"
"Uncle can make this well light up like a light bulb, An'an, do you believe it?!"
"Wow, Uncle, you're amazing!"
Seeing the little guy's adoring gaze, Sun Ran couldn't help but puff out his chest: "Of course!"
However, though he had already made that boast, he felt a sense of unease in his heart...
A spirit-gathering array shouldn't be too difficult to draw, right?
After all, even ancient wells can be mistaken for spiritual veins...
And since it's a spiritual vein, its activation should have some special effects, oh no, I mean, some kind of phenomenon, right?
It should at least have something to emit light or something, right?
But the little girl just said she can't see the words. What if she still can't see them when the light comes on?
"Uncles, what are you doing?"
Just as he was struggling with this thought, a curious voice came from the side. He turned around and saw that his nephew, Sun Ping, had also arrived.
She was standing next to Sun An'an, looking at him with curiosity.
"My uncle said he'd do a magic trick, and that he'd turn this huge well into a giant light bulb! Then we won't need to turn on the lights at night!"
Before Sun Ran could speak, the little girl pointed at the dry well with a proud look on her face and said something.
Sun Ran broke out in a sweat as he listened.
Did I really say that?!
"Wow, Uncle is amazing!"
Sun Ping became interested upon hearing this, and squatted down next to the little girl, staring intently at the well opening.
"Uh-huh!"
Sun An'an nodded vigorously upon hearing this.
Looking at the two little ones' serious expressions, Sun Ran felt a chill run down his spine.
That's it. One was already troublesome enough, but now two are coming at once. How are we supposed to handle this?
If this doesn't work, won't they cause a huge uproar?!
"Uncle, what are you doing? Why aren't you doing magic tricks?"
The little girl squatted there and waited for a long time, but when he still didn't move, she couldn't help but ask.
"Okay, okay, I'll be right there."
Sun Ran forced a reply, looked around, and quickly ran a few steps to the base of the wall to pick up a broken brick.
Since dying sooner or later is inevitable, we might as well just go for it!
He reached into his pocket, opened his phone, and searched for "spirit gathering array." A bunch of random web pages popped up.
There are tons of images in Chinese and Sanskrit, including the Five Elements, the Eight Trigrams, and the Hexagram, as well as many images from anime and games.
Sun Ran was dazzled by what he saw.
With one last grit of teeth.
Don't worry about anything else, just draw a Bagua diagram. He can't draw anything too complicated.
He picked up a brick, came back, and started scribbling on the ground for a while, about ten minutes later...
"This shouldn't be drawn wrong, right? So... the Eight Trigrams don't work, how about adding the Five Elements to try?"
Standing in front of the Bagua diagram he had just finished drawing, Sun Ran scratched his head vigorously.
The task notification isn't responding at all; it must have failed?
While keeping an eye on his phone, he quickly picked up a brick and drew the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth)...
Then a few more minutes passed.
He started adding six-pointed stars to the outside again...
Then come the Four Symbols: Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger...
Then they added a border and decorative patterns to the outside...
He was drawing a diagram by the well, head down, while the two little ones were getting restless.
"What is Uncle doing?"
"I don't know..."
"Does a magic trick take this long?"
"I don't know..."
"Is Uncle lying to us?"
"I don't know..."
"How about we play by ourselves?"
"Okay, okay!"
"So what should we play?"
Hearing her brother ask this, the little girl tilted her head and thought for a long time before finally rolling her eyes and landing on Sun Ran, who was still drawing with his head down.
As he drew pictures on the ground stroke by stroke, the little guy clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Let's draw a grid and play hopscotch!"
"Um!"
Sun Ping nodded vigorously, and the two little ones ignored their uncle, turned around, found a small stone, and began to draw on the ground.
1, 2, 3, 4...
A series of squares were drawn one by one, and numbers were written on them one by one...
Sun Ran was engrossed in drawing a formation over there.
It's just a small spirit-gathering array, isn't it?
I simply refuse to believe I can't finish drawing it today!
At worst, I'll just gather all these pictures from the internet together; I refuse to believe that none of them will be useful!
Hey~
Just as he was holding back his determination and refusing to admit defeat, he suddenly heard a soft sound in his ear.
[Spirit Gathering Array (Small): Completed]
Mission accomplished, spiritual vein under control...
Low-grade spiritual vein (water): Can gather spiritual energy to a small extent, and can produce one pot of spiritual spring water per day.
Spiritual Spring: Formed from spiritual energy, it can assist in cultivation and greatly benefit all kinds of living beings, but those without cultivation should use it with caution.
? ?
Sun Ran was stunned when he saw the text that appeared.
Is that all? But I haven't finished drawing the array diagram in my hand yet.
Is there a delay between myself and the cheat system?
And what about this spiritual spring?
He got up, walked to the sink, and picked up his toothbrush cup. After the mission notification appeared, the words "Spirit Spring" appeared on his phone.
I looked into the cup and saw that it had been emptied when I rinsed my mouth, but now it was full of water.
The water had a slightly greenish hue, and its clear, bright appearance made it look somewhat like... floral water?
Sun Ran shook the cup, "How about... I take a sip and try it?"
After all, he had read quite a few online novels and was familiar with things like spiritual energy and spiritual springs, so he couldn't help but feel a little eager to try it out.
But after raising the glass, he hesitated.
Firstly, he felt that the "golden finger" (a powerful, invincible ability) was somewhat unreliable, as it could be used to explain everything in relation to cultivating immortality.
So it's inevitable that some doubts will arise.
Secondly, others had warned him to use it with caution, and he didn't want to die after trying it.
After hesitating for a while, he finally gave up. He decided to find a way to verify this first and deal with it later.
Anyway, the things are already here, so it won't make a difference if we leave them for a while longer.
Right now, we should appease the two little ones first, lest they start making a fuss later.
With that thought in mind, Sun Ran picked up the toothbrush holder and threw the broken bricks away.
As soon as he turned around, intending to call out to his nephew and niece, he suddenly froze on the spot.
He had drawn a bunch of messy things around the well, making it almost impossible to see what the ground originally looked like.
Not far away, two little ones were happily playing hopscotch.
The crooked grid lines drawn underfoot were faintly emitting a colorful glow.
Look at your feet, then look at them, and then recall the notification that the task was completed...
Sun Ran's eye twitched.
Damn, all that time I spent drawing Yin Yang, the Four Symbols, the Five Elements, the Big Dipper, the Eight Trigrams, and the Hexagram was for nothing?
In the end, this so-called spirit-gathering array turned out to be a grid pattern drawn by those two little guys?
I'm totally losing it!
He was so angry that his hand trembled, and with a whoosh, half of the full cup of "spiritual spring" accidentally spilled out.
Why is it that after I painstakingly researched and drew diagrams, my work is inferior to a grid diagram that the two little ones casually drew?
Sun Ran stood there, his heart filled with resentment.
I don't believe a damn thing about this blind man's cheat code!
He turned around, angrily raising his hand as if to pour the so-called spiritual spring water from the toothbrush holder into the sink, but before he could even make a move, his eyes suddenly widened.
wrong……
This flowerpot...
When I was drawing the array diagram just now, didn't I see that there were only a few withered branches?
He looked down, utterly astonished at the few green leaves on the plant in the flowerpot at his feet.
When did these leaves grow?!