Chapter 33：Ao Qing Disappears

After entering the house, Mu Xuyang picked up the cloth bags on the old wooden bench and opened them. He saw that they contained spirit stones and spirit talismans, and a faint smile appeared on his face. He thought to himself, "I happen to need a lot of spirit stones to assist in my cultivation right now, and these two guys have delivered them to my door. I don't need the spirit talismans, but the mysterious thing that exists in my sea of consciousness seems to be very interested in the power contained in the talismans and can absorb them directly. I wonder if this mysterious thing will manifest itself after absorbing a large amount of the power from the talismans? Will it become spiritual and become something that I can freely manipulate?"

Next, Mu Xuyang took out the spirit stones and spirit talismans from the cloth bags, and then casually threw the two bloody cloth bags on the ground. He wanted to see if the old yellow dog would help him deal with some small details that he had forgotten to clean up.

As soon as the two cloth bags fell to the ground, the old yellow dog, who had been lying there motionless, suddenly opened his mouth and sucked in a powerful suction force. Mu Xuyang then saw the two cloth bags being swept up by the suction force from the old yellow dog's mouth and swallowed directly.

"Why has Old Huang become so strange? He can even swallow cloth bags directly. Isn't he afraid of indigestion?" Seeing that the old yellow dog had actually swallowed the cloth bags he threw away, Mu Xuyang was very surprised. He no longer paid attention to what the old yellow dog was doing and sat cross-legged, holding the spirit talismans in his hand and entering a state of cultivation.

When using a spirit symbol as an auxiliary training material, Mu Xuyang immediately felt a power that he couldn't discern flowing out from the symbol, constantly surging into his body through his palm, flowing through various parts of his body such as flesh and blood cells, tendons and bones, organs, meridians, leaving only a small part behind to temper his body. Most of the power only passed through in an instant, then converged into his sea of consciousness and finally entered the mysterious entity in his sea of consciousness that he currently could not see, but could only sense its existence.

The power contained in the spirit symbol was also very limited. In less than ten breaths, the power inside the symbol was completely absorbed.

After absorbing the power from one spirit symbol, Mu Xuyang immediately threw away the symbol paper that had no power and let the old yellow dog help to deal with it. He then quickly took another spirit symbol and continued to practice.

The night passed in this way. Mu Xuyang used all the spirit symbols he obtained from killing Gu Junlin and Mo Jixiang as auxiliary materials for his training. After consuming them all, he used inner vision to check the situation inside his body and found that there was not much improvement in the power in his body, but he felt that he had a clearer understanding of the functioning of his body, even knowing the rules of operation of every flesh and blood cell.

Mu Xuyang was not too concerned about this phenomenon, thinking that it might be because his flesh and blood absorbed the power from the spirit symbol.

Mu Xuyang knew about the rules of Leiying Hall. He knew that once a novice disciple was judged to have development potential, he could be exempt from tasks such as planting spirit fields.

Now, Mu Xuyang had decided not to endure any longer. Once the news spread, if nothing unexpected happened, he would be recognized as a novice disciple with development potential, which would allow him to directly exempt from the spirit field planting task and even gain more benefits.

Therefore, during the time he was waiting for Liao Jinyuan's reply, Mu Xuyang did not go to the spirit field to cut grass but stayed in his bedroom to focus on training. With the help of the spirit stones, Mu Xuyang's cultivation speed increased rapidly, to the point that it could be described as "one day gains a thousand miles".

After two days and two nights, Mu Xuyang's cultivation level finally made new progress. He stepped into the final stage of body refinement and reached the level of brain refining. In this stage, when Mu Xuyang was in the state of practice, as the spiritual power flowed in his brain, he vaguely saw the fuzzy figure of the mysterious entity that existed in his sea of consciousness.

Seeing that faint image, Mu Xuyang vaguely felt that the mysterious thing seemed to have a familiar taste. He felt a bit puzzled and thought to himself, "How could the mysterious thing in my sea of consciousness be so similar to the 'Qimen' magical treasure that I designed before? Could it be that the mysterious thing in my mind is not a heaven-sent treasure, but something I brought directly from that world? If the mysterious thing in my mind is really 'Qimen', then I know how to make this magical treasure grow rapidly and become a powerful weapon for attack and defense. However, it is still too early to determine that the mysterious thing is 'Qimen'. I need to advance my cultivation level and confirm it later. Then I can collect materials to upgrade the level of the 'Qimen' magical treasure."

With his decision made, Mu Xuyang stopped practicing and left his room after washing up. He then put the old yellow dog into his spiritual bag. Previously, when the old yellow dog was just a normal creature that understood human emotions, Mu Xuyang never forgot to bring it with him wherever he went. Now that the old yellow dog had a miraculous ability to help him erase traces of battles, he would not abandon such a loyal and trustworthy partner for any reason.

"It's time to go to Elder Liao's place. I don't know what will happen after I arrive there, and I don't know if I will ever see my good senior brothers, Ao Qing and Nie Yifan, again in the future. If I have the ability in the future, I will definitely help them out of their current predicament and become valued disciples of the Leiying Hall."

Worried about unexpected accidents that might force him to leave Leiying Hall without seeing his good senior brothers again, Mu Xuyang decided to visit Ao Qing and Nie Yifan before leaving.

Whoosh! Mu Xuyang's figure darted out, rushing through the road between the spiritual fields, and arrived at Ao Qing's residence. He searched around, but could not find any trace of Ao Qing. Mu Xuyang suddenly felt a bit puzzled and thought to himself, "Although Senior Brother Ao Qing is diligent and gets up very early every day, he always practices martial arts in the yard after getting up. He wouldn't leave so early in the morning. It's just dawn today, why is there no one here?"

While touching the folded, square-shaped blanket, Mu Xuyang discovered a note hidden inside. He picked up the note and read it, "Dong Elder sent someone to take me away, but I know it may not be a good thing. I didn't have time to inform you, so I left this note for you to know my whereabouts."