Bai Zisheng said, "You should take a walk after eating to aid digestion, don't just lie down."
"Oh."
Mo Hua responded with a somewhat lazy tone, but still remained lying down without moving.
Bai Zisheng shook his head. After a moment, he seemed to remember something and asked,
"Are you going to see your master again?"
Mo Hua blinked and replied, "After sorting out the matters here, then I'll go back to see Master!"
Bai Zisheng's eyes brightened, "Are you going to take out Lu Chengyun?"
He couldn't stand those who were sanctimonious, bullied with their power, practiced Demon Skills, murdered, and bullied his sister and little junior brother.
And Lu Chengyun had nearly all these traits.
"Hmm." Mo Hua nodded.
Bai Zisheng thought for a while, then frowned slightly, "It's not easy to make a move, is it? There are so many Walking Corpses, Iron Corpses, and the Corpse King…"
Mo Hua sat up and said in a low voice,
"Step by step. First, we will weaken Lu Chengyun's power, push him into a tight spot, and then get close to that Corpse King… and he will be doomed!"
"Corpse King?" Bai Zisheng was taken aback, "Did you do something to his Corpse King?"
Mo Hua shook her finger, corrected him, "It's not 'his' Corpse King…"
"What do you mean?" Bai Zisheng didn't understand.
Mo Hua played coy, whispering,
"It's top secret. You'll find out when the time comes."
Bai Zisheng was not very happy.
After contemplating for a moment, Mo Hua relented slightly and said, "When the time comes, I guarantee you'll get the chance to take down Lu Chengyun."
"Really?"
Bai Zisheng was skeptical.
"Hmm," Mo Hua nodded, "You are my senior brother, I wouldn't lie to you!"
Bai Zisheng immediately became happy again.
Bai Zixi glanced at her older brother, shaking her head slightly with a hint of helplessness.
...
The next day at 6 A.M., the Taoist Soldiers began their assault on the Stone Palace.
Yang Jishan led the charge from the front, tying up most of the Iron Corpses, but this was merely a feint.
The other two elite teams of cultivators, following Mo Hua's guidance, took a detour to sneak in and broke through the defensive formation of the storeroom, penetrating the stone walls. As expected, they found a storeroom filled with blindingly brilliant Spirit Stones.
Under military orders, they did not hesitate. Using Spiritual Artifacts, Runes, and Taoist Skills, they destroyed the large store of Spirit Stones within the storeroom.
The destroyed Spirit Stones turned into a vast surge of Spiritual Energy that spilled out from the Corpse Mine, pervading the surroundings before returning to nature.
Even outside the Corpse Mine, Mo Hua could sense this thick presence of spiritual power.
"So this is Spiritual Energy…"
Mo Hua murmured pensively, her mind slightly stirred.
It's said that over twenty thousand years ago, nature was teeming with dense Spiritual Energy.
However, once the Taoist Court united the Cultivation World, the rapid development led to the reckless extraction of Spiritual Energy, which gradually depleted its presence in nature.
Only Spirit Stones mined from the spiritual mines below ground remained.
Cultivators relied on Spirit Stones to practice cultivation.
Places with remnants of nature's spiritual energy, like secret mountain sanctuaries, were rare, the stuff of legends. They were occupied by the Cultivation World's powerful forces.
It was the same situation with Spirit Stones.
Over the twenty thousand plus years of the Taoist Calendar, nearly all of the Cultivation World's spiritual mines had been carved up and seized by the Taoist Court, the Noble Clans, and the Great Sects.
The vast majority of Spirit Stones also ended up in their hands.
The majority of the lower-class cultivators actually had access to very few Spirit Stones.
Let alone breathing in the real nature's spiritual energy…
Now the Spiritual Energy that overflowed from the Corpse Mine, although dense, was ephemeral, dissipating in mere moments.
Although it was Spiritual Energy, it was not quite the real thing.
After it dissipated, the world was still left dry and barren of Spiritual Energy.
Mo Hua felt somewhat moved.
She looked up at the sky, silently pondering,
"I wonder if there will ever be a day when this world sees the revival of Spiritual Energy…"