It didn't take Yang Qing long to settle down after meeting Assistant Director Jun Pei. Years of being served nothing but hearty helpings of bad news had left him with something of an acquired taste for it. As a result, he found it easier to accept and bounce back from soul-crushing news than from genuinely good news.
If Chairman Long Enlai had told him that reaching the Domain Realm would automatically grant him access to the Ancestral Dragon Vein, or that connecting to it right now would only cost something like twenty thousand merit points, or even fifty thousand, Yang Qing knew himself well enough to know that his mind would never have focused on anything else from that moment onward.
All he would see, over and over again, would be those twenty or fifty thousand merit points and the Ancestral Dragon Vein that would soon be his. There was even a very slim chance that, consumed by that single-minded fervor, he'd cut back on eating and survive on just one meal a day.
