"Sister, what is this thing?"
Xiao Jin circled around the dark orb with curiosity, sniffing at it again and again, as if trying to sense its mysteries.
Long Ling blinked her big curious eyes and spoke in a soft, childish voice, "I feel like this aura is familiar, like I've encountered it before…"
She fell into thought but could not recall where she had seen it.
Even these two little beings with innate spiritual inheritances couldn't figure it out. Song Wanníng was even more clueless. She only knew that when she blocked the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, this black orb suddenly appeared and quickly slipped into her body.
Immediately after, the Taiji diagram underwent a drastic change...
Unable to find the reason, Song Wanníng didn't dwell on it and simply stored the black orb away.
Soon after, the various family tributes started coming in one after another. Besides the original families, several others who heard the news came to visit Song Qingyun, hoping to gain access to the dragon vein as well.
Even small families submitted tributes, climbing the social ladder layer by layer.
Now, no family was willing to be left out. Within a few days, all human families chose to follow.
What surprised Song Qingyun most was that every sect also agreed to cooperate, though it made sense. After all, his daughter had displayed overwhelming power, shattering everyone's hopes for luck. Coupled with the temptation of the dragon vein, resistance was impossible.
He first asked Song Wanníng for her opinion, since the dragon vein belonged to her and needed her consent. Every family was to give 20 percent of their tributes, of which 10 percent went directly to Wanníng. This was a unanimous decision.
Song Wanníng naturally didn't refuse the money. After all, she was unsure what would happen after she ascended.
Having more spirit stones at hand wouldn't hurt. She asked the families to exchange all their tributes for top-quality spirit stones, declining other items.
After settling the agreement, she returned once again to the dragon vein's location.
"Little one, go!"
Song Wanníng gently patted Long Ling's head.
The obedient Long Ling nodded excitedly and shot straight toward the dragon vein.
Boom—
A tremendous roar, and the dragon vein began to rumble loudly.
Immediately, an unfathomable, vast aura surged forth.
Rumble rumble—
For a moment, the entire human territory shook violently, terrifying the people who thought the earth dragon was turning over.
"Roar—"
A deep, ancient dragon's roar echoed.
The sound grew louder and louder, piercing the earth and soaring into the clouds. At that moment, everyone in the human realm heard the shocking dragon roar.
"Oh my god, it's a dragon!"
"A dragon!"
After the shock came wild joy. Everyone knew this was Song Zūnzhě releasing the dragon vein!
"Roar—"
The dragon's cry penetrated everyone's sea of consciousness, shaking their hearts.
In the next instant, countless dense spiritual energies burst from underground, flooding out wildly.
The crowd was stunned again, then erupted in cheers.
Meanwhile, in a corner of the storage ring, something stirred.
Song Wanníng raised her brow and quickly took out the Three-Life Mirror, which was glowing faintly with a mysterious light.
Suddenly, the dim light of the mirror exploded into a strong and dazzling brilliance.
Song Wanníng instinctively raised her hand to shield her eyes, but the light pierced the sky like a sharp sword.
At the moment it soared into the clouds, the mirror suddenly blossomed into seven-colored auspicious clouds, centered above the Song family, rapidly spreading outward.
Within minutes, it covered the entire sky of the cultivation world.
Spirit race, demonic race, beast clans, humans—
All life saw endless auspicious clouds shining down. No matter the weather before, now the skies cleared, the sun bathed the land.
"Hiss, what is that?"
"It looks like it's coming from the Song family!"
"Oh my god, look, the entire Song family is shrouded in auspicious clouds!"
With the seven-colored clouds, it was clearly a great omen!
One strange phenomenon followed another. Cultivators' hearts surged with emotion, their faces flushed with excitement.
From this day forward, the cultivation world would no longer suffer spiritual energy depletion...
This meant more people had hope to ascend.
Many wept with excitement.
...
Meanwhile, Ye Chuxue and Gu Qingyuan, who had barely escaped to the demon race territory, also sensed this extraordinary event.
When Ye Chuxue was crippled, Gu Qingyuan had risked everything to save her. Not only had his cultivation dropped to the Nascent Soul early stage, but his hair turned white overnight.
After barely saving Ye Chuxue, they found a Spirit Shaping Grass to rebuild her spiritual root, finally getting back on the cultivation path.
However...
After entering the beast clan forbidden land, their special aura caused many beasts to detect them, nearly costing them their lives several times.
Though they gained some benefits, the constant danger left them exhausted and unable to continue. They had no choice but to risk moving toward the human territory.
Unexpectedly, they saw Song Wanníng's display stone showing her "mighty divine power," nearly scaring them out of their wits.
Song Wanníng's combat ability was invincible. She could easily kill Divine Transformation cultivators in a single strike. What chance would they have?
Now that the Song family nearly dominated the human realm, if they were discovered...
The consequences were unimaginable.
Gu Qingyuan and Ye Chuxue's eyes burned with hatred, but they had no choice but to leave the human realm and head toward the demon race.
It was not that they didn't want to go to the spirit race territory, but the spirit race realm was always closed off. The spirits devoted themselves to absorbing spiritual energy and refining essence day and night, rarely communicating with outsiders...
So besides the demon race, they had nowhere else to go.
After all this time, the demon race should have long given up hunting them.
Just as they arrived in the demon race territory, they saw the sudden appearance of seven-colored auspicious clouds in the sky.
In the past, Ye Chuxue would have thought it meant some huge opportunity was about to descend.
But now, looking at the clouds, her heart raced uncontrollably, even causing dizziness and shortness of breath.
"Chuxue, what's wrong?"
Gu Qingyuan was uneasy too, though not as intensely. Seeing her pale face and sweat-drenched brow shocked him deeply.
Ye Chuxue's long nails dug into Gu Qingyuan's arm as panic rose in her chest.
"This is bad... I feel something very wrong... Master, I've never been this anxious before. Something terrible is coming..."
She began to cry without realizing it.
A fear she had never felt swept over her.
Ye Chuxue shook her head repeatedly, tears streaming down her face, terrifying Gu Qingyuan.
"Let's find a place to rest first."
He scooped her up and strode toward a nearby cave.
"Don't worry. With Master here, nothing will happen to you..."
His hands trembled as he held Ye Chuxue. Even he didn't understand why his steps felt so heavy.
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Because my babies have been clamoring for me to pick up another yuri novel, I decided to do it right now (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡ Since I already finished translating "The Invincible Money-Grubbing Fairy," that freed up one slot. This new project will be a modern setting yuri, and just like "My Cold-Hearted Boss Wants to Marry Me," it's another short novel.
That said, I should be honest with you: yuri isn't my main focus. I'll still translate yuri, but the frequency won't be that high. If you'd like me to add more yuri projects, I'll definitely consider it—but only if the requests reach my "minimum slot." How many requests do I need? That's a secret of course (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
On another note, I'm also starting a new apocalypse-themed project, since "Mom's Apocalypse Survival Log" is almost fully translated. The difference this time is that the new novel is one of my personal favorites. I've literally reread it 5–6 times already, and it has over 1000 chapters serialized!
Both of these newly picked projects are still going through the book vetting process. I'll update you all once they're approved and available on my profile. Please look forward to it~ (ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ