Chapter 56: The Mountain Rain is Coming

  Mo Yan led Qin Huan strolling around Qinghai City.

  "Qinghai City is indeed a capital of a country, it's truly prosperous beyond compare." Qin Lang exclaimed along the way.

  "Isn't that nonsense?" Mo Yan glared at Qin Guang, and along the way, she had already completely confirmed that Qin Guang was a complete country bumpkin.

  "What is this?" Qin Lang pointed at a store and asked.

  "This is an auction house, where some precious items that are hard to find on the market will be auctioned off, but the prices are not cheap." Mo Yan explained to Qin Cang.

  "Oh, I see, so there's a chance to go and experience it." Qin Lang muttered.

  "Hmph, these places aren't where you can just go whenever you want." Mo Yan let out a soft snort, looking at Qin Cang with disdain.

  "What's going on? Do we still need to buy tickets?" Qin Lang asked in surprise.

  "The auction house is a member-only venue, only members of the auction house can enter, you country bumpkin don't even think about it." Mo Yan teased Qin Cang with a smile.

  "Oh, can't you stop calling me a country bumpkin? You're making it sound like I really am one." Qin Lang had been called a country bumpkin by Mo Yan all the way here, and he was already furious.

  "This broken place is even implementing a membership system. What's so great about it? Honestly, I'm not going!" Qin Lang turned his head and walked away.

  "Cough cough, I'm a member, you know." Mo Yan said with a pleased smile.

  "Wow, I thought this place wouldn't be ordinary. Just by looking at the gate, it's got an extraordinary aura. Only people with status and position can enter. Hmm, Commander Mo Yan, what did you just say? You're a member here? Commander Mo Yan is indeed extraordinary." Qin Cang flattered Mo Yan.

  "Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!!!!" Mo Yan felt a wave of nausea in her stomach and couldn't bear Qin Cang's ugly face. She made a disgusted expression and said: "You country bumpkin, can you not disgust me?"

  "Hey, General Mo Yan, can you take me in and let me have a look?" Qin Lang flattered.

  "Can't you stop calling me Commander? We're not in the military camp now, and we're not wearing uniforms either." Mo Yan seemed to be quite dissatisfied with Qin Cang's constant address of "Commander".

  "Hmm, you call me whatever you want!" Qin Lang's head nodded like a rattle drum, non-stop. At this moment, Qin Lang only saw Mo Yan's identity as an auction house member, as long as he could take him in, he would be called anything.

  "Alright, since we're traveling together, just call me by my name. You can just call me Mo Yan."

  "Hey, Mo Yan, when are we going to check out that auction house?" Qin Lang replied.

  "What's the hurry? Let's go when there is an auction."

  "Hmm, when is there an auction?"

  "Qin Lang, can't you just stop nagging? Shut up for a bit, or else I won't take you to the auction even if it happens." Mo Yan said with a glare, her patience wearing thin.

  "Alright, alright, Mo Yan, uh, don't be angry, I won't say it." Qin Lang hastily corrected himself.

  Mo Yan continued to take Qin Huan on a leisurely stroll through Qinghai, Mo Yan was indeed knowledgeable and explained many things that Qin Huan had never seen before along the way.

  It wasn't until evening that the two of them slowly walked back to their residence.

  "Oh dear, after walking all day, my legs are all soft." Mo Yan said while pinching her calf.

  "Haha, tired, huh? When we get back, I'll give you a foot massage." Qin Lang said with a mischievous grin, looking at Mo Yan.

  "Get out, you really think you're some rich family's young master?"

  "Hahaha!"

  Two people were laughing, but in the distance came a rumbling sound. As the sound approached, the crowds on both sides of the road hastily parted to clear a path down the middle.

  A large group of fully armed soldiers and horses arrived in succession, those heavenly soldiers riding tall horses, holding long guns, each with a solemn expression, as if something was about to happen. Giving people an extremely oppressive heavy feeling. The heavenly army passed by, the road was filled with flying dust, all the way towards the royal city.

  After the heavenly army passed by, the crowds who had been yielding on both sides of the road gradually walked to the middle of the road, discussing in low voices one after another.

  "How many waves of heavenly troops have entered the imperial city?"

  "I've lost count already. What on earth is going on? So many heavenly troops entering the royal city, are they planning to go to war?"

  "Stop spouting nonsense, it's impossible to have a battle in the imperial city."

  "What's the point of having so many troops then?"

  "Alright, alright, it's better not to say these things, be careful of eavesdroppers, these matters have nothing to do with ordinary people like us."

  "Alright then, let's go."

  Listening to the discussions of passersby on the street, Mo Yan and Qin Cang exchanged a glance, both losing their mood for playfulness. The hearts of the two people became heavy.

  They walked in silence all the way back to their residence, with Qin Lang no longer making jokes and smiling, following Mo Yan.

  "Mo Yan, it seems things have gotten a bit complicated."

  "Hmm, the emperor has passed away, but this hasn't been announced yet, and ordinary people still don't know. But this is like a fire wrapped in paper, it can't be contained forever, and who knows when it will suddenly erupt." At this moment, Mo Gu Yun was still inside the palace, and Mo Yan's heart was also full of worry.

  "The emperor has passed away, and the prince is supposed to inherit the throne. This should be a matter of course, but with so many heavenly troops entering the imperial city one after another, could there be some unexpected event?" Qin Chong's face was heavy with concern.

  "I had actually sensed it earlier, this time Father came to the capital, he brought me along as well. I guessed that things wouldn't be so simple. The reason Father brought us along was that he wasn't at ease leaving us alone in Youyun City; only by bringing us with him could he feel at peace."

  "But now the young lady of the county is inside the imperial city, and she can't take care of us here?"

  "So now it's up to us, Qin Lang, if something happens..."

  "Mo Yan!" Qin Lang interrupted Mo Yan's words, his eyes firmly fixed on her as he said, "If anything happens, I'll protect you."

  Mo Yan stared blankly at Qin Lang, this was the first time a man had said to her "I will protect you". Looking at the man in front of her who was not even as strong as herself and yet saying he wanted to protect her, Mo Yan's heart did not have any hint of amusement, instead she felt a faint sense of security. It was as if this person in front of her could really hold up the sky.

  "Hehe, okay then, I'll have to rely on you for protection." Mo Yan said with a smile. But in reality, if something were to happen, she would still have to rely on herself, as Qin Cang's abilities were too weak despite being special.

  "Uh, I was impulsive, you protect me instead." Qin Lang said awkwardly, he didn't know how he had just said such a thing, his head suddenly got hot and he blurted it out.

  "Qin Lang, you're not a man at all. I won't bother with you." Mo Yan was suddenly speechless. Qin Lang, who had seemed so majestic just now, had completely overturned his image.

  After parting with Mo Yan, Qin Liang returned to his own room and once again absorbed the heavenly energy. Qinghai City was several times larger than Gugu Cloud City, but the heavenly energy inside the city was much denser than that of Gugu Cloud City. It is said that under Qinghai City there is a heavenly spiritual vein, which is also why the first ruler of Qinghai Country built his capital here, and as a result, Qinghai Country gradually prospered.

  Qin Lang sat on the bed, his body's golden yuanqi had reached a state of saturation, no matter how he urged it, he couldn't absorb another thread of heavenly yuanqi.

  "Have we reached the limit?" Qin Lang thought to himself.

  He had a special physique. According to Mo Gu Yun, he had never heard of anyone who could absorb the heavenly and earthly yuanqi during the Body Tempering stage, so he couldn't give Qin Lie any pointers either.

  "If I've reached the limit, how can I break through? My eyes are blurry and no one is showing me the way!" Qin Huan's head hurt, he had never been very ambitious, but somehow he had stumbled onto the path of a martial artist. And the path he was on, might still be a completely different martial arts road that others hadn't taken before, this road, his predecessors hadn't walked, and he could only rely on himself to grope around.

  "Tempering the body, refining the body, breaking through the body; condensing the spirit, refining the spirit, transforming the spirit. This is the realm of martial arts, and I am currently in the tempering body phase. Tempering the body? What kind of tempering method is it? Is it about raising one's power to the extreme?"

  "Isn't it that I have to practice every day like in the military camp? That would take up too much time, maybe there's another shortcut."

  Qin Huan's heart was calm and introspective, as if he saw the golden yuanqi inside his body wandering around without any rules, like a disobedient child.

  "Chaos in my body? That's not allowed!" Qin Huan also had a deep feeling after staying in the military camp for so long. Everything must have rules, if the military camp is chaotic and disorderly, then there will be no fighting power to speak of. And the primordial energy in his own body was chaotically surging without any rules, just looking at it made Qin Huan feel somewhat uncomfortable.

  "That old man listened and returned." Qin Liang urged his heart and soul, driving all the yuanqi in his body back to the dantian. After a moment, all the yuanqi had returned to the dantian, and there was not a single thread of yuanqi left in his body.

  Immediately, Qin Huan controlled the yuanqi inside his dantian. The golden yuanqi threads were like golden silk threads, following Qin Huan's will, starting from the dantian and spiraling through every meridian in his body, limbs and bones, before finally returning to the dantian, forming a cycle. When Qin Huan's will withdrew, the golden yuanqi threads continued to flow along the predetermined route inside his body.

  "Hmm, this looks much better now, haha." Qin Lang didn't think much of it either, just a casual remark, but what he didn't know was that this unintentional comment had actually taken his martial arts path a huge step forward.

  Just as Qin Lang was thinking about how to improve his strength, several black shadows quietly slipped in.