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Ning Fengwan opened her mouth with a hint of annoyance, "Looks like I've come a bit too early."

Upon hearing this extremely familiar voice, Yun Qin finally realized something and turned her head abruptly, instantly seeing the Sect Leader she had been pining for... and that handsome man she had met once before.

The slightly chubby-faced little girl immediately burst into tears, scrambled up, inadvertently wiping away the crumbs of potato chips on the corner of her mouth, and lunged towards Ning Fengwan, "Sect... Sect Leader, Yun Qin has waited for you so bitterly!"

Looking down at the little girl who was hugging her thigh, clearly chubbier in two dimensions than before, Ning Fengwan's mouth twitched:

"What hardship? You seem rather comfortable to me, so well fed that you'll probably be ready for market before long."

The little girl, upon hearing this, immediately began to mutter in a voice filled with grievance, "Yun Qin has only put on a little bit of weight..."

Ning Fengwan said irritably, "And here I thought you might be mistreated, dead or alive, I had no idea, worrying sick over you every day, and here you are, fattening up..."

Xue Jing smiled and said, "Anyway, it's good that you're okay... It seems An Luping still knows what he's doing, only wanting to use someone to control you, but he didn't go too far, he didn't make things utterly unbearable."

Hearing Xue Jing speak, Yun Qin curiously turned to glance at him.

A little figure just over one and a half meters tall, her plump face, which made her look even younger, looked quite silly.

"Yun Qin, kneel down and kowtow to him," Ning Fengwan said softly.

"Oh." Yun Qin did not hesitate to kneel down and started kowtowing non-stop to Xue Jing, as if worshipping a deity.

Ning Fengwan, with a firm tone, said, "His name is Xue Jing, he's my... cough, he's the supreme elder of our Dragon Cult. Remember, from now on, seeing him is as good as seeing me. Whatever he says, you must obey without question. If he tells you to chop your hand, don't go chopping your foot."

"Ah?" Yun Qin looked distressed, her small face crumpling up.

"Can we not chop hands or feet...?" she muttered under her breath.

"Quit your babbling," Ning Fengwan glared at her.

Xue Jing smiled, gently patted her head, and said softly, "Good child..."

Yun Qin was so dazzled by his unremarkable handsome face and gentle voice that she lowered her head and let out a silly chuckle.

...

After successfully rescuing the little maid Miao Miao, the villa where Xue Jing stayed within the Zhige Base had an additional guest.

Perhaps because the huge weight on her heart had finally been lifted, Miao Miao became even more lax, sleeping even more than the ten-plus hours a day she used to, and now she was almost reaching twenty hours. Even when Xue Jing cooked himself, she was often unable to get up because of the overwhelming sleepiness.

The new member Yun Qin, at Miao Miao's behest, donned a black and white classic maid's outfit and became what looked like a very professional little maid.

Xue Jing, although he also found the maid outfit great, still sighed inwardly, thinking about Miao Miao, who could only watch anime all day at home, and how corrupted her thoughts had become.

Perhaps because she had been taking care of Ning Fengwan since childhood, Yun Qin's domestic skills were exceptional. She was nimble at her chores, excelling at laundry, cooking, and cleaning, and did everything without complaint and without cutting corners, much to Xue Jing's satisfaction.

Of course, her cooking still couldn't compare to Xue Jing's, whose Cooking skill was nearly at Lv8, making even a bowl of instant noodles taste like it was seasoned with magic, but she was already top-notch among ordinary people.

Two days passed this way.

Late at night, at precisely twelve midnight.

Xue Jing opened his eyes in bed.

Gently picking up Miao Miao, who was sprawled on his chest sleeping like the world had ended and snoring loudly, he placed her on the soft bed. Then, Xue Jing got up, walked to the window, and cracked it open just a tad.

Immediately after, he conjured a Dark Flame the size of a fingernail and threw it outside.

Under his control, the Dark Flame weaved left and right without stopping, reaching a small clearing more than a hundred and sixty meters away.

Xue Jing in the room closed the window, conjured another Dark Flame, and his body dived into it.

The next moment, his body emerged from the Dark Flame located in the small clearing.

This tiny area, less than two square meters, was a blind spot in the surveillance of the Zhige Base he had scouted.

Xue Jing's body slowly sank, immersing into the shadows beneath his feet, stealthily heading towards the exterior of the Zhige Base.
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After several days of practice in Consciousness Simulation, he was confident that he had the ability to evade all surveillance without leaving any trace.

He decided to head to Xu's Biological Company in Sky Center tonight, attempting to steal the [GOD-098·Wind of All Beginnings].

Departing from the Zhige Base, he utilized methods like "Shadow Lurk," "Shadow Leap," and "Aura Blockade" without pause. He bypassed all mechanical and biological detections, and slowly made his way to the edge of Yuan City.

Emerging from the shadows, he looked up at the layer of pale blue light film, barely visible to the naked eye, that covered the entirety of Yuan City.

"Just to be safe, don't touch this thing, it might be some kind of detection-related black tech...," he murmured.

Xue Jing flicked a black flame with his hand, controlling it as it passed through the pale blue light film, crossing into the area beyond Yuan City.

He then performed a Shadow Leap, officially arriving in the desolate wilderness.

This step had taken him nearly two hours.

Wiping the slight sweat from his forehead, Xue Jing activated the Shadow Flame, and the black hole-like Entwined Armor completely enveloped him, leaving only his eyes exposed.

In the pitch-black night, his form was practically invisible.

Soon after, his figure flashed as he dashed toward the distant Sky Center, ablaze with countless lights.

...

Two hours later, at four o'clock in the morning.

Sky Center, 1002nd floor, at the entrance.

A small cluster of shadows, unnoticeable to anyone, seeped through the imperceptible crevices near the entrance.

Armed security personnel were patrolling seriously but failed to notice the tiny shadow in their blind spot.

Maintaining his Shadow Lurk state, Xue Jing followed the path he had designed in his Consciousness Simulation, avoiding the security personnel and monitoring alarm systems.

Although the patrol routes of the security personnel were somewhat different from his last visit, it didn't affect Xue Jing much.

Being in the state of Shadow Lurk already made him hard to detect, and coupled with his Aura Blockade ability, his presence was nearly nonexistent.

Adding to that his deep martial arts cultivation, quick reflexes, and sharp intuition, he could precisely dodge all lines of sight.

Without a hitch, he successfully reached the 1052nd floor after over half an hour.

This was the floor he had visited before, where a large number of Divine Relics were stored.

Xue Jing had planned not to complicate matters and, taking advantage of the dead of night, to first check if the Wind of All Beginnings was at floors 1097 and 1098.

But upon reaching floor 1049, he hesitated for a moment, then decided, screw it, he was going all in!

What mouse enters a rice bin without eating the rice?

Quietly using Shadow Lurk, he neared a transparent compartment housing a pen, and after searching, found no entrance crevices.

A fully sealed containment indeed was thoroughly sealed.

But naturally, he had a way.

Activating the Shadow Flame, the black currents converged, forming Dark Flame, which under Xue Jing's control began to morph, turning into a thin black stick the size of a chopstick.

The black stick aimed at the unidentified transparent partition and silently bored into it, slowly Annihilating the material and 'burning' a small hole.

He slipped through the hole in his Shadow Lurk state.

There was a camera inside the compartment, and Xue Jing moved to the platform behind the Divine Relic, into the blind spot of the camera, and a hand emerged from the shadows, his fingers lightly resting on the pen-shaped Divine Relic.

[Divine Substance detected, Divine Absorption in progress...]

'By the looks of it, this must be [GOD-1661·Pen of Midas],' Xue Jing thought to himself.

A pen that turns to real gold whatever it writes on, but not very useful.

With the efficiency of human writing, it takes at least two hours to fill an A4 sheet with ink, producing one sheet of Gold Paper every two hours, which is incredibly low yield.

And this thing has to be written by a person to work; in a machine, it just becomes a normal pen without ink...

[Divine Absorption complete]

[Divinity held: 836]

'Very good,' Xue Jing raised an eyebrow, left the compartment, and proceeded to the next target...

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