Lu Qing: "Having broken through to the later stage of the Purple Mansion, the power of a Divine Ability is truly profound."

With a trace of regret, he opened his eyes. Golden Heart Formation, this still imperfect Divine Ability, manifested the traces of its Law within his Dantian and Purple Mansion. Although Lu Qing could skillfully apply and touch it, when wanting to set up, break, or study Formations outside, with the help of this Divine Ability, his speed would be far faster than before.

Imperceptibly, it also enhanced his Comprehension regarding Formations in this aspect.

But when Lu Qing wanted to understand the Laws of heaven and earth more deeply, that arrogant and domineering posture that tolerated nothing made him immediately halt his cultivation actions.

The Laws of heaven and earth, touching the Dao—under such conscious sobriety, if Lu Qing failed to grasp that flash of spiritual light, it would be entirely impossible to touch upon insights related to the Dao. Back that time, Lu Qing could not clearly explain whether it was good fortune or if his karmic opportunity had simply arrived. In short, his breakthrough in cultivation now also completed the idea he had before entering seclusion.

That was a breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Seventh Stage.

As for the issues of karmic opportunity and Karma he thought of, Lu Qing had not paid much attention to this aspect before. This was not because he kept it on his mind daily, but because he was constantly in action, severing the buds of Karma beforehand in the minutest details. Of course, these were all things he was able to sever himself.

"Mn, it is time to leave seclusion, and time to go take on a mission."

Lu Qing shook his head. How did he feel that he hadn't been out for long, yet missions popped up again so quickly? He wondered how other people cultivation. Thinking of this, Lu Qing patted his sleeves and cast a Cleansing Spell, making the already clean cultivation room even cleaner.

He glanced at the Jade Slip and found that it contained only routine news and some letters of challenge, in which he had little interest. With people fighting to the death here, he had no desire to go watch the commotion. This time, he was going out to execute a mission, so he merely swept a casual glance over it and did not continue reading.

"Nearly two months have passed. The time spent in seclusion for this breakthrough is longer than before."

Lu Qing calculated and looked up outside the courtyard building. Beyond the hanging mountain, the weather was misty and rainy at this moment, with dark clouds covering the sky and drizzles drifting down. Lu Qing did not alter the weather here; experiencing nature and comprehending nature, he did not reject this environment of the four seasons operating in heaven and earth.

Lu Qing walked out, a clear light rising around his body, invisibly deflecting the continuous drizzle.

He walked on the water surface and found that the spiritual fields over there were still thriving; two months' time was not yet too long.

Since it was already raining naturally, Lu Qing did not do anything superfluous like casting another cloud and rain spell on them.

"It is almost summer, and there are many rainstorms at this time. Going out now should be fine."

Lu Qing thought for a moment, opened his disciple Token, and his Divine Sense re-entered the Mission Hall. After filtering by the conditions of his cultivation Realm, a long string of spiritual lights quickly refreshed on the jade-white light screen in front of him. Some mission spiritual lights were incomparably detailed, while others consisted of only a single sentence.

All kinds of missions were available, but they were basically divided into the few aspects Lu Qing had checked before: patrol and vigilance, investigation and maintenance, pursuit and combat, inspection and search, and so on. They were nothing more than missions related to boundary zones, demonic and evil Cultivators, offerings of various state Sects and Families, and Spiritual Vein and earth vein resources.

"Demonic and evil Cultivators—tracking down, capturing, and slaying them. I still won't go meddle in this excitement."

Last time, there were some scattered demonic Cultivators who saw that the situation was bad, fled on the spot, and scattered outward.

In the Profound Heaven Domain, it was impossible to completely execute them all. After all, wherever there were Cultivators, demonic and evil Cultivators could fundamentally never be eradicated. Those who could survive by hiding here and there were every single one old Demons.

"Patrol, maintenance—why are all these missions related to pursuit now?"

The missions Lu Qing favored in his heart were naturally those with fewer people, fewer troubles, and high rewards. However, if such good missions really existed, they would never have been released.

Lu Qing looked around, and the vast majority of the missions above possessed a characteristic to a greater or lesser degree, which was that they were tricky.

Missions that were easy to complete had already been accepted by people when they first appeared or even before they were published.

Now, even the ones inspecting a local Spiritual Vein only displayed a single sentence, with no extra intelligence information stated at all.

【Earth Vein: Proceed to White Ape Mountain in Qingping Prefecture, Pingzhou, to investigate the earth veins of White Ape Mountain's terrain. It is suspected that there are hidden circumstances within. The completer will obtain one quota to access the Fire Cloud Grotto-heaven.】

Yet with just this single sentence, Lu Qing instantly felt a chill surge up his back.

Fire Cloud Grotto-heaven—he had heard of this place! Wasn't this the place that the top-ranking disciples could enter back during the initial initiation trial?

Lu Qing was no longer a cultivation novice; he had thoroughly read some books and Jade Slips of the Dao Academy and knew that the Fire Cloud Grotto-heaven was a true Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land. It was not a place where ordinary disciples like them could cultivation—a blessed land under that banner. Who knew how many disciples lined up wanting to enter, and even having Contribution Points wouldn't work.

Now the reward was this, but the result still showed no one had accepted it, and it was unknown what hidden circumstances truly lay within.

"This mission is perilous."

From this single sentence, Lu Qing had already seen a thread of risk.

He continued looking further down, countless missions falling into his view.

When he reached the later part.

"The earliest publication time for this is nearly a year ago, yet it has still not been concluded."

Lu Qing looked at a mission and said in novelty.

【Pursuit: Evil Cultivator Zhang Renfeng (recorded image), a main altar disciple of the evil vein lineage. He is cunning and ruthless, adept at altering his shape and disguise, and shielding his aura. His inferred Realm a year ago was the Purple Mansion Third Stage. He went on a killing spree in Ningfeng County, slaughtering tens of thousands of mortals, and furthermore... Anyone who slays him will obtain one thousand Contribution Points, one thousand Spirit Stones, and additionally acquire a set of superior cultivation technique.】

Lu Qing glanced at the mission's publication time, but after reading it, his pupils slightly constricted as he locked his gaze onto a location mentioned above.

Ningfeng County!

Lu Qing knew this place.

Why did he have an impression of it? Purely because in the hexagram reading during the last garrison mission, it was mentioned that there were secrets within this Ningfeng County. Because he had stumbled upon the secret, he was silenced and killed. In that hexagram reading sheet, it was a Ominous Divination.

Recalling it now, Lu Qing instantly connected the pursuit mission here with what the previous hexagram reading had shown.