"Sooner or later, I'll go. For now, I must attend to the matters at hand." He looked at Fu Manman, "Don't you have any plans? Like arrangements for your cultivation..."

Fu Manman said, "Since I'm planning to stay for a while, I'm planning to prepare for a breakthrough to the Fetal Movement Realm."

"Breakthrough... Given your body, the word 'breakthrough' doesn't really apply. When the time comes, it'll just be as difficult as taking a step forward, isn't it?"

With her Unconscious Body, she had no shackles in her realm, not even on her Dao.

It was roughly like this: when the time comes, she just chooses a Dao, walks on it, and then selects a Dao opportunity to achieve the Fetal Movement Realm.

She didn't need to sense the Dao like others, gradually gaining its approval, and then spend some time comprehending the path.

Fu Manman smiled, "I still need to prepare well." Saying this, she became somewhat serious, "Recently, I've had a strange feeling."

"What kind of feeling?"

"It feels like... there's a Dao actively approaching me."

"What kind of Dao?"

"Fire, golden fire. Yet it's not the 'fire' from the Five Elements Earth Phenomenon Dao. It's very mysterious... it doesn't feel like an innate Dao, but rather..." She paused.

Fan Wubing continued, "More like a complete Acquired Dao, right."

"Hey, how did you know?" Fu Manman asked curiously.

Fan Wubing knew, of course.

From her description, it must be that the Golden Crow had passed on its Dao legacy to her.

He couldn't help but think... that Golden Crow really took his previous masquerade as the Seven Luminaries True Monarch as some sort of divine intention. Seven Luminaries True Monarch, Seven Luminaries True Monarch... What kind of person was he really?

While studying the Dao of talismans, he often saw this name.

Many talisman masters, when invoking talismans, liked to recite the name of the Seven Luminaries True Monarch.

After all, talismans are a concrete manifestation of the Heavenly Dao's power.

Does this mean that the Seven Luminaries True Monarch is connected to the Heavenly Dao?

Fan Wubing couldn't help but think further... He wasn't sure if continually borrowing the prestige of the Seven Luminaries True Monarch would have any consequences.

"Hey!" Fu Manman waved her hand in front of him, "Why have you suddenly drifted off into a daze?"

Fan Wubing snapped back to reality, "It's nothing. Speaking of, how do you feel about that Dao actively coming toward you?"

Fu Manman said, "I'm also undecided. Because I've never heard of something like this before... A complete Acquired Dao is certainly better than an incomplete Innate Dao. But why is it approaching me?"

Fan Wubing said, "Someone has chosen you."

"Is this good or bad?"

Fan Wubing's eyes grew deep, "I think it's good. Even before you were born, you suffered from the difficulty of fire poison. But perhaps that was a kind of trial."

"A trial."

"Yes."

Fu Manman had never asked Fan Wubing exactly how he helped cure her illness. She knew it was Fan Wubing's secret.

"Alright then, since you say there's no problem, then there must be no problem. In that case, I'll accept it." She said with a smile, "I feel that the Acquired Dao must be very powerful. Once I break through to the Fetal Movement Realm, I might even be more powerful than you. By then, let me, your elder sister, protect you!"

"Since when are you my elder sister?"

"I imagined it myself."

"..."

After walking down a certain street, Fan Wubing stopped, "It's getting late, you take Xianchan and head back first."

"What are you going to do?"

"Just a small matter."

"Alright." Although Fu Manman didn't ask what the matter was, she cautiously instructed, "But no going to the brothel, okay?" She was particularly sensitive about that.

"I won't, I won't. What do you take me for?"

The relationship between Fan Wubing and Fu Manman was currently very ambiguous. Their interactions seemed to be that of a couple, but both knew clearly that it wasn't quite there yet, with an insurmountable gap between them.

It's quite odd. Fu Manman couldn't quite understand why, after spending so much time together, they were still like this... there was progress, but not much... She couldn't distinguish what Fan Wubing's attitude towards her was anymore. She could only hope that things might change when she became an adult.

After parting with Fu Manman and Xianchan, Fan Wubing turned into a nearby street, moving forward along the path he remembered.

...

Buxu City's Gen District.

Shilong Lane.

As a Craftsmanship Lane, it housed storefronts established by craftsmen of various trades. The thirty-six trades, each well-represented. Meat butchers, cosmetic merchants, clothiers, jade dealers, jewelry vendors...

Even at night, Shilong Lane wasn't cold and desolate, with brilliant lights emanating from the shops. The link point was actually the luminous stones in the street gutter, casting a bright glow over the night.

Each street gutter in Buxu City was fitted with numerous luminous stones. These stones absorbed dispersed celestial energy during the day, and at night, they burned the celestial energy, shining brightly. This was one of the inspirations for the term Great Li City of Eternal Night.

Deep in the alley, there was a storefront for ironworks, named "Three Flavors Blacksmith Shop."

While other shops were lit brilliantly, the Three Flavors Blacksmith Shop alone was dimly lit, with few visitors, allowing the sound of metal clashing to resonate from within.

In the fireroom of the shop's backyard,

a middle-aged man, shirtless, was gripping a hammer, striking a piece of red-hot metal. His skin had a bronze hue, and in the glow of the red fire and dim light, combined with the sheen of perspiration on his body, he presented an image rich in chiaroscuro.

Behind him stood an elderly man.

None other than Ruan Shu, previously in charge of the Demon-Suppressing Bell aboard the flying ship.

Ruan Shu stood respectfully behind, without saying a word.

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