Chapter 80 - Searching for a Way to Return

In the following few days.

Long Yue continued her daily streaming work, while Lin Fan would ride a shared bike to the nearby market to buy groceries and cook. Their days passed peacefully and uneventfully.

However, a rumor had recently appeared online. The rumor was that inside a gym in the Magic Capital called the 'Buff Men and Buff Women Club,' someone had lifted a 240kg barbell with one hand to do bicep curls and had also completed a nearly 300kg bench press.

This news caused a huge uproar in the bodybuilding community, with countless professional fitness experts jumping out to say it was impossible.

The strange thing was, all the surveillance equipment in the gym from that day had been damaged and couldn't be checked. All that remained was the word-of-mouth accounts from the people in the gym that day, and the incident became a legend.

After the incident, Lin Fan, as the instigator, naturally couldn't go to the gym anymore and quietly stayed at home to write.

“Phew~”

After finishing his writing for the day, he stretched, got up, and walked to the living room to get some water.

As he passed behind Long Yue, he happened to see her scrolling with the mouse wheel, completely engrossed in searching through browser pages.

“Empress, what are you looking for?”

Lin Fan leaned in from behind her and asked.

Long Yue was startled by his sudden appearance and shot him an irritated glance.

“This Empress is searching for a way and for clues to return.”

“A way to return?”

“Yes! Demon Sovereign, you are originally a member of this world, so you can stay here. But This Empress can't just stay here forever.”

A hint of worry was revealed in Long Yue's serious expression.

It had been almost three months since she had transmigrated to this world. She didn't know what had happened to the Immortal Realm after she left, or what the situation on the Immortal-Demon Continent was like. She couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Now that her streaming work had stabilized and she no longer had to worry about her livelihood, it was about time to start looking for a way back.

But she had no spiritual power, and the Demon Sovereign's meager remaining spiritual power alone was not enough to break the shackles of this world's void.

So, she thought she would try searching online for any clues related to other worlds or the Immortal-Demon Continent.

“So? Found anything?”

Lin Fan leaned down to the computer screen and asked curiously.

“Not yet…”

Long Yue's delicate brows furrowed. She scrolled the web page with one hand while cupping her cheek with the other, her pretty face looking very helpless.

“This Empress searched for information related to 'other worlds,' 'Immortal Realm,' 'Immortal-Demon Continent,' and 'cultivators,' but all that came up were various novels and games. There were no useful clues at all.”

“That can't be helped. The terms you're searching for are all keywords from xianxia novels, so naturally, all that appears will be novel-related things.”

“Spiritual power doesn't exist in this world in the first place, so how could anything related to it appear online.”

Lin Fan moved away from the computer screen and leisurely turned to get some water.

Long Yue grew pensive, her gaze fixed on the computer screen, mulling over the words he had just spoken.

Suddenly, she was inspired. A flash of insight struck her, and her hands began to type quickly on the keyboard.

Spiritual power doesn't exist in this world, so nothing related to it should appear. But, if I think about it in reverse, if I do find something related to spiritual power online, doesn't that prove that spiritual power does exist in this world?!

“I found it! Demon Sovereign, This Empress found it!”

Soon, Long Yue pushed off with her feet, sliding backwards from the computer desk in her chair, and shouted excitedly to Lin Fan.

Lin Fan put down his cup of water and turned his head in confusion.

“What did you find?”

“Hmph hmph, a way to go back, of course!”

Long Yue let out two triumphant hums, her face full of joy.

“You found a way to go back?”

Lin Fan was shocked and quickly walked back to her side.

It wasn't that he hadn't tried to find a way back to the Immortal-Demon Continent. But the meager spiritual power left in his body and a world completely devoid of it had convinced him that there was absolutely no way to traverse the void and return at present.

But now Long Yue was saying she had found a way back, and on the internet, of all places…?

“Demon Sovereign, let This Empress ask you: why are the two of us unable to return to the Immortal-Demon Continent right now?”

The corners of Long Yue's mouth lifted as she asked confidently in return.

“That's obviously because our own spiritual power is insufficient, and our cultivation cannot be utilized,” Lin Fan replied without a second thought.

“Correct! It is precisely the lack of spiritual power that is limiting us!”

Long Yue pointed excitedly at Lin Fan.

“As long as the two of us can restore our spiritual power, we can join forces to break the shackles of the void and returning to the Immortal-Demon Continent will be no problem!”

Hearing this, Lin Fan was bewildered.

Isn't this just circling back to the original problem?

If they could restore their spiritual power, there's no way the two of them would still be here right now.

Could it be…?

Lin Fan suddenly thought of something and looked at Long Yue in disbelief.

“Don't tell me, Empress... you've found a way to restore spiritual power?!”

“Precisely!”

The corners of Long Yue's mouth lifted. She nodded triumphantly, turned, moved the mouse, and clicked open an image.

Lin Fan leaned in for a look and immediately frowned slightly.

The image clearly displayed a stalk of ginseng.

“Ginseng…?”

“Yes! It's this thing, ginseng!”

“What does this have to do with restoring spiritual power?”

“Of course there is!”

“This thing is very similar to the spirit ginseng, and even the immortal ginseng, of my Immortal Realm. They need to mature in spirit soil rich with spiritual power for a hundred or even a thousand years before they can be used as medicine!”

“A ten-thousand-year-old immortal ginseng can even take human form, becoming a 'ginseng' with its own spiritual consciousness and embryo!”

“Once formed, this item is bound to contain immense spiritual power. It's an indispensable medicinal ingredient for cultivators to nourish their spiritual sea and embryo!”

Hearing this, Lin Fan gradually understood Long Yue's meaning.

“You mean… this ginseng might also contain spiritual power?”

“Correct!”

Long Yue nodded solemnly and affirmatively.

As is well known, spiritual power is the foundation of a cultivator. A cultivator who has lost their spiritual power is like a mortal who has lost their limbs—unable to do anything.

To get back, the most pressing matter is to first find a way to restore their own spiritual power; otherwise, everything else is just empty talk.

And as it happened, this was a world without a single trace of spiritual power.

But this world is so large. Is there really not a single trace of spiritual power anywhere?

Could it be possible that the spiritual power here is just so thin as to be almost non-existent, but that in some corner of the world, it actually exists?

Assuming that most regions of this world have no spiritual power, then if spiritual power did exist in a certain place, that place would inevitably experience some celestial phenomena or events difficult to explain with common sense under its influence.

The first thing she thought of was the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that are nurtured by spiritual power. She tried searching for them and, at a glance, saw this 'ginseng,' which was extremely similar to and had the same name as the one in her Immortal Realm.

If there were no spiritual power at all, how could a rare, worldly spiritual medicine like ginseng possibly exist!

Perhaps there is actually spiritual power deep underground somewhere, which nourished this thing and allowed it to be born into the world!

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