Siheyuan: tomb robbing? I am serious about hunting.

Chapter 1159 Morning

Spirit Vein Era: Qingyun Volume 2: The awakened spiritual consciousness seemed to sink in warm water, slowly rising. Yun Chen struggled to open his heavy eyelids, and the first thing he saw was the familiar wooden beams of the house, where bacon from last winter still hung, exuding a faint salty aroma. The air was filled with the scent of herbs, mixed with his father's unique mineral scent, instantly relaxing his tense nerves. "Chen'er, you're finally awake!" A hoarse, excited voice echoed in his ears. Yun Chen turned his eyes and saw his father, Yun Kaishan, sitting on a bench beside the bed. His bloodshot eyes were red, and a blue stubble had sprouted on his chin. His face was filled with worry and joy. His father's clothes were still stained with dust and dirt, obviously he had been guarding the bed and had not even had time to change. Yun Kaishan reached out his rough hand and carefully touched Yun Chen's forehead, as if to check his temperature. "How do you feel? Is there any discomfort? Does your chest still hurt?" He asked in a series of questions, his tone filled with an urgency that was hard to conceal. During the two days and two nights that Yun Chen was in a coma, Yun Kaishan hardly slept a wink. He stayed by the bed, looking at his son's pale face, his heart aching as if it were being cut by a knife. He prayed countless times in his heart, hoping that his son would wake up safely. Yun Chen moved his fingers and felt that his body was still a little weak, as if he had just experienced a serious illness, but the severe pain when he was hit by the blue light beam had disappeared, replaced by a warm feeling, as if a warm stream was flowing slowly in his body, flowing through his limbs and bones, bringing waves of comfortable warmth. He tried to sit up, and Yun Kaishan quickly reached out to support him and put a thick pillow behind him. "Dad, I'm fine, just a little tired." Yun Chen said softly, his voice still a little hoarse. He glanced around the room and spotted a medicine bowl on the table. Some brown residue still clung to it, evidently the medicine his father had prepared for him by a doctor. "How's that black crystal? Is everything alright in the mine?" He suddenly remembered his experience in the mine: the black crystal that had glowed blue and made a strange buzzing sound, and the sudden blue beam of light. Everything felt like a bizarre dream. When Yun Kaishan heard the words "black crystal," his expression grew complex. He sighed, sat down on the edge of the bed, and slowly spoke, "The crystal is gone. After I carried you out of the mine, I worried there might still be danger inside, so I went back to see if I could bring it out and find out what it was. But when I returned to the stone chamber, it was empty. The black crystal had vanished without a trace, not even a trace left." He paused, then continued, "Also, the depths of the mine seem to be blocked by something. I followed the path I had taken, and halfway through, I found the passage blocked by thick rock. The rock looked like it had suddenly fallen from the rock face, completely blocking the entire passage and making it impossible to pass. I tried to knock with my pick, but the rock was so hard I couldn't budge." Yun Chen frowned, puzzled. Why had the black crystal suddenly disappeared? Why was the passage deep in the mine blocked by rock? Was all this just a coincidence? Or was there some hidden secret behind this? "Chen'er, there's something else I must tell you." Yun Kaishan's expression grew more serious. He looked Yun Chen in the eye and spoke earnestly, "While you were unconscious, a blue light emanated from you, just like the light from that black crystal—faint, yet distinct. I was terrified and quickly summoned Doctor Wang from town. He took your pulse and examined you, but he shook his head and said he'd never seen anything like it in his decades of practice. He couldn't explain it, so he could only prescribe some nourishing herbs and tell you to rest well." Yun Chen was startled. He instinctively touched his chest. The skin was smooth, without any wounds, and he didn't feel anything unusual. But his father's words convinced him that something strange had indeed happened to his body. He recalled the feeling of being struck by the blue beam, the powerful energy that surged into his body. Could it be that the mysterious black crystal had left something special within him? For the next few days, Yun Chen recuperated at home. Every day, his father brewed medicine for him and prepared nutritious meals for him, hoping he would recover quickly. Under his father's meticulous care, Yunchen recovered quickly, his weakness gradually disappearing, and his energy increasing. As his health improved, Yunchen gradually noticed more strange changes in himself. One morning, Yunchen woke up and saw his father chopping wood in the yard. His father was old, and chopping wood seemed a bit strenuous, taking a breath with each chop. Yunchen felt a pang of pain at the sight of his father's exhausted figure. He walked over and said, "Dad, let me help you chop the wood." Yun Kaishan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. "No, you just woke up and haven't fully recovered yet. You can't do heavy work." Yunchen smiled and said, "Dad, I'm really fine. Look how energetic I am now." Without waiting for his father's consent, he picked up the axe that had been placed nearby and chopped the wood. The axe fell with a crisp "crack," and a piece of wood as thick as a bowl was instantly split in two. Yun Chen himself was stunned. Although he had helped his father chop firewood before, splitting a log as thick as a bowl in half so effortlessly was absolutely impossible. You know, in the past, he needed to use all his strength to chop a log this thick at least two or three times before it was split, and his arms would ache for days after each split. Yun Kaishan was also stunned. He looked at Yun Chen, then at the log that had been split in half on the ground, and said in surprise, "Chen'er, you...how did you become so strong?" Yun Chen was also a little confused. He tried picking up another thicker log and raised his axe to chop it down again. With a "crack", the thicker log was also easily split in half. His arms didn't feel any pain at all, but instead felt full of strength. "I don't know what's going on, I just feel like I have endless energy in my body," Yun Chen said, his heart filled with shock. He suddenly remembered the scene of moving ore before. In the past, when he encountered larger ores in the mine, he and his father had to work together to move them. But now, he felt that he could easily move those large ores by himself. In order to verify his idea,