Zeng Jingrong walked up to her and looked up as well, "What are you looking at?"
"The rules are gone."
Tian Jing's words made Zeng Jingrong freeze. "It, it should have entered your body."
Tian Jing suddenly turned to look at him, "The grey mist?"
"It should be," Zeng Jingrong nodded. "I was sent flying by the grey mist, and that grey mist then drilled into your celestial cover."
"After that, you were writhing in pain. When you rolled onto the black fish eye, it suddenly disappeared. Just now, you suddenly reappeared."
Disappeared?
Before Zeng Jingrong could stop her, Tian Jing walked to the black fish eye and stood on it.
The two looked at each other. Why hadn't she disappeared?
Zeng Jingrong beckoned to Tian Jing, "Hurry over here. My heart is still hanging in mid-air, not settled yet."
Tian Jing returned to the middle of the Yin-Yang fish, sat down cross-legged, and beckoned to Zeng Jingrong.
"Sit down, tell me what you saw, and I'll tell you what I experienced. We'll analyze it."
Zeng Jingrong sat opposite her. "I've already told you everything I saw just now."
"Right, you were spun out of the ginseng forest by the mist. That was its doing too."
"It must have held a grudge because you led the way in destroying the black and white tomb and ruined its countless years of planning."
Tian Jing agreed with Zeng Jingrong's idea. "It wanted to destroy me, or perhaps it wanted to inhabit my body and control me."
"While meditating, I kept a part of my consciousness hidden in a corner of my mind."
"Even if it stirred up my mind, that part of my consciousness remained undisturbed."
"Later, when my head stopped hurting, I suddenly went to a post-apocalyptic world..."
Tian Jing couldn't possibly talk about her two past lives, let alone her first life's family, so she could only talk about the post-apocalyptic world.
"...When I reactivated my superpowers to level nine and comprehended the destruction skill at the same time, I remembered the pain before entering the dream."
"I abandoned all external factors, emptied my mind, and sat still."
"Then the grey mist appeared. It lied to me..."
"I still ignored it. It got angry and transformed into needles to stab my mind."
"The hidden half of my consciousness quietly surrounded it when the grey mist appeared. Seizing this opportunity, it transformed into a sticky membrane and adhered to the scattered grey mist needles..."
"All the needles were sent out. When I opened my eyes, I saw you."
Zeng Jingrong looked up at the sky. "Have you noticed that the mist above seems thinner than usual?"
Tian Jing also looked up. "It is a bit thinner. How much time has passed?"
Zeng Jingrong's tone was relaxed. "Only a day and a half. It's now noon on the third day."
Tian Jing turned to him and asked, "Do you think the rules were left in my past life's dream?"
Zeng Jingrong also turned to look at her. "I don't know. It's possible they are in the fish eye too."
Tian Jing frowned. "Then it could still come out?"
"I don't know," Zeng Jingrong said the same three words. "But you sent it out bit by bit. Perhaps the Yin-Yang fish has digested it?"
"Didn't you say this maze might have been designed by some powerful being to contain those rules?"
Tian Jing had a question. "Wouldn't that powerful being know how to decompose it?"
Zeng Jingrong shook his head. "Unless it decomposes itself, who can decompose this kind of thing?"
"It underestimated you, and in the end, it was destroyed by you, a woman."
"Go!" Tian Jing chided, "You say it as if it were a man."
"Regardless, it's very clean here now. The team members can come for an upgrade."
Zeng Jingrong wasn't in a hurry. "Let's wait for a while longer. What if the fish eye hasn't finished digesting it yet?"
What he cared about was, "Have you upgraded or not?"
"No," Tian Jing shook her head. As Zeng Jingrong looked disappointed, she walked into the ginseng forest.
Only a little bit was left.
In the blink of an eye, the ginseng forest turned to ash. Tian Jing, who was sitting in the middle, had her aura suddenly increase, and then it returned to normal.
A rumbling thunderclap sounded overhead, and then it disappeared.
Zeng Jingrong was speechless. Was upgrading that simple?
Tian Jing patted the dust off her body. "Let's go back and wash up. Is your body okay?"
"It's fine," Zeng Jingrong shook his head. "Meditating for a day and a night healed it."
Back in the office's lounge, Tian Jing washed up before checking her phone. There were over a dozen text messages.
They were all from her husband, worrying about her.
She replied with a single sentence: 'Successfully completed, coming home tonight,' and then left the lounge with her phone.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Someone knocked on the office door.
"Come in."
The office door was pushed open, revealing the secretary, Jiang Lin, outside.
Tian Jing raised an eyebrow. "Is something the matter?"
Jiang Lin smiled and nodded. "Captain Zeng asked you to go to the cafeteria for dinner when you're done."
"Okay, I'm going now."
Tian Jing said as she walked out. "Where are Jiqing and Jixiang?"
"They went to play behind the building." Speaking of these two children, Jiang Lin remembered that Li Weihao had also been going behind the building recently.
Li Weihao, who rarely appeared except for meals when not on missions, had been waiting behind the building every day for the past ten days.
Thinking of Sister Li, who was as cold as Li Weihao, she had some guesses. "Captain Tian."
"Hmm?" Tian Jing turned to look at her.
"I... uh, it's nothing." Jiang Lin didn't know how to say it.
She was only guessing. Even if it were true, she had no standing to say anything.
At first, Li Weihao was indifferent to her advances, and then he directly rejected her. It was she who continued to pursue him with all her heart.
To say she continued to pursue him was her own one-sided wish; Li Weihao had never given her a chance to get close.
Every time they ate, he brought Xiao Xiao Hei, who would directly pounce on her, not allowing her to get close.
Thinking of this, and then thinking of how much Xiao Xiao Hei liked and was close to Sister Li, she completely lost confidence.
Seeing that the usually energetic secretary had suddenly become listless, Tian Jing guessed what she had swallowed.
She comforted her, "Many things depend on fate. If there's no fate, you can't force it."
Jiang Lin suddenly looked up. "You? You knew?"
"Mm," Tian Jing nodded. Regardless of what the girl was asking if she knew, she answered:
"I also told you, I won't interfere with their personal matters."
"My second son has found a girlfriend and they are engaged."
"Only Ranan is left. You should look around for someone you have the most fate with, and don't push away your own fate."
Tian Jing patted her shoulder as a gesture of comfort and then went downstairs.
Jiang Lin was stunned for a moment before returning to the secretary's office to pick up her lunchbox and left the administrative building.
Tian Jing heard laughter from behind the building at the main entrance and changed direction, walking towards the back of the building.
She saw Jiqing and Jixiang running happily, and Xiao Xiao Hei jumping in place.
She saw Li Wanting, smiling sincerely, pretending to chase the two children.
She saw her elder son watching Li Wanting with a smile by the side.
She called out to the four people and one wolf, "It's time to eat."
"Little great-aunt."
"Little great-aunt."
Jiqing and Jixiang ran towards her.
She crouched down and hugged the two children who rushed into her arms. "Go quickly and ask Aunt Li to wipe your sweat for you."
The two children turned and ran towards Li Wanting.
"Mom?"
Li Weihao walked over. "Why did you come in again?"
Tian Jing glanced towards Li Wanting. "Captain Zeng and I went to the maze."
"Did something happen?" Li Weihao asked nervously.
Tian Jing shook her head. "No, I went to cultivate."
Li Weihao was speechless. Did someone who spent all day fiddling with countless seedlings with superpowers need to cultivate?
Or cultivate in the maze?
It must have been to upgrade. "Was it successful?"
Tian Jing turned and smiled at her eldest son. "It was successful. You need to learn from Wanting's lesson. When it comes to tempering yourself using the Ouyang family's cultivation techniques, you must do it within your limits."
Li Weihao nodded. "I know."
Tian Jing was quite confident in her eldest son. She extended her hand to the running Jiqing and Jixiang. "Come on, let's go to the cafeteria for dinner together."