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Bai Yuekui nodded and led them toward the edge of the village.

There was a courtyard here, filled with white-haired elderly people.

"Gordon, we old bones need to contribute our remaining strength as well. Later, let's go to the farm and help Tara!"

Before entering the courtyard, Mark heard a familiar voice.

"Teacher Elon!" Mark rushed into the courtyard and shouted.

Hearing the familiar voice, Elon's eyes widened as he looked at Mark.

"You... Mark!" Elon walked over with a shocked expression. "How did you get here?!"

At this time, Elon was still unaware of the cooperation between the Lighthouse and Dragon Bone Village, let alone that Mark had succeeded as the City Lord.

"Were you kicked off the Lighthouse?"

"Teacher Elon, why is your first reaction that Mark was kicked off, rather than him coming here on his own?" Jing Yuan said with a smile.

Elon looked at the group of people behind them; they were all Team Members of the Wasteland Hunters, and even Jing Nan was there.

"What exactly happened?"

"Teacher Elon, it's a long story!" Mark and his group recounted everything that had happened since the Far-Away Journey ceremony began, telling Elon every detail.

After listening, Elon was also extremely shocked.

He knew the factional struggles on the Lighthouse very well; he wasn't surprised that Charles had staged a coup. What surprised him was that under such circumstances, they had actually managed to counter-kill Charles.

Elon looked at Mark, pulled him aside, and whispered, "In other words, Charles is still alive, and Morgan is still alive too?"

"Yes, Teacher."

Elon frowned. "Mark, I know you are kind-hearted. Morgan is old, but Charles absolutely cannot be kept alive."

"He is currently imprisoned; there won't be any trouble."

Originally, Mark wanted Charles to go on a Far-Away Journey, but in the current situation, the Far-Away Journey had lost its meaning.

Elon looked at Mark; he couldn't exactly force Mark to kill Charles.

Mark's kindness was an important trait that distinguished him from Morgan. Perhaps this was where the hope of the Lighthouse lay, and Elon didn't want to destroy this quality of his.

Elon's gaze turned toward the distance, lost in thought.

After catching up with Elon, Jing Yuan and Mark discussed and prepared to arrange for the first batch of 50 people to come down and learn the Guiyuan Heart Method and how to independently stimulate potential. Those who learned it would then pass these methods back to the Lighthouse.

Returning to Origin is the most basic thing in Dragon Bone Village; the villagers learn it when they are children.

Whether it is learning Returning to Origin or stimulating potential, long-term physical training is required.

Once everything was settled, Jing Yuan and Mark took the 50 selected Lighthouse people to learn Returning to Origin and train their physical fitness under Ulaanbaatar.

Meanwhile, Jing Nan coordinated the technical staff of the Lighthouse to exchange technology with Dragon Bone Village.

Jing Yuan and the others stayed in Dragon Bone Village during the day and returned to the Lighthouse at night.

Everything on the Lighthouse proceeded as usual... In the early morning, the sunlight outside passed through the lenses embedded in the mountain and shone into Dragon Bone Village.

The composite folding farm slowly unfolded, allowing the plants to receive the sunlight.

"Hey! Ha!"

A group of young villagers from Dragon Bone Village were training under the guidance of Ulaanbaatar.

"Squat the Horse Stance well, and you'll keep your vitality as you age; squat the Horse Stance firmly, and your Returning to Origin will not waver!"

Under Ulaanbaatar's instruction, these young people did not dare to be slack.

Ulaanbaatar looked at the people from the Lighthouse and said with a serious face, "If the people from the Lighthouse want to learn Returning to Origin, they must also start by squatting in the Horse Stance!"

Mark glanced at the people behind him and said, "Everyone heard Master Wu's words! Start the Horse Stance!"

"Yes!"

Led by Mark, the people from the Lighthouse formed a queue and performed the Horse Stance in unison.

Ulaanbaatar just took a glance and then remained silent.

A group of Awakened Practitioners from Dragon Bone Village heard that people from the Lighthouse had come down to learn Returning to Origin, and a bunch of them ran over to watch.

Among them, the masked Xu Tong was the most enthusiastic. He looked at Great Mountain next to him and asked, "Want to make a bet on who among them will master Returning to Origin first?"

Great Mountain glanced at Xu Tong, turned his head, and said, "Who's betting with you! I'd rather go play a few rounds of Mahjong!"

Xu Tong then looked at Amur nearby. "Will you bet?"

Amur glanced at him and said, "There's nothing to bet on! The stronger the strength, the faster they master Returning to Origin. First is Jing Yuan, second is Mark."

"Then let's bet on the third one!"

Amur also turned his head away and ignored him.

Time passed minute by minute, and some of the people from the Lighthouse were already unable to hold on.

However, being Lighthouse people on The Surface, everyone gritted their teeth and persevered to save face for the Lighthouse.

After fifteen minutes, the people from Dragon Bone Village were the first to be unable to hold on and fell down.

The people from the Lighthouse were still persevering.

After another two minutes, more than half of the people from Dragon Bone Village had fallen, and only then did the people from the Lighthouse begin to fall one after another.

At thirty minutes, all the people from Dragon Bone Village were lying on the ground.

Six people from the Lighthouse remained: Jing Yuan, Mark, Flying Snow, Penny, Ran Bing, and Chu Feng.

Jing Yuan glanced at Penny next to him; he hadn't expected her to be able to persevere as well.

Among the women, she, Ran Bing, and Flying Snow had lasted the longest.

Someone like Erica couldn't even hold on through the first round.

Over the next ten minutes, Penny, Flying Snow, and Ran Bing all fell to the ground one after another.

Unexpectedly, Ran Bing was the one who lasted the longest among the women.

No! She should be the one who lasted the longest among all the Lighthouse people.

After all, of the last two remaining, one had a cheat, and the other was not human.

Ulaanbaatar looked at Jing Yuan and Mark and said quite appreciatively, "Mm, you two don't need to do the Horse Stance anymore!"

Jing Yuan and Mark stood up; this kind of basic skill posed no difficulty for the two of them.

"You guys come over too!" Ulaanbaatar looked at Ran Bing, Penny, Flying Snow, and Chu Feng.

They were the six who had lasted the longest.

"You few have solid basic skills and can directly practice the Heart Method." As Ulaanbaatar spoke, he took a step forward with his right leg and dropped into a Horse Stance.

"Do as I say!"

Chapter 142: Awakening Potential

"First close your eyes, sink your qi into your Dantian, and feel a breath within your body." Ulaanbaatar's voice was low and powerful. "Note, you must ignore your breathing and heartbeat to feel it!"

Jing Yuan closed his eyes and followed the instructions to feel that breath.

At first, he could only hear his own breathing and heartbeat.

"You must face your emotions head-on. The three great laws on the Lighthouse require you to suppress your emotions. But emotions cannot be suppressed. Forcible suppression will cause source essence to form a dead knot; the more you try to untie this knot, the messier it will become."

"You must learn to let your emotions be expressed naturally. Think about it—your love, hate, joy, and anger—let these emotions flow naturally, while your inner self remains unaffected."

"Like a gentle breeze blowing through a bamboo forest, the wind passes but the bamboo does not retain its sound. Like wild geese flying across a cold pond, the geese pass but the pond does not retain their shadow!"

Listening to Ulaanbaatar's words, past loves, hates, joys, and sorrows surfaced in Jing Yuan's mind, and a breath surged within him.

But he did not think about them intentionally; instead, he let his thoughts flow freely.

At a certain moment, Jing Yuan felt a breath permeating his entire body. With a thought, he gathered all these breaths together and hid them within a black hole.

Ulaanbaatar looked at the people in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. "Good! Good! You are all excellent sprouts with great talent."

Hearing Ulaanbaatar's praise, Jing Yuan opened his eyes.

Not just Jing Yuan, the others had also entered the state of Returning to Origin.

Jing Yuan looked at the others, scanned with his Mental Power, and found that their breaths had weakened significantly, but he could still feel them.

"Master Ulaanbaatar, does this count as successful Returning to Origin for them?"

Ulaanbaatar nodded. "It's a success! With the breath lowered to this level, it will be very difficult for Phage Beasts to sense them."

Under Ulaanbaatar's guidance, the six of them, including Jing Yuan, continued to repeat these operations and gradually mastered Returning to Origin.

As for most of the others, they still had to start with the Horse Stance.

After mastering Returning to Origin, the six of them, including Jing Yuan, began to learn how to independently stimulate Source Essence Potential.

Since Ulaanbaatar had to teach the others Returning to Origin, he let his daughter, Wulan Maiduo, guide them.