Dark Veins

The college ranked third in the overall evaluation and was assigned to Section 800 of the Southern District. No one explains why. No one cares either. Lu Chen cared. He started recording data. Reiki flow, distribution curve, periodic decline at night. Thirty days later, he calculated that 20% of the spiritual energy in the entire Southern District disappeared out of thin air - every day, every month, every year, it was quietly taken away from all the disciples' cultivation time. The official explanation is that the spiritual source is declining. But the recession will have no direction. It wouldn't be just on the lower left side of his guide stone, it wouldn't start every day accurately at 1 hour, and the data wouldn't suddenly become secret while he was tracing it. There is an invisible net in Houtumen. The hero spent his life building a fair system. A hundred years after his death, someone opened a hole in his system, then another, and then countless holes. Lu Chen is the final node. He had nothing - no background, no training, no one cared about what he saw. But he saw it.