C67 A glimmer of hope

In a courtyard of the Tianwu Academy, the dense Genuine Qi inside almost turned into mist.

Two ladies were talking, and one of them was Wu Youlan, the one whose chest was touched by Ye Yang in the sharing class. She was laughing merrily as she talked to the other girl.

The other girl wore a light blue dress. Although she was also a beauty, her face was always cold enough to make people not dare to approach her.

"Cousin, did you gain anything from your closed door cultivation this time? Did you break through?" Wu Youlan asked.

Cousin shook her head. "How could it be that easy? Once we reach the Martial Master Level, every increase in level will be extremely difficult. I estimate that in another month, I should be able to break through to the great perfection stage."

"Wow, it’s awesome! You’re totally worthy of the third place on the battle master ranking," Wu Youlan said excitedly.

"Enough about me. I heard that you were taken advantage of by a newbie. Is that true?" Cousin said as she looked at Wu Youlan.

"What? Cousin, don't listen to their nonsense." Wu Youlan obviously had a trace of panic.

"Really? I heard that someone's chest was groped," her cousin said coldly.

"Eh, no. He was just dizzy from sleep. He didn't intentionally touch me," Wu Youlan explained softly.

"Hmph. Regardless of whether he did it on purpose or not, when I meet him in the future, I will break his hand and let him know that we the imperial family are not so easy to bully!" Cousin said.

"That’s not necessary. I feel that he's quite innocent, not like a bad guy. Let's just forget about it," Wu Youlan pleaded.

Her cousin was a little surprised, "Eh? Are you in love with him?"

"Of course not. I just don't want to pursue this matter anymore. After all, for something like this, the greater its impact, the worse it would be," Wu Youlan explained in a hurry.

"You're right, but you can't let this brat get away with it. He’ll pay for it sooner or later, but for now, we’ll let him go."

"This time I've been in seclusion for a long time. Tell me if there are any special talents among the newcomers?"

Speaking of the newcomers, Wu Youlan immediately said excitedly, "Cousin, don't you know that there are quite a few geniuses this time!"

"There are thirteen exclusive ones, and six of them have an affinity level of five. Two even reached level six."

When she heard that Mu Bai's affinity had reached an astonishing seven, her expression finally changed, but shortly after, a look of disappointment and worry flashed across her face.

"Unfortunately, they are destined to never be drawn to us. They can only become our enemies." Cousin sighed helplessly.

"But this time, there’s a devilish one. I think you will definitely be interested, Cousin?" Wu Youlan tilted her head and said somewhat mischievously.

"Devilish Level? Stronger than Mu Bai? That's not possible. Could his affinity level be higher than Mu Bai's? " Cousin was taken aback.

"Hehe, that's not it. He's not an exclusive one, and his cultivation is extremely low, but he's a spiritual cultivator."

"What? Spiritual cultivator?” Cousin suddenly stood up and took Wu Youlan's hand, "What is his name? Which force does he belong to?"

"He's called Ye Yang. He comes from the Eight Desolations City and doesn't seem to have joined any force." Wu Youlan said after thinking for a while.

"Ye Yang, Ye Yang. Why does that sound so familiar?" Cousin frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "I remember now. The bastard who touched you is also called Ye Yang. Is it him?"

Wu Youlan's face immediately became hot, and she nodded helplessly.

"Hahahaha, that's great. Now he won't be able to run away even if he wanted to," her cousin said to Wu Youlan teasingly. "Tell me. Did you seduce him to touch you on purpose?"

"Cousin, I'm not as bad as you think!" Wu Youlan protested, embarrassed and ashamed.

"Okay. No matter what, he will be one of us after he touches you. We have to get him on our side. We are really lacking in strength right now!"

Cousin paused for a moment before saying, "I wonder how his wits and tactics are. Tell me about him."

Wu Youlan had to tell her cousin about how Ye Yang showed the purple spirit energy during the spiritual energy test, how he took out seventy people at Nan Li City during the hunt, how he broke through twice while climbing the Nine Nether Sky Stairway, helped the disciples of the clan and successfully ascended to the top.

After saying all these, Wu Youlan herself was extremely shocked, and almost felt like she was telling a story.

Her cousin was even more shocked, and only after a long while did she finally say, "Bold and meticulous, wise and scheming beyond compare, fair and square, righteous and noble. No matter what, we have to win him over."

After saying that, her cousin stared at Wu Youlan with shining eyes. Wu Youlan instantly had a bad premonition, and sure enough, her cousin said: "I'll leave this Ye Yang for you to rope in."

"Me? I can't," Wu Youlan said hesitantly.

"Why not? He's already touched you, so you must be much closer than others. Your success rate is the highest!" Cousin said with certainty.

"But …"

"Oh enough. For the sake of great course, it's worth it to sacrifice a little bit. Xiaolan, you must understand what will happen if we fail." As she said this, her cousin's face became solemn.

"Alright, Cousin, I understand." A trace of grief flashed across Wu Youlan's eyes as she replied in a low voice.

Looking at Wu Youlan's pale face, her cousin's heart ached. She gently caressed Wu Youlan's face.

"At your age, you should have been carefree, enjoying the flowering time of your life. It's a pity that we're in the royal family, so we have no choice but to accept the cruelty of fate," said cousin, and she could not hold back her tears.

"Cousin, I know." As they spoke, the two sisters hugged each other and cried.

For the next two days, Ye Yang stayed in the Scripture Pavilion, crazily searching for some books on meridians.

Finally, he found a book about innately blocked meridians. After reading it carefully a few times, Ye Yang felt extremely grave.

The innately blocked meridians had existed since ancient times, but there was nothing one could do about it, whether it was a panacea or a needle technique.

Even in the ancient times when the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was more abundant than they were now, there would still be people who were born with innately blocked meridians, but there was not a single cure.

Ye Yang walked out of the Scripture Pavilion with heavy steps. He left the Academy, arrived at a place where no one was around and let out a long cry.

He was venting his endless frustration, causing the echoes to reverberate in the surrounding area. The little thing crawled onto Ye Yang's shoulder from his embrace. And as if it could sense Ye Yang's mood, it obediently combed Ye Yang's hair.

Ye Yang looked at the Little Fox, with eyes filled with bitterness. Was he supposed to just watch it slowly die like this?

Ye Yang suddenly felt that he was extremely useless. He couldn’t help Chu Yanran when she left, but at least he still had a ray of hope.

But for this little thing, there was not a single ray of hope. Initially, he thought that after returning to the Academy to search for ancient records, he would be able to find a way to cure it with the experience of the cultivators. However, now that hope had been shattered.

He thought of the Broken Sword. But no matter how hard he tried to summon it, the Broken Sword just ignored him, as if it had fallen into a deep slumber.

A gentle breeze blew, and a leaf gently fell. Ye Yang reached out and gently caught the falling leaf.

Flowers bloomed and wilt, and the sun rose and set. There was no one who could escape the fate of destruction, was there?

Even if a tree could live for thousands or tens of thousands of years, what about tens of thousands of years later? It would still reduce to dust.

However, looking at the pattern on the leaf, Ye Yang was slightly taken aback. Its pattern looked like a kind of rune.

Ye Yang thought about it carefully. The pattern on the leaf resembled a rune called "Wind Condensing", a type of array rune.

This kind of rune was generally carved on tools, such as ships, chariots, etc. When the rune was carved on the tools, it would automatically absorb the wind power from the outside, acting as the driving force.

However, this kind of rune was not very powerful. A large ship would need hundreds of these runes in order to take effect.

Looking at the leaf, Ye Yang suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Objects could absorb energy from the outside world through carved runes.

Then could human body also absorb spiritual energy from the outside world by inscribing runes?

Thinking about it, Ye Yang immediately felt a glimmer of hope. He excitedly ran back to Scripture Pavilion, browsed through various runes to see if there was any that suited his line of thinking.

But after Ye Yang scrolled through the introductions of runes, there was nothing that fit his expectations.

Ye Yang was not discouraged and began to rummage through some ancient books to see if there was any relevant introduction.

When Ye Yang was flipping through Late Ancient Era, this book attracted Ye Yang's interest.

This book was not about cultivation methods, but a history book. This was the first time Ye Yang had read about this world from a history book.

This continent was called the Great Desolate Continent. No one knew exactly how big it was, and it was recorded that 100,000 years ago, it had a catastrophe.

Most creatures on the continent died and many species were wiped out. However, the details of the disaster was not written on the book.

He only knew that before the calamity, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was dense. There were countless treasures of heaven and earth, and the speed of human cultivation was extremely fast. A several months old child could condense vortex already.

But after the calamity, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth became thinner, and most of the sacred lands for cultivation had their inheritances cut off.

The cultivation methods that everyone was currently learning were trash that no one wanted in the ancient times. Ye Yang was extremely shocked when he found out about this.

Was the record saying that all the ancient cultivators could split mountains, remove hills and overturn seas?

What kind of calamity could cause a flourishing civilization of cultivation to almost go extinct?

After reading this book, Ye Yang was even more depressed. He knew that there was a type of rune in the ancient times called "Spirit Stealing".

It was a special kind of rune. It was an auxiliary rune, and by inscribing it on the pill furnace, it could slowly absorb the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, and improve the quality of the pill.

However, this kind of rune had almost become extinctive in the modern world. Ye Yang browsed through all the books on inscriptions, but still couldn't find any relevant record. His heart sank to rock bottom.

Ye Yang returned to his residence in a slightly absent-minded state. While he was distracted, he did not even have the mood to cultivate.

His mind was filled with all sorts of runes that were constantly churning. He was trying his best to find a type of rune that could absorb the spiritual energy of the outside world.

Just as Ye Yang was helpless and filled with anger, an annoying voice came from the door: "Ye Yang, get out right now!"