Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

Luo Daofan said nothing. Looking at the young man in front of him, all smiles and good cheer, he felt Xu Yuan was probably joking with him.

But after everything that had happened earlier, that joke did not sound like a joke at all. Even the smile on his face suddenly seemed loaded with hidden meaning.

But if that was really the case, then why, ever since they set out on this journey, had Xu Yuan seemed like a clueless greenhorn in so many ways?

When he saw the bloody sight of ordinary village women and old men with severed limbs after demonic beasts attacked a village, he would turn his eyes away.

The first time they ran into bandits blocking the road, he had dealt with them personally, but when blood splashed onto his face, his heart had raced and he had even gagged in disgust.

And when he cultivated, he would make the kind of mistakes common to people who had only just stepped onto the path of cultivation.

All these things, every last one of them, made him look nothing like some crafty old monster.

Of course, perhaps all of that had been an act too...

Xu Yuan cut off Old Luo’s thoughts with a smile. “I’ve realized something. You really are easy to fool, old man. This young master is not some ancient monster. Though, of course, if you insist on calling me Senior, I won’t refuse.”

“Heh.” The Sage’s remnant soul neither agreed nor disagreed.

“You don’t believe me?”

“What do you think?”

“Looks like you don’t.”

“Naturally.”

Xu Yuan spread his hands, looking a little helpless. “Then what if I told you I possessed this body? Would that make you feel better?”

The Sage’s remnant soul pondered for a moment, then shook his head. “No. That makes it worse.”

Xu Yuan fell silent. After a second of quiet, he stopped walking, turned back, and reached out as if to pat the Sage’s remnant soul on the shoulder. In a voice full of grave sincerity, he said, “Old Luo, listen to me...”

Before he could finish, his hand passed straight through the Sage’s soul body.

The Sage’s soul glanced at him.

Xu Yuan smacked his lips.

“Use source qi,” the Sage’s remnant soul reminded him.

Xu Yuan gave a light cough, wrapped his palm in source qi, and then patted the middle-aged scholar’s soul body on the shoulder. “In short, Old Luo, I only came across a few opportunities, that’s all. You don’t need to overthink it. As for secret arts like soul refining and such, I don’t know a single one.”

The Sage’s remnant soul said nothing.

Their eyes met in silence.

Then the Sage’s remnant soul suddenly chuckled, his voice deep and rich. “Since you put it that way, Xu boy, this old man will believe you for now.”

Xu Yuan replied in the same tone, “Then I’ll also pretend that you believe me.”

With that said, the old man and the young man looked at each other and smiled.

Once the smiling was done, they both dropped the act and walked in silence into a tree hollow beneath the cherry blossom tree.

The tree hollow was much like the underground secret chambers beneath the Xu estate. Dark, narrow, and impossible to tell how deep it went.

Xu Yuan walked slowly down the steps, silently making his calculations. He had long since prepared himself for the Sage’s remnant soul noticing something strange about him.

Because without this old grandpa around, he would not dare enter the depths of the secret realm at all. Not even with Ran Qingmo by his side.

With his current strength, entering a place like this was basically the same as taking a Level 30 character in Azure Point and sending him into a Level 80 dungeon.

Take the Beguiling Divine Sakura and the Leech King, for example. In Azure Point, these two were technically only Level 85 bosses, but in the special environment of Sakura Leech Lake, even ordinary Level 90 players might not be able to beat them. Rounding it up, they were about equal to a first rank Transcendent.

So, would Xu Yuan have dared to come here without the Sage’s remnant soul? Well... just like in Azure Point, using crooked methods to clear a stage was totally fine. The condition was that you first had to be strong enough to reach the stage.

If his luck had been bad and he had been randomly teleported somewhere else, then run into a few minor mobs along the way, without the Sage’s remnant soul protecting him, enemies of that strength would probably only need to graze him before he had to say goodbye to this world.

This time, Xu Yuan had simply gotten lucky. He had been teleported straight to Sakura Leech Lake...

At that thought, his mind paused slightly. He pondered for a moment, then shook his head with a faint, amused smile.

Actually, being teleported here probably meant his luck had been rotten.

After all, Sakura Leech Lake was almost one of the most dangerous places in this Dome Palace, and the moment he arrived, he had been thrown directly into that soul bewitching corridor.

The only reason he had passed through so easily was because he knew the secrets behind it. Had he not known, then even with the Sage’s remnant soul protecting him, there was a ninety-nine percent chance he would have died here.

Tsk. A mighty Luck stat of three points. Truly, the worst outcome always becomes the guaranteed one..

In the future, he would have to pay more attention to this. Next time there was a random teleportation, he needed to drag that big ice block along with him.

As these thoughts passed through his mind, Xu Yuan and the Sage’s remnant soul had already reached the bottom of the tree hollow.

After ten thousand years, the roots of the Beguiling Divine Sakura had already sunk deep into this secret chamber. Dense, tangled roots coiled all over the stone room in a complicated mess, but fortunately, the array patterns within seemed to have survived intact.

Xu Yuan extended his soul sense and felt around briefly. He discovered that these array patterns were unlike anything he had ever seen before. In his heart, he guessed they were probably teleportation array patterns. He glanced back at the Sage’s remnant soul.

“Old Luo, how do you use this teleportation array?”

The Sage’s remnant soul stared at him without saying a word, his eyes seeming to say, Keep acting. Go on, keep acting. Let’s see how long you old bastard can keep this up.

Xu Yuan’s eyelid twitched.

And right then, the Sage’s remnant soul suddenly spoke. “Xu boy, you know there’s a teleportation array here, but you don’t know how to use it?”

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes and muttered, “In today’s Great Flame Empire, teleportation array patterns have gone extinct. Where would I have ever used one?”

“Fair enough.” Whether the Sage’s remnant soul believed him or not was anyone’s guess. He nodded, then waved his hand casually.

The complex array patterns carved into the stone chamber immediately filled with energy, like clear water flowing through a canal. Waves of white light spread out, illuminating the dim tree hollow.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan suddenly asked, “Old Luo, do you know why teleportation arrays have disappeared from the outside world?”

The Sage’s remnant soul smiled as he activated the array and answered offhandedly, “They were lost.”

“Lost?” Xu Yuan frowned.

Seeing Xu Yuan’s expression, the Sage’s remnant soul felt a powerful urge to complain, but he still gave a simple explanation. “Carving certain special arrays requires certain special resources. But from ancient times until now, cultivators have kept mining them, and the shifts in the world’s source qi have caused some resources to vanish completely. Without those resources, many arrays can no longer be carved. Give it enough time, and naturally the methods slowly disappear too.”

Xu Yuan listened carefully, understood, and did not ask more.

The Sage’s remnant soul, however, clicked his tongue in wonder. “The array inside this tree hollow is rather interesting. Besides the teleportation array, there are actually other great arrays here as well.”

As he spoke, he gave Xu Yuan a meaningful look, and Xu Yuan ignored him.

About the time it took to drink a cup of tea later, the glow inside the tree hollow suddenly faded back into silence.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan asked, “Did it work?”

The Sage’s remnant soul shook his head. “This array requires a soul key to activate. If we force it open, the array will backlash.”

So arrays in this cultivation world could have passwords too? Xu Yuan’s expression turned a little strange.

After thinking about it for a moment, he quickly accepted it. Many of the great arrays guarding key locations in this world were about as important as nuclear launch controls in his previous life. If just anyone could operate such a critical system, that would be the truly unreasonable part.

After pondering briefly, Xu Yuan said in a low voice, “Old Luo, try controlling my body.”

“Hmm?” The Sage’s remnant soul let out a soft sound of surprise. Then, remembering the cherry blossom mark that had merged into this brat’s forehead earlier, he chuckled and slipped straight into the soul ring.

A moment later, Xu Yuan waved his hand casually, and the array activated once more. Soon, a cherry blossom mark appeared between his brows.

The moment the mark appeared, the array seemed to connect some crucial missing link and let out a low hum. Then the entire tree hollow was lit up by the radiance of the array patterns, bright as day.

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