Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

Wang Yuchu’s reasoning for only pulling the two of them into the illusion did not seem to hold together. At least, judging from the information Xu Yuan had now, it did not. But making guesses without enough information was pointless. Besides, while the matter could be called important, it was not that important. The real key was to find the source of this illusion, shatter it, and get out.

And so, the days of living together passed one after another.

After inheriting Jing He’s cultivation, Xu Yuan finally got to experience what it truly felt like to cultivate immortality. At night, he did not need to sleep at all, and he never felt the slightest bit tired. Just like that, an extra third of the day appeared out of nowhere for him to do whatever he wanted.

Using his identity as a second-generation core disciple, Xu Yuan went to the tenth floor of the Deep Archive and memorized a top-tier cultivation art called the Yang Restoration Art. He had pried this information out of those young wastrels. This was the very art Jing He was currently cultivating.

In the end, an orphan’s treatment still could not compare to that of the other nine spoiled heirs whose elders were still alive and backing them. Their cultivation resources were supplied almost without limit, and the sect’s cultivation arts and secret arts were theirs to choose from as they pleased.

There were many arts in the sect better than the Yang Restoration Art, but with Jing He’s current status, Xu Yuan could only reach the tenth floor of the Deep Archive at most. He could not even get to meet the lightly dressed young matron on the thirteenth floor.

Still, by letting him enter this secret realm, Wang Yuchu had indeed handed him something of an opportunity. If he lacked cultivation arts or secret arts, then nearly everything below the tenth floor of the Deep Archive was open for him to choose from.

But did he lack cultivation arts? No. He did not. The Chancellor’s Manor had no fewer arts than this Deep Archive, and after ten thousand years of refinement, the quality of those arts was even a large step above what could be found here.

Of course, that was not absolute. Whether ancient or modern, there had never been a shortage of astonishing geniuses in the world. The methods they created naturally had their own strengths. The Yang Restoration Art was one such example.

Xu Yuan studied the Yang Restoration Art while searching throughout the Dome Palace for the source of the illusion.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, yet he still made no progress. However, during these days, he did manage to figure out something he had always been very curious about.

What exactly was the difference between the internal structure of an organization like the Splendorbloom Sect and that of other sects?

Although there was no direct lineage of inheritance, the Splendorbloom Sect could, in a manner of speaking, be considered the spiritual successor of the Joyous Union Sect, the sect everyone secretly yearned for.

Using his cultivation to eavesdrop on the disciples’ conversations along the way, Xu Yuan did discover many differences. They were just not as exaggerated as he had imagined.

The sect’s monthly dual cultivation ceremony was not an imparting session. Dual cultivation came in many forms, both proper and improper. There was no need to say too much about proper dual cultivation arts. Clothes came off. The improper kind was mostly just circulating one’s cultivation and transferring qi.

As for the proper kind, either two people practiced the same art and transferred qi to reinforce each other, or they used the difference between male and female constitutions to circulate Yin and Yang, transferring qi to make up for deficiencies.

The dual cultivation ceremony belonged to this latter category. As for relationships between male and female disciples, this place was rather different from the conservative outside world. It was a little like modern society in his previous life.

Senior Brother So-and-so dumped Senior Sister So-and-so, then immediately got together with another Senior Sister So-and-so. Senior Sister So-and-so was maintaining dual cultivation relationships with two junior brothers at the same time.

The Dome Palace was truly huge, and with thousands upon thousands of disciples inside it, gossip like this was everywhere.

Of course, aside from these relatively normal cases, there were also some abnormal ones. While searching for the source together with Tian Yan, Xu Yuan used his cultivation to scout all over the dome, and more than once, they came across young lovers using the sky as their quilt and the earth as their bed.

Every time, Xu Yuan relied on his cultivation and watched with great interest. Every time, the young Tian Yan suffered terribly. She had been poisoned by an aphrodisiac. She could not stand seeing this sort of thing.

Each time, after Xu Yuan finally finished watching, still wanting more, Tian Yan had to glare at him in fury while chanting several Heaven mantras in a row before she could suppress the stirring in her heart.

But aside from these things they saw and heard, they found not the slightest clue about how to break the illusion.

They could not see the sapling of the Beguiling Divine Sakura. They tried every method they could think of, but not one gave them even the faintest hope. The upper ranks of Splendorbloom Sect had truly hidden the sacred tree extremely well.

Left with no other choice, Xu Yuan and Tian Yan could only go and stir up that group of dearest friends and beloved relatives.

The result was that these spoiled young heirs proved even more useful than Xu Yuan had imagined.

Tian Yan merely brought up the topic of the Beguiling Divine Sakura, and the group of wastrels immediately began egging each other on, saying they wanted to see the tree with their own eyes. They needed no guidance at all.

Bai Fan, the biological son of Splendorbloom Sect’s sect master, would act as their inside man and temporarily shut down the formation. Yun Xi, the daughter of the Grand Elder, would steal the soul key seal and lead everyone through the spirit puppet inspection. Tang Jiuqing, the disciple of the Sixth Elder, would lure away the guards from the restricted area of the inner treasury.

Everything was planned out properly.

The next day, everyone gathered and waited for news.

What they got instead was bad news brought by the second disciple of the Administrative Elder.

Stop waiting. All three were gone. Warriors had become martyrs.

Bai Fan was strung up by his sect master father and given a thrashing with the Clear Jade Whip. Tang Jiuqing was punished with solitary confinement in Youbi Pavilion. Yun Xi had it slightly better because she was a girl. She was merely confined to her own room and forbidden from going out.

When Xu Yuan heard this news, he was just getting ready to regroup and make a new plan when all those second-generation brats started backing out.

Their reaction struck Xu Yuan silent on the spot.

Huh? That’s it? It’s over before it even started? Being hung up and whipped isn’t going to kill you. Your sect master father’s cultivation has to start at the Sage level at the very least. Back when Xu Changge beat me, even he knew how to control his strength. You think your father wouldn’t?

If you’re locked in solitary confinement, just smash your head against the wall. Being grounded is even easier. Your legs are still attached to your body. Just run out. And the rest of you too. The whip hasn’t even landed on your backs, so why are you already cowering? Where are the spoiled young masters you promised me? Where are the second-generation brats? Is this really it?

After a brief silence, Xu Yuan spoke. But because of the role he was playing, he could only prod them indirectly. After a few sentences, however, he realized that saying anything more was useless. Because the dearest friends and beloved relatives had temporarily had their backbone as wastrels snapped in half.

And with that, Xu Yuan and Tian Yan’s last quick path to the Beguiling Divine Sakura sapling was blocked off as well.

Once Xu Yuan realized this matter could not be rushed, he stopped being anxious altogether. He gradually realized what the greatest opportunity this illusion had given him truly was. That was time...

He had been in the Azure Point world for far too short a time. Although he had read a great number of story logs, compared to an entire world, that knowledge was still nothing more than a drop in the ocean. Whenever he ran into something he did not understand outside, he either asked Ran Qingmo or Luo Daofan. Now that he had entered this illusion, he still had to ask Tian Yan.

So Xu Yuan began borrowing books.

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Just like that, the first month after entering the illusion quickly passed.

And during this month, Xu Yuan gradually loosened some of the restraints he had placed on Tian Yan.

No matter what things were like outside, no matter what had happened before or what would happen later, right now the two of them were truly grasshoppers tied to the same rope.

That was because their dearest friends and beloved relatives brought them a piece of news. The Splendorbloom Sect was going to choose its Saintess.

And then...Tian Yan discovered that she could not fully cleanse the aphrodisiac poison from her body. Even with Xu Yuan helping from the side, she still could not cleanse it completely. The poison had rooted itself inside her like maggots burrowing into bone.

That said, as long as she was not stimulated, the washboard Saintess’s combat strength had recovered to roughly seventy percent of her normal state.

And once Xu Yuan learned that Splendorbloom Sect was going to select its Saintess, he immediately began a new round of practical combat training. Of course, in order to avoid giving himself away, he could only train with Tian Yan.

Tian Yan agreed very readily.

Xu Yuan’s improvement in combat strength inside this illusion would benefit both of them. Besides, when it came to beating him up, she was genuinely very interested.

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