Chapter 240: It's You, Si Youyou!
Seven years ago, after the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm, the cultivation world of the Chenping Continent suffered considerable damage.
The Five Great Sects, with their profound foundations, were all still able to withstand it.
But for other cultivation sects, especially the first-rate and second-rate sects, the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm undoubtedly inflicted severe damage to their vitality, and they have yet to recover even now.
Therefore, ever since the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm, the cultivation world of the Chenping Continent has not been as active and vibrant as it was in the past.
It was precisely for this reason that Wind Ravine Valley decided to host a Dao Inquiry Assembly at the Floating Light Summit.
It was time to inject some new vitality into the cultivation world of the Chenping Continent.
And for this purpose, Wind Ravine Valley also invited the Dao Gate Travelers from the other four great sects to observe this Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry, in order to boost the atmosphere.
Three months later, the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly was about to commence.
Beiguang River Ferry.
"I never want to eat anything again..."
Si Youyou lay on the bed in the guest room, her eyes lifelessly staring in the direction of the ceiling.
Mr. You had used a high-grade magical instrument as an exchange to obtain an invitation to the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly from the Lightning-Severing Sect.
Chen Yan was undoubtedly very curious about that sword as well.
However, Mr. You's evaluation of that sword consisted of only one sentence:
"Merely a high-grade magical instrument."
This statement from Mr. You directly caused Chen Yan to begin questioning his worldview, because the sect-protecting treasure of the Kongshan Sect—a sect that had once produced three Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators and dominated the northwestern region of the Chenping Continent—was nothing more than a high-grade seventh-tier Mountain-Shaking Bell.
Although the grade of the sword Mr. You gifted to the Lightning-Severing Sect was two tiers lower than the Mountain-Shaking Bell, probably only around high-grade second-tier, even so, in any of the Five Great Sects, such a sword would undoubtedly be a treasure enshrined and revered.
And Mr. You, clearly sensing Chen Yan's astonishment, this reincarnation of a great power who had Ascended to Immortality, suddenly began to get a little carried away with himself:
"Hah, do you know how Su Hongzhen's Falling Star Sword came to be?"
The Falling Star Sword was the most famous immortal artifact in the Chenping Continent in the last ten thousand years, and also Su Hongzhen's life-bound sword.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan immediately became solemn and respectful:
"Could it be related to Senior You?"
"Hah, no."
Mr. You denied it without hesitation:
"But that sword should have some connection to me."
"Why?"
"I don't know, just a feeling."
Utterly baffling.
There were still over two months before the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly would be held.
For this Dao Inquiry Assembly, disciples of Wind Ravine Valley would not participate. The participants were mainly outstanding disciples cultivated in recent years by the first and second-rate sects of the Chenping Continent's Northern Region.
It was not like the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry, which had clear age requirements.
But anyone wishing to participate in the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry must meet one condition: their cultivation realm must be the Martial Spring Realm.
The final champion of the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly would receive an opportunity to make a wish to Wind Ravine Valley. Of course, the final right of interpretation for this opportunity belonged to Wind Ravine Valley.
Anyone with a normal mind naturally wouldn't make exorbitant demands of Wind Ravine Valley.
If they made the situation undignified, the one who would end up in the most embarrassing position would definitely not be Wind Ravine Valley.
However, if this wish was simply for one Nine Revolutions Chaos Heaven Tempering Meridian Pill, then Wind Ravine Valley would of course gladly agree.
Given Wind Ravine Valley's foundation, a single Nine Revolutions Chaos Heaven Tempering Meridian Pill was hardly anything, especially since this pill usually had little practical use and could even be considered as clearing out stagnant inventory.
For Chen Yan, winning this Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly and obtaining the opportunity to make a wish to Wind Ravine Valley was undoubtedly one way to obtain the Nine Revolutions Chaos Heaven Tempering Meridian Pill.
But...
"Who will go participate in the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry?"
Chen Yan and Mr. You looked at each other.
Mr. You could not possibly participate in the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry. As far as Chen Yan knew, aside from the Hidden Immortal Art he himself obtained from the Reincarnation Reward, there was no technique in this world that could conceal cultivation.
It was possible to suppress cultivation through pills, like Zhang Xishun had done back then.
But Mr. You's current cultivation level was the Dao Union Realm.
Suppressing a Qi Sea Realm cultivator's cultivation down to the Martial Spring Realm through pills was still possible. However, for cultivators above the Spirit Connection Realm, because they had cultivated divine sense, even if they suppressed their true qi to the Martial Spring Realm range, they would still give themselves away.
As for Chen Yan, it was even more impossible for him to participate in the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry.
Currently, he was in a state where all his meridians were shattered, and his Martial Spring had also been sealed by Mr. You. Because if even a trace of true qi flowed into his shattered and broken meridians, it could very likely cause him to die on the spot.
So, the candidate who could participate in the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry Assembly was...
Chen Yan and Mr. You's gazes simultaneously turned towards the direction of the bed in the guest room—
"Ah, I'm hungry!"
Si Youyou, her eyes suddenly brightening, sat up from the bed. She looked at Chen Yan, then at Mr. You, revealing a puzzled expression.
...
"In the beginning, there was qi, chaos began to divide."
Si Youyou, sitting cross-legged on the bed with her eyes lightly closed, gently swayed her little head, reciting in a childish, milky voice the mental technique Mr. You had imparted to her. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered towards her direction:
"Draw the clear into the turbid meridians, refine the true at the bubbling spring..."
Chen Yan and Mr. You stood to one side of the room, watching Si Youyou who was in the process of guiding qi into her body.
The spiritual energy within the room was extremely dense. This was because Mr. You had set up an array formation in this room for Si Youyou's cultivation and used his own spiritual energy as the catalyst.
"Who knows whether it's misfortune or blessing."
Mr. You sighed with such emotion:
"If we could obtain the Pure Dust Glazed Art, her cultivation speed should increase by several levels, and she might even have hope of breaking through to the Qi Sea Realm within these two-plus months."
Indeed.
In terms of talent alone, Si Youyou's cultivation talent was fairly good, but only fairly good.
Because compared to Qin Yue from her previous life, Si Youyou's cultivation talent was clearly two levels lower.
It took Qin Yue a year to cultivate from a mortal to the Martial Spring Realm while practicing the Pure Dust Glazed Art, which matched her own physique.
And now, Si Youyou, whose talent was inferior to Qin Yue's, needed to break through to the Martial Spring Realm within two-plus months without the Pure Dust Glazed Art.
This was by no means an impossible task.
After all, back then, Qin Yue was merely figuring out the Pure Dust Glazed Art on her own, with at most a few pointers from her master, Bai Qiming.
But now, the one teaching Si Youyou was Mr. You.
A reincarnation of a great power who had Ascended to Immortality personally instructing her, and using his own spiritual energy as a catalyst to assist Si Youyou's cultivation.
This kind of treatment, looking across the entire long river of history of the Chenping Continent, few could have enjoyed.