Shu Shi Residence.
After the carriage stopped, Zheng Muyao was about to follow Su Yi into the Shu Shi Residence when she heard Su Yi casually say, "You should go home."
Zheng Muyao blinked her eyes and pleaded, "Uncle Su, I want to visit your home."
However, Su Yi seemed indifferent and said, "Go back and find out if Zhu Guqing has returned to Tianyuan Academy."
On the way, Su Yi had been wondering why there was such a big commotion and why Zhu Guqing, the mentor of Wen Lingzhao, had not appeared.
Even Wen Lingxue was not there.
This seemed strange.
It should be noted that when they left Yunhe County City, Zhu Guqing and Wen Lingxue had already left early on a passenger ship. According to the schedule, they should have arrived in Gunzhou City three days ago.
In other words, Zhu Guqing and Wen Lingxue should have already returned to Tianyuan Academy a few days ago.
But today, they couldn't be seen at Tianyuan Academy, which was naturally suspicious.
"Zhu Guqing? Could Uncle Su have taken a liking to that elegant and mature beauty?" Zheng Muyao couldn't help but say.
Su Yi reached out and poked her forehead, saying, "What are you always thinking about? Tell me the news tonight."
After that, he turned and walked into the Shu Shi Residence.
"Men are naturally romantic, Uncle Su, you're so young, and there's a stunning beauty like Tea Jin by your side. Now you want me to find out about Zhu Guqing's news, how could you have any good thoughts left..."
Zheng Muyao muttered to herself.
She turned back to the carriage and said, "Liao Bo, let's go home."
Dressed in a black dress, the sexy and hot-tempered young girl sat in the seat where Su Yi had been sitting earlier, imitating Su Yi's lazy posture. However, she felt a bit depressed.
On the way back from Tianyuan Academy, she had been trying to pry into what had happened after Ning Siyu appeared and how Su Yi had managed to escape unharmed.
Unfortunately, Su Yi didn't say a word about it.
"In any case, what happened today was scary enough. After I go back and tell my father, let's see what he says..."
Zheng Muyao thought to herself.
...
Shu Shi Residence.
Tea Jin's raven-colored long hair was pinned up with a wooden hairpin. Her swan-like neck was snow-white, and when she rolled up her sleeves, her delicate and crystal-clear wrists were revealed. She was currently pruning the flower and wood on both sides of the pavilion.
Today, she was wearing a knee-length pale white dress. When she bent over, the graceful curve of her slender back and shapely legs outlined a seductive charm.
The area below her waist and above her legs was filled with a plump and rounded arc.
"Do we have any food left?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind, startling Tea Jin's delicate body. She turned around with scissors in hand.
When she saw that it was Su Yi, she blushed and stammered, "So it's Young Master who's back."
Su Yi walked straight into the pavilion.
Tea Jin hurriedly followed behind and said, "Young Master, I have prepared dishes from Wufei Pavilion and a ten-year-old fine wine from Huoyun Alley. Would you like me to heat them up for you?"
"No need," Su Yi casually said, "I will cultivate later. If someone comes to visit, refuse them all at the door."
Tea Jin nodded, "Understood."
"Where did you buy this dress?" Su Yi suddenly turned his head and asked.
"Ah?"
Caught off guard by such a strange question, Tea Jin couldn't help but pause for a moment before saying, "I bought it at Rui Fu Residence in the city."
But in her heart, she wondered why Young Master suddenly cared about this.
Could it be...
The sudden realization struck Tea Jin as she remembered that she had been trimming the flowers and plants while Su Yi had returned and stood behind her without her knowledge.
Her cheeks blushed, and an indescribable shyness surged within her. Could it be... he saw me in this form-fitting dress?
Su Yi turned around and said, "When you have the chance, buy some more. Hmm, buy something that matches Lingxue's figure."
Before Tea Jin could respond, Su Yi had already ascended to the second floor of the pavilion.
Caught off guard by his request, Tea Jin's heart felt as if it had been stabbed. She stood there, dazed.
Am I, a woman, being asked to buy clothes for another woman?
And that woman happens to be your younger sister-in-law. How could you ask me to do such a thing?
Is it too much?
Tea Jin's jade-like face fluctuated with uncertainty.
She still didn't know that Su Yi had severed ties with Wen Lingzhao today...
Otherwise, perhaps she would have understood a bit more?
...
After dinner, Su Yi sat cross-legged and began to cultivate, focusing his mind.
Today's confrontation with Ning Siyu made him realize something — even though this Great Zhou Empire was a mundane world, it didn't mean that there weren't powerful and extraordinary individuals.
Take Ning Siyu, the Palace Master of Tianyuan Academy, for example. It was evident that she was not an ordinary martial cultivator by secular standards.
Even those regarded as "land immortals" were destined to not possess the ability to rejuvenate like she did.
Furthermore, Ning Siyu knew the secret of "spirit channels becoming sentient" and referred to him as a "fellow daoist," clearly perceiving something about him.
All of this was enough to prove that Ning Siyu was not simple.
And the Azure Green Continent had hundreds of nations, with Great Zhou Empire just being one of the many nations residing on its outskirts.
Considering this, there must be more than just one extraordinary and mysterious individual like Ning Siyu in this world.
"It's more interesting this way; otherwise, the mundane world would be quite dull..."
Su Yi muttered to himself.
An hour later.
Crack! A piece of third-grade spirit stone tightly held in Su Yi's palm turned into powder.
After some thought, he took out another one.
Killing the Outer Sect Elder Liu Hongqi of the Moon Disciple Sect had earned him more than a dozen third-grade spirit stones. It would be a waste not to use them.
Moreover, perhaps it was due to severing ties with Wen Lingzhao or being stimulated by Ning Siyu, but Su Yi felt it was necessary to further enhance his cultivation.
For someone of his existence, it was not difficult to improve his cultivation when he had abundant cultivation resources.
Ultimately, he had to forge a foundation that far surpassed his previous life.
For others, reaching the mid-stage of Qi Gathering Realm, known as "Opening the Meridians," required completely opening all twelve meridians, which would consume an unknown amount of time, energy, and resources.
For Su Yi, when his cultivation reached the mid-stage of the Qi Gathering Realm, he had already opened all twelve meridians in his body, forming a mysterious cycle that circulated through his limbs, bones, 108 spiritual apertures, and twelve meridians.
Opening all twelve meridians was like building a bridge between the martial cultivator and the heavens and earth.
The martial cultivator himself was like the bridge, connecting and absorbing more majestic spiritual energy during cultivation.
However, for Su Yi, at his current stage of Opening the Meridians, he lacked a "Hidden Meridian."
This Hidden Meridian linked the martial cultivator's physical body and soul, traversing above the twelve meridians, and could only be sensed by those who achieved "Sentience of All Apertures."
In recent days, Su Yi had indeed sensed the existence of that invisible Hidden Meridian during his cultivation. It was like an invisible bridge between his soul and body.
But when he tried to condense this Hidden Meridian, it remained hazy, always falling short.
Therefore, the only difficulty for Su Yi in advancing his cultivation was solving the problem of condensing this invisible Hidden Meridian.
"Similar to establishing the foundation of 'Sentience of All Apertures,' condensing this Hidden Meridian may require a fortuitous encounter..."
Su Yi contemplated.
The most common place for fortuitous encounters was in life-and-death battles.
However, it didn't necessarily have to be achieved in combat.
With Su Yi's cultivation experience from his previous life of 108,000 years, he could think of hundreds of ways to overcome this bottleneck.
But in the end, he discarded them all.
He decided to seek an opportunity from within himself—
The Nine Abyss Sword!
Su Yi wouldn't forget that when he established the foundation of "Sentience of All Apertures," he awakened the Nine Abyss Sword, receiving its power and further enhancing the foundation of his initial stage of the Qi Gathering Realm.
And since the Hidden Meridian connected the physical body and the soul, the Nine Abyss Sword had always resided in his soul, making it conveniently available for utilization.
"I will use the Songhe Body Refining Technique as a guide, controlling my breathing and adjusting the cultivation energy in my body. With the support of the Liberation of Self-Transformation Scripture in my soul, I will utilize the power of my soul. By coordinating both, I should be able to awaken a trace of power from the Nine Abyss Sword when condensing the Hidden Meridian..."
After careful consideration and multiple calculations to ensure that the potential dangers would not be fatal, Su Yi decisively put his plan into practice.
The path of cultivation never had true absolute certainty.
If one desires to seek a greater supreme path than the previous life, it is destined that at every step, one will encounter risks that were incomprehensible in the past.
Su Yi was prepared for this.
Time passes bit by bit.
Outside the window, the sky gradually darkens, and dusk becomes increasingly dense and obscure...
"I wonder what the young master would like to eat tonight."
Tea Jin gathered her skirt and sat gracefully on a stone bench in front of the pavilion's flower trellis. Her plump buttocks pressed against the edge of the bench, forming a soft bulge.
With one hand supporting her chin, her autumn-water-like eyes gazed into the distance, lost in a trance.
Suddenly, Tea Jin froze, and in her crystal-clear pupils, an unimaginable phenomenon was reflected--
In the dark and deep twilight sky, wisps of ethereal and dreamlike lights suddenly descended, fluttering and drifting in a kaleidoscope of colors.
In this profound twilight, it was extremely difficult to notice without careful observation.
"What is this?"
Tea Jin quietly straightened up, her beautiful eyes widening.
Tianyuan Academy.
At the summit of Autumn Leaf Mountain, within the withered and prosperous hall, a petite figure suddenly darted out. She wore a plain cloud-patterned long skirt, with a youthful appearance like a young girl.
The mountain peak rustled, causing her clothes to dance wildly in the wind. The mysterious palace master raised her head, and her crescent-shaped eyes surged with tidal-like golden light.
In her eyes, within the depths of the dark and gloomy twilight sky, an innumerable number of stars appeared at some unknown time, shimmering and flickering, cyclically converging to construct an unimaginably vast galaxy.
Then, the galaxy connected end to end, forming a circle and slowly rotating.
Resembling an immensely enormous whirlpool of stars, it stretched across the celestial realm, reaching an unimaginable magnitude!
Subsequently, countless mysterious and dreamlike streams of light flew out from the depths of the stellar whirlpool and descended from beyond the sky.
They resembled starlight and galaxies, falling from the heavens!
This inconceivable and unprecedented phenomenon left Ning Xi and others deeply shaken, experiencing a sense of inherent insignificance and trance.
Whose cultivation had triggered such a peerless phenomenon?