31: Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Original Body’s Evil 31: Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Original Body’s Evil The white bead seemed to be made of jade or glass; it lay quietly in a groove beneath the shattered wooden floor.
After a moment of contemplation, Xu Yuan locked onto the name of the bead from the extensive list of rare treasures in the Cangyuan Chronicles, based on its effect and appearance.
Akin to a spirit stone in the world of immortal cultivation…
oh no, compared to spirit stones, Source Crystals were more like the condensed essence of spirit sources from the traditional world of immortal cultivation.
It was considered a treasure superior to the pool of Spiritual Liquid within Xu Yuan’s Sumeru Ring.
But the current issue wasn’t this; the question was, why would such a high-level treasure be found in Xu Changge’s floating palace?
The scarcity of Source Crystals was not inferior to the Lifebound Snake Heart Lotus produced by the Seven Life Mang, and unlike the special effects of the Snakeheart Lotus, Source Crystals were genuinely capable of continuously improving the speed of cultivation, truly invaluable and priceless.
With this thought, a previous image of Xu Changge wearing a purple-black ring on his left hand flashed through Xu Yuan’s mind.
leave such a treasure here in the Xuanying Attic?
Silently standing up, Xu Yuan re-activated his cultivation technique, which had been disrupted by the rebounding force, and walked towards the broken wooden boards.
Approaching the Source Crystal, Xu Yuan stared at it for a long while, then leaned down, reaching out to try and take it.
However, about a foot away from the Source Crystal, an invisible force like a magnet from his previous life gently pushed his hand away.
Xu Yuan frowned, infused Origin Qi into the Sumeru Ring, while his will-spirit reached out, attempting to telekinetically snatch the item with the ring.
But the same repelling force also pushed his will-spirit away.
This must have been why he was propelled away earlier.
But what was this repelling force?
A Formation protecting this Source Crystal?
As the thought crossed his mind, Xu Yuan’s frown deepened.
He mobilized his cultivation technique with all his strength, directing all the Origin Qi in his body into his left hand, resisting that invisible repelling force and once again reaching down.
The palm pressed down bit by bit, but after only compressing about two centimeters, Xu Yuan felt that the little Origin Qi left in his body was almost depleted.
His left hand was deflected, and the powerful force made Xu Yuan, who was half-kneeling on the ground, stagger and end up sitting on the floor.
Xu Yuan silently gazed at the Source Crystal in the groove for several breaths, then stood up, patted his robe, and chuckled as he sat back on the bed.
Xu Changge, knowing that he had an Innate Soul Body and could sense this thing, still left this treasure under his watchful eye.
Moreover, the Formation that guarded the Source Crystal was so simplistic that with his current Innate Constitution and dedicated cultivation, he had every chance to break the Formation and take the treasure.
So, was his elder brother indirectly gifting him this treasure?
During the flight to Jingjiang City aboard the Xuanying, aside from the two to three hours that Xu Yuan needed to sleep each day, he devoted all his time to cultivation.
The tediousness of constantly running his cultivation technique day and night was boring, but the visible accumulation of Origin Qi in his body provided positive feedback that completely diluted the monotony.
The various limitations for beginners in cultivation were non-existent under the powerful enhance brought by “whaling.”
The ancients indeed did not deceive me,
Often, the reason for not being strong enough is simply not spending enough.
All sorts of precious elixirs were consumed, not only boosting his cultivation speed but also ensuring he could cultivate for long periods without harming his meridians.
Cultivation knows no years.
The Dayan Empire was vast, with each province spanning tens of thousands of miles, but the Xuanying flew extremely fast and almost never needed to rest.
Unaware of how many days had passed, a majestic and gigantic city had already come into view on the horizon….
With a long cry from the Xuanying,
Xu Yuan, who sat cross-legged at the head of the bed, slowly opened his eyes and looked down at his hands with some confusion.
Just now, as he was cultivating and absorbing Origin Qi, he felt as if something inside him had been pierced through.
It broke with a “snap”, clean and neat.
A very strange sensation.
After a little thought, Xu Yuan roughly speculated that this must be a sign of breaking through some kind of bottleneck.
However, since Ran Qingmo only taught him the basics of cultivation, he could not determine what realm he had achieved after breaking through that bottleneck.
After all, it would be absurd if the realm system of this world was also divided according to the numerical levels in the Cangyuan Chronicles, right?
Collecting his thoughts, these were not real concerns; he could simply ask someone and get the answers rather than wasting time pondering here.
With that, Xu Yuan once again turned his gaze to the large hole on the floor.
Now that the bottleneck was broken, it was possible to try retrieving the Source Crystal.
Thinking this, Xu Yuan got out of bed and walked to the groove, squatting down in front of it.
Gazing at the Source Crystal that looked like both jade and glaze, Xu Yuan took a deep breath, and his cultivation technique began to circulate….
“Thump, thump, thump—”
Just then, someone knocked on the door, and Ying’er’s slightly hoarse voice came through:
“Third Young Master….”
Without a second thought, Xu Yuan bluntly responded with a single word.
Ever since Ying’er had exuded killing intent towards him, Xu Yuan had always treated her with this attitude.
Won’t eat them, scram!
Delivering a message from Xu Changge?
As Xu Yuan slowly flipped through the original host’s memories, he fully understood the original’s behavior patterns.
This was a character fraught with extreme arrogance and pride, yet also ingrained with a deep sense of inferiority.
He could lash out and beat someone half to death on the street for merely overhearing them say with a jest, “Look, there goes the Third Young Master of the Prime Minister’s Mansion, heh~”.
Sometimes, Xu Changtian didn’t want to be , but sadly, under the shadow of his brothers’ accumulated years, his personality had long since become twisted.
What he struggled to achieve with all his might was only a trivial matter to his two brothers.
Compared to his brothers, who were like true dragons among men, the original was just an ordinary person, and even among the ordinary, he was below average.
Everyone’s expectations, their disappointment, and then, their ridicule.
If it were just that, years of inferiority might only have created an introverted child.
But the original had prematurely tasted the flavor of power that came with his father’s status as Prime Minister.
It all started when he was ten years old, during a conflict in the academy.
In the academy, other children and adolescents enjoyed making sarcastic comparisons between him and his two brothers.
After enduring this for years, he finally quarreled with those individuals.
That day, after the morning classes had ended, he got into a physical altercation with other youths.
Because the other side had more people and had started learning martial arts early, the ten-year-old original was ridiculed and pinned down, his head stepped on as he was beaten mercilessly.
Crouching in the middle of the crowd, embracing his head, despair set in as pain came from all directions.
After the beating, those children and adolescents even boasted, “Act tough again, and every time we see you, we’ll beat you,” before leaving with laughter.
Once back at the Prime Minister’s Mansion, the original retreated into his room.
Scared of going to the academy, afraid of falling back into that same despair.
At dusk, amidst his groggy slumber, the old butler suddenly knocked on his door, informing him that people from the academy were outside looking for him.
This news instantly dispelled all of the original’s sleepiness.
Fear and unease seized his entire being, and he refused to go outside no matter what.
However, the old butler didn’t give up.
After patiently persuading him, the original tremblingly made his way to the main gate.
Under the fading sunlight on the street,
not the devils who had beaten him during the day.
it was a row of quails kneeling on the ground, shivering in fear.
The very aggressors who had been ferocious and threatened further violence earlier that day, along with their parents, were now kneeling in front of the Prime Minister’s Mansion like a flock of quails awaiting slaughter.
with the setting sun of the Imperial Capital sinking below the horizon,
the evil within Xu Changtian’s heart,
began to grow and spread…..
With these thoughts, Xu Yuan had already overcome the enormous repulsive force and grasped the Source Crystal in the groove, his elongated eyes betraying a hint of complexity….