Chapter 170 Testing the Power of Change

"Now that you mention it..." Song Yin fell into deep thought.

If they really have this power, will the result be good or bad?

"Come with me to Danque Peak and figure out the power of the Great Dao Laws."

Back at Danque Peak, Song Yin pointed to an open space and asked Shi Heming to set up an array.

Song Yin: "I'll attack, and try to recapture the feeling I had when I first broke through to the Nascent Soul stage in the Nine Spirits Realm."

Defensive formations and offensive formations are combined; the defensive formations are for protecting Danque Peak, while the offensive formations are for testing purposes.

Shi Heming pulled her back and said seriously, "Take it easy."

Song Yin patted the back of his hand: "There's a defensive formation, so don't worry. Besides, this is Danque Peak, why would I destroy my own home?"

That makes sense, Shi Heming let go.

...

boom--!

On that day, all the disciples of Danque Peak heard a loud noise coming from the mountaintop, and at the same time, dust and smoke rose everywhere.

Ruan Chaoxue immediately ran out to pinpoint the location, and the others followed suit.

"What happened?" A bewildered swordsman asked the alchemist beside him, sword in hand. "Who caused the furnace to explode? It was so violent!"

Dan Xiu, standing nearby, scoffed, "Tsk, speak properly, don't resort to personal attacks. The voice came from the mountaintop, and only Elder Song was there, so..." His voice trailed off at the end.

A group of ordinary disciples reacted, and after a few seconds of silence, exclaimed, "Elder Song's alchemy furnace exploded?!"

Elder Song actually caused an explosion!

Ruan Chaoxue: "Everyone, please be quiet. I'm going to the top of the mountain to check the situation."

The group of ordinary disciples were quiet, each craning their necks to look up.

They had never seen Elder Song explode a furnace before, and they thought that Elder Song would never explode a furnace.

Ruan Chaoxue rushed to the top of the mountain, but did not rush in rashly. She immediately asked loudly, "Senior sister, are you alright?" The smoke and dust obscured her vision, and she could not see what was happening inside at all.

Upon hearing Ruan Chaoxue's voice, Song Yin immediately replied, "It's nothing serious, you can go back first, I can handle things here."

Ruan Chaoxue: "Are you really alright?"

Song Yin: "It's okay, let's go back."

Ruan Chaoxue was still somewhat worried, mainly because the smoke and dust obscured her vision; such a thick cloud of smoke meant the houses had definitely been destroyed. After much thought, she used her divine sense before returning.

The next moment, Ruan Chaoxue's eyes widened: "This! This! This!" If Song Yin hadn't been there, Ruan Chaoxue would have suspected that someone had deliberately attacked Danque Peak.

It wasn't just houses that were destroyed; half the mountain was gone! It was only because of the formation that the blasted rocks and soil didn't fall down the mountain.

Ruan Chaoxue wanted to help clean up the mess, but was eventually persuaded by Song Yin to go down the mountain.

After everyone left, Song Yin sat in the ruins, looking embarrassed and not daring to look at Shi Heming beside her.

Shi Heming silently wiped the ashes off Song Yin's face with a handkerchief.

Trust came too early.

Song Yin tried to take the handkerchief from Shi Heming's hand but failed. "I'll wipe myself. Let's find another place later. Let's not test inside the peak."

Half of the mountaintop was destroyed, but Song Yin was thankful that her place of residence hadn't been destroyed, as the other half was now an empty space.

"Luckily, Master wasn't here, otherwise I would have been in for a beating," Song Yin said with lingering fear.

Shi Heming: "Now that things have come to this, let's restore this place to its original state first."

Song Yin: "I didn't sense any power of the Great Dao Laws in that attack just now. Did you sense it?"

Shi Heming: "I don't have it either. Perhaps what Elder Lou said is right. The power that Elder Fang wants to see comes from the spiritual vein."

Song Yin looked at the mess and said, "Sigh, if only I could control time and turn this place back to how it was before it was destroyed."

After Song Yin finished speaking, a wild grass whose roots had been broken off silently returned to its original state where it had been pressed down by a stone.

"Time cannot be controlled by anyone. Let's fix it ourselves and restore it to its original state." Shi Heming put away the handkerchief. "Alright, it's clean." After saying that, he gave her a light kiss on the cheek.

Shi Heming stood up first, then reached out and pulled Song Yin, who was sitting in the ruins, to her feet. "This is also my fault. I didn't set up the formation properly. I should have set up some higher-level formations."

Song Yin stood up using the force applied, then casually patted herself down. "It's not your fault. This is a fifth-order defensive formation. I didn't control my strength properly."

Looking down, Song Yin caught a glimpse of the upright weeds out of the corner of her eye, and she stopped what she was doing. "I remember that weed was broken by a stone. Am I remembering wrong?"

Shi Heming followed her gaze and said, "I didn't pay much attention; it was probably just lucky."

It seems she really did remember wrong. Song Yin stopped paying attention to a weed and started thinking about how to repair the top of Danque Peak.

Let's take this opportunity to change the landscape and plant some other spiritual plants.

While Song Yin was deep in thought, she felt someone pat her shoulder. Just as she was about to ask Shi Heming, she saw him pointing at the weeds and saying, "Yinyin, a few more weeds have recovered."

What was originally one resilient weed has multiplied into five, and the number continues to increase.

The plants that were crushed are stretching back up, and broken branches are flying back to the trees, as if the breaking was an illusion...

And the dust that floated in the air returned to the earth! Everything was returning to normal...

"How could this be—" Song Yin stared in disbelief, grabbing Shi Heming tightly. "This! How is this possible!"

Like Song Yin, Shi Heming continued to focus on the first weed after answering, and then the other weeds also began to recover.

Song Yin released Shi Heming, took a few steps forward, and used her divine sense to observe every destroyed area.

"It wasn't repaired by anyone, but rather it reverted to its previous state," Song Yin murmured, suddenly remembering what she had just said.

Ah, if only I could control time and turn this place back to how it was before it was destroyed.

It would be good if it could go back to how it was before it was destroyed.

Return to the state before it was destroyed...

Song Yin looked at her hands and slowly turned around. "It seems that I have really restored it to its state before it was destroyed."

She was certain there was no one else on the summit of Danque Peak, so there was no third person who could have helped her fix the destroyed area.

I still remember being immersed in the ever-changing starscape, where everything was changing, and that mysterious feeling.

Shi Heming lowered his voice: "The power of the Great Dao Laws?"

To verify this, the two walked to different corners of the ruins, faced each other, and then simultaneously unleashed their spiritual energy on a small area in front of them.

Neither wood-attribute nor lightning-attribute spiritual energy could restore the small area in front of them to its original state, no matter how much was input.

"It's no use?" Song Yin stopped, but when she looked around again, the area was still being restored to its original state, and the destroyed half of the place had been restored by 40%.

A myriad of thoughts exploded in their minds, and their temples throbbed.

Shi Heming: "When you had the idea of ​​restoring this place to its original state, did you do anything else?"

Song Yin: "It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing, nothing more." Song Yin seemed to have grasped a key point, just a little bit short.

When a thought arises... the thought...

Song Yin had a sudden inspiration: "Could it be that this special power is not driven by spiritual energy, but by divine consciousness and will?"

"Thoughts." Shi Heming's gaze returned to what was before him, fixed intently.

A pebble trembled and flew up uncontrollably.

The small area that Song Yin had locked onto with her mind was returning to its original state at an even faster pace.

A dozen minutes later...

The two stood under the tree, where the damaged area had been restored to its original state.

Song Yin picked a leaf and placed it in her palm. Shi Heming concentrated intently, and a few seconds later the leaf flew back to the branch.

Shi Heming unleashed a burst of spiritual energy, creating a small crater not far away. Song Yintou similarly used her willpower to flatten the crater.

The two tried again and again, but the result remained the same.

Song Yin: "No wonder our previous tests didn't work; it turns out it doesn't rely on spiritual energy to function."

Shi Heming: "Before Elder Fang pointed this out, we were unaware of its existence, so it's normal that we don't know how to use it. But do you think we should go to Elder Fang's place again?"

Originally, we thought Old Ancestor Fang was a strange person, but it turned out that his cultivation went wrong, leading to a small accident. Song Yin: "Let's talk about it in a few days, otherwise we'll just say we don't know how, and then go back and say we do."

"Alright."

Song Yin: "Let's go out in a few days, find a secluded place, and test our strength limits again."

Shi Heming had no objection.

Ruan Chaoxue was still thinking about the tragic scene on the mountaintop when there was a knock on the door.

When Ruan Chaoxue came in and found it was Song Yin, she was both surprised and delighted. She quickly asked how things were at the top of the mountain so she could help tidy up.

Song Yin sought out Ruan Chaoxue for this very reason: "The mountaintop has recovered, so you don't need to worry."

Ruan Chaoxue: "The other disciples all thought it was Senior Sister who caused the furnace to explode while refining pills."

Song Yin: "The reason of the furnace exploding is good. It's normal for alchemists to have their furnaces explode. Let them misunderstand. There's no need to explain."

"Yes." Ruan Chaoxue hesitated for a few seconds before asking, "Senior Sister, what exactly happened at the mountaintop?"

Song Yin: "Sigh, I didn't control my strength when practicing swordsmanship."

So it was sword practice. That makes no surprise. Senior Sister's swordsmanship is the best!

Song Yin had only exchanged a few words with Ruan Chaoxue when the communication stone made another sound.

Seeing this, Ruan Chaoxue said, "I'll go out."

"No need." Song Yin connected the communication stone, and the voice of her eldest disciple, Chu Tang, came through.

“Master, many outer disciples are going out for training, and I also want to go out and try it out. I won’t go too far from the sect.” Chu Tang specifically asked Song Yin for permission to go out.

Song Yin reminded her, "Okay, but remember to be careful."

"Really? Thank you, Master!!" A joyful tone filled the entire room.

After ending the communication, Song Yin retrieved the communication stone.

Ruan Chaoxue stood there, stunned, in front of Song Yin.

"When did Senior Sister take on disciples?"

“It’s been a while, not many people know about it. We plan to inform others after she participates in the Foundation Establishment Competition. Remember to keep this a secret for your senior sister.” Song Yin winked at her.

Ruan Chaoxue immediately became excited, "Don't worry, senior sister! I definitely won't tell anyone else!" This was a secret between her and her senior sister.

Almost a month later, Song Yin was instructing her disciples on cultivation at Danque Peak when a boy brought her something.

"Greetings, Senior Song. I am a pageboy by Elder Fang's side."

Song Yin let the others continue practicing their swordsmanship, while she and the boy were teleported to the mountaintop.

The boy presented a high-level storage bag, saying, "The Ancestor said that it contains the part he promised to keep. Because he has a lot of things, it takes time to sort them out. After the Ancestor finished sorting them out, he immediately sent us to deliver them to Senior Song and Senior Master."

"Please thank Ancestor Fang for me." Song Yin accepted the storage bag and then took out a bottle of pills to give to the boy, "This is a reward for your hard work on the journey."

"This junior would never dare to accept it!"

"Take it."

The boy's refusal was ineffective. After thanking Song Yin, he returned to report. He had heard rumors about Elder Song before, but only after meeting him in person did he realize that others were not lying. On his way back, he was already thinking about how to praise Song Yin in front of Elder Fang.

Not long after the boy left, Shi Heming flew over to find Song Yin.

"Did you receive the things that Elder Fang sent over?"

Song Yin raised her chin and pointed to the storage bag on the table, "It's over there. I didn't check what's inside."

Even without looking, she knew it contained all good stuff.

...

Yunyan Town, a small town hidden in the mountains, is not far from the Xianxiao Sect. It is possible to go there and return on the same day, making it the first choice for Qi Refining disciples to go out for training.

They cannot stay away from home for many days and can only choose to train in nearby places. If they encounter an emergency and are unable to return to the sect on the same day, they must send a message to the sect explaining the situation. In critical situations, the sect will also send other disciples to provide support.

Chu Tang and more than ten Qi Refining stage disciples arrived in Yunyan Town.

"We have arrived at Yunyan Town. Today's main task is to find spiritual herbs or hunt monsters. The town is protected by an array, but the mountains and forests outside the town are not, so it is very dangerous to go into the mountains and forests. It is best not to go alone."

"clear."

Chu Tang was very excited. This was the first time she had left the Immortal Cloud Sect and Immortal Cloud City since joining the sect.

At the entrance to Yunyan Town, Chu Tang's gaze was drawn to the giant rock.

Why is there a huge rock with messy lines standing at the entrance of the town?

Upon hearing this, the disciple who had visited Yunyan Town several times explained to Chu Tang, "I heard that it has been passed down through generations and can protect the town, so it has always been kept at the entrance and has not been moved."

"Hurry up, those in the back!" the person in front urged.

"Let's hurry up, we don't want to fall too far behind."

Chu Tang glanced at the huge rock at the entrance again, "Okay."

Can a stone really protect the town? That's amazing! Does anyone have a similar stone? She wants to get some to give to her master.

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Author's Note: The naive apprentice: Get some to take back, one for Master and one for me! [Sprinkling flowers]

I got the same Song Yin as me: Holy crap! [Scared]

The sixth fragment is emerging.

Hint: The last fragment—see what goodies await you if you collect them all! [Sunglasses]

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[Empty bowl]