"Take the black piece first!" Jiang Yuan opened his eyes and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Huh?" Bu Yao was taken aback. Is this my husband? Why is he so expressionless?

Moreover, her dual cultivation with Jiang Yuan had also ended, and she withdrew her hand with doubts. However, since she had already promised Jiang Yuan to play a game of chess, she would not break her word. After the black pieces were placed at the small eye point at the start of the game, she held her breath and focused her mind, entering the state of a chess player.

"Bu Yao, I'm really afraid you'll become the next Ning Yanlan!"

Jiang Yuan watched Bu Yao engrossed in the chess game, his mind filled with complex emotions. Once bitten, twice shy, he was indeed terrified, terrified beyond words. But over the years, he had also observed Bu Yao, and she had genuinely done nothing suspicious of him, and the time span was long enough that he couldn't believe someone could be so persistent.

"But this time, I am determined to reach the peak, and no one can change my will!"

Last time, he was the companion god, and he lost everything. But this time, he won't lose again!

Ding! The white piece falls, completing the checkmate.

"You liar! You clearly said you didn't know how to play Go, but your Go skills are so superb!"

After losing, Bu Yao glared at Jiang Yuan, practically ready to bite him to vent her anger.

As the consciousness within the Soul of Mending Heaven dissipated, Jiang Yuan's soul slowly returned. However, the next second, the stone table suddenly shattered, and a paper manual appeared beneath the chessboard.

"I won!" Jiang Yuan witnessed the whole thing and naturally saw that Bu Yao was quite angry. Although he didn't understand Go, he could still see the miserable state of Bu Yao being surrounded and intercepted on the Go board. It would be a shame not to show off his efforts now.

"What's this?"

Bu Yao took the manual from under the chessboard, then looked at the ancient Holy Spirit Clan script on it and read aloud, "Mysterious Array Manual?"

"Isn't it bloodline?" Jiang Yuan's lips twitched. In his plan, he could obtain the hidden imperial bloodline as long as he fulfilled the other party's last wish, but now there was only a book.

"Could it be a chess game record?!"

Bu Yao's eyes lit up, and she immediately flipped through the book to read it. But after a few pages, her face fell. She casually tossed the book onto the broken chessboard and said, "A book about breaking formations. I thought it was a chess manual!"

"A formation?" Jiang Yuan was startled and immediately picked it up again, but he was completely dumbfounded when he saw the words on it, because he didn't recognize a single one of them.

"Hehehe, I knew you wanted that!" Bu Yao grinned from ear to ear. "Don't understand? Do you want your wife to help you?"

"The Holy Spirit Clan's script... I think there's a translation available on the Apocalypse website, right?" Jiang Yuan calmed down and looked at Bu Yao with an air of composure.

Bu Yao slapped her forehead, realizing she had forgotten about this, but she immediately used her trump card: "Let me tell you, the information leaks on Tianqi are too serious. If you dare to take this up for translation, the Xuanzhen Secret Record will be posted on the Tianqi Dark Web tomorrow!"

Jiang Yuan: "..."

He was very frustrated. It was one thing that information was leaked seriously before the cataclysm, but now that it's the Apocalypse Era, why are those gatekeepers still resorting to information theft?

"Beg me, after all, I am a rare language genius among the Holy Spirit Clan. Apart from me, it is difficult for anyone to translate the Holy Spirit Clan's characters into Chinese perfectly!" Bu Yao pulled Jiang Yuan back up with one hand, and took out the Xuanzhen Secret Record with the other.

Translating the secret manual is extremely difficult, involving not only the differences in language, but also the hidden meaning within the words!

"Yao'er, can you help me check the grade of this formation book? If it's too low, then forget it, it's not worth translating!" Jiang Yuan really had no eyesight without his Heavenly Eye; he couldn't even tell the grade of a secret manual right in front of him.

"All right!"

Bu Yao nodded, then focused her attention on the Mysterious Array Manual. After exploring it for ten minutes, she exclaimed in surprise, "I thought it was just an ordinary array, but I didn't expect it to be the Mysterious Array, one of the four top arrays of the Holy Spirit Clan!"

"A top-tier formation!"

Jiang Yuan felt relieved upon hearing these four words. He was worried that the formation's level was too low, which would discourage him from cultivating it.

He was considering retraining some of his skills, as he now had a hundredfold talent boost from Ragnarok, making retraining the safest option.

After hesitating for a long time, Bu Yao finally said coyly, "Jiang Yuan, I can't let you take this Xuanzhen Secret Record!"

"But don't worry, you can learn, as long as you're here with me!" Bu Yao quickly added, afraid that Jiang Yuan would misunderstand.

Jiang Yuan sighed inwardly. The two were ultimately on opposing sides of the race. If the Xuanzhen Secret Record fell into the hands of the human race, the Holy Spirit Clan would not only lose a lineage of array inheritance, but might even suffer a great loss because of the Xuanmen array. Therefore, it was not difficult to understand Bu Yao's attitude of not wanting to take out the Xuanzhen Secret Record.

"Why don't you stay at my Tianxin Pavilion for a while longer, until you've mastered the Xuanzhen Secret Records before leaving?" Bu Yao said this almost as if possessed.

Deep down, she probably didn't want Jiang Yuan to leave.

"No need, just translate it for me and show it to me for a few days!" Jiang Yuan shook his head and refused Bu Yao's suggestion. Staying in Lan Yin Divine Mountain was too risky, especially since his frequent actions had already attracted the attention of many Holy Spirit Clan members. Staying any longer would be too risky.