Bai Ying sat quietly before the ancient stone tablet, her aura calm and focused, completely absorbed in her cultivation.
As time slowly passed, she felt more and more clearly that her entire soul was being gently cleansed by this seemingly ordinary stone tablet, and every inch of her consciousness was quietly changing.
The stone tablet's surface was as smooth as a mirror, completely devoid of any inscriptions or traces of previous records. Recalling the Bai family's explanation that it contained cultivation insights left by their ancestors, Bai Ying was filled with astonishment. Not a single word of cultivation insights? How could a younger generation possibly comprehend its mysteries?
In fact, Bai Ying wasn't the only one with this thought. Many of the younger generation of the Bai family shared the same confusion. Despite their elders' strict demands for cultivation beneath this stone tablet, they couldn't comprehend anything despite their best efforts. Over time, they simply became accustomed to cultivating by the tablet, treating it merely as a task assigned by their elders.
Bai Ying tried many methods to comprehend it, until she released her divine sense and attempted to communicate with the mysterious stone tablet. In an instant, an extremely profound feeling surged into her heart. It was an indescribable sense of blood connection, as if there were countless hidden threads linking her to the stone tablet.
Just as she was filled with shock, a gentle and warm divine sense, like the softest breeze in spring, slowly flowed out from the stone tablet and silently merged into Bai Ying's consciousness. Immediately afterward, a passage of text, like an ancient secret, slowly entered Bai Ying's mind.
However, this text is obscure and difficult to understand. Every word seems to hide endless mysteries. One needs to calm down and slowly comprehend it word by word in order to even glimpse its meaning.
Bai Ying's eyes snapped open, a look of sudden realization flashing across them.
She finally understood why, for so many years, no one in the Bai family had been able to decipher the mystery of this stone tablet.
The conditions for this stone tablet are extremely demanding. Without the bloodline of the Bai family, one cannot resonate with it at all, let alone comprehend its mysteries. Even if one has the bloodline of the Bai family, one must cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage and possess a sufficiently powerful divine sense to be qualified to communicate with the stone tablet.
The Bai family is just an insignificant little clan on this vast Lingchuan Continent. Although the family has many members, it doesn't even have a single Nascent Soul stage cultivator, so naturally it cannot comprehend the secrets within this stone tablet.
Bai Ying sighed softly. Her own spiritual sense had only reached the Nascent Soul stage, while her cultivation was merely at the early Nascent Soul stage. If her cultivation could keep up, she would definitely have a deeper understanding of this text, and perhaps even be able to begin cultivating directly according to the guidance on the stone tablet.
Bai Ying focused her mind and concentrated on observing the obscure text in her mind, engraving it into her consciousness.
But her absorbed state seemed somewhat comical and ridiculous to others.
"This Bai Ying is truly the most persistent person I've ever met. Since coming to the Bai family, she hasn't missed a single day of cultivation in front of this stone tablet in order to unravel its mysteries. Just now, I even saw her with a look of sudden realization. Do you think she can really succeed?" A young member of the Bai family said to his companion with a hint of teasing on his face.
The people around him couldn't help but laugh, their words tinged with disdain: "How could the secrets of this stone tablet be so easily deciphered? There are so many people in our Bai family, and not a single one of them can comprehend it. She's just wasting her time."
"She even put on an air of understanding, and I really thought she was capable, but it turns out she was just pretending."
These people were still talking amongst themselves when suddenly a loud voice rang out.
Bai Ying walked straight up to Bai Ying, his expression clearly furious.
"Bai Ying".
After saying this, he quickly turned to the people around him and said in an undeniably firm tone, "Everyone, I have something I'd like to discuss with my daughter privately. Please excuse me for a moment." Seeing this, although the crowd was curious, they could only leave one after another.
Once the others had disappeared from sight, Bai Ying flew into a rage, yelling at Bai Ying, "Didn't you hear a single word I said? Hand over the soul blood right now and stay home to cultivate properly. Don't think you're so great just because you have some talent. Your talent was given to you by your mother and me! If it weren't for us, you would be nothing!"
Bai Ying never expected Bai Ying to come all this way again. A mocking smile appeared on her lips as she calmly looked at him and said slowly:
"I was born with a unique fire spiritual root, which is not bad, but it is not top-tier in the entire cultivation world. Everything I have now is the result of hard work and cultivation, not just talent. Even if I didn't have a unique fire spiritual root, I would not be mediocre, and I could still become who I am today."
Hearing Bai Ying's words, Bai Ying found them utterly absurd and sneered disdainfully, "You really think too highly of yourself. In my opinion, you just need to be disciplined. You didn't grow up with me and your mother, which is why you've become so arrogant and ignorant, not even knowing your own limitations!"
In his eyes, Bai Ying was nothing more than a callow child who dared to talk back like that. Did she really think she was one of those high and mighty Nascent Soul stage cultivators? So arrogant and conceited, no wonder she was so eager to participate in a competition that she couldn't even dream of.
If it weren't for the certain death she would face in that arena competition, he would have really wanted her to try it out, so she could taste the bitterness of defeat and stop being so arrogant and ignorant of her own limitations!
Bai Ying was too lazy to waste any more words on Bai Ying. He glared at Bai Ying fiercely, turned around abruptly, and strode away.
As he left, he secretly cast a spell to seal the entire place off.
An invisible barrier instantly enveloped the area; though seemingly invisible, it was indestructible.
As soon as Bai Ying touches it, a strange white smoke will immediately rise from within the barrier. This white smoke is no ordinary smoke; once inhaled, it will put one into a deep sleep, thus ensuring that Bai Ying will miss this arena match.
When he asked the others to leave, it wasn't out of consideration for Bai Ying's pride; he had clearly planned to trap her here all along.
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