Chapter 173 The Last Fragment Synthesis Scroll Mini-Game
After giving them the spirit stones, the other party thoughtfully took all the workers with them.
"Please make yourselves at home. Just let the neighbors know when you're done." The host, holding the warm, top-grade spirit stones, smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits.
Seeing acquaintances makes me happy, and I greet them warmly. Even the dogs on the street look handsome.
Curious onlookers, some boldly stepped forward and asked, "Would you two like to requisition my land?"
Seeing this as an opportunity to make money, Song Yin refused outright.
Seeing that there was no chance, everyone went to do their own work.
Making a boulder travel backward would be too conspicuous, so the two left first, only returning to the spot late at night.
Shi Heming took out the array plate and activated the array to prevent others from seeing it.
Song Yin directly marked the location, and everything before her eyes changed. Previously, the time rewind was short, but this time it went back more than ten days, and towards the end, Song Yin felt somewhat strained. Shi Heming placed his hand on the back of her hand, and the two of them worked together.
Some curious people, eager to join the fun, secretly peeked at the town entrance at night to see if there was any movement. With the array protecting them, everything appeared normal. They spent most of the night there, only to find nothing and get chilled in the wind.
Inside the formation, a giant rock was restored to its original state, and two people touched the patterns on it.
“It seems to be just an ordinary stone.” Shi Heming looked at it again and again, but found nothing unusual.
Song Yin: "Could it be that unfamiliar secret realm?" It's no wonder she had such a guess, as several of the fragments in her hand came from the secret realm.
Shi Heming: "We can't exactly go back to a collapsed secret realm; that's too difficult." The power of the Great Dao Laws that the two of them possessed was limited, so they couldn't do whatever they wanted.
Song Yin placed her palm on the boulder, feeling the coolness seeping into her body. Suddenly, she used her divine sense to probe the inside of the boulder.
Through layers of obstacles, there is a fragment that has been searched for for many years.
Song Yin withdrew her divine sense. "Found it. It's inside the stone."
"Inside the stone?" Shi Heming imitated her, probing the stone with his divine sense. "How come I didn't find any fragments inside?"
Song Yin was puzzled, so she released her divine sense again, "The thing is inside the stone, in the very center."
Shi Heming focused his investigation on the center location. After a moment, his eyes moved to Song Yin, and then he slowly shook his head. "Nothing."
ha?
Song Yin decided not to dwell on whether it existed or not. She clenched her right fist, gathered her spiritual energy and power in it, and suddenly swung it out.
The massive boulder that had been painstakingly restored to its original state before them crumbled into tiny stones under their watchful eyes, falling into a pile.
Song Yin opened her fist, and a familiar fragment flew out from a pile of pebbles. She waved the fragment in her hand at Shi Heming, "Looks like only I can see it."
He thought that perhaps she had the same fragment on her, so only she could see this fragment. Otherwise, it would be easy for someone else to find it and take it away from this huge rock without any protective measures.
"Now that we have the goods, let's return to the sect first, and resolve the remaining questions slowly."
As dawn broke, a paper crane flew to the hands of the worker next door. The news eventually reached the homeowner, but when he arrived at the scene, all he found was a pile of rubble.
"Spend 10,000 top-grade spirit stones just to pile up a bunch of gravel on my territory? It's really strange that cultivators have spirit stones these days. Whatever, I'll make a profit in the end anyway."
Song Yin and Shi Heming were already at Danque Peak. Including the fragment they had just acquired, Song Yin now possessed a total of six fragments.
Song Yin laid all the fragments on the table as a jigsaw puzzle. As they were pieced together one by one, the six fragments finally came together as one. At the same time, a flash of light stung Song Yin and Shi Heming, causing them to turn their heads and close their eyes.
After waiting a short while, Song Yin opened her eyes a crack, the blinding light disappeared, and the six fragments on the table turned into a complete scroll.
"A game where you synthesize fragments and turn them into scrolls?" Song Yin blurted out.
Shi Heming: "A mini-game?"
Song Yin: "I was just saying it offhand, haha, don't worry about it." She picked up the scroll again; it was blank, with nothing on it.
Song Yin shook the scroll, "You won't trick me, will you?"
Shi Heming reached out his hand: "The scroll must contain secrets. Let me take a look."
Song Yin handed him the scroll and stood next to him to watch how Shi Heming would solve the riddle.
Shi Heming first checked both sides of the scroll, then infused it with spiritual energy, but the scroll did not react.
Song Yin: "I thought there was some earth-shattering secret in collecting them all, but there's nothing at all. Tsk, what a waste of my energy."
Shi Heming: "Perhaps we haven't discovered its secret yet."
"Forget it, it's just a fragment that I collected over several hundred years. If it's useless, I'll just keep it as a souvenir and hang it anywhere." Song Yin took back the scroll. She originally wanted to throw it into her spatial storage, but after thinking about it, she put it in Langhuan Cave Heaven instead.
After all that busy work, even if she didn't achieve anything, she still put in the effort. So Song Yin ordered a feast to reward herself and, incidentally, rescued someone who was lounging on Tianqiao Peak.
The new spiritual vein in the Shattered Star Mountains has found its owner, but the new spiritual vein in the Ancient Battlefield remains unclaimed. Song Yin won't reveal how to take the spiritual vein, so Elder You must continue researching special magical artifacts. Everyone in the know agrees: what if the sect needs a spiritual vein again after Song Yin's ascension?
When Song Yin and Shi Heming saw Xia Xining again, they were both startled.
Song Yin stared in disbelief: "You...you have the same dark circles under your eyes as Ruan Chaoxue and the others when they first entered Danque Peak." Back then, when the three of them entered Danque Peak, there were few people and the pressure of alchemy fell on them. It wasn't until now, with more and more people entering Danque Peak, that their dark circles gradually faded.
Xia Xining sat slumped in her seat, her eyes vacant, as if a white wisp of soul could float out of her mouth.
"Don't even mention it. A person should just relax and accept their fate in life, instead of struggling to do things they can't do."
Song Yin: "So, did you manage to lie down as you wished?"
Xia Xining stared blankly at the roof: "No, maybe in the next life. I'm not destined to be able to lie down and relax in this life."
Song Yin patted her on the shoulder one last time, "You've worked hard."
Xia Xining: "I'm not suffering, I'm just unlucky."
Song Yin gasped. It seemed that Xia Xining had not had an easy time at Tianqiao Peak recently.
Xia Xining: "The only thing that makes me happy is that during this time, I broke through my limits and was able to independently refine ninth-order magic weapons."
Xia Xining casually tossed out those words, not thinking there was anything special about them. If it were the two people beside her, they would probably have been able to independently refine ninth-grade pills or draw ninth-order talismans long ago.
Shi Heming paused, his hand still holding the food, and looked at Xia Xining in surprise.
Xia Xining: "Surprised? You guys didn't—" Xia Xining snapped back to reality and sat up abruptly, "Could it be that you haven't broken through your limits yet?"
Song Yin: "I learned how to refine ninth-grade pills a while ago."
Xia Xining's straight back relaxed, and she said matter-of-factly, "I knew it."
Song Yin: "But Shi Heming has not yet broken through the limit and can only draw eighth-order talismans."
Xia Xining straightened her back again, her eyes shining brightly, as if she had taken a super tonic, and her spirits were instantly restored.
Immediately afterwards, laughter that could lift the roof off rang out.
"Hahaha!"
Hahahaha!
Xia Xining didn't say anything, she just sat there smiling, yet it seemed like she had said everything.
Xia Xining: "Hahahaha! Hahaha!"
Xia Xining laughed until her stomach hurt before slowly stopping. She moved a chair next to Song Yin and loudly chirped, "You can refine ninth-grade pills, and I can refine ninth-order magic weapons. We are the same kind of people. We won't play with him."
Shi Heming turned his chopsticks and placed Song Yin's favorite dish into her bowl, saying casually, "Eat your food."
It seemed that Xia Xining's mockery had no effect on him.
After finishing her meal, Xia Xining didn't stay outside for long before rushing back to Tianqiao Peak to continue working.
Song Yin: "Being able to refine a ninth-order magic weapon is truly wonderful news. I'm so happy for her."
Shi Heming: "Impressive."
Song Yin: "Indeed."
Shi Heming: "Yinyin, I want to stay in the forbidden area for a while first."
Song Yin: "Hmm?"
Shi Heming: "Go and break through the limits to draw a ninth-order talisman."
"Pfft." Song Yin couldn't help but laugh loudly; as expected, he was still bothered by Xia Xining's loud mockery. "Fine, I support you."
It seems I won't be able to use the cultivation method I found for the time being.
Shi Heming had no idea what he had missed.
Everyone has their own things to do, and Song Yin would take out a blank scroll to study in her spare time.
She concluded that the scroll made from the fragments shouldn't be considered a waste, just as Shi Heming said, perhaps she hadn't discovered the scroll's secret.
The communication stone lit up, and Song Yin, with a scroll in one hand and the communication stone in the other, asked, "Grandmaster, is there something you need from me?"
Lou Shuhe: "I've recently compiled several portraits, including one of the patriarchs. Come over and take it."
Song Yin: "Portrait of the patriarch? It's not going to be just a back view again, is it?"
Lou Shuhe: "..." Silence.
Song Yin: "I knew it."
After ending the communication, Song Yin went to the forbidden area to find her master.
Lou Shuhe's door was wide open, and everything had been neatly organized into a pile.
Upon arriving, Song Yin went straight inside and casually pulled out a scroll to open. What a coincidence! She immediately drew a portrait of the patriarch, the same unchanging back view portrait.
Lou Shuhe brought out another bunch, "Take your time picking, take whatever you like."
Song Yin: "Why did you think of organizing things, Grandmaster?"
Lou Shuhe: "Fellow Daoist Fang reminded me when I was packing my things. Now that I'm in the late stage of Mahayana, and the sect's spiritual vein problem is solved, I might ascend to immortality any day. So I packed my things in advance. Take what you should take, and leave what you should leave behind."
Ascension, how sudden.
Seeing that she looked a little confused, Lou Shuhe smiled and said, "You're often on Danque Peak, so it's normal that you don't know. Fellow Daoist Fang should be facing his ascension tribulation soon."
Song Yin took a deep breath. "You mean, Ancestor Fang is going to ascend to immortality?!"
Ascension was her ultimate goal after cultivating immortality.
"He has already left the sect and is now searching for a good place to ascend. I will take you with me to watch the ascension tribulation."
Song Yin nodded quickly.
Lou Shuhe put down the things in her arms and turned to pack up the rest.
Song Yin, on the other hand, was searching for treasures among a pile of things.
When Lou Shuhe came out again, Song Yin had already selected a bunch of things for herself, even flower pots.
"Stop choosing for now, come with me to Danque Peak to see the Soul Lamp." Lou Shuhe spoke up to stop them, "I just received news that the spiritual vein in the ancient battlefield has appeared. Our sect has the most people in the ancient battlefield now, and the people inside have already fought several battles."
Song Yin put down her things and immediately teleported to Danque Peak with Lou Shuhe.
The soul lamp belonging to Qi Zibo flickered, and Lou Shuhe and Song Yin's expressions turned grim. The flickering of the soul lamp indicated that the person was injured.
Song Yin: "I'm going to the ancient battlefield to find my master and the others."
Lou Shuhe: "Nonsense! Let's not even mention that the remaining souls in the ancient battlefield prevent those who go in from leaving, and the emergence of spiritual veins inside is a time of chaos."
Lou Shuhe tried to stop Song Yin from going to the ancient battlefield, but she had already decided to go herself.
Song Yin: "It just so happens that a spiritual vein has appeared in the ancient battlefield. If I go, I might bring back another spiritual vein for the sect."
Lou Shuhe: "One spiritual vein is enough for the sect. As for the ancient battlefield, I will bring your master and mistress out." The situation there is unpredictable, and it's precisely the time when a divination cultivator like her is needed. Furthermore, Fellow Daoist Fang has found his opportunity for ascension; it's time for her to seize that opportunity as well.
Lou Shuhe's words seemed to have a magical power, immediately calming Song Yin's anxious heart.
"If I don't have time to take you to see Fellow Daoist Fang's ascension tribulation, then I'll wait for Grandmaster to come out so you can see Grandmaster's ascension tribulation."
Song Yin understood the emotions in Lou Shuhe's eyes. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay."
No one in the sect wanted Lou Shuhe to go to the ancient battlefield, but her disciples and her chance for ascension were there. Therefore, on a peaceful day, apart from Song Yin, no one knew that another forbidden area patriarch had left the sect.
After Lou Shuhe left, Song Yin went to see the Soul Lamp again and offered incense to the portraits of the past peak masters of Danque Peak.
Song Yin looked at the portrait in the center and said, "Grandmaster, since you are still alive, please bless our ancestors and all the others with good fortune and peace."
After offering incense, Song Yin took one last deep look before turning and walking away.
Just then, a gust of wind blew into the hall, and the portrait of the patriarch hanging in the center fell down for no apparent reason. Song Yin heard the noise and turned around, only to be hit in the face by the falling portrait.
Song Yin picked up the painting, preparing to hang it up again: "How did it fall down?"
Suddenly, Song Yin's gaze sharpened.
She carefully examined the portrait of the patriarch.
"How could this be? The material is the same as the blank scroll made from the fragments..."
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Author's Note: Grandmaster: Received, I will bless them with safety. [Okay] Don't ask me why I only bless them; how can I rescue them if they're not there? [Oh oh oh]
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[Empty bowl]
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