Chapter 6 Successful Waste Utilization
After kneeling, Yu Sui returned to her courtyard. The mute woman and others had prepared things to massage her knees. After some effort, she finally lay down on the bed.
She didn't need to go to the National Academy today. As dawn broke, the lingering heat from the strange fire made her sit up again. She raised her hand to wipe the fine sweat from her forehead and touched her cheek. The burning pain from before had disappeared, and there was no trace of being beaten.
She gently stroked her cheek for a long time.
Yu Sui started to recall, and finally found the scene in her memory where Zhong Li Que called her.
"Don't go out!"
This means she knew what she would encounter if she went out.
Yu Sui fanned himself with his hand, walked to the Liudan jade stone and sat down, gazing at the strange fire in his palm in deep thought.
If she is of average talent, then the children around her are all geniuses, each with exceptional talent in a particular field.
Nangong Ming only tested her talent once, and seemed to be heartbroken by the result, so he didn't pay attention to it anymore.
As for her three older brothers, they had already decided to join the ninth-rate sorcerers class during their first talent test.
Nangong Ming's cultivation comes from a famous family, and he is one of the Three Yama Kings of the famous family who possess the "Asura Eye".
The Asura Eye is a unique ability possessed by renowned families. With just one glance, it can see your entire life. It is very useful in assisting in talent testing, but it also has a terrifying side:
It can see through all illusions and break all military formations.
Although Nangong Ming did not personally test Yu Sui's talent, he invited an old sorcerer from the Yin-Yang School to watch the whole process with his Asura Eye. He confirmed that the old sorcerer was right and that his stupid daughter was indeed mediocre and would not amount to anything.
In this life, I am merely a container holding the Breath of Earth.
The moment a child's talent is revealed in a test, they are already beginning their journey of self-cultivation.
Yu Sui looked back at the five elemental light cores in her palm, and took out six of them from the strange fire.
Although the upper limit has been increased, I don't know what to do with these extracted Five Elements Light Cores. Besides being able to obtain them repeatedly, what other use do they have?
It can't just be something you make for yourself to play with, that would be a waste.
Yu Sui rested her chin on her hand and thought for a long time.
She knew very little about spiritual practice; she had only learned about it from books.
There are even fewer records of strange flames in this world; they're not even in books.
The Five Elements Light Core contains the power of various supernatural abilities and techniques of cultivators, but she did not join the Nine Schools of Cultivation and does not know the supernatural abilities and techniques of the Nine Schools.
Nine Schools of Thought.
If you can't learn from others, then create your own.
Yu Sui stood up and placed the five elemental light cores in different places: by the bedside, on the dressing table, in the flower bushes in the courtyard, and at the gate.
The next day, Yu Sui went to the National Academy.
Princess Shangyang asked her why she hadn't come yesterday, and Yu Sui said she wasn't feeling well.
"Did your father scold you when you went back?" Princess Shangyang said with a smile, propping her head up with her hand. "I heard that your father is in charge of the Lin family's case. He couldn't get through to your brother, so he must have come to you."
Although Princess Shangyang is young and has a spoiled and domineering temper, she is not a fool. Yu Sui heard that she would be going to the Yin-Yang School in the future because her talent test showed the highest compatibility with the Yin-Yang School.
Unfortunately, Princess Shangyang was infatuated with Gu Gan, and now she seized the opportunity to say to Yu Sui, "You keep an eye on Gu Gan for me. If you do something stupid again and get scolded by the prince, I can speak up for you and make you get scolded less, right?"
Yu Sui, who was sleeping on the table, silently turned her head, presenting the back of her head to her.
Princess Shangyang rolled her eyes in anger and ignored her.
Yu Sui closed her eyes, ignoring the surrounding noise. She separated her consciousness and tried to connect with the five elemental light cores scattered throughout the palace from the strange fire.
They were born from the strange fire, but they were also mixed with her spiritual power, which is why they can be reborn repeatedly.
Perhaps there is a connection between them.
Yu Sui decided to give it a try.
Her separated consciousness revolved around the strange fire. Looking through the burning flames, she could see a faint line of fire moving within the Five Elements Light Core placed in the Prince's Mansion.
Yu Sui saw from the strange fire:
The mute woman entered through the main gate with her maids. Some of the maids swept the fallen leaves in the courtyard, changed her bed, lit incense in the room, placed fresh flower branches in a vase, and took away the flower branches that were already showing signs of wilting.
A bird landed among the flowers to steal nectar, but upon hearing the mute woman open the door, it flapped its wings and flew away.
Yu Sui opened her eyes, then closed them again.
Waste utilization was successful.
By separating the Five Elements Light Core from the Strange Fire, Yu Sui was able to activate the connection and disperse his consciousness to the Five Elements Light Core.
Yu Sui practiced for seven or eight days, leaving the Five Elements Light Cores in different places to observe how they would be affected.
The five elements light cores that have been stripped to the outside world will disappear on their own after twelve hours.
Fortunately, it is small enough, only the size of a fingernail, so it is not easy to be discovered when hidden in the dark, and no one would think that a lunatic would take out his own Five Elements Light Core and just leave it there to play with.
As Yu Sui grew older, he could no longer use his status as a "child" to obtain useful information from Nangong Ming and Madam Su, and he rarely heard about matters related to the Breath of Earth anymore.
Now that the use of the Five Elements Light Core has been discovered, Yu Sui decided to send one to Madam Su to see if he could hear anything.
Recently, Madam Su has been keeping an eye on her studies. Yu Sui has to go to her place every day to report. After kneeling outside the door and reciting her textbook, Yu Sui goes in to pour herself a cup of tea. Just then, Gu Gan arrives, and Madam Su gets up and leaves behind the screen.
Yu Sui seized the opportunity and placed the Five Elements Light Core on the shelf behind the screen.
She made an excuse that she was hungry and left, but turned back to her room and asked the mute woman to bring her dinner to eat.
Yu Sui sat under the Liudan jade stone, resting her chin on her hands, closing her eyes and concentrating.
The strange fire flickered gently, and through it, Yu Sui could see the scenery beyond the Five Elements Light Core:
Madam Su entered the room, followed by Gu Gan. Gu Gan frowned and said, "Lin Shouxian betrayed my father. I want to take his head with my own hands. Why did you make the first move?"
"You desire revenge, but you must not rush it," Madam Su said. "Right now you are too weak; focus solely on becoming stronger. As for the rest..."
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly frowned and looked behind the screen.
Yu Sui was slightly startled. In an instant, an invisible pressure seemed to be transmitted to her through the Five Elements Light Core, and a dangerous and deadly pursuit was flying towards her.
Madam Su strolled toward the screen, her sharp gaze sweeping across the room.
Yu Sui subconsciously wanted to crush the Five Elements Light Core, but miraculously, the Five Elements Light Core hidden in the bookshelf obeyed her command and disappeared silently.
The scenery within the strange fire vanished.
Yu Sui touched his eyebrows, his dark eyes revealing a calm expression.
It seems this is the keenness of a thirteenth-realm expert. Trying to obtain information from Madam Su and Nangong Ming using such methods is still too naive.
After this experience, Yu Sui became even more cautious and careful when using the Five Elements Light Core.
But she didn't come away empty-handed.
At least they knew that Gu Gan truly carried a deep-seated blood feud, and that Nangong Ming and Madam Su were both protecting his revenge plan.
Yu Sui had also considered placing the Five Elements Light Core at Gu Gan's house, but then he thought again that Gu Gan had bodyguards following him, and these bodyguards' cultivation levels wouldn't be below tenth-level masters. There was no guarantee that Nangong Ming wouldn't go and check it out. If Nangong Ming discovered it, a simple search would identify anyone who had been to Gu Gan's house as a suspect.
The risk was too great, so Yu Sui gave up.
Gu Gan wanted to become stronger, so he naturally cultivated desperately, with the Nangong Prince's Mansion as his backing, helping him find resources.
Yu Sui took the opportunity to study while visiting Gu Gan's house.
Gu Gan was completely unaware of Yu Sui's scheming. While he was meditating and practicing breathing techniques, Yu Sui moved a small stool to sit next to him, resting her chin on her hands and watching.
When Gu Gan opened his eyes, he saw that small and delicate face, with moist eyes that shone like gemstones. Her posture of resting her chin on her hands and tilting her head was cute and adorable, which softened his heart.
"Are you hungry?" Gu Gan asked after thinking for a moment. "Should we eat back at the Prince's residence or here?"
"I'm not hungry yet." Yu Sui shook her head and glanced at the sky. "If we eat here, will Brother Gu go and buy some food?"
Gu Gan stood up and said, "I can do it myself."
Yu Sui exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, Brother Gu, you can cook for yourself?"
“I used to do this all the time,” Gu Gan said.
"Weren't those all done by the maids?" Yu Sui asked.
Gu Gan sighed and walked towards his small kitchen: "What do you want to eat? Never mind, I can't cook the delicacies from the Prince's mansion, so just make do with some home-style dishes."
“I’m fine with anything,” Yu Sui tilted her head and looked over. “Anything Brother Gu makes is fine with me.”
Gu Gan agreed.
Yu Sui followed him over and watched him wash the vegetables and then rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll help too."
"Don't move!" Gu Gan immediately stopped him. "Just wait here. I'm afraid if you come, the porridge will burn."
"Oh." Yu Sui took her little stool and sat down at the door, blinked and looked around, and said, "Brother Gu, I'll give you my parents, and you can be a child of the Prince's Mansion too. That way I can see you at the Prince's Mansion every day and won't have to run back and forth between the two places."
Gu Gan turned to look at her with annoyance: "I have my own parents."
Yu Sui feigned ignorance and asked, "Where are they?"
Gu Gan paused in his rice-washing, then whispered, "They're dead."
Yu Sui just blinked blankly.
Gu Gan changed the subject: "You're willing to give up your parents to me, but your three older brothers aren't. Besides, your father is the most prestigious prince in Qingyang Kingdom. He can do whatever he wants in Qingyang Kingdom. You dare to give that up?"
Yu Sui said, "Dad and Mom both like you, so it's good that they're willing. There's nothing we can do if my brothers aren't willing."
Gu Gan was amused by her words and laughed so hard he could hardly breathe. He even squatted down and laughed for a long time.
Yu Sui couldn't understand why this person's sense of humor was so low.
As dusk fell, Gu Gan had already laid out a table full of food, and Yu Sui picked up her chopsticks and tasted each dish one by one.
Gu Gang was about to ask her if it was delicious when the Wind Listening Ruler on the table began to glow slightly.
Yu Sui glanced at it out of the corner of his eye and saw that the Listening Wind Ruler was dark green, its light as lustrous as jade, and it was about three inches long. Gu Gan picked up the Listening Wind Ruler, ran it along the surface, and saw the message sent by someone else.
Gu Gan glanced at it twice and then put it down.
The Wind-Listening Ruler is an advanced product jointly created by the Taoist, Yin-Yang, and Fangji schools. As long as it can connect to a nearby communication array, it can transmit information to each other even if they are thousands of miles away.
Its functions are comparable to the mobile phone that Yu Sui liked to play with in his previous life.
Within the Xuan Gu Continent, the six kingdoms have set up countless communication arrays, covering almost all areas except for some desolate and inaccessible places.
The Wind-Listening Ruler is a luxury item because its price is too high; ordinary people can't afford it, and even those who can afford it aren't ordinary people.
Yu Sui didn't have one because she was still young and stayed in the capital, not traveling far. The mute woman or guards who served her always wore a wind-listening ruler to ensure that information could be transmitted at any time.
However, these are also divided into public and private rulers. The wind-listening rulers possessed by the royal guards and others for official business belong to the public ruler category.
As the three families' supernatural abilities and techniques have been modified and improved, the Wind-Listening Ruler has become increasingly important and its application scope has become increasingly wide.
Gu Gan's wind-listening ruler, which he had put down, lit up again. He didn't look at it, and Yu Sui asked, "Who is it?"
“Princess Shangyang.” Gu Gan gestured to her that she didn’t need to worry about it.
Yu Sui asked innocently, "Brother Gu, won't someone be able to crack the sound transmission method using the Wind Listening Ruler?"
Gu Gan, acting like a little adult, explained to her, "It's impossible. The Listening Wind Ruler is a combination of the supernatural abilities of Taoism, Yin-Yang School, and Fangji School. It contains three huge and most complex magical techniques that even they themselves cannot decipher."
Yu Sui asked in surprise, "Why? Wasn't the Wind-Listening Ruler created by those three families?"
“The Wind-Listening Ruler isn’t important; what’s important is the central communication array for transmitting information.” Gu Gan shoveled a few mouthfuls of food onto his plate and continued to explain to his silly childhood sweetheart, “Have you ever seen a communication array? The National Academy has a super-large communication array, bigger than this room of mine.”
"It's covered with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the secret texts of the Twenty-Eight Mansions. The number of characters that can be transformed after these things are combined is beyond the imagination of ordinary people."
Yu Sui really hasn't gone to see it.
She nodded repeatedly as she listened. After Gu Gan finished speaking, he asked, "Why didn't you have a wind-listening ruler?"
Yu Sui replied blankly, "I don't know."
Gu Gan sighed: "Never mind, tell me when you have time."
Yu Sui: "Mmm."
That evening, back at the Prince's mansion, Yu Sui lay in bed lost in thought. She wondered if she could crack the communication array. Whenever she thought of this, her heart felt strangely calm, as if a force was comforting and guiding her.
Yu Sui learned the location of the National Academy's communication array from Gu Gan, and took advantage of the lunch break to go there by himself.
A strong wind arose that day, causing the flowering trees on both sides of the forest path to sway violently.
Flowers and leaves fluttered freely, falling and rising again. Yu Sui walked up the steps, entered the Communication Institute, and went through the gate. Inside, there were towering, luminous mountains.
The ground is a luminous array of stars, with countless stars falling into it. The triangular mountain is covered with densely packed characters, which spin rapidly. The ribbons wrapped around the mountain rotate slowly, and the numbers and symbols on them appear and disappear intermittently.
number.
Runes.
The ingenious design, constantly alternating with each other, connects and operates with a vast and mysterious power. Standing among these mountains, Yu Sui feels as insignificant as an ant.
She looked up, and the mountain scenery was reflected in her dark pupils. Every flashing number and rune was memorized.
Yu Sui stared at the communication array in front of her. What appeared to others as rapidly spinning ciphertext was, in her eyes, a slow, clear display of all the information.
[Author's Note]
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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