“The stone stele has disappeared?”
Ye Tian raised an eyebrow slightly when he heard the news.
There was no need to guess. Anyone capable of doing something like this was definitely…
“It wasn’t me!”
On the way to the martial arts arena, An Yi looked at Zi Yun and said helplessly, “A gentleman loves wealth, but acquires it honorably. If I were that kind of person back on Blue Star, then with my Cloud-Seeking Hand, the entire Jiangbei wouldn’t have had enough for me to steal.
“Even the Thief King would have knelt down and called me Dad.”
Zi Yun gave him a gentle smile. “I believe you. But I’m afraid the academy won’t let this go so easily.”
By the time they arrived at the martial arts arena, it was already surrounded by countless students and instructors, all of them discussing the matter animatedly.
In the center of the arena, where the stone stele had originally stood, there was now a huge hole.
Below it was an expanse of pitch-black darkness, so deep that its bottom could not be seen.
“Instructor An Yi is here!”
Someone in the crowd shouted those words.
In an instant, An Yi became the center of attention.
Countless pairs of eyes turned toward him in unison.
An Yi, however, remained completely calm.
His conscience was clear, so he had nothing to fear. It wasn’t his doing in the first place—why should he panic?
“Instructor An Yi, you’ve arrived.”
An elderly man wearing a silver badge on his chest saw An Yi and immediately broke into a dazzling chrysanthemum-like smile.
“Instructor An Yi, please, go ahead.”
In the blink of an eye, every instructor began smiling and making way for An Yi. Their fawning behavior was impossible to miss.
There was nothing they could do about it. Everyone now knew that this newly arrived instructor was the dean’s biological nephew.
Every instructor in the East Xuan Academy branch was aware of that fact.
The current dean, Tao Ye, was already approaching retirement age. As for who would become the next dean…
Looking across the entire East Xuan Academy branch, there was no one truly qualified to take over the position. Everyone fell just a little short.
Instructor An Yi, however, was absolutely a dark horse candidate for the next dean.
He taught the special admissions class, possessed Heavenly Dipper-level strength, was young, and handsome to boot. Most importantly…
He was the dean’s own nephew!
Therefore, pleasing him was essentially the same as pleasing the future dean.
Every instructor understood this perfectly.
Surrounded by a crowd of people fawning over him, An Yi frowned slightly. He felt extremely uncomfortable.
He wasn’t used to this sort of atmosphere.
Why were all these grown men standing so close to him? Couldn’t the female instructors in the back move forward a little?
“Why has everyone gathered here?” An Yi coughed lightly and changed the subject.
The elderly instructor wearing the silver badge smiled obsequiously. “Isn’t it because the stone stele disappeared? We came over to take a look, but we have no idea who did it.”
“It definitely wasn’t Instructor An Yi who stole it! If anyone dares slander Instructor An Yi again, I’ll be the first to smack their mouth crooked!”
A burly, bearded instructor thumped his chest loudly, openly declaring his loyalty to An Yi.
“There’s no way Instructor An Yi did it. Don’t even think about something like that.”
“Instructor An Yi, you can rest assured. Anyone who dares accuse you won’t get away with it!”
An Yi: “…”
“Um… this stone stele really has nothing to do with me.”
Listening to the instructors talk over one another, An Yi said helplessly, “Why does it feel like you’re making things worse? You’re making it sound as if I’m the one who stole it!”
“Exactly! It definitely has nothing to do with you. Anyone who dares suspect you—we’ll deal with them!”
The instructors spoke with righteous indignation.
An Yi was speechless.
Fine. It seemed that unless they found out why the stone stele had disappeared, he would never be able to clear himself of suspicion.
That night, at the martial arts arena.
The entire academy was silent.
At this hour, aside from authors who enjoyed typing away during the witching hours, practically everyone was asleep.
An Yi stood at the edge of the hole where the stone stele had vanished, listening to the wind rising from below. He frowned slightly.
“Long Niu, what do you think?”
An Yi pondered aloud.
Long Niu stood beside him, looking delicate and graceful. She lowered her head and glanced into the hole before shaking it. “I have no idea what’s down there.”
An Yi looked around several times.
Ever since he had arrived, he had felt that the stone stele of East Xuan Academy was suppressing something.
Yet the space below looked like a bottomless abyss. The sinister aura drifting up from it made his skin crawl.
“Wait… this is a barrier?”
An Yi stared at the pitch-black hole below, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.
Long Niu closed her eyes and sensed the area for a moment before nodding. “Yes.”
Then Long Niu’s body transformed into a silver dragon. She spiraled into the sky and looked down at An Yi.
“Do we go in?”
“Here we go!”
An Yi leaped into the air and landed on the silver dragon’s back.
In an instant, silver light from the World-Spirit Force flashed.
The two of them vanished into thin air.
When they reappeared, they had already arrived in another world.
This barrier was even smaller than the minor barrier in the Mysterious Domain. For Long Niu, traversing it was effortless.
“When will you be able to travel back to Blue Star?” An Yi asked, looking at this entirely unfamiliar world with a sigh.
Spatial teleportation—this ability was simply too overpowered!
Long Niu shook her head like a rattle drum. “That’s impossible for now. I’ll have to reach the strength of a ninth-level monster first.”
An Yi raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this.
This girl could actually travel back to Blue Star once she reached that level?
Still, ninth level was far too distant. Based on the strength Long Niu had displayed, she was currently at the early Heavenly Dipper stage, which at most made her a fifth-level monster.
“This is… the shattered stone stele!”
An Yi crouched down and looked at the collapsed fragments of stone. His eyes immediately lit up.
He had found it!
This Sensory Stone was a truly good item.
“Careful!”
Long Niu’s anxious voice came from behind him.
A black streak transformed into a beam of light and shot toward An Yi.
Clang!
Without even turning his head, An Yi extended two fingers and firmly caught the incoming weapon between them.
“What the hell is this thing?”
An Yi looked at the weapon struggling in his hand. Black dark-spirit energy swirled around it.
Dark-spirit energy?
That made it easy to deal with.
Light appeared in An Yi’s palm. He activated Devouring and directly extracted all the dark-spirit energy from the weapon.
The weapon’s true form was revealed. It was a flying dagger radiating an astonishingly murderous aura.
After devouring the energy surrounding it, An Yi’s lips curled into a smile.
“It actually developed a consciousness of its own. An evil weapon!”
An Yi casually put the flying dagger away.
This thing was inferior even to the Soulless Dagger, let alone the Dragon Fang Demon Sword.
Still, the advantage was that it had already nurtured a spiritual consciousness. It could be considered a type of evil weapon, and would make a decent tool for catching enemies off guard in battle.
Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing… Uh… You have received the reward [Shadow Blade Flying Dagger] ×1!
The system’s long-silent voice rang out.
An Yi said helplessly, “You really didn’t need to force yourself into the scene.”
The system fell silent.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, two more black beams of light flashed through the air, shooting straight toward An Yi’s face.
An Yi remained calm. He extended both hands and precisely caught the two flying daggers.
Piece of cake!
So the bottom of that enormous cylindrical stone stele had only been suppressing these three flying daggers?
The stele was pretty pathetic!
Just then, An Yi suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. An indescribable sense of terror surged into his mind.
He turned around, and his pupils contracted.
All around him, countless densely packed flying daggers floated in the air, surrounding him on every side.
“F@#%!”
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The countless flying daggers swept toward him like a dark, torrential rain.
After seeing this, Long Aoxue anxiously tried to use her domain spiritual power to teleport An Yi away.
But it was already too late. All she could do was watch as throwing knives shot toward An Yi from every direction.
Even a spirit cultivator in the Nirvana stage couldn’t withstand such a powerful spiritual-force assault!
Even with his Undying Martial Body, An Yi would likely be reduced to minced flesh.
“Qi Shield!”
At the critical moment, dazzling light burst from An Yi’s body.
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
