59: The Lin family and Lin Xiao are coming together!

Thousands of miles away from Yunhai City, in a vast forest.

The void rippled like water.

A young man in a green robe suddenly emerged from the void.

Traversing the void is a power only possessed by those in the Combination Realm.

The man floated in the air, and the oppressive aura of the Combination Realm spread out, causing birds and beasts within a hundred-mile radius to scatter and flee.

This was the instinctive fear of the weak towards the strong.

His vast, ocean-like divine sense swept out, seemingly searching for something in this forest.

At a certain moment, his gaze sharpened, as if piercing through the void.

Dozens of miles away, a scruffy wild wolf was frantically fleeing towards the outskirts, a piece of prey in its mouth.

Upon closer inspection, it was a human hand!

Buzz...

Space was pierced again, and the green-robed man, expressionless, stepped through the air.

The next second, his true form had already appeared before the wild wolf.

With a light glance, and no unnecessary movements, the wild wolf instantly lost all signs of life.

As if fearing to dirty his hands, he used his mind to envelop the severed hand, which was covered in teeth marks, and then released a secret technique.

Fragments of time belonging to this hand began to appear sporadically in his mind.

The Unyielding Grip in the dead of night, the Crescent Moon Sky-Piercer.

The crude and forceful use of the middle finger and ring finger...

The man's expression suddenly became as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.

This Lin Sifeng...

It's good that he's dead.

But for the dignity of the Lin family, he couldn't ignore this matter.

Instantaneous death, with even the karma forcibly erased.

If not for the fortunate survival of this severed hand, he, Lin Xiao, would probably not even have found a clue about the perpetrator!

After continuing to search for a moment, enduring the disgust, Lin Xiao's pupils narrowed slightly.

He saw a shocking sword light, that golden sword light, incredibly powerful, severing Lin Sifeng's hand.

Finally, he saw a face.

It was the face of Meng Yun, a key rising star cultivated by the 654 Bureau branch.

“Yunhai City, Meng Yun...”

Incinerating the filthy hand in an instant, a playful glint flashed in Lin Xiao's eyes, and he instantly vanished from this world.

All was silent.

Only the smell of char and foulness slowly diffused.

...

“I am a professor! A professor at 654 University!”

Xu Yuan once again cast a barrier, attempting to awaken Meng Yun's already limited conscience.

Professor?

Meng Yun now realized there was likely some misunderstanding, and with a flick of his finger, he instantly dispersed the Hellfire.

Only then did Xu Yuan, with lingering apprehension, remove the Arcane barrier.

The flames just now even made her recall the embarrassing incident from her childhood when she played with fire and burned her deskmate's pants, and she even felt like crying and prostrating herself to apologize!

Only then did Meng Yun clearly see her appearance.

She had light brown, wavy hair, and her figure was also curvy.

A pair of half-rimmed glasses rested on her delicate face, making her appear both intellectual and charming.

Most critically, at this moment, she was wearing only a silk nightgown.

Does she really think this is her own home?!

Xu Yuan didn't even notice Meng Yun's astonishment; her gaze burned as she looked at Meng Yun:

“You're that lecturer, Meng Yun, who deciphered the black Arcane, aren't you? I'm Xu Yuan, a professor from the History Research Institute.”

“Hello.” Meng Yun nodded, his eyes unblinking: “Um, why don't you go change first? It's your first time at my place, no need to be so impolite!”

Hearing this, Xu Yuan looked down, her pretty face instantly flushing.

But what kind of person was Xu Yuan? She quickly regained her composure, waving her hand as if unconcerned: “I'm over forty, you wouldn't be interested in me, would you?”

In the era of spiritual energy revival, forty was precisely the age when women were like wolves and as beautiful as flowers.

Moreover, she was now an Arcane Envoy; a forty-year-old Arcane Envoy was an unparalleled prodigy anywhere on Blue Star.

But such a prodigy was completely suppressed by Meng Yun, unable to raise her head.

A Nascent Soul cultivator under twenty, with strength equal to hers, and half her age.

Even more ruthless was that this scoundrel Meng Yun seemed to have also cultivated Arcane knowledge, gaining some fame in just a few days, even in the highly competitive 654 University.

Although he wasn't a God Art Master, he was a God-level Lecturer!

Just based on his ability to decipher that mysterious black Arcane, she, Xu Yuan, could only admit defeat!

Meng Yun remained silent, just staring at her intently.

It was a free benefit delivered to his doorstep; it would be a waste not to look.

While his gaze was fixed on Xu Yuan, Meng Yun's mind was blank.

A new memory suddenly appeared in his mind. It was information about the stone tablet in the History Research Institute.

Due to his changing the historical timeline again, the original panel painting of him burning Foundation personnel had now become a scene of him burning a long-bearded old villain.

Other event trajectories remained unchanged.

Being stared at so intently by Meng Yun, Xu Yuan felt a burning sensation in her heart and finally couldn't bear it, getting up to go to the first-floor cloakroom to change clothes.

Meng Yun was startled: “What are you doing?”

“Changing clothes?”

Meng Yun looked at her with an idiotic expression: “But this is the house I'm renting!”

Xu Yuan's steps halted.

It was then that she finally remembered that before her business trip, she had indeed entrusted the rental to an agent!

And she had even received the electronic contract, but because she was so busy at the time, she had put the matter out of her mind!

No wonder when she said she was home, the lock wouldn't open no matter what, and she had to use Alchemy to forcibly break it...

At this thought, her forty-year-old pretty face flushed slightly: “My apologies, I'm the landlady, I forgot, hehe.”

Hehe?

Believe it or not, I'll report you for trespassing?

His forty-year-old landlady.

He subtly glanced towards the door. He didn't even need to think; the lock he had spent a fortune on, which was supposedly able to deter Golden Core thieves, was definitely out of commission.

Meng Yun extended his hand: “Pay up, for the cost of replacing the lock.”

Xu Yuan knew she was in the wrong, and moreover, she intended to befriend Meng Yun to ask him for Arcane knowledge, so she resignedly nodded: “How much?”

“Ten thousand spirit stones.”

“How much??”

This amount wasn't just random extortion.

Meng Yun only had eight hundred thousand spirit stones in total, and after activating the anchor point twice, he still had a deficit of ten thousand spirit stones.

He was eager to start another simulation now and didn't want to bother running around to exchange for spirit stones.

Just as well, there was a female thief in front of him; it would be a waste not to extort her.

“Ten thousand. If you don't give it to me, I'll call the police.” Meng Yun said calmly.

“Aren't you a government official yourself?” Xu Yuan felt a bit speechless.

But ten thousand wasn't impossible.

Provided that Meng Yun was willing to engage in some technical exchange with her.

Exchanging ten thousand spirit stones for the secrets of black Arcane was a very worthwhile deal.

“Okay, but I want to learn your black Arcane from just now.”

“You mean this?”

Meng Yun said, spreading his palm, watching the black and blue flames jump and dance like little sprites in his hand:

“This is Fallen Arcane, called Hellfire. You can't learn it.”

Without an Arcane Star, normal people simply couldn't master it.

Blue Star also didn't have the tradition of becoming a Fallen Arcanist upon losing one's sanity.

Thus, Fallen Arcane was effectively extinct.

“Then why can you learn it?”

“One cannot generalize about the physiques of people.”

Meng Yun shook his head as he spoke, a flash of inspiration suddenly striking him.

Since Hellfire couldn't be mastered by ordinary people, why would that stone tablet record the spell formula?

Meng Yun thought it was wrong, but was it truly wrong?

Could it be that this was a weakened version,Improved by later Arcanists so that everyone could master it!

Just like his complete Demon Subduing Swordplay and Nangong Jing's weakened Demon Subduing Swordplay!

At this thought, Meng Yun changed the subject: “I can try. If it succeeds, I must take at least half of the profits brought by Hellfire in the future.”

Half might not seem like much, but after all the various surcharges and extortions, it would be an astronomical figure.

“Deal.”

Xu Yuan was not interested in money and agreed readily. She took out a large bag from her spatial ring and threw it directly to Meng Yun, displaying astonishing strength.

“Very good,” Meng Yun said, weighing it in his hand, estimating it to be several hundred pounds, then spoke with satisfaction:

“We'll start in half an hour.”

Then he turned and went upstairs.

Half an hour was enough for him to complete another simulation.

Click.

The bedroom door on the second floor closed.

Almost at the same moment, in the living room on the first floor, Lin Xiao's figure, having pierced through the void, suddenly appeared.

Xu Yuan and he looked at each other for a second, and the air froze.

“Ah—!”

A hooligan, and a Combination Realm cultivator!