561: Chapter 561 Xingchen Daoyuan

Chapter 561 Star Dao Academy

“Mhm, mhm!”

Ling Yun’s cool and clear face blossomed into a brilliant smile, like ice and snow melting and spring returning, so beautiful it made one’s heart sway.

After she finished speaking, she disregarded her surroundings and skipped lightly towards a bamboo forest not far away, like a child who had discovered a new toy, going to find a place she liked.

She just needed to know that Lin Yu would never lie to her.

Lin Yu watched her cheerful retreating figure, a smile playing on his lips.

Placing Ling Yun within his Inner World was something he had planned long ago.

From now on, she would be his most powerful trump card.

Now that Ye Xiong was handling Ye Feng, and Ling Yun was also properly settled.

Next, he would await the great bone-digging plan!

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Three days later.

Ye Xiong returned to the Central Grand Hall.

Behind him followed Ye Qingxuan, and also… Ye Feng!

At this moment, aside from an unnatural expression, there was no longer any hostility visible in Ye Feng.

Only when he saw Lin Yu, a fierce glint would still flicker in his eyes.

Clearly, Ye Xiong had persuaded Ye Feng, but had not completely tamed him; the personal grudge against Lin Yu still remained.

However, Lin Yu merely smiled at this.

He was just a sick cat disguised as a tiger; he could only act fierce.

As long as it didn’t delay the important business, it was fine.

“Ye Xiong, Ye Feng, since you have reached an agreement, tell me your plan. When will you begin implementation?”

Lin Yu did not waste time and asked directly.

He was not familiar with the internal situation of the Ye family.

It was better to let the Ye family members find an opportunity themselves.

Especially, the timing of Ye Feng’s appearance had to be reasonable and logical.

After all, Ye Mu knew that he had captured Ye Feng.

If Ye Feng returned without a plausible reason, it would inevitably arouse Ye Mu’s suspicion, which would make implementation difficult!

This point had to be based on the actual circumstances of the Ye family.

However.

Upon hearing his question, Ye Xiong’s brows furrowed tightly.

He did not answer immediately, pondering for a moment before speaking:

“Lin Xiaoyou, it’s like this: there’s less than five years left until the opening of the Star Dao Academy, and Ye Mu has already departed early. The possibility of us acting within the Ye family is almost zero. This matter might still require Lin Xiaoyou’s help!”

With that, he looked up at Lin Yu,

A hint of helplessness in his eyes.

He had only just received the news today; after all, his influence had been greatly compressed.

The news he received was already from three days ago.

He even felt a bit embarrassed to say it, that the matter of his Ye family seizing power always needed Lin Yu, an outsider, to help!

Of course, he also knew that Lin Yu definitely had some objective, but even if the objective was great, it was deserved, because so far, he had actually done nothing, and Lin Yu had done almost all the work.

He truly couldn’t offer much help.

Especially now, Ye Mu had already gone ahead to the Star Dao Academy, and the distance from their Ye family’s Danxia Star Region was immeasurable.

The Ye family’s influence there was almost zero.

And the opening of the Star Dao Academy this time was for peerless prodigies like Lin Yu and Ye Mu.

Even a first-rate talent like Ye Qingxuan would just be there to make up the numbers, so… that’s why he said what he did just now.

He ran away?

Lin Yu frowned slightly upon hearing this.

This was something he hadn’t expected.

He had thought that with Ye Feng in his hands, Ye Mu should be searching the entire starry sky to rescue his younger brother.

But thinking about it, it was understandable.

After all, a person of destiny was not a brainless villain.

Knowing that he had a Quasi-Emperor behind him, and a Quasi-Emperor wielding an Immortal Emperor Weapon, there was indeed no need to search for his whereabouts again.

Even if he found him, he couldn’t do anything to him.

“First, tell me about this Star Dao Academy and what its opening entails!”

Lin Yu did not immediately agree, but instead asked about the crucial aspects of the matter.

People of destiny did not act haphazardly.

Their objectives were very clear.

This Star Dao Academy, to be honest, he had never heard of it.

Nor did he know what it was.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiong’s eyes showed a look of realization.

He almost forgot that Lin Yu came from a small place, so it was normal for him not to know about the Star Dao Academy.

Then he proceeded to explain all the details about the Star Dao Academy, including its once-in-ten-thousand-year opening ceremony.

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Two hours later.

Lin Yu sat at the tea table, tapping the tabletop with a solemn expression.

This matter was a bit difficult to handle.

Because the difficulty had increased by more than one level.

The so-called Star Dao Academy, if one were to strictly define its level, was an existence that transcended Imperial Clans and Imperial Sects, extremely detached.

In the vast starry sky, Imperial-level forces could not be counted on two hands, but there were only four Academies.

They respectively occupied the east, south, west, and north directions of the starry sky.

The Star Dao Academy was the absolute overlord of the Southern Star Sea.

Of course, all Academies, from ancient times to the present, had always been neutral, never participating in any power struggles.

Even if something appeared in the starry sky that could make countless Immortal Emperors covet, no high-level figures would participate; at most, they would let their students gain experience.

And absolutely do not underestimate the words ‘student’.

Outside, they were absolutely the strongest among the strong; any student of an Academy started at Immortal King!

You heard that right, they started at Immortal King, and their bone ages were all under 1,500 years, the peak among Immortal Kings!

A student who came out of an Academy could dominate a Star Region; that’s how terrifying they were.

And there were even students at the Immortal Emperor level.

Within the Academy, what determined the end of the student title was not cultivation, but… age!

Anyone under four thousand years old was a student.

The most abnormal thing was, anyone who hadn’t become an Emperor by four thousand years old would be expelled.

Meaning they couldn’t even graduate.

One can imagine how terrifying these four Academies were!

However, there were rumors in the starry sky that the four Academies guarded the four Star Seas and were the guardians of the starry sky.

Because no one had ever left the starry sky, no one knew what lay beyond the starry sky.

These secrets were all held by the four great Academies.

Of course, this was only one reason for such speculation; the most important reason was that the four great Academies had existed continuously from ancient times to the present, for an unknown number of tens of thousands of years.

Logically speaking, there should be many Immortal Emperor-level and even higher-level existences, but there were only a few openly visible in the Academies, and no more had ever appeared.

Many people who studied the Academies felt that these individuals must have gone to places they could not imagine.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have vanished without a trace.

This was the reason for Lin Yu’s grim expression.

If Ye Mu had a connection with the Academy, with his small stature, he truly wouldn’t be able to contend with him.

Even factoring in Ling Yun, it would be far from enough.

According to Ye Xiong, even if his cultivation reached the Immortal Emperor level, he wouldn’t dare to easily probe them.

The older, more neutral, and more mysterious a force was, the more terrifying its hidden reserves were beyond imagination.