66: Chapter 66: A Beauty Untainted by Knowledge

Charm?

Little brother, you're trying to be charming now?

Compared to me, aren't you just a bit younger, a bit more handsome, a bit stronger, and a bit more famous... Never mind.

"Here, remember not to spread this."

Master Gao silently pulled a crumpled Secret Manual from his robes.

"Got it."

Lin Yuan took the Secret Manual, scanned through it, and quickly mastered its contents.

It wasn't complicated; it was just a little trick for applying True Qi, which he finished in a quarter of an hour.

After preparing, he stepped forward to touch the diamond ring and channeled his True Qi using the method recorded in the Secret Manual. When it reached a threshold, suddenly, his consciousness seemed to Transmigrate through the primordial Universe and descended upon a desolate land.

A vast and cold wave of light floated in the Void Realm's sea of origin. It had no specific form, nor did it have the complex thoughts of a sentient being; all it possessed was a pure and untainted longing.

Lin Yuan received a wave of sad emotions from it.

...

Outside, Master Gao sat waiting. He had expected at least half an hour of struggle, but to his surprise, Lin Yuan opened his eyes after only a few breaths.

"I told you it wouldn't be that easy, right? When it comes to being a person, you still have to recognize reality. Come back when your cultivation is deeper."

"No, I think I can succeed."

A strange expression appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

"Are you alright? Have you lost your mind?"

Master Gao looked astonished.

"I made contact with the divine weapon's spirit and obtained the conditions to subdue it."

"It's very simple: I just need to come up with a way for a Mortal to lift it, even if just a tiny bit, that counts as success!"

Master Gao rolled his eyes.

"And you say you haven't lost your mind? A Mortal, and you want him to lift this thing?"

"It's impossible to explain to an illiterate person like you who graduated from womb-school!"

Lin Yuan snorted coldly and continued to connect to the divine weapon's spirit, entering its mental world.

Looking at the boundless wave of light in the sky.

A smirk curled the corners of Lin Yuan's mouth.

Tiny divine weapon, laughable, truly laughable.

To think you would dare challenge me with an uneducated brain!

Don't you know that I am an expert of the ninth-grade undergraduate level, possessing the power of a half-step postgraduate?

Let me show you the power of a lever.

Archimedes, lend me your strength!

In the divine weapon's space, thoughts can manifest everything. In Lin Yuan's imagination, the main body of the diamond ring was manifested.

Then came a fulcrum and a nearly infinitely long bamboo pole.

A Mortal appeared on one side of the bamboo pole. As he pressed down on the pole with effort, the diamond ring, with a weight comparable to a celestial body, was actually lifted bit by bit!

Give me a fulcrum, and I can pry up the entire Earth!

The wave of light in the sky trembled violently, and then a soft radiance shot out from it, merging into Lin Yuan's body.

Outside, the calm diamond ring suddenly began to glow and trembled on the table. As Lin Yuan opened his eyes, it turned into a stream of light and entered his body.

"!"

Master Gao stared wide-eyed, hurriedly asking: "How did you do that?"

"I already said, you wouldn't understand."

Lin Yuan snorted lightly and closed his eyes to look within himself.

He saw the diamond ring had shrunk to the size of a ring, floating in his Dantian Qi Sea.

With a thought, this divine weapon appeared in his hand.

After a partial recognition of ownership, Lin Yuan could ignore its mass and play with it in his hand at will.

But to unleash its true power, he still needed to inject enough True Qi.

He wanted to test its power, so he aimed it at the side of the stone wall.

Chi—

A ball of golden light covered the diamond ring. It slowly floated in mid-air, releasing dazzling light like the sun.

"Let me see your power!"

Lin Yuan injected all his True Qi in one breath. A sliver of the diamond ring's light radiated out, blasting against the stone wall in front.

Boom!

The stone wall was dissolving—not just destroyed, but undergoing a deeper level of annihilation, with the soil layer behind the stone wall also disappearing completely.

Three breaths later, a horizontal tunnel the size of a washbasin and of unknown depth appeared before Lin Yuan.

"Just this?"

He was very disappointed; he had thought the power of the divine weapon would far exceed his imagination.

He hadn't expected it to be only to this extent.

With this kind of destructive power, he could do it too!

"It must be that your True Qi is insufficient; a divine weapon like this can only unleash its true power in the hands of an expert."

Master Gao commented from the side.

"Forget it, having something is better than nothing."

Lin Yuan shook his head and picked up the mysterious scroll that had been pressed under the diamond ring.

The scroll was covered with unknown symbols. Not to mention identifying them, just looking at them made him feel dizzy, as if he didn't know what the world was.

Lin Yuan could only store it away for the time being, waiting to return to the Sect to look up information.

There were no other good things in the stone chamber, so Lin Yuan and Master Gao left through the opened tunnel and began to scour the interior of the ruins.

Regrettably, it seemed that someone had already scoured this place; it was clean, and there was nothing of value left.

It wasn't until the two found the herb garden inside the ruins that the situation improved slightly.

In this herb garden, which hadn't been tended to for who knows how many years, grew some wild spiritual materials, as well as wild Medicinal Pills, wild Storage Pouches, wild weapon fragments...

So, did all the people in the ruins end up fleeing here?

It looked like they hadn't managed to escape and died here. After enduring the vicissitudes of life and the passage of time, even their remains had turned into soil, leaving behind some broken relics to tell of the tragedy that had once occurred.

Lin Yuan scavenged some miscellaneous items from their Storage Pouches, and combined with the income from the spiritual materials, it amounted to 73,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

According to the 7-3 distribution principle, Lin Yuan received spiritual materials worth nearly 50,000.

It's just so-so.

"Sigh, if I had known there were only two True Aperture-level stone lumps in the ruins, I would have found a way myself."

Master Gao counted the wealth with an indignant look: "You made a huge profit this time."

"Cut it out."

Lin Yuan snorted coldly.

How could he not know Master Gao's nature? If he had suffered a loss, he would have been shamelessly clinging to him already.

This old thing must have secretly obtained quite a few benefits.

But he didn't intend to quibble; after all, they had quite a bit of friendship, and could barely be considered friends across generations. Lin Yuan was always different when it came to friends.

Besides, if he ate him clean this time, what would he eat next time?

He had to take a long-term view and not always think about draining the pond to catch all the fish.

"Let's go!"

The two began to return to the surface. When they emerged from the rift valley, they were stunned for a moment.

"Kid, before we went in, was the area around here like this?"

"...No."

"Then this—"

The two looked at each other, both seeing a trace of shock in the other's eyes.

They saw that in front of them, a massive canyon had appeared, starting from the rift valley, narrow at first and then widening, extending for 6,000 meters.

This canyon was 3,000 meters deep, with the widest point being about 300 meters, and the cliff walls were as smooth as mirrors.

I'm sorry, diamond ring, the insignificant me shouldn't have disparaged the great you!

You are my god!