“Let’s go.”
Stepping out of the meeting area, Li Yunxian took Su Wenjing’s hand, and the two of them quickly disappeared from everyone’s sight.
Following the meeting’s requirements, they headed toward their designated positions.
This time, it was the others who witnessed them leaving who felt strange. It was as if something was not quite right.
Li Tianying, who was the first to sense the oddity, finally realized why she felt that way.
‘Those two who just left… were they holding hands?!’
‘And was it the kind of hand-holding where their fingers were interlocked?!’
Li Tiansuo’s eyes widened.
Fu Ling, noticing Li Tiansuo’s expression, cleared her throat. Seeing that she was not the only one being stimulated, she felt at ease.
***
Meanwhile, Li Yunxian, seeing the shocked message sent by Li Tianying, replied casually.
Su Wenjing peeked at the content of Li Yunxian’s reply.
Disregarding things like “But he’s handsome!” and “After the Clone stage, everyone is immortal, so age isn’t an issue…”
Su Wenjing watched speechlessly as Li Yunxian sent the final sentence: “Don’t you want to hear Professor Su call you ‘Teacher’?” After seeing Li Tianying actually fall silent, he had no idea what expression he should make.
Su Wenjing chose to continue silently repairing the various spirit power sources.
After the first spirit power source was repaired, the overall spiritual power within nearly ten cities surrounding it as a center rose by a significant margin.
Even in the city centers, one could feel the abundant spiritual power.
Due to the sharp increase in spiritual power, the other races outside the cities were confused, unsure of what was happening.
However, inside these cities, several creepies of various cultivation levels suddenly popped out because of the spiritual power fluctuations.
Fortunately, this situation was within everyone’s expectations.
The authorities had already arranged personnel, gathering people from various places to be scattered throughout these cities to handle emergencies.
Aside from some damaged buildings, only a few people were injured, and the overall situation remained under control.
Only Li Tiansuo and her team had a bit of a headache.
With long faces, they began working overtime to research exactly where the problem lay with the “zhencheng modified 2.39” they had already swapped in ahead of time.
How could this thing still let creepies pop up?
After spending some time on revisions and seeing that the situation in all the cities had stabilized without more creepies occasionally exploding out, Li Tiansuo called for Li Yunxian to return for testing.
By this time, Li Yunxian had already accompanied Su Wenjing to the second location for repairing a spirit power source.
Li Yunxian possessed a divine soul from the Transcendence stage, the reaction speed of a sword cultivator, and insights into the Dao of Time.
No one was more suitable than her to assist Su Wenjing in completing the reconstruction of the spirit power sources.
When Li Yunxian saw Li Tianying’s message, her first reaction was to refuse.
She could not think of what she needed to test regarding the “zhencheng modified.” Li Yunxian had not participated in that area of research.
Then, Li Yunxian heard her teacher’s requirements for the test.
“There are a lot of changes in the new version, and we don’t have another one or two years to redo the tests. You need to come and help see if this modified ‘town-sealing’ will still connect to other strange places,” Li Tiansuo said.
Li Yunxian recalled Duan Huacai and the others, instantly understanding what Li Tianying and her team were worried about.
This was indeed something to be concerned about.
Li Yunxian looked at Su Wenjing, her eyes sending an inquiry.
‘I’m leaving for a while. Will you be okay?’
Su Wenjing had also heard their conversation. He looked at the work that had just begun in front of him and felt it was not a big problem. “I’ll maintain the situation here. Go ahead.”
The urgency and importance of each task varied. In a situation where only Li Yunxian could do certain things, both of them knew how to analyze and judge what should be prioritized.
Li Yunxian quickly appeared beside Li Tianying and found an acquaintance next to her.
Sheng Yu.
“Why are you here?” Li Yunxian asked in surprise.
Seeing Sheng Yu, Li Yunxian for a moment thought she had used *shukudi chengcun* to go to the wrong place.
“I’m at the Golden Core stage now, so I can take on guard duty!” Sheng Yu puffed out her chest.
Sheng Yu was also a sword cultivator.
Although she was involved in many of her family’s business affairs, facing various crises and signing up for official missions were opportunities for a sword cultivator to improve themselves.
Whenever these opportunities arose, Sheng Yu was quite active in signing up.
Hearing that they needed to escort a scientific research team to an unknown place, Sheng Yu signed up immediately. In the end, she never expected…
She had actually come to the planet where her boss was!
Sheng Yu originally thought she just had good luck to be selected right after entering the Golden Core stage.
Only after arriving did she realize that she was likely given a “backdoor” entrance because Li Yunxian was in Shenzhou…
However, Sheng Yu was not the type to care about that.
She directly started showing off in front of Li Yunxian.
“Not long ago, I killed four creepies in one go, and one of them was also at the Golden Core stage!”
***
Meanwhile, Yu Qiyao, who was standing on the other side of Li Tianying, gave a cold snort and said, “I took care of nine!”
Yu Qiyao did not specifically mention the cultivation levels of those nine creepies; clearly, they had not reached the Golden Core stage.
This was normal.
After all these years, Yu Qiyao had graduated from Tian Tong. However, Yu Qiyao was not like Li Yunxian, who was recultivating, nor was she as exceptionally talented as Shen Bofeng.
At this time, Yu Qiyao’s cultivation level had only reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
For Yu Qiyao’s age, this was already a very good cultivation level.
Li Yunxian speechlessly watched the two of them glaring at each other and silently kept her mouth shut.
For some reason, Li Yunxian sensed a bit of a “battlefield” atmosphere.
She felt like these two in front of her might turn their heads at any moment, look at her together, and ask some terrifying question…
When Su Wenjing and Yin Ke met in the secret realm, Li Yunxian had not felt anything, but looking at Sheng Yu and Yu Qiyao now…
After a few seconds of silence, Li Yunxian turned her pleading gaze toward her teacher.
She did not want to face the deadly question of who had a better relationship with her from Sheng Yu and Yu Qiyao!
‘Teacher! You said it! If I encounter any unsolvable problems, you’ll help me solve them!!’
Li Tianying chuckled quietly before saying, “Alright, alright, you two stop teasing Yun Xian.”
Hearing this, Sheng Yu and Yu Qiyao looked at each other, both gave a “hehe” laugh, and reached out to high-five, looking like they were cooperating happily.
Li Yunxian, realizing she had been played, widened her eyes in disbelief. “Aren’t you two being childish!”
Sheng Yu and Yu Qiyao laughed triumphantly.
“This shows that we have a youthful mindset!” the two said in unison.
Li Yunxian: “…”
After a bit of joking around, they quickly returned to the main topic.
How to implement the modified town-sealing version in the internal cities of the interstellar without being discovered by the other side was originally a difficult problem.
Therefore, after knowing that Shenzhou was going to try the application, the interstellar side naturally arranged for researchers to come for an exchange.
Those people had put in a lot of effort to quickly come up with a modification plan after the “zhencheng modified” failed to suppress the creepies.
And it was not just them.
“Yun Xian.”
Li Yunxian heard a greeting and looked toward the screen of a certain researcher following the sound.
On the screen, she saw the figures of Duan Huacai and the others.
They were waving at Li Yunxian.
Li Yunxian was stunned again, looking at the screen in disbelief and shock. “How are you guys not even at Qi Layer One?!”
Duan Huacai and the others, who were originally very excited because they had not seen Li Yunxian for a very, very long time, went silent. “…”
Oh no, they forgot that Li Yunxian had given them cultivation homework!
Duan Huacai and the others shifted their gazes guiltily. “Ah, that’s not the point…”
“The point is that after a thousand years of research, we have finally made contact with the outside world.”
“Although we still can’t get out.”
“Although our cultivation progress is slow.”
“But we are doing very well!!”
“No one is more familiar with this ‘town-sealing’ thing than us.”
“Our inference for this modification should be safe; we haven’t felt any connections to the space on our side.”
“However, we can’t rule out other unexpected situations, like connecting to other time crevice spaces or even time turbulence,” Duan Huacai and the others said in a few words, trying to shift Li Yunxian’s attention to the main business.
Li Yunxian, sensing their intent, thought, ‘So much for you guys being ordinary people who couldn’t cultivate and having deep resentment because it was something you desired but couldn’t obtain.’
Now, she felt…
The aura of these unique creepies like Duan Huacai seemed much more stable.
As Duan Huacai said, they were indeed in good condition.
After a few seconds of silence, Li Yunxian finally followed their wishes and pretended to be led astray. “Then… how do we test it?”
“Demolish another building?” Li Yunxian asked.
“Yes,” Li Tianying replied. “Although the modified version has reserved interfaces and a convenient mode, for the sake of stability, let’s stick to the simplest method.”
Li Yunxian had no objection.
Stability was key.
The building that had been selected and arranged collapsed with a bang. Li Yunxian felt the “zhencheng modified 2.39” vibrate once before returning to tranquility.
After a long while, Li Yunxian opened her eyes and gave everyone the answer. “I didn’t feel any time fluctuations.”
Upon hearing Li Yunxian’s words, the tired eyes of everyone present blossomed with joy.
“Yay! Let’s go, let’s go. Hurry to X City and swap everything to version 2.39.”
“Heavens, it’s finally over. I can go to sleep.”
“Don’t sleep yet; you have to come for the city expansion modification too.”
“Aggghhh! Why did things go so smoothly? Normally, shouldn’t there be some accidents so they’d have to make more revisions and we’d get a few more days of vacation?! Boss, you’re losing your touch!!”
“Stop yelling. You’re not a researcher; you still have to clean up those other races around here. Don’t delay; the city still needs to be expanded.”
Whether they were joyful or mourning, in a short while, the crowd that had been surrounding Li Yunxian was suddenly gone.
Li Yunxian: “…”
This was her first time experiencing the feeling of being discarded after being used.
Li Yunxian recalled the middle of those people’s garbled chatter and Sheng Yu’s scream.
To some people, she probably counted as not being used.
But… had Sheng Yu gotten something wrong?
Her luck had never seemed to provide anyone with an opportunity to rest.
Whether it was herself or others.
Li Yunxian returned to Su Wenjing’s side and complained to him.
Su Wenjing: “…”
He looked at the work in his hands and then at the six other places he still had to be busy with.
Su Wenjing fell into deep thought.
‘It seems… that’s true.’
However, as long as everyone stayed busy, it seemed Li Yunxian’s luck did not play much of a role.
In short, the recovery work for these spirit power sources went quite smoothly.
This smoothness did not mean that no difficulties occurred at all.
During the process, many situations arose where the original recovery plan could not be implemented due to changes over time.
However, for Su Wenjing, it was already quite good that when he brought out the spirit power sources, the spirits of those blessed lands did not suddenly develop consciousness and cry out, saying “Don’t leave us behind, we want to go with Li Yunxian.”
Not to mention that no one suddenly popped out, rambled a bunch, and then claimed that this blessed land was destined for them or something.
Most importantly, nothing like a heavenly phenomenon occurred where the two of them could travel through time along with the blessed land—nothing completely beyond Su Wenjing’s imagination happened.
“Ah, it’s really going smoothly.”
Li Yunxian, hearing Su Wenjing’s sigh: “…”
She felt the Starfire Sword in her hand, which she had not yet officially used, seemed to harden.
It seemed to want to kill a fox.
But before Li Yunxian could put her thoughts into action, a strange light flashed before her eyes.
Li Yunxian: “?”
Su Wenjing: “?”
“…What was that last jinx you said?!” Li Yunxian looked at Su Wenjing in shock.
Su Wenjing watched as the majority of this strange light surged toward Li Yunxian, while only a small portion seemed to hesitate whether to touch him. “…I don’t think this is my fault.”
‘They aren’t actually going to travel through time, are they…?’
Both of their hearts tightened, but then…
“Hmm? This is… merit golden light?”