Chapter 240: Preliminary Round Countdown

“What do you mean by as long as I’m still alive, you’ll accompany me?”

Lou Mu Yan glanced at Si Nan, “It literally means what it means.”

“Cough cough…” Si Nan coughed dryly, then winked, “Am I that weak?”

“Who knows?” Lou Mu Yan said lightly.

Si Nan looked up at the sky speechlessly. He was obviously very strong alright? He just didn’t show it. If he battled with Luo Ye, it wouldn’t be certain who’d win or lose.

“Qing Han, you all quickly recover. We’re going to kill beasts in Beast Tides to earn points tonight.” Lou Mu Yan took out another bottle of Elemental Recovery Pills and tossed it to him.

“Alright!” Ye Qing Han took the pills then distributed the pills in the porcelain bottle to the others calmly. A strong aroma filled the air, “Mu Yan, you can already refine Grade 3 pills?”

“Mm, about right.” Lou Mu Yan leaned against the wall lazily.

“Your talent really is Heaven-defying.” Ye Qing Han smiled bitterly. He was thrown farther and farther away from her.

Lou Mu Yan turned her head and smiled: “There are many Grade 3 Alchemists, it’s nothing strange.”

Her goal wasn’t just a Grade 3 Alchemist. Her goal was to become a Grade 10 Alchemist that was at the peak of this world.

The others had varying expressions when they heard the conversation between the two.

They couldn’t resist twitching the corners of their lips. There were indeed more Grade 3 Alchemists than other high-grade Alchemists, but no one had heard of a Grade 3 Alchemist who was less than eighteen-years-old.

Her indifferent tone truly made people speechless!

Si Nan and He’lian Lie were the most shocked. This Elemental Recovery Pill was refined by Lou Mu Yan herself? Didn’t she tell Elder Xiao that her Master refined it? So it seemed she had lied.

“Lou Mu Yan, you refined the Elemental Recovery Pills yourself?” Luo Li couldn’t resist asking.

Lou Mu Yan raised an eyebrow and smiled: “Take a guess?”

She felt that a Grade 3 Alchemist really wasn’t something to show off about. This little cat was probably about to explode again.

Luo Li glared at her, “Boring!” Then he turned his head away.

“HAHA…” Lou Mu Yan felt very pleased when she saw that he indeed exploded.

Luo Li’s face was a little hot. This woman really was hateful, but why did he like her more and more?

Ye Qing Han saw Lou Mu Yan’s face blossom with a beautiful smile, and his deep eyes darkened.

Si Nan glared at Luo Li—he said he was shameless, but Luo Li was also a shameless person.

When night fell, a crescent moon hung in the sky, bright and clear.

Lou Mu Yan sat on a big rock outside the cave, and the moonlight poured down, making her entire person appear lonely and ethereal.

Luo Ye jumped onto the boulder and sat beside her with a handsome figure.

“Are you here to ask about your eye disease?” Lou Mu Yan turned her head and met Luo Ye’s clean and bright eyes. She sighed inwardly that it truly would be a waste to keep these beautiful eyes blind.

There was a faint smile on Luo Ye’s lips and under the bright and clear moonlight, he looked even more handsome. His voice that was as clear as spring water poured out slowly, “When did you find out?”

“The first time we met.” Lou Mu Yan replied.

Luo Ye was a little taken-aback, “Your medical skills are indeed brilliant.”

“I haven’t even checked your pulse for you yet, so how do you know that I’m skilled in medicine.” Lou Mu Yan’s tone carried with it a slight tease.

“I indeed became blind due to my cultivation method. Countless Physicians and Alchemists have come to treat it, but no one has noticed that I have an eye disease.”

Luo Ye’s voice was gentle and serene, with a stirring charm.

“Can I take your pulse?” Lou Mu Yan asked.

Luo Ye raised a hand and placed it in front of Lou Mu Yan, “Do as you please.”

Lou Mu Yan chuckled, then reached out to touch that pair of slender and fair wrists. After a while, she said: “Did you receive an external inheritance1?”

Luo Ye was taken aback, and asked in surprise: “How did you know?”

“There’s a vague energy in your Sea of Consciousness inside you, but I found that it didn’t belong to you. I feel that if it’s not the Mental Energy of an external powerhouse, then it’s a mass of Soul Energy that’s about to dissipate.” Lou Mu Yan explained.

Luo Ye pondered for a bit, then said slowly: “I accidentally broke into a tomb when I was ten years old. By chance, I inherited a Divine Word Skill method, then a Soul forcibly entered into my Sea of Consciousness. Due to the fact that I was still young at the time and my cultivation base wasn’t high, I could only barely resist him seizing control of my body.

“That Soul was a Sword Sovereign powerhouse before his death. He has always wanted to devour my Soul and control my body, but unfortunately I possess a special constitution of the Luo Clan so not only did he fail, but his Soul Energy has been absorbed by me a lot over the years.

“Then I started cultivating the Divine Word Skill, but my eyes gradually seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and finally, I became completely blind.” Luo Ye sighed, “After I refined his Soul Energy, it was only by using his memory that I knew this was the disadvantage of cultivating the Divine Word Skill.”

“Divine Word Skill? Is that what you call the ability to calculate and predict?” There was no Divine Word Skill in the Immortal Cultivation World. However, people who comprehended the Great Path could predict the future, so she was just saying her guesses.

Luo Ye nodded: “Mm, but because of the blindness caused by the inherited method, I’ve rarely cultivated it since.”

Therefore, his Divine Word Skill’s prediction method only remained at Initial-Phase. Those who had already seen the light hated such boundless darkness.

“So that’s how it is.” Lou Mu Yan muttered to herself.

“Can you really cure my blindness?” Luo Ye didn’t know why, but there was just a feeling in his heart that Lou Mu Yan could really restore light for him.

“Mm, I said I can, so naturally I can. But to cure your blindness, I still need to find several kinds of Spiritual Herbs and Spiritual Items to concoct a kind of eye-washing and eye-brightening drops.”

Lou Mu Yan knew that although Luo Ye could use his Mental Energy to perceive everything in the outside world and live like a normal person, but he yearned to see this colourful world again.

“This is the list of Spiritual Herbs that I need to refine it. If you know them, then I’ll help you refine it.” Then she handed over a prepared jade slip, “Before refining the eye drops, you must completely refine that Soul in your Sea of Consciousness.”

Luo Li took the jade slip and didn’t immediately probe into it with his Mental Energy, “Much gratitude!”

Regardless of whether she could really cure his blindness or not, he would still thank Lou Mu Yan!

Lou Mu Yan smiled, stood up and patted the dust off her dress, “Let’s go, it’s almost time.”

“Alright!”

The figure of the two talking on the boulder was seen by Ye Qing Han who walked out of the cave. His eyes were as deep as the sea, but he didn’t walk up to interrupt.

Night was a time when Demonic Beasts frequently roamed about. Under the guidance of Mo Yan, Lou Mu Yan led Luo Li and the several other groups to besiege three waves of medium-sized Beast Tides.

In pursuit of speed, when meeting the two Tier 7 Demonic Beasts, Lou Mu Yan didn’t intervene, and they were both resolved by Luo Ye and Si Nan.

After a few more days of night hunting, Lou Mu Yan’s score lived up to expectations and she advanced to the nineth place, shocking numerous elite teams from large kingdoms.

Ye Qing Han and the other’s points were also soaring vigorously, and all five of their team members rushed into the top hundred of the standings.

When there was precisely only ten days left of the preliminary round, a soft bell sounded in all the refuge cities, as if it had come from the distant horizon.

The preliminary round countdown had finally arrived!

1this inheritance is more to do with inheriting power, not something physical like money etc.