Outrageous! The Useless Fake Young Master Is Being Forcefully Pampered by a Cold Beauty - Chapter 17

Jiang Biechen did not answer; instead, he walked directly toward Yun Su. Lin Jiusi, whose words were still trailing off, was left completely stunned. Holy crap! It’s a miracle my brother, that iceberg, actually taking the initiative to strike up a conversation with someone!

Recovering his wits, Lin Jiusi hurriedly put away his expression and quickened his pace to follow. “Brother, wait for me!”

At Lin Jiusi’s shout, Yun Su noticed them. He turned to look at the two men, raised an eyebrow, and thought, What a coincidence!

“What are you looking for?” Jiang Biechen stopped before Yun Su and asked curiously.

Yun Su narrowed his eyes and said lazily, “Nothing much. What are you two doing here?” He remembered that in Lu Yun’s memories, the Lin family did not live in Jinxiu Villa.

Before Jiang Biechen could speak, Lin Jiusi glared at Yun Su. “Why should we tell you, you liar?”

Yun Su was taken aback. “A liar? Where is this coming from?”

“You said your name is Yun Su, but as far as I know, your surname is Lu, not Yun. You’re the imposter son who was kicked out by the Lu family a while ago, right?” Lin Jiusi looked at Yun Su triumphantly, as if he were ready to slap the evidence onto Yun Su’s face if he dared to deny it.

Yun Su couldn’t help but twitch his lip. Who raised this little idiot? Investigating someone and then boasting about it with such righteous indignation.

“I told you my name is Yun Su. Believe it or not, that’s your business.” Yun Su couldn’t be bothered to argue with someone whose brain was clearly missing a few bolts. “A spoiled little fool from a landlord’s family,” he muttered to himself after speaking.

Jiang Biechen, who was standing close by and heard everything, couldn’t help but curl the corner of his lips. He silently praised how accurate the assessment was.

Lin Jiusi, however, stared with suspicious, wide eyes and turned to Jiang Biechen. “Brother, was he whispering to curse me just now?”

“No.”

Jiang Biechen and Yun Su spoke in unison. After they finished, both men glanced at each other involuntarily before quickly turning their heads away to look elsewhere. Jiang Biechen remained as expressionless as always, even if he had been amused, no one else would have been able to tell. Yun Su simply raised a hand to rub his nose.

Lin Jiusi looked at the two of them, his brow furrowing so tightly a mosquito could have been crushed between them. What is going on with these two? Why does the atmosphere suddenly feel so strange?

“What are you looking for? Perhaps we can help you find it,” Jiang Biechen said, looking at Yun Su with a faintly furrowed brow.

Yun Su met Jiang Biechen’s gaze, then withdrew his eyes to stare at Bibo Lake, complaining inwardly: You’re a martial artist, you can’t even see spiritual energy; what would be the point of telling you? Besides, we’ve only met twice we aren’t that familiar. I don’t trust these two much, either. I’ve seen too much filth within great clans; who knows what purpose they have in approaching me?

“I just lost something a moment ago. Thank you, but there’s no need; it isn’t anything too important.”

Once he finished speaking, Yun Su ignored them both and began searching on his own.

Lin Jiusi watched Jiang Biechen with a look of schadenfreude. “Brother, he actually rejected you! That’s truly rare…” The rest of his sentence was blocked by a single glare from Jiang Biechen.

Lin Jiusi quickly covered his mouth. Seeing his brother turn away, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Once he relaxed, he noticed the oddity. He watched Yun Su, his eyes darting back and forth, and then he trotted up to run ahead of Yun Su, walking and asking, “Hey, Lu Yun, my brother, that big block of ice, never gives anyone a pleasant look. This is the first time he’s ever taken the initiative to offer help to a stranger. Why did you refuse?”

After waiting a while and seeing Yun Su ignore him, Lin Jiusi wasn’t angry; he continued, “Lu Yun, let me tell you, don’t be ungrateful. Do you know how many people beg my brother for help, and he still refuses? You actually turned him down you truly have no vision.” Seeing that Yun Su still wouldn’t speak, he suddenly felt bored. “Lu Yun, that’s not interesting. You were just talking to my brother; why are you ignoring people now?”

Yun Su had been keeping an eye on his surroundings. On his second pass, he finally discovered a stone filled with spiritual energy beneath the gravel of the riverbed. The stone’s surface was black with irregular green veins distributed across it. It wasn’t smooth or rounded; it looked just like an ordinary stone, perhaps even uglier.

But to Yun Su, this stone was a treasure it was an “Energy-Storing Stone.” Although it was only the size of a newborn infant’s fist, in a world devoid of spiritual energy, it was a priceless gem. As the name suggested, Energy-Storing Stones could store spiritual energy and mana, and they could even continuously generate spiritual energy. If they fell into the hands of a master craftsman, they were the primary material for refining “Energy-Storing Pendants.”

The functionality of an Energy-Storing Pendant was far greater than that of a raw Energy-Storing Stone. Not only could it accelerate the wearer’s speed in absorbing spiritual energy, but wearing it over a long period could also repair defects in a cultivator’s spiritual roots.

The original body’s current vessel possessed “Thunder and Fire Dual Spiritual Roots.” In the Cangyuan Continent, ordinary mortals could not practice cultivation; only those with spiritual roots could. A million years ago in the Cangyuan Continent, people with spiritual roots were born at a rate of one in ten thousand. That period was the height of the chaotic war between humans, demons, and monsters; the living space of the human race was continuously squeezed, and even with the protection of the Vermillion Bird clan, they lived in dire circumstances.

That was why the humans had sacrificed the entire Vermillion Bird clan they had used the forbidden arts of the Vermillion Bird clan to transform the clan into millions of spiritual roots, integrating them into the human race. Since then, those who possessed these roots could cultivate. Within a hundred years, a peerless young genius appeared among the humans. With his own power, he united all human cultivators to confront the demons and monsters, slaughtering the Demon Emperor and the Demon Lord, and bringing several hundred thousand years of peace to the human race. The people of that time called this young genius “His Majesty the Human Emperor,” and he was recorded in historical annals, spreading his name throughout eternity.

Yun Su had read all of this in the library of the Xuantian Sect. On the Cangyuan Continent, spiritual roots were categorized by their elemental properties Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth along with other mutated spiritual roots. Mutated spiritual roots were formed through the combination and sublimation of two or more elemental properties; common ones included Wind, Thunder, Ice, and Fog. Aside from these, there were some extremely rare spiritual roots, such as Light and Dark attributes; perhaps not one in ten million people possessed them.

A single-attribute spiritual root was known as a “Heavenly Spiritual Root.” It was highly sensitive to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, allowing for rapid cultivation, with almost no obstacles to Foundation Establishment or Golden Core formation. The more spiritual roots one possessed, the slower the absorption of spiritual energy. If a single or dual-root cultivator only needed a year or two for Foundation Establishment, those with four or five roots might need ten years. Therefore, on the Cangyuan Continent, having more spiritual roots implied lower aptitude; five roots were even referred to as “Mixed Roots” or “Pseudo-Roots.”