Chapter 338: Chapter 339 Subduing the Divine Beast, Half a Year in Closed-door Cultivation (Part One)
“So I’m saying, girl, you’re just too lucky,” Shen Ran’s gaze was mournful, even envious as he looked at Mu Ruyue. Had he obtained such a divine artifact in his youth, who knows, he might have been more ambitious.
Now he had grown old, and the future of the Central Continent would belong to the young.
“Oh right, since you’ve passed the test, according to the agreement you had before, from now on you can enjoy certain privileges. Besides the test days, you don’t have to go to the Alchemy Hall to study anymore. If you have any problems you don’t understand, just come and ask me directly. Mo Li, with his narrow-mindedness, is simply not qualified to instruct a prodigy like you.”
Shen Ran’s eyes shone with fierceness. With his abilities, he could certainly find out that Mo Li was behind the explosion of the Alchemy Furnace, but today he had been too busy and hadn’t yet had the time to settle the score with that rotten kid.
As the Master of the Alchemy Hall, he was supposed to be impartial and just, yet he pursued personal grudges, and that alone was enough to get him kicked out of the Alchemy Hall.
“If there’s nothing else, then I will take my leave,” Mu Ruyue nodded slightly, preferring to go back to cultivate rather than listen to the old man ramble on…
“Alright,” Shen Ran reluctantly gazed at the Phoenix Tripod in front of Mu Ruyue. Suddenly, as if he had remembered something, he raised his head and said, “Girl, I’m granting you another privilege. You are free to browse all the books in the Alchemy Hall’s Book Collection Pavilion, including many tomes related to the Pharmacist’s craft, which should be of great use to you.”
Mu Ruyue smiled without a word, holding the Dan Book, how could she care for those ordinary books? But perhaps in the Central Province’s Book Collection Pavilion, she could find more about the past of Moon Venerate Zi Huang.
“Then I will go take a look now,”
Taking the Jade Token that Shen Ran handed her, Mu Ruyue smiled gratefully at him. Then, with a wave of her hand, she stored the Phoenix Tripod away and turned to stride towards the door.
Watching the girl’s departing figure, Elder Shen sighed softly, “This girl seems to be only eighteen, right? Truly, the future belongs to these young people; we are old, it’s time to hand over this continent to them. But I don’t know if I’m overthinking it. I always feel that the waters of Central Province will become even more turbulent with her emergence.”
In the Alchemy Hall’s Book Collection Pavilion, Mu Ruyue walked in unobstructed, sensing a faint power circulating in the air upon entering the room.
With a slight frown, Mu Ruyue paid it no mind as she searched the shelves for the book she wanted. However, the pavilion was filled with books related to the Alchemy Master’s craft, and she found none that she sought.
“It seems I can’t find any books about Moon Venerate and Zi Huang here,” Mu Ruyue withdrew her gaze indifferently. Suddenly, she seemed to have spotted something, her eyes landing on a book…
That book seemed to possess a magical power, deeply pulling at her heart.
Without hesitation, Mu Ruyue took an ancient tome from the shelf, lightly dusting off the cover, her eyebrows raising slightly, “Is this book about the origins of Central Province?”
Perhaps out of curiosity, Mu Ruyue slowly opened the book.
The book merely described how the Central Continent was formed, its content uninteresting and quite ordinary. Just as she was about to close the book and put it back on the shelf, suddenly, a beam of light shot from her chest…
Mu Ruyue was startled, and before she could react, the Dan Book burst out from her body, the white pages feverishly turning…