Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 759 - Four Hundred and Seventy-Seven Extortion_2

Chapter 759: Chapter Four Hundred and Seventy-Seven Extortion_2

Xu Xinyao hurriedly reached out to catch it.

While it fluttered in the air, Xu Yuan glanced at the calligraphy on the book’s cover.

Twins Qing Blood Hua Technique.

Without memory, this cultivation technique should not have appeared in the "Cangyuan Chronicles".

Seeing this cultivation technique, Luo Xiran let out an ambiguous humph and, after thanking Xu Xinyao, they both slowly left Xu Yuan’s chamber.

For a moment, only the elderly and the young remained in the chamber.

They faced each other in silence, and after a long time, Xu Yuan suddenly said in a low voice,

"Old Man Luo, how about we make a deal?"

Seeing the other’s gaze, Old Man Luo immediately felt a hint of alert,

"What for?"

"You have collected so many, how about copying some precious cultivation techniques for me?"

"......"

After a moment of silence, Old Man Luo’s soul body slowly floated up in the air: "It’s getting late in the world, and this old man shall not disturb you any longer."

Seeing this, Xu Yuan grabbed the floating Soul Ring and shamelessly smiled,

"Old Man Luo, oh no, Senior Luo, you know me, I know a lot of information, and I won’t take advantage of you, how about we share what we have?"

"The law should not be passed on lightly, haven’t you heard of that, young man?"

Luo Daofan sneered at the stinker and curved his lip corner: "Besides, I’m not at all curious about the information you know."

"But I saved your sister." Xu Yuan brought out this reason once again.

"I have already repaid the favor, you should well understand the value of the Soul Ring."

"I am helping Xinyao raise funds, didn’t you just say you find her pleasing to the eye?"

"I do find her pleasing indeed, but that doesn’t mean I have to help her with all my might; besides, I have already given her a cultivation technique, which is very precious. If it were to be put out there, it could become a heritage technique for some Sects."

"......"

After a moment of silence, the look of respect vanished from Xu Yuan’s face, and he stared at the jolly middle-aged Confucian scholar,

"No deal?"

"No deal."

"Really no deal?"

"What do you think?"

"Sigh...."

Xu Yuan sighed softly and activated the Sound Avoidance Formation, then in a ghostly voice under the watchful eyes of Old Man Luo,

"Old Man Luo, you don’t know, unlike you, our sworn sister’s body is actually very well preserved."

Old Man Luo was indifferent:

"Xiran’s current shell is constructed from the Black Death Mycelial Mat. The Underground Palace of Death is specifically dedicated to studying those undying bizarre ghosts, making this not too difficult to achieve."

Xu Yuan nodded in agreement:

"Right, you don’t know, the first time I saw our little sister’s body, I was struck with admiration, she was as beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal, with ice-cold flesh and bones, still retaining vitality..."

As Xu Yuan went on, Old Man Luo felt more and more that something was amiss, and his eyes widened:

"Little devil, what do you want to do?!"

"Hmm?"

Xu Yuan looked up, smiling at Old Man Luo:

"Hmm... After a while, this little devil plans to make another secret trip there, to carry back our sworn sister’s body. It’s a long and hard journey..."

"Ten volumes."

Old Man Luo interrupted Xu Yuan: "I’ll give you ten top-notch cultivation techniques, and you give me the location... well, never mind that, arrange for a strong female practitioner to personally deliver my sister’s body back."

"Thirty volumes."

Xu Yuan directly asked for a high price, tripling it at once: "You’re not going to lay eggs with those cultivation techniques anyway."

Old Man Luo’s eyelids twitched, and despite his cultivation, he couldn’t help but curse softly:

"Do you think top-notch cultivation techniques are cabbages? Where am I supposed to find so many for you?!"

Xu Yuan stroked his chin, estimating Old Man Luo’s inventory, and reported another number:

"Then make it twenty volumes, no less, and they have to be of the same level as the one you gave to Xinyao."

He had noticed the look on Luo Xiran’s face when she saw that technique; her reaction was likely due to its immense value.

"......"

Old Man Luo’s soul body trembled slightly and, finally, he squeezed out a word through gritted teeth:

"Alright,"

As he finished speaking, he raised his large hand, ready to use his will-spirit to condense the text of the cultivation technique. However, Xu Yuan suddenly stopped him:

"Wait, I want it on paper, not made with your will-spirit."

Although his cultivation had increased and his memory had greatly improved, he still couldn’t achieve the level of never forgetting anything he saw.

Old Man Luo replied in annoyance:

"How am I, a soul entity, supposed to have paper and pen..."

"Thud."

Xu Yuan directly took out a large stack of blank rice paper and ink from the Sumeru Ring and placed it on the redwood desk that bore the imprint of a palm:

"Now you do."

"..."

Old Man Luo closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and started to write with the wolf hair brush controlled by his will-spirit.

The speed of writing was so fast that Xu Yuan could barely see it with his naked eye, much faster than his Integration Body’s copying speed.

In half a quarter of an hour, twenty copies of the freshly-inked cultivation manuals were laid upon the desk.

Old Man Luo stood aside, watching with a cold eye:

"Satisfied?"

Xu Yuan casually pulled out a book, skimmed it a bit, then placed it back, and smiled slightly:

"Of course I’m satisfied."

While speaking, Xu Yuan walked over to Old Man Luo, activated his cultivation and patted his shoulder, whispering:

"Don’t worry, I won’t take these cultivation techniques from you for nothing. I’ll find a way to reverse refine the Soul Melody Spirit Monster into a will-spirit, so Xiran can return to a physical body."

Old Man Luo’s expression softened slightly at these words, but he then snorted coldly:

"I hope you can do as you say. I’m going back to see my disciple, excuses for not accompanying you any further."

With that, Old Man Luo dived into the Soul Ring and flew out of the private room without looking back, disappearing into the night.

Watching him leave, Xu Yuan smiled faintly and murmured to himself:

"Naturally, I won’t deceive you. If Xiran can return to a fleshly body, it’ll be like tying you two Saints to the battle chariot of my Prime Minister’s Mansion."

Having said that,

Xu Yuan’s eyes swept over the desk filled with secret manuals and finally pulled out the one named "Dual Purification Blood Essence Technique," smacking his lips:

"Tsk, this old geezer really doesn’t take any losses, huh? I could’ve just asked Xinyao directly for this technique."

While speaking, Xu Yuan began to flip through the book, scanning its contents.

As he turned the pages, his expression became more and more peculiar.

He suddenly understood the look on Luo Xiran’s face when he saw this technique.

It was indeed valuable, but that wasn’t why Luo Xiran looked at it the way he did.

It was because the Dual Purification Blood Essence Technique was a dual cultivation technique, a one-sided dual cultivation technique at that, and the description within suggested that practicing it among blood relatives yielded even better results.

Of course, it was the indecent kind of dual cultivation technique.

Otherwise, with that adopted sister’s very high moral standards, she would have likely smacked it onto Old Man Luo’s forehead the moment he brought it out.

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While the formation was being expanded, it could not be activated, nor could cultivation take place. Bored, Xu Yuan took this opportunity to enter the secret chamber beneath his room for the first time through a secret passage.

The space here was large, a cube about twenty zhang in length, with traces of Origin Qi lingering above, presumably created by his father or Xu Changge with immense force.

On the six stone walls were many hexagonal holes, just like a honeycomb, some of which were empty and others already imprisoning Yin Ghosts and other strange ghosts.

His spirit sight detected intricate formations connecting these holes to the central array.

Xu Xinyao and Luo Xiran were inside, transforming the entire central array with a profound set of movements.

Watching the two women laying out the formation in the secret chamber, Xu Yuan, who had been standing outside the array in the passageway, wanted to ask if there was anything he could help with.

After all, they were busy for his sake, so it was only natural that he should do what he could to assist.

However, as soon as he spoke, Xu Xinyao and Luo Xiran both promptly expelled him.

Formations are extremely delicate; a miss is as good as a mile. They can’t tolerate any intervention by laypeople.

In such a case, Xu Yuan could only go back to his room to sleep and quietly wait for the two women to finish expanding the array. However, the expansion took longer than he had anticipated.

On the morning of the fourth day,

After saying goodbye to Xu Changge, Xu Yuan once again put on the human skin mask that belonged to the son of the Minister of War and went to Tian’an Commerce Assembly in Di’an City through the secret tunnel of the Black Prison.