39: Kylin Jade

Seeing Nightingale start to exert her power, Yang Duling no longer held back.

“Yu, Yu Xiu, can we come in and sit down?”

Yang Duling spoke in a soft, childish voice, but unlike Nightingale, she didn't bat her eyelashes. Instead, she blinked her eyes and spoke earnestly, giving off a naturally cute vibe.

“Holy cow, Da Saozi is awesome.”

Not far away, Chu Tianjiao, upon seeing this scene, was momentarily stunned, then snapped back to reality and couldn't help but slap his thigh in approval.

Normally, Yang Duling gave off a cold, aloof, and intelligent impression.

But now, she was adorably dazed, and this contrast was truly unique.

Moreover, her serious expression was enough to make any man's heart flutter.

“I'm very busy!”

Yu Xiu watched their every move, feeling an intense headache. He decided to stop bantering with them and simply closed the door, returning to his house.

“Are we really that unattractive?”

Watching Yu Xiu close the door, Nightingale looked at Yang Duling with a lost expression and asked.

“Maybe so!”

Nightingale frowned and said, “But the men in those videos aren't like this, are they?”

“And the women in those videos aren't as pretty as us.”

Nightingale asked two questions in a row, and Yang Duling didn't know how to answer.

“Maybe we haven't learned enough. Let's go find Chu Tianjiao and continue our secluded training.”

Nightingale no longer lingered at Yu Xiu's door and turned to walk towards the villa next door.

…

Inside the villa.

Yu Xiu sat on the sofa with a bitter smile, muttering to himself, “It seems I must leave this place. These two women are truly annoying.”

Yu Xiu was also very helpless.

He had never been so annoyed by two women that he wanted to run away.

“I'll just go on a mission!”

Now, all the Training Camp rankings had been released, and Yu Xiu was at the top of every list.

After much thought, it seemed there was nothing that could pique his interest.

The only thing that could pass the time was probably going out on missions.

“Oh, right, there's also this thing.”

Yu Xiu suddenly remembered the black jade pendant Xiao Wan had given him. According to Xiao Wan, it might be related to the ruins deep within Wu Mountain.

“However, Xiao Wan's words can't be entirely trusted. It's better to check the information first.”

The Training Camp also had a data room, and its System was connected to the national database.

According to the Rank stratification, the points charged for reading permissions at each Rank were different.

Thinking of this.

Yu Xiu got up and left the villa.

He headed straight for the data room.

…

“Identity verification passed!”

“Student Yu Xiu, please enter!”

After Yu Xiu verified his identity with his watch in front of the data library door, he walked in.

Surprisingly, it wasn't filled with many books; in fact, there wasn't a single book. Instead, there were only individual data rooms.

Yu Xiu chose an empty data room nearby and entered. Inside, there was an instrument similar to an LCD computer.

Nine Ranks of reading permission?

Yu Xiu looked at the nine simulated book icons with lock symbols on the instrument screen.

Below each Rank, their respective points were marked.

Level 1 Reading Rank: 100 / hour.

Level 2 Reading Rank: 200 / hour.

And so on, Level 9 Reading Rank was 900 points per hour.

“Select Level 9 Reading Permission.”

Yu Xiu didn't even think and directly purchased Level 9 Reading Permission.

After entering the interface.

Yu Xiu entered keywords: black jade pendant, ruins deep within Wu Mountain.

After searching with these two keywords, dozens of results appeared on the screen.

The first result described the black jade pendant and included pictures.

“Dragon-patterned Jade? Qilin Jade?”

Yu Xiu clicked to enter, and pictures of seven or eight kinds of jade pendants appeared on the screen.

“Is this Qilin Jade?”

The black jade pendant was easy to identify.

Because the Dragon-patterned Jade was green, the Phoenix Jade was red, the White Tiger Jade was white…

Only the Qilin Jade was black.

To be precise, it was ink-colored.

“Assessment Jade Pendant?”

Through the introduction, Yu Xiu was astonished to discover that the Qilin Jade was actually an assessment qualification jade pendant from the ruins deep within Wu Mountain.

The Qilin Jade in his hand allowed him to enter the Qilin assessment. Once he passed the assessment, he could obtain the Qilin's Talent.

According to the records of Martial Dao history, someone had once obtained the Dragon Bloodline. Once activated, their entire body's strength would surge dozens of times.

Based on the assessment stages, it was speculated that:

One who passed one stage could obtain one random Talent, two stages, two random Talents, and so on.

Five stages could grant all Talents.

In other words, once all five stages were passed, the recipient would be equivalent to a humanoid Divine Beast.

“How is that possible?”

“How could such things from Xuanhuan novels appear in a high-martial world?”

When Yu Xiu saw this, his first reaction was disbelief.

If someone possessed such a Talent, it would be a complete dimensionality reduction strike.

The Vicious Beasts in the Secret Realm and ruins would probably have been cleared long ago.

“Too strange!”

Yu Xiu frowned and continued to read the next entry.

He read four entries in a row.

Finally, he saw the description of the assessment jade pendant again.

Moreover, this content was recounted by someone who had once obtained a Talent.

Presumably, it should be credible.

About ten minutes later.

Yu Xiu raised his head and let out a long breath, “I knew it! How could something from Xuanhuan novels appear?”

“It turns out that the so-called Divine Beasts are just conjectures by researchers.”

“According to the person who obtained the Divine Beast Talent, he also didn't see any so-called Divine Beasts. He just fortunately passed one stage.”

“He only obtained a Tiger Eye Talent. Once activated, it can intimidate opponents, especially Vicious Beasts, with the best effect.”

“According to his conjecture, this is a type of Mind Power Master ability, using Mind Power to intimidate the opponent's Soul.”

“Moreover, this ability cannot be improved and cannot be used to bypass Ranks. Once the strength exceeds two minor Realms, the effect will be greatly reduced.”

Yu Xiu pondered, “According to this person, the Talent ability he obtained is of a low Rank. There are also stronger Talent abilities than his, and they have growth potential.”

After clarifying the origin of the black jade pendant, Yu Xiu sat in place, pondering.

“This person's strength was a Four-star Grandmaster when he participated in the assessment.”

“He obtained a relatively low-Rank Talent ability, so, is the obtained Talent also related to strength?”

“The stronger the strength, the higher the assessment difficulty might be, and the stronger the obtained Talent will be.”

Yu Xiu knew nothing about these things.

Then.

He searched for Qilin Jade again.

Many results appeared on the screen.

However, after reviewing them one by one, he found nothing he wanted to know.

For a time.

Yu Xiu found himself in a dilemma.

“Should I ask Chu Tianjiao? The Chu family has a profound heritage; perhaps they know more about the Qilin Jade.”

As soon as this thought emerged, Yu Xiu immediately dismissed it from his mind.

According to the information, the assessment jade pendant was extremely precious.

Although the assessment was a near-death experience, many people were still willing to take the risk.

Once a Talent ability was obtained, one could soar high from then on.

This kind of high-stakes gamble that could change one's fate was something most people might not be able to resist.

The Chu family?

Yu Xiu still couldn't truly trust them.

Cooperation was fine, but he was still unwilling to disclose such an important matter to the Chu family.

Firstly, there was no trust.

Secondly, his current strength was not enough to contend with the Chu family.

Once the Chu family became greedy.

Yu Xiu would only bring harm to himself and others.

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