Chapter 62: Treacherous Plot

“What do you mean by that?”

Li Yuchan didn’t see anything special from Yu Yuan and didn’t get why the old general suddenly came up with such a comment.

“Yu Yuan just got to the next realm.” The old general said with a smile.

“The Contained Spirit Realm?” asked Li Yuchan. “What a surprise, but it’s not like something that admirable, since he was already at the peak of the Meridian Establishment Realm already.”

“That’s right, he met with a fortuitous encounter.” The old general said.

“What is it?” Li Yuchan curiously asked.

“About that, I was also wrong,” said the old general sentimentally. “At first, I thought that the secret was carved into the piece of moon fragment.”

“What? You mean it’s not on there?” Li Yuchan was more puzzled than ever.

“It’s not.” The old general shook his head. “What the Fan Clan’s people were trying to interpret was only a purposeful delusion, and the true secret lies inside the mist floating in the air.”

“I’m not sure if that Yu brat knows this already or if it is just a coincidence, but he did end up getting the entire soul of the sword.”

“I am not there personally, but I can still tell that the soul of the sword that went into his body is extremely powerful.”

As he said that, the old general seemed to be interested in Yu Yuan for the first time.

He was still smiling. “Girl, make sure Fan Li doesn’t kill him here.”

“I don’t think Fan Li will break the rules of the Forbidden Land.” Li Yuchan frowned.

“Nothing good comes from that kid’s mind. He might not break the rules by directly killing Yu Yuan, but he definitely will try to cause some permanent injury to Yu Yuan.” The old general warned.

Li Yuchan thought about it for a moment and nodded. “He does seem like someone who will do that kind of stuff.”

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“Young Master Li, the spiritual energy is fading away fast.”

“What happened? The patterns that I seem to almost get are fading away too.”

The Fan Clan’s team members were also sensing the difference.

Fan Li’s face still looked confident, but he was terrified in his heart.

Still, He looked at Yu Yuan.

“Brother Yu, congratulations! It’s a rare sight to see someone triggering such a surge of spiritual energy while breaking through a realm.”

Fan Li started to praise Yu Yuan.

He could clearly see that Yu Yuan reached his next realm by absorbing almost all of the spiritual energy in this crater.

The others around him finally understood the situation after he pointed it out.

“All thanks to your kind invitation, Brother Fan.”

Standing on the stone steps, Yu Yuan smiled sincerely. “I never thought that the spiritual energy here could help me that much toward the next realm.”

As he spoke, he was still operating the Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles.

Huff.

Clusters of spiritual energy rushed toward him.

As soon as the clouds of spiritual energy got close to Yu Yuan’s body, they soon faded and absorbed into him.

Before long, he absorbed in the final bit of energy that was still left.

He felt refreshed from head to toe.

All twelve of his meridians were rushing spiritual energy into his limbs, cleansing every bit of his bone and blood.

He could feel the sword light Sword Light is a form of energy that can be obtained, transformed, or used (similar to sword qi or sword energy) was accumulating around the bones on his arms and shoulders.

He had now fully obtained the entire sword light, but it would take him a while to interpret the knowledge and put it to use.

“Well, looks like I already reached the next realm, and there’s not much for me to do here either.”

Yu Yuan looked down at the Fan Clan’s people and said, “Brother Fan, see you later!”

When he was accepting Fan Li’s invitation to go down, not only did he not fear what Fan Li could do, but he also had his own thoughts in mind.

He was curious about the sword-shaped pattern carved on the moon fragment and wanted to obtain some insight from it.

Now, he was certain that he already got most of it from the crater.

Since everything was in his favor, there was no longer a need to confront Fan Li.

“Alright, I am just trying to help you know.” Fan Li smiled and waved. “Since you have successfully got to your next realm, just take your time and refine the spiritual energy you just absorbed.”

He didn’t try to stop Yu Yuan.

The Fan Clan members around him were surprised.

Yu Yuan also didn’t expect Fan Li to let him go that easily. “I’m going up then.”

“Sure, take your time.” Fan Li replied.

“What happened?” muttered Han Hui, carefully listening to their conversation.

She could tell that the two of them hadn’t met face to face.

Based on what she knew about Fan Li, He was not a person that would suck up a loss.

She doubted that Fan Li actually wanted Yu Yuan to leave.

Gao Hong and the other group of people were just as confused, not knowing if this was a trap or out of pure kindness.

They had lived in the same city for so many years, and the Fan Li they knew wouldn’t be even close to being that kind.

“See you next time.”

Yu Yuan also didn’t know what’s going to happen if he went up, but he couldn’t be bothered and did so anyway.

Below, Fan Li sat down on the moon fragment and closed his eyes.

Step by step, Yu Yuan was going up the stairs.

Suddenly, he stopped midway.

Then his hands and body started to tremble violently, and his entire face was pale.

Zhao Yafu, Han Hui, and others couldn’t see his current condition from up top.

Down there, the members of the Fan Clan also didn’t know what happened.

Only Yu Yuan knew what had happened to himself.

When he was aggressively taking in the spiritual energy in the crater, he realized that he also absorbed strange energy that was not part of the natural energy in the crater.

That energy was full of resilience, and it started to cause destruction in his body!

He should have known that the strange spiritual energy must be from Fan Li!

He wasn’t sure how Fan Li went about doing so, but when he was absorbing the natural spiritual energy, Yu Yuan didn’t notice it at all.

After getting to the Contained Spirit Realm, all of the spiritual energy in his meridians directly connected to every part of his body!

The energy started to bounce everywhere using the newly unclogged meridians, causing him sharp pain from the inside.

Nothing seemed to be wrong with his appearance.

Even if he got killed by the spiritual energy, no one would know that it was Fan Li who killed him.

When asked by the ones responsible to protect the participants, Fan Li could simply say that he didn’t know anything since they never had any contact.

Fan Li looked innocent as if he didn’t know what was happening to Yu Yuan right now.

As if thinking of something amusing, a smile appeared from the corner of his mouth.

As he stood in the middle of the cliffs around the crater, Yu Yuan met the biggest challenge after his rebirth.

“Fan Li!”