Chapter 44

"Teacher, didn't you say we were going to the Northwest Divine Wasteland? When the time comes, I can go and slay the beasts of the Divine Wasteland. Why did we end up entering the Cloud Wasteland? The Cloud Wasteland is a barren land, and there aren't many powerful beasts there!"

The girl's voice was gentle and very pleasant to hear.

"The Northwest Divine Wasteland... sigh, you have a natural Yin Meridian, and your physical strength is insufficient. The Northwest Divine Wasteland is full of beasts, including high-level ones. It would be too much for you to handle."

"Alright, Xintong, you have fifteen minutes to refine this Level 6 ferocious beast into a bone relic, just as we discussed. This is your trial, and unless it involves your personal safety, I won't intervene."

The old man's voice was calm. After speaking, he found a large rock, sat down, and began to enjoy the scenery.

The girl nodded lightly. She lightly touched her wrist bracelet and took out a bronze array plate, which was covered with intricate runes.

As soon as the array plate appeared, it flew into the sky and expanded in the wind.

Soon, the array plate grew to the size of a house. Then, the Level 6 ferocious beast was directly sucked up by the array plate, transforming into a dazzling white light.

In the white light, the beast's body seemed to burn, its flesh and blood melting, and the essence of its flesh and blood seeping into its bones. After just a few breaths, the beast had turned into a skeleton.

After another few breaths, the skeleton began to slowly melt and fuse...

During this time, the girl continuously made seals with her fingers. Her fingers were very long, and the speed at which she made the seals left thick finger shadows.

She cast array runes, which flew into the array plate and fused with the beast bones.

In less than fifteen minutes, the beast bones had completely melted and finally condensed into a bone relic the size of a mung bean.

If Lian Chengyu saw this, he would certainly be amazed.

Wasteland Master!

This girl is a Wasteland Master!

To refine a Level 6 ferocious beast so effortlessly in less than fifteen minutes, such terrifying strength is hard to imagine in a girl.

If this girl were to act, the Lian Clan's refinement of the cold python's wasteland bones would be effortless!

The bone relic fell into the girl's palm. Seeing the bone relic, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, clearly unsatisfied.

"It's still not small enough."

The girl shook her head. Her goal was to refine a Level 6 ferocious beast into a bone relic the size of a grain of rice within fifteen minutes.

However, it seemed she still had a considerable distance to go.

"Xintong, don't be impatient. You are the most talented Wasteland Master I have seen in all my years of traveling the continent. Unfortunately..."

The old man sighed. At seventeen years old, being able to refine a Level 6 ferocious beast into a bone relic the size of a grain of rice within fifteen minutes, this achievement already surpassed the old man when he was young.

However, unfortunately, this girl named Xintong has a natural Yin Meridian. Her pale skin is due to her natural Yin Meridian.

A natural Yin Meridian is an extremely rare condition that only appears in women and is a terminal condition.

Women with a natural Yin Meridian have a cold constitution and fear the cold. Even in the summer, they must wear cotton clothes. If they were ordinary people, they would live to be at most seventeen or eighteen years old. After that, they would fall into a deep sleep, sleeping for at least two to three days, and the sleep would become longer and more frequent. Eventually, they would sleep for half a year or more, and their vital energy would gradually wither in sleep, leading to death.

However, Xintong was born into the ancient Lin family. With the support of the Lin family, she could consume bone relics refined from fire-type wasteland beasts, using the pure yang energy in the bone relics to neutralize the cold in her body.

Living a long life of a hundred years would not be a problem, but cultivation...

A natural Yin Meridian, at the fourth level of the ordinary blood meridian realm, cannot truly open all the meridians in the body, leaving a hidden danger at this level.

The higher the cultivation level, the harder it is to progress, eventually leading to a bottleneck!

A natural Yin Meridian is a curse.

However, there are exceptions. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a female emperor of the human race who had a natural Yin Meridian.

But she managed to heal her terminal condition with her own strength.

After healing her natural Yin Meridian, it seemed to undergo unpredictable changes, but these changes were not detailed in historical records.

Xintong's teacher, the old man, had always tried to heal her terminal condition. He found several ancient formulas left by Wasteland Masters but failed to succeed.

These ancient formulas were obscure and difficult to understand, and the requirements for materials and refinement techniques were vague, making it difficult for the old man to achieve results despite repeated attempts.

Out of love for his disciple, the old man traversed the vast wasteland, seeking possible methods, but all attempts failed.

"Teacher, don't sigh. Although I have a natural Yin Meridian, with the support of fire-type wasteland bone relics, I can live for at least three to four hundred years. Compared to ordinary people, I am already much happier."

The girl originally lived among the ancient clans, and her life was beyond description in terms of luxury. She saw many rare treasures and ancient artifacts.

In recent years, as she traveled and trained in the vast wasteland, she witnessed the hardships of the world and understood how ordinary people struggled in this world.

This made the girl feel grateful. Indeed, even with her natural Yin Meridian, she was thousands of times happier than these ordinary people.

The girl swallowed the bone relic she had refined.

Bone relics refined from ferocious beasts are of lower quality than wasteland bone relics. However, most warriors only consume ferocious beast bone relics for daily cultivation, and they only consume wasteland bone relics on rare occasions. Refining wasteland bone relics takes a lot of time.

"Moving forward, we will enter the territory of the Lian Clan. Well, the Lian Clan is a small clan with only a thousand households. We don't need to go in," the old man said, holding a leather map and spreading it out to check. He smiled and continued, "We should thank the Jinlong Guard of the Taiyi Divine Kingdom for this map. They drew a new map of the Cloud Wasteland. The old map of the Cloud Wasteland hasn't been updated for about eight hundred years, and many small clans have changed their positions. The old map doesn't even mark them."

Seeing the map her teacher took out, the girl suddenly felt puzzled. Drawing a map of the Cloud Wasteland is a thankless task. There are countless small clans, and any one of them could be destroyed at any time, with new ones emerging.

A detailed map, which takes a great deal of effort to draw, would be useless after a hundred or eighty years.

Thinking about the recent frequent actions of the Taiyi Divine Kingdom in the Cloud Wasteland, Xintong asked, "Teacher, why did we travel a million miles to come to the Cloud Wasteland? And I heard that the Taiyi Divine Kingdom also sent the Jinlong Guard here, preparing to hold a warrior selection in the Cloud Wasteland soon. Holding a warrior selection in the vast wasteland is very labor-intensive. Why is the Taiyi Divine Kingdom doing this?"

"Is there any connection between our visit to the Cloud Wasteland and the Taiyi Divine Kingdom's selection?"

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