Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 1331: Chapter 1317: Searching for the Jade Pendant

If Yang Xiao activates the Genetic Evolution Method, dealing with a mere Ice Storm is trivial.

However, cultivating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill here prohibits activating other Genetic Methods.

With a creaking sound, Yang Xiao suddenly felt a tremor, his whole body covered in a thin layer of ice, turning into an ice figure.

Standing outside the wind tunnel instrument, Gu Bo laughed heartily and casually turned off the ice wind.

Yang Xiao felt the coldness temporarily ease inside the wind tunnel, making him less uncomfortable.

After cultivating for an hour, Yang Xiao pressed the stop button inside, walked out with a pained expression, and collapsed onto the ground.

Seeing this, Gu Bo laughed and said:

"Hey, Yang Xiao, what’s going on? Why did you come out?"

Yang Xiao, with a pale face and looking as if he was on the brink of death, painfully said:

"Holding on for an hour was already my limit; if I stayed any longer, the flesh on my body might have dried out from the wind."

"That’s strange. You performed excellently when cultivating the Heavenly Dragon Divine Skill and the White Elephant Divine Skill, but with the Wind Eagle Divine Skill, your performance is mediocre. This result is only slightly better than when I first cultivated it."

Yang Xiao certainly couldn’t say it was due to the lack of the Wind Eagle Divine Beast’s Jade Token, so he could only sigh and say:

"I don’t know why. When cultivating this Wind Eagle Divine Skill, I feel particularly strained. Maybe I’ve been cultivating too intensively lately, I’m just exhausted."

Yang Xiao knows that without the Wind Eagle Divine Beast’s Jade Token, it would take him at least two years to complete the cultivation of the Wind Eagle Divine Skill. He certainly doesn’t want to spend two years in this wind tunnel, tormented.

"Gu Bo, I want to temporarily stop cultivating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill and go to the Heavenly Book Pavilion to read. Is that okay?"

Gu Bo nodded,

"Sure, feel free to read whatever you want."

For the days that followed, Yang Xiao, along with the three old men including Gu Jie, stayed on the first floor of the Heavenly Book Pavilion reading books.

The three old men did not question why Yang Xiao stopped cultivating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill; each read their own book, not interfering with one another.

Due to his exceptional memory, Yang Xiao read books at an incredible speed.

He initiated another plan to scour through books.

Having spent two years scouring books at the Flying Leopard Academy, Yang Xiao developed a unique method for reading—fast speed, good memory.

As for fully understanding them, there’s no rush now; he can store them in his mind first.

Moreover, although many books are not initially comprehensible, with more reading, understanding follows.

Another purpose of Yang Xiao’s reading is to search for clues about the whereabouts of the other Jade Pendant related to the Wind Eagle Divine Skill.

Something so significant is unlikely to be casually misplaced.

Since five hundred years ago after the battle between the eight Saint Level Supremes of Witch Star and Thanos Saint from Dwarf Star, three empires were divided three Divine Skill mental methods, is there a chance of finding notes documenting this event?

Yang Xiao began quickly browsing various ancient texts on the bookshelf, hoping to discover something.

One day, as Yang Xiao did routinely, he flipped through books by the bookshelf.

"Kid, what are you looking for?"

Yang Xiao turned his head to see, it was Gu Jie.

Not lying, Yang Xiao openly said:

"Gu Jie Elder, may I ask you a question?"

"Speak!"

"It is said that five hundred years ago, after the eight Saint Level Supremes of Witch Star and Thanos Saint perished together, to reward the achievements of the three major empires—Heavenly Dragon, White Elephant, and Flying Leopard—they specially divided four top Genetic Cultivation Methods from Mingluo City Academy within three empires. Is that true?"

Gu Jie nodded,

"Yes, that’s true. Why? Any questions?"

"Haha, I want to know if there are any notes or official documents documenting this event back then?"

Gu Jie thought for a moment and said:

"There should be, but not in the Heavenly Book Pavilion."

"Then where are they?"

"In the archives of Mingluo City Academy, perhaps. Why are you asking?"

Yang Xiao smiled and said:

"Gu Jie Elder, to be honest, there’s something odd I noticed. When distributing the four Divine Skill boxes, both the Heavenly Dragon Divine Skill and White Elephant Divine Skill had an extra Jade Pendant, but the Flying Leopard Divine Skill and Wind Eagle Divine Skill were missing one. From the box’s space and indentation, there seems to be one missing; I want to know where did those two Jade Tokens go when the Secret Technique Manuals were handed over to the three empires?"

Gu Jie was taken aback and looked at Yang Xiao with a curious gaze,

"Is the Jade Token very important?"

"I just find it curious. I think the Jade Token should have a special significance, not merely decorative."

Gu Jie had previously studied those two Jade Pendants but never concluded anything from it, nor did he believe Yang Xiao would reach any conclusion.

As for the curiosity, Gu Jie understood that Yang Xiao might naturally be curious when they first approached all four Divine Skills.

So he laughed and said:

"If you want to search, go find Gu Bo and let him take you to Mingluo City Academy’s archives to look it up.

Ah, youngster, let me tell you, is it easy for a regular person to enter the Heavenly Book Pavilion?

In the entire Witch Star Continent, so many people want to take a look but cannot; yet here you are, not reading properly and instead researching those unreliable matters, for what?"

Gu Jie said this, took a book off the shelf, and turned to leave.

After pausing for a moment, he turned his head and said,

"Kid, there are volumes on the second floor containing the cultivation records and experience insights of the eight Saint Level Supremes from back then, all in their original handwriting. If you have time, you might want to check them out."

Yang Xiao was taken aback, immediately expressed gratitude respectfully, and said:

"Thank you, Elder Gu Jie, for your guidance!"

However, Yang Xiao’s mind was occupied with thoughts of the missing Jade Pendant from the Wind Eagle Divine Skill. He estimated that as long as he could find that Jade Pendant, he’d succeed in cultivating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill.

As for any intrinsic connection among these four Divine Skills, or whether they could help him break through to Saint Level Supreme, he was uncertain.

Regardless, discovering the whereabouts of the Wind Eagle Divine Skill’s Jade Pendant was urgently necessary.

Yang Xiao spent two days reading in the Heavenly Book Pavilion, but since Gu Bo hadn’t returned, he found an excuse to leave and seek him out.

Ever since entering the Heavenly Book Pavilion last time, Yang Xiao had spent four months inside.

The courtyard at the Genetic Store Headquarters teemed with Silver Armor Guards and black-cloaked guards.

The atmosphere seemed tense.

Yang Xiao casually approached one black-cloaked guard man and asked:

"What’s going on? It seems like the defenses have been strengthened?"

The man recognized Yang Xiao and immediately bowed, saying:

"Greetings, Yang Leader!

It’s like this: after we annihilated the Dwarf Star troops last time, only the Saint Level Supreme named Du Tiandemon remains.

In recent days, Du Tiandemon has repeatedly attacked over a dozen imperial capitals, killing many, and has invaded Mingluo City three times."

Yang Xiao was shocked,

"Du Tiandemon invaded Mingluo City? What happened?"

The black-cloaked man proudly said:

"Mingluo City isn’t that easy to invade, with Witch Star’s strongest Defense Light Screen System and the super Heavenly Punishment Sword Formation, along with dozens of Emperor Level experts stationed,

Du Tiandemon invaded three times but was repelled by the Great Elder and others each time. However, this guy is extremely menacing, causing chaos with each invasion, killing many of our people, so for the past months, our defenses have been continuously reinforced."

Yang Xiao nodded; evidently, this Du Tiandemon was indeed a menace that needed to be eradicated.

However, Yang Xiao currently lacked the ability to eliminate Du Tiandemon.

Yang Xiao inquired about the office location of Elder Gu Bo and proceeded directly to find him.

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