Zi Yan was also startled by the winged lion's appearance, and then she fell into hesitation, then snorted, turned around, and walked away, saying,
"Humph! I won't snatch this cat's treasures."
Shen Yi smiled, looking at her back, and then he raised his hand, and an amethyst crystal filled with a quarter of amethyst essence appeared.
Immediately Zi Yan's figure halted; she turned around and glanced at the crystal with a reluctant and possessive gaze, but she controlled her impulse while staring at him.
Shen Yi was satisfied by her reaction, and then he said, "I will give you this essence; it will unlock your bloodline by almost forty percent. It can even elevate your physical power and toughness to Tier 6 level, which is equivalent to low-level Dou Emperor experts… but I need something in return."
Immediately Zi Yan was shocked hearing his words, and then she backed away and asked alertly, looking at him, "What kind of bloodline? I don't have anything to give you? Do you want to do something to me?"
Shen Yi's mouth twitched looking at her expression, but he didn't care, as he already anticipated such a reaction from her.
"I know a lot of things. I even know about you and your father's location, which no one knows. He disappeared ten thousand years ago, but I will tell you later after you give me what I want."
Zi Yan's expression froze. Looking at him in a daze, his words echoed in her mind again and again, and then she glanced at him and asked with a trembling voice, tear mist condensed in her pupils,
"Do you really know about my origin? Who is my family? Who am I, and who is my father?"
Shen Yi shook his head and replied calmly,
"I really know a lot of hidden mysteries of this dou qi continent, but I will tell you later; it just depends on you whether you believe it or not."
After speaking, he waved his hand and put away the winged lion cub, who was rubbing its small head with his leg.
Zi Yan fell silent and thoughtfully glanced at the ground below her feet for a while, and then she raised her head as her mischievous expression completely disappeared.
Slowly tranquility and coldness covered her face, and she asked calmly, staring at him; such an expression only appeared on her face when she unlocked her bloodline… Probably Shen Yi's words touched some kind of nerve in her mind.
"What do you want in return?" She asked calmly,
Shen Yi smiled seeing her expression change; he didn't care, just raised his two fingers, and spoke.
"After today I want you to give me all the herbs you find every day; it doesn't matter if they are low level or high level… Second, I want you to collect flame energy points as much as you can for me. By the way, my name is Shen Yi, a new inner branch disciple."
Zi Yan was startled, and then her expression became strange, and she asked, looking at him, "Just this?"
Shen Yi nodded and walked forward, bypassing her toward the art pavilion. "I am going to get a suitable exercise for me; you can start doing your work now."
Zi Yan turned and glanced at his receding back in surprise; her tight heart was relieved.
'If it weren't for the hidden power in his body, which prevented my reckless nature from attacking him, I would have beaten him to a pulp and let him spill out everything about me. Anyway, he already promised to tell me… Also, he doesn't look like a bad guy.'
Then an excited smile appeared on her face, thinking that she will soon know everything about herself and also know about the figures that blurred in her memory due to the passage of ten thousand years.
She hurriedly flew away, drifting through the buildings toward the back mountain, and started looking for medicinal plants using her special innate ability.
On the other hand,
Shen Yi appeared and stopped in front of the art pavilion, looking at the two statues in front of it. Immediately the statues melted into genuine figures of two old men; they are the guardians of this art pavilion, Qian Mu and Bai Lie.
"Hello Elder, I am Shen Yi. I am here for the suitable technique." Shen Yi appeared in front of them and clasped his hand in a calm salute.
Both of them glanced at him and nodded, releasing their dou qi toward the mirror in the middle, opening the way, and then Bai Lie spoke, looking at him.
"Remember, you can only choose one technique; you will have only five incense stick times to find the suitable technique. After that, you will be forcefully removed from the pavilion whether you got it or not."
Shen Yi nodded and then walked forward, passing through the mirror door calmly. He appeared in the dark hall with countless blocks, and they were floating and attached to the walls in a maze-like structure.
While a few colorful balls were flying around through the maze, Shen Yi glanced at these balls and noticed the scrolls containing techniques inside them.
He closed his eyes and released his heavenly soul, covering everything inside the pavilion, even observing the scrolls inside the floating balls.
Immediately he snapped open his eyes and moved; purple lightning flickered through the maze. After stepping on a few maze blocks, he grabbed the purple ball and landed on the formation calmly.
He clenched and burst the ball, grabbing the scroll in the middle.
"Top mysterious-class technique: Purple Lightning Chains. It is really a suitable technique for me, as I didn't have any skills that could bind the opponent and make him immobile or paralyzed."
Shen Yi muttered thoughtfully, looking at the description of the technique.
Purple Lightning Chains: Summons chains of violet lightning to bind and electrocute.
As he noted the exercise, the five tiny flames around the formation below his feet extinguished one by one, and then the formation shone, teleporting him outside the pavilion.
Shen Yi glanced around, looking at the pavilion building and the guardians returning back to their statue form, and he turned around and walked toward the back mountain in order to practice the technique he just got.
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