Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 74 – The mysteries of longevity

On the platform under the picture of embroidery, several teachers exclaimed in panic, "Quick, save her!"

Wu Tong, the young girl, was sent out of the picture of embroidery, with her internal organs on the verge of rupture, blood constantly pouring out of her mouth.

This had never happened in any of the previous examinations. In the picture of embroidery, at most, injuries were only on the surface, and it was impossible to receive fatal injuries.

The ten pictures of embroidery could protect the scholars from fatal injuries, but this girl received fatal injuries in the picture of embroidery. Could it be that there was a scholar who could resist the suppression of the ten pictures of embroidery?

One after another, the teachers raised their heads and looked up at the ten pictures of embroidery. Their eyes flickered. "The last scholar left in the picture is probably a resurrected demon!"

"Seven days ago, I was still a young man in Tianmen Town, and I had four foxes with me. They were my classmates."

Su Yun leaned against the throne on the highest level of the Tianlou Xiu Jing, looking outside the door. There was a long corridor outside the door, and at the end of the corridor was the gate of the palace. Outside the gate was the sapphire-like sky.

"At that time, the only thing that bothered me was that there might be an old man I respected in town who was not human."

He stood up and walked out, feeling idle in his heart. "It's only been seven days. How did I get involved in these strange things?"

He staggered through the long corridor and came to the gate of the palace, placing his hands on the railing.

The world in front of him was still bright and beautiful, with the mirage of the desert hanging in the sky. Beside it was the towering wutong tree. The long bridge stretched down through the clouds and onto the lying wave lake.

Time in the spiritual realm seemed to stand still, fixed at this moment, without worries or sorrows.

"Why is it so difficult for children from the countryside to go to school in the city?"

Su Yun sighed and moved his right arm. His right arm was burning with pain.

His right arm was useless again.

He grumbled and complained, "I just wanted to go to the city and study with my second brother and younger siblings..."

Suddenly, the face of the old man Zuo Songyan appeared in the sky, with huge eyes like two extra suns in the sky. After rolling around, he finally found Su Yun's figure.

"Left Chief, as you wished, I defeated 30,000 scholars and demons and got first place." Su Yun's face was calm as he looked up.

Hoo--

Zuo Songyan's face moved in the sky, pushing away the clouds in the sky and even squeezing the sun aside.

The face lowered and floated in front of Su Yun, even larger than the Tianlou Xiu Jing. His breath was like the wind, and his exhale was like thunder. "Defeated a demon? You said you defeated a demon?"

"On the ground of the Tianlou Xiu Jing, there is her bloodstain."

Su Yun looked up at the huge face, still calm and composed. "You can investigate it."

Zuo Songyan's left eye suddenly popped out of its socket with a "pop," grew two legs, and walked towards the Tianlou Xiu Jing. There were long optic nerves and oblique muscles behind the eyeball.

"Bloodstains do not represent anything."The eyeball with legs walked towards them and said, "I just felt a terrible force breaking through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagram. Obviously, it's not a power that you can wield! If you're a human demon, then you must have broken through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagram and injured the scholar Wu Tong!"

Su Yun calmly replied, "It was my own power that broke through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagram and injured the human demon. The human demon is Wu Tong, who ranks second."

Although the scene in front of him was extremely bizarre, he was not surprised. This was the spiritual realm inside the Jinxiu Diagram, and anything could happen here. After all, this was a dreamland, the habitat of spiritual beings.

The eyeball walked back, collected some blood samples, and jumped back into its socket, rubbing its eyes and finding a comfortable position before rooting itself in the socket.

Zuo Songyan in the sky squinted his eyes and returned to normal after a moment, sneering, "So, what you're saying is that your own power is above the Ten Jinxiu Diagram? Earlier, you forcibly broke through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagram and injured the human demon Wu Tong?"

Su Yun nodded helplessly and asked, "Do you think anyone will believe me if I say this?"

"Even I don't believe it!"

Zuo Songyan's old face in the sky wrinkled his brows, "Even if I knew you were a scholar of the Heavenly Dao Academy and that you were sent by the Emperor, I still couldn't believe that you could defeat the human demon, let alone break through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagram."

Su Yun sighed, mobilized his blood and poured it into his eyes, and activated the power of the Eight Directions. Suddenly, the Heavenly Gate opened again.

Boom!

The spiritual realm in the Ten Jinxiu Diagram shook violently, colliding with the power of the Heavenly Gate, causing the entire realm to tremble and collapse at any moment!

Su Yun dissipated his energy, and the Heavenly Gate closed, and the terrifying impact slowly stopped.

Zuo Songyan's face changed drastically, looking at Su Yun with some awe, "Senior, how old are you?"

Su Yun was stunned.

Zuo Songyan solemnly said, "I didn't expect you to be like Qiu Shuijing, who looks young but is actually old, making me think you were a young man, but you are actually an old monster from the Heavenly Dao Academy... Senior, no wonder you can defeat the human demon! Senior, please calm down and let me think of a solution."

Su Yun quickly said, "You misunderstood, sir! Sir, sir... he runs really fast!"

On the Jinxiu Diagram, Zuo Songyan woke up and hurried to Qiu Shuijing's side. Qiu Shuijing looked like he didn't want to be approached by strangers, making Tong Qingyun and others hesitant to approach him.

Zuo Songyan didn't care about that and whispered, "Shuijing, who is the senior Su Yun in the diagram from your Heavenly Dao Academy?"

Qiu Shuijing was surprised and looked at him with confusion.

"You don't have to hide it from me, hehe!"

Zuo Songyan sneered, "You are the envoys and special agents of the Emperor of Dongdu, sent to investigate and spy on Shaofang. You are in the light, and Su Yun is in the dark! Su Yun must be an old monster from the Tian Dao Yuan with extremely terrifying cultivation strength. Even the Spiritual Weapons of Wen Sheng Gong cannot suppress him..."

Qiu Shuijing raised his eyebrows and said, "Wait a moment, my thoughts are a bit messy, let me sort them out."

Zuo Songyan paced back and forth patiently. After a while, Qiu Shuijing sorted out the cause and effect and tentatively said, "I am the special envoy sent by the Emperor to Shaofang, and I am in the light. Su Yun is the undercover agent sent by the Emperor to assist me in Shaofang, and he is in the dark."

Zuo Songyan sneered, "You're pretending, you're still pretending!"

Qiu Shuijing calmed down and said, "You just said that Su Yun broke through the suppression of the Ten Jinxiu Diagrams of Wen Sheng Gong, so you call him an old monster and think that he is even older than both of us?"

Zuo Songyan felt a sense of unease.

"He has something in his eyes."

Qiu Shuijing hesitated for a moment, but still revealed the truth, "What's in his eyes is crucial and relates to the last step of eternal life. The Emperor sent people to the Tian Men Zhen in Tian Shi Yuan to study this thing."

Zuo Songyan quickly caught on and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is it this power that even the Holy Treasure of the Saints like the Ten Jinxiu Diagrams cannot suppress and that neither humans nor demons can invade?"

Qiu Shuijing nodded, "You should know about the upheaval in Tian Men Zhen seven years ago. What's in Su Yun's eyes is the result of the research in Tian Men Zhen."

Zuo Songyan's face became solemn, and he exhaled a breath of air, murmuring, "The mystery of eternal life is hidden in his eyes... What kind of monsters are in the Tian Dao Yuan..."

Qiu Shuijing's eyes were strange, but he did not point out his mistake.

"Now the only problem is how to wash away the suspicion of him being a demon."

Qiu Shuijing said, "Almost everyone now thinks he is a demon, and that demon girl is very good at manipulating people's minds."

Zuo Songyan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "What's difficult about that? You are the senior who donated the Ten Jinxiu Diagrams, the former Emperor's teacher, and just now you fought against the rebellion in the Old Wilderness alone and quelled a major disaster. Your prestige now can easily stir up public opinion, and I'm afraid you can be compared to the Saint in Shaofang! Who dares to question Su Yun's identity as a demon?"

Qiu Shuijing suddenly realized that this was the power of public opinion!

Now his prestige could even determine life and death with a single word!

Su Yun waited quietly in the Heavenly Tower, he had always been patient.After a long time, the sky around him gradually darkened. Su Yun focused his gaze and saw that he had landed back on the platform, surrounded by scholars.

The ordinary scholars knew nothing about the conflict between humans and demons. They only knew that monsters and demons were attacking the uninhabited areas outside the city, and the entire city was searching for them.

"These thirty thousand scholars have no idea how dangerous last night was," Su Yun thought as he looked around. "Sometimes ignorance is a kind of happiness. They are really fortunate."

He thought he would be heavily questioned, but instead, several first-class teachers from Wen Chang Academy, Jiuyuan Academy, and Mo Xia Academy came to persuade Su Yun to apply to their academies.

"Get lost, get lost!" Master Tu Ming and Idle Cloud Taoist walked forward and pushed the first-class teachers to the side.

Master Tu Ming was kind and sincere, and he respectfully asked, "Little benefactor, congratulations on achieving first place. Our Wen Chang Academy is the leader of the four major academies. Would you like to come to our academy?"

The first-class teachers from the other three academies sneered and waited to see the joke.

"Great!" Su Yun was overjoyed and exclaimed, "I have heard of Wen Chang Academy, which inherits the mantle of the Emperor Wen Chang, teaches and educates people, encourages people to do good, and cultivates the pillars of the country. Today, as a scholar, I am favored by Wen Chang Academy, which is enough to shine the academy's reputation!"

The platform was in an uproar. The thirty thousand scholars whispered to each other. The scholar who achieved first place in this exam actually wanted to apply to Wen Chang Academy?

The first-class teachers from the major academies were even more surprised and turned angry. "Wen Chang Academy has no shame and is deceiving scholars!" they shouted.

Several teachers immediately stepped forward to argue with Idle Cloud Taoist and Master Tu Ming.

At this time, Prince Bai Yuelou walked over and respectfully said, "Master Tu Ming, I also want to join Wen Chang Academy to study. Please grant me this favor."

There was another uproar. The first-class teachers from the academies were almost fainting. Since when had Wen Chang Academy become so popular? Even a saint's disciple wanted to study there!

Li Zhuxian squeezed into the crowd and glared fiercely at Su Yun. She said to Idle Cloud Taoist, "Taoist, I also want to apply to Wen Chang Academy!"

The platform was in chaos, and everyone was arguing.

Wu Tong lay on a stretcher and was carried over. She said weakly, "Master, teacher, I also want to join Wen Chang Academy."

The crowd became even more noisy. Even the second place winner of this exam wanted to apply to Wen Chang Academy? Was Wen Chang Academy going to ascend to the heavens?

Just then, Prince Ye Luo squeezed into the crowd and shouted, "I also want to apply to Wen Chang Academy!"The crowd was originally in an uproar, but suddenly quieted down at Ye Luo's words, and countless pairs of eyes fell on Young Master Ye Luo.

Then, the crowd shifted their gaze away and continued to chatter and discuss.

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