393 Unteachable (1/2)
Yun Yang frowned and said, ”I thought I made it clear just now. This old man knows the solution, but I really don’t have the capacity to do it now.”
Lan Wuxin asked, ”Why is that so? Elder Yun’s cultivation base could rival those of theFour Seasons Tower. I think you’re no weaker than the Unrivaled Ling Xiaozui.”
Yun Yang chuckled bitterly and said, ”Then you’ve regarded me too highly. If my past cultivation base remains, perhaps I could still do battle with Ling Xiaozui long before I begin to show signs of defeat, but my current cultivation base… I might not even be ranked top ten in the formidable Four Seasons Tower.”
Lan Wuxin continued questioning in earnest, ”Is it because of your injury?”
Yun Yang sighed, ”If this injury wasn't at its critical stage and needed another way to suppress it… I wouldn’t have been willing to come to this bustling secular world again and be plagued with worries. What you don’t want comes to you instead, what can one do about it?”
Lan Wuxin replied, ”Just like what Elder Yun has said, as long as one still has a breath of life, there’s nothing that is incurable. There is always a way out. The Physician Genius Family Head Sun will arrive tomorrow. There is nothing that he can’t cure as yet.”
Yun Yang snorted and said, ”Then wouldn't it be simpler to ask him to treat the assassin instead?”
Lan Wuxin flushed. ”Well, he’s yet to be able to alleviate the symptoms of a shattered soul…”
Yun Yang chuckled.
Lan Wuxin was flustered, but he did not feel humiliated in front of the old senior since the latter’s age was a good seven to eight times more than his own.
”May I ask about the nature of Elder Yun’s injury?” Lan Wuxin asked humbly.
”This injury of mine…” A flash of past events and vicissitudes played across Yun Yang’s eyes as he said, ”After the great fight that year… I was left with this injury and can only live in secluded forest… I had to maintain my life with the air of vitality from the earth strata, plants, and mystical beasts. It’s been over three hundred years now…”
”In these three hundred years, I have to be reborn, using the bloodline of heritage, every sixty years. This was to allow me to return to my youth and age slowly. There is a huge limitation to this rebirth technique. Each use takes away the cultivation base of a superior practitioner… It’s been… five times now… which means that my current cultivation base is only less than a tenth of my former capability.”
Yun Yang looked saddened, ”As weakened as I am now, despite all the information or knowledge I can pass on to you...”
He sighed softly and said, ”I really can’t manage it. I can only admit my helplessness.”
Lan Wuxin looked disappointed at once. He had thought that Yun Yang’s behavior hid his request, making himself seem high and mighty so he could ask for something else in return, but he did not expect the truth; it was not the latter’s reluctance to help but it was that he could not do anything, despite his sincerest intentions!
Yun Yang said tiredly, ”This method does not solely belong to me. A lot of other people know it as well, and the Four Seasons Tower must have someone who is well versed in this. They’d station some experts here, setting up something like this as well. As long as there is someone who hails from that age, he’ll know how to do it. It garners the same result, no matter who does it, so it doesn’t have to be me personally.”
Lan Wuxin replied with a frown, ”I see… Still, if they had a way, why would they wait until now? The intensity of the Four Seasons Tower in taking down the Nine Supremes is much higher than all four of us empires combined!”
Yun Yang answered kindly, ”Silly, if they don’t have the skill, you still have me! Let them come and ask me. I can’t do it anymore, but I can still share the arcane arts with someone else!”
Lan Wuxin was then hit by a sudden realization. ”Elder Yun is right. I had not thought about it at all.”
The fact was that it had already occurred to Lan Wuxin earlier. It was because the arcane art of recovering deific consciousness was not something to be taught and passed down. If Yun Yang had not offered first, he would never be able to ask Yun Yang to teach the arcane arts to others!
Yun Yang said, ”There is something else I must state first. The person from the Four Seasons Tower must have adequate cultivation base, at least an expert of sixth heaven and above. Only then can they execute it.”
Looking at Lan Wuxin’s clueless face, it was obvious that he only knew of the peak realms. How could he know the world of difference between the ninth peak and ninth heaven? Yun Yang could not help chuckling, ”Just tell what I said. They’ll understand.”
…
On the same night, Lan Wuxin brought a Four Seasons Tower expert over for a lesson on how to recover a shattered soul.
Yun Yang explained it thoroughly but the expert’s brows were locked in a tight frown, a clear indication that he could not fathom anything as he asked, ”A shattered soul is shattered, how can it be gathered? And recovered? If we follow this method, don’t we have to risk our lives as well? Might it not succeed?”
Yun Yang said angrily, ”Bullsh*t! This is absolutely foolproof, how can your life be at risk? If lives were at stake, who would create this method? That's just nonsensical! Just do it, I will be behind you if anything happens!”
The Four Seasons Tower's man pondered upon this and scratched his head, saying, ”May I ask Elder Yun that when the soul is in strands, this gathering method…”
Yun Yang heaved a long sigh. ”Do I have to repeat this again?”
The expert flushed. ”Please do.”
Yun Yang dipped his finger into tea and drew on the table, saying, ”Look, this is the shattered soul. It’s all over the place. Look now, as long as you deliver mystical Qi to gather the divine sense then forcefully comb them together, you will redefine the specific characteristics of the deific consciousness.”
The expert nodded in confusion.
Yun Yang continued, ”Everyone’s divine sense is different, as everyone will have different characteristics. I'm sure you know this, do you not?”
The expert nodded in agreement; he would be an idiot if he did not know this.