38 Shi Clan Tournament 5 - Unanswered Mystery (1/2)

”Senior Yan?!” Shi Li couldn't help but blurt out.

”Haha. Hello Shi Li,” Senior Yan smiled and waved at Shi Li.

”Senior Yan, what are you doing here?” Shi Li took a few steps back, just in case Senior Yan wanted to do things to him.

”Oh, you know. Just wandering around the area,” Senior Yan lightly chuckled as he saw Shi Li's actions.

”Moddy, stay on guard. We might have to fight against this guy,” Shi Li whispered through Moddy's ear.

Moddy nodded after it heard the statement. ”Got it-nya.”

Shi Li took a few deep breaths before engaging in a banter with Senior Yan. He wanted to know the true reason as to why Senior Yan was behind him.

”Senior, I heard that you talked about a bloodline interface just before I started to walk away.”

”Oh that,” Senior Yan nodded. ”That's what you have, a bloodline interface.”

”Could you elaborate on that?” Shi Li raised his eyebrows as Moddy looked at Senior Yan with a solemn gaze.

Senior Yan felt the aura that the two of them were releasing, and couldn't help but laugh. Shi Li and Moddy looked at each other before looking back at Senior Yan with questioning gazes.

”Do you think I would do something bad to you?” Senior Yan asked.

Shi Li nodded, to which not long after, Moddy nodded as well. ”That's the situation going on in my head.”

”I had a feeling...sorry about that,” Senior Yan dryly chuckled as he awkwardly scratched his head. ”I seem to surprise everyone with my specially crafted skill.”

As he said this, Senior Yan circulated his qi and within seconds, he became one with nature. There was no trace of his aura nor his scent. It was as if he wasn't there.

Shi Li was dumbfounded with his current situation. He looked around his surroundings and felt that he was hallucinating. But all of a sudden, a finger tapped on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw Senior Yan grinning at him.

Shi Li hurriedly made a gap between them and looked at Senior Yan as if he was the scariest beast he'd ever seen. ”H-H-How did you do that?”

”As I said, it's my specially crafted skill. I call it the [World's Empathy],” Senior Yan responded.

Shi Li heard the term 'specially crafted skill' and looked at Senior Yan with curiosity. ”By specially crafted skill, that means you crafted it by yourself?”

Senior Yan nodded and lightly frowned. ”Well, of course. Why would I call it my specially crafted skill if I didn't make it myself?”

”Well, I've read through the clan libraries that by reaching perfection level of comprehension, the cultivator is able to modify the skill to their needs,” Shi Li explained.

”That's just modifying an already available skill, a specially crafted skill is something made from scratch. They're worlds apart in terms of effects,” Senior Yan said.

Shi Li understood what Senior Yan was telling him and placed the information about specially crafted skills into the back of his head. He then went back to his original train of thought and asked, ”What are bloodline interfaces?”

Senior Yan rubbed his beard as he tried to recollect the information about bloodline interfaces. ”Sorry if it takes me a while, I've been alive for hundreds of years already and it takes a while for me recall certain information.”

Shi Li caught the detail of Senior Yan living for hundreds of years already and started to hypothesize.

'If Senior Yan has lived for hundreds of years already, does that mean that he's at a really high cultivation realm?'

'The lifespan of an Ascended Mortal is only 150 years. Is Senior Yan possibly at the realm higher than an Ascended Mortal?'

After a few minutes of pondering, Senior Yan started to talk, which jolted Shi Li from his session of contemplation.

”Okay. So bloodline interfaces. What are bloodline interfaces? Let's start with the definition of bloodlines, okay?”

”Bloodlines are in short, the lineage of blood of a certain family or clan. With the help of cultivation, having a special bloodline would allow people to do things that were deemed impossible back then. Teleportation, flight, increased attributes, and so on. But the most special effects bloodlines can give are bloodline interfaces.”

”Bloodline interfaces are interfaces that assist the cultivator in their cultivation and allow them to choose their own path, rather than relying on the effect given by their bloodline to cultivate.”

”Bloodline interfaces are only achievable with the following factors: it's either you have an extremely pure bloodline close to the bloodline primogenitor, or...”

Senior Yan leaned closer as he wanted Shi Li to imprint these words into his mind. ”Your bloodline's specialty is the interface itself.”

Shi Li thought about it for a while and asked, ”So you're telling me that my bloodline's specialty is an interface? Are you going to steal it from me?”