"Ahem, Brother Yuan, I want to ask you something."
Yan Lin suddenly leaned closer to Jing Yuan, his face looking shifty as he spoke.
"Speak."
Jing Yuan glanced at him, knowing immediately that this guy was up to no good.
"Is our little sister pretty?"
After Yan Lin asked, he even raised an eyebrow. Paired with his ridiculously flashy clothes, he looked especially punchable.
"If you're not afraid of my dad breaking your legs, you can go ahead and try."
Jing Yuan curled his lip. *Our* little sister? Who are you talking to?
"I was just asking, look at what you're saying! A rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow. Am I that kind of person?"
Yan Lin sheepishly drew his head back, repeatedly insisting that he had no such intentions.
"Ying Zi, I've realized that if you were a girl, you would truly have the potential to be a good wife and loving mother."
Yan Lin picked up a piece of meat that Ye Tianying had already grilled and placed it in his bowl. Whenever they ate barbecue together, Ye Tianying always did the grilling, and they were only responsible for eating.
"Yan Lin, I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself today. You haven't even started drinking, and you're already flying high."
"Do you believe I can make you run naked on the street?"
Ye Tianying's awakened class is the Myriad-Phase Zither Master. Since it includes mental attacks, hypnotizing someone to streak is not difficult.
Of course, Yan Lin's strength is also considerable, so it wouldn't be easy for him to be hypnotized.
"Tsk, why are you two ganging up on me?"
Being refuted by both of them in a row, Yan Lin felt his young, fragile heart was wounded.
"That's only because you're always running your mouth," Xiao Bai added, delivering a timely blow.
Liu Zhen remained silent, focused only on eating voraciously.
After lunch, Jing Yuan and Ye Tianying sat down to play chess.
Xiao Bai called Liu Zhen to go play games.
Yan Lin, meanwhile, grabbed a set of fishing gear and went to the pond, intending to fish there.
"You come here every time just to mess with the koi I raise. Is that fun?"
Seeing Yan Lin run over to fish again, Jing Yuan said irritably.
"Why be so stingy? We won't take them away; we'll put them all back in the end."
Yan Lin set down his small stool, already eager to throw fish feed into the pond to create a lure spot.
"It's not about taking them or not; it's mainly that you strike out every time. Don't you find that boring?"
This guy sits here for two hours every time he comes, and ends up failing to catch even a fry.
"If I strike out every time, there must be something wrong with your fish. Jing Yuan, be honest, are your fish Spirit Fish?"
So-called Spirit Fish are fish imbued with spiritual energy; they are much smarter than ordinary fish, and ordinary fishing methods won't hook them.
"If the person is incompetent, don't blame the road for being uneven."
Although buying some Spirit Fish and putting them in wouldn't be a big deal for him, he originally intended this pond for casual fishing, so how could he buy Spirit Fish for it?
"I refuse to believe it! There's no child who cries every day, and no angler who strikes out every day."
Yan Lin put bait on the hook, swung his rod, and cast the line out.
Just as his rod was cast, a red Koi swam over.
Could his luck be turning around today?
A fish swam over right after he cast the line, Yan Lin thought excitedly.
But soon he was stunned to see that the Koi wasn't biting his hook at all. Instead, it was gently sucking the bait off the hook, and after eating all the bait, it actually glanced in Yan Lin's direction.
"You still say these aren't Spirit Fish? I think this one is about to become a spirit!"
And what was with that last look? Was it mocking him?
"Could it be that you've 'fed' them too many times, and the fish have gotten used to being 'fed'?"
When Jing Yuan usually fished here himself, he didn't find the fish hard to catch.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible."
Although he still couldn't detect any spiritual power fluctuations from these fish, Yan Lin no longer believed they were ordinary Koi.
Just then, the Koi that had eaten Yan Lin's bait returned near the water surface and blew bubbles towards him.
Yan Lin's face instantly darkened. Who was it mocking?
He cast the rod again, but this time without bait. Once the hook entered the water, space suddenly twisted, and the hook instantly entered the Koi's mouth.
Yan Lin's class is Space Sorcerer. He had just used the power of space to teleport the hook directly into the Koi's mouth.
With a "plop," the Koi was yanked out of the water by Yan Lin, its red Tail wildly thrashing in the air.
"See? I caught it."
Yan Lin held the fishing line and ran over to Jing Yuan and Ye Tianying to show off.
"Sicko."
"Too much free time."
Since their cultivation realms were similar, how could they not have sensed the spiritual power fluctuation just now?
"Rumble!!!"
Just then, a huge sound suddenly came from the distance, followed by the ground shaking.
A beam of heavenly light rose from the east, bursting into colorful radiance in the sky.
Jing Yuan and the others looked in the direction of the sound, seeing a rising mist and multicolored heavenly light forming layers of curtains in the air, dazzling and magnificent.
Immediately afterward, several powerful figures rose from the city, like mighty suns crossing the sky, flying toward the colorful light.
"What's going on?"
The five of them went to the edge of the manor to look out, but the location of the incident was too far away. Besides the dreamy curtain of heavenly light, they couldn't see anything else.
"Let's wait. News should be transmitted soon."
Since such a change occurred in the Central District, the elders of their families would definitely go to investigate.
They were all direct descendants of their families, so it wouldn't take long for them to receive information.
Upon hearing this, the four agreed and unhurriedly returned to their original spots, resuming their activities.
"Holy crap, where's my fish?"
Yan Lin returned to the lakeside and picked up his rod, only to find that the fish he caught was long gone.
When they estimated enough time had passed, the group sent messages to their families, inquiring about the heavenly light curtain.
The news they received was that the Ruins Site of an ancient Great Sect had emerged, and the details were still under investigation.
It has been a long time since Azure Star first entered the Interstellar Age. Over this vast period, many powerful forces were born and eventually vanished into the long river of time.
Although sects no longer exist on Azure Star now, in the distant past, when Azure Star was just starting out, various sects stood tall, and some powerful religious orders required concessions even from the national level.
However, as time passed, the Dixia Republic remained standing, but those once powerful religious orders gradually declined.
Finally, the state stepped in, collected the classical texts of these religious orders, and established the Professional Academy.
However, some religious orders were protected by powerful formations. After their decline, the formations concealed themselves, making them impossible to find without the correct method.
They could only wait for the formations to break down under the erosion of time, finally reappearing in the world.