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Yunshui City.

Inside the Black Water Pavilion, Shen Chongming hurriedly arrived at the second floor with the storage bag.

"Grandfather."

After slightly bowing to Shen Yuan, Shen Chongming respectfully presented the storage bag before him.

"It was sent by Chongxu."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yuan quickly took the storage bag.

"Did that kid say anything?"

Shen Chongming shook his head and said, "He only sent these things. The person who came seemed to be very afraid of him and dared not say anything."

"That brat still doesn’t plan on coming back, it seems."

Shen Yuan said nothing, waved his hand to take out the items inside the storage bag.

Seeing the Spirit Crystals and Spirit Crystal Fragments of varying sizes, his heart trembled slightly.

"This kid might be a bit foolish, but he still has the Shen Family in his thoughts."

"What’s in the Jade Scrolls?"

Seeing the three Jade Scrolls beside him, Shen Yuan asked in a deep voice. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Shen Chongming showed a strange expression.

"They are mixed, pieced together—it seems like they contain most of a Commandery Princess of Fushan Country’s memories."

"Among them are some cultivation techniques of the Fushan Country’s Imperial Family, secret magical skills, and some thoughts on alchemy."

"Grandson fears that this brat might have captured a Commandery Princess of Fushan Country and used some evil skill for soul-searching to obtain these things."

As Shen Yuan listened, he partially immersed his Divine Sense into the Jade Scrolls to view the contents inside.

"Such detailed memories cannot be achieved by soul-searching."

"The content in the Jade Scrolls seems more like the Commandery Princess willingly copied her memories."

Shen Chongming, hearing this, looked worried and said, "Back when Chongxu left, he only had the cultivation of Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer."

"In just a few short years... Grandson fears he has gone astray."

Dongyun Hu’s cultivation is Qi Cultivation Perfection Realm.

To make him apprehensive, and to be able to, by unknown means, have a Commandery Princess of Fushan Country willingly copy her memories shows that Shen Chongxu’s current strength is undoubtedly high.

To achieve a rapid increase in strength in a short time, unless there’s a tremendous opportunity, only the methods of Evil Cultivation Demon Dao can accomplish it.

Hearing this, Shen Yuan too pondered silently.

The White Jade Turtle Shell now had light clusters of insights fed back from some of the Shen Family’s direct lineage descendants during their breakthroughs.

Except for Shen Chongxu.

This situation puzzled him somewhat.

However, judging from the current situation, there doesn’t seem to be a major problem with Shen Chongxu.

"As long as he still thinks of the Shen Family and retains his humanity, there’s no need to worry too much."

"I will organize the contents of these three Jade Scrolls later and pick out the useful ones."

"Take the other things away."

After Shen Chongming nodded, he took the other things and left the Black Water Pavilion.

Courtyard at the manor’s wing.

In the blazing summer, within the pavilion in the yard, Mu Yan, a tall figure with graying hair, was curiously examining a square ice block emitting a chilling cold.

Beside the ice block, a handsome young boy in brown brocade attire watched Mu Chang’s surprised face and laughed, "Grandmaster Mu, how is it?"

Mu Yan couldn’t help but nod, "Marvelous, truly marvelous!"

"Young Master Xiubai, how did you achieve this?"

This young boy was Shen Chongxu’s son, Shen Xiubai.

Currently eight years old, Shen Xiubai’s cultivation was only at Qi Cultivation Second Layer, but in the Array Dao, he exhibited extremely high talent.

The ice block emitting a harsh cold was something created through his mastery of the Array Dao.

"Grandmaster Mu, come have a look with me."

Leading Mu Chang to a corner of the small courtyard, Shen Xiubai pointed to the Spirit Ore exuding a rich fire attribute spiritual qi aura.

Then they proceeded to examine other corners of the courtyard one by one.

Each corner of this small courtyard was placed with Spirit Ores of different attributes.

"Five Elements mutually generate and restrain each other, Yin Yang coexist."

"In extreme Yang there must be Yin, and in extreme Yin there must be Yang."

"Likewise, the great heat leads to extreme heat, yet Xiubai used this small courtyard as a foundation to define a small area of Five Elements rotation."

"From there, he found a wisp of extreme cold within the extreme heat and guided it to the pavilion."

The two returned to the pavilion, and Shen Xiubai pointed to the ice block in front and said, "And obtained this."

"Grandmaster Mu, don’t you feel cooler?"

Facing the little fellow’s confident demeanor, Mu Chang’s astonishment was indescribable.

"Have you learned all this from that ’Array Introduction’?"

’Array Introduction’ was a basic array book left for the Shen Family by Pei Zhao during his visit to Yangnao Land.

The intention was to provide the Shen Family with a basic understanding of arrays so that they wouldn’t be completely lost when faced with arrays in the future.

For the past two years, while teaching Shen Xiubai the way of cultivation, Mu Yan had occasionally studied ’Array Introduction,’ and understood that it was merely a basic text explaining the relationship between arrays and the Five Elements, terrain, constellations, and other natural phenomena.

But Shen Xiubai was able to, without guidance, glean such extraordinary abilities from it, which truly left him amazed.

As an elder of the Shen Family, Mu Yan knew the Shen Family possessed a precious Inheritance Crystal Stone of Array Dao.

The array talent demonstrated by Shen Xiubai made him feel a strong impulse.

"Young Master, continue your practice, this old one needs to step out for a moment."

Shen Xiubai nodded obediently, then sat cross-legged in the pavilion and began meditating.

In front of the floating bridge over the Black Water Pool.

Mu Yan slightly bowed towards the direction of the Black Water Pavilion in the pool and said, "Old Ancestor, Mu Yan requests to meet."

His voice lingered for a moment before Shen Yuan, in a loose gray robe, opened the door and came out.

"Old Ancestor."

Mu Yan slightly bowed in salute.

"Mu Yan dares to invite Old Ancestor to the residence for a visit."

Shen Yuan was curious but did not ask further.

"Let’s go."

The two strolled to the residence, and under Mu Yan’s guidance, Shen Yuan entered that wing of the courtyard.