The Old Man Came Online: I Told You Simps Were Unreliable!

Meanwhile.

A hundred miles northeast of Yan Jing City.

Black Wind Mountain Range.

"Roar!"

A Tier Two Ferocious Beast, a Wind Wolf with an agile build and a body covered in azure scales, opened its blood basin of a mouth and whipped up a foul wind as it lunged fiercely at a young man in black.

Ye Xuan's gaze sharpened. His footwork shifted, and he narrowly dodged the lethal strike.

His chest heaved violently, and sweat had long since soaked through his clothes.

Tiny wounds covered his body, and more than half of his spiritual power had been depleted.

To gather the resources needed for his breakthrough, he had no choice but to accept the academy's high-risk missions and come alone to hunt Ferocious Beasts whose strength rivaled Martial Artists at the second or third level of the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

"Beast, die!"

Seizing the opening exposed after the Wind Wolf's missed pounce, a vicious glint flashed through Ye Xuan's eyes. He gathered the last of his spiritual power into his right fist and threw a savage punch!

"Mountain Crushing Fist!"

Bang!

His fist struck the Wind Wolf squarely in its soft abdomen. Violent force penetrated its body, instantly shattering its internal organs.

The Wind Wolf let out a mournful howl. Its enormous body twitched several times before falling completely still.

Ye Xuan dropped onto the ground on his backside, gasping heavily.

Yet there was not the slightest joy of victory on his face. Instead, it was filled with unwillingness and fury.

"Lin Yuan!"

He ground out the name through clenched teeth and slammed a fist into the ground.

"Damn trash! You're only relying on your good family background! Hmph, do you think cutting off my resources means I have no way forward? Without you, I, Ye Xuan, can still rely on my own efforts to climb step by step to the peak!"

Though he said that aloud, the frustration in his heart was nearly overflowing.

Once upon a time, all he needed to do was cultivate in peace, and Li Xuan'er would deliver all kinds of top-tier resources right before him.

But now, for the money to buy a mere Second-Grade Pill, he had to risk his life fighting Ferocious Beasts here.

Such a massive gap nearly threw his state of mind off balance.

"Teacher..." he could not help asking inwardly, "why did you say Lin Yuan suddenly come to his senses? Didn't he love Li Xuan'er to death? How did he just stop being a simp?"

A moment later.

An aged voice rang out in his mind.

"Kid, this old man told you long ago not to place all your hopes on that Li Family girl. That would be handing your fate over to someone else and hanging yourself from a single tree!"

"Do you really think Lin Yuan is an idiot? His family background is so illustrious, and he has seen countless beauties and talents since childhood. How could his horizons and temperament truly be so poor? Li Xuan'er's method of keeping him on the hook and using him might work once or twice, but after enough time, even a pig would grow tired of it!"

This voice was Ye Xuan's greatest secret and greatest support.

He had originally been an orphan with mediocre talent.

But during an accident, a Primordial Spirit claiming to be the Extreme Dao Ancestor had appeared in his mind.

This ancestor claimed to have once been an unparalleled powerhouse who stood at the pinnacle of martial arts.

For some reason, he had perished and his Dao had scattered, leaving only a wisp of his remnant soul residing within Ye Xuan's Consciousness Sea.

The ancestor promised that as long as Ye Xuan could help him find materials to reconstruct his physical body in the future, he would teach Ye Xuan everything he knew and help him become a new martial arts legend.

It was precisely under the ancestor's guidance that Ye Xuan had repeatedly created miracles and become a Commoner Genius.

Hearing the ancestor's rebuke, a trace of bitterness appeared on Ye Xuan's face.

How could he not understand that?

But reconstructing the ancestor's body required an ocean of Natural Treasures. If he relied on himself alone, how long would it take—until the year of the monkey, month of the horse—to gather them all?

Getting close to Li Xuan'er and using Lin Yuan, that "super ATM," had been the fastest shortcut he could think of.

Who could have imagined that this road, which had been going so smoothly, would suddenly be cut off!

That guy Lin Yuan did not play by the rules at all!

"Ha..."

Ye Xuan sighed helplessly, Crawled Up from the ground, then dragged his exhausted body over to dissect the Wind Wolf's corpse and collect the valuable materials.

Looking at the pitifully small harvest in his hands, the determination in his eyes only deepened.

A road had to be walked one step at a time.

Since the shortcut was gone, he would carve out a great path to the heavens with his own fists!

Lin Yuan, just you wait!

After handling everything, he carried the mission items on his back and returned toward the capital Without Looking Back.

Night fell, and the city lights began to glow.

Lin Family Manor was brilliantly lit, like a divine temple situated in the mortal world.

Lin Yuan had just finished enjoying a dinner at home prepared by a Michelin Three-Star Chef...

No, prepared by his family's exclusive Special Grade Spirit Chef. He was about to return to his room and continue his grand endeavor of lying flat.

Just then, a crisp call rang out, soft and sweet in the way unique to a Little Girl.

"Big brother! Big brother! Wait for me!"

Lin Yuan turned around.

He saw a little loli in a Pink Princess Dress, Wearing Twin Ponytails and as Exquisite and Cute as a porcelain doll, running toward him with a pile of jade slips in her arms Taller Than Herself, her footsteps going patter patter.

It was none other than his precious Sister, Lin Ke'er, who was proficient in formations.

"What is it, Little Ke'er?"

A doting smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

He truly adored this clever and mischievous younger sister.

"Big brother, hurry and help me take a look!"

Lin Ke'er ran up to him and presented the top jade slip as though offering a treasure.

Blinking her watery Big Eyes, she pouted in distress. "The formation eye setup for this Nine Bends Dragon Trapping Array is so complicated. There are several nodes I just can't figure out, and I can't understand what the Teacher at the academy explained either."

Nine Bends Dragon Trapping Array?

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.

This was quite an advanced trapping formation. Not to mention academy students—even many grandmasters specializing in formations might not be able to fully comprehend it.

He took the jade slip, and his Spiritual Sense sank into it. Countless profound and intricate formation patterns and changes in nodes instantly flooded into his mind.

If it had been the old Lin Yuan, seeing this would definitely have given him two headaches from one head.

But now, after being transformed by the Primal Chaos Saint Body, his comprehension had long surpassed what it used to be, reaching an unfathomable height.

The formation changes that Lin Ke'er found obscure and difficult were as simple as elementary school addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in his eyes.

He casually snapped off a branch from the nearby flowerbed, crouched down, and began drawing on the open ground in the courtyard.

"Look here. The spiritual power flow of the third primary node and the seventh secondary node should not connect directly. It needs to pass through a Void node as a relay, forming a loop. Only then can the formation's energy flow without end."

"And here, the formation eye cannot be placed at the very center. That is a trap. The true Life Gate is actually here. Use the Life Gate as the guide and reverse heaven and earth; only then can death become life and a True Dragon be trapped..."

With a casual stroke, Lin Yuan drew an incomparably profound formation diagram on the ground.

In just a few words, he analyzed the core mysteries of this advanced formation with Crystal Clear precision, striking straight at its essence.