Strange Gemstone

"I'm a student Ning Yi referred. Didn't she tell you I was coming?"

The girl's question made Chen Wei pause. Hadn't Ning Yi said she'd already given her best friend a heads-up?

"Ah... I see." A flush crept over the girl's cheeks. "Have a seat and wait a moment. I have a few things I need to take care of first."

Chen Wei said, "All right."

Gu Yuwei had a habit of leaving her phone aside when she meditated.

When she entered the room on the right side of the hall, she found her phone charging. Sure enough, its screen displayed several messages from her best friend.

"Xiaowei, I recommended another really promising student to you. Remember to treat me to dinner tomorrow..."

After reading Ning Yi's messages, Gu Yuwei smiled helplessly.

How could a little place like Water Mountain City have so many beast-taming prodigies? Even the prodigies from the capital...

In the dojo's main hall.

"Sorry, I wasn't looking at my phone just now. Are you here to learn a meditation method?" Gu Yuwei asked with a smile.

"Yes. Ning Yi told me you teach advanced meditation methods for pets here, and that it's free."

Chen Wei nodded. When he said the word "free," his voice carried a hint of doubt.

"Little Yi does love to make things up." A faint smile appeared on Gu Yuwei's cool, lovely face.

"First, let me introduce myself. My name is Gu Yuwei, and I'm the master of the Starlight Dojo."

Before Chen Wei could respond, she continued, "The advanced meditation method Ning Yi mentioned has a problem. To be precise, it's an incomplete meditation method. It simply increases a pet's meditation efficiency to a level that can rival an advanced meditation method."

Chen Wei was startled. Even an incomplete meditation method could rival an advanced one. Wouldn't the complete version be even more powerful?

As if sensing what Chen Wei was thinking, Gu Yuwei said calmly, "I also thought this meditation method was amazing at first, but in reality, it has a very serious flaw."

"What flaw?" Chen Wei asked curiously.

"A pet can only comprehend it on its own, and each pet comprehends a slightly different method. The boost to its meditation efficiency varies, too. There's only one thing that never changes: every method a pet comprehends is incomplete."

After saying this, Gu Yuwei glanced at Chen Wei, whose face had lit up with excitement.

"Are you thinking it sounds impressive? In reality, the vast majority of pets, including my own spirit-type pet, can only comprehend a low-tier meditation method from it—and an incomplete one at that. Do you still want to give it a try?"

"I do." Chen Wei nodded at once.

He was definitely going to try. Just from the way she described it, this meditation method already sounded like an extraordinary secret art.

Gu Yuwei's cool expression showed no surprise. She, too, had once thought her pet would be the one exception, but reality had dealt her a painful blow.

"Summon your pet first. A pet needs a certain level of spiritual power to comprehend this meditation method."

Chen Wei said nothing. He immediately summoned Color Spirit, who had been resting inside his Star Ring.

"A Tier Two Source Star? A Cold Jade Snake!" Gu Yuwei's eyes flashed with surprise as she looked at the Cold Jade Snake in Chen Wei's arms.

Sure enough, she shouldn't have expected too much from a prodigy recommended by Ning Yi. She shook her head inwardly. Water Mountain City was just too small!

"Remember to calm her down. She might get a little agitated when I sense her with my spiritual power," Gu Yuwei said after her disappointment faded.

"All right."

Chen Wei suddenly caught a faint, sweet scent from in front of him.

As he stroked Color Spirit's body, he soothed her with his thoughts. She was restless in his arms.

"A Cold Jade Snake with both ice and spirit elements, and she can use telekinesis too. Her spiritual power meets the requirement." After finishing her examination, Gu Yuwei spoke with satisfaction.

"Does that mean Color Spirit can learn the meditation method now?" Chen Wei's heart lifted, and he asked softly.

"Of course. But there's one thing I need to make clear beforehand: there are conditions for learning it for free." Gu Yuwei suddenly spoke, glancing at Chen Wei beside her.

Chen Wei gave a small nod, a look of understanding flashing in his eyes. As expected, there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

But that was all right. He wouldn't have dared to let Color Spirit practice an advanced meditation method that came to them for nothing, anyway.

"I have just one condition. Once your pet finishes comprehending it, you have to record the meditation method she understood right away and give it to me." Gu Yuwei looked straight at Chen Wei, her tone relaxed.

"Sure. That's only fair." Chen Wei agreed immediately.

He hadn't expected Gu Yuwei's condition to be so simple!

Seeing how readily Chen Wei agreed, a faint smile appeared on Gu Yuwei's delicate face.

If she could collect more low-tier meditation methods, perhaps one day she could uncover the secret hidden in this starstone.

Gu Yuwei led Chen Wei to the dojo's rear courtyard.

The first things Chen Wei saw were the ground paved with numerous blue-gray bricks and a strangely shaped boulder at the center of the courtyard.

"Have your Cold Jade Snake touch that starstone with her telekinesis, and she'll comprehend a meditation method of her own," Gu Yuwei said plainly, without hiding anything.

A meditation method passed down through an inheritance? Looking at the strange boulder before him, Chen Wei nodded nervously.

"Focus and use your telekinesis to sense that stone." Chen Wei pointed toward the odd stone in the distance and sent the instruction to Color Spirit through their thoughts.

"Yiya." (*￣︶￣) (No problem.)

Blue-white light appeared in Color Spirit's eyes and the ice crystal on her head. Then she carefully guided her telekinesis toward the stone, which had been giving off a strange pull all along.

The instant her telekinesis touched the stone, a white light burst from the starstone before them.

Chen Wei quickly raised his hand to shield his eyes from the dazzling light, all the while sensing Color Spirit's mental state through their contract.

A moment later, the light vanished.

"Yiyi, yiya!" (｀_)ゞ (There's so much more in my mind now!)

Feeling Color Spirit's surprise through their contract, Chen Wei's spirits soared.

Was this meditation method really that easy to comprehend?

"All right. Remember to have your pet write down the meditation method she comprehended." Gu Yuwei reminded Chen Wei, who was beaming, then took paper and a pen from her Star Ring and handed them to him.

Gu Yuwei had seen this kind of inheritance many times before, so it wasn't anything new to her.

"All right." Chen Wei took the paper and pen from Gu Yuwei, then held Color Spirit in his arms. Her head was still a little fuzzy.

"Color Spirit, write down the meditation method you just comprehended in a moment."

"Yiya!" (Okay!)