Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 72: The Connection Between Yang Ning and Lin Yuanxi

After drinking Yang Ning's wine, Xiaohuan's cheeks turned slightly red, and her relationship with Yang Ning visibly became closer. Since they had nothing else to do while flying, they started chatting.

"Where did you come back from?" Yang Ning asked. "And what's that green stick you're holding?"

"This is not just any green stick, it's the heartwood of the Luminous Tree, a material for Treasure Weapons!" Xiaohuan corrected.

"Treasure Weapon material?" Yang Ning's eyes lit up. "Can I take a look?"

"I guess I can show it to you, but..."

"Fruit wine, I'll give you ten bottles!"

"Cough, just take a look, it's not worth much. How can I just take your wine for no reason?" Xiaohuan handed over the stick. "Just make sure to return it later!"

"I will definitely return it!" Yang Ning's impression of Xiaohuan instantly improved. After all, he had originally thought that a maid serving the young miss would have a bad temper.

The Luminous Tree heartwood looked like a piece of jade, but it was light and almost weightless in his hand.

From a distance, it looked like a straight cylindrical stick. But when Yang Ning used his Insight Eye, he discovered that the stick was actually thicker on one end and thinner on the other, although the difference was so small that it couldn't be seen with the naked eye.

"This kind of heartwood can be used to make a Treasure Weapon called the Luminous Feather Duster. However, it is said to be very difficult to make, as the Luminous Tree heartwood needs to be separated into fine threads and refined with spiritual energy," Xiaohuan explained.

"This thing, it doesn't look like a tree, does it?" Yang Ning suddenly asked.

"How is that possible? It's called the Luminous Tree, so what else could it be?" Xiaohuan was puzzled.

"Then let me ask you, is bamboo a tree?" Yang Ning countered.

"Bamboo is definitely a tree!" Xiaohuan said.

Yang Ning smiled and said, "You don't know this, but from a taxonomic perspective, bamboo is actually a type of herbaceous plant. So bamboo is a grass, not a tree!"

"Huh?" Xiaohuan blinked her round eyes. "How, how is that possible?"

"The Luminous Tree is the same!" Yang Ning took out two magnifying glasses from his pocket and stacked them together, then pointed them at the cross-section of the Luminous Tree heartwood. "Take a look, what do you see?"

Both magnifying glasses were ten times magnification, so when stacked together, they could magnify objects a hundred times.

"Oh, this..." Xiaohuan was initially startled by the magnifying effect of the glasses, but then she noticed that the cross-section of the Luminous Tree heartwood was covered in densely packed tiny dots.

"Do you see those small circles? Those are the stems of individual grasses!" Yang Ning explained. "The Luminous Tree looks like a tree, but in reality, it's made up of countless grasses stuck together! When you mentioned separating the heartwood into threads, it should be about picking out these individual grasses!"

"So that's how it is!" Xiaohuan looked at Yang Ning in surprise. "You cultivators really know a lot!"

"Well, I'm just okay. I don't know much about Treasure Weapon materials either. I just made a guess based on the appearance," Yang Ning returned the Luminous Tree heartwood. Although he still had many tests he wanted to do, he was afraid of damaging the item.

Although Treasure Weapon materials shouldn't be so easily damaged, what if something happened?

"By the way, why did you bring this back? Is it for your young miss to refine a Treasure Weapon? Or is it for your young miss's weapon refiner?" Yang Ning asked.

"My young miss doesn't have a weapon refiner. There are only the two of us on this mountain!" Xiaohuan took back the heartwood and then gave Yang Ning a disdainful look. "As for this weapon material, it's not for her, it's for you!"

"For me?" Yang Ning blinked, his face filled with surprise.

"Why are you so surprised?" Xiaohuan asked. "Can't you see that my young miss likes you?"

"Ah?" Yang Ning could definitely see it, but at a time like this, shouldn't he pretend to be ignorant?

And you, a maid, actually just said it like that?

"Ah, what? Do you think using Qi Heaven's Word Magic is easy?" Xiaohuan said.

"Um..." Yang Ning fell silent, thought for a moment, and then asked, "But why? She doesn't know anything about me, is it just because I can write poetry?"

He knew that sometimes a girl's feelings could be very blind. Having lived in the internet age for a long time, he had seen all sorts of fresh things.

But cultivators shouldn't be so shallow, right?

"My young miss's surname is Lin!" Xiaohuan said.

"I know, right?"

"The Lin family of South Forest!"

"And then?"

Extreme Eternal does not have specific administrative regions. There are martial sects and clans everywhere, but there is a commonly accepted regional division.

For example, East Victory, West Glory, South Forest, and North Plains are the four major regions.

North Plains is called so because this area has vast grasslands and wastelands.

East Victory is called so because thirty thousand years ago, Tianyi rose while Extreme Eternal declined. Qingmiao did not take over, and First Heaven Sect supported Extreme Yin Sect in the northeast direction of Tianheng, while Extreme Yang Sect attacked Extreme Eternal.

The three sects fought in the East Victory territory for more than ten years, and in the end, Extreme Eternal emerged victorious, hence the name East Victory.

West Glory is called so because it is where the number one mountain in the world, Huashan, is located.

Of course, this Huashan is not the same mountain as the one on Earth; they just share the same name.

It can also be translated as Xikunlun.

As for South Forest, it is because there is a millennium-old family, the Lin family, located here!

Before the rise of First Heaven Sect, the Lin family was one of the main veins of Extreme Eternal. After the rise of First Heaven Sect, they fought several wars with the proxies of Extreme Eternal, leading to the rise and fall of some families.

The influence of the Lin family in Extreme Eternal is not as great as before, but they have only fallen from the top to the front line. For Yang Ning, they are still a formidable force.

Lin Jingyun of the South Forest Great Prosperity Dynasty is also from the Lin family, but she can only be considered a branch.

"The news of the Lin family is well-informed. My young miss loves poetry, and we have dedicated intelligence personnel to collect poems for her. Your poem 'Ode to the Goose' was already in my young miss's hands the day after it was created!"

Yang Ning interrupted Xiaohuan and asked, "May I ask how old your young miss was at that time?"

"Fourteen!" Xiaohuan replied.

Yang Ning was speechless. He copied 'Ode to the Goose' when he was five, and seven years ago, he was fourteen. So Lin Yuanxi is only 21 this year?

But she can fly without stepping on anything, while Fang Zhuo, who is at the Qi Refining stage, still needs to step on the black qin!

In other words, she is at least at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer Divine Ability Realm!

A 21-year-old at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer? That's a bit unbelievable, isn't it?

"So your young miss knows you very well. She knows everything you've done since you were young, and she knows everything you say!" Xiaohuan added, "Do you remember the first memorial you sent to the emperor after becoming the top scholar at the age of eight?"

Yang Ning shook his head, "I forgot."

Actually, he remembered, but he couldn't say the contents of that memorial.

"You don't remember, but my young miss and I do!" Xiaohuan smiled, "You requested the emperor to decree that women in the country can only marry after the age of eighteen. You said that if women marry too early, their bodies are not fully developed, and childbirth becomes extremely dangerous, often resulting in the death of both mother and child."

"I remember now. I did write such a memorial, but it has nothing to do with you and your young miss, right?" Yang Ning asked, "You and your young miss don't need to get married, do you?"

"Why wouldn't we need to?" Xiaohuan said irritably, "At that time, my young miss was already seventeen and had already been engaged. She was supposed to marry Wang Yu, the eldest son of the Wang family in East Victory. But after your memorial reached my young miss's hands, she used the reason that it is not suitable to marry before the age of eighteen to postpone the wedding for a year."

Yang Ning felt that the person surnamed Wang was very wronged. After all, Lin Yuanxi was already at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer at the age of 21. It was impossible for her not to have embarked on the path of cultivation at the age of 17.

The requirement of giving birth at the age of eighteen was for ordinary people, not cultivators. But Lin Yuanxi rejected the Wang family with this reason.

"Just because of this extra year, my young miss successfully broke through the Qi Refining Stage and entered Extreme Eternal as an inner disciple!"

That's impressive!

At that time, Yang Ning didn't know that there were immortals in this world. He was wholeheartedly focused on helping Yue Kingdom strengthen its national power and wanted to help the Prince unify the world. He submitted that memorial for this purpose!

Who would have thought that this memorial would help a little girl thousands of miles away?

Could this be the legendary butterfly effect?

(End of this chapter)