Chapter 63: The Destiny Child of This Era: The Unbelievable Su Mengyao

“Space ring?”

Ye Xuan finally sighed helplessly.

“That’s right.”

Su Mengyao didn’t notice Ye Xuan’s reaction; she nodded proudly.

“This is the latest experimental product from the Science Research Institute—though its interior space is only one cubic meter, it was made possible thanks to the help of a space-type adept.”

“But this is still the first item humanity has ever created on its own that once existed only in fantasy.”

“In the future, we’ll surely create more.”

True, the Tian Shu Bureau currently has no attractive resources to offer—but in the future, as the spiritual energy revival progresses and our research into spiritual energy deepens, as we apply adept powers and celestial treasures to scientific study, we will surely create more things once thought to exist only in fantasy.

The space ring is the first.

Spiritual energy elixir doesn’t count—that’s just pure extraction, experimentation, and formulation; its difficulty is nowhere near the same level as the space ring.

“What do you say? Want to join the Tian Shu Bureau?”

“Now we can make space rings; in the future, we’ll surely recreate more fantasy items.”

“Once you join us, whatever you research, you’ll be among the first to possess it.”

Su Mengyao believed in Daxia’s scientific capabilities, and believed that Daxia’s future would produce even more items rivaling celestial treasures.

In the past, with only low-tech spiritual energy elixirs, she hadn’t even had the confidence to persuade Ye Xuan to join the Tian Shu Bureau—but now, though they’d only added one space ring, it gave her far greater hope for the future.

If they could replicate a space ring now, they could replicate more celestial treasures in the future.

“No thanks.”

Ye Xuan declined Su Mengyao’s invitation again, though his gaze at the space ring in her hand was somewhat complex.

Previously, when he’d fished up the space ring, he’d been quite satisfied—it solved his problem of not being able to carry many figurines with him.

But now, seeing the space ring made by the Science Research Institute in Su Mengyao’s hand, he thought he could wait a bit longer before fishing again.

Maybe the system had some kind of “logic”—the more the host desired an item, the higher the chance of fishing it up?

Even though during his fourth fishing attempt he hadn’t strongly desired a space ring, if he’d already had one, his desire to fish for it would’ve dropped to near zero, making it less likely he’d fish up something new.

“I knew you’d refuse.”

Su Mengyao pouted—she’d clearly expected this—and handed Ye Xuan the space ring filled with spiritual energy elixir.

“Here, take it.”

“Though limited by the number of space-type adepts, we can’t mass-produce them—but even so, they’re not rare in the Tian Shu Bureau.”

“Don’t refuse—it’s nowhere near as valuable as the Four Souls Jade fragment you gave us last time.”

It wasn’t even that one was much more valuable—it was that their values couldn’t be compared at all.

Originally, some senior officials in the Tian Shu Bureau had been unhappy about giving Ye Xuan resources, but after she submitted the Four Souls Jade fragment he’d given her, not a single person said a word.

Seeing this, Ye Xuan no longer refused; the instant he took the ring, a simple silver ring on his left index finger glowed faintly, and the new space ring vanished.

“Huh? This ring on your hand—”

Su Mengyao widened her eyes, staring in disbelief at the ring on Ye Xuan’s left hand.

“You already have a space ring? Who gave it to you? Or is it another celestial treasure?”

“Just a space ring.”

Ye Xuan said calmly.

“This isn’t just about a space ring.”

Su Mengyao was nearly frantic—just from those words, she was certain this was a celestial treasure Ye Xuan had obtained from somewhere.

Think about it—he was assigned specifically to her; no one else could have given him a space ring.

No way, dude.

We spent years researching, and you just pulled a storage-ring celestial treasure out of nowhere?

“You’re a reincarnator, aren’t you? You must be a reincarnator!”

“How many celestial treasures is this now?”

“The Wang Quan Hegemony template, the Four Souls Jade fragment, Shaoniu, the space ring.”

“Can you see where celestial treasures are located?!”

No matter how you looked at it, one person obtaining four celestial treasures was absurd—she even suspected Ye Xuan was a reincarnator; otherwise, how could he acquire so many?

Could this guy be the destiny child of this era?

Ye Xuan glanced at Su Mengyao; though her accusation that he was a reincarnator was born of sheer disbelief, he did, in fact, count as one.

He just wasn’t reincarnated from the future after the spiritual energy revival—he was reincarnated from Earth to Lanxing.

“Nothing else. You may leave.”

Ye Xuan had no interest in discussing space rings further—he needed to manifest Xiao Yan to continue pill refining.

“Wait, wait—I have one more question.”

“Didn’t you go to Mount Kunlun before?”

Su Mengyao asked quickly after hearing his words.

“Yes.”

Ye Xuan wasn’t surprised she knew—he hadn’t hidden his face in Mount Kunlun; it wasn’t hard to be recognized and identified.

“How did you do it? Shaoniu’s flight ability?”

“Mount Kunlun is over two thousand to three thousand kilometers straight from Hangcheng—and you come back every day for dinner.”

“Can Shaoniu fly that fast?”

Because the Kunlun Tian Shu Bureau wanted to check Ye Xuan’s records, she confirmed with them and learned he’d gone to the Kunlun Mountains.

But she had no record of him leaving Hangcheng—even Lin Miao sent her daily messages about what dishes she’d cooked for him.

So Ye Xuan could only be commuting daily to Mount Kunlun using Shaoniu or his own sword-flight technique.

But could Shaoniu—or he himself—really fly that fast?

“Shaoniu’s top speed is five times the speed of sound; flying at full power, it takes less than half an hour from Hangcheng to Mount Kunlun.”

“You can think of it that way.”

He hadn’t used Shaoniu—but it was fine if Su Mengyao assumed it was her power.

After all, he wouldn’t reveal the existence of the Rat Talisman—even now, with it, he could ignore nearly all threats in this world.

Others might guess at his future use of celestial treasures, but he wouldn’t volunteer the truth.

No need.

He wasn’t a child who needed to show off like that.

(End of chapter)