Chapter 295

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Chapter 295: A Departure
Lin Wei gently brushed the strands of hair scattered by her ear, “Regarding the ‘Primordial Stone Fragment,’ current discoveries and human understanding of it are still limited.”
“The documents unearthed from ‘Return Ruins’ rarely mention this aspect.”
“Only a stone tablet in ‘The Chronicles of the Primordial Era’ mentioned some content that may be related to your question.”
Luo Yan couldn’t help but feel a bit excited.
Lin Wei softly said, “Yin and Yang diagram, primordial pattern, original symbol, ancient script of change, initial seal.”
Luo Yan couldn’t help but repeat them.
Lin Wei continued, “You were granted the ‘Primordial Stone Fragment’ by Qingyang City, you should know that such a unique stone bears a pattern similar to the Yin and Yang.”
“That should be the so-called ‘Yin and Yang diagram’.”
“If this matches up, then the better the quality of the ‘Primordial Stone Fragment’, the pattern it corresponds to may change.”
“The ‘Yin and Yang diagram’ may change into the ‘primordial pattern’, the ‘primordial pattern’ may change into the ‘original symbol’, and so on.”
“This is my guess, as for whether the ‘Primordial Stone Fragment’ can be upgraded to correspond to a higher level of ‘Divine Hidden Art’, I am not sure.”
“However…”
Lin Wei paused and said, “If you put two ‘Primordial Stone Fragments’ together, they should merge into one.”
Luo Yan couldn’t help but look at the girl and asked, “How can you be sure?”
He had seen two ‘fragments’ merge with his own eyes, but Lin Wei did not seem like someone who had witnessed this phenomenon, hence the question.
Lin Wei’s eyes sparkled, “Almost every piece of information related to the ‘Primordial Stone’ indicates the same thing.”
“The Primordial Stone constantly yearns to return to ‘one’.”
“This ‘one’ is from the ‘Fifty of the Great Dao, Forty-nine of the Tianyan, withdraw one’ in the Book of Changes.”
“It is also the beginning, the very first.”
“It looks like the original Primordial Stone.”
Luo Yan didn’t quite understand, “The original look of the Primordial Stone?”
“What does it look like?”
Lin Wei shook her head, blinked, and said, “There’s a theory that ‘Yanfu’ and ‘Return Ruins’ are the Yin and Yang fish in the ‘Tai Chi diagram’.”
“Please note, it’s just the ‘Tai Chi diagram’, not even the ‘Taisu pattern’.”
“So, the Primordial Stone could be the state before the chaos of the universe.”
“That’s why it could be the ‘departure of one’.”
“And once it’s restored completely, no one can imagine that kind of state.”
Luo Yan furrowed his brow and said seriously, “I guess I’m not cut out for scientific research; I can’t imagine that kind of state at all.”
Lin Wei’s face turned cold, “This is no longer about scientific research.”
Luo Yan also thought it made sense, so he decided to ask Lin Wei about the next stage of ‘Eye of Reality’.
Suddenly, they heard footsteps approaching, and when they looked up, they saw a group of people and horses coming towards them.
They were wearing uniforms with a military style, with big collars, double-breasted buttons, and belts around their waists.
Black clothes, black pants, black military boots.
But the cuffs and shoulder edges had a gold trim, with gold cufflinks showing dragon claw patterns.
“Lin Wei, my classmate.”
The leader of the group reached out a hand towards Lin Wei.
Luo Yan raised his eyebrows, reached out and grabbed the person’s wrist.
The man looked at Luo Yan, suddenly burst of energy pushed Luo Yan’s hand away.
Luo Yan’s eyes widened slightly, feeling a sharp pain in his hand.
Silver crosses appeared in his eyes, Elemental Power roaring inside him.
Just then, Lin Wei said, “It’s okay, Classmate Luo, they are not bad people.”
Luo Yan glanced at Lin Wei’s calm face and took two steps back.
He carefully examined the man who had just pushed his wrist away.
This man was definitely skilled.
Upon closer inspection, he noticed the man was tall and thin, especially in the cheeks, with little flesh.
But his eyes were bright, like fiery flames.
“This is Shen Feng, Uncle Shen.”
Lin Wei confidently introduced, “Uncle Shen is my teacher’s security supervisor.”
At this moment, when Lin Wei referred to ‘teacher,’ she wasn’t talking about the instructors at Battle Academy, but rather Dr. Jia Miao who guided her research on the Return Ruins inscriptions.
“Uncle Shen, has the teacher arrived in Guangling?”
Shen Feng nodded, “Dr. Jia Miao wants you to help.”
“Okay.” Lin Wei glanced at Luo Yan, “Classmate Luo, let’s chat next time.”
Then she walked along with Shen Feng.
Watching them leave, Luo Yan recalled encountering the ‘Tiangang Dragon Cavalry’ convoy when entering the city yesterday, it seemed that Dr. Jia Miao must have been with that convoy at that time.
The ‘Tiangang Dragon Cavalry’ must have come to Guangling to protect this doctor, and the fact that they needed this cavalry to protect Dr. Jia Miao indicated she was quite important.
Who could this important person be?
But why would such a big shot come to Guangling? It couldn’t be to visit his own student.
Luo Yan squinted slightly, then looked towards the nearby bookshelf, “How long do you plan to hide?”
There was a bang behind the bookshelf, followed by a soft exhale, and then Zeng Shan chuckled as he walked out, “Old Luo, your ears are really sharp, you heard all of that.”
Following him was Li Bohang, holding a book in one hand and pushing his glasses with the other, “I just came here to read, it was a coincidence bumping into them.”
Lastly, Bai Chou, wearing a bunny hat, nervously stared at her toes and tugged at the bunny ears on her hat.
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Nighttime.
Luo Yan wore a cape and carried the ‘Ring Dragon’, with the ‘Skeleton Removal’ hanging on his waist, as he walked into the alley.
Looking up, the once ‘Music Store’ had turned into a bar.
The words ‘Red House’ were illuminated by a circle of lanterns, shimmering with a mesmerizing glow in the alley.
There was a sign outside the bar, twistedly displaying ‘New Store Opening, 50% off Drinks’.
Luo Yan opened the door and entered, hearing a weak voice say “Welcome” followed by an “Oh, the captain is here?”
It was indeed Wei Junyi.
With one arm, he was dressed as a guard, appearing somewhat rushed with the customers.
However, Luo Yan didn’t expect to make money from this bar, using it only as a cover, so he didn’t pay much attention.
Bob nodded and then saw fake priest Wen Zou at the bar.
Wen Zou still had a priest’s hairstyle, but was wearing bartender’s clothes, looking mismatched.
“Bring Guan Peng over here,” Luo Yan sat on a high chair next to the bar.
Wen Zou nodded, waved to a team member, gave a few instructions, and sent him to Xi Jiu Hutong to find someone.
Then he smiled at Luo Yan and said, “Captain, how do you like our setup?”
Luo Yan quickly glanced around and nodded slightly.
Wen Zou lowered his voice and said, “A few nights ago, the Flower Gang people came again, but Jun Yi managed to send them back.”
“Yes, of course, turned them into corpses.”
As they were talking, the door of the bar was suddenly kicked open by someone.
With a loud bang, everyone except Luo Yan turned to look at the door.
Suddenly, men in floral shirts started entering the room from outside. They looked around, kicked over tables and chairs, and demanded to know who the boss was.