Xi Muzheng was merely curious and had no ulterior motives. After listening, he nodded slightly. "It seems I should send more students to the mortal realm where you are, to serve as intern teachers."
Zhu Yanyi tilted her head, looking at Xi Muzheng. "It is good to learn while gaining experience."
Some things should not be kept in one place. If everything is gathered together, people will not cherish it. Zhu Yanyi’s approach was actually better for the Sage Academy.
Xi Muzheng smiled because he understood this point well.
After finishing the serious matters, Zhu Yanyi talked about burning that bag. "The bag was originally gray-white and looked very ordinary. When Binglan burned it, it first turned bright red. Then, a skull appeared on it. I felt the skull seemed alive, but it was burned in the end."
"Are you sure it looked like a skull, and that the skull felt alive?" Xi Muzheng’s tone became noticeably heavy.
Zhu Yanyi nodded slightly. "Yes, it was a skull. I would not mistake that."
Xi Muzheng hummed, then said, "Hearing you say this, if my guess is correct, this should be the mark of the Dark Clan. It seems the Dark Clan has appeared again."
"Hasn't the Dark Clan always been there?" Zhu Yanyi looked at Xi Muzheng in surprise.
Xi Muzheng looked at Zhu Yanyi and said, "The Dark Clan has indeed always existed. However, the Dark Clan you know is different from what we know. Our knowledge of the Dark Clan is broader. Besides dark beastmen, dark elves, and dark undead, there are humans in the darkness. These people are called Shadows."
"Your meaning is that Paipai Hall is likely connected to the Shadows?" Zhu Yanyi immediately understood Xi Muzheng’s meaning.
Xi Muzheng nodded. "Even if it is not related to the Shadows, it is related to other groups of the Dark Clan. Regardless, the Dark Clan has come, and this world will become chaotic again."
"Paipai Hall has existed for so many years. If I did not discover it, did you not notice?" Zhu Yanyi did not know whether to sigh at their carelessness or say something else.
Anyway, Zhu Yanyi felt that the people here were truly very careless.
Xi Muzheng sighed helplessly. "Who could have thought Paipai Hall had such origins? But it is good that we discovered it now. I will have some old masters keep an eye on them."
Speaking of this, Xi Muzheng tilted her head and looked at Zhu Yanyi, as if planning something.
Zhu Yanyi’s heart skipped a beat. "Dean, do not look at me like that. It gives me goosebumps. You do not have some strange idea again, do you?"
Xi Muzheng smiled at Zhu Yanyi. "I was just wondering if I should let you go undercover."
"Can someone like me go undercover?" Zhu Yanyi pointed at herself. "You can ask me to kill people, but forget about going undercover."
Zhu Yanyi waved her hand. She knew herself too well. She was not the type to act. So, asking her to go undercover was truly impossible.
Xi Muzheng thought about it and realized it was indeed so. He gave up his idea. "Just pretend I did not mention it. I was just speaking casually."
Zhu Yanyi hummed, not minding. "Rest assured, I will not take your words to heart."
She looked at Xi Muzheng for a while longer, then said, "Dean, sometimes one should let go. Only when darkness comes can there be light."
Only when darkness comes can there be light. Xi Muzheng’s eyes lit up. That was right. How had she not thought of this? Due to this sudden realization, spiritual energy flowed directly into her limbs. She said to Zhu Yanyi, "I am about to break through. I will go break through now." With that, she left directly.
Zhu Yanyi was stunned. Could she break through just from one sentence?
Zhu Yanyi did not care about these things anymore. Well, breaking through was better than not breaking through.
Zhu Yanyi returned to her residence. Xiao Yun was hanging on the fence, waving when she saw Zhu Yanyi. "Sister, where did you go? I could not find you?"
Zhu Yanyi said, "I went to talk to the Dean about some things. What is wrong? Did you finish the snacks?"
"Yes." Xiao Yun looked a bit shy. "Sister’s snacks tasted very good, so I ate them all in one go."
Zhu Yanyi was slightly surprised but had no other thoughts. Since Xiao Yun liked them, she could eat them. Zhu Yanyi still had many snacks she made. So, Zhu Yanyi took out another pile of snacks and gave them to Xiao Yun.
With snacks in hand, Xiao Yun ignored Zhu Yanyi and left directly.
Zhu Yanyi thought she had nothing else to do, so she entered the Ruyi Space and began practicing alchemy.
Time in the space was longer, so Zhu Yanyi practiced new skills inside. Others only thought Zhu Yanyi had good talent, but they did not know Zhu Yanyi’s effort was many times greater than others.
One night in the real world was equivalent to half a month in the space. After half a month of effort, Zhu Yanyi could already refine fifth-grade pills into top-grade quality.
She sighed in relief. Zhu Yanyi knew that with her current ability, breaking through to sixth grade would still require time to settle. After all, she had not been in contact with alchemy for long. In fact, alchemy was simply a matter of practice making perfect. It was like others playing games, killing monsters to gain experience. With enough experience, one naturally levels up. The basics of alchemy were the same.
Zhu Yanyi knew there were no shortcuts in medicine, and she did not disdain to take shortcuts. So, she could only keep working hard.
Of course, if she encountered a bottleneck, Zhu Yanyi would not deliberately stall. Instead, she would work hard on other things to distract her mind. Only when her mood was relaxed could she achieve a better breakthrough.
Zhu Yanyi’s time passed very fully. Ten days later, a thick aura of spiritual energy rose above the academy, followed by a loud, cheerful laugh. Zhu Yanyi knew Xi Muzheng had broken through.
Xi Muzheng was originally at the Void Transformation stage. Now, he had entered the Moving Void stage.
Zhu Yanyi had to admit that Xi Muzheng’s breakthrough brought a new wave of excitement to the Sage Academy.
Entering the Moving Void, the next stage was Great Vehicle, and then tribulation crossing and ascension.
In these current planes, there were not many people with such cultivation.
Zhu Yanyi did not know what the true cultivation plane was like. The secret realm they were in now could be considered a separate plane. Here, not many people could reach the Nascent Soul stage.
People like Xi Muzheng, who were originally Void Transformation experts, were even rarer. Now that he had entered the Moving Void, regardless of anything else, the Sage Academy, after being silent for hundreds of years, seemed to have reappeared before the public.