Chapter 767 - 460: An Abrupt Change, the Accelerating Collapse of the Seal

Chapter 767: Chapter 460: An Abrupt Change, the Accelerating Collapse of the Seal

BOOM.

A loud explosion echoed from the distance, causing the ground to tremble slightly. The sudden noise startled Su Yue.

Wu Xiaoxuan, who was chatting idly with Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi, turned to Su Yue, who had jumped at the sudden explosion.

"It’s nothing. They’re conducting explosion experiments over there. You might not be used to it at first, but after hearing it a few more times, you’ll get used to it."

"Okay." Su Yue nodded. Just then, as Wu Xiaoxuan had said, another loud explosion rang out, this one even more powerful than before.

The glass windows of the surrounding buildings rattled violently from the blast. If they had been ordinary windowpanes, they would have long since shattered.

But the windows at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute were clearly specially made. They were incredibly sturdy and wouldn’t shatter from the violent shaking.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM...

Amidst a continuous series of explosions, the group of four entered a three-story building.

Su Yue was surprised to find that as soon as they entered the building, the loud explosions from outside vanished instantly.

’Logically, that shouldn’t be possible.’ Although she didn’t know how it worked, it wasn’t too surprising for something that defied common sense to occur at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute.

If Su Yue had been a Tier Two Cultivator and had activated her Spiritual Perception, she would have discovered that the two one-meter-tall, seemingly unremarkable stone lions at the building’s entrance were emitting Spiritual Energy Waves.

The violent shockwaves from the distant explosions were dispelled by the Spiritual Energy Waves from the stone lions as soon as they got close. This was why the explosions couldn’t be heard inside the building.

DING.

Wu Xiaoxuan led Su Chen’s family of three to the entrance of her lab. After verifying her identity, the electronic door slid open automatically.

The lab was over two hundred square meters, quite spacious, and filled with all sorts of instruments.

Anyone with a bit of knowledge in the field would gasp in amazement at a single glance, marveling at the lab’s luxurious array of equipment.

After all, many of the instruments in this lab were so rare they couldn’t be bought, no matter how much money one was willing to spend.

After returning to the lab, Wu Xiaoxuan asked Su Chen’s family to wait a moment while she began calibrating some instruments in preparation for Su Yue’s examination.

"Xiaoyue, come lie down here." Having finished calibrating the instruments, Wu Xiaoxuan turned and called out to Su Yue, who was admiring an exquisitely crafted stone sculpture.

Hearing this, Su Yue immediately walked over to Wu Xiaoxuan and lay down on the white-sheet-covered bed, which was in reality an examination table.

Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi came to stand behind Wu Xiaoxuan, ready to watch how she would treat their daughter.

"Relax, there’s no need to be nervous. It’ll all be over when you wake up," Wu Xiaoxuan said with a chuckle, noticing that Su Yue seemed a little tense on the examination table.

"Okay." Su Yue nodded and took a deep breath. Her ample chest rose and fell a few times, and then her whole body relaxed.

Seeing how quickly Su Yue adjusted her state of mind, Wu Xiaoxuan gave a slight nod. Then, from the mobile tool rack beside her, she picked up a thirty-centimeter-long, jet-black wooden stick that had a metallic sheen.

"Watch the little wooden stick in my hand," Wu Xiaoxuan said to Su Yue on the table.

Su Yue did as she was told, her eyes fixed on the metallic-looking wooden stick in Wu Xiaoxuan’s hand.

A faint golden light bloomed at the tip of the stick. As Su Yue stared at it, a wave of drowsiness washed over her, and her eyelids grew heavier and heavier.

Wu Xiaoxuan used a hypnosis prop to put Su Yue to sleep. She then casually placed the prop back on the tool rack and began using other detection instruments to examine the sleeping Su Yue’s body.

One after another, detection instruments glowing with faint golden Spiritual Light were used on Su Yue’s body. Standing behind Wu Xiaoxuan, Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi watched their sleeping daughter on the examination table without blinking.

After more than half an hour, Wu Xiaoxuan, who had been full of confidence at the start, now wore a look of utter confusion.

"What is it? Is there a problem?" Zheng Qiuyi asked nervously when she saw the confused expression on Wu Xiaoxuan’s face.

"I’ve tried every diagnostic method I have, but I haven’t found any serious problems with Xiaoyue..." Wu Xiaoxuan said with a frown.

Su Chen said, "You mean you can’t find the reason why the seal on Xiaoyue started to loosen prematurely?"

"Based on the current test results, yes..." Wu Xiaoxuan said.

"Uh..." Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi looked at each other in dismay. Although they were disappointed that Wu Xiaoxuan couldn’t find the cause, they didn’t blame her for it.

"I’m so sorry," Wu Xiaoxuan said to Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi, looking apologetic. After all, she had been so confident earlier, only for things to turn out like this.

"It’s okay. Not finding the cause isn’t a big deal. Just reinforcing the loosened seal will be fine," Su Chen said to his old friend.

"That’s right! Don’t take it to heart just because you couldn’t find the reason.

As long as you can reinforce the seal so Xiaoyue’s life isn’t in danger, that’s all that matters," Zheng Qiuyi added.

Wu Xiaoxuan nodded, then began to use her Superpower on the sleeping Su Yue to reinforce the loosened seal on her body.

Su Chen and Zheng Qiuyi watched as Wu Xiaoxuan extended her hands. A faint golden Spiritual Light bloomed in her palms, quickly enveloping both of her slender hands.

The Spiritual Energy gathered in her hands swiftly transformed into countless golden threads. These threads methodically interwove in mid-air, rapidly forming a hollow, soccer-ball-sized golden sphere.

"Seal!!!"

With a low cry, Wu Xiaoxuan thrust the hollow sphere woven from golden threads, which was floating in mid-air, toward the Dantian of the sleeping Su Yue.

WHOOSH.

The hollow golden sphere rapidly shrank as it flew toward Su Yue’s Dantian. Just as it became the size of a fist and was about to enter her Dantian, something unexpected happened.

An Invisible Force Field suddenly emanated from Su Yue’s body, enveloping her and preventing the hollow golden sphere from getting any closer.

"Huh?!!!"

Wu Xiaoxuan let out a cry of shock and disbelief as she saw her Superpower being blocked.

Then, she noticed a dazzling golden light erupting from Su Yue’s Dantian. The already loosening seal began to collapse at an accelerated rate.

The ambient Spiritual Energy in the air was drawn in by an immense suction force, rapidly surging toward Su Yue’s Dantian, which was now glowing with a dazzling golden light.

The Dantian of a Cultivator has a limit to how much Spiritual Energy it can hold, depending on their cultivation level. Once that limit is reached, it can’t absorb any more.

Su Yue’s Dantian already contained a vast amount of Spiritual Energy, yet despite being in a state of abundance, it was now continuously absorbing the ambient Spiritual Energy from the air like a bottomless pit.

As her Dantian absorbed more and more of the ambient Spiritual Energy, the seal on it drew closer to complete collapse. At the same time, the power of the Invisible Force Field emanating from her body grew stronger and stronger.

Although Zheng Qiuyi was an ordinary person, she was intelligent enough to realize from the changes in her daughter that something had gone wrong. She turned to her husband, her face etched with worry.

"Do you need my help?" Su Chen gave his wife a reassuring look before speaking to Wu Xiaoxuan.

"No need. I can handle it," Wu Xiaoxuan refused.

’This is my lab. If I can’t even handle a situation like this and need Su Chen’s help, I’ll be a complete disgrace as the Vice-President of the Capital Spiritual Energy Research Institute.’

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