I Can Extract Divine Power

The Vice Dean continued to rub the cane in his hands. After nearly the time it took for an incense stick to burn, he placed the cane flat on the table before him. "This is something Xinhua Academy can do," he said.

Abbot Xuanzhen’s final words had completely jolted him to his senses.

If they didn’t eliminate Shen Bai completely, then after the Wild Taoist Sect and the Wild Buddha Sect were destroyed, Xinhua Academy would become the third target.

There was no way their faction could withstand it on their own.

As for the local factions, that went without saying.

They would be overjoyed to see these Demonic Forces all wiped out.

After all, Nanxing Prefecture was only so big. With fewer people, there was more for everyone else.

Seeing the Vice Dean agree, Abbot Xuanzhen breathed a sigh of relief. "Very well. Then we’ll wait for five days."

"The summoning time is much shorter this time, and it doesn’t require resentful energy. Vice Dean, we need you to gather all of Xinhua Academy’s elite. If the Mysterious City fails to eliminate Shen Bai, we will join forces inside the city to kill him ourselves."

"If it does manage to eliminate Shen Bai, then the Mysterious City will instead provide a wealth of opportunities for Xinhua Academy and both our factions."

The Vice Dean nodded. "Don’t worry, I’ll see to it."

Their discussion concluded, they said no more and resumed the process of summoning the Mysterious City to descend upon Nanxing Prefecture.

...

Time flowed on, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Over these three days, Shen Bai had settled into a regular routine.

Ever since returning from the Mysterious City and going out for a meal, he hadn’t left again.

He stayed in his room every day.

And Fang Tong still brought him his three meals—breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

During these three days, Shen Bai had been relentlessly grinding his Skill Levels.

Now that he had ground Divine Thousand Miles to Level 6, he had shifted his main focus to the Mixed Element Array-Breaking Technique.

After converting a few Deceitful Objects, the Mixed Element Array-Breaking Technique had also accumulated 10,000 Skill Level points, bringing it very close to Level 6.

After these few days, Shen Bai was just a tiny bit away from being able to raise it to Level 6, but he held back.

Inside the five-story building, Shen Bai looked at Amber beside him and spoke.

"Go on in."

Amber nodded obediently, transforming into a stream of light that entered Shen Bai’s body and disappeared.

Only after Amber had disappeared inside him did Shen Bai take out the round bead.

At this moment, the round bead was emitting a flickering glow, a vast improvement from its dull, lifeless state three days ago.

Its energy was fully charged, which meant Shen Bai could enter the Mysterious City again.

He could hardly wait. After all, he had obtained ten wisps of Evil Qi from just one trip. He wondered how much he could get this second time.

Soon, he would be able to upgrade his other Divine Powers one by one. He didn’t know how much Evil Qi future qualitative transformations would cost, so saving up more now would be crucial later on.

After all, with provisions on hand, there’s no need to panic.

At this thought, once Amber had completely vanished, Shen Bai willed it and began to circulate the Qi within his body.

The Qi flowed continuously from his fingers, seeping into the round bead and activating the coordinates to the Mysterious City.

The next moment, a familiar scene unfolded.

His surroundings began to blur.

When everything came back into focus, Shen Bai was no longer in the five-story building at the Observatory, but had appeared in the familiar Mysterious City.

He was still on that same ruined street; wherever he left from was where he would return.

It was as if no time had passed; everything was exactly as he had left it.

Shen Bai glanced around and thought to himself, ’Where should I explore next?’

This was the Mysterious City. Everything was unfamiliar, and Shen Bai didn’t know which path to take.

But he only pondered this for a moment before an answer came to him: just pick a random direction.

’The Mysterious City may be large, but I can explore all of it eventually. If I just pick a direction and walk, I’m bound to find the next street.’

Shen Bai wasn’t in a hurry.

With this in mind, he lifted his foot, picked a random direction, and prepared to leave.

But before he could even take a step, he noticed something new on a pile of rubble not far away.

It was a scrap of red paper, as if torn from a larger sheet, lying crumpled beside the ruins.

If not for its extremely eye-catching red color, Shen Bai would never have noticed it.

The reason he noticed it—aside from its color—was that looking at the wad of red paper reminded him of the woman in Red Attire he had encountered at the city gates not long ago.

That woman had been made of paper, yet she seemed alive. If one didn’t look closely, it was impossible to tell. She was even more beautiful and elegant than a living person.

Back then, when Shen Bai saw the Hongyi woman, he was suddenly reminded of some amusing memes from his past life.

Things like 2D waifus and paper waifus.

He thought that if the Hongyi woman were in his old world, she would surely be adored by thousands.

As he thought this, Shen Bai walked over to the crumpled red paper without any hesitation.

The red paper revealed no aura whatsoever.

Enveloped in the white light of his Flawless Ten-layered Body, Shen Bai picked up the crumpled paper, unfolded it, and examined it for a moment.

Overall, it looked no different from ordinary red paper. After a careful look, he found nothing unusual about it.

’Nothing’s out of the ordinary. Looks like it’s really just a piece of red paper,’ Shen Bai thought.