CHAPTER 326: CHAPTER 46: GENIUS VS. GENIUS

"Do you have a way to help Yun Luo?" Teng Wu was so excited that he even forgot to show respect, "Miss Yue, if you can save our young lady, Teng Wu is willing to go through fire and water for you."

These two are truly odd, one afraid of a bitter death, worried about becoming a cripple one day, wanting to leave all his inheritance to the other.

The other, willing to risk life and death for the sake of the other.

"Love" indeed causes deep harm to people.

Yue Jinghua curled her lips, feeling fortunate at times for being unemotional.

"Teng Wu, go down. My life is naturally for me to decide," it turned out, Yun Luo was following right behind Teng Wu. Having heard what Yue Jinghua said outside the room, hope was reignited in her once desolate heart.

Yun Luo dismissed Teng Wu and clenched her teeth, glancing at Yue Jinghua, "Do you really have a way to save me? You’re not swindling me? Even my grandfather has no way to save my life."

Wealthy enough to rival nations, Yun Luo’s grandfather, the sole direct heir to Yunhu Commerce, had tried every possible method but failed to find a cure for Yun Luo.

Seeing Yun Luo’s disbelief, Yue Jinghua shrugged her shoulders, "Do you really think your grandfather is omnipotent? Can he stop a beast tide, or can he summon the Beast God?"

"No, he can’t, but those are just minor tricks. To cure my illness, unless one can rebuild my Dantian, but on the continent, there simply isn’t a method to reconstruct a Dantian," argued Yun Luo, unconvinced and at the same time, deeply curious about how young Yue Jinghua possessed so many means. It was precisely because of these means that she wanted to invest all her fortune into Fengdan County.

As a Spiritual Pattern Master, Yun Luo, possessed powerful spiritual power, which made her intuition far stronger than others. If she didn’t trust Yue Jinghua, there wouldn’t be the conversation between them now.

"There are two kinds of cures: symptomatic and fundamental. Your congenital Dantian is incomplete, yet you have chosen to learn spiritual patterns, which consume a lot of spiritual and mental power. If you want to prevent the condition from worsening and stop your body from weakening, you can’t use spiritual patterns. But you refuse to be like waste, achieving nothing within the family. So you hide from your grandfather and Teng Wu, secretly drawing various spiritual patterns, isn’t that right, Miss Yun Luo?" Yue Jinghua fiddled with the Blue Snow Stove, extinguishing the fire inside.

"You, you’ve been spying on me!" Yun Luo was so angry that her pretty face turned pale. Yue Jinghua knew all the things she did in secret.

"I’ve heard that the Yun Family is famous on the Eastern Continent for spiritual patterns, with profound heritage. It is said that just your uncle Yun Lang alone knows more than eight thousand types of spiritual patterns," Yue Jinghua’s eyes whirled round and round, "Proud as you are, you must also be versed in quite a number of spiritual patterns, right?"

"What does that have to do with you? The art of spiritual patterns is vast and profound. There are thousands of Dark Beast Spiritual Woods on the continent, with different kinds of spiritual patterns for each. Talking to someone like you about this is just a waste," Yun Luo’s cheeks turned red, and her demeanor changed as she talked about spiritual patterns, her tone also became kinder.

"What if I told you that I am also a Spiritual Pattern Master, would you believe me?" As soon as Yue Jinghua finished speaking, Yun Luo immediately exclaimed that it was impossible.

On the continent, Spiritual Pattern Masters are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, and most of them come from prestigious families. She had never heard of a Tattoo Master coming from the Blood Cherry Duke Mansion.

"If Miss Yun Luo doesn’t believe it, you might as well lend me your Spirit Pattern Needle. It’s embarrassing to say, but I only learned the Spirit Wood Pattern half a year ago, and I don’t yet have a proper Spirit Pattern Needle," Yue Jinghua unceremoniously asked Yun Luo for her Spirit Pattern Needle.

The Spirit Pattern Needle, although similar in appearance to an ordinary embroidery needle, is by no means made from ordinary metal.

It is crucial to understand that Spirit Pattern Needles can engrave patterns onto any Dark Beast and spirit wood surface, including the Land Crocodile Turtle known for its abnormal defensive abilities. Therefore, the needles must be made from top-notch Dark Beast heart bone, repeatedly tempered with High-Grade Fire, and repeatedly forged with Ice Spring water to take shape.

On the continent, a qualified set of Spirit Pattern Needles must include dozens of different sizes—large, medium, and small—and the cost of one set can reach a million Dark Pills, with most being priceless.

Yue Jinghua had only recently learned the Spirit Wood Pattern and had until now been using ordinary needles she forged herself for her engravings.

Yun Luo hesitated for a moment but still took out her set of Spirit Pattern Needles. This set, named Nine Heavens Waterfall, was custom-made for her by her sixth uncle when she was twelve years old. It includes fifty-eight needles of various sizes, placed within a fine Han Jade Box, resembling a cascading ice waterfall plummeting from the heavens, glittering and resplendent.

Yue Jinghua took one of the needles, "Miss Yun Luo, could you provide a set of Spirit Wood Patterns? I will engrave a full set right here."

Learn and apply on the spot? Yun Luo almost openly mocked Yue Jinghua, thinking she believed Spirit Wood Patterns were child’s play, something that could be learned and applied instantly, or perhaps she wanted to secretly learn her own Spirit Wood Patterns?

Even if you want to learn, you must have the ability to do so.

Yun Luo chuckled to herself, thinking about how she is recognized as the Spiritual Pattern genius of this generation within the Yun Family, who, since the age of three, followed her uncle, piercing her hands countless times with spirit needles, secretly crying many times before mastering her current Spiritual Pattern skills.

A novice who has had less than half a year’s experience with Spiritual Patterns dares to ask for a set in front of her, intending to learn and apply them on the spot.

She has seen the audacious, but never someone as audacious as this; hmph, today she intended to dampen Yue Jinghua’s sharpness.

Having made up her mind, Yun Luo took a clean brush that was set aside. Seeing that there was no ink nearby, she dipped it in the honey used for roasting suckling pigs and began drawing on the desk.

The brush in her hand moved like a swimming dragon, her elbow rapidly shifting, occasionally dotting, hooking, stroking, all without a single pause. In about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, she had completed a Spirit Wood Pattern. Needless to say, this Spirit Wood Pattern was anything but simple.

Knowing that Yue Jinghua was a novice, Yun Luo deliberately drew an extremely complex Spirit Wood Pattern, clearly aiming to trouble her.

Once she understood the other’s intent, the corners of Yue Jinghua’s mouth lifted, and she began to wander around the Spirit Wood Pattern.

The golden honey solidified on the desk, and Yun Luo’s Spirit Wood Pattern was actually the same one she and Ye Zi used when they first encountered the giant-winged mosquito. This pattern was called "Mystic Light Ten Feet Pattern," able to instantly ignite all the Spiritual Power within ten feet of spiritual wood, marking it as a precious Instantaneous Pattern.

In contrast to the Permanent Spiritual Pattern with long-term effects, an Instantaneous Pattern exerts a powerful effect in a short time. It demands intense concentration and a strong spiritual power from the Spiritual Pattern Master, so they can engrave the pattern in a dire emergency. Furthermore, an Instantaneous Pattern has only one chance to be drawn; if any part of the pattern is incorrect, it will explode and be destroyed, rendering all efforts wasted.

After watching Yue Jinghua wander around the table for a while, the mocking look in Yun Luo’s eyes grew denser. Yue Jinghua, oh Yue Jinghua, I really want to see how you’re going to comprehend the "Ten Feet Pattern" with more than 3,000 lines in one go.