The Three Realms Thief Chapter 53

6:30 AM.

Xu Yuan gradually stopped punching and lay back down on the sofa.

Another line of faint glowing small characters appeared motionless:

“The inheritance has been fully unfurled.”

“Congratulations.”

“You have obtained the fundamental source method of the upper tier of Sword Control, Ancient Chronicle True Text, Dual Spirit Sword Control Secret Transmission: ‘Night Rain’ (Incomplete Manuscript).”

“Description: Use this sword art to condense one or two spiritual power attribute thought threads, control one or two weapons from a distance, or even three, four, five, up to ten, and execute any sword form.”

“—A small building hears spring rain for a night.”

Xu Yuan was completely unaware.

He lay on the bed, motionless, but his eyelids twitched slightly and rapidly.

He looked like he was dreaming.

Until the alarm clock rang.

“Ah!”

Xu Yuan suddenly cried out, jumped up from the sofa, then froze.

He had just had a long dream.

In the dream, countless swords flew back and forth, and he could only watch them, yet he didn’t know how to grasp one.

He was extremely envious, desperately thinking about how to control these swords.

Then countless techniques and essentials came to mind.

Then he woke up!

“…So it was a dream. Am I a genius, able to comprehend these things even in my sleep?”

Xu Yuan muttered to himself.

He subconsciously glanced into the void.

All the hints from last night remained motionless in the void until he had read them, then they slowly dissipated.

Xu Yuan internally cursed himself for being ashamed.

It turned out that he hadn’t just come up with thousands of sword techniques all at once.

Instead, he was receiving an inheritance!

He had received this extremely terrifying inheritance in his sleep!

Sigh.

This was so embarrassing.

Such a powerful sword art—

He must owe the little boy a favor!

Xu Yuan thought silently, got up, washed his face, brushed his teeth, then changed his clothes, put on his backpack, and new shoes.

He glanced at the table and saw a pen that hadn’t been put away yet.

“Rise.”

Xu Yuan formed a sword art.

A spiritual light thread extended from his finger, landed on the pen, gently picked it up, and put it into his backpack.

—This was the fundamental method of Night Rain, the “Spirit-Thought Thread.”

It was used to control flying swords.

It could also control other things.

Although with his spiritual power, he could condense one such thought thread on each of his ten fingers, it could only last for a very short time—

His spiritual energy was completely exhausted in just a few breaths.

Xu Yuan sighed.

The power and performance of this cultivation technique were still too extreme.

It seemed he would have to buy the little boy a drink when they met during the next monthly exam.

Xu Yuan thought as he closed the door and left the apartment building.

About ten minutes later.

He arrived at the hospital with breakfast.

“Mom, eat breakfast.”

He helped his mother set up the bedside table, then placed steamed buns, porridge, and eggs on it.

“Have a steamed bun first.”

He picked up a bun and fed it to Zhao Shulan.

“Did you go for the unit selection last night?” Zhao Shulan asked.

“Yes, I was afraid you were asleep, so I didn’t tell you. I passed the selection and got 9500 yuan,” Xu Yuan said.

“Don’t spend it recklessly, save it,” Zhao Shulan said happily.

“Don’t worry, do I look like someone who spends money carelessly?” Xu Yuan fed her a spoonful of porridge.

“No, my son is very well-behaved—but you don’t have to be too frugal, use it when you need to,” Zhao Shulan said.

“You’ve said it all,” Xu Yuan said.

A timid female voice came from beside them:

“Um—excuse me—”

Xu Yuan turned to look.

It was the girl in the patient gown from yesterday.

“I’m really sorry, I can’t walk. Could you please help me get something to eat downstairs?”

By the bedside.

There was a wheelchair.

—How could a girl in this situation not have anyone to bring her food?

Xu Yuan immediately asked:

“No problem, what would you like to eat?”

“Anything is fine, as long as it’s light. Thank you,” the girl said.

Zhao Shulan whispered, “You go. This girl is here alone, so lonely, it’s quite pathetic.”

Xu Yuan stood up, smiled at the girl, and said:

“I’ll be right back with it.”

He gave Zhao Shulan a straw, put it into her porridge, and then left the ward.

There was a hospital cafeteria on the first floor of the ward area.

“Something light…”

Xu Yuan murmured, choosing steamed buns, clear noodle soup, and eggs.

This should be about right.

He returned to the ward with the food.

—Just like he served his mother, he helped the girl set up her tray and placed the food on it.

“Can you eat by yourself?”

He asked softly.

“No problem, thank you,” the girl said in a low voice, lowering her head.

The girl hadn’t put on makeup or dressed up, her skin was pale, and she was wearing a patient gown, leaning diagonally against the raised bed board. She was beautiful, but she looked sickly.

He didn’t know what illness she had.

Xu Yuan felt some sympathy.

In this era, curing various diseases was generally not difficult.

Those that couldn’t be cured were either truly rare and difficult cases, like his mother Zhao Shulan.

Or they simply didn’t have money.

In fact, his family had two working parents, and their income was decent, but to maintain Zhao Shulan’s condition, the family’s money was basically spent.

What was the girl’s situation?

Xu Yuan helped her set up her food, then returned to Zhao Shulan’s side to feed her.

Soon after.

Zhao Shulan finished her meal and rested on the bed.

Xu Yuan greeted the girl and was about to leave.

But the girl called out to him, insisting on exchanging contact information to give him the money for breakfast.

This was a normal request.

So Xu Yuan added her as a friend.

The money was quickly transferred.

“If you need help, you can call me,” Xu Yuan said.

“Okay, thank you,” the girl said.

Xu Yuan nodded to her and turned to leave.

After he left.

“Your son is really good to you.”

The girl said with a smile.

Zhao Shulan seemed to have gotten familiar with the girl and replied:

“I always say, my son is of good character. I don’t need him to achieve great things, as long as he can support himself.”

“If it weren’t for this illness, our family would be just fine this way.”

“Auntie will get better,” the girl said.

“I hope so too,” Zhao Shulan sighed.

The door to the ward opened again.

A nurse pushed a wheelchair to take Zhao Shulan for treatment.

“Yiyi, I’ll be back in a bit. If you need anything, remember to press the bell, the nurses are all here.”

Zhao Shulan instructed the girl.

“Okay, Auntie,” the girl smiled.

The door closed.

Only the girl was left in the room.

She looked down at the breakfast on the tray, then suddenly, her figure flickered, and she jumped off the bed, placing an array disk in mid-air.

A miniature teleportation array!

As the spiritual light of the array lit up, the girl seemed to remember something, collected the breakfast from the tray, and then hastily disappeared into the spiritual light.

She was gone.

School.

Xu Yuan almost arrived just in time to walk into the classroom.

The next second.

The bell rang.

The homeroom teacher, Liu Mingdao, entered the classroom right after, carrying the monthly exam papers, urging:

“Xu Yuan, quickly take your seat—everyone get ready.”

Xu Yuan hurried to the back row and sat down.

Even the sleepyhead student wasn’t sleeping today.

Everyone waited for the papers to be distributed, then wrote their names and classes, and immediately started looking at the questions.

Gasps filled the air.

Liu Mingdao immediately sensed the plummeting morale and loudly said:

“This paper is indeed difficult.”

“But if you find it difficult, others will too.”

“Remember my words, stay calm and collected, be meticulous, and check your work when you’re done.”

“Alright, begin.”

He then pulled out a sealed box.

On the box were four large characters: “Monthly Exam Only.” When opened, inside was an array disk.

Liu Mingdao tapped the array disk several times, activating the magic array.

A wave of spiritual power slowly spread through the classroom.

Instantly.

Xu Yuan saw his classmates transform into animals of various shapes.

His deskmate, Sleepyhead Fan Yan, turned into a rabbit.

The test paper on his desk transformed into a carrot.

Zhao Afei, in the front row, became a flamingo.

This bird-man’s hands had even turned into wings, making it impossible to exchange secret signals with others.

—A large-scale exam specialized illusion array.

It prevented cheating methods such as copying papers, whispering, and exchanging signals.

Everyone saw themselves as human, but when they looked at others—

Everyone else was an animal.

Liu Mingdao tapped the blackboard a few times, activated the surveillance array, and then left the classroom gracefully.

A room full of little animals began to concentrate on the questions.

Xu Yuan was also looking at the paper.

It was no wonder everyone reacted that way just now.

This monthly exam was truly difficult.

Some questions even combined knowledge points from multiple subjects.

He picked up his pen, finished the first fill-in-the-blank question, and immediately moved on to the second.

Everyone was racing against time to complete the paper.

About half an hour later.

Xu Yuan suddenly looked up and gazed out of the classroom.

It wasn’t just him.

All the animals in the room looked outside.

Once they looked, they couldn’t take their eyes off it.

It was then that Xu Yuan realized the illusion array only covered the inside of the classroom, but outside the window, everything was normal.

Two female students—

Jiang Xueyao and Yang Xiaobing walked quickly past the window together.

Jiang Xueyao wore a black hoodie, jeans, and carried a crimson long sword on her back.

She was cold and dashing.

Yang Xiaobing was still in her blue and white school uniform, with her hair tied in a ponytail, looking fresh and lively.

These were simply the two most beautiful female students of this year’s batch in the entire Jiangnan Province.

Everyone thought to themselves.

The two girls walked, glancing into the classroom, precisely making eye contact with Xu Yuan, then quickly passed through the corridor and left.

Xu Yuan was stunned.

You two—

You finished the exam in half an hour?

Jiang Xueyao’s eyes held a slight smile, as if to say—

Not finished yet? Too weak.

Yang Xiaobing, on the other hand, made a small fist and playfully stuck out her tongue at him.

Good luck.

She didn’t need to say it; her expression conveyed the message.

The two girls only made eye contact with him for a moment before quickly passing through the corridor and leaving.

They had finished their exam!

A commotion broke out in the classroom.

The male animals were particularly agitated.

After a long while.

The stir caused by the two girls finally subsided.

Xu Yuan’s train of thought was interrupted, so he simply put down his pen and began to ponder silently.

According to his past memories.

Yang Xiaobing’s scores were always good on every monthly exam.

Thus, she likely didn’t just casually finish and hand in her paper.

Why was she so fast?

Xu Yuan thought for a while and suddenly understood.

In fact, when he first reached the first level of Qi Refining, he felt energetic, his memory had improved significantly, and his body’s reactions, agility, and strength had improved remarkably.

The second level of Qi Refining was even stronger.

Now he could almost remember anything he saw.

So—

What about the third level of Qi Refining?

Each level was stronger than the last!

Cultivators at the peak of Foundation Establishment could even fly—

Just like the superheroes in Earth movies.

For high-level cultivators, memorizing knowledge points and contemplating theoretical problems must be as easy as playing.

It seemed he needed to quickly advance to the third level of Qi Refining!