The weakest martial artist? One punch and he's leveled up a whole realm!

"What's up?" Old Man Hei glanced at the two of them. "You two have some good news to report to me?"

"I'm making this clear beforehand! I won't be attending unless it's the wedding day!"

What outrageous words!

This left Ye Xiao and Su Muyun both feeling awkwardly stuck in place.

Ye Xiao glanced at Su Muyun beside him.

Her pretty face was already as red as an autumn apple, exuding an enticing fragrance, making it impossible not to take a bite.

Fortunately, Ye Xiao swallowed hard and managed to hold back, quickly averting his gaze.

I have to say, seeing Su Muyun up close like this, I really felt that she was too beautiful.

If he got any closer, Ye Xiao felt he might need to find a place to sit.

"Cough cough cough!" Ye Xiao quickly coughed a few times to change the subject, "Uncle Hei, we have important business to discuss with you!"

Upon hearing Ye Xiao's words, Old Man Hei immediately bristled and glared.

"What! You think I'm old and indecent?"

Ye Xiao shook his head helplessly.

"No, Grandpa Hei! We've come to ask you if there's a way to extract the spiritual energy from within our bodies?"

Upon hearing this, the old man with the sly expression disappeared.

He suddenly seemed like a completely different person, becoming more serious and earnest than ever before.

"What...are you going to do?"

Grandpa Hei stared at Ye Xiao as he asked the question, but his eyes were glancing at Su Muyun out of the corner of his eye.

Ye Xiao said, "Is it possible that people can only cultivate spiritual energy, but have no way to expel the spiritual energy from their bodies?"

At this point, Old Man Hei had already guessed what was going on.

He thought to himself, "There's a high chance this kid got access to forbidden knowledge from Old Qian!"

"Old Qian is really something, is he in such a hurry? Why is he exposing these two teenagers to forbidden knowledge so early?"

Grandpa Hei looked up at the sky and sighed inwardly, "Time is indeed running out, and I can understand Old Qian's anxiety."

"He is a martial artist, and the most promising martial artist so far. Perhaps we really have no choice but to place our bets on him."

Grandpa Hei was thinking about many things.

Finally, he put an end to all his thoughts.

Then he looked at Ye Xiao and said.

"There is no problem with the spiritual energy absorbed during normal cultivation."

no problem?

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiao and Su Muyun stared at Old Man Hei, their faces filled with surprise.

The old man naturally glanced around.

After finding no one else was around, she continued speaking.

"At least, the spiritual energy she absorbs during her cultivation is pure and clean, not demonic energy."

Ye Xiao couldn't hold back any longer and said, "But..."

Old Man Hei rudely interrupted Ye Xiao.

"There aren't that many 'buts'!"

"I said that the spiritual energy absorbed during normal cultivation is spiritual energy, not demonic energy."

"There's nothing wrong with what you're saying, and you don't need to argue with it."

"And I know what you're trying to say, you don't need to say it out loud."

Ye Xiao and Su Muyun both fell silent.

The old man looked at the silent young couple.

He wondered if his attitude had been too harsh.

As a result, the old man's attitude softened considerably, and he spoke much more gently.

"In the beginning, spiritual energy and demonic energy were indeed the same power, originating from the abyss."

"But later, the power of the abyss was also divided into pure and impure."

"These two forces were not originally compatible. They were forcibly fused together by the Abyss. After the Abyss collapsed, the two forces naturally separated."

"Pure power becomes spiritual energy, while impure power becomes demonic energy."

"Cultivating spiritual energy is a gradual and relatively slow process, but it is safe and reliable."

"While demonic energy cultivation progresses rapidly, its power becomes erratic and extremely strong, but it is also mixed with various negative effects and may even cause mutations."

The old man patiently explained the difference between spiritual energy and demonic energy to the two of them.

He said, "If you just read the book on the origins of Reiki, you will understand this knowledge."

"In the end, you still only have a superficial understanding of Taiyi."

"Trying to understand the entire complex world from just a few books is not that simple!"

Grandpa Hei's words struck Ye Xiao and Su Muyun like a thunderbolt.

However, at the same time, it also calmed down Su Muyun's anxious and worried heart.

The old man pointed at Su Muyun.

"Kid, look at Su Wawa. All the spiritual energy she's cultivated since she was little, do you think she's turned into any bad or evil person?"

Ye Xiao shook his head.

"That settles it then!" Old Man Hei's voice rose eight octaves. "If she were truly absorbing demonic energy, there would have been obvious negative reactions on her body long ago!"

"Do you think that what you can think of, our powerful predecessors couldn't have thought of?"

"Can your wisdom truly rival the accumulated wisdom of our ancestors over thousands of years?"

These words completely convinced Ye Xiao.

He chuckled and nodded repeatedly.

"Uncle Hei, you're right."

Then Ye Xiao looked at Su Muyun beside him.

"Now you should feel much more at ease."

Su Muyun smiled with relief and nodded gently.

"Yes, it definitely makes me feel much more at ease."

And just then...

The old man suddenly changed the subject, leaving behind a sentence.

"However, the decreasing spiritual energy is indeed an unfortunate reality!"

These words were spoken.

This immediately piqued the interest of Ye Xiao and Su Muyun.

The two men simultaneously became alert, realizing that there was something more to what the old man had said!

Su Muyun asked curiously, "Is the spiritual energy decreasing? But I've never felt it decreasing since I was a child."

"I even feel that the spiritual energy of this era is much stronger than that of my childhood."

The old man chuckled.

"It's a fact that spiritual energy has decreased."

"But the increase in spiritual energy is also a fact!"

The two were even more confused.

Ye Xiao asked, "Uncle Hei, I still don't understand. Can you explain it to me?"

The old man in black shook his head in an incredibly stylish manner.

He waved his fingers at the two people repeatedly and said a few words in a foreign language.

"NO! NO! NO!"

"By the way, I remember you went to Crimson Abyss before?"

Ye Xiao nodded.

Old Man Hei stared at Ye Xiao with a meaningful look on his face.

"Next time I go, I'll observe more closely."

After saying that.

The old man leaned back in his recliner, pulled a large straw hat over his face, and pretended to be asleep.

No matter how much Ye Xiao and Su Muyun pressed the Black Grandpa for answers.

The old man wouldn't answer a single word from the two of them anymore.

The two realized they couldn't get any more information out of them.

We had no choice but to leave.

Then we found an empty pavilion and sat down to chat.

"That old man with the dark complexion is such a riddle! He's silent at crucial moments. Can't he just say what he wants to say?"

Ye Xiao kept complaining about the old man in black.

Su Muyun looked at Ye Xiao's sarcastic expression.

She smiled helplessly.

"We can glean an important piece of information from what Grandpa Hei said."

"Perhaps we can find the secret to the increase in spiritual energy within the Crimson Abyss."