10 A 'date' with Ziyun

Ye Ziyun raised her eyebrows at Shen Yue and thought that he was bragging. They were both descendants from Major families and she's been studying all kinds of knowledge since young. She doubted that Shen Yue would be much more knowledgeable than her to the point that he could give her guidance.

Seeing Ye Ziyun's expression, Shen Yue laughed and said arrogantly, "I don't want to sound too arrogant, but I'm probably the best Inscription Master in the world!"

Ye Ziyun couldn't help but lightly chuckle. Judging by Shen Yue's thick sarcasm, he was obviously joking

"Okay, I may have been a little too arrogant. Maybe I'm not the best in the world, but I'm at least the second best Inscription Master in the world," Shen Yue corrected himself, nodding seriously. Once he copies Nie Li's knowledge he would be the best or second best!

At this moment, Ye Ziyun's smile was like sunshine, dazzling all the boys looking at her on the street.

Nie Li walked with his group of friends behind Ye Ziyun and Shen Yue, and a surge of jealousy arose in his heart. Seeing Ye Ziyun laughing and chatting together with Shen Yue in the distance made him feel sick to his stomach. He only wished that he could hear their conversation perfectly through the loud noises of the crowds of students. He thought, 'You sleazy snake Shen Yue! What kind of flowery words are you using to swindle Ziyun now?'

[You received +1 Villain Point!]

Nie Li couldn't help but feel extremely bitter and jealous. Because of his actions yesterday Ye Ziyun had a very poor opinion of him, viewing him as a bad student, but instead she started seeing Shen Yue in a new light. What Nie Li did after his rebirth, in fact, caused Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun to grow closer together, which didn't happen in the previous life! It caused Nie Li to feel a little depressed.

Du Ze at the side pursued his lips, looking at Nie Li with worry. Shen Yue was someone with money, talent and good looks. Just how is Nie Li supposed to compete with him when chasing after Ye Ziyun? Du Ze only hoped that Nie Li wouldn't suffer a blow that was too big.

Meanwhile Nie Li squinted his eyes, thinking in his heart, 'In the previous life, under tremendous pleading, Ye Ziyun finally accepted Shen Yue as her fiance. However, it is only a few years into the future. At this moment what Ye Ziyun wants most is friendship, so I still have plenty of time. In three years' time I will be a peak Black Gold or even Legend rank Demon Spiritualist. I will need to think of ways to get closer to Ziyun and reveal Shen Yue's true character, but for now I need to earn some money and increase my strength. I still have to reach 1 -star Bronze rank in two months.'

Nie Li's heart soon calmed down. Even though Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun might have some good interactions now, it will be easy for Nie Li to soon step over Shen Yue. Nie Li's target was not just Shen Yue or Shen Xiu, but the entire Sacred Family. As traitors of Glory City responsible for its downfall in the previous life, Nie Li won't let any of them go unpunished. This vicious Shen Yue and Shen Xiu duo won't be spared either.

"Shen Yue, how skilled are you at Inscription Patterns really?" Ye Ziyun asked at this time, looking at Shen Yue.

Shen Yue looked back at Ye Ziyun, saying lightly, "I'm more knowledgeable than my aunt for sure. Ziyun, I consider you my childhood friend, so if you have any questions you can pray tell."

Ye Ziyun wrinkled her brows gently, but she felt a little happy being called a childhood friend so casually, especially since Shen Yue didn't seem lecherous but was simply friendly. She thought to herself, more knowledgeable than Teacher Shen Xiu? Is Shen Yue bragging or not?

However, Shen Yue's casual and light attitude as he spoke, made Ye Ziyun feel that he wasn't trying to show off. Ye Ziyun thought of something and said, "Shen Yue, actually I have a few questions regarding Snow-Wind inscription patterns. I wonder if you can help me?"

Ye Zi Yun asked with her bright eyes looking at Shen Yue, giving him the benefit of a doubt. She did not get her hopes too high, after all the questions that she wanted to ask weren't things that ordinary people can solve.

Shen Yue nodded his head, Ye Zi Yun took out two inscription scrolls from her interspatial ring, as she stopped on the street.

"These two inscription scrolls are Snow Wind inscriptions." Ye Ziyun's pale fingers slowly opened one of the bronze rank inscription scrolls, "These two inscription scrolls seem to have some error when they were drawn, and thus left them unable to be activated, but I can't find the root of the issue."

Shen Yue's gaze swept past these two inscription patterns on the scroll and immediately found the problem with the two inscription patterns. These were exactly the two scrolls that he thought of based on the novel memories. With a complete beginner Inscriptionist Master knowledge correcting some Bronze rank inscription patterns wasn't a problem for him, especially since he had the clues from TDG novel.

Shen Yue's gaze fell onto the two Bronze rank inscription scrolls and he pointed to one of the two Bronze rank inscription scrolls, he said, "This Bronze rank inscription scroll is the Snow Wind Attribute's Icy Wind, Sharp as Knives inscription, the inscription structure has no issue with it, but this is a faulty scroll."

"Faulty scroll?" Ye Ziyun asked, surprised.

"Let's talk more in the restaurant when there's only the two of us," Shen Yue said, noticing that Nie Li's group was passing by them.

"Okay…" Ye Ziyun said with some disappointment.

At the side, hearing Shen Yue's words about him going with Ye Ziyun to a restaurant together, Nie Li felt his stomach twist again.

Shen Yue sent a short pitying glance at Nie Li, as he was turning his head and resumed walking away with Ye Ziyun.

Nie Li scoffed in annoyance.

[You received +1 Villain Point!]

Casually chatting along the way, Shen Yue and Ye Ziyun soon entered a diner and sat down with a paper screen wrapped around their table.

After making their orders, ordering simple dishes, Ye Ziyun took out the second scroll again and looked at Shen Yue curiously. "Shen Yue, you said that it's a faulty scroll. What did you mean?"

"For this scroll, the person who made it is an expert fraud. If one's eyesight is not sharp enough, it's normal to buy this scroll," Shen Yue said. "<Icy Wind, Sharp as Knives> inscription is drawn using the blood of Snow Wind Spiritual Worm. The blood of Snow Wind Spiritual Worm is of a silver-gray color, not this bright silvery-red color. My guess is that this is written with the blood of Snow Wind Spiritual Worm's larva. The larva of Snow Wind Spiritual Worm isn't strong enough and it causes this inscription patter to be unable to activate."

An adult Snow Wind Spiritual Worm's blood being silvery-gray color while their blood's color being silvery-red when they are in their larval stage, Ye Ziyun never thought that the problem was actually something like this.

She took this inscription scroll that was unable to activate and asked several professors in the school after she arrived at the Institute, but none of them were able to find the problem with it because the Bronze rank inscription scroll was in fact drawn correctly!

This mystery was hidden within her heart for some time now. That was until today, when this mystery was finally resolved. So her perspective was wrong, the inscription had no issues, thus her wanting to find a problem with the inscription was naturally impossible!

This kind of issue, Shen Yue could actually tell with just a look. Just how profound must one's knowledge be to accomplish this? Was Shen Yue's ability actually higher than the professors? It thoroughly shocked Ye Ziyun - she didn't expect much from Shen Yue, but now Shen Yue easily solved the issue that left her stuck.

A deep admiration emerged within her for Shen Yue, as she also further lowered her guard against him. 'A person with such vast knowledge. With all that, surely his character wouldn't be too bad, right? Perhaps I was a little prejudiced against Shen Yue in the past.'

Putting that thought aside, curiosity filled Ye Ziyun's heart and she asked, "What about this Bronze rank Inscription?"

Ye Ziyun pointed towards the other Bronze rank inscription scroll. While she pointed towards the scroll, she looked at him again. Shen Yue was significantly taller than her, with a chiseled face, sharp brows, bright eyes and beautiful blue hair, looking quite handsome. Of course, Ye Ziyun had no romantic feelings for Shen Yue, but their families thought of them as a good match, so she thought about this matter some times.

Shen Yue looked at the scroll and said, "This inscription pattern is the Snow-Wind attribute <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> inscription pattern. <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> is originally a Silver rank inscription pattern, but the <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> left behind by the Age of Darkness was incomplete. Afterwards people tried to patch it and in the process caused it to drop a level becoming a Bronze rank inscription pattern."

Ye Ziyun had her doubts, she never thought that there is still such history behind it. Which book was it recorded in, and how come she has never seen it before?

She heard Shen Yue continue his speech, "In addition to dropping to Bronze rank inscription pattern, their patches for <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> caused it to gain a problem with its structure, and thus often it should have problems when activating causing it to be unusable. It just needs to be adjusted a little."

"Structural changes? How would you change it?" Ye Ziyun's eyes were filled with doubts, even if it's her grandfather, he dared not tamper with the structure of an inscription pattern because inscription patterns passed down from ancient eras were already in a perfect form. Although her grandfather is a Legend rank Demon Spiritualist and can create inscription patterns, it's still very hard to adjust an inscription pattern.

Shen Yue pulled out an empty inscription scroll, picked up a Horn Sheep pen and started drawing the inscription pattern with a focused look on his face, not saying a word. He drew several strokes on a piece of white paper, and an inscription pattern more complete than <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> appeared on it. The shape of the strokes were well-proportioned, certainly not bad.

Shen Yue ended up drawing such complex inscription patterns with several precise strokes, such skillful drawing skills made Ye Ziyun gasp in amazement again. This adjusted <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> inscription became even more complex and difficult to understand, even Ye Ziyun couldn't understand it.

"This is the completed <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> inscription from ancient times," Shen Yue said looking towards Ye Ziyun. "It's a Silver rank inscription pattern."

Shen Yue's knowledge on Silver rank inscription patterns was very complete, thus he even remembered this long lost Inscription Pattern. At the same time, since he bought the Inscriptionist Master knowledge, his drawing skills naturally received an upgrade as well - otherwise how could he create inscription pattern scrolls and be called an Inscriptionist Master?

Ye Ziyun's gaze fell onto this <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> inscription pattern, her brows furrowed, this adjusted <Icy Wind, Sudden Snow> turned out to be twice as complex compared to before. The current her couldn't verify how effective the inscription pattern was, unless someone were to make it into a scroll.

She had not seen this kind of inscription pattern before!

"This Inscription Pattern is made with 36 foundation patterns in its structure," Shen Yue explained. "This is a stable structure, the previous structure wasn't stable!"

Ye Ziyun let out an 'en' full of doubts. She didn't ask any further, only keeping the inscription pattern altered by Shen Yue, preparing to get people to make this into a scroll to test it out to see if it was as Shen Yue said - a Silver rank inscription pattern.

Shen Yue said, "About that first scroll, it's very possible that it was made by someone from the Dark Guild."

"The Dark Guild?" Ye Ziyun was startled and wrinkled her brows.

"Right. You should report it to someone in your family to investigate the place where you got it and the person who made this faulty scroll. There could be more scrolls like this on the market. Just imagine if they all fail to activate in combat," Shen Yue explained.

Ye Ziyun nodded with a serious expression. "You're right. I'll report it."

The two of them then talked some more while also eating the ordered meal. Ye Ziyun asked Shen Yue about problems she had with Snow-Wind inscription patterns, as well as Snow-Wind cultivation techniques which Shen Yue could also answer to a degree, because inscription pattern knowledge is closely related to cultivation knowledge.

Under Shen Yue's tutoring, Ye Ziyun eased her doubts about Shen Yue, admiring him much more. How much time would a person need to spend in order to have profound knowledge like him?

Ye Ziyun previously thought that Shen Yue didn't work very hard. Thinking about that now she felt deeply ashamed.

"Shen Yue, thank you a lot for your guidance. It's already a little late, how about we meet at the library to talk more about Inscription Patterns tomorrow?" Ye Ziyun asked gently and sweetly. She found that Shen Yue was actually a pretty nice conversation partner and a friend, and she wanted to chat with him some more.

Shen Yue lightly smiled. He wished that Nie Li was here and heard Ye Ziyun's gentle attitude toward him, as it would have surely netted him a Villain Point. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then let's meet at 5 in the afternoon."

"Alright. Then let's meet tomorrow; rain or shine!" Before leaving, Ye Zi Yun smiled gracefully as a pearl, beautiful and refined.

Shen Yue smiled, sending Ye Ziyun off with his eyes.

He, truthfully, felt a little pity for Nie Li. Once Shen Yue gets Xiao Ning Er's attention, provides Ye Ziyun guidance on inscription patterns, even imparts Ye Ziyun a cultivation technique to help her with cultivation, and behaves like a human being and a good friend, then there wouldn't be many chances for the Nie Li the egoistic, perverted boaster and class clown to interact with Miss Ye Ziyun of the Snow Wind family.

Shen Yue just wondered what Nie Li would do once Shen Yue steals all of his chances from the novel; Nie Li can only hope that luck and plot armor would give him some opportunities.

In the end Nie Li was a bit hopeless.

After Shen Yue left the restaurant, two people quickly approached him.

"Boss Shen Yue is amazing, having a date with Miss Ye Ziyun like this, " Lang Guanyu said.

"That's right. Boss is amazing."

Shen Yue lightly laughed at being treated like a young master by his underlings. He asked, "How is it?"

"The three of them entered the training ground again," an underling reported.

Shen Yue nodded, "Okay. Good job. I have another job for you. I want you to find…"

As the underlings departed, Shen Yue recalled that the girl called Tian Qing would be waiting for him in the library today. He didn't want to make her wait too long.

…

Shen Yue arrived in the untranslated Sacred Empire Section of the library.

Between bookshelves, at the end of the corridor, he noticed a short girl with light-blue hair, looking down at the floor as she clutched her hands in front of her. The girl wore a soft red jacket. Her light-blue hair was medium length and she had long bangs brushed aside her forehead; looking incredibly cute.

(That's Tian Qing)

The girls in front of Shen Yue seemed very shy and sad at the same time. As she stood there, she seemed to shrink a little bit more into herself. Shen Yuewas from one of the three Major Families, a nobility, he was also very handsome and a genius with a Green soul realm. He was very bold and courageous as well, and the girl couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

In comparison, she was someone from an Aristocratic family. Although she was always praised for her cute appearance and held high status in her family, she didn't think that she could compare with Ye Ziyun. At this moment the girl felt nervousness eating her from the inside.

When she saw Shen Yue walking and chatting with Ye Ziyun earlier, the girl felt deep regret for writing the letter to Shen Yue after being encouraged by her friends. Her friends also liked Shen Yue, but they didn't dare to send him a letter like she did.

As she waited in the library ever since the lessons ended, she continuously worried that it was a big mistake! It would be better if Shen Yue didn't know about her feelings.

Shen Yue called out to the girl, "Are you Tian Qing?"

The girl raised her head, looking straight at Shen Yue. Her eyes flashed with surprise. She nodded her head slightly. "Yes, it's me."

Shen Yue took a few steps closer to Tian Qing, his expression gentle yet firm.

"Tian Qing, thank you for your letter. I deeply appreciate your affection and I think that it was very brave of you to write it," Shen Yue said kindly, as the girl stared at him nervously. "You even bravely met me here face to face, I don't think that many girls would have your courage…"

Hearing Shen Yue's gentle words, Tian Qing's puppy eyes moistened at this moment. But then Shen Yue followed with: "But you need to know that I already have a girl I like."

Tian Qing felt a sharp cold blade stabbing deeply into her heart, as she took in a big breath. Despite Shen Yue's encouraging and kind look, her feelings were deeply hurt and she felt her throat dry up.

She closed her eyes and sniffed for a moment. As she opened her eyes, she said meekly, "It's… I… I understand!"

A moment later, Tian Qing started running off, passing by Shen Yue. Shen Yue could only imagine her expression.

Tian Qing's face flashed with tears, as she ran through the corridor of the library. As expected, she shouldn't have given her letter to Shen Yue!

She hurriedly ran through the library and escaped in search of a secluded place to cry in. The boy that she liked, liked someone else, causing her to feel heartbroken.

Shen Yue could only sigh. Perhaps he could turn Tian Qing into his follower in the future, he thought, she was quite cute after all.

Following that, instead of leaving the library, Shen Yue reserved a reading room for himself on the 3rd floor and began cultivating there.

Over half an hour later, a knock was heard on the doors to his room. "Boss Shen Yue."

Shen Yue opened his eyes and said, "Come in."

The door opened, revealing two of Shen Yue's underlings. One of them said, "Boss Shen Yue, we brought the three that you told us to find."

Shen Yue lightly smiled and said, "Bring them in."

Not long later, three common students around thirteen years old were brought into the room.

"Wei Nan, Zhu Xiang Jun and Zhang Ming, come and sit down," Shen Yue looked at the three of them from his chair, before turning to his underlings. "The rest of you can leave. Tell Wu Qiang to come to my dorm room in the late evening."

"Yes, Boss." The underlings cupped their fists and left.

Meanwhile the three commoner students of the Fighter Apprentice Class nervously sat down on the chairs with anxious expressions. Shen Yue's followers just told them that Boss Shen Yue wanted to recruit them. If they could really be hired by Shen Yue, even earning a little bit of money, then that would be amazing for them. Their future would also be bright if they could become warriors of a Noble Demon Spiritualist like him!

Furthermore, they knew that Shen Yue doesn't discriminate against commoners and they all respected him for what he said back in class.

They all only have Red soul realms and were from poor lowly families, their cultivation far from 1-star Bronze rank Fighter level, so they couldn't help but be nervous. They all hoped that Shen Yue would really recruit them.

Seeing the trio's expressions, Shen Yue's lips lightly rose into a smile. As he noticed today, the commoner trio from the novel didn't have a relationship with Nie Li yet, because they didn't stand at the back of the classroom with him. In that case, why not recruit them first?