Are you crazy? Who asked you to hunt for treasures in the emperor's harem?

"Well...I guess so..."

Ye Fan scratched his head, not knowing how to explain it. After all, according to the records in the Tianyuan Fragment, he was still in the Qi Condensation Realm, but the fluctuations of the profound energy emanating from his body were indeed at the Marquis level...

“Okay… okay!”

Bai Cheng was unable to sense in detail what rank of marquis Ye Fan was, but he did not ask much, thinking that the technique Ye Fan practiced was rather special.

But at this moment, he finally understood why Ye Fan was so highly regarded by Elder Wen Zheng... A Marquis who was less than 20 years old... This was definitely the best among the five sects that produced so many talented people...

"Cough cough!"

Bai Cheng quickly recovered from his shock. He cleared his throat twice and said, "Everyone come here. The main reason why we asked you to come to the Misty Rain Tower today is the same as the third of the three entrance exams. We want you to practice embroidery, but this time you will be embroidering mysterious patterns and talismans!"

After Bai Cheng finished speaking, there was a flash of light on his hand, and a number of embroidered handkerchiefs appeared in his hand. The students of Tianzhuan Academy came forward one after another, each took an embroidered handkerchief, and then went back.

"This embroidery session will last for one day. There is no fixed location. You can walk around the Misty Rain Tower and start embroidering when inspiration strikes!"

After distributing embroidered handkerchiefs to all the students, Bai Cheng spoke again.

"Teacher Bai Cheng, what exactly is the legendary Misty Rain Embroidery?"

As soon as Bai Cheng finished speaking, a student asked.

“This…I don’t know either!”

Bai Cheng shook his head slightly. "The legend of Misty Rain Embroidery has been around for nearly a thousand years... It is said that anyone who can embroider Misty Rain Embroidery can inherit the mantle of the founder of Mingyuan Academy, that is, Master Mei!"

"That's it!"

The student scratched his head, his face showing excitement.

Soon, Ye Fan and other students put away their embroidered handkerchiefs and began to stroll around the Misty Rain Tower. Of course, some students stayed where they were and prepared to start embroidering.

………….

After strolling around the huge Yanyu Tower, Ye Fan took a rest in a secluded pavilion with fresh air and pleasant scenery.

"This embroidery... the difficulty lies in the finishing touch. When I was taking the entrance exam, the last stroke of the embroidery felt wrong no matter how I started. There was a strange feeling of awkwardness... It seemed as if I was affected by some strange attraction..."

"The strange attraction I felt at that time came from the mountains behind the Misty Rain Tower, which were surrounded by white mist..."

Ye Fan sat on a long chair, looked up at the misty mountains in the distance, and muttered to himself.

"That strange attraction... Let's try to see what I can embroider completely guided by that strange attraction~"

Ye Fan suddenly had a rather strange idea. After all, he felt that embroidering a random mysterious pattern or talisman on the embroidered handkerchief was unlikely to be the legendary Misty Rain Embroidery, so he might as well try something else.

Soon, Ye Fan spread out the embroidered handkerchief and placed it on the stone table in front of him. He took out a silver needle with his right hand, closed his eyes, and slowly gathered his profound energy…

Ye Fan did not rush to start embroidering, but focused on sensing the subtle attraction of the mountains behind the Misty Rain Tower. Gradually, he felt that his profound energy seemed to be attracted by something and slowly moved...

At this moment, Ye Fan had a very strange feeling in his heart. That was, his hand holding the silver needle and the condensed profound energy light were moving in a very natural way, even though he didn't do it on purpose... It was as if his hand was supposed to move like this, and his profound energy was supposed to flow like this...

As Ye Fan's condensed mysterious energy fell on the embroidered handkerchief, small white dots began to appear on it...

Gradually, the chirping of insects, birds, wind, and water beside Ye Fan gradually faded away... until everything was completely silent...

"Secret room! Secret room!"

When Ye Fan's mind was empty, suddenly, a huge bird cry was heard. He opened his eyes abruptly, looked in the direction of the sound, and found that it was the colorful parrot he had seen on the fourth floor of the library with Liu Mengying before. At this moment, the parrot was perched on his shoulder.

"What are you doing? I just..."

Ye Fan's face changed as soon as he said this, because he originally thought that the state of complete emptiness and silence around him would only last for a short while, but the sunset in the distant sky told him that it was already evening...

"The short moment I just felt like, has such a long time actually passed?"

Ye Fan was very surprised, because he started embroidering in the morning.

Immediately, he turned his gaze towards the embroidered handkerchief on the stone table and found that some changes had indeed taken place on the handkerchief, but it was not an additional pattern, but an additional layer of hazy white substance… At first glance, it looked like flowing light smoke and white mist, mixed with drizzle… It looked like the beautiful scene after a spring rain, when the drizzle was about to stop…

"This... white mist like smoke... drizzling rain... could it be the legendary misty rain embroidery?"

After Ye Fan stared at the handkerchief for a while, he muttered, "But it doesn't look like it... This thing is lifelike and looks very beautiful. It has the unique beauty of the Jiangnan water town, but how can it be related to the inheritance of Master Mei's mantle... And the shocking secret that Master Mei knows..."

"The pattern on this embroidered handkerchief is like smoke and fog, as if mixed with drizzle... Is it drawn by a large amount of dense mysterious energy...?"

Ye Fan looked at the pattern on the embroidered handkerchief and couldn't help feeling confused. He gathered the mysterious energy needle in his right hand again and tried to fiddle with the three-dimensional picture of the Jiangnan water town in rain and fog on the embroidered handkerchief.

"Secret room! Secret room!"

Suddenly, the colorful parrot cried again, and Ye Fan, who was concentrating highly, was startled. The needle of profound energy condensed in his right hand shook and pierced the Jiangnan Water Village Rain and Fog Picture, and the whole pattern collapsed instantly...

"I………"

Ye Fan was a little annoyed, and he grabbed the colorful parrot in his hand. If it was an ordinary bird call, it would not disturb him much, but this parrot had seen him and Liu Mengying come out of the secret room of the library, and it also shouted the word "secret room"...

"Brother Ye Fan, you are here, how is your embroidery going?"

At this time, a girl with twin ponytails came over. It was Lai Ying'er. "Instructor Bai Cheng asked me to come and check on the situation. You are the only one who didn't hand in the embroidered handkerchief. Instructor Bai Cheng said that the Misty Rain Embroidery is illusory to begin with, so it's normal that it didn't turn out well. Don't worry too much!"

“Uh…I…”

Ye Fan looked at the large black spot on the embroidered handkerchief and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"Brother Ye Fan, what are you doing holding that parrot? It's a teacher from the academy's library... You're not bullying it, are you?"

At this time, Lai Ying'er spoke again.

"I... no, I just think this little guy is cute, so I grabbed him and pet him!"

Before Ye Fan finished speaking, the colorful parrot screamed, "Liar! Liar!"

"I……."

Seeing this, Ye Fan couldn't help but frown.

Lai Ying'er also smiled, "Brother Ye Fan, this colorful parrot has lived for many years and is very human... When I was reading in the library before, it called me an idiot..."

"Fine!"

Ye Fan was speechless for a while and let go of the hand holding the colorful parrot.

"Idiot! Idiot!"

The colorful parrot immediately flapped its wings and flew into the air. It circled around Ye Fan and Lai Ying'er for a while, cried out a few times, and then flew away.

Ye Fan and Lai Ying'er were both speechless, yet seemed somewhat helpless.

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