"Oh, I'm not too sure. I met her at the library of Dawn Academy. She was wearing a sky-blue dress and had a pink peach blossom on her head..."
As her words fell, Ye Feng turned and walked towards Dawn Academy.
After much deliberation, he decided to go and take a look. Perhaps there was a clue to the divine patterns...
After all, the divine patterns within the rune array at the staircase entrance between the eighth and ninth floors were identical to the scene of the "Celestial Ladder" embroidered on the golden medal left by the Flame Ranger...
"Dawn Academy... sky-blue dress... peach blossom decoration..."
Jiang Shishan muttered, his brow furrowed, pondering which teacher at Dawn Academy could have prompted Old Li to deliver a letter in person.
While Jiang Shishan was lost in thought, Ye Feng's figure had long since disappeared from his sight...
...
More than half an hour later,
Ye Feng arrived at the Dawn Academy library. The white-haired librarian, whom Jiang Shishan called Old Li, was not there at the moment. Instead, a middle-aged man Ye Feng didn't recognize was present.
"Here!"
The moment Ye Feng entered the door, a clear female voice reached his ears. It was the woman in the sky-blue dress.
"Oh~"
Ye Feng responded and quickly walked towards her.
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man with glasses at a nearby table looked as if he had seen a ghost. He took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and finally pinched his thigh hard...
The intense pain made the middle-aged man grimace, but his face held even more shock...
...
As Ye Feng discussed arcane runes with the woman in the sky-blue dress, he walked upstairs. Following the suggestion of the woman, they took turns deciphering rune arrays along the way...
Soon, they arrived at the staircase entrance between the eighth and ninth floors.
Ye Feng frowned slightly, then, as he had done last time, he copied the array containing divine patterns, as recorded in the Kindling Record...
"It's actually true... you really know how to unlock this array!"
The woman in the sky-blue dress was greatly surprised and murmured.
"You asked me to come here, likely because of the runes on this array, right?"
Ye Feng turned his head to look at the woman in the sky-blue dress and got straight to the point.
"This... you could say that?"
The woman in the sky-blue dress's beautiful eyebrows curved. Her fair and slender fingers emitted blue arcane energy, swiftly drawing in the air to form several mystical runes, exactly what Ye Feng had shown her on the ninth floor earlier.
"You asked me what these runes were last time? You really... don't know?"
There was obvious surprise in the woman in the sky-blue dress's voice.
"Mhm!"
Ye Feng nodded. "I really don't know what these are... I saw them in an ancient ruin!"
"An ancient ruin..."
The woman in the sky-blue dress pointed towards the staircase. "The runes you displayed earlier, and the mystical runes within the rune array you just deciphered, are all runes called 'Divine Patterns'!"
"Divine Patterns?"
Although Ye Feng had guessed that the mystical runes in the Kindling Record that he couldn't understand were likely divine patterns, he was still quite surprised to have it confirmed by the woman in the sky-blue dress.
"Yes!"
The woman in the sky-blue dress nodded slightly. "Divine Patterns are one of the two mysterious forces of text..."
As the woman in the sky-blue dress walked slowly up the stairs, she explained to Ye Feng.
By the time they reached the ninth floor, she had finished speaking.
"It's pretty much what Qiao Ying said~"
After listening to the woman in the sky-blue dress, Ye Feng couldn't help but murmur.
"You asked me to come here, not just to tell me about divine patterns, right?"
Ye Feng looked at the woman in the sky-blue dress with a questioning gaze.
"I need your help with something!"
The woman in the sky-blue dress stared at Ye Feng for a good while before slowly opening her mouth.
"Help?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly, feeling a bit perplexed. "Is it related to those divine patterns?"
"That's right!"
The woman in the sky-blue dress nodded and pointed towards the balcony not far away. "Everyone in Arcane City knows that the library of the Arcane Master Academy has six floors... Actually, there's a seventh floor!"
"Arcane Master Academy? The seventh floor?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but recall the guy named Lan Yin earlier. He had knocked Ye Feng unconscious precisely to trade with Jiang Shishan for a pass to the seventh floor of the Arcane Master Academy.
"Mhm!"
The woman in the sky-blue dress nodded. She walked to the edge of the balcony, her eyes focused. She formed a complex hand seal and pushed it forward. A gate-shaped rune instantly appeared in the void before them.
The entire gate-shaped rune was covered with mystical runes that Ye Feng couldn't understand, which were divine patterns...
"Whoa... so the ninth floor of Dawn Academy Library is the sixth floor of Arcane Master Academy Library, and the seventh floor of Arcane Master Academy Library is above the ninth floor of Dawn Academy Library?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng suddenly understood.
"This is a rune array similar to a safe. As you can see, this rune array is not composed of arcane runes, but divine patterns... There is a treasure hidden inside. Can you help me unlock the array?"
After speaking, the woman in the sky-blue dress turned and looked at Ye Feng with expectant eyes.
"In return, I can grant you one request!"
Before Ye Feng could answer, the woman in the sky-blue dress spoke again. "You participated in the selection of young talents in Arcane City, right? I can let you bypass the final selection, bring the Ice Princess out, and hand her over to you, allowing you to sneak away. How about it?"
"Whoa..."
The words of the woman in the sky-blue dress caught Ye Feng by surprise.
"Don't worry, I have a high status in Arcane City, and I'm very familiar with the Ice Princess. Bringing her out is not difficult!"
"As long as the Ice Princess is willing to leave with you, I'll arrange for you to sneak away!"
She paused, and the woman in the sky-blue dress spoke again.
"Uh..."
Ye Feng scratched his head. "To be honest, I'm quite tempted... but I don't know how to break this divine pattern array..."
"The divine pattern array between the eighth and ninth floors before, I saw it in an ancient ruin... I fumbled around for a long time and happened to unlock it..."
"Before you mentioned it, I didn't even know what divine patterns were~"
Ye Feng explained, half-truthfully and half-falsely.
"Oh? Really?"
The woman in the sky-blue dress frowned. She stared at Ye Feng for a long time before speaking softly, "Little fellow, it seems you won't act until you see the rewards... How about I tie up the Ice... and send her... to your bed?"
"What are you talking about?! What do you take the Ice... Ice Princess for?!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng became angry.
"I have something to do, I'm leaving!"
Saying that, Ye Feng ignored her and walked towards the staircase entrance, visibly upset.
The woman in the sky-blue dress did not stop him. She narrowed her eyes, a hint of surprise flashing in the depths of her eyes, but she also felt a genuine sense of relief...
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