Holding the crystal, Shi Yu asked about the relic for a long time, wondering what it was.

But the relic didn't want to pay him any attention.

Shi Yu: o(￣皿￣///)

Bad review!

"Sigh."

If it doesn't want to talk, so be it.

After messing around for a day, Shi Yu was also tired.

"Hah~~" He yawned, stuffed the crystal into his pocket, and simply went back to sleep.

……

"Shi Yu, any gains?"

Outside the Spirit Relic, there were still a few soldiers on night watch.

The commotion when the crystal appeared wasn't loud just now, and they didn't even know what had happened inside.

Seeing that Shi Yu was coming out so late today, they couldn't help but ask.

"Same as always."

Shi Yu chuckled and brushed it off.

Even if there were gains, he couldn't just talk about it.

He saw Shi Di, Shi Di also saw him, and then the Spirit Relic coughed up something other than Soul Seeds for the first time. This was a big deal!

Even if he were to share, he would have to share with the right people… These soldiers wouldn't recognize the crystal.

As Shi Yu walked, he took out his phone and took a picture of the crystal.

Shi Yu: [Senior, help me take a look, what is this. Crystal Picture.jpg]

He used a messaging app to send a picture to Lu Qingyi.

Lu Qingyi: [?]

Lu Qingyi: […Why aren’t you asleep yet.]

Somewhere, Lu Qingyi glanced at the time and sent a string of dots to Shi Yu.

Shi Yu: [You're not asleep either…]

No serious Beast Tamer goes to sleep before 3 AM.

Lu Qingyi: [A crystal… try using the encyclopedia.]

Shi Yu: [I wouldn’t be asking you if the encyclopedia could detect it.]

Lu Qingyi: [If the encyclopedia can't detect it… why are you asking me… where did you pick it up…]

Shi Yu: [It's nothing much, I accidentally overheard Shi Di and Mu Huiyin's conversation through my Listening Talent, and then chatted with the relic a bit more, and it coughed up this thing.]

Lu Qingyi: [Cat shocked.jpg]

One minute later…

Shi Yu: [Hello??]

Lu Qingyi: [On the way… wait for me, I’ll be there in 20 minutes, wait until I get there to talk.]

Shi Yu: ???

Shi Yu glanced at the moon, glanced at the time, wait for you??

What time is it? If you’re not sleeping, I still want to sleep.

"Miscalculated…"

Putting down his phone, Shi Yu looked lost.

He should have sent the photo to Senior Lu after waking up tomorrow morning.

……

In less than 20 minutes, Lu Qingyi actually arrived.

To facilitate Shi Yu's research, Director Li and the others had found a single dormitory for Shi Yu.

Lu Qingyi's hurried arrival didn't disturb anyone else.

"Where's the crystal?"

As soon as Senior Lu arrived, she grabbed Shi Yu's shoulders and asked, shaking him.

Her tone was uneasy and excited.

"Cough, don't get excited, it's over there." Shi Yu pointed to the table.

Lu Qingyi: !!!

She had a pained expression, how could you put such an important thing next to your water glass?

"What you said earlier, was it all true?"

"Why would I lie about something like this?"

Lu Qingyi took a deep breath and looked at Shi Yu complexly.

Freak!

Your Listening Talent is being used too frequently.

"Blue, rhombus-shaped, crystal, I think I know what this is." She sighed.

Along the way, combining Shi Yu's words, she recalled for a long time, finally remembering.

"You know??" Shi Yu was startled.

You should have said so earlier.

Shi Yu was no longer sleepy.

"I've only heard of it through written descriptions, but because there are no concrete objects passed down, it's normal for the encyclopedia to not be able to detect it." Lu Qingyi looked at the rhombus crystal.

"This is a 'key'."

"A key??" Shi Yu was bewildered, picking up the crystal, what could this thing open?

"A key to space-time!" Lu Qingyi added.

"You should have heard of it, the discipline of archaeology. Although it may not have originated with Shi Di, he was the first person to systematically organize the discipline."

"So, Shi Di is also known as the ancestor of archaeology."

Shi Yu was stunned, there was indeed such a saying…

"The entire Blue Planet has billions of years of history, the Beast Taming Era is only over 2000 years old. Before that, the historical discontinuity was even more serious, with numerous mythical ruins and totem ruins. Shi Di was the first person recorded to classify the ruins and organize personnel, establishing institutions to systematically explore the numerous ruins."

"However, some ruins, even Shi Di found difficult to crack."

"According to records, in order to open some ruins, he used space-time powers to create 'space-time keys' tailored to forcibly open the doors of the ruins."

"These 'space-time keys' are said to have consumed a lot of Shi Di's power. Shi Di didn't create many of them in his lifetime, so only some simple written records were left, but no physical objects."

"Well… to be able to stop Shi Di, requiring him to expend a great cost to create keys, I'm afraid it's only those 'mythical ruins'." Lu Qingyi looked at Shi Yu.

"This!!"

Shi Yu almost dropped the crystal.

"You mean, this crystal is a key that can 100% open a certain mythical ruin?"

Shi Yu suddenly felt that this thing was a Pandora's Box, a chill running through him, and immediately put it back on the table.

"Well…" Lu Qingyi said with a serious face, "It must be. The relic spaces we're currently in contact with were all left behind by legendary Beast Tamers. But, besides this type of relic space, there are also naturally formed alien spaces, or special spaces created by mythical creatures themselves. They could be their habitats, or their treasure vaults, but in any case, they are not places that outsiders can easily enter, not even Legend-level Beast Tamers."

"And the 'space-time keys' created by Shi Di, who skillfully mastered space-time power, seem to be tools that can forcibly open the corresponding spaces."

"You're too lucky." Lu Qingyi said excitedly.

"What's so lucky about this…"

Shi Yu said with a wry smile, "Maybe Shi Di led to the destruction of the Dong Huang Dynasty because he explored this mythical ruin."

Shi Yu thought carefully. When he was chatting with the relic, what he asked the most about seemed to be where Shi Di went in the end.

Damn, now the more Shi Yu thought about it, the more he felt that the mythical ruin corresponding to this relic crystal was the culprit that caused Shi Di's death and the Dong Huang Dynasty's catastrophe.

Although he wanted to know what kind of relic it was, reason stopped Shi Yu.

Don't court death. If you guess right, there's a vicious divine beast living inside that's enough to kill Shi Di in seconds. If you awaken it, not only will he be killed, but the entire Dong Huang Ancient Kingdom might have to be buried with him, fast-forwarding to the next totem war.

"Tell me the details." Lu Qingyi asked Shi Yu.

"This…" Shi Yu told Lu Qingyi about the dialogue between Shi Di and Mu Huiyin that he first saw, as well as his own guesses.

After a moment, Lu Qingyi's expression also became solemn, feeling that this relic crystal was not a good thing.

She and Shi Yu were very similar. Beast Tamers with Listening Talents tended to court death, but this space-time key was clearly a path to disaster…

"Actually, we can guess in a positive direction…" Lu Qingyi said after a moment of silence.

"Stop." Shi Yu persuaded his senior, "Even if there's a 99% chance that Shi Di conquered this mythical ruin, leaving us a pile of treasures inside, we should still hold onto that 1% worst-case scenario first… After all, we can't afford to gamble."

Lu Qingyi smiled, "That's true, and we don't even know which relic this space-time key corresponds to yet."

"There are only a few mythical ruins in the country, and many mythical ruins are located in the totem area…"

Shi Yu nodded, and then said:

"Um, Senior, let's keep this a secret for now."

"As for the crystal, I'll keep it here for now too."

"Uh." Lu Qingyi was stunned.

Shi Yu touched his nose, feeling a bit selfish. He was afraid that after handing it over, the Eleventh Bureau bosses would not be able to resist forming a group to explore without taking him along, and also afraid that this mythical relic would really bring some disaster. Of course, with something like this, it would be a lie to say that Shi Yu wasn't curious.

If possible, he hoped to wait until he became stronger before exploring it with everyone.

Legend-level Beast Tamers were nothing more than possessing Totem-level pets.

And he already knew the standard for advancing to the Totem level: Supernatural-level Super-level skills!

As long as he could teach Super-level skills, theoretically, he had a chance to set foot in the legendary realm and stand on the same level as those super powerhouses in history.

Even, what if he maxed out his Super-level skills?

God-level skills represented origin, rules, laws, and patterns, abilities that only divine beasts possessed.

And Super-level was the closest level to mythical skills. If Super-level skills were maxed out to the "Art Reaches the Dao" level, could they be comparable to god-level skills, or rather, advance to god-level skills, allowing pets to set foot in mythology?

Shi Yu felt that it was worth looking forward to, so he preferred to wait until he had developed to that point, at least until his strength was not inferior to Shi Di, before trying to open this magic box.

"No problem." Lu Qingyi said, "It was originally given to you by the Spirit Relic anyway."

"Placing it elsewhere might have unknown hidden dangers."

"However, since you've already let me know about this matter…" Lu Qingyi stared at Shi Yu.

Shi Yu: "I understand."

He had dug a hole for Senior Lu, and if he didn't satisfy her curiosity later, she would probably die of depression.

Digging a hole without filling it was a bad habit.

……

The next morning, Lu Qingyi left.

Shi Yu was glad that he had asked her, immediately satisfying his curiosity.

Otherwise, not knowing the use of the relic crystal would probably be even more painful than not being able to explore the mythical relic.

And after Shi Yu woke up early the next morning, he took a deep breath.

Although he hadn't slept much last night, it seemed that he could go back to school to sleep next. Today was the end of the military training. This military training was outrageous. First, he summoned a general, then he was glared at by Shi Di, and then he obtained a key to a mythical relic. His experience was too exciting.

Who else!

The next half-day in the morning was a farewell meeting between the instructors and the students, as well as speeches and such. Shi Yu didn't pay much attention, because he didn't seem to have met any instructors other than Master Feng these past few days.

And Shi Yu's deepest impression of Master Feng was that he provided the Little Red Pupil's meals for these few days…

When the students were packing up, Shi Yu, who had spatial equipment, had already been waiting to leave.

"Welcome to come play next time, there's plenty of food." Outside, Instructor Feng approached Shi Yu. His grandmother's, the future Dong Huang Guardian War Power, ate his food as an infant. Saying this would be so honorable.

"Ah, okay, no problem." Shi Yu said embarrassedly. He would still have to bring Little Red Pupil here to grind experience in the future, so he would definitely come by often.

"Did Dr. Lu come over again last night?" Director Li and Director He, these two top masters, naturally stayed with Instructor Feng the whole time, after all, the three of them were responsible for this military training.

"Three in the morning, she came directly riding the Azure Spirit Wind Bird." Director He looked at Shi Yu with a strange expression and said, "Could it be that something went wrong with the relic yesterday?"

Instructor Feng also looked at Shi Yu.

Shi Yu fell into contemplation. If he told them, would they be scared?

"Ask, why are you asking." Director Li coughed and said, "Don't inquire about the affairs of the Eleventh Bureau, these are all secrets, do you still want to sign contracts?"

Instructor Feng and Director He waved their hands sheepishly, how could they.

The three of them no longer asked about Shi Yu's affairs.

Shi Yu smiled slightly and said, "Forget it, I'll go wait in the car first."

How he came, he would naturally go back the same way this time. Shi Yu boarded the armored school bus.

After a moment, the other students who had packed their things also boarded the bus one after another.

After a student came up, he passed by Shi Yu, silent, looking at Shi Yu with awe, and then walked towards the back.

Another student came up, and when he passed by, he took a deep breath, looked at Shi Yu admiringly, and then walked towards the back.

Xu Jingyin, Wang Ling, every one of Shi Yu's classmates had extremely complex views of Shi Yu after this time.

This military training, Shi Yu became the biggest winner, actually contracting the Ice Dragon Great General's spirit.

High-level Overlord race!

The most uncomfortable thing was that because of the contract, they couldn't discuss it, and could only admire Shi Yu with their eyes.

If there were no accidents, this batch of more than 600 new students, the new students from the Archaeology Department and the Combat Department, would become a beautiful scenery line in Gu Du University in the future.

In the future, when they encountered other Gu Du University students evaluating Shi Yu, they could stand on a high ground and say disdainfully:

"You don't understand Shi Yu at all, he's not that simple, but specifically, only those who understand will understand, and those who don't understand, I can't say more. Don't ask me what's going on, the interests involved are too great, saying it won't do you or me any good, just pretend you don't know, the rest I can only say that the water here is very deep…"

When Shi Yu thought of this scene, he couldn't help but smile while sitting in the car.

It was hard for these people to cooperate with him in keeping it a secret…

"Um…" As Shi Yu smiled, on the way back, Class Monitor Wang Ling was still sitting next to Shi Yu. This time, he said carefully, "Is that sachet you have still for sale?"

He thought about it, maybe Shi Yu didn't really lie to him, this sachet really had something to it, anyway, anything Shi Yu had must be good…

"Uh." Shi Yu glanced at him and said, "Too late… there's no stock."

Wang Ling: ???

Shi Yu said helplessly, another big energy consumer had returned, where would he have extra sachets to sell you? He didn't even have enough to absorb himself!