Chapter 7: So Many Treasures! But Why Are They All Sealed??

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Ye Hui followed Sakura into the study. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the bookshelves were occasionally emitting shimmering lights from certain books.

“Could it be… so many treasures?!” Ye Hui was astonished.

Just as expected! To obtain truly valuable items, one must follow the main and side quests!

Ye Hui’s heart raced as he gazed at the rows of bookshelves in the Kinomoto household, almost pounding against his chest.

To him, these weren’t mere books.

They were golden light clusters of varying depths.

Clearly, these were mysterious treasures from a “cultivation sect’s secret cave”!

“No, this is absolutely, one hundred percent wrong!”

The idiotic system was never reliable.

How could so many treasures fall from the sky all at once?

This was obviously illogical!

Feeling a surge of caution, Ye Hui opened the system options.

[You have discovered an ancient secret stash. Please make a choice!]

[1. Break the treasure’s seal—who else but me! I am the true villain!]

[2. Defeat Kinomoto Sakura and force her to reveal the spell to break the seal!]

[3. Hide your identity, feign helplessness, and kneel to earn her mercy to lift the seal.]

[4. Steal the Heavenly Path protagonist’s items and run—seals? Deal with them later~]

[5. Play along, first pay respects to the sworn mother, then proceed…]

Ye Hui furrowed his brows.

What? A seal?

Looking over the options, he immediately realized he had been prematurely delighted.

Sigh!

It was his own fault for getting so excited over the many “treasures” here.

He momentarily forgot the nature of the system.

How could this useless system suddenly turn over a new leaf?

And even if it did, it would still be useless!

“These choices… which one to pick? Wait, what if I just open the books directly? Would that work?”

Ye Hui pondered silently.

If there was a loophole to exploit…

After all, this game hadn’t even entered beta testing yet; no one could say how many bugs remained unfixed.

What if he was just lucky enough to stumble upon one?

Ye Hui pulled a book from the shelf.

Thanks to his “Spiritual Energy Perception” talent, this book was radiating a much stronger golden light than the others.

Ye Hui guessed with confidence that this was definitely something good!

Meanwhile, Sakura only saw the new transfer student picking up her father’s archaeology reference book—and even attempting to browse it.

“Is this new student really that impressive?”

She didn’t interrupt but silently widened her eyes, as if gazing at a glowing prodigy.

Then…

“Snap!”

Ye Hui closed the book.

He couldn’t understand it—not at all.

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Logically, after two years, Ye Hui had indeed learned the language of Sakura’s country and could communicate normally.

But for things too profound, he was still largely clueless.

Archaeological books were quite advanced.

The objects mentioned were often referred to by code names.

The rest was just text and data tables…

He could ignore those, but what about the treasures?

[Detected Ancient Cultivator Seal; Formation skill not acquired; Decoding failed; Forced attempt caused injury from forbidden knowledge; You feel your intelligence has declined…]

Sakura: (⊙_⊙)?

Ye Hui turned back: “Ahahaha, these treasures have very powerful seals—I can’t understand them either!”

Sakura was stunned, blinking: “Alright then, let’s head upstairs first…”

“Wait, hold on!”

Ye Hui quickly called out to Sakura: “Kinomoto-san, I wonder… could you help me lift the seals on these treasures?”

No kneeling and begging.

Why not just ask directly?

Although the system gave many options, none were reliable.

The further he looked, the more absurd the choices became; earlier options about paying respects to a sworn father, apprenticing, or recognizing kin kept popping up…

Naturally, breaking the seal would fail.

These were just ordinary heavy archaeology tomes.

And fighting a girl?

Who could bear to do that to such a cute queen?

If Touya found out he dared to do that, he’d probably wait for him at school gates to beat him up!

Though Ye Hui had learned Chinese martial arts, he couldn’t even beat Li Xiaolang right now.

Moreover, Sakura wasn’t a fragile traditional mage.

She could easily do backflips, jump incredibly high, run like the wind—she was the best athlete in class, perhaps in the whole school.

Most importantly, the system’s definition of victory was likely similar to the in-game “sparring with fellow disciples.”

Using skills in mini-games.

Ye Hui didn’t know magic, so he would definitely fail!

Stealing the book was impossible—that would be theft.

He didn’t want to run into the mysterious uncle with the cherry blossom hat whom no one in the anime had ever seen.

As for kneeling and begging?

A man’s knees are precious—how could he kneel?

But the system’s mention of kneeling might not be literal.

Wasn’t that option’s outcome just having Sakura help him lift the seal?

The little antenna on top of Sakura’s head twitched: “Huh? Seal?”

Could this book, like the magic book earlier, be sealing something?

Half-believing, half-doubting, she took the book from Ye Hui’s hand.

After observing for a while, she saw no strange phenomena like before.

There were no apparent sealing chains.

It was just an ordinary book!

Could it be that she misunderstood?

Maybe only Ye Hui could see the seal.

She must be too weak…

Having experienced the flying card incident and meeting the small yellow-eyed mouse that spoke like a doll, Sakura was gradually beginning to accept these strange events.

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Perhaps Ye Hui wasn’t joking when he said he was a cultivator?

“Sorry, I honestly don’t know how to lift seals,” Sakura admitted honestly.

Ye Hui sighed, took back the book, and returned it to the shelf.

Did he really have to kneel first before proceeding?

“Alright then, thanks for your help, Kinomoto-san. Let me take another look…”

Feeling a little embarrassed for not being able to help Ye Hui, Sakura said, “Why don’t you check out other books? These rows are usually only read by my father.”

She pointed them out, her mind still on the yellow doll, then quickly left the basement.

Alone, Ye Hui relaxed somewhat and began examining the other books.

After some study, he gradually discerned a pattern.

The stronger the golden glow of a book, the better the so-called “treasure.”

At the same time, the seals and prohibitions on it were more powerful.

According to the system’s explanation, the more spiritual energy it contained and the longer its endurance, the more the sealing formation could persist from ancient times—making it an excellent divine artifact and the foundation of the sect…

“System, are you sure Sakura can lift the seals? These are obviously archaeological books, but you think they’re treasures. The glow is dazzling though… Could your text recognition module be malfunctioning?”

Ye Hui squinted and held the book farther away.

At that moment, every book on the surrounding shelves was glowing.

Standing here too long made his eyes ache.

[Identification complete. This book is indeed an Earth-element spell manual. Kinomoto Sakura is a Heaven-root cultivator, naturally able to absorb spiritual energy and comprehend ancient texts. The host has a mixed spiritual root and weaker ability to understand spiritual energy text. This system fully understands, but please do not lose heart. Believe in yourself; you will eventually become the sole true immortal traversing heaven and earth!]

“…”

Ye Hui was speechless.

Up until now, he still couldn’t distinguish whether the “spiritual energy” the system mentioned was the same as the world’s magic.

In his previous life, he had seen animations and comics where magic was set as an innate force.

Without magic in ancestors, descendants unlikely have it either.

However, if one stayed close to Sakura and was constantly influenced by magic…

Maybe some superpowers could emerge, like premonitions…

If magic could infect others and be transmitted mutually,

Perhaps it could be actively absorbed and circulated like spiritual energy in games.

Ye Hui sighed, uncertain when he’d obtain cultivation techniques.

Only by mastering spiritual energy-based techniques or skills could one unlock personal attribute panels through spiritual energy and begin cultivation…

Magic in the Cardcaptor Sakura world felt more like an idealistic power.

Faith, love, all helped to enhance magic.

But it could not grant immortality.

Even if Clow Reed was powerful and wise beyond measure,

He could not live eternally without side effects.

Of course, perhaps he could, but like many strong figures in other worlds, it was not that he couldn’t live forever, but that he chose not to…

But Ye Hui was different.

His past life’s environment and the myths he had heard led him to believe humans could cultivate to become immortals and not see immortality as a curse!

Those immortals lived lives of bliss—what was so bad about living forever?

Descend whenever they wish, steal a romance when desired, pursue forbidden love, lock away their sister if they wanted…

“Eh, there are such books too?”

Ye Hui approached a different section and found shelves filled with cookbooks.

He had thought Kinomoto Fujitaka’s study held only dense archaeological tomes!

He looked around the shelves.

Cooking, housekeeping, child-rearing, knitting… everything was there.

“Tsk! Truly a family-oriented good man…”