Xie Jiuniang couldn’t suppress the grief that surged from the depths of her heart.
She stood in place for a long time, unable to calm herself.
They weren’t close, and didn’t speak much.
She clearly shouldn’t be grieving, shouldn’t be upset, but...
Jian Lingyan weakly reminded her, "Master, we should leave this place quickly, someone will be coming soon."
"Mm..."
Xie Jiuniang didn’t leave right away, making a special effort to collect the Little Flying Boat and the Stone Elephant she had left behind earlier.
Jian Lingyan didn’t understand, "They’re broken, what’s the use in keeping them?"
"Once left behind, it would allow the Gongsun Family’s people to find the Stone Elephant and thus lead them to think of me. The Little Flying Boat is also frequently used, it’s inevitable that it would have some of my information." For instance, if it was found by her own person, using the Time Retrospection method, a great deal could be discovered from it.
The Little Flying Boat was destroyed, the Stone Elephant was scrapped, and Jian Lingyan was so weak she could only hide within the Contract Space.
The means of transportation were gone.
Therefore, Xie Jiuniang activated several Flight Charms in succession, arriving at the scene of the previous fight with Old He and the others.
She searched for some time.
And succeeded in finding a faint thread of life force.
The person was buried underneath the collapsed earth.
Xie Jiuniang asked Jian Lingyan, "Is it Old He?"
"I’m very weak, I can’t check... but when he fell, it indeed was this mountain."
Old He had taken a blow from someone at the Divinity Transformation level, which had struck a great mountain.
The mountain had collapsed by half, but Jian Lingyan still recognized it.
Xie Jiuniang began to dig out the person, cleverly using her Storage Bag to move the sand and stones.
It wasn’t long before she unearthed someone.
Wiping clean the dirt from his body, it was none other than Old He, barely clinging to life.
His body wrecked and mangled, on the brink of death, barely holding onto a sliver of breath.
Xie Jiuniang’s eyes reddened, and she hurriedly took out a small medicine bottle made of top-quality Spirit Jade.
Tearing off the Seal Spirit Talisman on the bottle’s mouth, she poured out a high-level Elixir that contained rich life force—a Nine Revolutions Life-Preserving Elixir reputed in the Cultivation World to be able to save anyone as long as a breath remained.
This was what Chaoyan had given her to preserve her own life.
She didn’t hesitate to shove it into Old He’s mouth.
Jian Lingyan weakly said, "Dog master, you’re running at a loss again."
"It’s quite a loss indeed. I gave you a big piece of Spiritual Marrow, do you want to give some back?" Xie Jiuniang seemed to be seriously considering it.
Frightened, Jian Lingyan didn’t dare to make a sound for a moment.
Xie Jiuniang wanted to save someone, so she saved them, never considering the question of whether it was a loss or not.
For instance, when facing the strike from the one at the Divinity Transformation level, she wasn’t necessarily required to step forward, but at that moment she simply didn’t have time to think, and her body had already moved on its own accord.
Now, thinking back, her heart was still pounding.
She again felt an unstoppable wave of fear.
If she had the time to seriously think that moment through, to weigh the pros and cons, she likely would have chosen to save her own life.
Self-sacrifice for the sake of others, was that something she would do?
Sacrificing oneself for the benefit of others was something only fools engaged in. It must be that she had spent too much time around Old He and the others lately, getting a touch of their foolishness.
Xie Jiuniang foolishly picked up Old He on her back, ready to leave the area far behind.
She did not know that danger was about to descend upon her.
Not far away, a soul bead the size of a chicken egg buried in the earth suddenly cracked open.
Daoyin’s spiritual soul, just before the explosion, separated from his body and escaped into a soul bead. Unfortunately, the soul bead was at the center of the explosion and couldn’t withstand it, almost getting destroyed. It was only by his desperate effort to protect it with his divine sense that it didn’t shatter on the spot, though it was almost on the verge of doing so.
Without the soul bead to sustain it, and lacking any Ghost Cultivation Technique.
The spiritual soul couldn’t be exposed directly to the outside world.
Otherwise, under the influence of the rules of heaven and earth, the spiritual soul would slowly dissipate.
Must he find someone to possess?
The closest people to where the soul bead fell were none other than Xie Jiuniang and Old He.
He discarded the notion of Old He’s broken body; possessing a dying man would be useless.
Daoyin thought of Xie Jiuniang.
Thinking of her Impurity-Free Body, he was overjoyed, for it was a divine gift of a vessel. Most importantly, he did not sense any protective measures left by the Divinity Transformation level being on Xie Jiuniang.
The moment he saw Xie Jiuniang was about to leave with Old He on her back.
Daoyin couldn’t afford further thought; his spiritual soul left the soul bead, and directly charged towards Xie Jiuniang’s glabella.
As soon as he entered Xie Jiuniang’s Sea of Consciousness, he was stunned.
A Sea of Consciousness at the Foundation Establishment’s initial stage, on par with a Golden Core’s? Also, why is someone’s Sea of Consciousness silver?
What is that leaf?
For someone at the Divinity Transformation level to possess a minor Foundation Establishment, it should have been easy. However, when Daoyin burst in, he found that the expected struggle for the spiritual soul didn’t happen.
He couldn’t find Xie Jiuniang’s spiritual soul at all, and at the same time, he felt immense danger emanating from that leaf. Searᴄh the NovelZone.fun website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
Xie Jiuniang still sensed that something was wrong.
The instant something hit her glabella, her head felt dizzy for a while.
She quickly found that a big gray blob had barged into her Sea of Consciousness from above – the spiritual soul of a cultivator.
"It’s Daoyin’s spiritual soul, oh, he actually wants to possess the master? How foolishly ambitious," Jian Lingyan was very calm.
Could a Child of Destiny be possessed?
Whatever divine soul that possesses the Child of Destiny, no matter how formidable in life, will ultimately be scattered to the winds.
Xie Jiuniang was bracing herself for battle.
In the end, she tensed up for nothing.
The Time Leaf had already made its move against the intruder, its silver light blooming in an instant to envelop the large grey mass, leaving no avenue for escape.
Daoyin exclaimed in horror, "How could this be? Why is there... No, ahh..."
Xie Jiuniang didn’t catch his last words, only hearing his scream of agony.
Soon after, a pitiful plea for mercy came from within the grey mass, "I was wrong, please spare me this once, I know of many opportunities and can tell you their locations..."
"I know where the Child of Destiny is, she carries great fortune on her."
"Please, I beg you, spare me, ah—"
Ordinary people can endure physical pain, but not the torment that comes from the soul.
The reason is that the pain of the soul is countless times stronger than that of the body, as if being slowly dismembered with a blunt knife.
The large grey mass was shrinking little by little, or perhaps it was the silver light that was constricting; the Time Leaf was devouring Daoyin’s spirit, then it overflowed with a wisp of pure soul power.
Xie Jiuniang, having been injured earlier, with her Sea of Consciousness nearly exhausted, could quickly recover by refining this soul power.
Huh, an unexpected blessing?
Xie Jiuniang felt it was a bit surreal.
Daoyin’s spirit was half as strong as in its prime due to the old woman’s self-destruction, but it was still formidable compared to Xie Jiuniang.
But he just had to have the misfortune of picking the wrong target to possess.
It could only be said that the power of the Time Leaf far exceeded her understanding.
Traveling now was out of the question.
Xie Jiuniang threw out a damaged seventh-grade Array Plate, quickly activated it, and set up a Small Isolation Array on top of the already sufficient fifth-grade defense.
After checking for issues, she retrieved the Great Tortoise Shell and brought Old He inside, settling him comfortably before stuffing a Fasting Pill into him.
She sat down to concentrate on refining the soul power in her Sea of Consciousness. There was quite a bit of soul power, and before refining it, her head swelled with dizziness.
Listening to Daoyin’s continuous screams of agony...
Suddenly, she spitefully said to the half-demolished grey mass, "Daoyin, to tell you the truth, I am precisely the... Child of Destiny you mentioned."
Upon hearing this, Daoyin’s screams came to an abrupt halt.
The Child of Destiny?
He was opposing the Child of Destiny?
Xie Ying of the Tianxu Sect wasn’t the chosen one?
And the Child of Destiny... was someone else!
The rest of Daoyin’s spirit almost collapsed in regret, "If you are the Child of Destiny, why didn’t you say so earlier? Why didn’t you?! You, you, you..."
A string of curse-filled utterances followed, almost like a traditional opera.
It was unimaginable to think that someone usually so aloof and powerful could be reduced to a street hooligan.
In the end, he wept and begged, "I am willing to sign a servant’s contract with you, please let me go. I didn’t know you were the Child of Destiny, I didn’t know..."
"How could you not know? The Gongsun family has traded with me several times."
"Impossible? I haven’t received word that we obtained anything."
"Of course, you wouldn’t. I replaced them with fakes. Doesn’t that Stone Elephant look familiar? I sold a fake one to Gongsun Xue." Xie Jiuniang enjoyed a precise strike to the soul, aiming wherever it would hurt most, "Last time, Gongsun Yu took a lampstand from me, the actual lampstand from Buddha’s Green Lamp."
"However, the one I traded with Gongsun Yu was a fake I made in advance. Impressive, right? Impressive, right? I used a lampstand not worth a single Spirit Stone to trade for an exquisite Water-Repelling Pearl."
"Haha, isn’t it interesting?"
Xie Jiuniang rambled on about how she deceived others with fakes, selling them at high prices.
The young prodigies of the large aristocratic families were like fools, completely manipulated by her, devastating them to the core.
Daoyin regretted this all too late.
If he had known earlier that she was the Child of Destiny, he would have avoided her immediately.
From the conversation, it was evident that the current Child of Destiny had long discovered their intentions and harbored deep hostility towards them. Over the years, no one had detected anything amiss, and she even managed to eliminate the Tianji Building in one fell swoop, while others were still unaware. How terrifying must her mind be at such a young age?
If that were the case, he was doomed.
His family was doomed too...
...
Far away at the Tianxu Sect, Chaoyan dropped everything he was holding the moment the Jade Token broke and hurriedly sought out Chaoruo.
As the Sect Master, Chaoruo had a myriad of daily affairs to handle.
Seeing the rare seriousness in his demeanor, she knew something must have gone wrong.
Chaoruo asked, "Junior Brother, what is this...?"
Chaoyan was heavy-hearted, "The jade token I gave that girl has shattered! It was a token that could withstand a full blow from a Nascent Soul... She has only just achieved Foundation Establishment."
How much force was needed to shatter the Jade Token?
From this, one could imagine the grave danger his young disciple must have encountered outside.
Chaoruo continued to inquire, "Did you make a Soul Token?"
"No," Chaoyan shook his head.
"You just let a young girl of a little over ten go on a training journey like this? I know you’re accepting a disciple for the first time and lack experience, but aren’t you being a bit too carefree?"
"She said she was going to train with her parents. I know their approximate location; I will go find her." The moment the Jade Token broke, Chaoyan sensed the direction and came solely to inform his senior brother.
"You don’t need to worry too much, she even survived Wu Sheng’s assassination attempt. She’s got plenty of valuable things on her." The Sect Master Chaoruo handed him a new Jade Token, "The one you used last time is gone, this one has been newly made by our master, take it."
"Why didn’t master make an extra one for his disciple?"
"The disciple is yours, and you want our master to worry? What are you good for? Or when she returns to the sect, why not let her become master’s direct disciple."
"..." How could that be acceptable? The thought of his disciple becoming his junior sister was utterly disheartening.
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