The Villain Fox's Sickly Beauty Master - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: As Expected of My Reincarnation.
Fu Yi had actually woken up when Jiang Jinheng spoke in a low voice, but surprised by her presence and not wanting to face her so quickly, she continued to feign unconsciousness.
The unknown talisman made her head feel dizzy, but she could still feel the ice-blue spiritual energy in her body helping to clear her meridians, and her injuries didn’t seem as painful as before.
In this moment, Fu Yi felt a certain gratitude towards her. Although she woke up late and was oblivious to everything that had just happened, she knew that without Jiang Jinheng’s timely appearance, her life might have been lost to those two.
Despite this, Fu Yi still mocked Jiang Jinheng’s poor acting. If there was no Luan Qiu in this Secret Realm, only Xue Qin, and she left so much spiritual energy in her body, did she truly think Fu Yi wouldn’t notice anything?
That’s right, in her eyes, I should just be a novice who hasn’t stepped into cultivation yet. How could I distinguish whose spiritual energy is in my body?
After thinking this, Fu Yi was contemplating how to find the right moment to awaken, but in the next moment, the person hurriedly picked her up, quickly found a place to settle her, and when Fu Yi opened her eyes again, she could only see a faintly blue-glowing barrier in front of her and a figure that was gradually turning transparent.
She is… a clone.
In the previous life, Fu Yi was imprisoned in the water dungeon when her cultivation was still shallow, followed by a century of confinement. Before she was locked away, she had just entered the Nascent Soul stage and was not yet familiar with the divine powers that could only be unleashed in the Soul Transformation stage, only vaguely hearing people mention them.
In cases of such urgent recall of a clone, it usually meant that the main body was under immense threat or severely injured. Otherwise, no one would do something so damaging to their core essence.
Whether it was the former or the latter, Fu Yi should have been happy, but as she turned the storage ring on her thumb, she felt an unsettling feeling in her heart.
In a trance, her divine sense probed the storage ring. It was a mess from being rummaged through. There were many elixirs, talismans, and spiritual materials, but for some reason, Fu Yi found a compass underneath a pile of things and belatedly discovered a wisp of her own spiritual energy on it.
Cang Yu and his group probably used this to track her location earlier.
And she just happened to have a lot of Jiang Jinheng’s spiritual energy in her body…
Fu Yi’s thoughts became chaotic. Revenge was indeed important, but Jiang Jinheng had just saved her life. She certainly couldn’t save that person from danger, but ingratitude, for a cultivator, was a major taboo in cultivation and would surely cause her progress to stagnate in the future.
Thinking this, Fu Yi forced a tiny bit of the ice-blue spiritual energy out of her body, gently guiding it to the groove in the compass.
Just to follow it and take a look from afar, just a look. If Jiang Jinheng, who was so powerful, couldn’t handle it, all Fu Yi could do by going was this much. It would at least… put her mind at ease.
On the other side.
Jiang Jinheng only recalled the clone after 007 confirmed that it had settled Fu Yi properly. It was only when 007 suddenly mentioned that her Aura of Destiny had increased by a thousand that she curiously asked for the reason and learned about the situation with the clone.
She hadn’t expected Mo Tong and Cang Yu to be so bold and foolish as to harm her disciple. Fortunately, the clone arrived in time, or she truly would have suffered this silently.
However, Jiang Jinheng truly hadn’t expected Mo Tong to lose an arm and consequently withdraw from the Secret Realm. This also meant that apart from the spiritual sword he obtained at the beginning, all subsequent opportunities in the Secret Realm would be missed by him, which was indeed good news for her, and it even added a thousand points to her Aura of Destiny.
This is what the Son of Destiny is like without the protection of the Heavenly Dao.
Jiang Jinheng understood this, but the most important task now was to deal with the big trouble in front of her.
“I have no feud with you, so why did you have this Teng Snake use the Secret Realm to trap me here?”
Sensing the woman holding the sword in front of her suddenly surge in spiritual energy, the woman Jiang Jinheng called “Fentian” narrowed her eyes. She swiftly twirled the twin blades in her hands twice.
“So you’ve reached the Body Integration stage already…” Fentian muttered softly to herself, in a voice only she could hear, then pointed the blade at Jiang Jinheng: “You will know naturally after you lose to me.”
“What an arrogant statement.”
Jiang Jinheng knew from 007’s calculation results that this person was only residing in the Teng Snake’s body as a soul entity, and this soul entity must have escaped during the siege. She was unsure how much cultivation it still possessed.
Judging by the knife attack that blocked you just now, it has at least the strength of the mid-Soul Transformation stage.
With too little available information, 007 could only analyze this much. Seeing Jiang Jinheng’s thoughts growing heavier as she stared at the person, it also felt very uncomfortable.
But without battle data, it truly couldn’t help at all.
In a flash, Fentian instantly moved in front of Jiang Jinheng, and one curved blade struck straight toward her brow. Fortunately, Jiang Jinheng reacted quickly and raised her sword to block, but the force of the blow was so great that it sent her staggering back four steps, and even her arm felt numb.
This person hasn’t even used a spell yet, but her movement technique and combat experience are far superior to mine.
Jiang Jinheng thought this while dodging Fentian’s attacks, occasionally stabbing at her with her sword, but Fentian also neutralized each attack. The two engaged in a fight purely based on sword and blade techniques. After several hundred rounds, neither body showed a single scratch.
Although Jiang Jinheng also practiced swordplay, she hadn’t trained her body as rigorously as ordinary sword cultivators due to her frailty since childhood, which was why she reluctantly focused on sound cultivation. After hundreds of rounds like this, a thin layer of sweat naturally formed on her forehead, and her chest heaved. In contrast, Fentian appeared calm and composed, as if the person she had just fought was not her.
“As expected of my reincarnation. It’s just that this body is indeed lacking.”
This sentence sounded like a clap of thunder in Jiang Jinheng’s ears, and she instantly froze for a moment. Fentian, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to clasp her hands and chant a spell. As her technique took effect, a cluster of vines suddenly sprang up from the ground where Jiang Jinheng stood, attempting to completely entangle her.
Host!
Only Fentian’s exclamation brought Jiang Jinheng back to reality. She jumped up, holding Chongxiao, and with spiritual energy covering the sword, instantly slashed away the vines. She looked up and saw a slightly regretful expression on Fentian’s face.
“What a pity, I was so close. Looks like I’ll have to consume a bit more of your energy.”
Saying that, she raised her blade and rushed over again. While defending, Jiang Jinheng still couldn’t help but ask, “What did you mean by that just now?”
The clash of blade and sword emitted a crisp, ringing sound. But while Jiang Jinheng’s face was filled with a sense of being provoked, Fentian smiled with abandon.
“It means exactly what it sounds like. Did you think you were simply abandoned when you were found on the extreme northern ice fields? You should know, I spent a great deal of effort to get you there.”
Jiang Jinheng thought of the matter that had troubled her throughout her entire childhood, now being lightly dismissed by this woman with an alternative explanation. Her eyes naturally turned scarlet.
“You’re lying.”
The sentence she uttered through gritted teeth was only met with a smile from Fentian.
“It’s precisely because you believe it that you’re so angry.”