Hearing her words I understood that she was able to read my thoughts again, this seemed to have offended her more than anything that I had said or done before .
But since I was in the wrong here, I didn't try to say anything that might end up angering her even more, I kept my mouth shut and felt that there seem to be something swirling in my mind, I couldn't help but close my eyes to check it on .
Using Mental Energy or as she called it Soul Power, I was able to see a shadow of that Green Feather gleaming and swirling in my mind, I couldn't help but become so shocked that I was kicked out of my focused state and returned back to reality .
The place she taped with her hand before didn't hurt anymore, I looked at her completely unable to understand what was going on and what exactly was that thing, seeing me looking at her like this, she seemed to be aware of what I was thinking, since she said :
Cough, normally, creating a Soul Weapon required severe requirements and sacrifices, not to mention that it required a high level of strength or a great attainments in the the Soul Path, there are some people with special circumstances that are born with Soul Weapons, the girl here is one of them .
Other may acquire it later in life, the thing that distinguished these weapons of Spirit-grade ones are their capability to grow with their user, not to mention that without a permission of the user or him dying, no one can hope to use the soul weapon .
The weapons are defined more by their ability to injure the soul of the opponent, but the damage might backslash on the user if the opponent have powerful soul, the weapons are also quite sharp, some soul weapons can have an auxiliary supporting effect as well .
The advantages to owning a Soul Weapon is numerous, but only a few people can be fortunate enough to have a chance to acquire them, the only downside to the Soul Weapon is that they consume quite the amount of soul power, that what was burdening your friend here .
Otherwise, if she had enough soul power or even some amount close to yours, she shouldn't have gotten injured so badly, but from now on this won't be an issue anymore, she will be ascending to heaven in quite a short period of time .
As she finished telling me this, the shadowed figure began to seem like its tone became solemn all of a sudden, she continued to say :
With that said, the connection between you is meant to be broken sooner than later, keeping it intact will only gave her doubts and unnecessary trouble, so I hope that when she woke up, you would tell her that you are taking your words back and that a future between you two will only endanger you in the future .
I'm planning to take her as my disciple you see, the disciple of our esteemed power can only marry someone that the elders and the leader deem of a value, so your existence might make matters somewhat difficult, I hope you understand .
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Hearing what she had to say and the notification that suddenly rang in my mind I couldn't help but have a cold grin appear on my face as I looked at the shadow in front of me and said :
" I believe that you had made the same offer to Liu'er and that friend of hers as well, after all that guy is only at the 3rd layer of Flesh Tempering, didn't you ? .
The shadowed figure seemed to be momentarily stunned at me becoming aware of this, but I didn't care in the slightest about how was she feeling about my words, her expression was already more than enough to tell me that what I expected did indeed happen .
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" Stop trying to make that so-called gift of yours to kill me, it won't be listening to you from here on out, I'm curious though, what was their response to you ? .
The shadowed figure looked completely bewildered at her not been able to get any response from the so-called Soul Weapon Projection she most likely had implemented in my mind as her last drastic measure, but now with the Panel interference, her whole plan seemed to have been rendered useless .
That was the reason for my cold grin, I never would have thought that her purpose was actually this, if I'm not guessing wrongly the projection in front of me was left by her real body, which I'm now quite certain that it's no longer in the region, from her previous words, I'm able to understand that the place they had gone to seemed quite far as well, at least that what I thought, but as if sensing my thoughts, I saw that the shadowed figure suddenly closed her eyes .
Then the next second she opened them, they were no longer two bulbs of light as before, but now I saw two piercing eyes that seemed to give anyone who look at them feel like he fell in an ice lake, the eyes already gave a kind of an invisible pressure, not to mention the pressure that started to become even more intense than before .
She looked at me as if looking at air, that's how insignificant I looked to her eyes, then she turned her gaze towards the still sleeping Chu Ji Xi and in her eyes, I managed to see some appreciation, she seemed quite content of the latter's talent and potential .
Then after she finished adoring Ji Xi's talent, she turned towards me and said :
Kneel .
Then as if mountains were suddenly being pressed on me to bear, I felt as if my back was beginning to hunch forward, my legs seemed to be about to give in any second now and even with the deployment of my soul power and my spiritual qi, I was still unable to bear with the pressure on me .
Through gritted teeth, I was suddenly recalling every time I was humiliated like this before and time after time, I continued to bear with such treatment silently, but it wasn't like me to keep being the only one suffering like this, I recall hearing the old say about how the Dragons have one place that once someone come even close to trigger it, he should be prepared to meet the Dragon's Wrath, that body part is called the Inverse Scale .
The anger I began to feel accumulating inside my body currently was because that woman came her with the purpose of triggering that inverse scale and like the dragon, she was trying to break my confidence and step on my dignity with her feet, touching my inverse scale and crossing my bottom line, so I too become wrathful .
Withdrawing Retribution from my Beast Pouch, I directly began to channel all my Blood Qi and the whole blade began to shine with an ominous purple glow that directly began to fight against the green glow of the scene, the pressure on me also dissipated instantly and I saw the woman who was now hovering in the air ahead of me knitted her eyebrows together and seem to be frowning at the appearance of the Resentment energy .
Who are you and how come you aren't affected by the resentment energy ? .
" So now are you ready to have a normal conversation like civilized people ? .
She squinted those green eyes of hers at me and I didn't care about whether she was angered by my words or not, I continued to say nonetheless, my tone wasn't as polite as before :
" Well, I won't be answering any of your questions, but you have the freedom to answer my questions .
Her cheeks winced slightly and I felt her anger rising, but she was still not willing to attack, which meant that the resentment qi in my possession made her wary, or maybe the whole situation was quite strange to her, either way, it worked greatly in my favor .
" So can I presume that reached a compromise of somehow with Li Fu, or did you took the girl Liu'er away by force, oh and right, what should I call you Senior ? .
You are not worthy to be my Junior, I'm not looking down on you on purpose, but the faction behind me and behind this girl from now on as well could be said to have janitors more stronger than you, but if a name was what you require, then call me Feng Rui .
" Madame Feng then, would you be kind enough and answer my question ? .
An enemy of mine appeared and I indulged in a small fight with him before he escaped, the boy took the girl with my permission, then I locate them later and gave my proposition to the boy and the girl's family were more than willing, but the girl still insisted on taking that kid's opinion, before she made up her mind .
The girl willingly agreed to come with me but she was still a bit reluctant to say farewell to that kid, he also didn't seem to understand his place as he was arrogant just like you and agreed to make a bet with me .
In two years he will come to ask for Liu'er to be his spouse, he also threaten that if she was forced to do anything that she didn't want, he will destroy our Mountain Gate, what a silly threat, that's all that happened, do you believe it, if you don't you can allow me to enter your sea of conscious and display what happened in image .
After hearing the details of what had happened, I was a bit relieved, but for some reason the anger in my heart wasn't subsiding, hearing what she wanted to do, I said with a sneer :
" Whether you are telling the truth or not is of no concern to me, all I wanted to know was whether they are fine or not, as for you wanting to show me what happened, let me warn you that if you did this, I won't be able to promise that your Projection will be able to continue existing, you yourself might get injured, take this as an act of courtesy for helping the people in this city .
I saw that her face turned a bit ashen, but wanting to express some of the dissatisfaction that I have with their so-called Mountain, I continued to say :
" I don't know about that guy, but what I know is that I had promised this girl something and I'm planning on honoring it, but you don't seem to want me to, well I can understand that this was how things worked in your world, but I will be waiting to hear her opinion on whether she want to break the arrangements between us or not .
" As for you thinking about forcing her into marrying someone worthy of her, this too I can appreciate, but as long as she was the one who decided that, you don't get to choose what's best for her happiness, I hope that we understand each other .
" Last but not least, you need to start revaluate people based on more than their worth to you, I don't know about how the current me will fare in that world of yours, but I'm certain that whether I'm worthy of her or worthy of anyone else is completely up to me to decide .
As I said those last words, I was starting to feel as if something was being unleashed inside me, untamed arrogance and unwavering confidence, that was what I was feeling, but the same can't be said for the green eyed shadowed figure in front of me, as she looked at me she seem to be completely taken aback, seeing her like this quenched some of my anger, as I saw her like this, I believed that there was still something for me to say :
" You guys should at least wait up for her to wake up before start talking about such things, who knows, maybe when she wake up, you will find her changing her mind about the promise, I know right from wrong, at least I know enough to thank you once again for saving the people this city, else, there might have gotten seriously injured at least, so once again thanks .
The woman seemed to be still engrossed in her bewilderment, for a long time, she didn't seem to react, her eyes kept flashing and changing, then I saw that she finally seemed to have come back to her senses and said :
I can't read your destiny, that either mean that you have someone stronger than me safekeeping it or that you have no destiny going further, what I can tell though, is that you will encounter a disaster once you come out of this place .
It seem that you might die, even way before the envoy that we will send to fetch that girl to the Palace, if you don't die this time, how about I make another bet with you, the envoy we will send should take roughly half a year to come back here, if you manged to beat the envoy, I might start taking you and your words a bit more seriously, what do you say .
I understood that the reason to why she was so determined in creating this kind of situation, was to test me and see if I'm just talking big, I looked at the silhouette in the sky and said :
" Well, I accept, you can wake her up now .
The silhouette in the sky shook her head and said :
She won't be walking up for some time, the changes to her fate and bloodline will take some time for her body to adapt and adjust itself completely, she would wake up as a completely different person, as you have said before, I believe that she might reconsider whether to stay by your side and become medicore through the rest of her life, or will she cut all her mundane ties and decide to seek strength and immortality .
" I strongly agree with you, but once again I shall remind you of the consequences that came from you forcing her to do something she don't, that guy had promised to destroy your Mountain's Gates, I will be even more presumptuous and cruel enough and promise that at that time I would raise the whole place to the ground .
I saw that was grinding her teeth at me for a few seconds, then she started chuckling as if she completely regarded my threats as nothing but empty words, understanding this I didn't try to push it, I was about to find a place to regulate my breathing and meditate on the gains that I have gotten so far, but I saw that she suddenly waved her hand and the green cloud that Chu Ji Xi was sitting on started to descend beside me .
The woman who was still in the sky gave me a stern look, then she started to disintegrate into particles of green light, seeing her leaving, filled me with relieved, it was a bit nerve-racking to deal with such a strong figure with my current Practice Realm .
I have a half year period of time, then after that, I should be eligible to venture deeply into the Northern parts and seek where that place ' Phoenix Nest ' was, but even if I went there Li Fu might not come unless the deadline of the two years came, what a dramatic development .
As I was thinking like that, the cave suddenly started to shake and it seemed to be starting to crumble, the Green Feather had become something akin to a hairpin on Chu Ji Xi hair, the girl scar had also disappeared, but all this didn't surprise me as much as seeing how the cave looked like currently .
There were metallic pillars supporting the cave, the place where the Feather was seemed to be made of some kind of unique stone, whatever that cave was made of, it didn't seem as simple as I had thought before, but not willing to waste anymore time, I put the girl on my back and started taking the path that woman had made for us which I had only discovered about just now .
The passage behind us seemed to be quickly collapsing which forced me to even move faster than it, using Charging Tiger together with Gliding Swallow adding my enhanced senses to the mix, allowed me to make the right decision about which path to take, after what seemed to be 5 minutes and with the whole cave passage collapsing on itself, we once again saw the starry skies and finally came out .
Someone had come out .