After the dust settled, the sky was completely darkened, and only the sound of the wind blowing through barren grass filled the valley under the starry sky.
After quite a while, He Kao finally spoke: "You, how can you wield a flying sword?"
i Guyu: "Why can’t I control a sword?"
He Kao: "Aren’t you... the one who lost your supernatural powers?"
i Guyu: "Who told you that? When did I ever lose my divine abilities?"
This question left He Kao stunned, as if a flash of lightning had split open the sky in his mind!
Thinking carefully, i Guyu herself never said she couldn’t use divine powers, everything was inferred by others based on various signs.
How did this guessing ga turn into an accepted fact?
He Kao first heard it from Elder Jiang. (Chapter 206)
According to Jiang Daozhen, i Guyu’s current state was very special. She should have already taken the step of Tier Six Perfection but hadn’t successfully broken through to Tier Seven Cultivation, entering a "Vacuum Realm."
Given his own experience, Elder Jiang told He Kao that in such a situation, one would lose divine abilities... Jiang Daozhen, being a Tier Seven Grand Calculator, could make such a blunder?
Why did others make the sa mistake? Because, based on what happened in Qi Yuan, the smarter and more knowledgeable people were, the easier they misjudged.
Looking back now, the words Elder Jiang told He Kao were judgnts based on personal experience, akin to theoretical discussions. The conclusion was preferential rather than definitive.
His original words were that i Guyu "should" have taken that step, but it was only a likelihood!
The content that followed described what might happen if she took that step. Jiang Daozhen’s words were not false; they were summaries of his firsthand experiences. If i Guyu didn’t take that step, then it was her own matter...
Thinking of this, He Kao’s gaze towards i Guyu was complex.
i Guyu herself never told a lie; she truly ca to Qi Yuan as an ordinary employee. Yet, she flawlessly and cohesively handled two entirely different possibilities.
After coming to Qi Yuan, i Guyu never used her divine powers, possibly trying to take that step through this thod, but obviously, she hadn’t succeeded until today when she had to employ the Rainfall Divine Sword.
He Kao opened his mouth, swallowing many words he wanted to say, and looked up at the sky, saying: "It’s a pity Fabre got away."
i Guyu executed seven kills with one sword, leaving only Fabre to escape. Because Fabre had fled into the sky at the first mont, after i Guyu’s flying sword slew the others, he disappeared without a trace.
i Guyu spoke lightly: "He also escaped by his own capability."
This statent was quite interesting; Fabre indeed escaped using his capability. Who could bla him for having high cultivation and a Flying Divine Artifact? But this was a result of i Guyu’s considerations; she chose to eliminate the others first.
He Kao: "Why not try to capture Fabre first?"
From He Kao’s perspective, removing a Tier Six Physician should have taken priority over the other six.
i Guyu didn’t speak, but sent a Divine Thought, conveying roughly — At Fabre’s cultivation level, even capturing him for interrogation would yield no results. But if he escaped back, he’d beco a clue to investigating the highest levels of the Xiao alliance.
He Kao instantly understood; this was laying groundwork for the future.
This reasoning was sound, but He Kao felt i Guyu implied sothing more. Could she have seen through his identity and guessed he was Hidden Moth?
Hidden Moth possessed a divine skill — Yin Spirit Travel aid at locating targets, provided one was familiar enough with them. For instance, on Mount Everest, He Kao used this thod to find the endangered Lina.
Today, Fabre fled during the Array of Ten Thousand Woods Rejuvenation, and He Kao was already familiar enough with his description and aura. In an unguarded situation, within the range of He Kao’s Divine Sense, Yin Spirit Travel could locate him instantly.
Don’t underestimate the range of one or two kiloters; at critical monts, it could be greatly effective, even provide clues to discover more confidential situations within the Xiao alliance.
He Kao was unsure what i Guyu’s statent ant, but he couldn’t ask further; otherwise, it would be tantamount to self-exposure, so he shifted the topic, asking: "What to do now? What’s next?"
The battle just ended, the battlefield was yet to be cleaned, and the spoils uncollected. Those who dared to ambush Li Xiuyuan and i Guyu certainly brought various magical treasures with them.
Except for Fabre escaping with the Heaven-reaching Feather, everything and everyone else was left behind. They needed sorting and recognition, and traces of the battlefield had to be erased.
i Guyu: "That illusion master brought an invisible artifact. If my guess is right, it should be the lost magical artifact Scenic Smoke of the Xingshen sect, currently transford into invisibility.
You can try to find it, cast a spell to collect it. If you can’t locate it, you may call my sixth uncle over..."
He Kao asked in surprise: "Who is your sixth uncle?"
i Guyu smiled: "You should have t him; he’s i Wenhua, the owner of the noodle shop at the entrance of Sesa Apartnt, also a Tier Five Heart Stealer of the Xingshen sect."
He Kao widened his eyes: "Your close sixth uncle? Your family indeed has amazing talents!"
i Guyu: "Consider him my distant cousin uncle. His father was my grandfather’s cousin. My father was an only child but ranked second in the family’s genealogy of that generation, and he ranked sixth. So, I call him Sixth Uncle.
My father worked in Han Ning City, and I was born in Han Ning City District. Sixth Uncle lives in the old family ho in Xiangba County. He’s a sorcerer of the Heart Plate sect, and he’s the one who introduced to the Magic sect. I joined the Alchemy Sect when I was very young..."
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