81: Chapter 77: Skeleton Lotus _1 81: Chapter 77: Skeleton Lotus _1 My body… so much pain!
Jiang Wang woke from his unconscious state, and the first thing he did upon waking was to subconsciously grope around to grab his sword.
Fortunately, the sword was right by his side.
With the sword in his hand, he finally opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was the stalactites hanging upside down.
This was inside so cave.
The process of the previous battle was all etched into his mind; nothing should have been omitted.
His neglect of that deer ox was undoubtedly his fatal mistake.
This annoyed him.
But at the mont the deer ox had leaped into the air, he truly had reached his limit and couldn’t dodge it.
Before pushing open the Heaven and Earth Gate, it was impossible for a human body to walk on air.
Jiang Wang, despite the advantage of the Four Spirits Body Refinent Decision, could at most only extend his airti a bit.
It was definitely impossible for him to escape alive after falling from such a high cliff.
Not to ntion, the deer ox’s full-force strike had instantly dispersed the Path Origin he had stimulated.
He still rembered the horrendous feeling of his body plumting rapidly, his heart rising up limitlessly, as if about to jump out of his throat, taking with it all his life force to flee.
But he couldn’t rember how he had lost consciousness.
So, who saved ?
“Of course, it was who saved you with secret technique,”
This exceedingly seductive voice, as if peering into Jiang Wang’s heart, drifted from far to near, settling into his ears.
Jiang Wang sat up, feeling sothing unusual with his body, but he didn’t have ti to examine it closely because the woman in a black long dress, her face veiled with black gauze, had already approached him.
She’s very strong!
That was Jiang Wang’s first judgnt.
“I’m deeply grateful for you saving my life,” Jiang Wang solemnly expressed his thanks, before asking, “May I know your na?”
“My given na, I will not disclose.
n are all the sa anyway; what cos too easily is also too easily forgotten,” the veiled woman said with a voice that seed to scratch no itch, never landing solidly in reality.
She extended a hand, fairer than snow, and lightly brushed the tip of Jiang Wang’s nose with her finger, “You just need to rember, it was I who saved you…”
Jiang Wang wasn’t Zhao Rucheng, who has experienced such scenes.
He was just freshly escaped from the jaws of death, and he couldn’t help but panic.
Fortunately, he was holding onto his longsword.
The cold sensation of it made him slightly calr.
He managed a wry smile, “If I don’t know the lady’s na…”
He glanced at the woman’s veil, and said with an awkward smile, “And I don’t know the lady’s face.
This is…”
How could he rember?
he thought.
“Hee,” The veiled woman covered her forehead and laughed, “You really are adorable.”
“Err…” Jiang Wang subconsciously tightened his grip on the longsword.
It wasn’t because he felt threatened, but because he was genuinely nervous.
The veiled woman crouched in front of Jiang Wang, her long dress touching the ground, using her knee to prop her elbow, and resting her head on her hand, she gazed straight into Jiang Wang’s eyes, “Don’t worry, I will co to look for you later.
By then, once you see , you will recognize .
Unless you… pretend not to know .”
Her srizing eyes suddenly carried a hint of sadness, “Would you… do that?”
“No… I wouldn’t.” While silently reciting a scripture in his mind, Jiang Wang earnestly responded, “I dare not forget such a life-saving grace.”
“I knew it, you’re a good kid.”
Kid?
Perhaps this was a senior practitioner with accomplished cultivation…
Jiang Wang unconsciously shifted back a little.
But as if the woman read his mind once again, she coquettishly said, “What are you thinking, I’m about your age!”
The feeling of embarrassnt was like stepping into a series of pit traps, each step leading into another.
Jiang Wang couldn’t help but ask, “How are things up on Jade Balance Peak now?”
“What else could they be?
They left without any achievents,” the veiled woman answered nonchalantly, before adding, “Don’t worry, your little sweetheart is fine.”
“What little sweetheart!” Jiang Wang almost jumped up, “Ru Cheng and I are good brothers!”
“I’m talking about the beauty from the Kingdom in the Clouds, why are you so agitated?” The veiled woman deliberately widened her eyes in a surprised way, but the teasing in the depths of her gaze still betrayed her.
“What beauty?
She’s got her face covered too, who knows if she’s even pretty.” Constantly teased, Jiang Wang couldn’t help but retort, then said, “I don’t even know her, so you should stop saying things like that…”
“Oh, you don’t even care about a beauty…” The woman blinked, “Then rest assured, your brother…
is also fine.”
She deliberately emphasized the word “brother.”
Jiang Wang was truly at a loss; if this were a duel, he would have long since conceded by throwing down his sword.
He simply clasped his hands in thanks, “I appreciate your help, senior.
I will surely repay the favor in the future.
Now I must return, my friends are probably very worried.”
“Who’s your senior?
Maybe I’m even younger than you are?”
“Then…”
The woman’s eyes sparkled with amusent, “Call sister.”
“…”
“Alright, I’ll stop troubling you.
But don’t you feel any changes in your body?”
Speaking of changes in his body, there indeed were so, especially a slight cool sensation on his back.
But he had just woken up, and the woman had approached him imdiately, leaving no ti to investigate.
“What are you referring to?” Jiang Wang asked.
“You have no idea what you looked like when you fell.
That pathetic sight…” The lady in black veil shook her head, as if she couldn’t bear to recall, “For your sister to have revived you and made you so lively, first, it’s because your sister has high cultivation, second, the secret technique is potent.
And thirdly…
you resonate especially well with this secret technique!”
Hearing the woman’s tone, Jiang Wang felt uneasy.
“May I know what secret technique the lady used?”
The woman in black veil dodged the question, simply saying, “It seems you have a faint connection with the Taiyin Star, don’t you?
In the Taoist orthodoxy, there aren’t many ways to co in contact with Taiyin Star Power, especially at your level.”
Drawing Star Power is sothing for the External Building Environnt, and if Jiang Wang had any connection with the Taiyin Star Power, it could only be because of the Taixu Illusion Realm.
But that was his biggest secret.
Now that he had officially beco Transcendent, he understood more about the cultivation world.
However, he had never heard anyone ntion the Taixu Illusion Realm, suggesting it had yet to be widely known.
Or perhaps, at his current level, he was far from being qualified to touch it.
He naturally didn’t want to expose it.
“Your secret technique…
involves the Taiyin Star?
I gather from the lady’s aning…” Jiang Wang deliberately said, “You don’t belong to the Taoist orthodoxy?”
“Call sister.” The woman in black veil gently tapped Jiang Wang, it felt more like flirtation than annoyance.
She then said, “We are one of the few orthodoxies.”
“May I ask…” Jiang Wang blurred over the formality, “Which lineage does it co from, Daluo Mountain, Jade Capital Mountain, Penglai Island?”
“It’s a secret!” The eyes of the woman in black veil were filled with laughter, “Don’t you want to take a look?”
“Look at…
what?”
A slender, boneless jade hand of the woman in black veil lightly lifted in front of Jiang Wang, and then her index finger drew downwards.
Caught off guard, Jiang Wang’s shirt split open, revealing a muscular torso.
He instinctively wanted to cross his arms over his chest, but that seed too timid, so he simply stood rigidly still.
Little did he know, this made him appear even more bashful.
The woman in black veil sohow produced a small mirror and slowly approached Jiang Wang, placing the brass mirror behind him.
“Look at ,” she said.
“Huh?” Jiang Wang was taken aback.
“Look into my eyes~”
She was so close, her breath fragrant, as if blowing across his face through the layer of black veil.
“Don’t overthink it…
You see, from my eyes, look at the reflection of your back in the mirror.”
Clang!
Jiang Wang drew his sword from its sheath.
The woman in black veil showed no surprise, remaining unruffled as ever and as close as before.
Jiang Wang leaned back slightly, placing the sword horizontally in front of him, using the blade to reflect the mirror.
“This way, I can see more clearly,” he said.
Then he saw that, at the base of his neck where it t the spine, a lotus had blood at so unknown ti.
It was a sinister lotus with petals of white bone.
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