Chapter 97 "Lin Xiu Ran"
Leng Yu also sensed it. She struggled to raise her head, and her first glance fell upon the man's tightly closed eyes within the nine-colored gemstone.
Although his eyes were tightly closed, for some reason, she felt as if she were staring back at him.
Just then, a phantom of a phoenix flashed deep within Leng Yu's pupils. The next second, the light from the nine-colored gemstone suddenly illuminated the entire cave.
The three bloodthirsty ice wolves howled in terror, frantically fleeing outwards.
The ice bird, which had been on the verge of death, gradually regained its vitality under the illumination of the nine-colored light, reaching its peak condition.
It gazed in awe at the center of the nine-colored light, let out a high-pitched cry, and then slowly lowered its head.
It was indeed an ordinary ice bird Soul Beast, but it unexpectedly possessed the most special bloodline—a trace of phoenix blood.
This gave it greater talent than its fellow ice birds, allowing it to progress far on the path of cultivation.
However, gradually, because its bloodline became stronger and its talent better, its cultivation speed also increased, and its once-close members of its clan gradually passed away. Low cultivation meant a shorter life—this was unavoidable.
Later, it chose to leave its clan and live alone, where it later encountered a male ice bird that also possessed phoenix blood.
They had offspring, but because the ice bird phoenix's bloodline power was weaker, it passed away.
Only it remained, and then it discovered this place. It didn't know exactly what it was, but its bloodline told it to protect it.
That's why Leng Yu witnessed the scene at the beginning.
Leng Yu, being at the very center of the nine-colored glow, received the greatest impact. She felt as if she had
undergone a personal transformation. Her martial soul seemed to be changing. As an adopted daughter of the Leng family, this was due to her phoenix martial soul. But now, she felt her martial soul evolving—not just mutating, but evolving in every way, a comprehensive improvement. She was already a highly talented genius, and now she estimated she would become even stronger.
After calming her body, Leng Yu composed herself and looked towards the location of the enormous nine-colored gem.
The gem had long since vanished, leaving only a nine-colored ball of light.
Leng Yu hesitated for a moment, then slowly reached out and caught the ball of light.
The moment her hands touched the ball of light, the light gradually faded, revealing an infant, about a year old, cradled in her arms.
She didn't know exactly what had happened, but a name faintly echoed in her mind.
"Lin Xiu Ran."
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"This is about when I found you."
Leng Yaozhu was telling Lin Xiu Ran, who was lying on the bed, about these things, about his mother.
"These are all what Yu'er told me. As for whether there's anything else, even I don't know much about it."
Lin Xiu Ran frowned slightly, then asked, "Then why was she later mistaken for an evil Soul Master, and why did it lead to a large-scale invasion of Shrek Academy by evil Soul Masters?"
Leng Yaozhu sighed softly, "At that time, when Yu'er had just returned from the far north, she had no other symptoms besides the benign mutation of her martial soul."
She paused for a moment, then continued, "Later, she studied at Shrek Academy. I was quite busy during that time, so I didn't see my third sister again. But later, the aura within my third sister became more and more like that of a Soul Beast. According to the reply given by Shrek Academy later, no matter how you felt about it, the aura indicated that Yu'er was a transformed Soul Beast."
"And she frequently went berserk, for some unknown reason, unable to control her body, just like this time. What happened next was that the evil Soul Master learned about Yu'er's situation and subsequently launched a large-scale invasion of Shrek Academy."
"As for the reason the evil Soul Master came, it might be related to the power within you that caused you to lose control. Yu'er at that time might have been affected by the same thing."
Lin Xiu Ran fell silent. He clearly understood the feeling at the time—completely unable to control his body, unlike a second personality. It was as if a small amount of negative emotion within him had been amplified and exploded, causing him to lose control of his body.
It was like hearing that Zhao Tou Tie had indirectly harmed his mother, and then tearing him apart in a rage.
"So the evil Soul Master succeeded?" Lin Xiu Ran asked.
Leng Yaozhu nodded heavily: "It's a success. No one expected that after ten thousand years, the Holy Spirit Church, which had seemingly vanished, would make a comeback, and its target was Shrek Academy. Originally, with Yun Ming's resistance, the Holy Spirit Church shouldn't have been a match for Shrek Academy, but at the last moment, a powerful evil Soul Master appeared, whose strength was definitely no weaker than Yun Ming's, and perhaps even surpassed it. If it weren't for the timely arrival of the Tang Sect's experts and the Spirit Pagoda's experts..." "I'm afraid that time it wasn't just about Yu'er and you being captured. Even so, that powerful evil Soul Master still used a special artifact to imprison Yun Ming's cultivation, but she herself was also severely injured. But in the end, they still succeeded and took Yu'er and you away."
Lin Xiu Ran's head was spinning. Sure enough, the butterfly effect had changed a lot of things, and his own identity was still a secret.
Leng Yaozhu felt a pang of regret: "At the time, I was at a crucial stage in my cultivation, and I had just been promoted to the deputy tower master of the Spirit Pagoda. I was very busy with affairs, and she had been cultivating
in the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy, so I didn't notice her abnormality in time." "Moreover, Yu'er is a very independent person. Knowing that she is an adopted daughter of the family, she rarely troubles the family. From childhood to adulthood, she has kept many things to herself or solved them on her own. But I didn't expect that she would end up harming herself in the same way."
Lin Xiu Ran thought for a moment, then asked, "What about Zhao Tou Tie?"
Upon hearing this name, Leng Yaozhu's voice turned cold: "Don't worry about it. If the Tang Clan dares to come, then let them come. If it weren't for their own greed, they wouldn't have ended up like this."
"Back then, he used the excuse of being an evil Soul Master to attack Yu'er several times. In reality, he only believed Yu'er was a transformed Soul Beast and wanted to possess her."
Hearing this, Lin Xiu Ran was very puzzled: "He concluded that Mother was a transformed Soul Beast just from her aura? This is so strange, couldn't they sense it? Why would they take such a risk to attack a disciple of Shrek Academy's inner court?"
Lin Xiu Ran couldn't understand Zhao Tou Tie's behavior. Even if he knew there were transformed Soul Beasts in Shrek Academy, he wouldn't dare to act like this.
But Zhao Tou Tie did it anyway, and judging from Leng Yaozhu's words, it wasn't just once. He didn't succeed, but he exposed Leng Yu to the Holy Spirit Cult, leading to the subsequent events.
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