Chapter 16

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The next moment, a huge wave of red light landed on Mu Yao.

It wasn’t because Mu Yao stopped running, nor was it because the man stopped her.

Instead, it was because the soldiers knew that they could no longer persuade the princess not to send herself to her death.

Therefore, the soldiers had a tacit understanding and approached the spot where the Blood Pupil was shooting out its red light.

It should have taken a few seconds before the light hit them. However, they could not afford to wait any longer and flew toward that direction, sending themselves to sure death.

A wave of red light swept across the group of black shadows and Mu Yao saw it happen right in front of her eyes.

“No! Don’t die! If you die, you will never be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation again!”

The large group of black shadows had used what little soul power they had left to give Mu Yao a chance to live.

The next second, the general shouted, “Your Highness, we can die without regrets!”

“We can die without regrets!”

“We can die without regrets!” The soldiers echoed until the voices ceased at last.

The dark figures of the soldiers vanished before Mu Yao’s eyes without leaving a single trace. In an instant, the black shadows disappeared from the valley.

Mu Yao was dumbfounded. The next second, she felt the man hug her anxiously. “Leave quickly!”

The black shadow door was not far from the both of them and they could easily jump across the door.

However, the Blood Pupil naturally wouldn’t let them off.

No matter how capable the Heavenly God was, he could not cause trouble once the pair left the mystical realm since it did not have a real body and could only rely on its phantom image.

Even in Tianlong, it had to rely on parasites to survive. That was also why it was omnipresent. As long as it had a parasite, such as a mirror, it could use it as a carrier.

However, it was impossible to manage with just a mirror in Tianlong. As such, the Blood Pupil had roped in the sorcerer and priest into his scheme.

The Blood Pupil scoffed. “What a bunch of idiotic souls who don’t know what’s good for them. How dare they fight me? They are simply courting death! Their souls were scattered by my attack so quickly!

Muahaha! They’re so useless! And you two, don’t even dream about leaving my mystical realm!”

The earlier scene replayed in Mu Yao’s head. The thousands of black shadows had simply disappeared in front of her eyes! She had been meaning to save them! That was exactly what she wanted to do. She had even been holding a sword, yet she’d let them die for her.

They yearned to return to the human world and to enter the cycle of reincarnation again. They desperately desired to bring happiness to Tianlong as well!

The words they said before they died echoed in her mind.

“Your Highness, we really want to reincarnate!”

“Your Highness, please save us! Bring us out! Even if we can’t get out, we have to let the people of Tianlong know how we died and tell them the truth!”

There was also the general’s fearless shout, “Your Highness! We can die without regrets!”

Li Dan’s voice rang out, “Your Highness! I’m not afraid of death! I just want the truth to be told to the entire world. I want them to know what kind of blood-sucking monster the heavenly deity they believe to be real and serve is!”

…

The voices echoed in her mind. However, she could no longer hear the shouts of the soldiers.

Mu Yao tightened her grip on the silver sword. Veins popped up on her fair hands.

At this moment, she felt all sorts of complicated emotions in her heart. She could feel the anger in her entire body rising up and flowing rapidly through her bloodstream.

She even felt as though she was going to float up into the air.

On a certain green vine on the cliff, tens of thousands of green glassy beads of light floated toward Mu Yao. As the lava flowed, thousands more red lights the size of glass beads floated toward Mu Yao.

Mu Yao slowly closed her eyes as she gradually floated into the air.

A few spots of light of different colors gathered together and floated toward Mu Yao before merging with her.

All of a sudden, the Blood Pupil shouted, “What? How is this possible? This little girl actually had an epiphany! Is she drawing their aura into her body?!”

The man was thrown to the side by the blinding light surrounding Mu Yao.

He watched worriedly as Mu Yao floated into the air and exclaimed worriedly, “Woman, you’re… drawing aura into your body!”

Absorbing aura into one’s body was something that people with spiritual roots but no talent yearned for. Even if people were born with an enviable spiritual root, many would never even have the chance to have an epiphany because of the lack of talent. There were even some people who would only have the chance to have an epiphany in their twilight years.

But by then, drawing aura into the body would be meaningless. After all, drawing aura into one’s body meant that one had advanced in cultivation.

With hard work, one would then be able to slowly advance through the Aura Refining stages. After an epiphany, one would then enter the Foundation Building stage. Then, another epiphany would bring one to the Nascent Soul stage. It was even possible for him to ascend to become an exalted immortal.

However, all of this stemmed from one’s spirit root and talent. If a person didn’t have the opportunity to draw aura into his body, there was no possibility of ever advancing in the future.

There were only a handful of people in Tianlong who were fortunate enough to draw aura into their bodies.

Now that Mu Yao had drawn aura into her body, the Imperial Preceptor’s residence had two such talents.

In the entire Tianlong, there had never been a middle-stage Foundation Building Cultivator who could surpass the priest Tianxiang of the Tianlong Temple. The only exception was the so-called Blood Pupil or Heavenly God, who relied on everyone’s soul power to advance his own cultivation.

“Hahaha! So what if you drew aura into your body! No matter what, you’re just like an ant in my eyes. I can easily trample you to death!”

Meanwhile, energy gathered around Mu Yao and she then entered a state of meditation as the energy surrounding her was transferred into her body.

All of the blood in her body came alive, and immediately after, due to the effects of both the Soul Elixir and epiphany,

Mu Yao felt a power she had never felt before surging through her body. It was almost as though her soul power was trying to break out of her body!

She had never experienced such power before she reincarnated because she had been living in the Imperial Preceptor’s residence for as long as she could remember.

Although her life was ordinary and peaceful, she was often mocked by her siblings for having no talent and being a good-for-nothing with spiritual roots.

She had never experienced the energy of an epiphany before she died..