Chapter 234: From White Swan to Ugly Duckling

Chapter 234: From White Swan to Ugly Duckling

Mysterious light beams surrounded Zhanyue from all sides. He frantically thought of a way out, but none of his abilities seemed capable of escaping this trap.

At the critical moment, Zhanyue felt his body freeze, then suddenly found himself displaced. In his original position now stood a graceful figure – Yunyao.

Countless strange light beams hit Yunyao directly.

Zhanyue remembered that Yunyao had demonstrated a similar spatial ability in the arena before. He hadn’t expected her to instantly swap their positions, taking the Disaster Beast’s attack herself.

“Go!” Yunyao shouted to Zhanyue.

Zhanyue nodded, quickly flying to Yunyao’s side and carrying her far away.Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com

Watching the two fly off, the white-haired monkey attacked wildly in frustration, shooting countless light beams across Monkey Mountain. Chief Ming Guang, watching the battle from afar, felt his heart sink. “Did they lose?”

Zhanyue dared not take Yunyao back to the Spirit Eye Clan’s territory, as he didn’t know what would happen to her after being hit.

“Why... why did you save me?” Zhanyue asked, his face full of guilt. He should have been the one hit, but Yunyao had used her spatial ability to take the blow for him.

“The divine artifact recognized me as its master. It’s better for me to take that strange attack than you. Perhaps the artifact might have some reaction,” Yunyao explained. This was indeed her reasoning – as the one holding the divine artifact this time, she naturally felt responsible.

After flying far enough, Zhanyue threw out his flying sword, carving a cave in a cliff face for them to rest temporarily.

“How... how are you?” Zhanyue looked at Yunyao beside him, anxious about how she might have changed after being hit.

“I’m fine. I don’t feel any abnormalities, just exhausted from the battle, especially from using the spatial ability to swap our positions,” Yunyao explained.

“Wake up, you’re just affected by that light. You’re starting to doubt yourself. What nonsense is this? Although I don’t know what that Thousand Affinity Feather is, the Feather Sky Emperor definitely didn’t underestimate you,” Zhanyue continued to comfort her.

“Stop pretending to comfort me. Someone like me has never been likable. No one likes to interact with an iceberg. Gentle and beautiful women like Feng Xueqing are the ones you all prefer to be around,” Yunyao said.

Zhanyue felt like the world had gone mad. Yunyao’s words sounded like she was jealous of Feng Xueqing, but he understood that at this moment, Yunyao might truly feel inferior to Feng Xueqing.

“I’m a hybrid of the Bird Clan and humans, abandoned by my parents since childhood. I can neither integrate into human society nor return to the Bird Clan. I’m probably a joke to many,” Yunyao suddenly added.

Zhanyue knew about Yunyao’s mixed heritage, but not being able to return to the Bird Clan was news to him.

“Why can’t you return to the Bird Clan?” Zhanyue asked.

“When I was young, my master took me to the Bird Clan to find my birth father, but we were turned away before even entering their territory. They said Bird Clan members with impure bloodlines couldn’t enter their land, as it would be disrespectful to their ancestors,” Yunyao explained.

“So that’s what happened. Isn’t all this the fault of your father whom you’ve never met? The Bird Clan is the one being ungrateful, rejecting a prodigy like you, a Great Emperor’s successor. They must be out of their minds. But isn’t it better this way? Isn’t staying with humans good?” Zhanyue countered.

Yunyao pointed at her wings. “Have you seen any other humans with wings? Everyone who sees me for the first time inevitably stares at them.”

“But I think they’re beautiful. Besides, in this human competition, Lei Zun and the others didn’t treat you as an outsider. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have entered the Book Trial. In their hearts, you’re part of the human race,” Zhanyue said.

Yunyao smiled bitterly, “It’s precisely because I know they treat me well that I want to work harder. But this Book Trial is clearly beyond my capabilities. Seven Disaster Beasts, and we’ve barely defeated one with your strength. What use am I?”

Zhanyue’s head was about to explode. No matter what he said, they kept circling back to the initial problem. Yunyao’s current mindset clearly made her unable to continue fighting. What should he do?