Chapter 196: Tracker

An idea then came to her mind. She took out a storage ring filled with spirit stones and threw it toward the group, saying, "This is payment for their lives; don't take this the wrong way. I just don't want to be bothered by more enemies."

Yang Fei caught the storage pouch while watching MingYue's disappearing back.

Checking the inside of the pouch, he raised his eyebrows in surprise since it was filled with hundreds of low-quality spirit crystals, along with some minor, useless stuff like personal items.

He didn't suspect the pouch since it was one of the items gifted to every new cultivator in the Yang clan before they improved and gifted storage rings.

Yang Fei also thought MingYue didn't bother to move the items after pillaging them from his people. Little did he know MingYue had tagged a location tracker on the pouch.

Some distance away, MingYue landed on the ground as she got close to the valley. She wanted to move carefully, making sure she wouldn't miss her master.

'What will you say when you meet her? Will you tell her your real identity?' Linhua asked.

MingYue was caught off guard by the question since she had never thought about this. She only thought about the danger her master was in.

Being known as dead worked to her advantage for now. For example, if Zhang Xueqi knew she was alive, he would probably request help from the Yang Clan to hunt her down. this chapter is NovelFire|le|mp|y r

'I don't know yet, but rather than that, I am surprised you don't have any hatred,' MingYue replied.

She felt no malice, anger, or hate from Linhua even after what happened. Anyone normal would have already lost their composure, blaming everything and venting their anger.

Some might play the victim or even do something stupid like threatening MingYue, hoping she would get angry and, in response, snuff out their soul.

A lot of people would choose death over having their lives at the mercy of their enemy. Not to mention, this enemy is the one she had tried to kill.

'You may not believe me, but honestly, the moment I was left with only my soul, I felt relieved. Like a burden was lifted from my shoulders.'

'A burden? So you think living is a burden?'

MingYue was surprised to hear this since Linhua always seemed like someone competitive, doing everything she could to gain an advantage and increase her cultivation.

'Don't you understand? You are also the only hope for your family to reach new heights. Since I was a child, everything was about cultivation.

I couldn't play. I had no friends. Every day, I needed to worry about my family's fate. Do you know why I rarely return to my family?'

'Isn't that because you're too busy cultivating? It's the same for me.'

'Maybe it's for you, but for me, it's not really because of that. My family just reminds me of the burden I have on my shoulders. I often think how good it would be to be born without any talent.'

MingYue could relate to this since she also felt like this before but in a different way. She thought her hard work was never appreciated since people just expected her to achieve so much with her talent. But she soon got over this by changing her point of view.

She tried to convince herself that what other people thought of her didn't matter; even if no one appreciated her effort, she knew her effort would never betray her.

Just like when she fell into the void if she had slacked even once, not having her current cultivation, MingYue was sure she wouldn't have survived the void. The moment she reached that strange place, she would have been only minced meat.

Then a question popped into her mind; whose tomb was that place?

Remembering the goblet floating above the coffin made her stop at her step, and her memory started turning blurry.

'MingYue, is something wrong?' Linhua asked.

MingYue didn't reply; instead, she asked Vesa why she didn't have any recollection of what happened.

[I could not answer Queen. I don't know anything about it since I was still in slumber at that time.]

[The moment I truly awoke was when I brought you and the king to Edonia.]

'Wait, that is real Edonia? Not a projection?'

[You will understand more when you progress as a Progenitor Queen.]

Linhua's voice then sounded again in her mind, this time laced with worry, making MingYue reply to her. She stopped talking with Vesa since she knew she wouldn't get more information.

'I am fine, but are you really Linhua? Did the process damage your soul or something?' MingYue asked in disbelief.

She had heard what Linhua said before—that, in reality, she wanted to be friends with her—but the change in personality just made her feel weird.

Linhua was silent for a moment before she said, 'Don't you know? With this many restrictions you put on my soul, I feel you can even hear what I am thinking if you want to?'

'You know that is not my point. Just how could you be so different?' S~eaʀᴄh the nôvelFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

'Well, I think this is the real me. Or maybe I just do this so I can get close to you, so you will forgive my family.'

MingYue snorted at her words, 'I am not that low; I will not touch your family other than that rumor. What happened to them now is up to FengXue.'

'Thank you,' Linhua replied sincerely. But this only made MingYue feel creeped out.

It's like you are being bullied at school, and then one day, the bully just changes 180 degrees, acting all nice and kind.

MingYue started exploring the valley carefully, hoping she wouldn't meet the cultivator that Linhua talked about.

Unfortunately, her wish was not granted.

As she went deeper and deeper, she could see many life forces starting to follow her; based on the energy intensity, she could tell they were cultivators, at least at the core formation stage.