Chapter 67

In the dream, the fierce battle made it seem as if the sky and earth were filled with splattered blood.

Those once blurry faces, the back view of the self in the dream, Hengyi suddenly saw his features clearly in an instant...

It was his features, but the eyes were completely different, that depth, that calmness, that wisdom...

Darkness suddenly swallowed all the scenes in the dream.

When the last bit of light was also devoured by the spreading darkness, Hengyi saw the self in the dream turn around, as if looking at him—

And that face was not his!

"Brother Xu..."

It was Xu Wenfeng's face...

"Why is it Brother Xu's face? That's me, why..."

The last scene in the dream was also swallowed by darkness.

In the darkness, without sound or scene, Hengyi's mind could not think of anything, as if it had been quietly sleeping in this void of darkness all along...

His thoughts stopped, he had no strength to think, he remembered nothing, only vaguely feeling that 'himself' existed in this darkness.

The redness of the seawater gradually faded, slowly turning into a clean blue.

Hengyi's body drifted in the water, sometimes spinning with the undercurrents, sometimes moving in a curved trajectory.

The energy in the water transformed into blue light points, continuously flowing into his dark body.

As the blue energy light points touched his body, they seemed to collide with the blackness of his skin, constantly blooming with colorful light...

Gradually, Hengyi's dark skin turned deep gray...

And then, it gradually turned grayish-white...

In the seawater, a shark discovered Hengyi moving with the undercurrents and quickly swam over, viciously biting into Hengyi's body!

Under the powerful bite, two white pieces splashed in the water for a distance before slowly sinking...

The shark suddenly turned around and swam away in terror, leaving behind only two broken teeth.

The waves continuously hit the sandy shore.

The waves pushed Hengyi's body onto the beach.

In the sunlight, the sand reflected blinding light, and the waves repeatedly hit Hengyi's body...

In the dark forest.

The woman from Nanxiang Mountain, unwilling to see her companions commit evil, was searching in the mountains for a place suitable for cultivating true qi and the most abundant spiritual energy.

In the darkness, a pair of cold eyes suddenly appeared behind her.

When she sensed something unusual and turned around abruptly, her body had not even turned when a heavy blow struck the back of her head!

The male shadow carried the unconscious woman into the cave.

The grown female infant examined for a moment and nodded in satisfaction.

A black-red light shot out from the silver-edged, black spherical mark on her forehead, landing on the forehead of the unconscious woman.

After a moment, the body of the grown female infant gradually turned almost transparent, and suddenly flew into the body of the unconscious woman from Nanxiang Mountain.

A strange distortion of light and shadow made it seem as if the female infant's body had merged with the woman from Nanxiang Mountain.

She opened her eyes, her gaze very clear, but her expression was cold.

After a moment, the female infant of the Shadow Clan, who had digested all the memories of the poor woman from Nanxiang Mountain, tried to make her expression into a smile, an expression the Shadow Clan did not have.

"Such a delicious soul."

"Is this the great soul-devouring power?" The female shadow, gradually recovering after childbirth, recognized this rare and powerful force.

"Very good, this human woman's name is also Hei Yue." Hei Yue, after digesting all the memories of the poor woman from Nanxiang Mountain, approved of her name.

"This is the great arrangement of the Shadow Clan soul." The female shadow after childbirth was full of pride.

Hei Yue drew the flame sword from her waist and pointed it at the female shadow after childbirth. "My first step into the future requires you to contribute your head."

"For the future of the race, please take it." The female shadow after childbirth did not hesitate for a moment, directly colliding her throat with the flame sword.

Blood dripped to the ground.

Hei Yue did not hesitate to cut off her neck!

The male shadow watched indifferently, kneeling quietly on the ground.

The Shadow Clan did not care about death, viewing it with great indifference. To ensure the survival of the strong and to meet the needs of the strong, they would unhesitatingly sacrifice themselves, even though his wisdom could not understand what Hei Yue was doing.

"You must die in battle. Humans have deduced that we have two leaders. Only your death will make humans believe that this battle is truly over." Hei Yue smiled, practicing expressions the Shadow Clan did not have, constantly changing into sadness, deep emotion, crying, and tears... The practice of these expressions made her feel the fragility and triviality of human emotions, but she knew she had to learn all this.

The male shadow did not hesitate for a moment, coldly accepting the order and flying away. He did not need to try to understand more of Hei Yue's considerations. His wisdom was not as great as Hei Yue's, nor as great as the female shadow who had died. If they believed that the final result of the clan's battle was extinction, then it must be so. If he needed to fight to the death, he would do so.

They did not mourn the death of their clan members, nor did they pity their own deaths.

Hei Yue held the head of the female shadow and flew out of the cave.

Passing through the dense forest, she saw the sandy shore.

She saw the figure left by the receding waves.

'Delicious soul!'

The special power Hei Yue possessed allowed her to clearly see the soul fire burning inside Hengyi's body, which was particularly vigorous!

The attraction of such a delicious delicacy made her land beside Hengyi without hesitation.

She turned Hengyi's body, her gaze fixed on the soul fire burning in Hengyi's forehead.

'This human's soul fire is so vigorous!'

On Hei Yue's slightly emaciated face, her clear large eyes revealed a strong desire!

A black-red beam suddenly shot out from the mark on her forehead!

She was going to devour Hengyi's soul fire!

When the black-red beam hit Hengyi's forehead, the red dragon mark of his soul-integrated magical tool suddenly lit up!

The black-red beam suddenly dissipated upon collision, the shockwave throwing Hei Yue three zhang away.

When she got up from the sand, she felt her own soul fire severely injured, her expression becoming fierce as she glared at the unconscious Hengyi.

She was very reluctant to give up the delicious soul fire, but the severity of her own soul's injury made her realize that she could not devour this powerful soul fire. Another attempt might result in her own soul fire being shattered.

'Oh, I should learn human emotions...' Hei Yue, controlling her unskilled emotional abilities, quickly turned the innate ferocity of the Shadow Clan into a sweet smile. She then felt this smile was inappropriate and gradually showed concern and worry for the unconscious fellow disciple.

Hei Yue knelt on one knee in the sand, pulling open Hengyi's robe and discovering that the skin over his heart was pitch black, but under the influence of the natural energy light points continuously entering his body, the color was rapidly fading.

'Truly incredible soul power, able to gather positive material energy from the universe so quickly to consume the great dark matter energy...' Hei Yue searched the memories of the original owner of this body, examining the cultivation beads on Hengyi's body, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.

'The mad genius Hengyi, killing so many clan members. The great glory of Hei Yue's future may need someone like you to contribute a seed!' Hei Yue neatly arranged Hengyi's magical robe, but did not forget the other name that most interested her in this body's memories, the first divine talent of human civilization—Xu Wenfeng.

Hei Yue, imitating the posture of a human woman, supported herself on the sand with both hands, the head of the female shadow beside her, her long legs stretched out on the sand. She carefully organized the future trajectory based on the information she possessed, analyzing the personalities of every familiar person in this body's memories...

The waves continuously hit the shore.

On the road by the shore, ten men and women idly chatted and strolled.

The leader of the group had a broad face and small eyes, with particularly light eyebrows, making his appearance quite strange.

He saw a man and a woman by the shore, and the head placed beside Hei Yue.

The group walked over, the leader squatting down, examining the head for a moment. When he looked up and saw Hei Yue's suspicious and alert gaze, he smiled faintly. "We are mercenaries, not interested in the merits of the divine gate's cultivation."

A tall woman in the group laughed. "You little girl is really lucky, killing a Shadow Clan mutant with this level of intelligence, you're sure to get the highest merit."

Hei Yue smiled kindly. This body's memories understood the matters of mercenaries, and the inherited knowledge of the Shadow Clan also understood them.

She was certain that these people would not kill her and destroy her cultivation beads to claim the merit.

"Originally, the sect specially invited you to protect us, my apologies."

The broad-faced man smiled faintly. "We don't like the sect's formalities, we are used to being straightforward and free. We just take the money and do the job, and we are happier just taking the money without doing the job. There's nothing for you to respect, and we don't care about it."

"I'm curious, the sect has so many elders and experts, why spend a lot of money to hire you?" Hei Yue's puzzled expression made the tall woman laugh.

"It's normal for a little girl not to understand. To put it bluntly, it's just a rule of cultivation. No sect wants their disciples to be completely wiped out during cultivation, but if they intervene themselves, they break the rules and will be punished by the Five Leadership Stars. But hiring us freelancers is different. If a powerful enemy that the disciples can't handle appears, we can intervene and say it was a coincidence, completely unrelated to the sect."

A fat and short man in the group grumbled, "It's boring! Don't take such jobs in the future, it's a waste of time. Watching them kill so slowly with techniques below the Celestial Venerable realm makes me anxious!"

The tall woman mocked, "How many geniuses are here! You were still at the first level of Mountain Venerable at eighteen!"

"I'm a late bloomer! The leader said so!" The fat and short man argued, but the woman retorted, "You should be ashamed! If you hadn't killed a young king of the Giant Rat Clan and advanced, what late bloomer would you be?"

The fat and short man was speechless, his tongue not sharp enough to argue. His face turned red, and he changed the subject, asking Hei Yue, "Little girl, did you advance in cultivation after killing the Shadow Clan's intelligent leader?"