CH 439

439: A Better Goal

She raised the women underground specifically to alleviate Yanran’s pain. She fed their blood to Yanran each time Yanran suffered from an attack, so no one knew Yanran was different, only that she was physically weak.

Feng TianXing was a smart woman, otherwise she would not have been able to keep her relationship with Yanran’s father a secret from the ancient eastern countries for so long.

“Silly girl, just be patient. Our Feng family has the strongest bloodline when it comes to sword masters. As long as you drink the Feng family blood, you will be fine.” TianXing’s eyes were full of love as she stroked her daughter’s hair.

“Mom, do you want me to drink Grandfather’s blood? That’s not good, Grandfather treats me so well. I can’t do it!” Yanran was alarmed and instinctively recoiled from the thought of taking her grandfather’s[notes] blood. Her grandfather had been better to her than anyone else. She did not want to take his blood.

“This child. Your grandfather would hurt the most if something happened to you or me. If your grandfather knew that sacrificing himself would save either of us, he would most assuredly be happy to do so.

TianXing didn’t doubt her father’s love for her. It was completely different from how he felt about her older sister, Jiao. She was reassured every time she saw his indifference towards her older sister.

Her mother had been extremely cold towards her because of a divination, so cold in fact, that her mother even tried to kill her.

She would never forget that night. If her father and the others had not rushed home, she was certain she would have died under the hands of the woman she called her mother and her older sister, whom her mother cherished and pampered.

Fortunately her father didn’t believe the divination and loved her even more in spite of it. Jiao, on the other hand, earned their father’s disgust for trying to kill her. Their identities reversed after their mother died. She became the beautiful girl loved by everyone, while Jiao became known as an ignorant, willful, and cruel woman, even to her own sister.

She thought Jiao would crumble and cry from the pressure of everyone’s disgust, but it didn’t happen. Instead, Jiao didn’t have a reaction at all. She neither cried nor made a fuss, not even when their father openly favored her more. It was like the only thing that mattered to Jiao was their mother.

She thought Jiao would understand from everyone’s attitude, that she was the favored, beloved daughter of Feng house. She never expected Jiao to persist in trying to kill her, nearly succeeding several times.

She had to flee to Blood Moon forest just to escape Jiao, otherwise if she had stayed, she was afraid Jiao would have ruined her. It was in Blood Moon forest that she met Yanran’s father, the only man she had ever loved.

Her father had ignored Jiao for her sake, so wasn’t it only obvious he should sacrifice his life for his favorite granddaughter?

Fortunately Feng Wuliu[notes] didn’t know about his daughter’s determination to have Yanran drink his blood and eat his flesh.

“No! I can’t have Grandfather sacrifice himself for me! Grandfather is an elder; it would be unfilial of me!” Yanran shook her head in rejection of her mother’s proposal.

“You must. If you don’t absorb all of your grandfather’s bloodline powers, you will die.” TianXing looked seriously at her daughter as she spoke.

“No, I won’t die because I have a better target.” Yanran smiled mysteriously.

“Don’t tell me you mean Feng Wu or her bastard?” TianXing asked suspiciously.

Don’t be fooled by TianXing’s outward display of affection for Feng Ye. In reality, she was quite disgusted Feng Wu was unmarried and had a child with someone unknown.

Yanran was her daughter and the daughter of the man she loved the most, while Feng Wu’s bastard was certainly not a child born of love but a child born of some sordid affair. How could she, a proud woman, care for a child born from an affair?

“My target is Feng Ye.” Yanran said.

“Feng Wu’s son?!” TianXing didn’t expect Yanran’s goal to not be Feng Wu, but Feng Wu’s child. “Feng Ye’s blood is not pure enough. Drinking his blood won’t do you any good.” TianXing said worriedly.

“No, Feng Ye’s blood is very good. I’ve never met a child with so much spiritual power or such massive qi before. His is incredible. I’ve never seen one so strong. I’ll get better if I drink his blood and consume all the energy within it. I know it. I’ll be even stronger than you or father could ever imagine.”

Yanran didn’t know if it was an ability she had because she was a mixed child of the human race and blood race, but she could see into Feng Ye’s body and glimpse the formidable power it held. She instinctively knew it would be beneficial for her if she absorbed his life.

Because of this, she was always enthusiastic every time she saw him. She really wanted to get close to him. That way she could suck up his life without being noticed.

“Is this true?” TianXing could not imagine Feng Ye would be so useful. She had been thinking of whose blood to get for her daughter ever since she returned to the family estate. Her father, her brother, and her nephew where all good candidates. She had even considered Feng Wu and Feng Ting.[notes] But Feng Ting was concubine born. There was no way she was going to let her baby absorb the blood and flesh of such a person.

As for Feng Wu, though everyone said she had no talent and was a waste, TianXing knew better. Feng Wu’s talent was in fact no worse than Feng JunTian[notes] It was just that TianXing had already categorized Feng Wu as food for Yanran.

In order to stop Feng Wu’s powers from getting stronger and before Feng Wu could be tested, she had fed Feng Wu a potion that destroyed Feng Wu’s cultivation. From then on, a super genius dual-cultivator of magic and martial arts became crippled in both.

No one in the family suspected anything and fully believed Feng Wu was born a talentless waste in the arts.

Though Feng Wu’s talent was destroyed, her bloodline wasn’t. So Yanran would be able to reshape her body and become a blood emperor if she could absorb Feng Wu’s blood and flesh.

In the original storyline, Feng Wu would have died during labor. Without her, Tianxing and Yanran shifted their target to Grandfather Feng, but just to be on the safe side, Yanran ingested the flesh and blood of her uncle as well.

JunTian was the only surviving member of the Feng house. Yanran signed a peace treaty with the human race on behalf of the blood race, so in the end, Jun Tian couldn’t even pursue her for revenge. He had to live with that pain for the rest of his life.