CH 482

482: A Place of Extreme Yin

He wasn’t the only one who felt uneasy, everyone else there felt the same way too. Zo didn’t know much about the situation other than that Zi Cheng would get the Heart of Wood in the desert. He wanted to ask Ai Lin if she knew anything, if she could clarify the situation, but the timing wasn’t right.

The temperature continued to drop and some people even had fine bits of icicles in their hair. They would have frozen to death if it weren’t for their magic and martial qi.

“Wow! This place is so cold! Baby’s going to freeze to death!” Baby Rui’s[notes] wings nearly froze when he flew out from Feng Wu’s space ring. He hurried into Feng Wu’s arms and complained.

“Xiao Wu, I was only asleep for a while, why did you come to this place? There’s so much vicious qi in the rain outside, and there’s so much yin inside there’re even icicles! This place has an extremely high amount of yin! Where is this place? How many people died for this place to be so ominous?!”

Baby Rui shook his head as he looked around then he quickly ducked farther into Feng Wu’s arms so that only his head was left exposed.

“Baby! You woke up!” Ai Lin was happy. She knew this little guy was the rui beast. She knew just how much the rui beast had helped Zi Cheng in the original storyline. He was arguable one of Zi Cheng’s most vital cheat items.

But now the little guy was following Feng Wu. He was cocky and immature; however, his new personality should not have affected his wisdom and knowledge.

In the original story, the rui beast wasn’t supposed to appear until much later as he wouldn’t hatch yet. Though the two ruis should have been the same beast, this one was somehow different.

The one Zi Cheng hatched was simple-minded and had an indescribable attachment to her. This guy on the other hand was anything but simple. On the contrary, he was like a cocky middle schooler that thought all mortals needed to bow down and praise him, that all mortals were foolish and dumb.

He was so overbearing it made you itch to give him a good beating. Such a cocky child!

Ai Lin didn’t know the original rui beast had not wanted to form a contract with Zi Cheng, that Zi Cheng had forcefully obliterated its original consciousness and formed a new consciousness with an item from the system store. That rui didn’t a personality as because it had no spirit.

The new consciousness spawned by the system was naturally attached to the owner of the system, who was of course, Zi Cheng.

This rui beast, the one with Feng Wu, was the original rui beast. Rui beasts were the most intelligent and wise of all beasts, so of course he was very prideful and would never fall prey to human flattery.

“Well this baby just woke up.” Rui Baby rolled his eyes.

“That’s great. Baby, do you know where we are and how we can get out?” As the smartest beast in the world, he should know right? reasoned Ai Lin.

A faint light flashed in Rui Baby’s eyes. This human seemed to know his identity. Who was this human, and how did it know?

Zi Cheng, having missed her chance to get the rui beast, had no clue as to its identity. She glanced at Ai Lin confused that the other girl was asking a beast.

As for Rui Baby himself, he was wondering if there was connection for why three people misplaced in time and space were in the same location. Even Feng Wu, his current host, had time and place anomalies surrounding her body. On top of that, Feng Wu had four other entities inside her. Did the world consciousness not care?

Ai Lin had no idea her secret was nearly revealed.

“This baby doesn’t know.” Rui Baby rolled his eyes and buried his head deep in Feng Wu’s arms.

You don’t know? Like hell you don’t know!

She didn’t know why the rui wouldn’t explain, but she made up her mind to follow Feng Wu and Zi Cheng closely to maximize her chances to stay alive. Feng Wu was the rui beast’s owner, so he would definitely protect her. If she followed them, maybe she’d be able to get out as well.

Mental calculations clacked away in Ai Lin’s mind.

Zi Cheng felt the atmosphere was also bad. She heard what the baby beast said about the extreme yin. Even though she didn’t know what kind of beast he was, she instinctively knew he was a formidable one – and that he belonged to her. She had no idea where the thought came from, but it kept nagging at her. Why did Feng Wu contract with her magical beast?! Why?!

The more she thought about it, the more she felt Feng Wu had stolen something from her. She secretly hated Feng Wu.

Feeling something strange, Feng Wu turned to look in Zi Cheng’s direction, but all she saw was Zi Cheng’s gentle smile. She was suspicious but she turned back around without saying anything.

It made Zi Cheng wonder if Feng Wu had sensed something. She calmed her mind and quieted her heart.

“Baby, can you tell me what this place with extreme yin is?” Ming Xi pressed his finger on Rui Baby’s small head.

“Since you asked sincerely, this baby will be compassionate and tell you...”

What?! Seriously! Ai Lin groaned mentally.

“Lands of extreme yin are divided into congenital and acquired. Congenital yin in nature is extremely hard to find. When inauspicious qi converges in places with congenital yin, the place becomes an extremely beneficial place for spiritual cultivation. It takes years and years of saturation to create however.

These kinds of places will attract similar yin, and in this case, it would be more malevolent yin types. These kinds of yin are extremely aggressive and will attack. Once humans enter a land of such extreme yin... that’s it for them.