Chapter 2580 This Is My Destiny
"The people of the Nuwa Clan all live in a very well-hidden Secret Realm. Every clansman is female. In the Secret Realm there is a single mouth of miraculous spring water. When we want to bear children, we just drink a mouthful of the spring and that’s enough. But that spring only condenses a single drop every few hundred years, so within the Nuwa Clan our population basically can only be kept at around just over a dozen people."
"I grew up inside the clan. When I was very young, I already displayed a cultivation talent different from others. I could communicate with the Spiritual Energy in the air, letting my strength soar by leaps and bounds. Before I was ten, I had already stepped into the Human Immortal Realm, becoming the girl in the clan praised as the number-one genius in countless years."
"But when I became a Human Immortal Realm expert, my mother came to me. She is the Clan Leader of the Nuwa Clan, inheriting the memories of the Nuwa bloodline. At that time, she passed the Nuwa Clan’s cultivation methods on to me, and at the same time told me to leave the Secret Realm and venture out alone."
Lingling looked at Lin Feng, recalling the past and talking to him about her story. This actually made Lin Feng quite puzzled—letting a ten-year-old child leave the Secret Realm, why? Just as Lin Feng was about to ask, Lingling took a sip of wine and continued, "Back then I asked Mom why she wanted me to leave the Secret Realm. Later Mom told me that every Nuwa clanswoman who steps into the Human Immortal Realm has her own destiny. According to the ancestral code passed down in the Nuwa Clan, I had to enter the mortal world to fulfill the destiny that belongs to me!"
"After that, under Mom’s arrangements, I went through a special one-way Teleportation Formation and entered the Eternal Joy Immortal Realm. At first I thought everyone would be like me, but then I saw the ugly side of many human forms. Almost everyone treated me as a Demon Beast, some even wanted to molest me. You have to know, at that time I was only ten!"
"Later, I stayed far away from Humans and hid in the Swamp of Myriad Poisons, where I subdued the Myriad Poisons Universe Python clan. From then on I never went out again, focusing on cultivation and guiding the rise of the Myriad Poisons Universe Python clan. I even split off a portion of my blood and gave it to the Myriad Poisons Universe Python clan, letting the Myriad Poisons Universe Pythons undergo a qualitative change so they could ascend to the Demon Venerable Realm."
"As time passed, I unknowingly cultivated to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, becoming the Guardian God of the Myriad Poisons Universe Python clan. But as I increasingly felt that I was about to ascend, I used my talent to divine a hexagram for myself in advance and foresaw what would happen afterwards. So I had people build that Temple, intending that when the person who would ascend later came up, we could meet, avoiding the situation where we both ascended from the same world yet didn’t know each other."
"It’s just that your divination didn’t foretell that the one you’d see in that Temple wouldn’t be me, but my Doppelganger?" Lingling looked at Lin Feng, smiling as she nodded, then continued to say to him, "After everything was built, I left a message for the Myriad Poisons Universe Python clan, and after storing a wisp of my Divine Soul in the statue, I ascended to this Myriad Heavens Divine Realm."
"When I had just arrived in the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm, I was extremely unadapted. I thought everyone would treat me like a Demon Beast, yet I knew I was Human, because Mother had already told me what made me different from Humans. What was even more hateful was that in the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm there were people who wanted to capture me and treat me as a plaything. That period was the darkest days I’ve ever lived through. I did everything I could to stay away from the Holy City, and in the end, seizing an opportunity, I squeezed into a cargo crate and secretly crossed over, leaving the Holy City."
"Afterwards, I used all kinds of methods, moving from city to city. I also thought about going to the wilderness to find a place to live, but my strength was far too weak. In the wild I simply couldn’t survive. Before my Yuangang finished transforming, I could only protect myself by staying within cities."
"Later, when I arrived in Jincheng, I met a blind fortune teller. He saved me, taught me how to survive, found me a good place, and told me to wait there for you..."
Gradually, Lingling had already told everything, which left Lin Feng deeply moved. He was also a bit speechless, because from Lingling’s words he had a shocking deduction—that Lingling’s destiny in the dark was him. Everything existed only so that she could meet him. This feeling was very strange and left Lin Feng not knowing how to put it into words.
"You trust that blind man that much?" Lin Feng looked at Lingling and asked with a smile. As for who that blind man was, of course he knew; apart from Geomancer Qianjue, no one else had that ability.
"Of course I trust him! You don’t know, at the beginning I didn’t believe him either. To hide my snake tail, I wore a long, floor-length skirt to cover it. That blind man directly said I was from the Nuwa Clan, and even said I had ascended from the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm. You have to know, that was the first time I’d ever met the blind man, yet he could say all that. How could I not believe him!"
When Lingling said this, a smile suddenly appeared on her face as she continued, "Later I followed that blind man. He really treated me very well, gave me lots of Elixirs, and right in front of me divined my future fortune, calculating that you were the man destined for me, and that following you I would never again be in danger. So later I sealed myself inside that coffin, waiting for you to come..."
"That blind man is Geomancer Qianjue. You’ve already talked with Tao Tao—Geomancer Qianjue is Tao Tao’s grandfather. It’s also because of his words that I’ve walked step by step to where I am today..." Speaking of Geomancer Qianjue, Lin Feng also felt a lot of emotion. He said this lightly, then began drinking again. He started to think of one thing—if only Geomancer Qianjue hadn’t died. Perhaps there were many things he could have asked Geomancer Qianjue.
At this moment, Lingling pressed her body tightly against Lin Feng, breathing in his scent, and in a tone filled with happiness said to him, "No matter what the past was like, I’m really glad I could meet you. In the future I’ll also help you fulfill your dreams, because I already understand very clearly—this is my destiny. This life of mine is fated to be with you forever."
"Mm!"
Lin Feng gave a low response, then after taking a sip of wine he suddenly felt a surge of interest. He pulled Lingling into a tight embrace, and in a flash flew out beyond Ling City into the mountains and wilderness. Raising his hand, he set up a Concealment Formation, and then, under Lingling’s confusion, he held her as they tumbled down...
At dawn, a strand of faint purple sunlight appeared. Lingling opened her eyes, looked at Lin Feng beside her, and inside she felt slowly spreading security. She gently hugged Lin Feng, savoring the love he had for her. Thinking of what had happened last night, her cheeks immediately flushed red. She had never imagined she would be so crazy, that Lin Feng would be so crazy!
"Awake?"
Lin Feng looked at Lingling, lightly stroked her head, and couldn’t help but have a smile spread at the corner of his mouth. He hadn’t expected last night to turn out that way, because it had been a very long time since he’d let himself go so freely.
"Mm!"
At this time Lingling answered shyly, yet still lay on Lin Feng’s body, unwilling to get up.
Lin Feng didn’t object to this. The two of them just lay there quietly like that. Only after a full two hours did Lin Feng pat Lingling’s back, signaling that they should get up.
After putting their clothes back on, Lingling looked at Lin Feng and helped straighten his clothes, then asked him, "What are we going to do next?"
"Go back to Ling City."
Lin Feng said this lightly, then held Lingling and used Thousand Miles in One Step to return to Ling City. There were still many things below that needed handling. Only after he arranged everything could he leave for the Southern Region sea area. Time had already been delayed long enough; he didn’t want to waste too much more. He had to raise his strength in the shortest possible time.
After returning to Ling City, Lin Feng thought for a moment and still decided to release Ma Biaohu, Tao Tao, and Tangyuan. Just like that, the group walked along the street towards the auction house.
"Boss, what happened to Ling City!"
"Yeah, Boss, what’s going on?"
"Feng, you... you’re hurt?"
...
As soon as Ma Biaohu and the others appeared, they surrounded Lin Feng with questions. They could all see that this was still the same Ling City; when they’d left, it had been just fine, so how had it become like this now? What on earth had happened?
Tao Tao, however, noticed Lin Feng’s injuries. She was extremely shocked at what had happened to him—why did his Yuangang feel unstable? Could Lin Feng really be seriously wounded right now? But to have Lin Feng heavily injured... could it be that he had encountered the Eternal Blood Demon again? The moment she thought of this, Tao Tao immediately grew terrified.
"None of you guessed it. When I came back, the entire Ling City was being attacked by Demon Beasts. Later, in order to save Ling City, I fought a battle with the strongest among the Demon Beasts. In the end, I won and those Demon Beasts retreated, but Ling City turned into what you see now."
Lin Feng gave a simple description of the situation at that time, then led Tao Tao and the others along the street, heading forward. Whenever they saw a place that needed help, they would all step in. Unknowingly, they arrived by the auction house.
Looking ahead, the auction house was still completely intact just like before. When Lin Feng and the others entered, they happened to see Elder Zhao, who immediately rushed over to Lin Feng like a gust of wind.
"I finally see you!"
Grabbing Lin Feng, Elder Zhao said nothing more and just pulled him inside. Seeing Elder Zhao so anxious, Lin Feng could only signal for Tao Tao and the others to wait outside, because he knew that if Elder Zhao was this desperate to find him, it definitely wasn’t a trivial matter.
After dragging Lin Feng into his room, Elder Zhao carefully closed the door, then came to Lin Feng’s side, his face full of anxious tension.
"Something’s happened. The entire Myriad Gods Tower is looking for you!"
Looking at Lin Feng, Elder Zhao spoke with extreme nervousness, his tone as if some colossal event had occurred, and as if it was something very secret. This made Lin Feng’s heart skip a beat. He didn’t know what Elder Zhao meant—could it be that the Myriad Gods Tower had learned about the Ascenders?
"Elder Zhao, explain clearly. What exactly happened?" Looking at Elder Zhao, Lin Feng still asked. He was truly confused, unable to understand what Elder Zhao meant or why he was so nervous...