Half a day later.
Xu Lexian emerged from her room, completely unharmed.
“Wuwuwu,” Tang Xin hurriedly rushed forward to hug her leg, “I’m sorry, Saintess, I didn’t mean to harm you!”
At least the latter part wasn’t intentional…
At first, it felt quite nice to touch, and the other party didn’t resist. But later, the person became dizzy and uncontrollable!
Damn it, even if I really wanted to harm her, I should have waited until I was done touching! It feels like I owe both the Saintess and myself!
“Hmm hmm,” the Saintess patted her head, “I believe you… Your technique is quite skilled, huh? You must have done this kind of thing before?”
“Absolutely not! I wouldn’t dare take advantage of the chaos!”
“I can vouch for her. With my senior sister’s courage, she would only dare to do something like touching legs, nothing more!”
“Then let me teach you. Come on, be a good girl and take off your clothes!”
“No, no!”
…
After some playful antics.
One could only say that the Saintess truly lived up to her title; even with a forced breakthrough, she could still successfully wrap things up cleanly. If it were an ordinary cultivator, the chance of not leaving permanent damage would be less than five percent.
“However, there are still some issues,” Xu Lexian said. “My strength hasn’t recovered to an ideal state. The forced breakthrough has left my foundation unstable; I can currently only use about fifty percent of my combat power, and the remaining part can only be resolved back at Sacred Immortal Mountain.”
The breakthrough in realm raised her upper limit of strength, but the instability of her foundation suppressed her power. The increase and decrease meant she had only recovered about thirty to forty percent of her combat power, barely stronger than before.
Speaking of which, the Saintess really had it tough; clearly powerful, yet she suffered a series of reductions. If others saw this, they would never believe that there were no spies in the team.
While her combat power recovery didn’t meet expectations, there was good news from the bee queen.
A passerby delivered an envelope to their location, which contained a message.
“I don’t know the specific details, but I can act as an intermediary to introduce someone who knows the location of the ‘Crimson Blood Asura.’ If you’re willing to trade, come to the mound of a thousand graves three miles east of the city by tomorrow.”
Having gained the other party’s trust so smoothly made Tang Xin more cautious.
“It’s highly likely a trap,” Xu Lexian pointed out. “The forces collecting geniuses are definitely not something the queen bee can provoke; she probably revealed our information to them.”
“We disguised ourselves before entering the hive, so the queen bee definitely didn’t recognize our true identities. Otherwise, she would have acted long ago,” Tang Xin stroked her chin. “This deal is likely a trap… but it’s also the most reliable channel we can find.”
“Are you planning to contact those people directly?”
The Saintess frowned.
Rationally speaking, it would be best to wait for reinforcements, but who knows where those genius cultivators would be moved to by then? They might have already been sent to another state, making it extremely difficult to trace them later.
But for a disciple-level cultivator to actively contact an underground force with high-level combat power, the danger level…
“I have a plan,” Tang Xin took a deep breath and confirmed, “I’ll go alone tomorrow.”
…
The next day.
Xu Lexian and Shui Qiu were determined to escort Tang Xin out of the city, insisting that if she didn’t return by the specified time, they would actively go looking for her.
After calming the two down, Tang Xin hurried towards the direction of the Thousand Tombs, finding a secluded spot where she took out the Hero’s Comb and began to style her hair in front of a small mirror.
She brushed her bangs up, let them down, brushed them up again, and let them down once more…
“Looking at it this way, having bangs and not having bangs really makes me look like two different people, huh?”
The chief senior sister usually styled her hair with bangs, as it was easier to conceal her “malicious” gaze when nothing was blocking her face.
With her hairstyle changed and the bangs gone, her overall demeanor became much more austere. The comb even had a color-changing feature, transforming Tang Xin into a white-haired witch.
Wait a minute, why does she look a bit like how she appeared after swallowing the Shape-Changing Pill in the Hundred Poison Mountains?
But it wasn’t exactly the same; after taking the Shape-Changing Pill, her appearance had completely changed, while the comb merely altered how others perceived her. Her mouth was still the same mouth, and her eyes were still the same eyes.
One could only say she was born looking like a villain, and that was just how it was…
After changing her clothes, touching up her makeup, and making ample preparations, Tang Xin arrived at the designated location.
The Thousand Tombs was a wild graveyard outside the city, filled with countless nameless tombstones.
Those who died in the Grave Plain were not worthy of having their names on the tombstones.
Looking around, there was no one in sight.
“Come out.”
Tang Xin stood with her hands behind her back, calling out lightly to the empty space.
A dozen cultivators slowly emerged from behind the tombstones, surrounding Tang Xin and cutting off her escape route.
“Who are you?”
The leader, a high-level Golden Core cultivator, watched her warily.
“You don’t know my name, yet you come to make a deal with me?” Tang Xin replied coolly. “Red Snow Asura, that person should have told you.”
“I’m not asking for your title,” the other party said in a deep voice. “I’m asking for your real name… I don’t know who Red Snow Asura represents.”
【Generating options…】
【Option One: “My name is Tang Xin.”】
【Success probability: 100%, Reward: Secret Technique ‘Five Elements Immortal Escape’]
【Option Two: “My name is Xue.”】
【Success probability: 100%, Reward: Secret Technique ‘Snow Demon Escape’]
【Option Three: “My name is Shangshan Qing’er.”】
【Success probability: 100%, Reward: Secret Technique ‘Heartless Escape’]
Here we go again…
【Important Warning: This option will have a significant impact on the subsequent plot, please choose carefully!】
What the heck?
Just choosing a name, and it’s already so important that I even received a warning?
Quickly, she activated her brain to think about what kind of impact different names would have on the plot.
First, using the real name, Tang Xin…
Since she currently had a completely different appearance in the eyes of others, it would lead to the phenomenon of “name duplication.”
The white-haired witch “Tang Xin,” the senior sister of the Xuanling Sect “Tang Xin,” sounds quite interesting… but isn’t that too obvious? Why use a duplicate name? Are they afraid that people won’t be able to trace it back later?
Options two and three, one is called “Xue,” and the other “Shangshan Qing’er,” both offer similar rewards, which were escape techniques for fleeing.
Considering the current situation, my temperament, and future operability…
“I’ll go with… Xue.”
【You have obtained “Snow Demon Escape”】
【You have learned “Snow Demon Escape”】
Suddenly, a heavy snowfall began to swirl in the graveyard, and everyone’s vision became hazy.
Tang Xin’s figure vanished with a gust of wind, causing the Golden Core high-level cultivators to tense up instantly.
A snowflake landed on the back of one of their hands, the bone-chilling cold piercing straight to the soul.
“I am called Xue.”
Tang Xin unexpectedly appeared in front of him, white hair, plain robe, blending seamlessly with the falling snowflakes.
She extended the back of her hand and gently blew.
“Xue…”
In the blink of an eye, several cultivators were frozen into ice sticks.
