79: Chapter 79 Phoenix Jade

The most insidious method in the cultivation world is not a backstab, but the Mirror Image Water Moon combined with the "Dust Transformation" trait.

A mastery-level Mirror Image Water Moon makes one's figure ethereal, like flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water, and the true body can be hidden behind seven layers of illusions.

With Lin Qingyu's minor-completion-level Mirror Image Water Moon, she could also barely display three illusions.

However, back then during the Qi Refinement Stage, limited by her cultivation, this secret technique could only barely conjure up a phantom that was empty in form.

Now, casting this technique after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage could truly display the eerie nature of this secret technique.

Coupled with the concealment power of "Dust Transformation", it can only be said that Wang Li did not die unjustly.

Although his divine sense power was stronger than Lin Qingyu's, under the coercion of the fierce pressure from the Qingluan Winged Wind Bird, most of his mind had already been distracted, leaving no energy to distinguish between the real and the fake.

"Caw ~ "

A slightly joyful cry sounded from above, and the Qingluan Winged Wind Bird circled down, hovering steadily in front of Lin Qingyu, holding an emaciated corpse in its sharp talons.

"Well done."

Lin Qingyu smiled and rubbed its furry head, but could not help feeling some emotion in her heart.

Merely a secret technique casually given by the ring grandfather had helped her kill enemies across realms time and time again.

If not for this technique today, I'm afraid she really would have had to pay some price to keep Wang Li here.

The Child of Fortune is truly terrifying to this extent!

Half a month later.

A pockmarked woman dressed in coarse cloth quietly stepped into Luofeng City with the crowd.

After more than half a year, returning to this city once again, Lin Qingyu no longer had much feeling in her heart; she had never had a sense of belonging here in the first place.

Moreover, she wasn't really coming back to fulfill filial piety.

From the original body's memories, she learned that their family was driven to death by Modan.

She killed Modan both to avenge herself and as a matter of course to fulfill the sentiment of taking over the body; as for more feelings... Sorry, there really are none.

The purpose of Lin Qingyu's trip was because after she broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, there was always a faint summoning deep in her heart, vaguely pointing to this place.

Following that vague induction, she walked through streets and alleys all the way, finally stopping in front of a desolate and remote courtyard in Luofeng City.

Looking at the unfamiliar yet familiar house before her, Lin Qingyu already understood in her heart.

This was the original owner's home. After her parents died, people had managed to seize her family's property, which led to her wandering the streets and eventually being abducted.

However, in Lin Qingyu's view, behind this matter, Modan's secret instigation and promotion were indispensable.

Walking to this place, Lin Qingyu straightened her slightly hunched back all the way, her eyes cold, and she raised her foot to kick open the two courtyard gates in front of her!

"Boom!"

The already dilapidated courtyard door instantly turned into fragments all over the sky.

"Who is it!"

Hearing the commotion, a burly, bare-chested man with a fierce face strode out of the main room.

Looking at the unfamiliar woman at the courtyard entrance, and then at the damaged courtyard door, he was just about to curse, but met a pair of icy eyes.

The man's heart tightened inexplicably, and he asked sternly while forcing himself to calm down:

"Who are you?"

Lin Qingyu ignored his question. After stepping into the courtyard, she calmly asked in return: "What is your name?"

The woman in front of him had a petite figure, far less bulky than him, yet the man felt a chill down his spine from being stared at by her pair of eyes, and subconsciously replied:

"Sun Daniu."

"Sun Daniu..."

Lin Qingyu chewed on the name carefully, finally digging out the other's identity from the depths of her memory.

The original body's biological uncle...

At this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the courtyard door.

"You deadbeat! The rice is bought back... Oh my, which thousand-knife murderer ruined our family's gate!"

A stout woman carrying a bamboo basket rushed into the courtyard. Before her voice faded, she caught sight of Lin Qingyu, and instantly her brows stood on end as she cursed bitterly:

"Where did this wild girl come from? Daring to trespass into my house, you must have broken this gate. Don't even think about walking out in one piece today unless you pay three or five taels of silver."

She stepped forward with hands on her hips, spittle flying everywhere, completely ignoring Sun Daniu's continuous winking at her.

"Wife... Stop talking..."

Sun Daniu looked into the woman's deep eyes, his voice trembling.

But how could the woman listen? She rolled up her sleeves and was about to make a move.

Lin Qingyu slowly turned around, her gaze as calm as water; they were the last straw that crushed the original body to death.

In her memory, the original body took the house deed to ask them for help and seek asylum, but didn't expect to be driven out of her own home right away.

"Very well, this can be considered resolving the final karma."

The next moment, two rays of blood-red light burst forth.

"Puff!"

Sun Daniu and the woman didn't even manage to emit a scream before a crimson dot appeared between their eyebrows. After their two bodies stiffened for a moment, they crashed to the ground, their eyes filled with confusion and disbelief.

Lin Qingyu didn't even look at the corpses, just raised her hand and waved it, sending out two streaks of fire, and the corpses turned to ashes in a flash.

A moment later, she stepped into the main room, following that increasingly clear induction, and walked directly into the bedroom.

Her divine sense swept across the room and finally locked onto a spot beneath the cyan bricks.

Lin Qingyu's eyes flickered slightly, spiritual power suddenly erupted from her fingertips, and the bricks shattered in response, actually revealing a hidden compartment quietly housing an exquisite wooden box.

"There really is something fishy."

In an ordinary peasant family, how could there be a hidden compartment with weak restrictions?

This is simply not a method a mortal should possess.

Trap? Or left behind by ancestors?

Lin Qingyu shook her head. Who would set a trap in such a place? Unless it was someone like her who also had a simulator to predict in advance that she would come, or a mighty figure capable of calculating the future.

Without hesitating for long, Lin Qingyu took the wooden box into her hands. She still leaned more towards the latter; after all, this body wasn't normal to begin with.

Raising her hand to open the wooden box, a jade pendant quietly lay inside.

Its shape was like a phoenix, emerald green throughout, except that little red lights flickered at the pupils, as if spiritual light was flowing.

The moment her fingertips touched the jade pendant, it suddenly burst out with dazzling cyan light.

Lin Qingyu's expression turned startled. Before she had time to circulate her spiritual power to resist, her consciousness was suddenly dragged by a vast force into a boundless, pitch-black space.

The surroundings were silent and soundless, save for an ancient and ethereal voice slowly sounding from the depths of the void:

"I've finally waited for you."

After a brief panic, seeing that no attack came, Lin Qingyu quickly calmed down. Upon hearing that voice, she even showed a trace of a peculiar expression.

What kind of protagonist plot is this...

"Is there nothing you want to ask?"

Seeing Lin Qingyu standing there in a daze and remaining silent for a long time, the owner of that voice finally couldn't help but speak again.

Lin Qingyu actually wanted to say if there are any treasures, hurry up and take them out, but she felt it wouldn't be very polite.

"O-Old Senior, who are you? What do you want junior to do? And what benefits can junior get?"

The owner of the voice remained silent for a long time, and only after a while continued to reply:

"Those are no longer important..."

Lin Qingyu: "..."

"Actually, you should have discovered this jade pendant long ago, but your fortune was seized, which is why you ended up in this current..."

Speaking of which, the owner of the voice seemed to have crashed again.

Because Lin Qingyu didn't look miserable at all right now; her spiritual power was abundant, she was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator at a young age, and the Sword Intent around her body was restrained yet its sharpness was hidden—she was properly a proud daughter of heaven.

"You said my fortune was seized? Was I being targeted?"

Lin Qingyu was startled in her heart; could she really be the protagonist?

"No..."

After those two words, there was another pause. Lin Qingyu was almost choked to death by the other party's network speed!

After a while, that intermittent voice came over again.

"Twenty-three years ago, someone set up a massive formation in the city, but the center of the formation was not you, but someone else. You should have been affected as collateral damage."

Twenty-three years ago, the other person in the city.

Damn!

Lin Bufan!

(There is another chapter in the afternoon, brothers who want to see the simulation don't be anxious, it will soon enter the new chapter everyone likes~)