26: Chapter 26 The Only Possibility

At this moment, at the Lieyan Martial Arts Hall, Hu Wang's Demonic Power storm was still raging.

Everyone inside the martial arts hall was frozen in place as if struck by a paralysis spell, trembling all over, struggling to resist this immense pressure.

However, Qian Mo soon discovered something unusual.

Logically speaking, the Demonic Power of a Rank 7 Yao Race king had already condensed into substance. If released with full force like this, this training room, and even the entire Lieyan Martial Arts Hall, would instantly turn into dust—including, of course, low-Rank Espers like them.

But...

"This beast's Demonic Power has the form but lacks the substance! His Rank is fake!" Xiao Long, who was also finding it difficult to open his eyes due to the pressure, shouted to Qian Mo.

Although the Demonic Power lacked lethality, the pressure it produced was genuine; like Qian Mo, he was completely unable to mobilize the spiritual power within his body.

"However, looking at it now, although he seems to have lost control, he has no desire to hurt anyone. Your sister should still be safe; let's wait and see. People from the Security Bureau should be here soon!" Qian Mo replied calmly.

At the same time, he took a deep look at Little White Wolf, who was glowing with golden light.

It was clearly so close to Hu Wang, yet it could still use spiritual power while enduring the pressure of the Yao Race king. Moreover, judging by how she had previously insisted on protecting this fox demon, she must have known the value of this fox long ago. It seems there are many secrets about it that I don't know...

Just like that, on the outskirts of the Demonic Power storm, two youths—one anxious, one deep in thought—could do nothing but stay where they were, praying for the storm to cease quickly.

And in the inner circle of the storm, Xing Yaoyan was about to lose her temper.

"Senior! If you want to seek death, don't drag me into it! You're making such a huge commotion; if you attract human experts here, and they happen to see through my true identity, won't I be finished?!"

In the inner circle of the storm, sound couldn't travel outside, so Xing Yaoyan spoke boldly.

She was probably the first to discover that Hu Wang's Demonic Power was just for show. After all, when she tried to devour this Demonic Power, she found it very easy to digest, not nearly as tough to chew as the pink spiritual power Sister Han had left behind.

Wait! Xing Yaoyan suddenly realized an important matter: If the "quality" of this Demonic Power wasn't strong—only at Rank 1 intensity—then the only possibility for it to explode with such immense pressure was by piling up the "quantity"!

But how could Hu Wang possibly have so much Demonic Power!

She hurriedly attached a large amount of Power Of Will to her eyes and, peering through the interference of the Demonic Power, looked carefully at the man in the center of the storm.

Sure enough, she discovered that as time passed, Hu Wang's body was becoming increasingly illusory; it was now already becoming translucent!

And Xiao Meng, in his arms, no longer had blood at the corners of her mouth, and her face had a healthy flush. She was anxiously saying something to the man, though Xing Yaoyan couldn't hear the specific words.

"Senior! Don't do anything foolish! Xiao Meng is only heavily injured, not fatally; she'll be fine after a month in the hospital! What are you doing, performing a sacrifice?!"

Xing Yaoyan shouted anxiously at Hu Wang, thinking to herself: I and her follower just had a great chance to save him, and now you're starting to seek death again—where does that leave me?!

"Xing Yaoyan, I'm sorry." A familiar voice sounded in her ear.

It was telepathy!

Looking closely, Xing Yaoyan saw Hu Wang offering her a bitter smile full of brokenness.

"Actually, this telepathy isn't my Innate Talent; it's just a little trick I researched in my past life. I only told you that to tease you; don't take offense..."

Before Xing Yaoyan could say anything, the voice continued.

"Actually, Xiao Meng and I were lovers in our past life. Unfortunately, after some events, she was heavily injured and on the verge of death; all the physicians said she didn't have much time left. And just when I was in despair, a friend mentioned the 'Reincarnation Continuation' of the Tushan Fox Demon to me."

"At that time, I didn't think too much about it. As soon as I heard it could allow us to become lovers in the next life, I set off immediately and sought out the qualification for this 'Reincarnation Continuation'."

"Not long after she died, I committed suicide to follow her in death after settling her affairs. Relying on our inherent Innate Talent as Truth-Breaking Fox Demons, I tampered with my own Reincarnation process to retain my memories. Moreover, to give her a chance to know me, I specifically reincarnated as a Truth-Breaking Fox Demon..."

"I originally thought we could be just like before: I would teach her techniques, and she would provide cover for me. We would eventually return to the Peak of our past lives. It's just a pity that only today did I realize how naive and selfish I was... Heh..."

Hu Wang smiled bitterly, took one last lingering look at the person in his arms who was already streaming with tears, and continued speaking to Xing Yaoyan.

"I haven't told Xiao Meng about this yet. She still has the Heart-Nature of a child; after I'm gone, let her treat it as if a pet that had accompanied her for ten years has died. After all, time will dilute the sorrow..."

"I will leave her some of the Demonic Power I preserved from my past life as an apology for the many years she was injured while protecting me. Please help guide her in the future; I will transmit some precautions to you via Demonic Power in a moment..."

"Shut up!" Xing Yaoyan roared.

"You're muttering a whole bunch of things I don't understand at all. But I only understood one thing: you like her, right? Then pursue her! Stay alive, Cultivate hard, and when you've raised your strength to a point where no one can stop you, go ahead and pursue her with confidence!"

"Hahaha... Little Xiao Yan, you don't understand... My time is almost up. I won't force things regarding Xiao Meng; I only hope you can look after her in the future. Although we've only known each other for a short while, I have a premonition that you will surely be the hope for the rise of the Yao Race..."

"Lastly, I will leave you with my final 'Truth-Breaking'—Those not of our kind will surely have different hearts and must be killed. But to ascend to Heaven, the firewood gathered by the masses is indispensable."

As soon as the words fell, the terrifying Demonic Power storm vanished instantly.

Everyone in the martial arts hall slumped to the ground due to the sudden dissipation of the immense pressure, gasping for air.

At this moment, Xiao Long forced his tottering body to stand and walked step by step toward his sister.

After confirming through the System that his Little White Wolf was unharmed, Qian Mo stood to the side, examining the current situation, pondering how to conceal Xing Yaoyan's uniqueness once the people from the Security Bureau arrived.

Xing Yaoyan hadn't yet understood the meaning of Hu Wang's final words when she saw Hu Wang's body slowly turn into countless red light particles, dissipating into the air, and soon revealing a blue fox-shaped Soul.

[Ding! Detected a dissipating Rank 9 Truth-Breaking Fox Demon Soul. Absorb? Supplement: If you choose to absorb, the System will directly upgrade to the highest Rank and unlock the System Store, the Lucky Draw Roulette, and a series of other benefits, plus reward the host with 100 million System Coins. Hint: If you invest the 100 million System Coins into Rank improvement, the host can directly become a Rank 7 Esper!]

Hearing the System's words, a thought flickered in Qian Mo's mind.

If it were truly as the System said, then as long as he let the System absorb this fox demon's Soul, he would rise directly to Rank 7, and he wouldn't have to fear Xiao Yan being captured after her anomaly was discovered. He was confident that as long as he could drag everyone into a scenario without spiritual power, fighting with bare hands, he could kill as many as came...

However, at the same time Qian Mo made a move, a white figure arrived at the side of this blue Soul even faster than him and extended a paw firmly.

"Slap!" Xing Yaoyan herself didn't expect that she had actually grabbed it!

She had no time to think further; she just tried hard to wrap Hu Wang's Soul with her Power Of Will, hoping to extend the time before it dissipated.

At the same time, the door to the training room exploded open with a "Boom."

The team of bodyguards brought by Xiao Long filed in, just in time to witness the scene of Xing Yaoyan grabbing the Soul with her bare hands.

Everyone present stopped what they were doing, staring fixedly at Little White Wolf's Heaven-Defying maneuver.

Someone unconsciously let out a trembling voice: "This... this is not scientific..."

Xiao Long also stopped in his tracks, partly because his sister was indeed uninjured and her aura was even stronger than before, but most importantly, because the scene of Xing Yaoyan grabbing a Soul with her bare hands had shocked him too much.

It was well known that only the Souls of the strong could have form, but once the Physical Body perished, no matter how strong the Soul was, it would quickly dissipate between Heaven and Earth. Although certain scientific instruments could briefly capture signals left behind before a Soul dissipated, it was absolutely impossible to extend the time before a Soul dissipated, let alone touch it.

"Brother, Brother, please, think of a way, I don't want Little White to disappear..." The girl's sobbing broke the silent atmosphere.

Looking at his sister, who was holding him and wailing, Xiao Long felt his heart twitch violently, but reason eventually prevailed, and he told his sister the truth:

"There is no miraculous medicine in the world that can bring the dead back to life, and even if there were, it would surely be incredibly precious and not something people like us could come into contact with. So, please slowly accept the fact of his death..."

"No, Brother... I saw it in an ancient book of the Family before: one of our ancestors' contracted beasts died in battle protecting him, and that ancestor, after storing the contracted beast's Soul into the spiritual mark on his hand, successfully resurrected his contracted beast at the cost of his own spiritual power and Rank."

"However, let alone whether the events recorded in this ancient book are worth scrutinizing, the prerequisite for this resurrection is that it is a contracted beast. But... this fox is a Yao, and a Yao cannot be contracted..."

"Wait!" Qian Mo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.

Everyone outside the door then realized that there was still a youth standing by the sofa.

The bodyguards silently gasped. As bodyguards of the Xiao Family, they had all undergone strict reconnaissance training and could determine the location of all low-Rank creatures in the entire room within three seconds. Yet now, this youth had actually disappeared from their perception range for so long just now...

"Master Qian Mo, do you have a way?! Please! Little White is very important to me!" Xiao Meng quickly let go of Xiao Long and turned to grab Qian Mo, pleading.

"Stop!" Qian Mo immediately waved his hand to stop her.

As a killer, unless it was someone he completely trusted, he could not allow anyone to have any intimate contact with him.

"I do indeed have a way, but I don't know if it's feasible..." Saying this, Qian Mo turned to look at Xiao Long and said in a deep voice: "I have something that can allow your sister to contract this fox demon. But I have one condition—everything that happened today, you and the bodyguards you brought must keep it buried in your stomachs; you are not allowed to speak of it."

"Agreed." Xiao Long nodded as if possessed. On one hand, he didn't believe Qian Mo really had a way to make a Yao become a contracted beast; on the other hand, he couldn't bear to see his sister so heartbroken.

"Remember your promise, otherwise..." A red glint flashed in Qian Mo's eyes, startling Xiao Long so much that a bead of cold sweat unconsciously rolled down his forehead.

Seeing that Xiao Long had received his warning, he then turned his head and looked at his newly accepted good disciple with a kind smile. Xiao Long couldn't bear it, but did he, as a Master, have the heart to bear it either?

"Xiao Meng, repeat after me..." After pondering for a moment, Qian Mo barely found a reason to give away his 100% success rate contracted beast signing scroll.

"The Dao of Heaven, to reduce the excessive and replenish the insufficient; therefore, the void overcomes the substantial..."

"The Dao of Heaven, Sun, to reduce the excessive and replenish the insufficient; therefore, the void overcomes the substantial..."

After pretending to recite a passage he had seen in novels from his past life, Qian Mo continued: "Now, imagine all the different forms of your Little White in your mind..."

At the same time, he was distracted, communicating with the System: "System, this scroll is used like this, right?"

[Ding! The host has missed the only chance to turn things around; this System specially observes a moment of silence for you for three seconds.]

"What time is it, and you're still saying such irrelevant things! Don't you know I'm in a hurry right now?"

[Ding! The scroll has passed through Xiao Meng's thoughts and detected that the contracted beast she wishes to contract is the Truth-Breaking Fox Demon Hu Wang. Use?]

"Use!"

Upon hearing the words "Truth-Breaking Fox Demon," Qian Mo had already slightly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed this scroll really could contract a Yao, then... the true identity of his own Little White Wolf remained to be discussed...

Qian Mo took the opportunity to fill in Xiao Meng's name in the contractor column and then clicked the use button on the contract scroll icon.

The next instant, Xiao Meng suddenly felt a strong pull from the unknown, and her body flew involuntarily toward the direction of Hu Wang's Soul.

At this moment, Xing Yaoyan, who was gripping Hu Wang's Soul tightly, suddenly felt the pressure of the Power Of Will consumption suddenly lighten. Looking closely again, she saw this blue fox-shaped Soul pass directly through the wrapping of the Power Of Will and fly to one side.

But what made her feel slightly at ease was: Senior Hu Wang's Soul had stopped dissipating.

Just as Xiao Meng and Hu Wang approached each other, the silver mark on the back of Xiao Meng's hand suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light...