156: Chapter 156 Mirror Appearance

In the bedroom.

Liu Cuilan placed the old wooden box by the bed.

The box was very old, its corners worn white.

There was nothing valuable inside.

A few yellowed photos.

A baby swaddling cloth.

A small rattle with peeling paint.

And that cracked blue stone fragment.

After the stone fragment lit up, a strange woman's voice came out of it again.

"Cuilan."

"Eighteen years have passed."

"Give the child back to me."

Liu Cuilan held the stone fragment, stunned for two seconds.

Then she looked up at Jiang Jianguo.

"Old Jiang."

Jiang Jianguo's expression was heavy.

"Hmm?"

Liu Cuilan frowned and asked, "Did I hear that wrong?"

Jiang Jianguo stared at the stone fragment.

He slowly placed the bag of ribs in his hand onto the ground.

"You didn't hear wrong."

Liu Cuilan's brow furrowed even tighter.

"What did this broken stone just say?"

"Asking me to give Xiao Feng back to her?"

At the door.

Dragon Girl's small face was tense.

She already wanted to rush over and swallow that broken stone in one gulp.

But Jiang Feng hadn't given the word.

She didn't dare move.

The next second.

In the projection above the Fourth High School playground, Liu Cuilan directly threw the stone fragment back into the wooden box.

"Crazy woman."

"I gave birth to my son, I raised him, why on earth should I give him back to you?"

On the plaza.

Li Yan slapped his thigh.

"Auntie's words are tough!"

Xiao Zhenjiang didn't speak.

But his hand holding the old array core clearly tightened.

Shen Qingni stood in the distance, watching Liu Cuilan in the projection.

At this moment, she suddenly understood something.

Why Jiang Feng cared so much about home.

It wasn't because of how strong the family was.

Nor was it because of how many treasures were hidden in Tianshu Dragon Garden.

It was because this kind of earthly warmth was something that no Cultivation resources could ever replace.

At the bottom of the sinkhole.

Zero Seven's face looked very grim.

"Mr. Jiang, you can't let Auntie continue to touch that stone fragment."

Jiang Feng looked at the projection.

"Reason."

Zero Seven spoke quickly.

"The third earth key was kept by her for eighteen years; it has already been stained with her Life Qi."

"The opponent isn't simply trying to snatch the stone fragment now."

"Instead, they want to use the stone fragment to wake up the marking that wasn't completed eighteen years ago."

Li Yan's head hurt listening to this.

"Make it simple."

Zero Seven gritted her teeth.

"It wants to use Auntie's identity to snatch Mr. Jiang Feng's ownership rights."

The plaza suddenly went silent.

Everyone understood this sentence.

No killing.

No Possession.

It wanted to forcibly change Jiang Feng from 'Liu Cuilan's son' to 'the child of The First Blue Star'.

This was more disgusting than murder.

Jiang Feng's gaze leveled out.

He hated this kind of thing the most.

If you want to fight, then fight.

Why mess with the family register?

They can't even pick a good way to die.

In the projection.

The blue stone fragment in the old wooden box lit up again.

This time, the bedroom lights dimmed.

A figure slowly emerged on the wall.

It was a woman.

Her face was unclear.

She was only wearing old blue cloth clothes.

Her voice, however, was much gentler than before.

"The child never belonged to you."

"You only raised him for eighteen years."

"Now, he should return to the true source."

Liu Cuilan looked at the figure on the wall.

She wasn't afraid.

She just slammed the lid of the wooden box shut.

"I don't care about whatever source you're talking about."

"When Xiao Feng went to kindergarten, I was the one who picked him up and dropped him off."

"When Xiao Feng had a fever, I was the one who stayed up all night."

"On the day Xiao Feng Awakened at B-grade, I was the one who fried eggs for him."

"You didn't show your face for eighteen years, and now you come running to claim a son?"

She grabbed the feather duster at the head of the bed.

"Have you no shame?"

Jiang Jianguo was silent for a moment.

Then he silently stepped half a pace to the side.

Dragon Girl also shrank her neck.

Grandma was angry.

In this state, even the family dog wouldn't dare bark.

The figure on the wall paused for a moment.

Her voice grew a degree colder.

"Mortal emotions are meaningless."

"The birth of the variable body originated from The First Blue Star."

"The Pangu Dao Fruit, the earth key traces, and the Return to Zero Power within him all come from me."

"Without me, there would be no him."

Liu Cuilan didn't understand those high-dimensional terms.

But she understood the last sentence.

She gave a cold laugh.

"Without me, there would be no him either."

As those words fell.

The bedroom suddenly became silent.

The blue light on the stone fragment flashed a few times.

It was as if it had been stumped by that one sentence.

In the Fourth High School sinkhole.

Jiang Feng suddenly smiled.

Very lightly.

When Zero Seven saw this smile, a chill went down her spine.

She discovered one thing.

The calmer Jiang Feng was, the bigger the matter.

The figure on the wall continued to speak.

"Cuilan, you blocked me for three seconds back then."

"For these eighteen years, I have allowed you peace."

"I allowed your family to live until today."

"You should be content."

Liu Cuilan directly smashed the feather duster toward it.

Smack!

The feather duster passed through the shadow and hit the wall.

"My son is alive because his fate is tough."

"My family's peace is something we lived out ourselves."

"Stop trying to take credit for yourself."

Jiang Jianguo also spoke up at this time.

"If you were really so capable, why didn't you succeed in snatching him back then?"

This sentence was very simple.

But its lethality was not low.

The outline of the figure on the wall began to distort.

Blue light drilled out of the old wooden box and coiled toward Liu Cuilan's wrist.

Golden light exploded in Dragon Girl's eyes.

"Master!"

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

"No rush."

Zero Seven's voice changed out of anxiety.

"No rush? Auntie is a normal person!"

Jiang Feng looked at those streaks of blue light.

"It can't touch her."

Sure enough.

Just as the blue light approached Liu Cuilan's wrist.

At Liu Cuilan's chest, a faint red light lit up.

It wasn't cultivation.

It wasn't a talent.

But a very old red string.

On the red string hung a small peace buckle.

That was something Jiang Feng had worn when he was a child.

Later, when the string got old, Liu Cuilan couldn't bear to throw it away, so she kept it.

At this moment, the peace buckle lit up.

The blue light was blocked outside, unable to enter no matter what.

For the first time, there was a clear fluctuation in the voice of the figure on the wall.

"Reality Anchor?"

Zero Seven was stunned.

"Auntie made an anchor herself?"

Li Yan was completely confused.

"What does that mean?"

Zero Seven stared at the projection, her voice dry.

"She has treated Mr. Jiang Feng as her son for eighteen years."

"Eating, dressing, nagging, worrying."

"These small things were repeated every day."

"Repeating them for eighteen years made them the most stable relationship in reality."

"In some ways, it's firmer than many high-dimensional contracts."

Li Yan understood.

He grinned.

"To put it simply, it's the biological mother's certification."

Zero Seven was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Pretty much."

Jiang Feng looked at that peace buckle, his gaze quieting down.

The figure on the wall clearly didn't want to continue stalling.

The blue light suddenly surged.

The entire Tianshu Dragon Garden began to vibrate.

Lines of old records surfaced on the bedroom wall.

[Rewriting Maternal Relationship...]

[Overwriting Upbringing Relationship...]

[Bloodline Ownership Contest in progress...]

[Target: Jiang Feng.]

[Ownership Rewrite: Son of The First Blue Star.]

Liu Cuilan couldn't understand these words.

But she understood the two words "Jiang Feng".

She grabbed the baby swaddling cloth from the old wooden box and pressed it tightly to her chest.

"Try changing it if you dare!"

At the bottom of the sinkhole.

Jiang Feng finally reached out.

He didn't return to Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Instead, he pressed down on the two earth keys in his palm.

"The third one."

"Come here."

In the Tianshu Dragon Garden bedroom.

The blue stone fragment shook violently.

It wanted to resist.

The figure on the wall also suddenly turned her head, looking beyond the projection.

That appearance was like she was seeing Jiang Feng across space.

"variable body."

"You dare to defy the Source?"

Jiang Feng looked at her: "You want to determine my identity? Have you asked my mother?"

As his voice fell.

The third earth key flew up from the old wooden box.

The figure on the wall reached out to grab it.

Liu Cuilan also instinctively reached out.

But Jiang Feng's power was faster.

The stone fragment directly passed through space and fell into his palm.

The three earth keys touched.

Click.

The blue light merged into a circle.

A System prompt popped up.

[blue star earth key Fragments: 3/9.]

[Thirteenth Transition Pre-requisite Progress increased.]

[All attributes increased by: 15 Extreme Grade.]

[Current Basic Six-Dimensional Attributes: 100 Extreme Grade.]

Boom!

The power within Jiang Feng's body surged upward.

It wasn't a rampage.

It was crossing a line.

one hundred Extreme Grade.

Like a new threshold.

His Physical Body stood in place without moving.

But all the old array patterns in the entire sinkhole were extinguished.

They weren't shattered.

They were suppressed into submission.

Zero Seven took two steps back.

Her throat tightened.

"one hundred Extreme Grade..."

This was no longer a normal Extreme Grade.

Many of those so-called gods in Wuliang Heaven couldn't even touch this edge after struggling for several eons.

Li Yan looked at Jiang Feng and couldn't help but ask.

"Increased again?"

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Yeah."

Li Yan's mouth twitched.

"Your level-ups are smoother than me drinking water."

Jiang Feng glanced at him.

"Drink more water."

Li Yan: "..."

He had no way to respond to that.

In the Tianshu Dragon Garden projection.

After the third earth key was taken away, the figure on the wall did not disappear.

Instead, she became even clearer.

She no longer pretended to be gentle.

Her voice had an old, cold flavor to it.

"Very well."

"You have taken three earth keys; the Primordial Path has already opened by one-third."

"You think you are seizing keys."

"In fact, you are returning home step by step."

When Liu Cuilan heard the word "home," her anger rose again.

"His home is here!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

The figure ignored her.

She just looked at Jiang Feng.

"Pangu No. 2 was dismantled because he refused to return to the mother."

"Pangu No. 1, you will be even more miserable than him."

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

The three earth keys slowly rotated in his palm.

"You talk too much."

He clenched his five fingers.

The outer layer of blue light on the three earth keys was forcibly crushed by him.

A System prompt jumped out again.

[Successfully stripped the residual imprint of the third earth key.]

[Obtained Old Record: Primordial Blue Star Selection List.]

[View now?]

Jiang Feng said, "View."

The next second.

Above the sinkhole, a list floated out.

The list was very long.

Each line was a serial number.

[Pangu No. 2: Archiving failed, core stripped.]

[Pangu No. 3: Mental breakdown, self-destructed.]

[Pangu No. 4: Returned to Primordial Blue Star, lost contact.]

[Pangu No. 5: Refused to open the door, erased.]

[Pangu No. 6: Completed return to mother, consciousness cleared.]

[Pangu No. 7: Variable pollution too heavy, dismantled.]

...

A series of records made everyone's scalp tingle.

This wasn't just Jiang Feng.

Nor was it just Pangu.

Before him, there had already been many "Pangu Variable Bodies."

They were all raised.

Guided.

Recycled.

And dismantled.

Shen Qingni stood outside the cordon, her face pale.

She finally understood that so-called Geniuses, so-called Awakening, and so-called fate might just be a speck of dust on the edge of this massive net.

Xiao Zhenjiang said in a deep voice, "Can this list be taken away?"

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Take it."

The list turned into a white crystal chip and fell into Xiao Zhenjiang's hand.

Jiang Feng said, "From today on, China will inspect all Awakening Arrays."

"The old ones, dismantle them."

"The new ones, I will recast them."

Xiao Zhenjiang stood up straight.

"Understood."

Li Yan grinned, his eyes ruthless.

"Whoever dares to stop us, I'll be the first to hack them."

Jiang Feng looked up at the figure in the projection.

"Did you hear that?"

"In the future, the people of the Blue Star won't be screened by you."

"They belong to themselves."

The figure was silent for a moment.

Then, she laughed.

The sound wasn't loud.

But it caused all the glass in the entire Fourth High School to crack simultaneously.

"You can't change it."

"Because the fourth earth key is not on the Blue Star."

Jiang Feng's eyes flickered.

The figure slowly raised her hand.

An image surfaced in her palm.

It was an inverted city.

The streets were in the sky.

The buildings grew downward.

Countless students wearing school uniforms stood on an Awakening Plaza.

In the center of the plaza.

A teenager looked up.

His face was exactly the same as Jiang Feng's.

The figure spoke.

"The fourth earth key."

"It is at Dongjiang City Fourth High School on The First Blue Star."

"There is also a 'you' there."

In the image.

That teenager looked in the direction where Jiang Feng was.

The corners of his mouth curled up bit by bit.

"Jiang Feng."

"You're finally coming back."