357: Chapter 357 Emerika

"Who is she?"

Amelia furrowed her delicate brows, her gaze fixed on the beautiful figure beside Nie Ning that felt both familiar and strange.

Although the eyes were hidden by a hood, the lower half of the face gave her a peculiar feeling.

"Ahem, a companion of mine. We were passing by, so I brought her along to take a look."

Nie Ning couldn't help but cough lightly twice.

Just as he was about to send a telepathic message to have Xiao Guang change her appearance, Amelia suddenly acted, grabbing toward Xiao Guang with the speed of thunder.

Xiao Guang's reaction was very fast, catching Amelia's hand, but the resulting gust of wind blew back Xiao Guang's hood.

She looked at Xiao Guang's face, which was exactly the same as Amelia's.

Not only was Amelia stunned, but even the originally noisy crowd fell silent.

They were far too similar; it was as if they were carved from the same mold!

Looking at Xiao Guang's face, Amelia's brain stalled for a moment, but then her face turned slightly red, and she spat out: "You rogue! I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!"

She didn't have any siblings, and even if she did, it was impossible for them to look exactly like her.

After all, she only had one mother, and her looks followed her mother's. Even if her father had someone else on the outside, it was impossible to give birth to an identical daughter.

So without even guessing, she knew what kind of trick Nie Ning was playing!

"Don't overthink it, it's just a coincidence. She's not usually like this."

Nie Ning explained with a hint of awkwardness and lack of conviction.

"Hmph! Do you think I'll believe you?"

Amelia snorted coldly and rolled her eyes in annoyance.

This damn guy must have used her appearance to do bad things many times!

'Brother, how did you do it? What kind of witchcraft is so powerful that it can make someone look so similar? Share it with me, will you?'

Just as Nie Ning wanted to explain, a man's telepathic voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

Nie Ning turned to look at the camp of young masters and ladies from wealthy families. He saw a twenty-five-year-old man at the mid-stage of the fourth rank giving him a knowing look.

Seeing this, Nie Ning couldn't help but smile knowingly and replied with four words: 'No comment.'

Next, many more people sent telepathic messages to Nie Ning.

But he didn't have any transformation witchcraft; that was purely based on talent.

To be like Xiao Guang, one first had to have a Jade-Colored Light-Treading Fox, and then it had to successfully take human form.

Nie Ning responded to each one helplessly, but suddenly felt a chill on his back. Turning around, he found Amelia looking at him with an unfriendly expression.

'Oops, I forgot about her!'

Nie Ning's face stiffened, and he forced out a smile, speaking incoherently: "If you like her, I can lend her to you to play with for a couple of days."

Hearing this, Amelia's expression became even colder.

"So it's actually a transformed strange beast."

At that moment, a woman's voice sounded in Nie Ning's ear.

Nie Ning looked up and saw a veiled woman behind Amelia, her eyes sizing up Xiao Guang's ears with a hint of surprise.

Although Xiao Guang had fox ears, because strange beasts in human form were too rare, normal people wouldn't even notice this point; they would only think the fox ears were a decoration.

Hearing this, the gazes of others fell upon Xiao Guang.

It couldn't be helped; strange beasts in human form were too rare, and those who looked like this were even fewer.

This was because, generally speaking, a strange beast's appearance was quite random, determined by their mood when they took human form, and they could only make preliminary adjustments themselves.

Furthermore, strange beasts considered strength to be beauty, resulting in most transformed strange beasts having big and burly appearances.

"And you are?"

Nie Ning asked with some confusion.

"Hello, I am Amelia's mother, Amivika."

The woman introduced herself in a gentle tone.

"So it's Auntie! I'm honored to meet you. I am your future son-in-law; you can just call me Bronk."

Nie Ning pushed aside Amelia, who was blocking him, stepped forward to hold Amivika's hand, and introduced himself with a shameless smile.

Seeing this, the others' eyes nearly popped out of their heads.

After all, everyone had the professional ethics of a Transcendent; it was hard to perform such a shameless act.

Amivika was stunned for a moment by Nie Ning's actions. She could only respond politely with a smile and then quietly withdrew her hand.

In her heart, she had already removed this glib-tongued boy from her list of candidates for a son-in-law.

Nie Ning didn't care and continued to chatter away to curry favor.

Of course, currying favor was a pretense; clinging to the thighs of Yishi Mansion was the real goal.

With so many factions here now, he would still need to find time to refine the god-forbidden ring. At such a time, the difference between having a backer and not having one would be apparent.

Although this was Dark Swamp territory, it was still close to the border of Yishi Mansion.

With Yishi Mansion as a backer, even if others wanted to target him, they would have to see if they were qualified first.

"By the way, where is Saya?"

Nie Ning suddenly turned his head and asked Amelia, who had an unhappy expression, with some confusion.

Ever since Amelia took Saya away last time, he hadn't seen that girl for a long time.

"She's fine, you don't need to worry."

Amelia glared at Nie Ning coldly, still brooding over his action of pushing her aside just now.

Nie Ning didn't care about that. It was enough to know that Saya, that little tag-along, was doing well.

With the vigorous cultivation of Yishi Mansion, Saya's Ice Desolation Devouring Extreme Body should be able to play its part.

...

Nie Ning waited with the crowd for a while. Looking at the large mountain opposite them, he suddenly thought of a question.

What were they waiting for here?

"Auntie, what are we waiting for here?"

Nie Ning looked at Amivika and asked in confusion.

"The Valley Master of Earth Wolf Valley, Dave, has fled. We have already sent people to capture him."

Amivika explained softly.

The ruins of Iron Mountain Fortress were built upon a spatial fragment; to open them, a specific key was required.

Hearing this, Nie Ning nodded thoughtfully and turned to look at the mountain.

As his pupils turned amber, a faint blue point of light appeared in his vision.

The blue light was located toward the bottom left on the opposite side of the mountain.

Nie Ning didn't know when the Strange Beast Body had gained this ability. Perhaps he had just never encountered such a situation before, so he had never discovered this phenomenon.

Just now, it was also driven by curiosity, activating the Strange Beast Body to see if there was anything special.

Compared to the eyes, the nose was clearly more useful than the eyes.

Looking at it now, that blue light might be a spatial node.

But normally, spatial nodes are protected by formations; how could it be exposed outside?

"I wonder if I can go in..."

Nie Ning couldn't help but murmur softly.

But in front of everyone, even if he could enter, he couldn't just go over and check it out.

Furthermore, a spatial node was essentially a spatial rift. If he wasn't careful, he might end up with the same fate as Heloise.

Thinking of this, Nie Ning's expression darkened.

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