385: Chapter 385 The Horrifying Setting of Emerika

Nighttime.

A white halo hung high in the sky, its radiance illuminating the mountains and rivers below.

In a quiet bamboo courtyard, an uninvited guest arrived at the entrance.

Nie Ning stood at the courtyard entrance, looking at the visitor with some confusion. He didn't understand how this person knew him, let alone why they had specifically called him out by name.

"Hello, I am the Mansion Master of Yishi Mansion. You may call me Helian."

Helian extended his hand, smiling, appearing very friendly.

Upon hearing this, Nie Ning couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Looking at the round, somewhat cute-looking man before him, he never would have imagined that this person was the Mansion Master of Yishi Mansion!

After all, he had heard that this man was already over a hundred years old...

Flustered, Nie Ning shook Helian's hand. "M-Mansion Master, greetings. Actually, things are not what you think."

"Don't be afraid. I understand everything. Let's go outside and chat."

Watching the agitated Nie Ning, Helian continued to invite him with a smile.

"This..."

Nie Ning lost his nerve.

This wasn't just a walk; he feared that if he went, he wouldn't be coming back.

"Rest assured, you will be fine, and Amivika won't mind either."

As he spoke, Helian waved at Amivika, who was standing by the bamboo house window.

Nie Ning looked back. Amivika did not speak, nor did her expression change in the slightest.

The way Amivika looked at them—or rather, the way she looked at Helian—was as if she were looking at a complete stranger.

"Let's go. It won't take long."

Helian didn't seem to care, still maintaining his amiable demeanor.

Nie Ning gritted his teeth. After all, he was on someone else's turf; there was no avoiding this. He quickly agreed.

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A few minutes later, Nie Ning and Helian arrived at a deserted path along a cliffside.

Nie Ning looked down.

The scenery was beautiful; it was indeed a good place to bury a body...

"Do you know why I asked you to come here?"

Helian leaned against the railing and asked with a smile.

Hesitant and looking down, Nie Ning spoke slowly, "Isn't it because of Amivika?"

"It is because of her, but it is you I am worried about."

As soon as Helian said this, Nie Ning couldn't help but clutch his collar tightly.

Seeing this, Helian paused, then burst into laughter. "Hahaha, thanks for the compliment, but I'm not into that."

Amidst Helian's hearty laughter, the tense atmosphere eased considerably.

After laughing for a while, Helian slowly stopped.

"You may not understand Amivika, and perhaps even she doesn't understand herself. In reality, she is a very dangerous person, even more terrifying than you or I could imagine."

Nie Ning instinctively looked up at Helian. Was this him bad-mouthing his ex-wife?

Although Amivika was indeed annoying, despite the claims of how powerful she was, wasn't she still just a Fifth-Rank Wizard?

"If I told you that Amivika is still a virgin, would you believe me?"

Seeing that Nie Ning didn't believe him, Helian suddenly asked.

The corner of Nie Ning's mouth twitched. He seriously suspected that Helian had mental issues just like Amivika; otherwise, would a normal person say such a thing?

Then where did Amelia come from?

That highly similar face didn't look like a fake.

Besides, Amivika was truly beautiful. Unless he was impotent, Nie Ning couldn't think of any other possibility.

Seeming to read Nie Ning's gaze, Helian smiled and began to explain.

"Amelia is indeed my daughter with Amivika, but in reality, she was conceived using biological quasi-cloning technology, bred from an embryo using our seeds."

This actually surprised Nie Ning a bit.

The guy in front of him was the Mansion Master of Yishi Mansion. With such a beautiful wife, for him to not do anything... could it be...

"Perhaps it's not what you think. It's not that I'm impotent; it's that I'm afraid."

Helian looked toward the forest below, his expression slightly filled with emotion and melancholy.

"She has a very special ability. When she is with you, your fortune will rise, but there is a very terrifying drawback..."

As he spoke, Helian looked at Nie Ning, a flash of fear appearing in his eyes.

"Backlash."

"A very intense backlash!"

"The more benefits you gain while being with her, the more severe the backlash becomes. Because of this, for these past ten-plus years, I have never stepped a single foot outside of Yishi Mansion."

"But even so, Yishi Mansion has grown stronger day by day. In these mere ten-plus years, five people in Yishi Mansion have advanced to the Seventh Rank, and another is about to advance to the Eighth Rank."

Hearing this, Nie Ning, who was standing to the side, showed a look of astonishment.

He didn't know why Helian was telling him such secrets, but such a high success rate for advancement shocked Nie Ning.

One had to know that within the entire territory of Yishi Mansion, there were countless genius Transcendents, yet only a handful had advanced to the Seventh Rank over several hundred years.

Now you are telling me that in the past ten-plus years, five people in Yishi Mansion have advanced to the Seventh Rank?

What kind of international joke is this!

Not to mention that Transcendent who is about to advance to the Eighth Rank.

Helian ignored Nie Ning's shock and continued to speak to himself.

"Perhaps you think this is a matter of Yishi Mansion itself and has nothing to do with me."

"But in reality, let me tell you, this is all because of Amivika. When she locks onto you, every good thing that happens to you becomes something that happened because of her."

"From the time Amivika was born until now, she has witnessed the birth of Ninth-Rank powerhouses, and has also experienced factions weaker than Yishi Mansion rising in a short period of time to become even more powerful than Yishi Mansion."

"But without exception, they all perished and vanished in a short time!"

Speaking of this, Helian's expression became grave.

This was also the reason why he had never had contact with Amivika for so many years.

And the reason he married Amivika was because of a Seventh-Rank elder of Yishi Mansion whose life was coming to an end.

That elder had exhausted his remaining life force to cast a divination-type sorcery, through which he discovered Amivika's special nature.

Although the drawback was terrifying, the elder, blinded by his obsession with strengthening Yishi Mansion, forced him to marry Amivika.

In reality, he originally didn't believe in this sort of thing, believing that his fate was his own and not up to the heavens, and that the future could be changed.

The problem lay there, too. On the day before that elder was prepared to cast the divination sorcery again, for some unknown reason, he suddenly went mad and destroyed the library.

Strangely, all the books were preserved intact, except for the books and sorcery regarding divination, which were all destroyed.

In the end, the incident was investigated, and it was very bizarre.

It turned out that the elder himself, with his failing eyesight, had mistaken a brain-eating pill that causes madness for a longevity pill that sustains life.

Furthermore, over these years, no matter what they did, they were never able to access or create any divination-type sorcery, nor could they bring any back from the outside world.

They even paid a huge reward to hire an Eighth-Rank expert in this field from the outside world.

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