Chapter 439-440: A Better Goal; The Blacksheep
439: A Better Goal
She raised the women underground specifically to alleviate Yanran’s pain. She fed their blood to Yanran each time Yanran suffered from an attack, so no one knew Yanran was different, only that she was physically weak.
Feng TianXing was a smart woman, otherwise she would not have been able to keep her relationship with Yanran’s father a secret from the ancient eastern countries for so long.
“Silly girl, just be patient. Our Feng family has the strongest bloodline when it comes to sword masters. As long as you drink the Feng family blood, you will be fine.” TianXing’s eyes were full of love as she stroked her daughter’s hair.
“Mom, do you want me to drink Grandfather’s blood? That’s not good, Grandfather treats me so well. I can’t do it!” Yanran was alarmed and instinctively recoiled from the thought of taking her grandfather’s blood. Her grandfather had been better to her than anyone else. She did not want to take his blood.
“This child. Your grandfather would hurt the most if something happened to you or me. If your grandfather knew that sacrificing himself would save either of us, he would most assuredly be happy to do so.
TianXing didn’t doubt her father’s love for her. It was completely different from how he felt about her older sister, Jiao. She was reassured every time she saw his indifference towards her older sister.
Her mother had been extremely cold towards her because of a divination, so cold in fact, that her mother even tried to kill her.
She would never forget that night. If her father and the others had not rushed home, she was certain she would have died under the hands of the woman she called her mother and her older sister, whom her mother cherished and pampered.
Fortunately her father didn’t believe the divination and loved her even more in spite of it. Jiao, on the other hand, earned their father’s disgust for trying to kill her. Their identities reversed after their mother died. She became the beautiful girl loved by everyone, while Jiao became known as an ignorant, willful, and cruel woman, even to her own sister.
She thought Jiao would crumble and cry from the pressure of everyone’s disgust, but it didn’t happen. Instead, Jiao didn’t have a reaction at all. She neither cried nor made a fuss, not even when their father openly favored her more. It was like the only thing that mattered to Jiao was their mother.
She thought Jiao would understand from everyone’s attitude, that she was the favored, beloved daughter of Feng house. She never expected Jiao to persist in trying to kill her, nearly succeeding several times.
She had to flee to Blood Moon forest just to escape Jiao, otherwise if she had stayed, she was afraid Jiao would have ruined her. It was in Blood Moon forest that she met Yanran’s father, the only man she had ever loved.
Her father had ignored Jiao for her sake, so wasn’t it only obvious he should sacrifice his life for his favorite granddaughter?
Fortunately Feng Wuliu didn’t know about his daughter’s determination to have Yanran drink his blood and eat his flesh.
“No! I can’t have Grandfather sacrifice himself for me! Grandfather is an elder; it would be unfilial of me!” Yanran shook her head in rejection of her mother’s proposal.
“You must. If you don’t absorb all of your grandfather’s bloodline powers, you will die.” TianXing looked seriously at her daughter as she spoke.
“No, I won’t die because I have a better target.” Yanran smiled mysteriously.
“Don’t tell me you mean Feng Wu or her bastard?” TianXing asked suspiciously.
Don’t be fooled by TianXing’s outward display of affection for Feng Ye. In reality, she was quite disgusted Feng Wu was unmarried and had a child with someone unknown.
Yanran was her daughter and the daughter of the man she loved the most, while Feng Wu’s bastard was certainly not a child born of love but a child born of some sordid affair. How could she, a proud woman, care for a child born from an affair?
“My target is Feng Ye.” Yanran said.
“Feng Wu’s son?!” TianXing didn’t expect Yanran’s goal to not be Feng Wu, but Feng Wu’s child. “Feng Ye’s blood is not pure enough. Drinking his blood won’t do you any good.” TianXing said worriedly.
“No, Feng Ye’s blood is very good. I’ve never met a child with so much spiritual power or such massive qi before. His is incredible. I’ve never seen one so strong. I’ll get better if I drink his blood and consume all the energy within it. I know it. I’ll be even stronger than you or father could ever imagine.”
Yanran didn’t know if it was an ability she had because she was a mixed child of the human race and blood race, but she could see into Feng Ye’s body and glimpse the formidable power it held. She instinctively knew it would be beneficial for her if she absorbed his life.
Because of this, she was always enthusiastic every time she saw him. She really wanted to get close to him. That way she could suck up his life without being noticed.
“Is this true?” TianXing could not imagine Feng Ye would be so useful. She had been thinking of whose blood to get for her daughter ever since she returned to the family estate. Her father, her brother, and her nephew where all good candidates. She had even considered Feng Wu and Feng Ting. But Feng Ting was concubine born. There was no way she was going to let her baby absorb the blood and flesh of such a person.
As for Feng Wu, though everyone said she had no talent and was a waste, TianXing knew better. Feng Wu’s talent was in fact no worse than Feng JunTian It was just that TianXing had already categorized Feng Wu as food for Yanran.
In order to stop Feng Wu’s powers from getting stronger and before Feng Wu could be tested, she had fed Feng Wu a potion that destroyed Feng Wu’s cultivation. From then on, a super genius dual-cultivator of magic and martial arts became crippled in both.
No one in the family suspected anything and fully believed Feng Wu was born a talentless waste in the arts.
Though Feng Wu’s talent was destroyed, her bloodline wasn’t. So Yanran would be able to reshape her body and become a blood emperor if she could absorb Feng Wu’s blood and flesh.
In the original storyline, Feng Wu would have died during labor. Without her, Tianxing and Yanran shifted their target to Grandfather Feng, but just to be on the safe side, Yanran ingested the flesh and blood of her uncle as well.
JunTian was the only surviving member of the Feng house. Yanran signed a peace treaty with the human race on behalf of the blood race, so in the end, Jun Tian couldn’t even pursue her for revenge. He had to live with that pain for the rest of his life.
440: The Black Sheep
In this storyline, because of Feng Wu’s arrival, Feng Ye was born. The child that should not have been born, was born, and was born with an incredible power. It was a power that would only continue to grow stronger with time.
Because of how special Feng Ye was, he replaced Feng Wuliu and Feng TianHang and became the target for Yanran and her mother.
Feng Wu didn’t know this. She was headed to her master’s residence in the virtual world.
Out of nostalgia, he had built a special place that resembled Yuehua mountain from his old world. It wasn’t just the mountain either, he even included the little village that used to be at the foot of the mountain and all the little animals Feng Wu played with.
After playing with the little rabbits for a while, Feng Wu happily ran to the little bamboo house her master lived.
Feng Wu easily found her master in his study because the furnishings were exactly the same as when they had been on Yuehua mountain.
“Master!” Feng Wu’s eyes lit up at the sight of her master, who she hadn’t seen in a while. She rushed into his arms.
“You, girl, it took you so long to come visit your master? What did you get from the trip?” White put the book in his hand down and fondly patted the top of his disciple’s little head.
Feng Wu told him everything from going to sea and leaving the sea god’s tomb. White listened quietly without interrupting.
After Feng Wu finished he said, “Stay away from that Zi Cheng in the future. That girl’s thoughts are too heavy. She is not suitable to be your friend.”
“OK.” Feng Wu agreed without thinking. She and Zi Cheng weren’t friends anyway; they were just classmates.
White nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough his precious little disciple was the cutest. “This extreme survival challenge for the special mission, you can try hard for it. I’m afraid they may have a very difficult time completing the mission if you are not there with them.” White continued.
“OK, I will work hard.” Feng Wu’s serious voice came from White’s chest.
“What a good child.” White generously praised his precious little disciple.
She was praised by master! Feng Wu’s eyes curved in happiness.
Feng Wu told him about all the things she picked up along the way, some of which were actually useful in rebuilding her master’s body. More praise! Her mood soared. She made a firm resolution to get all the things her master needed so she would get even more praise!
That evening back at the dorms, Feng Wu’s suite was empty. She went to see Feng Ye. Little White had been taking very good care of him. Rui Baby was also quite fond of Little Bun and had been by his side constantly since the first day they met. He had not clung to Feng Wu in awhile.
Little Bun really liked Rui Baby. One human baby and one beast baby played together all day everyday.
Little White made a delicious meal with rice which Feng Wu ate happily. Feng Wu returned to the virtual world after finishing her meal.
The team competition was still ongoing. More than half the students had been eliminated and only about a dozen teams were still in the competition.
Tamansha sat next to the vice principal on the stage. “As you can see, one month has passed inside the arena and 80% of the teams have been eliminated for one thing or another. Only eleven have survived thus far.
Each of the eleven teams have strong combat strength. In the end, which team will win? Let’s ask for the vice principal’s opinion.” Tamansha turned to look at the vice principal.
The vice principal coughed lightly before replying. “All eleven teams are very strong. Each has strong members of comparable strength. Who will be the victor? It’s hard to say.” He touched his long, white beard and smiled.
Who wants to hear you say that? Tamansha slowly pressed a finger to the vein pulsing on her forehead.
“OK, we are in the arena and it is currently nighttime here. Let’s use this time to interview our classmates and get their opinions. . .
Hello everyone. I’m your Senior Sister Olivia and I will be conducting these interviews.” A blonde beauty with golden eyes came over holding a microphone type device. Behind her was another senior carrying a bulky magical tool. Despite carrying such a heavy tool, it was clear he would still be able to move nimbly and quickly. Anyone could see he was from the Sword division.
The audience wasn’t sure what the device was for until they saw an image display on the light screen. The screen was divided in half, with one part showing the challenge participants sleeping, while the other half turned into an interview screen.
“Hello classmate. Are you a contestant in this competition?” Olivia stopped a male sword user and raised the microphone to his face. She smiled as she asked the question.
“Me? Yes. I participated in the team competition.” The guy stared blankly for a moment before answering.
“May I ask how you lost the competition?” Olivia asked again.
Hearing the question made the guy really angry and his expression changed.
“Isn’t the reason we lost the team competition because we had a useless magician? This woman was nothing but a pretty face. We didn’t expect her to charge into battle, but she didn’t do anything all day. She has no abilities, but somehow still manages to bait monsters into attacking her.
I don’t know if she killed a whole family of monsters in a previous life or what, but the monsters, when they see her, they chase and won’t stop! Our team was dragged down by this rotten woman. Let me see her again and I swear to god I’ll beat her so hard her mom won’t recognize her.”
The guy scolded the woman for ten minutes straight. Olivia didn’t dare ask any other questions. She hurriedly ended the interview and ran away with the senior and the magic device.
She interviewed several other people who lost the team challenge. Every one of them scolded the black sheep of the group with a vengeance.
It was hard finding a contestant that didn’t scold a black sheep in their group. The only person who didn’t do any scolding had a weird change in expression before promptly running away. Olivia didn’t understand why until someone reminded her the guy she interviewed was a black sheep himself. No wonder he was running so fast!