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Wei Chen heard a female voice behind him, and his hair stood on end, his body going rigid.
Yet his hand remained tightly gripping the knife!
Wei Chen slowly turned his head, and an Ice Queen appeared in his line of sight.
The woman exuded an extremely cold aura, as if she had just emerged from an ice cellar. The air around her seemed to grow colder because of her presence.
Wei Chen shivered, squinting as he slowly stood up, his gaze fixed intently on the woman.
If she made any sudden moves, Wei Chen would strike with the knife without hesitation.
"This terrifying woman... I can't sense any Soul Power fluctuations from her!" Wei Chen thought to himself, feeling a chill run down his spine. Upon closer inspection, she seemed like an ordinary woman, not a Soul Warrior at all.
But in a place like this, encountering a woman, Wei Chen absolutely did not believe she could be just an ordinary person.
Ordinary people couldn't even climb Sword Mountain!
"Who are you?" Wei Chen quietly took a few steps back, gathering Soul Power in his fingertips, preparing his Silent Extinction Finger as he asked in a low voice.
"Who am I?" The woman furrowed her brow, tilting her head and squinting as she thought for a moment before shaking her head. "I don't know who I am."
After a pause, her gaze turned strange as she fixed her eyes on Wei Chen and asked, "Who are you?"
Wei Chen was taken aback, his guard slightly lowering as he replied, "My name is Wei Chen."
"Wei Chen? A name of the human race?" The woman seemed quite surprised.
Wei Chen thought to himself, "Her question proves she isn't human; she might very well be the demon queen of Serpent Mountain! But why does it feel like her intelligence isn't very high?"
"I am indeed a member of the human race. What's so strange about that?" Wei Chen replied.
"Human race?" The woman's expression grew even more peculiar as she squinted and said, "Aren't you a lotus flower?"
Uh...
Wei Chen was momentarily stunned, then suddenly thought of the Demon Lotus in his soul. Could it be that she was referring to this?
"Miss, are you talking about a black Demon Lotus?"
"Exactly." The woman nodded firmly.
"Alright then, I suppose I am a lotus flower," Wei Chen said helplessly.
The Ice Queen stared at Wei Chen for a moment and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Soul Jade. It's something that stores Soul Techniques and Cultivation Methods, about the size of a fingernail, usually milky white," Wei Chen described, his eyes filled with hope as he looked at the woman.
The woman spread her hand, revealing her smooth and delicate palm, which was completely empty. Wei Chen couldn't understand what she was trying to do and patiently watched.
Suddenly, a handful of jade pieces appeared on her palm—about a dozen of them—all were Soul Jade!
"This is it, the invaluable Soul Jade," Wei Chen gazed hungrily at the pile of Soul Jade, not even pausing to think about how the woman had conjured them like magic.
"Take me away from here, and I'll give you these," the woman said coldly as she closed her palm, looking intently at Wei Chen.
"Take you away? Can't you walk by yourself? My strength is so weak that if I want to descend the mountain, I can only crawl slowly. This mountain is so high; it might take me half a month to reach the foot!" Wei Chen felt it was strange. This woman, stunningly beautiful yet cold-faced, must possess terrifying strength. Why would she want him to take her down the mountain?
The Ice Queen's face was filled with an expression of strangeness as she coldly asked, "Do you really not know, or do you just not want to take me down?"
"I know what?" Wei Chen felt inexplicably that everything was inexplicable!
"This mountain is sealed off. I can't get out, so you have to take me down."
"What do you mean?"
"All the beasts cannot leave the peak area; there is a seal at the boundary that leaves me helpless. But you are different. Your blood can break all seals and take me away."
Hearing this, Wei Chen was stunned again. My blood has such an incredible function?
"How do you know that?" Wei Chen asked.
"Because of the aura in your body," the woman replied calmly.
Wei Chen was puzzled and pressed, "Can you be more specific?"
"I don't understand either, but I feel that you can take me out. My feelings won't be wrong." The woman's resolute demeanor left Wei Chen with no choice but to nod in agreement.
The two corpses were undoubtedly Eighth Rank Soul Realm Experts, and all their Soul Jade had been thoroughly searched by the woman before him. Wei Chen could only smile bitterly; in the end, the situation seemed to have become extremely complicated.
Just as he was about to set off, a surge of intense hatred suddenly erupted in Wei Chen's eyes as he glared at the woman and coldly said, "The people who came with me—did you kill them?"
"No." The woman shook her head, furrowing her brow, then added with confusion, "Perhaps it could be considered my doing?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Wei Chen's killing intent surged. He pointed his blade at the woman's heart and coldly declared, "You killed the person I respected most. Even if it means death, I won't take you with me."
"That Spirit Wisdom Realm expert? His strength was quite good." The woman's expression remained indifferent as she continued, "I didn't kill him. Those Tricolor Serpents are my subjects, but it wasn't my order."
"Ridiculous! If it wasn't you, then who could it be?"
"The Mountain Spirit of this mountain."
The woman spoke with an unyielding tone, leaving Wei Chen astonished. A Mountain Spirit? Was there such a thing? Could a mountain even possess intelligence?
"Don't underestimate this mountain; it has quite the background. You humans call it Sword Mountain because its shape resembles a sword, but in reality, it is a sword transformed." The woman continued about Sword Mountain, her expression calm as if she were speaking the truth.
Or perhaps, what she said was indeed the truth?
This was absurd!
Wei Chen cursed inwardly. Why did he feel inclined to believe such bizarre claims?
"Miss, please stop joking. No matter how high-quality a sword is, it can't possibly turn into a mountain, let alone one with its own consciousness," Wei Chen pouted, expressing his disbelief.
"Your perspective is... simply too limited and does not match your identity at all." The Ice Queen looked at Wei Chen with a strange expression, secretly pondering, "Is this fellow really the Peerless Black Lotus? The Demon Realm Ruler and Peerless Demon Lotus shouldn't be like this."
Wei Chen opened his mouth; it was normal for him to have a limited perspective, but what did she mean by not matching his identity? What identity did he even have?
Seeing Wei Chen's dazed expression, the woman hesitated for a moment and said lightly, "This Sword Mountain is an external object, not something from this world. In such a low-level realm, there are no high-grade items like this. The Mountain Spirit of Sword Mountain has already taken form; it can initially control the consciousness of the beasts on this mountain. Those beasts are all my subjects, but I never interfere with what they do."
"Your subjects? You gave birth to them?" Wei Chen asked in disbelief. What kind of woman could give birth to so many subjects?
"Ridiculous!" The woman snapped coldly. "Every strand of my hair can condense countless beasts; those lowly serpents are merely the strands that have fallen from my hair over the past few centuries."
The Ice Queen's cold gaze fixed on Wei Chen, her eyes harboring a faint killing intent. If anyone else had spoken such words, they would have met a swift end on the spot; yet when Wei Chen spoke out of turn, the woman seemed to be holding back.
It should have been mere boasting, but deep down, Wei Chen felt that this woman was indeed formidable!
"A single strand of hair can turn into a Fifth-Rank Tricolor Serpent?" Wei Chen scoffed sarcastically at her.
The simplest provocation had succeeded. The woman let out a cold laugh, immediately reaching out to grab a handful of her waist-length hair. With a swift motion, she transformed her hand into a blade and severed a lock of hair, tossing it fiercely into the air.
Under Wei Chen's astonished gaze, the severed hair visibly thickened and elongated, transforming into dozens of Fifth-Rank Monster Tricolor Serpents that hovered in the air, their forked tongues flicking as they menacingly eyed Wei Chen.
"What a terrifying woman! If she helps me, rescuing Sister Wei Rou from the Soul Palace will be a piece of cake," Wei Chen thought, looking at the woman with no trace of hostility left in his eyes, replaced instead by warmth and kindness.
This change was so sudden that even Wei Chen found it hard to believe.
"How did I become this kind of person? I used to be a model youth."
Noticing the shift in Wei Chen's expression, the Ice Queen's icy demeanor softened slightly. With a wave of her hand, the floating Tricolor Serpents vanished in an instant, and the severed hair fell to the ground, making the earlier scene feel like a dream.
"Take me down the mountain. In return, all the Soul Jade I obtain from them will be yours," she said, pointing to the two corpses with a much friendlier tone.
"Alright," Wei Chen nodded. It felt harmless enough, so he agreed.
Wei Chen walked ahead while the Ice Queen floated silently behind him, her feet barely touching the ground without making a sound.
When they reached the place where thousands of Tricolor Serpents had perished, Wei Chen stopped and began to rummage through the pile of snakes for Demon Cores without paying any attention to the person behind him. The Demon Cores from Fifth-Rank Monsters were worth their weight in gold—easily worth over one hundred thousand taels of silver in Liao Kingdom.
Soon, however, Wei Chen's expression turned gloomy as he sighed helplessly, "With so many here, how am I supposed to take them back?"
His hands were filled with Demon Cores, and his pockets were stuffed full. He felt like a pauper who had stumbled upon mountains of gold but couldn't carry any home; it was frustrating no matter how he thought about it.
"What do you want with all this junk?" The Ice Queen asked, puzzled.
"Junk? Sister, these are real treasures! Each one contains vast amounts of Soul Power. Once I refine and absorb these Demon Cores, I'll become a master too."
Wei Chen stood up, realizing that greed would only lead to trouble. He decided to take as many as he could carry; taking them all was impossible anyway. Besides, surely this amount of Demon Cores would be enough?
"A single Demon Core contains about one-tenth of the Soul Power of the original beast. These Demon Cores are enough for me to cultivate for a long time."
Wei Chen continued walking, a light laugh echoing from behind him.
"Don't waste your effort. These Demon Cores aren't real. Can anything conjured by my hair truly contain Soul Power? This mountain, all of it, is under the control of Sword Mountain. The beasts here gather the Soul Power of this land, temporarily possessing life. Once they die, they return to the earth. What you hold in your hand is nothing but trash."
The Ice Queen looked at Wei Chen with amusement, wondering how this Demon Lotus Successor could regard such trash as treasure.
Wei Chen quickly examined the Demon Core in his hand, and as he did, his expression fell. How could this be?
When Donghua and the others were around, these had clearly been genuine Demon Cores! Including those third and fourth-grade Demon Cores he had initially obtained, now they emitted no trace of Soul Power.
"Demon Lotus Successor, there's really no need to be discouraged. As long as you can subdue the Sword Mountain Spirit, the benefits for you in the future will be immeasurable. I believe you have the strength to tame the Mountain Spirit."
The Ice Queen made another astonishing statement, causing Wei Chen's eyes to widen in disbelief. Subdue the Sword Mountain Spirit?
"How do I subdue it?" Wei Chen asked in shock.
The Ice Queen's eyes suddenly narrowed into crescent shapes, a sly smile curling at her lips as she said lightly, "No need to rush; I will help you."
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