Chapter 974: Mutation
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"Not happy!" Xia Feng looked at her expressionlessly, pulled her ankle apart, and sneered, "Little Li, you're so clumsy, how about I call you Clumsy Li from now on?"
"No." Yue Hongli pursed her lips, frowning. She didn't like being called an idiot, even less Clumsy Li!
"Then, Clumsy Fish?"
"!" Yue Hongli kept a straight face, continued shaking her head unhappily, her snow feet sliding back and forth on the ground, but inside she was puzzled. Clearly, the master enjoyed being humiliated like this, why did he say he wasn't happy?
Could it be that she learned it wrong?
Impossible, Miss Mu was so smart, she must have accurately found the master's preferences, so if she imitated Miss Mu's tone and demeanor, and even behavior patterns, one to one, it would surely please the master.
The lingering warmth on her footsole indicated that, from the master's physical reaction, he was indeed pleased.
Yet the master said he wasn't happy.
Combining the master's numerous deceitful behaviors towards the lady, it could be concluded that the master's 'not happy' actually meant 'happy'!
Thinking of this, Yue Hongli's rose-colored eyes brightened, and the strand of hair on top of her head stood upright. Indeed, after a year and a half of observation and diligent study, the clever her had learned it correctly!
— The master is just a pervert who loves being stepped on!
This Lord is truly the Guihua Star Lord, with all the evil of the gods, nothing can be difficult for this Lord!
"Clumsy Fish, Clumsy Li, Clumsy Li sounds better indeed." the master who liked being stepped on looked up at her, clapped his hands thoughtfully, "Alright, I'll call you Clumsy Li from now on! Tea b*tch, Clumsy Li, Burned Fox, all together!"
Oh right, he also liked to give people weird nicknames.
Yue Hongli looked faintly at this master who liked being stepped on, thinking so, and nodded, "Master, as long as you're happy."
Xia Feng raised his eyebrow, hearing a hint of retort and annoyance.
Sure enough, this Clumsy Li had developed some emotions, previously there weren't any negative emotional reactions.
Interesting.
It seems that contact with Hua God is indeed beneficial for Yue Hongli's mental development, but she's still somewhat clumsy, spending a year and a half yet she could analyze his preference wrongly!
"Boom—!"
At this moment, a thunderous roar erupted, causing the paper-wood window to tremble slightly.
Xia Feng and Yue Hongli stopped their conversation, looking outside puzzled.
In the distance, a tall building broke out into a large hole, with two figures clashing together, sparks flying everywhere.
Below, chaos ensued with people fleeing, slaughtering, and fighting; the once festively decorated New Year's scene had turned into a purgatory.
Xia Feng was shocked, his gaze intense as he fully activated the Eye of Decompilation, scanning the streets.
One after another, a divine grey light appeared on people's foreheads, and then, as if their soul body was detaching, they formed a humanoid shadow behind them.
The formation of the humanoid shadow frightened the person in front, who tried to stop it, but it was futile.
The shadow quickly solidified, its blood-red eyes filled with indifferent mockery, or perhaps an overwhelming violent killing intent from above.
And engaged in battle with its master.
A Heavenly Gifted Poison, artifacts turning into humans!
How could this be? Xia Feng mumbled, standing up instinctively, with both hands on the window sill, scanning intensely.
The poison spread rapidly.
In just this moment of thought, dozens more were infected, turning their artifacts into human or humanoid forms.
Lin Hanshu didn't enter Sparrow God Mountain, he handed over the dagger carrying the poison to Ke Yanqing outside Sparrow God Mountain.
Xia Feng had witnessed Ke Yanqing wiping out the poison, cautiously destroying the dagger along with it.
The common methods of spreading the Heavenly Gifted Poison are twofold: soul attachment and artifact attack.
Soul attachment is when a weapon with the Heavenly Gift Holy Seal kills a target, and the poison attaches to the target's residual spirit; it explodes at a specified time, spreading the poisonous mist rapidly.
Artifact attack is when an infected artifact attacks other normal artifacts, with a chance of infecting them with the Heavenly Gifted Poison, turning them into humans.
Comparatively, the latter can be detected, while the former is hard to spot.
Anyone wanting to enter Sparrow God Mountain needs to go through layers of screenings, even Ke Yanqing is no exception.
When Ke Yanqing brought Xia Feng in, Xia Feng had seen those screening methods, they were indeed stable, yet they still couldn't filter out the poison from soul-attached residual spirits.
That's why, according to Nian Gengcheng's original plan—
Having Ko Nan's corpse explode the poison upon being sent back to Sparrow God Mountain was indeed a good plan. Of course, with the precondition that Sparrow God Mountain would carelessly accept the return of the Ke family's third young master's body during such a special period.
But such a plan never happened.
Xia Feng fell into contemplation, could it be that other important people's corpses were sent back to Sparrow God Mountain? Were the people of Sparrow God Mountain that careless?
"Clumsy Li, do you think it's possible that Golden Sparrow is harbouring an internal traitor?" Xia Feng leaned against the chair, cocking his head to ask.
Yue Hongli's small face remained indifferent, shaking her head, just about to speak, but suddenly looked up towards the roof, expressionlessly.
She turned into a red ray and vanished.
Three figures draped entirely in night attire appeared on the roof at some point, like ninjas with only their eyes exposed.
Behind the three ninjas, the spatial vortex slowly diminished and faded away.
"Hurry up, the Maid is returning."
"Just a kid."
"Don't waste time, do it!"
As the low conversation ended, their figures flickered, passing through layers of building barriers, dropping from the rooftop, one in front, two behind, directly charging at Xia Feng.
Assassins?
Inside the dim room, Xia Feng was surprised as those three ninjas appeared again using some spatial technique, quietly emerging beside Xia Feng's wheelchair.
Forming a triangle formation, surrounding the wheelchair.
Their three pairs of eyes were indifferent, as if looking at an ant.
Cold light flickered, the three pairs of eyes immediately showed astonishment, their heads flew upward, and headless bodies slowly knelt towards the central youthful figure on the wheelchair.
Tap—
Tiny currents withdrew to his fingertip, Xia Feng shook his head disapprovingly, these three dared to assassinate him, truly tired of living.
He had used a B-level Spiritual Clothes: Fingertip Lightning, to instantly kill the three.
He had encountered the assassins from Golden Sparrow before, all of them were Death Warriors with a self-destruct seal, so he didn't bother keeping any of them alive.
Besides, from their conversation, Ke Yanqing was on the way,
Xia Feng frowned, pondered for a moment, then shook his head, still urging the Blood Beast's Shadow to devour and destroy the three assassins' bodies.
Not long after.
Through the Eye of Decompilation, he saw in the distant sky a Golden Sparrow drawing a fast line towards his direction.
Carrying a breeze of cold light through the paper window, a woman holding an umbrella passed through the barrier, flashing directly into the room from the window.
Descending gracefully like an immortal, she landed gently in front of Xia Feng.
The umbrella was lowered, yet she first looked around, seemingly searching for something.
After a moment of daze, her gaze returned to settle on the boy in the wheelchair, red lips parted, softly saying: "Little Nan, are you alright?"
The words were gentle, full of concern, yet the warm and beautiful eyes hidden beneath the umbrella's shadow were filled with icy killing intent, extraordinarily cold.