Chapter 72: Can I let her be a bait?
Hearing this, even Xu Mei, who was as steady as ever, was startled and jumped back in a panic.
The other fairies lost their souls, their faces filled with fear, and drew their swords.
“You… What did you say? I… I am the real Cheng Hong Ling?”
Only Qi Huang pointed at herself foolishly. It wasn’t that she didn’t run, but her brain had lost the ability to think.
“She… She is Cheng Hong Ling, then you… you are…”
Xu Mei asked as if facing a great enemy, wondering if there was something wrong with her Cat’s Eye Tears. Perhaps they were expired?
“She is Cheng Hong Ling, and I am also Cheng Hong Ling.”
Cheng Hong Ling added calmly.
Hearing this, Qi Huang felt a little suspicious of Hong Ling Fairy’s judgment, thinking, “Do I not know if I am Cheng Hong Ling?”
“What is going on?”
Xu Mei did not dare to relax her vigilance and cautiously asked.
“Master, you should know that I have long had the idea of leaving the HongHua Sect. I told you before.”
Cheng Hong Ling opened her lips lightly.
Xu Mei nodded subconsciously and said, “I know, you plan to go to other sects to try your luck, and then come back to develop the HongHua Sect after you become powerful.”
“So that’s how it is!”
Qi Huang suddenly realized. At first, she thought Hong Ling Fairy was an ungrateful person, but now she realized that she just wanted to try her luck outside for a while.
“The reason I haven’t left is because I can’t rest assured about everything here. Because too many karma are involved in the HongHua Sect, once they know I have defected to another sect, those fiends and unrighteous ways will surely attack me collectively. The events that followed also proved my worries were correct.”
Cheng Hong Ling began to narrate slowly, her voice like a gurgling stream, clear and pleasant, “After thinking for a long time, I came up with a method, which is to create an external incarnation, also known as a clone. If I can cultivate a clone and let her stay in the HongHua Sect, this will stabilize the situation.”
“That’s a good idea, but aren’t you only in the Guiyi Realm? Clones can only be cultivated in the Huashen Realm!”
Xu Mei asked with some doubt.
“Yes, but you also know that I don’t have time, so I decided to take a risk.”
Cheng Hong Ling moved her steps lightly, exuding a fragrance. “But the result is as you said, clones can only be cultivated after reaching the Hua shen Realm. I couldn’t control it, so there was an error during cultivation.”
“Everyone should know that a person’s Life Soul is composed of three souls and seven vital souls. The three souls are the Heaven, Earth, and Human souls, and the seven vital souls are strength, qi, essence, spirit, center, celestial-opening, and spiritual wisdom. The so-called external incarnation is actually to separate a soul or a spiritual soul, and then give it a physical body. That’s what I did at the time, but my soul strength was not enough to support the entire process. So after separating the Spiritual Wisdom soul, I only had time to give it a face skin before I fainted. When I woke up, I found that the spiritual soul and the face skin were gone.”
Cheng Hong Ling explained the whole story in detail.
Everyone looked at each other, their faces showing surprise and uncertainty.
Qi Huang’s doubts were largely resolved. If her guess was correct, the “human skin mask” she picked up should be the face skin separated by Hong Ling Fairy, and the female soul in her body should be her Spiritual Wisdom soul.
“That’s not right! If that’s the case, it means I have been completely assimilated by that mask from the inside out, but why can my consciousness as Huang Qi still be preserved?”
New doubts arose in Qi Huang’s mind. Although she sometimes couldn’t distinguish between dreams and reality, she was still clear about who she was, at least now.
“Also, why can that piece of face skin feminize me? Do clones have this effect?”
As one doubt arose, new doubts followed.
“Why did it suddenly disappear for no reason? Was it stolen?”
Ruan Lingyu asked, frowning.
“Impossible. I thought about it afterward. That spiritual soul must have attached itself to the face skin and escaped on its own.”
Cheng Hong Ling snorted coldly, her beautiful eyes casually glanced at Qi Huang, her gaze extremely aggressive.
Qi Huang felt a little wronged, but she did not dare to argue, so she could only complain weakly in her heart, “It wasn’t me, why are you looking at me like this.”
“But why did she escape?”
Ruan Lingyu found it very strange.
“If you were locked in a small room for over ten years, and one day you suddenly gained freedom, you would also escape.”
Cheng Hong Ling used a metaphor.
The women looked at each other again, their faces showing looks of sudden realization.
“But what does that have to do with the woman in front of us?”
Shen Yuan glanced at Qi Huang and asked.
“Because she is that incomplete clone.”
Cheng Hong Ling said very confidently.
“So that’s how it is. No wonder she’s been hiding from us. It turns out she was afraid of being discovered by you.”
Miao Xiang tilted her head and imagined it to herself.
“Junior Sister, it’s not that I don’t believe you, but this is clearly a complete person. Didn’t you say you only gave her a face skin?”
Yun Fei sized up Qi Huang and questioned her.
“Then I can only ask her why a piece of face skin can grow into a complete person!”
Cheng Hong Ling shifted her attention entirely to Qi Huang.
“I… I don’t know.”
Qi Huang told the truth. In fact, even if she knew, she couldn’t say it, because that would expose her true identity. Even an idiot would understand her current predicament. Other than continuing to impersonate Hong Ling Fairy’s clone, there was no other way.
Actually, it couldn’t be called impersonation. At least a large part of her current body belonged to the other party, but not entirely. If she admitted it, she wasn’t sure if the other party had a way to strip her main consciousness out.
“Don’t know? It doesn’t matter, I promise you will know.”
Cheng Hong Ling said indifferently, not annoyed.
Qi Huang shivered inexplicably, not knowing how the fairy would deal with her.
“So she is your clone, no wonder she looks so much like you, and knows us so well.”
Ruan Lingyu sighed, her eyes on Qi Huang no longer had any defenses, only a gentle gaze like water.
“So it was all a misunderstanding.”
The other fairies were the same, but Shen Yuan was an exception. As the chief investigator before, she now felt extremely guilty and dared not look at Qi Huang.
“Fortunately, Eldest Senior Sister stopped her, otherwise Senior Sister Shen Yuan would have killed her.”
Su Qingying, the sharp-tongued girl, brought up sore points.
“I didn’t know, did I? The more I’m like this, the more I care about Junior Sister.”
Shen Yuan awkwardly scratched her foot, her face flushing rarely.
“Hong Ling, Master still has some questions. Although I haven’t even reached the Guiyi Realm, I’ve heard some rumors. It is said that clones are 100% obedient to the main body. Why does she have so many little thoughts of her own? She actually runs around the world!”
Xu Mei asked with doubt.
“That’s because my soul strength was not enough. When I separated her, the soul bond between us was broken, so I can’t control her now and can’t put her into my consciousness space.”
Cheng Hong Ling explained in detail.
“She can actually put a living person like me into her consciousness space? Is that true or false?”
Qi Huang was both scared and a little curious when she heard this.
“Then what do you plan to do? If you can’t control her, then you and she will be one person in name, but two people in reality!”
Xu Mei realized the seriousness of the matter.
“Master, don’t worry. As long as I re-establish the soul bond with her, not only will I be able to control her, but I will also be able to read her memories, so I will know what exactly happened to her during this time.”
Chen Hong Ling comforted her.
“Read my memories?”
Qi Huang was greatly alarmed. If that were the case, wouldn’t her true identity be exposed?
“It seems I absolutely cannot establish any soul bond with her.”
Qi Huang secretly calculated.
“Then how can we establish a soul bond? Is there anything I can do to help?”
Xu Mei asked in detail.
“No need, I can complete it myself. Don’t worry.”
Cheng Hong Ling declined politely.
“Junior Sister, this is your thing!”
At this moment, Ruan Lingyu returned the Tongming Comb to Cheng Hong Ling.
“You stole the Tongming Comb to cultivate, right? You’re so weak!”
Cheng Hong Ling looked at Qi Huang and questioned her.
Qi Huang nodded vaguely. In fact, she stole the Tongming Comb to maintain her male appearance, but this matter could certainly not be said.
Ruan Lingyu hesitated for a moment, then gave the strange seed to Qi Huang, but did not say anything, because she did not even know how to address her. She couldn’t directly call her “Junior Sister’s clone,” could she?
Qi Huang quickly put it into her arms. This was her important reliance for becoming stronger. As for the Tongming Comb, she could only find a way to deal with it slowly.
“By the way, since she has the scent of the Golden Life Flower on her, can you let her be a bait for you?”
Xu Mei brought up the old topic again.
