Chapter 972: 972.30% Sympathy
Golden Sparrow quickly passed through layers of barriers, lightly placing Xia Feng in a solitary courtyard on a cloud boat, settling him onto a wheelchair.
The woman with the umbrella stood on the sparrow’s head, looked down, and said softly, “Xiao Nan, you go back to the room first. Elder Sister needs to attend the Twelve Seats meeting. I’ll see you tomorrow morning.”
With that, she rubbed Xia Feng’s head. Without waiting for him to say anything, she controlled the Golden Sparrow and instantly soared into the sky, disappearing like a red dot.
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Xia Feng looked at the courtyard speechlessly. The architectural style here was ancient and elegant, as if he had traveled from the technological era back to ancient times.
He originally wanted to act with Ke Yanqing. Unfortunately, the setting of the Ke Family’s third young master being frail and needing more rest restricted him. He could only stay here for now.
After a while, two flower-wearing maids in classical green dresses walked quickly and pushed his wheelchair to the bedroom.
Xia Feng asked the maids to withdraw, telling them not to disturb him unless it was necessary.
Then, after looking around the bedroom, he confirmed with his Bronze Eye of Deconstruction’s vision that there were no surveillance methods.
Thus, a thought crossed his mind, and his consciousness sank into his Mental Sea.
Since he couldn’t act for the time being, he might as well rest.
This body now required at least 20 hours of sleep daily. Although this was a setting given to him by the Fate World, it genuinely affected his spiritual state.
Prolonged sleeplessness would lead to mental fatigue and depletion, making him feel weak all over.
It had to be said that Huojin was truly extremely malicious. The higher one’s status in reality, the greater the restrictions they faced in this world.
He closed his eyes and rested for about 8 hours. After his internal Spirit Particle amount and Mental Power were replenished, he slowly opened his eyes.
Morning light filtered through the wooden paper window, casting dappled light on his jaw and face.
There was faint the sound of fireworks soaring outside. Xia Feng looked out with his Eye of Deconstruction.
He didn’t know what was going on. Despite being in a time of war, this magnificent palace city was decorated with lights and festive banners, as if it were a festival.
Xia Feng shook his head in confusion, his consciousness returning to his Mental Sea.
In the Mental Sea, opposite the Spirit Artifact Sea, a rose-red circular mark floated, its dissipating flowing light subtly outlining the shape of a long saber.
That was Yue Hongli’s location.
[Sympathy – 30%]
A short informational character flashed through Xia Feng’s mind.
Yue Hongli and Hua Shen originated from the same source. Now that they had formed into two separate individuals, they still possessed ‘Body Sympathy’ and ‘Soul Sympathy’.
Body Sympathy meant that the physical senses of the two would synchronize under certain conditions. For example, if Yue Hongli touched something and felt it, the [Mother] of that Golden Sparrow Flower would also feel it.
As for Soul Sympathy, it was relatively more complex. A simple explanation was that it bound the lives of both parties. Besides Star Position Devouring, if one died, the other would also die.
A year and a half ago, when Xia Feng had just escaped Area 51, he had encountered Hua Shen head-on once. At that time, Yue Hongli had established ‘100% Sympathy’ with Hua Shen, but due to Hua Shen’s swift escape, the sympathy was broken, and the sympathy returned to zero.
However, from then on, as long as they were within a certain distance, this ‘sympathy’ would gradually rebuild towards 100%.
As soon as the sympathy reached 100% again, they could proceed to the next step – [Sympathy Contract].
Gui Hua was the most special existence among all Star Gods, originating from Sky Pivot, ascending to the position of Star God, and due to various accidents, obtaining the Nightmare God’s status.
The Star-Nightmare Power coexisted harmoniously within her Godhead, possessing an unprecedented Star-Nightmare Dual God system.
However, this Nightmare God status brought Gui Hua not only a significant increase in strength but also considerable flaws and limitations.
She needed a master to suppress and control her.
Her first master was Heng Huo.
Her second master was Xia Feng.
It was precisely because of this limitation that Hua Shen could only resort to schemes and join forces with Shang Jue to defeat Heng Huo and Gu Yi.
This was told to Xia Feng by Heng Huo during the Sumeru War, and it also revealed the truth of Gu Yi’s death: Shang Jue and Xia Hou Nian coveted the Sumeru Throne and conspired with Hua Shen to murder him.
However, although Heng Huo was dead, Hua Shen still failed to capture Yue Hongli. Yue Hongli fell into the Imaginary River and was re-contracted by Xia Feng three thousand years later.
He never expected that he not only inherited Gu Yi’s Sumeru Throne but also Heng Huo’s Calamity Contract.
With this came the contradictory enemies of the Sumeru Throne and Hua Shen’s Calamity Contract.
Lost in thought, Xia Feng mused, “Little Li, you said that your main personality dared to attack you three thousand years ago and wanted to Star Position Devour you. Does this mean she has already found a way to resolve the Calamity Contract?”
As his words fell, the mark on the back of his hand glowed with a rose-red hue.
Crimson spirit light floated and spun, forming a graceful, red-robed silhouette. She hovered in mid-air, appearing ethereal and enchanting. As her skirt fluttered, delicate and beautiful feet were adorned with intricate light-gold patterns that intertwined from her ankles upwards.
They then traced along her prominent collarbone and charming jade nose, finally disappearing into her slightly open, foxy, upturned eyes.
As her toes touched the ground, the divine patterns gradually faded. Her foxy, beautiful eyes opened, her rose-red pupils indifferent, but her tone was serious, “Master, this is the Main Personality’s territory. You shouldn’t have let me out at this time.”
Xia Feng shook his head, “Rest assured, the sympathy progress hasn’t changed. It indicates that her main body is still fighting Burning Heaven Holy Lord in the outer universe and is not on Sparrow King Star.”
Ever since Xia Feng entered Sparrow King Star, the sympathy progress had jumped directly from 0.01% to 30%. No matter where he went, there hadn’t been much change.
Even earlier, before Xia Feng participated in the Sumeru War, he had visited Sparrow King Star once. At that time, the sympathy progress was around 50%.
This shows that the increase in sympathy progress is not a linear relationship with the distance.
When Yue Hongli and Hua Shen were in the same large area, the sympathy progress would fluctuate around 30%.
When Yue Hongli and Hua Shen were on the same planet, the sympathy progress would fluctuate around 50%.
Combined with the first time he encountered Hua Shen head-on a year and a half ago, although it was only for a few seconds, Xia Feng still perceived that 60% was a critical point.
Only when the distance entered within a thousand meters would the sympathy progress rapidly surge to 60%, and then continue to surge faster as the distance shortened.
Simply put, as long as he didn’t enter the thousand-meter range, he was basically safe.
“Little Li, did Heng Huo ever tell you if Hua Shen found a way to deal with the Calamity Contract?” Xia Feng asked.
Yue Hongli shook her head, “Neither Heng nor I understand why the Main Personality would suddenly dare to Star Position Devour me. Logically, even if Star Position Devouring were successful, it wouldn’t resolve the Calamity Contract.”
“Hmm, that’s strange then.” Xia Feng rubbed his chin, lost in thought.
However, regardless of whether Hua Shen had found a way to resolve the Calamity Contract, one thing was certain.
Before the Star Position Devouring was completed, Hua Shen was definitely afraid of the Calamity Contract and was affected by it.
Otherwise, a year and a half ago, when Xia Feng and Hua Shen first met, Hua Shen wouldn’t have fled because Xia Feng used the Calamity Contract on her.
(End of this chapter)
