Chapter 574: The First Step of the Plan, Killed by You
Chapter 574. The First Step of the Plan, Killed by You
Sensing the disturbance, Freya’s eyes snapped open.
Before she could even react, the puppet was swiftly annihilated by a sudden flurry of attacks from Xia Feng.
She parted her lips slightly, bewildered.
Xia Feng stood his ground, scanning his surroundings vigilantly, but found no other enemies lurking in the shadows. He was left wondering if the black-robed person was truly dead.
He looked up at the wine-red haired woman and let out a sigh of relief, “Teacher Freya, are you alright?”
Freya, having regained her senses, looked at her student, whom she hadn’t seen in a while, with surprise.
Seeing her silence, Xia Feng quickly explained, “Teacher, I am Xia Feng. The one just now was fake.”
“I know.”
Freya shook her head, the cold indifference on her pretty face fading slightly. She blinked her beautiful eyes, “Why are you here?”
*Know?* Xia Feng’s confusion deepened, but he still explained,
“According to the sense of the Pale Contract Seal, I thought you had been kidnapped, so I rushed here.”
Xia Feng pointed curiously at the spot where the black-robed person had died, “What happened with this guy? Did he kidnap you?”
Freya pursed her lips, at a loss for words, and could only say, “.Kind of.”
“Kind of?”
“Mmm,” Freya looked out at the dark forest beyond the cave entrance and sighed, “This is actually Ye Li Dongjun’s Holy Solution Plan. I don’t know the specific details, only that he seems to have obtained some God Relic. If he completes a few humiliating feats, he can obtain the Dragon Heart Flame to repair the Dragon King’s bloodline.”
“I am Ye Li Dongjun’s nominal wife, so he naturally wouldn’t want to truly complete the humiliation through cuckoldry. Thus, he devised a way to deceive the rules of the God Relic. The person impersonating you was actually a wooden puppet.”
“Huh?”
As Freya slowly explained, Xia Feng leaned back tactically, utterly astonished. *It can be done like this?*
*So this is Ye Li Dongjun’s third Dragon King-level creation plan?*
*And the method of creation actually originated from the Shameful Spirit Curse I placed on him back then.*
Xia Feng found it incredible and couldn’t help but wonder what humiliating feats this guy had already accomplished.
“Then why did the wooden puppet have my face?” Xia Feng asked, puzzled.
Freya pursed her lips, “To maximize the humiliation felt by his conscious self, and to ensure that his conscious self wouldn’t discover anything amiss, he needed to select an ant from his memories that was real, of low status, and harbored a grudge against him. That’s how he ended up choosing you as this evil disciple who would violate me.”
“…”
Xia Feng could only praise Ye Li Dongjun’s genius in such a way.
“So, under the repeated pressure from Shang Jue Pillar State, I outwardly agreed to help him complete the Holy Solution Plan.”
Freya narrowed her beautiful eyes, “But in reality, I will keep delaying time, stretching it for days, until he completely misses the optimal Holy Solution time. After all, if he completes the Holy Solution, his combat power will increase terrifyingly, which is not a beneficial outcome for us.”
*Hey… no, Teacher Freya, this is actually a beneficial thing.* Xia Feng blinked, “Teacher, actually, even if the other party’s spirit artifact completes Holy Solution, my spirit artifact can copy that Holy Solution ability, and even plunder it.”
Freya was stunned. She had vaguely known about some of the abilities of this student’s spirit artifact.
But she hadn’t thought of it in this way before. Now that she thought about it, it seemed true. If Xia Feng could even steal the Holy Solution ability, then helping Ye Li Dongjun with his Holy Solution might not be a bad thing.
“So Teacher, you understand now. We cannot disrupt Ye Li Dongjun’s plan; instead, we must ensure it proceeds smoothly,” Xia Feng mused, rubbing his chin. Freya glanced at her student with her cold and beautiful face, pursed her red lips, pointed at the ground, and said indifferently, “But the first step of the plan was killed by you.”
Xia Feng: “…”
“Are there… no backup puppets?”
“This puppet is not ordinary; it’s an alchemy lifeform created by the [God Relic · Alchemy Box]. It can realistically imitate, and anyone ignorant of its true nature, regardless of the investigation method, cannot discern its falsity. The materials for its creation are also extremely scarce. Ye Li Dongjun only created one alchemy lifeform that resembles you. Once it’s dead, it’s gone.”
*So it’s like that,* Xia Feng subconsciously raised his eyes, just in time for Teacher Freya’s wine-red beautiful eyes to meet his gaze, calm and indifferent.
The atmosphere became somewhat subtle.
“Do you have any more questions?” Freya asked gently and indifferently.
Xia Feng thought for a moment and nodded, “I do have one more question.”
“Hm?”
“If Ye Li Dongjun’s Humiliating Plan is successful and he obtains the Dragon Heart Flame, who will be the candidate for the third Dragon King-level?”
*!*
“There are quite a few candidates. Most of the A-class Half-dragons produced by the Martial God Project are basically qualified for promotion.”
Xia Feng had heard Freya mention the Martial God Project several times before. The ultimate goal was to create the legendary Dragon Scions.
Seeing Xia Feng’s curiosity, Freya began to explain in detail:
“The exact start time of the Martial God Project is unclear. However, both Ye Li Dongjun and I originated from the Martial God Project. We were born over three hundred years ago. After living in the Martial God Academy for thirteen years, my sister and I were forced into frozen slumber due to unstable bloodlines. Ye Li Dongjun, however, gained Shang Jue’s admiration due to his exceptional talent and powerful spirit artifact. He rose through the ranks for three hundred years, eventually becoming Shang Jue’s disciple.”
“As for me, I only revived from my frozen slumber twenty years ago. After my bloodline stabilized, my talent also gradually emerged. Among Shang Jue’s many children, I performed the most outstandingly, thus earning Shang Jue’s favor. Ten years ago, I was betrothed to Ye Li Dongjun.”
Freya paused here, her beautiful eyes lifting slightly. “You know what happened afterward; I fled my arranged marriage and lived in seclusion for ten years. A year ago, I heard that my sister had also revived from her frozen slumber, but she was captured by Ye Li Dongjun’s subordinate, the Festival Envoy, and taken to the Bern Island Laboratory, where she died during inhumane research…”
Xia Feng nodded. He naturally remembered this matter. Before entering White Emperor City, he and Miss Mu had gone with Teacher Freya to Bern Island to rescue her sister. It was also on Bern Island that he learned the first A-class Spirit Robe, Musashi Tengu. Later, he accidentally fell into the River of Time and Space, landing in the forest where White Emperor City was located.
After Freya finished her explanation, the serene mountain cave fell into a brief silence.
The atmosphere became subtle again.
Freya still leaned against the cold stone wall, holding her sword. A serious expression, typical of a teacher, graced her face, and her voice was indifferent, “So, do you have any other questions?”
Xia Feng blinked, staring into the woman’s wine-red eyes. He slowly took a step forward, asking curiously, “Teacher Freya, according to Ye Li Dongjun’s plan, if the puppet hadn’t died, you weren’t going to stop the plan, so what should happen next?”
Freya’s expression remained unchanged, and she explained seriously, “Next, I would be tied up, a photograph taken and sent to Ye Li Dongjun, threatening him to appear in public on all major imperial media platforms and apologize to Xia Feng, Uncle Wei, and the innocent victims of the Garden tragedy.”
“And then?”
Xia Feng stopped half a meter in front of the wine-red haired woman.
