Chapter 52: I suspect you are an imposter!
“This is simply unbelievable!” Huang Qi was numb with shock. Driven by curiosity, he played with it with great interest and soon discovered that the strange things were far from over. Not only had his long hair become tougher than before, but it could also actually extend, as elastic as a rubber band.
“Extending? What’s the limit?” Huang Qi suppressed the excitement in his heart and controlled a strand of hair to extend forward.
“One zhang… two zhang… three zhang… ten zhang…” As the distance increased, the hair became thinner and thinner. After stretching for a full ten zhang, the strand of hair finally broke.
“Ten zhang! This toughness is too astonishing. It’s the same as the farthest distance my spiritual sense can probe now. This doesn’t seem like a coincidence!” Huang Qi couldn’t help but exclaim, then began to consider the uses of his new, strange ability.
“Right, now that my hair has become incredibly tough, it’s comparable to steel wire. Plus, it’s very thin and hidden. What if I used it as a weapon?” A flash of inspiration struck Huang Qi. A strand of hair shot out instantly, like threading a needle, effortlessly piercing a towering tree.
“This… is this what invincible feels like?” Huang Qi was dumbfounded. For someone who couldn’t become a cultivator after cultivating for more than ten years, being able to blow up a tree was an incredibly great feat!
To find out how invincible he was, Huang Qi found other experimental subjects. The results came out quickly. He could also pierce stones, but metal was a bit difficult. Moreover, the farther the distance, the weaker the attack power.
“I’m invincible, but then again, maybe not! At most, I’m invincible in Ping’an County!” Huang Qi teased himself. The reason was still his hair’s insufficient hardness, so the upper limit was at most being able to fight cultivators at the Body Refining realm.
However, Huang Qi was already satisfied. It generally took ordinary cultivators decades to reach the Body Refining realm, and excellent ones took more than ten years. Peerless geniuses like Hong Ling were too rare. He dyed his hair once and inexplicably reached this level. How could he still be unsatisfied? Moreover, this only referred to direct confrontation. Hair strands were extremely secretive. It was hard to say about surprise attacks.
Huang Qi suddenly felt that he should thank that vengeful soul. If she hadn’t “led the way,” he wouldn’t have gained so many life-saving means. He probably would have died before he could grow up.
“If I want to be invincible, I need more hair dye. Once that seed can be successfully planted…” Huang Qi touched the seed in his embrace and entered a fantasy time.
“What a pity. The HongHua Sect probably won’t give me that much time to plant trees.” Huang Qi then smiled self-deprecatingly. Becoming stronger seemed easy, but for his current self, it was a luxury. It was more practical to preserve his male form first. Thinking this, Huang Qi put away the Tongming Comb, not daring to waste it carelessly.
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This day at noon, a tall and graceful figure walked into Ping’an County Town. She wore a sapphire blue skirt that reached her waist, and her voluptuous figure was as round as a gourd under the thin gauze. Her slender jade legs were faintly visible as she walked. Her exceptionally beautiful face was still immature, truly an angelic face with a devilish figure. Every man who saw her lost his soul instantly, but no one dared to approach her, because this girl was carrying a sword.
“Oh my god! Where did this chick come from? She’s so beautiful and dares to run around alone. Isn’t she afraid of being abducted and used as a breeding tool?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Didn’t you see she’s holding a sword?”
“Heh, with her looks, let alone a sword, even holding a corpse wouldn’t scare people away.”
“Yeah, even if she killed me, I’d turn into a zombie and crawl towards her!”
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Some pedestrians whispered. The young girl ignored them and walked towards the center of the county town, soon arriving at a street corner, then patted a petite girl’s shoulder. That petite girl was secretly observing something. She was startled when she was patted like that, so she bit her lip and turned back indignantly, her two small canine teeth flashing, like a puffed-up kitten.
“Ju… Junior Sister?” Seeing the sword-wielding girl, the petite girl’s expression changed 180 degrees. She immediately smiled like a child.
“Senior Sister Miao Xiang, what are you looking at?” the sword-wielding girl asked curiously.
“Of course, I’m looking for traces of that imposter,” the petite girl replied in a low voice. That’s right, she was Miao Xiang, a female disciple of the HongHua Sect, and the sword-wielding girl in front was Cheng Hong Ling, who had specifically rushed over.
“Do you have any clues?” Cheng Hong Ling asked without changing her expression.
“Alas! No! That guy has disappeared from the face of the earth.” Miao Xiang pouted unhappily.
“‘She’ hasn’t disappeared. Instead, she’s become more and more unrestrained, even stealing the Tongming Comb from our HongHua Sect,” Cheng Hong Ling said with a cold smile.
“What? What exactly happened?” Miao Xiang was startled.
“This is what happened…” Cheng Hong Ling briefly explained that the HongHua Sect was attacked by fiends and evildoers, and Huang Qi took the opportunity to steal things.
“This guy is too despicable. If I catch him, I’ll definitely… I’ll definitely bite him to death,” Miao Xiang said fiercely, but she couldn’t seem fierce at all.
“By the way, what about the other Senior Sisters?” Cheng Hong Ling asked again, her pretty face always maintaining its impassive expression, as cold as ice and as beautiful as jade.
“They are all monitoring in other places. Should I call them?” Miao Xiang inquired.
“No need. I don’t have anything else to do. I came here precisely to catch that imposter. I heard she first appeared here,” Cheng Hong Ling shook her head.
“Then, what about your secret mission? Did you complete it?” Miao Xiang asked subconsciously.
“Sec… secret mission? What secret mission?” Cheng Hong Ling’s expression finally changed slightly.
“The secret mission arranged by Master? Didn’t you say you were going to complete a secret mission before?” Miao Xiang raised her small head, looking confused.
“When did I say that?” Cheng Hong Ling retorted in surprise.
“Ten days ago! You told me yourself at the Yamen. Don’t you remember?” Miao Xiang asked with some concern, wondering if her Junior Sister had gotten amnesia.
“Ah? I didn’t come to Ping’an County Town at all ten days ago.” Cheng Hong Ling denied it with absolute certainty. Before her Junior Sister could question her, she said with pity, “Senior Sister, it seems you’ve been tricked by that imposter again.”
“What? You mean she’s an imposter? That’s impossible!” Miao Xiang was anxious and stubbornly insisted like a child.
“How is it impossible?” Cheng Hong Ling, however, still had a blank expression. Those who didn’t know would probably think she was the mature Senior Sister.
“Because Eldest Senior Sister said that the imposter had rough and large palms and deliberately didn’t speak. She was most likely a man disguised as a woman. But the person that day was exactly like you, with the same voice, the same hands, and even the same breast size. I checked personally, and it’s impossible for her to be fake.” Miao Xiang explained with reason and evidence.
“I’ve seen that imposter too. She does look very much like me. Her disguise skills are so superb that even Master and my parents were deceived. It’s understandable that you couldn’t tell the difference,” Cheng Hong Ling explained patiently.
“Is that so? Everything else can be faked, but what about the scent of the Golden Life Flower? She also has the scent of the Golden Life Flower on her. You’re not joking with me, are you!” Miao Xiang raised her delicate eyebrows, looking as if she had already seen through Cheng Hong Ling.
“Did ‘she’ have the scent of the Golden Life Flower on her at that time?” Hearing this, Cheng Hong Ling suddenly realized something was wrong. She had always thought that her father smelled the scent on that imposter coming from her own skirt. But that imposter hadn’t gone to the HongHua Sect ten days ago, so how could she have it?
“What are you muttering about?” Miao Xiang asked curiously.
“Nothing. Is the scent on her as strong as mine?” Cheng Hong Ling asked carefully.
“Not that much! But not much different either! People with dull senses probably can’t tell the difference.” Miao Xiang leaned closer, sniffed with her little nose, and then concluded.
“It’s that strong?” Cheng Hong Ling opened her cherry-like small mouth in surprise.
“Yes!” Miao Xiang nodded with great certainty.
“What’s going on?” Cheng Hong Ling couldn’t figure it out, thinking, did that woman also eat the Golden Life Flower? That’s impossible! The seeds of the Golden Life Flower are extremely precious. If she had the ability to eat this thing, why would she risk her life to go to the HongHua Sect to steal a Tongming Comb? You know, the seeds of the Golden Life Flower are much more precious than the Tongming Comb.
But at this moment, Miao Xiang suddenly went mad, put her hand on the hilt of her sword, and looked at Cheng Hong Ling vigilantly, “No, you two look too much alike. I now have reason to suspect that you are the imposter. Take out something to prove your identity, or don’t blame me for being impolite.”
