On the Hantian Continent.
In the Shangqi Forest, south of the Zhuque Empire, two groups of people were confronting.
"Why?"
The girl who was speaking was about ten years old. Dressed in the thin white clothes, she looked rather fragile, whose purple eyes were staring at the young girl in red opposite in disbelief.
The girl in red gave a bloodthirsty smile and snorted, "You still don't know why by now. I think you are not only useless but also brainless."
"I don't understand. We got along well yesterday, didn't we?" The girl in white looked so sad.
The girl in red sneered with her face full of mockery, "Duanmu Xi, do you really think I'm here to search for the water spiritual fruit with you?"
In a daze, Duanmu Xi gaped at her cousin, Duanmu Qing, who had pleased her by all means. She felt as if she had never known this cousin.
"You want to kill me."
Her sad voice gradually became calm, as if she didn't care at all.
"Exactly. Today, you will die in the Shangqi Forest. Go and get her."
As Duanmu Qing waved her hand, the people in black immediately rushed forward.
The last shadow guard of Duanmu Xi stood before her decisively.
It was a pity that the strength disparity between the two parties was too great. Shortly, the people in black killed the shadow guard and captured Duanmu Xi.
"Get your hands off me. I prefer death to humiliation."
Duanmu Xi shrugged off the hands of the people in black and instantly gave off her deterrent power of being in a high position for a long time.
For the moment, the people in black all didn't dare to go forward.
Looking at Duanmu Xi's haughty face, Duanmu Qing had a glint of envy and killing intent in her eyes.
"You prefer death to humiliation? I must humiliate you today!"
Duanmu Qing suddenly raised her hand and chopped Duanmu Xi's neck.
"Ouch..."
A shrill scream reverberated through the sky, giving others the creeps.
With a bang, Duanmu Xi thumped on the ground.
Duanmu Qing trampled on Duanmu Xi's vertebra, crushing harshly back and forth.
"How are you feeling about your meridians all being broken?"
Duanmu Qing raised her eyebrows with a smile, looking down at Duanmu Xi on the ground in a triumphant demeanor.
Duanmu Xi gritted her teeth and stuck her fingers deep into the earth. She didn't allow herself to make any sound, not even a light groan.
As Duanmu Xi stayed quiet, an air of dissatisfaction flashed across Duanmu Qing's eyes. She squatted down and grabbed Duanmu Xi's wet hair. "Do you know why you are suffering the meridian blockage? It is because I've poisoned you."
Duanmu Xi clenched her fists, her eyes filled with resentment.
Duanmu Qing gave a triumphant smile. Now, Duanmu Xi finally had a reaction.
"Now, all your meridians are broken. Don't ever fantasize about reconnecting the meridians. It won't work. You will be a total wreck forever, ever..."
Duanmu Qing's malicious face appeared rather ferocious.
"My mother and my father will seek revenge for me..." Duanmu Xi glared at Duanmu Qing coldly, saying word by word.
"Revenge?"
Duanmu Qing snorted and pinched Duanmu Xi's chin harshly.
"For what? Does anybody see that I kill you? No one even knows you and I came here. When you are dead, I'll treat them well. Maybe they will pass the throne to me by then."
Cock-a-hoop, Duanmu Qing seemed to have gained the dream position.
"Pfft, in your dream."
Duanmu Xi suddenly spat on Duanmu Qing's face and stopped her from fantasizing.
"D*mn it."
With veins standing out on her forehead, Duanmu Qing wiped the saliva off her face and kicked Duanmu Xi away with her face full of killing intent.
The moment that Duanmu Qing kicked her away, Duanmu Xi laughed.
Even if she had to die, she would never let herself be killed by Duanmu Qing.
Looking at Duanmu Xi who suddenly rose and ran away, Duanmu Qing realized that she had been taken in. She gritted her teeth with a regretful face.
"Go after her."
By the cliff, the girl in white stood there in the wind. Beneath her was the stormy Infinite Sea.
"Duanmu Xi, it is the cliff ahead of you. You cannot run away. You are doomed!"
Upon seeing Duanmu Xi, Duanmu Qing was clearly relieved.
Staring at Duanmu Qing and the people in black, Duanmu Xi curled her lips.
Suddenly, she jumped into the Infinite Sea behind her.
"Duanmu Qing, even if I die, you can never become the crown princess..."
Her shrill cry lingered in the heart of every person on the cliff, which was hard to erase.
She could never become the crown princess?
Standing by the cliff, Duanmu Qing was lost in thought.
Thinking of Emperor Taizu's regulation of the clan, Duanmu Qing clenched her fists, with her eyes full of gloominess.
On the southmost island of the Hantian Continent.
A girl in white lay prone without moving, beside whom there was an ice blue crystal ball.
"Mistress, wake up. Mistress, wake up..."
A transparent dusty blue elf landed on the cheek of the girl, lightly flapping her wings.
Finally, the girl moved her fingers and came around.
Duanmu Xi opened her eyes with difficulty, with her mind in a mess.
She vaguely heard Ying calling her. Duanmu Xi sat up and tapped her dizzy head harshly.
What was going on? She jumped off the helicopter and didn't die?
"Mistress, it was me who brought you to the Hantian Continent via the mysterious secret method."
At the thought of the scene back then, Ying had such a panic fear. If she didn't make it in time, her Mistress would probably...
"Hantian Continent?"
Duanmu Xi subconsciously frowned.
"This is the Hantian Continent, a parallel world to our original world. It was too urgent back then and I had no other choice. I don't know what went wrong. Mistress, you..."
Ying bit her lips.
"What's wrong?" With a frown, Duanmu Xi looked at Ying.
"You, you've become smaller."
Ying puckered her lips. She was a bit guilty.
It was then that Duanmu Xi finally noticed her hands and body became smaller.
In shock, she hastened to take up the crystal ball nearby to see her appearance clearly.
The crystal ball showed a girl dressed in white, 10 years old or so, with her black hair scattered around her waist a bit untidily. Her skin was fair and tender. On her chubby childish face, her purple eyes were full of confusion and her rosy lips appeared pale at the moment.
What happened? Did she become ten years old now?
No, the clothes were not hers.
Duanmu Xi hastened to tear off the clothes but she just couldn't pull them off.
Neither of them noticed that in a distant tree, a pair of amber eyes were staring at them coldly.
How could they appear on this uninhabited island? Were they here also for the water spiritual fruit?
After struggling for a while, Duanmu Xi finally took off her clothes and exposed the pale pinkish grey bellyband. Her fair-complexioned skin glistened like the jade in the sunlight.
Seeing such an erotic scene, the amber eyes twitched and he just turned the gaze away with his handsome face flushing.
Duanmu Xi lowered her head to look at the right side of her navel.
Nothing. Nothing for real.
She touched her belly in disbelief and finally ascertained one thing.
"Mistress, mind your behavior. Even though there is no one else here, you've still got an elf beside you."
Ying smacked her lips resignedly.
"Ying, this is not my original body."
While talking, Duanmu Xi started to adjust her clothes. It was just that the clothes of this world seemed rather difficult to wear.
What did the Mistress mean? She looked exactly the same as before, except for being smaller.
"The body is identical to mine but it doesn't have the scar left due to the appendectomy. Hence, I guess only my soul came to this world."
"How come?"
Greatly shocked, Ying seemed to think of something and then hastened to say, "What about your mysterious power? Do you still have it?"
Duanmu Xi tried to urge the mysterious power in her body but shortly, she found no mysterious power in this body.
There was no mysterious power. Worse still, the meridians were all broken with serious internal injuries.
"The meridians are all broken!!"
Ying burst out screaming with a shocked look.
"How come?"
Duanmu Xi checked the body carefully and had a glint of coldness in her eyes.
"They must be broken by someone."
"Broken... Who is so ruthless?"
At the thought of the pain of all the meridians broken, Ying couldn't help shuddering.
"I don't know."
Her cold voice sounded emotionless.
"What should you do then? As your meridians are all broken, you can't practice the mysterious power. Without mysterious power, you will be a total wreck."
Ying was so anxious that she almost burst out crying. It was the cultivation level that prevailed in the Hantian Continent. Moreover, in terms of her Mistress's competitive character, if she couldn't practice the mysterious power, it would be intolerable for her.
A total wreck...
Duanmu Qi smiled bitterly. She was the No. 1 talent in an ancient family of mysterious power and now, she was reduced to being a total wreck.
Staring at the boundless sea before her, Duanmu Xi frowned.
"Let's go. Enter the forest first."
Ying nodded her head with a sorrowful face. Then they walked into the forest behind them.
The handsome young man in the tree finally turned around but the girl was gone.
The young man was dazed. Then, with a bound, he disappeared.
By the fire at night.
Duanmu Xi was grilling a stick of mushrooms while Ying was drooling at the mushrooms without blinking.
"Is there anything in the Hantian Continent that can repair the meridians?"
"Mistress, please wait a minute. I'll look it up in Encyclopedia of Treasures."
Ying swallowed her saliva, lowered her head, took the book Encyclopedia of Treasures as big as a nail from her pocket, and started to look it up.
"Found it. The book says that the spiritual fruits of various properties can repair the meridians," Ying said with excitement.
Duanmu Xi's eyes glistened and she immediately said, "Does the book tell where we can find the spiritual fruits?"
"Wait. Let me see."
Ying buried her head into the book again. After a while, Ying raised her head with a disappointed look and shook her head at Duanmu Xi.
"Not mentioned in the book. Besides, it says that the spiritual fruit of each property is guarded by the ancient mythical creature of that property, so you may not be able to get it even if you find it."
The mythical creature was the highest-grade spiritual beast in the Hantian Continent. Putting aside the fact that her mistress was a total wreck now, even if she came here in her original body, given her cultivation level of the Omni Spiritual King, she might not be able to defeat the mythical creature.
There was a glint of disappointment in Duanmu Xi's eyes but she didn't want to give up.
"Is there anything else that can repair the meridians?"
"Yes, the meridian-regulating pill. No matter how seriously the meridians are broken, they can be repaired by the meridian-regulating pill. However, the meridian-regulating pill is a kind of elixir of heavenly grade. Only the heavenly-grade refining pharmacist can make it, but according to Encyclopedia of Treasures, no heavenly-grade refining pharmacist has appeared in the Hantian Continent over the more than 1,000 years."
Duanmu Xi's eyes went dim.
No refining pharmacist of heavenly grade had appeared over the past 1,000 years. Wasn't it even more difficult to find the elixir of a heavenly grade than ascending the heaven?
Did she have to give up like this?
No, she wouldn't. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, she would never give up.
Since there was no meridian-regulating pill, she would look for the spiritual fruits of all properties-wind, wood, water, fire, earth, ice and thunder. Getting one of them could help her fix her meridians.
She would never give up!
Now, in a cave not far away from Duanmu Xi, a handsome young man in black was regulating his breath with his eyes closed, seemingly trying to suppress something.
With his face ghastly pale, the young man had sweat all over his forehead. His distorted face made him look rather painful.
The moon outside the cave gradually became round.
"Ah..."
After a painful scream, the young man's body was slowly changing.
The shrill scream appeared rather abrupt in the quiet darkness. Duanmu Xi heard the scream and suddenly came to her senses.
"What sound is that? How come there is another human being on the island?"
"That shouldn't happen. I don't feel any Qi of mankind."
Eating the grilled mushrooms, Ying said with a frown.
"Let's go and take a look."
Duanmu Xi put down the grilled mushrooms and trotted towards the direction of the cave.
"Mistress, wait..."
Ying directly stuffed the grilled mushrooms into her mouth. Throwing food away was not Ying's style.