Chapter 067

Chapter 67: I Will Take Back What Is Mine

Ye Qian almost said the name out loud. Even when she met the girl’s eyes, she still saw the same look as the first time they met: cold, distant, above it all. She remembered the girl standing on white jade steps, looking down with bright eyes, standing at Ji Chang Huai’s side like a treasured pearl. Back then, the girl had lowered her gaze and asked her softly: “You are the new junior sister?”

[It is her. It is definitely her. She is doing this on purpose.]

[She wants revenge for that day at Miao Lake when the master forced me to admit fault. She wants to make me bow. She wants me on my knees to shame me.]

“I will not admit it,” Ye Qian said, her voice shaking but firm. “I did nothing wrong.”

Ji Chang Huai and Dou Ming were both stunned. Even Li Yun and Qi Ming Lu gaped. It was only an apology.

Ye Qian’s face twisted slightly, but her tone turned icy as she said: “Inside a secret realm, treasures belong to those who can take them. I lost to you, but I was not wrong. Winning and losing is normal in a match, is it not, Heavenly One Sect senior sister?” She bit down on the words senior sister, sure Ye Wan Wan would understand.

Ye Wan Wan curved her lips and asked: “So what are you trying to say?”

Ye Qian dropped the act and spoke sharply: “You and your senior brother poisoned us because you do not want us to spread the news that you got the Secret Realm Spirit. You want to silence us. Stop pretending!”

“Secret Realm Spirit?” People burst into an uproar.

Someone gasped: “Do you mean the secret realm’s Companion Spirit, the Array Spirit that only forms after more than a thousand years?”

Another said: “I heard whoever gets it can control the secret realm and move freely inside. So then…”

“They took so long to come to the stone gate. Could it be…”

Eyes drifted to the rings and Universe Pouches on Ye Wan Wan and Bai Jian’s hands. Were they full of treasure? A few people edged closer, looking to take advantage of the chaos.

Li Wan Zhi jumped up at once, alert. Bai Jian and Fang He An’s faces went cold. Shen Nan Zhou quietly stepped nearer and stood with them.

Just then, the girl laughed, short and clear as ice, and asked: “And then?”

She stepped forward, and runes bloomed beneath her feet. An array spread out from where she stood. She took another step and, with a boom, light shot into the sky. An array covered the space before the stone gate.

Ye Wan Wan tilted her head and swept her gaze over everyone one by one. Anyone who met her eyes flinched and backed away, because the aura rolling off her was Nascent Soul. It was the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

Ye Qian’s face turned bloodless as she stammered: “You…”

How could it be Nascent Soul?

The girl strode up to Ye Qian, gripped her throat, and slowly tightened her fingers as she murmured, voice low and tempting: “I really want to squeeze and kill you right now.”

Ji Chang Huai and Dou Ming rushed at her, but Ye Wan Wan said coldly: “Kneel.”

Thud. Both men fell to their knees. The crack of bone hitting stone made teeth ache. Everyone else stumbled back one step, then two, then three.

Ye Wan Wan swept the crowd with a cold smile and said: “If you want to rob me, come. I promise I will kill you, one by one. I will even bury you after.”

She was still smiling, but everyone’s hair stood on end.

Ye Qian rasped: “She is using a secret art to force her level up. Do not be afraid…”

Ye Wan Wan squeezed harder. Ye Qian’s face turned purple. Under the crushing pressure of Nascent Soul power, she could not circulate her spiritual energy at all. People stared and thought Ye Wan Wan would choke Ye Qian to death. Ye Qian thought so too.

But Ye Wan Wan did not. She lowered her head to Ye Qian’s ear and whispered: “Do you think I would kill you so easily? Do not be stupid. After the pain I went through, why would I let you escape so fast?”

Ye Qian’s pupils shrank as she stammered: “You want to… what are you-”

Ye Wan Wan pressed her other hand to Ye Qian’s lower abdomen and said softly: “What belongs to me, of course I will take back.”

Those light words made Ye Qian tremble all over. She screamed: “No!”

A hand thrust through.

Squelch.

Blood poured. The hand was slender and pretty, but it still pierced another person’s dantian and dug out a Golden Core.

The space before Glimmerstone Gate exploded with shock.

“She dug out a Golden Core!”

Ji Chang Huai and Dou Ming stared, stunned. They could not stand up. They could only watch as Ye Wan Wan pulled out Ye Qian’s Golden Core. The small Golden Core sat in the girl’s palm, a deep blue full of pure water power, and it did not resist at all.

Li Yun shouted at Bai Jian and the others: “Heavenly One Sect, what are you doing! We are proper righteous sects. How can you let your junior sister dig out someone else’s Golden Core?”

Cries rose up: “Evil Cultivators!” and “They must be from an Evil Cultivator faction!” and “Everyone go, help the Supreme Sect’s junior sister get justice!” and “If her core is dug out today, it could be ours tomorrow!”

A few tried to rush the array, but it bounced them back. More than ten people flew far and crashed to the ground, spitting blood. That sight stopped the rest. Bai Jian, Fang He An, and Li Wan Zhi did not move. They only stared coldly at the restless ones.

“You are all crazy!” someone shouted.

“Crazy?” Ye Wan Wan laughed. “Who is the real one who digs out Golden Cores? Ji Chang Huai!” She raised her voice and asked, “Do you dare say whose Golden Core this is?”

Named, Ji Chang Huai went chalk white. He stared at Ye Wan Wan, trembling. Even his lips shook as he whispered: “No… impossible. You cannot be…”

Dou Ming looked blankly between Ye Wan Wan and Ji Chang Huai, still not understanding. But he knew one thing and yelled: “Let go of junior sister!”

“I will, but not now,” Ye Wan Wan said coldly.

She tightened her grip on the Golden Core. Under the pressure of a Nascent Soul expert, it spun wildly. Water power surged again and again, but it remained trapped in her palm. At last, unable to endure, it gave a sharp crack.

Everyone flinched, sure she had crushed the Golden Core. But when the water power ran out, something burst forth from within it: a smaller, even purer Golden Core.

It was fire.

People were stunned. Li Yun went blank. Qi Ming Lu’s mouth fell open. In Ye Wan Wan’s palm, that tiny, perfect Golden Core burned like a small flame. It leaped and danced, circling around Ye Wan Wan, as if it had found its master.