The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 127
Click here for content warningsMild implied child endangerment
With a rustle, Ji Xi had flown onezhangaway from Wu Ruo, glaring at Wu Ruo angrily: “How dare you steal my spiritual energy from me!”
Wu Ruo lowered his head and looked at his own body disbelievingly: “I stole your spiritual energy?”
He did indeed feel a thread of spiritual energy worming its way into his body, just like it had at Wu Chenzi’s birthday banquet; his body inexplicably had another thread of spiritual energy.
Ji Xi descended to the ground from midair: “If it wasn’t you, who else could it be?”
If it wasn’t because Ji Xi was quick to dodge, otherwise, all the spiritual energy inside his body might have been completely sucked away.
“I do suddenly have another thread of spiritual energy in my body, but…” Wu Ruo lifted his head and looked at him with an expression of bewilderment: “How did I steal your spiritual energy?”
“How would I know?” When Ji Xi saw that Wu Ruo really seemed to be confused, his anger subsided by a fair bit: “Are you carrying any magical equipment that can absorb other people’s spiritual energy?”
Wu Ruo shook his head no: “If I was carrying that sort of equipment, then I wouldn’t be absorbing just your spiritual energy but I would’ve absorbed Dandan’s spiritual energy as well.”
Unless he had aimed the magical equipment directly at Ji Xi; only then would Wu Ruo have been able to absorb only Ji Xi’s spiritual energy.
Ji Xi thought about it and agreed but then, his expression changed drastically. He hurriedly instructed ‘don’t say you know me’ before disappearing in front of Wu Ruo and Dandan’s eyes.
Closely after, a person’s black silhouette appeared in the spot where Ji Xi had been standing in.
The newcomer was a gorgeously handsome man. His long hair cascaded behind him, his sharp eyebrows were long and thick, his pair of crow black eyes had no whites in them. He wore red magnificent robes with the embroidery ofMoclan talismans, and in his slender white fingers, he held onto a red-coloured jadedi. He appeared as though he was a carefree young master but a sinister aura emanated from his entire body.
When Wu Ruo saw that the other party was aMoclansperson, he hurriedly shielded Dandan in his arms.
The man from theMoclan took a glance at the ground full of stones and said coldly: “Where’s Ji Xi?”
Wu Ruo thought of the words Ji Xi had instructed before he had left, so he feigned an expression of wary confusion as he looked at the man from theMoclan. Internally, he guessed that the reason why Ji Xi hadn’t left the manor since they arrived in Huangdu City was very likely because of this man. So when Ji Xi usedmoenergy just now, it had attracted this man here.
Dandan lifted up his adorable little face, blinking his pretty eyes: “Grandpa, what did you say?”
Grandpa? The man from theMoclan looked coldly at the child in Wu Ruo’s arms.
Wu Ruo’s mouth twitched. This child must have definitely called him that on purpose.
The man from theMoclan abruptly narrowed his icy cold gaze and flew over to Wu Ruo, pinning a deadly stare at the beautiful child in his arms without looking away.
Wu Ruo firmly shielded the child in his arms.
It was at this moment that a black light shot over, aiming at the man from theMoclan.
The man from theMoclan’s expression turned apprehensive and he rapidly jumped away from Wu Ruo.
Following that, a person’s blue silhouette descended in front of Wu Ruo, blocking in front of Wu Ruo with a protective stance.
Dandan’s eyes lit up: “Father!”
Hei Xuanyi turned back slightly and glanced at them: “Alright?””
He had rushed over because he had sensed the arrays being broken through by someone, and that aMoclansperson had intruded.
Wu Ruo let out a sigh of relief: “We’re alright.”
The man from theMoclan looked behind Hei Xuanyi, then looked at Hei Xuanyi’s face, then he asked nonchalantly: “Your child?”
Hei Xuanyi responded: “Yes. May I ask what business you have intruding into my manor?”
The man from theMoclan could sense that this man before him was not someone to be trifled with: “Iam looking for my companion. He came by your place just a while ago. I just don’t know if any of you know him?”
Hei Xuanyi denied: “I don’t know anyone from theMoclan.”
“Is that so?” It was obvious that theMoman didn’t quite believe this. He looked behind Hei Xuanyi again but didn’t seem to intend to pester them. He bade them a farewell and left.
Hei Xuanyi turned around and hugged both the adult and the little one into his arms, then walked to the courtyard they lived in and waited until they had returned to their rooms before he asked: “He came looking for Ji Xi?”
“Hn,” Wu Ruo thought about it and decided to speak about the matter of absorbing the spiritual energy from Ji Xi’s body just now: “I might be able to absorb spiritual energy from others to enhance my own spiritual level. As for the specifics of how to do it, I still don’t know.”
Hei Xuanyi said: “You can try absorbing the spiritual energy from my body?”
Wu Ruo shook his head in disagreement: “I haven’t completely gotten a knack for it right now, what if I lose control and absorb all of your spiritual energy away?”
“Since Ji Xi can dodge, then I can dodge too.” Hei Xuanyi said with certainty.
Wu Ruo hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. He let their child down and walked out of the building with Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi turned to look at Wu Ruo: “Try and absorb some of my spiritual energy first.”
Wu Ruo frowned; he didn’t know where to start or what kind of technique was best to absorb spiritual energy. He walked forth and touched Hei Xuanyi’s body, but there was no response.
A hint of thoughtfulness flashed across Hei Xuanyi’s emotionless gaze: “Tell me again in detail what the situation was like before you absorbed Ji Xi’s spiritual energy.”
Wu Ruo started from when he had finished meditating until he had absorbed Ji Xi’s spiritual energy.
After Hei Xuanyi finished listening, and put it together with what Wu Ruo had encountered at Wu Chenzi’s birthday celebration, he could figure out the gist of it: “I’ll try using my clan’s secret technique first, watch carefully.”
Whether it was the previous lifetime or this lifetime, Wu Ruo hadn’t had many opportunities to see Hei Xuanyi using the secret techniques of his own clan. So when he heard that Hei Xuanyi wanted to use his clan’s secret techniques, Wu Ruo couldn’t help but feel a little excited. He didn’t dare to miss out on any bit of it.
Hei Xuanyi bent the thumb of his right arm upward, keeping his four other fingers folded together, and placed it against his chest. When he stretched it out again, his little finger was also raised, with the other three still folded; he drew a rather complex circular talisman in midair. His right arm lowered, inclined at a slanting angle toward the ground; his movements were extremely graceful, as if he were offering sacrifices to the gods.
This time around, Wu Ruo saw everything extremely clearly. He could see a massive thread of black light inside of Hei Xuanyi’s body emerging from the spiritual field in his abdomen. It spun three rounds inside his spiritual field, erupting from thezhongwanacupointof therenvessel. After arriving at theyutangacupoint, it spun another round, then the black light turned dim .
Wu Ruo could sense that Hei Xuanyi was restraining his spiritual energy. Following after, the black light flowed to thehuagaiacupointof hisrenvessel, coming to theyunmenacupointon his right arm, then lastly, it rushed towards theshaoshangacupoint. In an instance, the black light at his fingertip materialized, and following that, the ground quaked; it was as if something wanted to penetrate out from underground. The water in the lake turned cloudy.
Suddenly, five skeletal arms stretched forth from the lake’s waters and grabbed onto the land next to the lake. With a crashing noise, the lake’s waters exploded upward. Five white silhouettes jumped out from within the waters and landed lithely in front of Wu Ruo.
When he fixed his eyes upon them, it was actually five skeletons.
Dandan excitedly ran over to them, he rubbed his soft and short fingers against one of the skeletons.
The human skeleton grabbed him fiercely then threw him up into the air.
Wu Ruo cried out in alarm.
Dandan, who was flying in the air, giggled happily, not worried in the slightest bit about crashing to the ground.
In the moment that he descended downwards, the human skeleton accurately caught him without a mistake.
“It’s fun, it’s fun!” Dandan clambered down from the human skeleton, running toward Hei Xuanyi and hugging his thigh: “Father, teach me! I want to learn, I want to learn!”
Hei Xuanyi looked downward and narrowed his eyes slightly at Dandan: “Next time, when I have time.”
Dandan pouted his little mouth, then, he ran off to play with the skeletons again.
Hei Xuanyi walked over to Wu Ruo but didn’t sense his spiritual energy being absorbed.
His gaze held a hint of doubt, and he circled around Wu Ruo once. Just as his shadow made contact with Wu Ruo’s shadow, suddenly, the spiritual energy within his body flowed outwards.
When Wu Ruo sensed spiritual energy entering his own body, he hurriedly distanced himself onezhangaway from Hei Xuanyi. He looked at Hei Xuanyi, astonished, and said: “I absorbed your spiritual energy.”
Hei Xuanyi nodded slightly: “I realized that you’re absorbing other people’s spiritual energy through their shadows.”
Shadows? It had something to do with shadows again? Wu Ruo raised an eyebrow; all the secret techniques in his mind all had something to do with shadows.
Hei Xuanyi continued speaking: “It was because you didn’t know what was going on, that’s why you would unwittingly absorb other people’s spiritual energy. Now that you already know your own situation, next time, you won’t accidentally absorb other people’s spiritual energy.”
“What kind of magic technique of yours is this? Why is it so strange?” A red silhouette appeared in front of Wu Ruo.
When Wu Ruo saw that it was Ji Xi, he immediately frowned: “Who was thatMoclansperson just now?”
Ji Xi snorted lightly: “A naughty personwho wants to steal something of mine.”
Previously, he had gotten distracted by his arrogance and had forgotten that he was supposed to be hiding from someone, so he usedMomagic and exposed his own whereabouts to the other party.
Wu Ruo narrowed his eyes: “Just now, you just abandoned us like that. Did you even worry that he would kill us?”
“His goal is the item in my possession, so he won’t kill people indiscriminately. Besides, with your man around, he’ll be even more cautious.” Ji Xi looked at Hei Xuanyi: “The arrays that you set up previously aren’t up to snuff, at most, they’ll only be able to block level seven practitioners. You should hurry and do an array that can block level nine practitioners now, only then will he be unable to enter.”
Hei Xuanyi glared at him with cold, narrowed eyes.
Ji Xi saw that he didn’t take action and could only bring up Wu Ruo and Dandan: “You don’t want yourfurenand child to run into trouble, do you? If you set up a massive array, it’ll only benefit everyone, isn’t that true?”
Hei Xuanyi’s gaze paused on Wu Ruo and Dandan, then he turned around and went to set up the array.
“You’re too good at delegating tasks.” Wu Ruo quickly walked beneath Ji Xi’s shadow, wanting to try whether he could still continue absorbing his spiritual energy, however, when he stepped onto Ji Xi’s shadow, there was no reaction at all.
“You want to steal my spiritual energy again?” Ji Xi noticed his actions and quickly dodged.
Wu Ruo looked at him innocently: “I just wanted to know how long I can absorb other people’s energy for.”
Thankfully there was a time limit, otherwise, before he was able to control himself, wouldn’t he have to stay away from Hei Xuanyi? However, why was it that when he wanted to absorb someone else’s spiritual energy, he had to watch them using their magic first before he could do so?
Wu Ruo really wanted to look for his mum and clarify matters, but when he thought about how his mum had sworn a blood oath, he was discouraged from doing so.
Ji Xi flew a few rounds around Wu Ruo and said curiously: “What kind of secret technique of yours is this? Why is it that after stealing my spiritual energy, it doesn’t cause any negative effect on your body?”
After all, one was a human and the other was aMoclansperson. One’s spiritual energy was made of properqi, while the other’s spiritual energy was pathogenic. The two people’s spiritual energies shouldn’t have been able to meld together harmoniously but Wu Ruo had managed to do so.
“I want to know what’s going on more than you do.” Wu Ruo was also curious about his own body, but right now he could only rely on slowly fumbling around for an answer by himself.
Ji Xi rubbed his lower jaw, spinning around Wu Ruo in circles.
Wu Ruo held his forehead: “Stop spinning around, you’re making me dizzy with your spinning.”
Ji Xi stopped in front of him: “After you stole my spiritual energy, nothing happened to you. Doesn’t that mean you can also learn theMoclan’sMomagic as well?”
Wu Ruo: “…”
It felt like there was the possibility.
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