Chapter 69: Tuanzi, Are You Done Pretending Yet?
[Ding! System upgrade complete. New features: Child of Destiny information query and tagging functions unlocked.]
[Query Function: Allows viewing the basic info of the Child of Destiny, helping the host plan ahead based on their identity. As the host’s luck points increase, the details provided will become more comprehensive.]
[Tagging: You can tag one Child of Destiny. Even if they drift far away, the host can get a directional hint via the tag. Can also be used on non-Child of Destiny characters, but cannot determine the tagger’s location. Currently, the number of tags available: 0/1.]
Bai Feng suddenly froze — wait, the system upgrade didn’t actually stop him from using its functions. He nearly forgot that the system was upgrading.
“System, can you check their leveling of… likability?” he asked.
【Cannot. Repeated again: this system is a villain system. Do not harbor unrealistic fantasies.】
Bai Feng tutted regretfully.
Well, if not, fine. First, let’s see what kind of identity this ‘Child of Destiny’ has.
He casually tossed out a formation disk, setting up a simple array, all while targeting the cloaked figure with the query function.
Soon, the information popped up before his eyes:
Zuo Qiu, Female, Mid-Golden Core stage. Childhood tragedy—parents died in a mishap. She then joined the Refining God Sect by chance. Currently an ordinary disciple, very eager for power.
“Huh, it’s a girl?”
Bai Feng’s eyebrows lifted slightly — he silently took a glance at Zuo Qiu. If it weren’t for the system alert, he truly wouldn’t have guessed her gender.
Everything else checked out with his stereotypical expectations of a Child of Destiny.
Meanwhile, Zuo Qiu also noticed Bai Feng, but not because of his identity. It was just that seeing him, she felt inexplicably irritated.
Especially at that sneaky look in his eyes.
Is he looking down on her?
“Stop staring. Let’s just do it already,” she muttered.
She turned to her ‘teammate,’ sitting on a tree stump sipping tea, voice rough as sandpaper — definitely not the kind of voice a girl should have.
“Huh? Isn’t it better for them to fight the monsters?”
“Do you think these monsters can hold them off for long?”
She glanced at the battlefield. The Heavenly Sword Sect really lives up to its fame — even though the monster beasts outnumber the disciples, the sect members are retreating steadily. If not for their sheer numbers, they’d have already broken out of the beast’s encirclement.
“Ugh, I wish I hadn’t taken this crappy job,” her teammate sighed helplessly.
He pulled out a fan, and dark mist spiraled upward from it.
Zuo Qiu drew her long sword, covered in black runes. “I’ll deal with that array caster. You hold off the others.”
“No problem.”
Her teammate swung open the fan, releasing a wicked black wind that swept toward the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, especially near Bai Feng.
“Be careful!”
Bai Yu Mo instantly kicked a Nascent Soul beast’s head, ready to turn back to Bai Feng’s side when suddenly, a fan blocked her way.
“Sorry, this road’s closed.”
Facing the obstruction, Bai Yu Mo said nothing, only drew her Heavenly Sword.
A surge of ferocious Spirit Power erupted, targeting the fan-holder.
“What the—!”
The black-clothed man immediately lost grace, hurriedly raising his fan to block her attack, inwardly cursing.
Who the hell starts with a big move right off the bat?!
d*mn it, Old Rao probably knew that Sect Master Bai Yu Mo and that Array Master had some shady relationship, so he dumped this mess on him!
Meanwhile, Bai Feng, who’d been paying close attention to the Child of Destiny, instantly sensed her flying toward him.
He dropped a few formation disks, forming a quick array, but she didn’t seem interested in wasting time with him.
Her sword flared with immense Spirit Power, effortlessly breaking through the simple array.
‘Huh, this is the same kind of weapon as Ye Tang’s halberd.’
Bai Feng didn’t dare count on those simple arrays blocking her — just one moment’s delay was enough.
Suddenly, a black figure rushed toward Zuo Qiu. She quickly sheathed her sword and spun around, slapping out with her palm.
The black figure coughed up bl**d, smacked against a thick tree, and fainted.
It was her teammate.
But Zuo Qiu paid no mind to her shock. The wave of violent sword Qi surged toward her.
She hastily raised her sword to defend, unleashing furious Spirit Power, but her once mighty blast couldn’t stand up to the seemingly unstoppable sword Qi, which tore her sword to shreds.
Had she not sensed the danger in advance and kept dodging, she’d likely be torn apart.
Despite that, her clothes were in tatters, revealing smooth, white skin and vicious wounds.
“No wonder she’s the Sect Master’s senior sister. I’ve lost,” she whispered, digging into her storage bag and pulling out a new cloak to hide her injuries.
Given the magnitude of her power gap, she’d lost hope in the Thousand Array Sect’s legacy.
She shot one last glance at Bai Feng, with no words left, and turned sharply to leave.
As for her unconscious teammate — they just happened to share a similar inheritance, forming a makeshift team in the secret realm. The wicked folks involved in this mess? Who cares if they d*e?
But Bai Yu Mo wouldn’t let her slip away so easily. She raised her Heavenly Sword, aiming for Zuo Qiu and swinging fiercely.
Two seemingly normal sword energies appeared in an instant, nearly clipping her.
Her heart lurched with danger. Without hesitation, she hurled her long sword.
The sword sliced toward the incoming energies, but in the next second, her sword was cut away, leaving two deep gouges. The sword qi still lingered.
Enraged, she forced the long sword to clash with their sword energies, whispering, “Explode!”
A brutal blast erupted behind her, and she leveraged the shockwave to speed up once more, vanishing into the sky in a flash.
The two sword energies were consumed in the explosion.
“d*mn, she ran away,” Bai Yu Mo clenched her fists, nearly catching that woman trying to attack Bai Feng!
Just as her heart filled with frustration and fury, a hand lightly rested on her shoulder.
“Yu Mo, thanks. I knew you’d arrive just in time,” Bai Feng gave her a thumbs-up.
“Big brother…”
Her anger dissolved instantly. If not for the ongoing battle and the others around, she’d really want to throw herself into Bai Feng’s arms to act spoiled.
She looked up at him, trying to hide her smile: “After all, it’s our promise!”
After a few words of praise, Bai Feng didn’t continue chatting. He threw out several more formation disks, setting up a simple array to assist other disciples, then glanced at Bai Yu Mo, sitting on the ground recovering her Spirit Power, and nodded slightly.
This praise method seemed pretty effective — she looked more stable emotionally. Maybe he should praise her more often in the future.
[Ding! Detected host… Anyway, pretty despicable. Using Bai Yu Mo to wound Zuo Qiu grants 200 Luck Points, +20 to all attributes.]
Bai Feng: “……”
Tuanzi, are you done pretending yet?
