Chapter 771 - 232: Visitors from the Gu Family
Chapter 232 [Arrival of the Gu Family]
Jinling Prefecture.
Night.
The quiet summer night, accompanied by the sound of insects chirping from the nearby hills and woods outside the window, not only did not break this silence but rather added a touch of tranquility.
In the luxurious master bedroom on the third floor of the villa, Lu Sisi lay on her side hugging the quilt on the wide and soft bed. The central air conditioning vents in the room evenly emitted cool air, keeping the room cool even on such a midsummer night.
Lu Sisi’s sleeping posture was like that of countless people in the Dragon Country... with the corner of the air conditioning quilt gently covering the area of her navel.
However, the girl’s sleeping posture seemed not very elegant, her body half-turned and half-prone, with two long legs stretched out, her snow-white skin and tender feet appearing particularly delicate and captivating under the nightlight of the room.
Lu Sisi’s breathing was steady, as if she was dreaming of something, her eyelids trembled slightly, but as time went by, the dream seemed not very pleasant, causing the girl to slowly furrow her brows in her sleep.
Her breathing gradually became rapid, her body trembled lightly a few times, and her lips moved, mumbling something in her dream.
However, at this moment, in the direction of the window of the room, a shadow suddenly appeared vaguely on the glass of the window!
A little girl with long hair was quietly standing in the mirror-like surface of the window glass, squinting her eyes, carefully observing Lu Sisi on the bed inside the room.
On her originally ordinary face, her eyes became increasingly bright...
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the little girl seemed to sigh, turned her head, and disappeared from the mirror’s position.
The room seemed to return to calm.
But...
At this very moment, above the bedhead, a figure was quietly floating in the air!
The figure appeared in a translucent state, remarkably resembling Lu Sisi!
But on that delicate and pretty face, it was as if covered by a layer of frost.
The originally bright eyes were narrowed into slits, the gaze seemingly always quietly fixed on the glass of the window.
Until the figure of the little girl in the glass left without noticing and without any defense, the translucent "Lu Sisi" above the bedhead slowly widened her squinted eyes.
"How could a reincarnated tribulation-bound body attract so many gazes?"
"Lu Sisi" shook her head, her gaze hidden beneath her lashes, making it impossible to discern her current expression.
As she spoke, she looked down at the sleeping Lu Sisi on the bed, showing a slightly strange expression, one that seemed to smile yet not a smile: "This ’me’ is truly entangled in karma... well, during tribulation, it’s not the lack of karma that I fear, but rather that it’s too little, too weak, too thin! It’s not enough to fill the chasm of tribulation."
She stretched out a translucent finger, seemingly counting carefully.
"Family tribulation, life tribulation, death tribulation... and, a tribulation of love!"
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In the Mirror World, the little girl had already quickly distanced herself from the villa yard, moving away from that window.
After retreating dozens of meters, hundreds of meters, the little girl’s figure finally stabilized in mid-air.
At this moment, she had already run out of the villa area, standing by the street lit with streetlights at night.
Next to her, a bus stop, with her reflection in the glass cabinet of the platform.
"...So scary!"
The little girl’s face was somewhat pale, she lowered her head and frowned, holding back tears for a long time, yet her expression became increasingly puzzled.
Just now... what happened?
Just standing outside the window, and still in the Mirror World, secretly observing Chen Yan’s woman for a while.
At that moment, suddenly felt chills all over, hair standing on end, as if some extreme danger was approaching?
But... clearly perceived nothing, discovered nothing.
Moreover, being in the Mirror World, the Mirror World should have been absolutely safe — even the Heavenly Dao couldn’t jump into the Mirror World to judge me.
But why did I suddenly feel an inexplicable danger?
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Chen Yan had been staying in the outer courtyard of the Celestial Demon Yin Yang Joyful Sect for a full seven days.
However, in the following days, he rarely attended lessons anymore, primarily not wanting to attract more attention.
Secondly, after being warned by the two artifact spirits in the ring, Chen Yan worried that if he inadvertently listened to a lecture and got drawn in by the Dao Rhyme, entering a state of epiphany, it could be dangerous.
In the following days, he almost spent every day in his room meditating and moving Primordial Qi, continuously channeling the Primordial Qi into the ring.
The female-voiced artifact spirit told him that when the ring was infused with enough Primordial Qi to emit a green aura, he could communicate with the artifact spirit again.
The green aura is a treasure light emitted only when a magical artifact reaches a certain realm.
The treasures used by cultivators are divided into Magical Artifacts and Magical Treasures.
Below the Celestial Human Realm, Magical Artifacts are used. As for Magical Treasures, they are only refined and controlled by cultivators above the Celestial Human Realm — simply because controlling Magical Treasures consumes too much Primordial Spirit, something that cultivators below the Celestial Human Realm cannot accomplish.
Therefore, most cultivators below the Celestial Human Realm use only Magical Artifacts — only when the Magical Artifact reaches Upper Grade can it naturally emit a kind of treasure light, generally faintly green.
This is already the ceiling among Magical Artifacts.
Above that is the level of Magical Treasures.
In the past few days, Chen Yan almost worked tirelessly in his room meditating and moving the Primordial Qi.