AWB Chapter 19 Clay Figure
Chapter 19 Clay Figure
Besides practicing the divine-level Meridian Opening Technique, Shen Yao spent her days hunting strange beasts with Zhao Zhen all over the mountains and fields.
Having become a wandering spirit, she is quite suitable for scouting.
It can pass through trees and rocks, and it floats extremely fast.
Occasionally, she would encounter higher-ranking or intelligent beasts, but she couldn't catch up with or defeat them.
Zhao Zhen refused to let the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle help her.
Zhao Zhen said, "Even if you can't use spiritual power or hunt exotic beasts, having more combat memories in your soul is still very good."
The Purple Cloud Golden Beetle truly stopped helping her.
Shen Yao became a perfect bait.
She lured strange beasts through mountains and forests, and Zhao Zhen waited to kill them.
After killing the strange beast and taking the parts that could be used to refine medicine and weapons, Zhao Zhen gutted the beast's carcass, removed its organs, washed it clean in the Minxi River, cut it into strips, dried it, and stored it in his storage ring.
After acting as bait for several days, Shen Yao suddenly remembered that her cheat ability was bound to her soul.
He immediately started using it, making a heart shape with his hands to charge up his strongest attack against a long-haired howling mountain beast.
Take them by surprise and defeat them in one move.
After successfully killing the enemy once, Zhao Zhen focused solely on making jerky.
Zhao Zhen stored a lot of food in Shen Yao's storage ring, including various kinds of dried meat from exotic beasts, various flowers and fruits, morning dew, and even several large bags of Minxi's flowing heart grass.
Along the Minxi River, there grows a slender and resilient cattail grass that possesses no spiritual power but is perfectly suited for weaving.
Zhao Zhen used this grass to weave many large bags.
Zhao Zhen didn't say a word while picking the Flowing Heart Grass. He picked almost all the Flowing Heart Grass along the entire Minxi River, all the way down to the lower reaches of the Minshan Mountains. He would have to go to the village at the foot of the mountain to pick any more before he was discovered. Only then did Zhao Zhen stop.
Shen Yao felt that her master had not only harvested all the Heart-Flowing Grass.
He has practically plundered the entire Minsan Mountain range within Jeju Island.
Perhaps due to her exceptional talent, Shen Yao's divine-level soul meridian opening technique was already quite accomplished in just three months, with her soul meridians radiating a faint seven-colored light.
Shen Yao also knew why the Soul Core of the Colorful Immortal Venerable was seven-colored.
The Radiant Immortal Venerable must have mastered the Divine-level Soul Meridian Opening Technique.
I wonder if my future soul core will also be seven-colored?
In three months, the golden beetle had grown from the size of a palm to the size of a hand.
It does look better than it did at first, changing from black feet and red body to white feet and gold body.
The bottommost layer of red armored wings changed from blackened edges to a golden hue, with a faint golden glow.
Shen Yao noticed that her master had been playing with mud lately, and several mud figures were neatly placed in a corner of the cave entrance where the sun could shine.
Shen Yao picked one up and examined it closely, her eyes welling up with tears.
This clay figure looks about five parts like Senior Sister Zhao Xuan.
She looked at the other clay figures, some with two-tenths the resemblance, some with three-tenths, all of them resembling Senior Sister Zhao Xuan.
There's another one that's about 80% similar.
Shen Suyao thought to herself, "My master must be missing his two children terribly."
She knew in her heart, but dared not ask or mention it. Her master had not mentioned it, so she could not mention it either.
Another month passed, and Zhao Zhen picked up the two clay figures she had made and began to burn them.
After boiling, it was boiled again in water with various other things in it.
Shen Yao was worried that her master was going crazy thinking about the children, so she started telling him about Blue Star every day.
From history to animation, from cavemen to airplanes and cannons.
He also talked about himself.
But she felt that her master had already suffered enough in his life, and she couldn't let him hear her suffering any more.
So she made up a life story for herself. She told her master that on Earth, she was a super rich second-generation, spoiled by her whole family, with endless money to spend, and traveling everywhere every day.
He even said that he had lived a carefree life and only came here when his life was over.
The Purple Cloud Golden Beetle didn't expose her, and while she was fabricating her life, it even seriously agreed: "Yes, yes, that's right, I watched her live a happy life."
Two months later, Zhao Zhen said that there was enough food, so he stopped going out to hunt animals when Shen Yao was hunting.
Rain is rare in the Minshan Mountains, but today it's been pouring.
The golden beetle said that the rainstorm was full of spiritual energy, and it flew out to absorb the energy the moment the rain fell.
Shen Yao noticed that her master had been setting up an array early in the morning. In the past six months, her master had taught her many arrays, but she didn't know what this one was.
Since her master didn't speak, she didn't open her mouth either, afraid that speaking would expose her lack of skill.
After the formation was set up, Zhao Zhen called Shen Yao to his side, took out two exquisitely crafted clay figures, placed them in front of the formation, and performed a spell by forming hand seals on the clay figures.
In no time, the clay figures grew into two beautiful young women of seventeen or eighteen, so lifelike that their dresses became real.
One looks somewhat like Senior Sister Zhao Xuan, while the other doesn't resemble her at all.
Zhao Zhen said, "I have made two bodies for you. Choose one."
I made you two bodies...
Shen Yao had no memory of her previous life, but in these two lifetimes where she did have memories, this was the first time she had been so moved.
It turns out that her master was playing with mud to make a body for her!
At this moment, Shen Yao wished she could give her master the best things in the world.
Shen Yao was so moved that she couldn't express it. She couldn't finish saying "thank you, Master," and then she pursed her lips, wanting to cry, but she was a wandering soul and had no tears.
Zhao Zhen said, "I really wanted to be selfish for once, so I made many clay statues in Xuan'er's likeness."
Zhao Zhen paused for a moment, then said, "But they've seen what Xuan'er looks like before, so they chose someone who looks somewhat similar."
Shen Yao knew who her master was referring to as 'them,' and she secretly harbored hatred, determined to avenge everyone.
“There’s another one that doesn’t look like Xuan’er.” Zhao Zhen pointed to another body: “I was worried you’d mind, so I made one that doesn’t look like her either. Choose boldly, don’t worry about how your teacher feels.”
Shen Yao didn't hesitate and directly chose the one who looked somewhat similar to Senior Sister Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Zhen's voice trembled: "You may only have this one chance. Once you choose, you can't regret it."
"This disciple has no regrets!" Shen Yao said firmly, "This disciple is willing to resemble Senior Sister! If I could choose, this disciple would want to be exactly like Senior Sister!"
Zhao Zhen put away the clay statue that Shen Yao hadn't chosen and let her enter the formation.
The body stood face to face with her.
As the formation was activated, Shen Yao saw a white light wall rise within its range and the Spirit Awakening Seal hovering in front of her body's forehead.
She saw the body's eyes open, the eyeballs as black as ink, the eyelashes clearly visible.
She saw her master sitting cross-legged behind the body, his lower body emitting golden light, and she also saw a small array beneath him.
She saw her master strike his own shoulders three times with both hands, then, pale-faced, pull out three spiritual roots...
"Master!" Shen Yao tried to break out of the formation, but the formation had already been activated, and no matter how hard she tried, she could not break through.
The three spiritual roots entered the body.
Shen Yao's soul also transferred into her physical body.
The formation finally ended, and Zhao Zhen coughed up blood.
"Master!" Shen Yao rushed out of the array and knelt before Zhao Zhen, tears streaming down her face. "Master, what are you doing! Master! Waaaaah..."
Zhao Zhen forced a smile and said to Shen Yao, "Try it, see if you can use your spiritual power."
Shen Yao cried. Of course, she could feel the three spiritual roots of wind, qi, and wood within her body. She sobbed as she circulated her spiritual energy and, following the method taught by Zhao Zhen, successfully formed a wood spiritual healing seal.
Shen Yao immediately used the Wood Spirit Healing Seal to send spiritual energy to Zhao Zhen, but the spiritual energy she sent in was like a leaky vent, all of it escaping from the top of Zhao Zhen's head.
"It's useless, don't waste your spiritual energy." Zhao Zhen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said with a smile, "I've given you my spiritual root."
Shen Yao cried even harder.
"Don't cry," Zhao Zhen said. "I know the Golden Spirit Source Beast can help you find a new body, but who knows when it will be found."
“My days are numbered. If you wander the world as a ghost, hiding here and there, I fear you will harbor resentment and go astray… cough cough cough.” Zhao Zhen coughed violently.
Shen Yao cried and swore: "This disciple swears to never forget my original intention and will never go astray."
Zhao Zhen looked relieved: "In that case, I can rest assured."