Chapter 1139 (1/2)

Chapter 1139

With Long Chen’s hand on Hua s.h.i.+yu’s chest, black qi poured out and tightly bound his hand .

The black qi formed strands, looking like sinister centipedes that had come out to attack him .

Through circulating the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, he had sensed some strange fluctuations above Hua s.h.i.+yu’s Spirit Root . At that time, the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art had acted on its own, and when his hand unconsciously touched Hua s.h.i.+yu’s chest, it began to circulate even faster, pulling out this strange black qi .

“Long Chen, what’s going on?” Meng Qi and the others jumped in shock . These black strands formed a demonic and fiendish figure .

This figure seemed to have come from within Hua s.h.i.+yu, while the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art had forcibly pulled it out . However, Hua s.h.i.+yu felt like her organs were being ripped out of her .

Long Chen was also shocked . Just what was this? A curse? Why would it be sensed by the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art? Furthermore, it felt like the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art detested this thing and wanted to destroy it .

“Long Chen, stop! Sister s.h.i.+yu can’t hold on!” shouted Zhao Ziyan . Hua s.h.i.+yu’s aura was rapidly falling .

Long Chen hastily stopped the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art . That black figure instantly returned to Hua s.h.i.+yu’s chest and vanished without a trace . It couldn’t even be sensed . But now Hua s.h.i.+yu was pale and limp .

The five of them were all silent for a moment, filled with shock . Just what was that strange figure?

“Long Chen, what was that?” asked Meng Qi . Hua s.h.i.+yu also looked at Long Chen, but she was now extremely weak . She looked like she was heavily injured and didn’t even have the energy to speak .

“That black figure had Heavenly Dao energy on it . But it was different from the true Heavenly Daos . It’s strange . ” Long Chen’s expression was also grave .

His head rapidly worked . According to his understanding of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, it was very sensitive to Heavenly Dao energy . It might even be more accurate to say it detested it .

In that same vein of thinking, he suspected that the reason the Heavenly Daos constantly went against him was because of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art . But he still understood too little of the true Heavenly Daos .

As for that figure in Hua s.h.i.+yu’s body, its aura was much weaker than the true Heavenly Daos . It was like… it was artificial .

Artificial? Long Chen suddenly thought of a possibility . “s.h.i.+yu, how did you become acquainted with that expert from Heavenly Fate Island? What’s the whole story?”

Hua s.h.i.+yu had recovered slightly, but she still wasn’t fully healed . Her voice was raspy as she said, “It happened when I was still very little . An expert who said he came from Heavenly Fate Island just happened to be pa.s.sing by my family’s land . My family is large and has a great deal of influence in its region . But we had never heard of any experts from Heavenly Fate Island who go out into the mundane world .

“Rumor is that Heavenly Fate Island is extremely mysterious, and it rarely interacts with the mundane world . When that expert came, my father was suspicious and thought he was a swindler . But that expert managed to list out many secrets of my Hua family as soon as he arrived . Some of those secrets were things even my father didn’t know about . When the patriarch learned of it, he was absolutely shocked .

“The expert said I was a spirit child that had reincarnated . I would have three setbacks that would draw a calamity upon myself, and it’s fated that I won’t live past twenty-three .

“At that time, my Hua family was shocked . The expert later spoke to my father alone, saying that if he wanted me to live, it would require forcibly changing fate . It would require tricking the very Heavenly Daos . However…”

“However what?” asked Long Chen .

“However, he said that forcibly changing my fate would make him bear a large amount of karma, and he was unwilling to do it for free . So he wanted my family’s ancestral treasure, the Dao Seeking King Jade . That is a remnant of our ancestors and the foundation of my Hua family’s inheritance . My father naturally refused . The expert merely smiled coldly and left, saying that if my father ever regretted his decision, he could go to the Heavenly Fate Pavilion in the Grand Han Ancient Nation to find him .

“Then, my first setback occurred . My family became uneasy, as I was my family’s hope of rising in my generation . As for the patriarch, even he was tempted and had an urge to give away the ancestral treasure .

“But my father was extremely against this, saying that the expert’s sneer had clearly been one of a petty person who was enraged at being refused . He didn’t have the slightest air of an expert, so he was clearly just a swindler .

“But when my second setback occurred, my father also became afraid . He hesitated for a long time, and in the end, he called me in front of him and said I could decide .

“I… I was afraid, but I knew that without the Dao Seeking King Jade, my Hua family would lose its foundation and might quickly decline . So I chose not to believe that person’s fortune-telling .

“That’s why I go all-out cultivating, so that no one can look down on me . I wanted to show everyone that I’m fine, and my parents don’t need to worry about…” Hua s.h.i.+yu lowered her head .

Meng Qi and the others were all surprised as they hadn’t expected Hua s.h.i.+yu to have such a backstory . Their hearts all felt heavy . Zhao Ziyan patted Hua s.h.i.+yu on the back, but she didn’t know what to say to comfort her .