Chapter 42 (1/2)

“It’s beneficial in a… very good and practical way. You’ll know this in future,” said the male voice. He sounded as if he wanted to continue speaking but did not.

“That’s right. Rest a.s.sured, we are inside your body but bear no ill intentions. Instead, you start to gain many benefits, and when the time is right and conditions are met, we’ll leave your body,” said the female voice in a gentle tone she rarely used till now.

“I know what the young chap is worried about.”

“You can rest a.s.sured that we’ll definitely not engage in despicable tricks like possessing your body.”

“That’s true. Who cares about the weak carca.s.ses of you humans?”

“That’s right. To think that I used to possess a body sharp enough to slice through metal. One must know that I was made of divine meteoric steel combined with 1000 other stunning materials…” the female voice said.

“Ahem… young chap, if you really want us to leave your body, what you have to do now is to hurry up and train to build your power… It’s not that we don’t want to leave, but we can’t.”

The two voices complemented each other. The female voice had nearly said something before the male voice coughed to stop her.

“It seems like I’ll be unable to get these two people to leave my body for now,” Ding Hao thought. Even so, his instincts told him that most likely; these two mysterious and self-important characters did not bear him any ill will.

“Oh yes, was it both of you who saved me when I fell from the cliff at that time?” asked Ding Hao as he recalled something.

He remembered that he had fallen 10 feet from the cliff before, and logically speaking, he could not have directly fallen into a cave, but yet he had woke up in one. As such, he deduced that something must have happened without his knowledge during the period when he was unconscious.

“We cannot take credit for that,” said the female voice.

“After 100,000 years of expending, both of us lost our physical bodies and only our consciousnesses remain. We don’t have such an ability to break your fall,” said the male voice.

“The structure of this cave is unique. Every 10 days, an extremely strong vacuum will be created at its entrance,” continued the female voice.

“It lasts for three minutes every time,” the male voice added.

“That’s why I said that your ancestral burial ground must have caught fire, resulting in you having such extraordinary luck. If the timing of your fall had not coincided with the creation of the vacuum that day, you wouldn’t have entered the cave…” the female voice said, continuously marveling at Ding Hao’s luck.

“You would have fallen to your death long ago, and there would have been no way for us to fix you,” continued the male voice.

Now, finally, Ding Hao understood how lucky he was to have fallen near the cave at the exact moment the vacuum was created. Otherwise, he would have crashed into the bottom of the cliff and became a piece of meat pie.

“Since both of you have already attached yourselves to my body a long time ago, why do you guys reveal yourself until now?” asked Ding Hao.

“Previously, you were too weak and there was no way you could have roused us. Only after reaching the Peak of the one-apertured Martial Disciple level could your body and Qi bear our divine will,” said the female voice derisively, as if she was rolling her eyes at this very moment.

“…” Ding Hao had no comeback.

“Right, when I was practicing the Taixuan Sword-seeking Scripture earlier on, all of my Qi suddenly dissipated as it neared my Fate Sea point. Do both of you know what happened?” Ding Hao asked.

After a brief exchange of words with the voices, Ding Hao’s focus quickly went back to the unexpected event when he was training previously.

“This is actually the most pressing and fatal issue I have to tackle,” he thought.

“Haha, this is where the ‘Holy Double Manifestation of Saber and Sword’ is most profound,” said the male voice proudly.