Chapter 3 — Beast Blood (1/2)

Following her collapse, the memories she hadn’t yet digested once again bombarded her.

She was foreign to this world and dynasty.

Shenzhou Continent; a land where martial arts was revered.

The continent was divided up into three major powers: Zhou Dynasty, Long Xu Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Ann. The three countries were spread in a triangular layout with Beast Forest occupying the middle.1 Beast Forest was, naturally, infested with magical beasts, to the point where even a martial practitioner would find it a dangerous place.

It appeared that she, Yun Wu, was the youngest daughter of a concubine from Zhou Dynasty’s General Manor, known to the population as the ‘sickly good-for-nothing Ninth Miss.’

In Shenzhou Continent, every child would take an innate test on the first full moon subsequent to their birth. Yun Wu’s result had been a zero; a congenital good-for-nothing.

Moreover, her body was weaker than the average person’s. This was especially true when she was one year old, during the time her birth mother wordlessly vanished, leaving the young Yun Wu to be abandoned in a hut within the manor’s back mountain and forced to fend for herself.

Even under the mistreatment of the other concubines, her sisters, and the servants, she had managed to stay alive for 15 years.

Yun Wu might not know why she acquired all of the memories dating back to the original body owner’s birth, but she did make sure to remember every single instance of humiliation the former Yun Wu had ever suffered.

Right.

Since she, Wu Feng, became Yun Wu, she would help the former Yun Wu pay back each and every episode of injustice.

…..

Three days later.

Yun Wu gulped down the last mouthful of beast blood before rising from the body of a red-striped tiger. The inside of her mouth was stained with the nauseating taste of blood, but the warmth that began to permeate her body evoked from her a bloodthirsty smirk.

Magical beast blood, as it turned out, actually had great nourishing effects. After spending the past three days in the forest, she had encountered a vast variety of magical beasts. She was already very calm when faced with the oddly colored animals because this life gave her no time to be astonished or to slowly adapt.

For three days, she killed off every magical beast that neared the bottom of the cliff, and she would then drink their blood. Her battered body was healing little by little, albeit very slowly. As for that elderly voice, it came from the necklace she had been wearing since birth.

The necklace turned out to be a sacred relic left behind by the ‘Sorcerous Clan,’ and she had awakened the spirit inside of the necklace. However, the spirit told her that because her current body was technically dead, there was no way for him to establish a spiritual contract with her.

He told her about drinking magical beast blood and digesting Sage Grass to prevent her body from decomposing, and afterward, the necklace never moved again.