The woman grinned and stretched her hand, revealing bandages around her hand, exposing the shredded skin of her body, and looked down at the unconscious Zhen''er.
"You can sleep well, Zhen''er. I will take good care of this body of yours." With those words, Rhea''s body fell to the ground, her eyes turning white as if she had lost her life, causing the man to kneel beside her, lift her, and distance himself from Zhen''er''s body.
"These memories? It''s dark." Suddenly, Zhen''er slowly opened her eyes, looking up toward the sky as she stretched her hand to observe her newly acquired body, revealing that it was not she, but Idolse Rhea, who had now taken over Zhen''er''s body.
"Lady Rhea, congrattions on getting the new body," the man congratted as he kept his head lowered, not looking up.
"Haah, how did he do it?" Rheay down, closed her eyes, with memories of both Zhen''er and her own now residing in this body, gazing upward as she searched inside her memories for the one who unsealed this body.
Nheless, because of Xiang Zhen''s blindness, her thoughts were solely upied with sounds,cking any visual memories.
"Pardon?" The man didn''t understand the meaning behind Rhea''s words causing him to inquire.
"Whatever, if fate wants then we will definitely meet," Idolse stood and stretched her body, feeling a new vitality coursing through her new body, as she looked in the direction toward the pond with a smile forming as just with the gaze, slowly the fishes automatically started to float on the surface.
For years, she had been on a quest for the ideal body, hoping to flee from her deteriorating form. However, every potential vessel was either killed by Veronica Devereaux or sealed away by Angelica Devereaux, rendering them worthless.
Idolse Rhea''s enmity with the Devereaux sisters was from the time they were at the peak of gbearer battle, and due to using forbidden techniques, she had destroyed her own body until the point it became irreversible.
Due to her strength, it was really hard for her to find a suitable body, and in doing so, she needed a body which could withstand the corruption of remnants of her forbidden techniques, and she finally found the one who could give her information.
Angelica Devereaux, the one who was the archenemy of her, suddenly chose to help her by offering the most suitable body Idolse Rhea could ever get to transfer her soul.
Angelica''s offer was for the chance to master the forbidden art of soul transmission.
Unlike simple soul talismans or some soul transfer techniques that only transferred the souls of two individuals, the forbidden technique of Soul Transmission allowed for a transfer at a level where the soul could impart itsplete strength to another body. This is in contrast to other third-grade techniques, which depend on the body''s or host''s inherent abilities.
Another advantage was that no one could tell if the soul belonged to another individual just by looking at it.
Idolse Rhea, in her urgency to obtain a body and without any hope, agreed to teach Angelica this forbidden technique. However, she intentionally left a loophole in the technique, making it as someone possessing a spirit sword would be able to see through her.
As she expected, Angelica betrayed her and attempted to destroy the child whose body was perfect for Rhea. In the end, Idolse Rhea protected that child''s life at the cost of crippling herself.
However, Angelica had already sealed the child''s body with a technique that would slowly destroy its senses.
Angelica left after acquiring the soul transmission technique, leaving behind the sealed child and Rhea, who had somehow escaped.
Inside the Jade Dominion, she had left Zhen''er to search for a way to unseal that particr seal ced on her, but it was all futile, and Zhen''er lost her eyesight due to the effects of the seal.
But after so many years, suddenly Rhea felt the seal had been undone by someone, prompting her to arrive here.
"You can rest." After a brief nce at her lifeless old body, Rhea watched as the ground swiftly engulfed and concealed it before seamlessly settling back into ce.
Her technique was advanced and perfect due to three major advantages:
1. She could have both the body and her own memories remain intact while her consciousness will be dominant.
2. No one, even the Spirit Sword holders could see through her real soul or body and distinguish if she was not genuine.
3. She got all her strength transferred to the new body and even got the powers of the present body too.
This technique was in itself perfect but was forbidden by someone ording to a rune she had created this technique from, though there were several things erased but still she was able to invent this.
The name of the creator of this technique was mentioned as Ruken, who appeared like some fallen god to her but who cares.
Now, She possessed a body which could fully exert herplete strength and now only thing left was to deal with Angelica Devereaux who dared to betray her.
"Let''s leave" With those words, Rhea''s body turned into dark smoke before disappeared from that ce with a man following behind her but man''s smoke moved towards the dense tree where it felt the presence of someone.
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''N-no! I need to tell this to Young Master!'', Ten Hai who was given the task to protect Zhen''er by the ck-robed man, ran through the forest as his eyes trembled seeing a strange woman killing Zhen''er and taking over her body.
Ten Hai had been lusting over Zhen''er for several months and due to being the son of the mayor here, he always remained unscathed butst night after the order that strange amber-eyed man gave him, he came here to keep an eye on Zhen''er from distance.
But he knew, he had seen something which would kill him,"Fuck! I just wanted to plow, not be a scarecrow!
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He cried before a gust of breeze, filled with smoke covered his head causing him to directly fall on the ground as he clenched his neck to have some breath but all appeared futile as the supply of aura was cut off.
Due to his cultivation strength, he might have survived but the smoke was filled with some kind of poison, instantly causing his internal energy to exhaust and finally killing Ten Hai.
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Inside the middle town''s gate number 34, existing in the northern prefecture, three horses apanied by five men and a woman seemed to make their way towards the main gate where several soldiers were checking the arriving individuals'' identity.
"Young Master, we have arrived at one of the gates of Middle town." Bone Breaker turned his attention towards the ck-robed man apanying him while wearing a ck masquerade mask covering his amber eyes.
"I can see th—" Before Ryuk couldplete his words, a notification instantly popped up.
DING!
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One of the targets of the Envement Grimoire lost his life.
Target name: Ten Hai
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"Esme, don''t panic", As soon as Ryuk caught sight of the notification, he immediately scooped up Esme in a princess carry and vanished from the scene, leaving behind fading orange remnants of their aura.
"Huh? Y-Young Master?" All four individuals could see their surroundings but could notprehend that they had been abandoned on the outskirts of Middle Town.
Naturally, the n ording to the Young Master was for all four of them to act as his servants while he used a que from the Wei family to enter Middle Town. But now...
"B-boss? Soldiers areing this way!" Upon seeing the soldiers finally approaching, Number 1 cried out. Bone Breaker felt a wave of sweat break out on his forehead. He turned to hispanions and uttered in a defeated tone, "Raise your hands, it looks like we''re going to have to surrender."