Anli's Body Contains Yun Jing's Magic Power

"Yuan Tuo." The deity's voice seemed to gain some pleasure.

"Yes," Yuan Tuo picked her up, and in an instant, they flew over the North Sea.

Meng Anli lowered her head. In the dark seawater, she could see schools of large black fish gathered, each with sharp teeth, their cavernous mouths agape.

If she fell in, she would surely die.

"Miss, play with my beloved pets for a while." Yuan Tuo let go.

Meng Anli plummeted, desperately flailing. She managed to grab his calf.

Yuan Tuo's face flushed, "You, you, you... let go!"

"Don't let my soul scatter!"

Meng Anli shifted her grip, tightly hugging his leg instead.

"Let go and I'll agree to your request," Yuan Tuo said, raising his hand towards Meng Anli, pointing at her.

Meng Anli, however, let go first and jumped down.

She faced those gaping mouths, resigned to her fate.

But just as she was about to fall into the mouths of the black fish, a force suddenly supported her feet, sending her to the shore.

A pair of cloud dragon patterned boots appeared before her.

Meng Anli's heart settled. She kowtowed heavily, "Thank you, great deity, for saving my life."

Yun Jing's dark eyes were full of scrutiny, and a hint of confusion.

"How many hundred years old are you?"

Meng Anli truthfully replied, "Eighteen."

Yun Jing's confusion deepened. Eighteen years old?

He had been playing chess with the Great Emperor Dongyue for a hundred days. A century should have passed in the celestial realm.

He had never seen her before. Why did this child have a trace of his magic on her?

He had sensed it when he approached her, so he had Yuan Tuo test her.

Just now, when she was about to be eaten by the black fish, that trace of power had sent her to the shore.

His magic would still protect people?

Interesting.

But since his magic was protecting her, he asked, "Who dug out your inner core?"

"My second brother."

Yuan Tuo exclaimed, "Your own second brother?"

"My own."

The young girl lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes beaded with ice. Her face was bruised and purple, and the sorrow and deathly stillness radiating from her were almost palpable.

Yet, she stubbornly refused to shed a single tear.

Meng Shiwan had said she was going to Xuantian Academy and would be unable to generate an inner core for some time.

Meng Zhao had then searched the mortal realm for eighty-one women, intending to use their heart's blood to create an inner core.

Anli had let all eighty-one women go.

They were angry that she had ruined Meng Shiwan's plans, so they dug out her inner core and gave it to Meng Shiwan.

Yun Jing said, "Give it to her."

"Yes."

Yuan Tuo raised his hand, and a vibrant green grass appeared before Meng Anli.

Meng Anli accepted it without hesitation and popped it into her mouth.

"Ah?" Yuan Tuo said anxiously, "How could you eat it directly? It will hurt you to death."

Meng Anli gave a bitter smile.

It was because she no longer wanted to be a stepping stone for Meng Shiwan.

In her past life, she had asked for Huan Dan Grass, but her third brother had snatched it away, saying her inner core hadn't fully fused with Meng Shiwan's, and Huan Dan Grass could promote fusion.

Not only did Huan Dan Grass help her fuse, but it also caused another inner core to grow.

On the day of her enrollment, Meng Shiwan was tested and found to have dual cores, instantly becoming a genius girl who shocked the three realms.

She couldn't fight against her three brothers and father now.

So she ate it first.

But it hurt terribly.

When Meng Shiwan used the medicine, her three brothers prepared a medicinal spring for her and acted as her protectors.

Meng Shiwan still suffered for a day and a night.

Her father paced anxiously outside.

When her brothers emerged, their eyes were red, vowing never to let Meng Shiwan suffer even the slightest harm again.

Yet, she was once a treasure held in the palm of her father and brothers' hands.

Until Meng Shiwan, holding a token, ascended Chongwu Mountain alone, claiming she was the daughter of their father and a mortal.

She was like a lotus emerging from water, gentle yet resolute, speaking words that were fresh and peculiar. After only half a year, her father and three brothers had already begun to favor her.

From then on, everything she did was wrong. They beat and scolded her daily, calling her wicked and accusing her of bullying their new sister.

Digging out her inner core wasn't enough.

They detested her so much they locked her in a dark cell and tortured her daily.

Her second brother kept her alive with life-extending elixirs.

Not out of pity, but to prolong her torment.

Now, without father or brothers, she could only eat like this.

She definitely wouldn't die from being pampered.

A surge of power had already begun to rampage within her.

She knelt before Yun Jing, bowing three times with difficulty, "Thank you, deity, for the medicine."

The power within her intensified, as if it were tearing her insides apart.

Compared to her past life, this was nothing.

She bowed to Yun Jing three more times, "If the deity does not mind, I hope you can guide me a little, or allow the great god Yuan Tuo to guide me."

Yun Jing scoffed, "You're getting greedy."

Meng Anli kowtowed again, "If not, I hope you won't send me back with Yuan Tuo for now, and allow me to fully consume the Huan Dan Grass here."

Otherwise, her second brother would definitely refine this medicinal power.

Yuan Tuo was surprised, "How do you know my master asked me to send you back?"

Yun Jing raised an eyebrow; this child was strange in every way.

Meng Anli's thoughts returned to her past life.

In her past life, she had knelt for ten days and nights. Exhausted, she fainted. When she woke up, she was clutching the Huan Dan Grass, lying on a small boat. The boat traveled for dozens of miles before reaching the heavens. She had never seen a god of the North Sea.

She understood now; it must have been this god who had Yuan Tuo send her back.

They wouldn't kill her anymore.

Anli felt relieved as her consciousness gradually drifted away.

Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, still in the kowtowing position, Yuan Tuo poked her. "Hey~"

She slumped to the side, her face frighteningly pale, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.

Whoosh~

Yuan Tuo withdrew his hand and explained to Yun Jing, "Master, I didn't use much force."

Han Chuan advised, "Master, this woman is strange in every way, and there's calculation in her eyes. It's highly possible she's faking her faint right now, you..."

"You go attend to your duties first."

Yun Jing dismissed him with a word, then raised his hand and lifted Meng Anli with a gentle force, flying across the North Sea with her.

"What's wrong with you? If you had sent her away earlier, Master wouldn't have encountered her today." Han Chuan went to grab Yuan Tuo.

Yuan Tuo shouted, "Master told you to go attend to your duties!" and then he dashed away.

"Anli, you've been pampered since you were young. I thought you were just a bit spoiled, but I never expected you to be so wicked. You actually pushed Wanwan into the icy spring."

"You've lived alone in this courtyard for seventeen years. What's wrong with living with Shiwan? You put scorpions on her bed; how could you be so malicious?"

"You have so many exquisite silk dresses, and I only bought three for Wanwan, yet you cut them all up for her. How could I have a daughter as jealous as you?"

"It's just a broken inner core and a stalk of Huan Dan Grass. Wanwan painstakingly refined the medicine for you, burning her own hands, yet you still refuse to let go and keep causing trouble for Wanwan. Reflect on yourself in the dark cell."

A faint mist drifted from the golden glazed, dragon-entwined lotus incense burner. A gentle breeze carried the scent of flowers, rustling the brocade and soothingly patting the chest of the girl on the bed.

But she still murmured in pain.

"Brother, it wasn't me."

"Father, I didn't."

"We... have a duty to protect... mortals."

"Eldest Brother, no!"

Yuan Tuo sighed, "It's been two days, and even with all this calming incense, she's still so uneasy, crying rivers of tears. Just how much grievance has she suffered?"

Two small lions slept soundly at Yun Jing's feet. He fiddled with the calming incense, "Summon the Magpie God."

"Yes," Yuan Tuo retreated.

Not long after, the Magpie God arrived on clouds, laughing heartily, "I heard a little girl has come to your place?"

Yun Jing's cool gaze swept over Yuan Tuo.

Yuan Tuo flinched, "If they mistake you for being ill, then we won't have any peace, will we?"

"Yes, yes, the fairies from my medicine mansion alone are enough trouble for you."

The Magpie God peeked into the inner room, "Oh my, what a pitiful and cute little girl."

He raised his hand, and a silver thread was tied to Meng Anli's wrist. Immediately, he smiled, "From our clan?"

Then he clicked his tongue, "Eating Huan Dan Grass raw?"

Afterward, he stroked his beard, his expression turning serious. He injected a trace of spiritual energy into the silver thread. As soon as the energy entered Meng Anli's wrist, it suddenly snapped.

He froze for a moment.

Yuan Tuo asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Is it serious?"

The Magpie God looked at Yun Jing, his expression somewhat strange.

Yun Jing chuckled lightly, "I am also quite perplexed."

The Magpie God looked at the pale little girl, "Her inner core was forcibly dug out, and she was already weak. She hasn't fully recovered and has been through hardships. Her wounds never healed, festering and discharging pus, and then invaded by cold energy to the marrow. She was already at the end of her rope, yet she still ate Huan Dan Grass raw. If it weren't for your magic, she would be in the underworld by now."