Mirror Flower, Water Moon

Thunder rumbled across the sky as dark clouds gradually gathered over the Great Fiend Forest. Jiang Shengyu opened his eyes, only to find that something was strange about his vision. He felt as though his eyes were playing tricks on him.

How could he describe it...

He felt as though his field of vision had been split in two, each half showing a different scene, yet forcibly and unnaturally stitched together.

The sensation of having half of another perspective crammed into his sight was not pleasant.

"This..."

Jiang Shengyu spoke instinctively, only to hear both a young boy's and a young girl's voice rise at the same time. He froze, then quickly turned his head to one side. There was no one before him, yet in the other half of his vision, he was staring at the back of a boy.

Jiang Shengyu quickly looked behind him again. The boy vanished from his sight, replaced by the back of a girl appearing in the previously empty half of his vision.

"No way?"

Both male and female voices rang out simultaneously again, and Jiang Shengyu's tone was full of disbelief.

He stood up, and the figure in the other half of his vision stood as well, moving exactly as he did.

After a brief period of confusion, Jiang Shengyu understood the situation. Had he split apart? His body had divided, but his soul and consciousness were still one?

One Soul, Two Bodies?

No matter how unbelievable it was, everything before him pointed to that single explanation.

After a period of difficult experimentation, Jiang Shengyu had initially mastered using one mind for two purposes. He controlled the two halves of his body to turn toward each other, and two young, similar faces appeared within the two halves of his vision.

Other than the difference in the length of their hair, the two halves of his body did not differ much in appearance.

Jiang Shengyu breathed a sigh of relief. At least both halves looked quite good. Then he became troubled again. "Does this make me a boy with a girl's face, or a girl with a boy's face?"

He shook his head, unwilling to dwell on such matters.

His most urgent task was to figure out where this place was and why he had become like this! At the same time, he could not let anyone discover his abnormality. Otherwise, being taken to a laboratory as a specimen would hardly be worth it!

"From now on, we'll present ourselves as siblings! The older brother will be Jiang Shengyu, and the younger sister will be Jiang Qingtong." Jiang Shengyu made up his mind and arranged identities for himself.

Listening to the male and female voices sounding at once, he muttered, "I need to practice using one mind for two purposes. Otherwise, I'll expose myself the moment I speak."

Neither Jiang Shengyu nor Jiang Qingtong noticed that not far from them, a blue unicorn-like Soul Beast was staring fixedly at them. It first approached cautiously, then suddenly burst forward and charged at them.

The Azure Vein Unicorn suddenly entered Jiang Shengyu's vision.

Seeing this, Jiang Qingtong immediately dodged to the side, but the Azure Vein Unicorn was faster. In the blink of an eye, it arrived behind her, its sharp horn instantly piercing through her heart.

The intense pain immediately jolted their nerves, causing both Jiang Qingtong's and Jiang Shengyu's bodies to stiffen at the same time.

The Azure Vein Unicorn held Jiang Qingtong's body on its horn. Taking advantage of Jiang Shengyu's inability to move from the excruciating pain, it pierced through his chest as well, truly skewering the two of them like candied hawthorns.

He instantly fainted.

With a toss of its head, the Azure Vein Unicorn flung the two of them off its horn. Just as it was about to move closer and devour their bodies, the sound of something cutting through the air seemed to be rapidly approaching from afar.

Hearing the commotion, it did not hesitate to abandon the feast before it and turned to flee into the forest.

After the Azure Vein Unicorn escaped, two people flew over from afar and landed beside Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong. They were Kong Deming and his disciple, Xuan Ziwen, who had happened to come to the Great Fiend Forest to conduct Soul Tool experiments.

"Teacher, they..." Xuan Ziwen looked at Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong lying in a pool of blood, then turned to the middle-aged man beside him.

Kong Deming's Soul Power enveloped their bodies, and he quickly determined their condition. He shook his head and said to Xuan Ziwen, "Ziwen, their hearts have already been shattered. Even if a Healing Type Titled Douluo intervened, they could not be saved."

Xuan Ziwen frowned tightly and murmured, "How could two children so young be here? Judging by their age, they should have only just awakened their Martial Souls. Could they have come to hunt Soul Rings?"

"The only explanation for entering the Great Fiend Forest to hunt Soul Rings just after awakening their Martial Souls is Innate Full Soul Power."

Kong Deming looked at Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong and sighed. "If they truly had Innate Full Soul Power, then it is such a pity! We of the Sun Moon Empire have always been suppressed by the three nations in terms of Soul Master talent. There are still far too few powerful Martial Souls."

A powerful Soul Engineer had to be a powerful Soul Master as well.

Kong Deming had always believed this. If he could enter the realm of a Super Douluo, he believed that he could absolutely become the legendary Rank Ten Soul Engineer! Rather than remaining stuck as a Rank Nine Soul Tool Master, unable to complete his ultimate Soul Tool.

Thinking of this, Kong Deming looked up at the sky again and said to Xuan Ziwen, "Ziwen, it is getting late. The Soul Tool testing is not yet complete. Let us go."

Xuan Ziwen said to Kong Deming, "Teacher, I want to bury them. We cannot simply leave them here to be eaten by Soul Beasts, can we?"

Kong Deming knew his disciple's temperament. He nodded slightly. "Very well."

Just as Xuan Ziwen dug a pit and was about to place the siblings within it, a silver-white radiance rose from their bodies.

"Teacher, look!" Xuan Ziwen cried out in alarm.

Kong Deming frowned and came to Xuan Ziwen's side, watching the changes occurring to Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong.

The silver-white radiance was like threads being drawn from their bodies, gathering and weaving together between them into a Crescent Moon. Suspended in the center of the Crescent Moon was a Crystal Lotus with multiple layers like mirrors.

Then, the Crescent Moon and the lotus separated, falling onto Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong respectively.

After the Crescent Moon and lotus landed upon Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong, two purple Soul Rings slowly emerged as well, rhythmically pulsing around each of them.

"Purple! Thousand-Year Soul Rings!"

Xuan Ziwen was astonished. Not to mention Soul Masters of the Sun Moon Empire, even among Soul Masters of the other three nations, few could attach a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as their first Soul Ring!

Moreover, Soul Rings were produced by Soul Beasts.

But where were the Soul Beasts?

Xuan Ziwen looked around, but there were no Soul Beast corpses in sight. So where had their two Soul Rings come from?

Several breaths later, the penetrating wounds in their chests had completely healed, restoring them to their original state. Other than the blood-soaked soil and clothing, no traces remained—not even scars.

The Soul Rings and Martial Souls withdrew into their bodies, but the two of them remained unconscious.

"I have never heard of such a Martial Soul or such a method of attaching Soul Rings! Ziwen, postpone today's Soul Tool experiment. Bring them back to Bright Capital!" Kong Deming quickly made his decision.

One Soul, Two Bodies was only an idea I had. If you are not used to it, you can also regard Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong as two separate people. Welcome to join the chat groups: 902904636 and 786378244. The latter is a new group, since the former is full.