I Have a Special Physique!

"!" Pei Ling was shocked, cold sweat bursting out almost instantly.

Wu Liu tilted her head slightly. Her icy little hand caressed his cheek with seeming intimacy, inching upward as she said softly, "Young Master Pei Ling, didn't you say you would tell me everything you knew, holding nothing back... Why aren't you answering?"

As she spoke, her fingertip touched Pei Ling's brow. Chilling energy spilled forth, piercing straight into his marrow. She said sweetly, "Must I make you into a lampshade like Sister Jiao Ni, extract your soul and refine it into a wick... before you'll tell me?"

"I..." Pei Ling wanted to explain, but he had barely forced out a single word before an invisible pressure pinned him so thoroughly that he could hardly move. He could only watch helplessly as Wu Liu's fingertip slowly traveled downward in a straight line from between his brows. The female ghost's nails were exceedingly long, black as ink from end to end, their surface gleaming with a faint ghostly blue light. They were incomparably sharp. Though they had not truly fallen, the sensation that they would peel off an entire sheet of his skin the next moment was terrifyingly real.

His heart shook violently, yet he could not speak. Just then, Wu Liu suddenly gave a silvery laugh, her voice softening. "Right, do you know... why Master didn't kill you on the spot with a single palm strike?"

What?!

Pei Ling's heart nearly skipped a beat. Had he not been restrained at the moment, he would practically have cried out in alarm.

This female ghost knew?!

She actually knew everything?!

Then why had she not appeared earlier to save her master?

Or had they been unable to appear because the Xuan Gu Ling Yin Boat had not been released before?

Wu Liu leisurely admired his horrified expression, the curve of her lips becoming ever more distinct. "Interesting... truly interesting... Even Luo Qiao, a Core Formation Realm cultivator, found it difficult to withstand the Heart Demon Sound Curse of the Calamity Crossing Soul Bell, yet you, a mere Qi Refining Layer 4 cultivator, were utterly unaffected... It wasn't only Master who became interested in you. Even we poor souls imprisoned within the Calamity Crossing Soul Bell have grown curious."

As she spoke, she pressed a finger to Pei Ling's lapel and smiled. "Tell me, what secret do you possess? Your soul is actually more stable than Luo Qiao's?"

"Miss Wu Liu..." At last, Pei Ling could speak. His face was filled with terror, but an idea flashed through his mind. In a hoarse, stammering voice, he said, "Perhaps... perhaps my physique is somewhat special...?"

Wu Liu's fingertip, which had been idly tracing his lapel, paused. She raised her head. "Oh?"

"When I entered Yuan Lao Mountain under Immortal Master Zheng's orders to search for Wu Tingxi, he once said that I possessed top-grade Iron Bone, and asked whether I had taken any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures." Pei Ling forced himself to calm down as he said, "But given my background, I had never even taken a Bone Quenching Pill before. How could I possibly have come into contact with any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures? Wu Tingxi therefore speculated that there might be something special about my physique."

"Yet I grew up in Luquan City and have little knowledge. I'm completely at a loss over it myself!"

"A physique?" Wu Liu frowned faintly and muttered to herself, "An exceptionally stable soul, as well as talent in body cultivation... Among the many special physiques recorded by the Sacred Sect... there doesn't seem to be one like this?"

She pondered for a moment, then suddenly her eyes lit up and she clapped her hands. "I know!"

In an instant, blue radiance surged in the female ghost's ink-black eyes, making her look especially eerie. She said darkly, "An unknown physique, and one so powerful, so special—it truly deserves to be brought back to the Sacred Sect for thorough study."

Before Pei Ling could react, Wu Liu had already circled him swiftly like a swimming fish. In a flash, she pulled up his left sleeve and examined the wound, disappointment appearing on her face. "Although this wound healed quickly, it is still far inferior to the Myriad Wood Spring Return Physique the Sacred Sect acquired years ago."

Her interest piqued, she tugged open Pei Ling's lapel and inspected the injuries on his body as she said, "The Sacred Sect put considerable effort into studying that Myriad Wood Spring Return Physique! At first, they merely cut through some skin and flesh. Seeing that the person instantly recovered as good as new, they began..."

"The final step... Don't worry. Though Master is not that elder's disciple, Master did learn a few blade techniques from that elder. If your skin is flayed off, it will certainly be perfect as well."

"It's just that your healing speed is too slow. I'm afraid you can't be like that Myriad Wood Spring Return Physique."

The muscles on Pei Ling's face twitched violently. What special physique did he have?!

The only thing special about him was that he had a system. His powerful soul and talent for body cultivation were absolutely all cheat benefits. If he truly ended up being thoroughly studied, then judging by the methods of Chongming Sect, that Underworld Sect, he probably would not even survive the first stage.

Damn it, after all that effort, was he still going to die?!

He forced a smile. "Miss Wu Liu is right. I'm not a Myriad Wood Spring Return Physique. Forget being subjected to it dozens of times in a row—even cuts through skin and flesh are already a bit too much for me..."

"It's fine. Your strength should be in your soul." Wu Liu said happily, "Speaking of souls, the Sacred Sect once encountered a physique with an especially robust soul. They were a pair of twins, born with hearts that understood each other without words! That time even alerted a Grand Elder of the Sacred Sect, who had been in seclusion for a long time, to personally Take Action and extract their souls..."

She then casually listed several more special physiques. Without exception, once they fell into the Sacred Sect's hands, their fate was to be arranged from flesh to soul, utterly miserable and too ghastly to behold.

The more Pei Ling listened, the paler his face became. Just as he began considering whether he should simply kill himself now and suffer a little less, Wu Liu's expression suddenly darkened. She cursed, "That bastard Wu Tingxi! He knew perfectly well that your physique was special, that you were exceedingly precious material, yet he still dared to injure you with the Five Poisons Finger! If he were still alive, I would personally place his soul in a Lamp Stand and burn it for three hundred years!!!"

At the end, she abruptly raised her hand and fiercely struck the back of Pei Ling's neck with her palm.

Pei Ling only felt his vision go black, and then he knew nothing more...

He did not know how long had passed before he woke groggily. Every muscle in his body ached as though he had been lying down for a very long time. Yet when he looked around, he found himself clearly still inside a cabin of the Xuan Gu Ling Yin Boat.

Pei Ling was puzzled. He struggled to sit up and quickly checked himself, discovering that the wound from the Five Poisons Finger had completely healed. The clothes on his body had been changed, and it seemed he had even taken a bath.

What made his scalp tingle was that the Nourishing Origin Pill was still safely tucked in his robes.

What exactly was going on...?

After thinking for a moment, he moved his limbs and walked to the door. Holding his breath, he listened intently. Only after a long while, upon finding it quiet both inside and out, did he cautiously open a narrow crack in the door.

After watching for a while and seeing no one outside, Pei Ling tiptoed out and knocked on Pei Hong Nian's door next door.

Pei Hong Nian soon opened the door. Seeing him, his expression sank slightly as he asked suspiciously, "What have you been doing in your room these past half month? No one answered no matter how I knocked... You haven't been cultivating the entire time, have you?"

"Half a month?" Pei Ling was startled. "Half a month has already passed?"

"Looks like you truly cultivated so single-mindedly that you forgot the time." Pei Hong Nian was both envious and jealous. He glanced around, saw no one nearby, and could not help asking in a low voice, "How many Bone Quenching Pills that you stole from Senior Brother Zheng do you have left?"

Pei Ling had no mind to pay attention to that. He urgently asked, "How long until we reach Chongming Sect?"

"We'll be entering the mountain gate soon." Pei Hong Nian replied casually. "How about selling me a few of your remaining Bone Quenching Pills? We're clan brothers, after all..."

Before he could finish, Pei Ling turned and left without even offering a greeting.

He still remembered what Wu Liu had said before he fainted. How could he have the mood to waste words on Pei Hong Nian now?

He had to quickly find a way!

The moment he returned to his cabin and closed the door, Pei Ling turned around, and his face went pale.

By the round table not far away sat a woman wearing a veiled hat, black gauze trailing to the floor. It was Fairy Li!