"How did you and Ji Feng meet?"
Ma Hongjun asked.
Ye Lingling only looked at him coldly.
She didn't answer.
Ma Hongjun rubbed his hands together. "Heh heh, when your grandfather was being hunted, that strange figure who suddenly vanished—don't you think it looked a lot like Ji Feng?"
Ye Lingling: "???"
The other party had suddenly said something strange.
And it was connected to her grandfather's death.
Ye Lingling's icy heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Did he mean that Ji Feng had been connected to the Spirit Hall forces that hunted her grandfather all those years ago?
"Nonsense!"
Ye Lingling snapped.
For the first time, she spoke in front of an unfamiliar man—a rare occurrence.
She left him with a cold remark.
"Hey, Fatty! I'm telling the truth!"
"Think it over carefully!"
The Fatty looked utterly ridiculous.
Watching Ye Lingling's retreating figure,
he jumped up and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Blacksmith Shop.
Ji Feng opened the blacksmith panel.
[ Ding ]
[ Congratulations! Your Blacksmith skill has reached Level 4: Master Blacksmith ]
[ Skill crafting unlocked ]
[ Skills currently available for crafting: Hexagram of Peace: Longevity ]
[ Summoner Skill: Teleport ]
"Craft skills?"
When he saw the system notification,
Ji Feng's eyes lit up.
As a longtime King of Glory player,
he knew, of course,
that [Hexagram of Peace: Longevity] was the ultimate of Ming Shiyin, a support hero in the game.
As for Teleport, it was another essential Summoner Skill.
It was the most convenient way to travel long distances.
With a thought,
he selected the two skills he wanted to craft.
[Hexagram of Peace: Longevity]: Cast the ultimate on the current linked target (ally or enemy), producing the following effects:
On an ally: restores their health.
On an enemy: deals true damage to them.
The user consumes an equal amount (or proportion) of their own health, but cannot die from the cost.
For 10 seconds after casting the ultimate, Ming Shiyin restores 5% of his lost health each second.
Teleport: After waiting in place for 3 seconds, teleport yourself to the side of the designated Soul Master.
[ Ding ]
[ Crafting a hero skill is a high-difficulty operation for your current Blacksmith skill level ]
[ After crafting is complete, you will enter a weakened state for two hours ]
Ji Feng had just been about to start crafting
when he saw this system notification.
"Then I'll craft Teleport first."
Teleport, as a Summoner Skill,
could be used anytime.
And it had no cooldown.
Ji Feng decided it would be better to craft Teleport first.
[Craft Skill]
[Teleport]
[Craft?]
"Yes!"
Without hesitation,
Ji Feng decisively chose yes!
A few seconds later,
[Skill crafted successfully]
[You have obtained the Summoner Skill: Teleport!]
Whoosh!
The next moment,
an item
appeared in his hand.
At that moment,
all he needed to do was crush it
and designate anyone at the same time.
Three seconds later,
he would be teleported straight to their side.
It was incredibly convenient.
"With a familiar person as a marker from now on,
getting around will be so much easier."
"I won't have to travel by road anymore."
It was even faster than a Titled Douluo—
not slower in the slightest.
Thinking of this,
Ji Feng wondered whether he should test it out.
Suddenly, he thought of Ye Lingling.
In this world,
Ye Lingling was the only person he knew.
So,
he chose to use Teleport.
[Please select a teleportation point]
Suddenly,
words appeared in a glow before his eyes.
"Ye Lingling!"
He didn't need to use his thoughts.
He could simply speak aloud.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds!
Whoosh!
When he opened his eyes again,
Ji Feng had appeared beside a flower bed on a pavilion.
Before him,
the figure of a young woman appeared.
Ye Lingling was dressed in purple today.
She was holding a watering can and watering the flowers.
Seeing someone suddenly appear before her,
she nearly jumped out of her skin.
Once she saw who it was,
Ye Lingling's eyes lit up.
Her lips moved.
She seemed to want to say something.
Ji Feng smiled faintly. "Are you busy?"
"You... you..."
Ye Lingling seemed to have been aloof for so long
that she had forgotten how to talk to people.
Especially men.
Ji Feng understood what she meant.
"It's fine. Go ahead with what you're doing. This is my new Soul Skill."
He didn't know how to explain it to Ye Lingling.
After thinking it over, he said that to her.
"..." Ye Lingling blinked.
Her gaze stayed fixed on him.
It was hard to tell whether she had understood.
The next moment,
Ji Feng crushed the Teleportation Crystal.
His figure vanished from the spot once more.
As if he had never been there.
"Clang!"
As Ji Feng disappeared,
the watering can in Ye Lingling's hand
slipped free
and crashed to the ground.
Her cool expression stiffened.
She looked as though she had seen a ghost.
She seemed completely flustered.
Her palms were slick with sweat.
"It was him..."
"How could Ji Feng disappear into thin air?"
"It looked so much like Ghost Douluo..."
"The difference is, when Ghost Douluo disappears, he turns into a cloud of black mist, while Ji Feng was surrounded by white light..."
As she thought about it,
Ye Lingling panicked.
Her mind grew hazy.
"Ji Feng might have something to do with your grandfather's death..."
The Fatty's words echoed in her mind.
Though he had seemed completely unserious,
when she thought of how Ji Feng had just appeared and vanished so strangely,
her little hands clenched involuntarily.
Her whole face turned deathly pale.
Her grandfather's death
had always been a wound in Ye Lingling's heart.
It had led to her miserable childhood.
She had been kept from forming bonds with anyone.
That was why she had grown so aloof and distant, keeping people at arm's length.
And yet, after all that effort, she had finally met Ji Feng.
He had made her less guarded.
Now, though, he had somehow become entangled with people from Spirit Hall.
"Was it him?"
"What exactly was his connection to the Ghost Charm Family?"
At the thought,
Ye Lingling bit her lip.
A grim possibility had already taken shape in her mind.
"Knock, knock!"
The Rose Hotel.
Someone knocked on the door.
Ji Feng came to answer it.
"You?"
The moment he opened the door,
he saw Ye Lingling's cool, beautiful face.
Ji Feng was a little surprised. "I just went to the Blacksmith Shop to forge some things. The room's a bit messy."
He didn't wonder why Ye Lingling had come to see him.
After all, smithing in this world was pretty dull.
Having a beautiful woman stop by
made things a little less tedious.
Besides, he and Ye Lingling weren't exactly strangers.
"I'm a little tired. Make yourself at home."
Ji Feng said offhandedly.
Then he walked into the bedroom.
The door was left ajar.
Knowing how aloof Ye Lingling was,
and how little she liked to talk,
Ji Feng didn't have the spare energy to strike up a conversation with her.
Back in the bedroom,
he reined in his Soul Power
and went straight to sleep!
Half an hour later,
the ajar door
was gently pushed open.
A figure stepped inside.
It was a girl dressed in a purple gown.
Ye Lingling.
Like the Nine-Heart Begonia,
Ye Lingling was cool and elegant,
someone no one dared approach.
At that moment,
her eyes were fixed on Ji Feng, lying on the bed.
The strange look in her eyes
made her seem even more distant.
Her lips trembled.
Her eyes narrowed.
She stared intently at Ji Feng on the bed.
"Was it him?"
"Was he the one who killed my father?"
Ye Lingling asked herself.
In her hand,
a dagger had appeared at some point.
Its blade glinted with poison.
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