"Seriously, did nobody understand what it meant for a level 10 Soul Scholar like me to solo-kill a level 60 Soul Emperor?"
Ji Feng thought his performance would have stood out even among those wish-fulfillment Douluo webnovels! Could those guys who loved bringing systems along and picking starter gift packs pull this off?!
He had defied all reason by solo-killing a Soul Emperor as a Soul Scholar, so why was nobody around him giving him any emotional gratification?
At least suck in a few breaths of cold air!
Ji Feng looked around, sighed with affected gravity, then tried to emphasize this blatantly obvious fact.
"Alas, I'm a Soul Scholar, but a Soul Emperor just ran away. Do you know why? Oh my! How did you know that a Soul Scholar like me solo-killed a Soul Emperor? Keep it low-key, low-key. Don't spread it around. We need to be discreet. Even though I solo-killed a Soul Emperor as a Soul Scholar, I should still be very humble. Sure, it's a fact that a Soul Scholar solo-killed a Soul Emperor, but I can't make too much of a fuss about it."
Nahida fought back the urge to roll her eyes. This was her dream authority at work. What was so surprising about suppressing a Soul Emperor? Even a dog with this martial soul could solo-kill a Soul Emperor!
You're getting smug over a skill that carries you around in a wheelchair! Don't tell me you actually think you've got skills!
"That's true. Ji Feng, weren't you just an ordinary person before?" Ah Yin tilted her head, knitting her delicate brows at just the right moment as she considerately voiced the question, though a faint smile lingered at the corners of her lips.
"Exactly, but with your help, Ah Yin, my martial soul completed its second awakening!" Ji Feng spun the story without missing a beat. Pointing at Nahida, he said, "This is my detached martial soul after its second awakening, Buer, the God of Wisdom. Her everyday name is Nahida, and people call her the God of Great Wisdom."
Nahida knew Ji Feng was deliberately concealing the matter of his Genshin Impact martial soul, so she played along.
"That's right. That's why I call him my host. My true self is a deity from another world, currently existing in the form of a martial soul."
"Then could your martial soul really awaken just by helping me?" Ah Yin still remembered what Ji Feng had said at the beginning. She had thought it was merely an excuse to strike up a conversation, but it had actually been true!
Ah Yin even began to wonder whether helping her was precisely why his second awakening had ultimately produced this divine martial soul with such a rich aura of nature.
"Exactly, exactly! I'm someone who loves helping others! And you, Ah Yin, seem to be a rather special existence. Anyway, after I helped you, my martial soul officially awakened! To match my helpful nature, Nahida is also a very kind, gentle deity who loves helping others!" Ji Feng seized the opportunity to slap the label of helpful person onto himself.
Ah Yin already believed half of it. The remaining half came down to, "But why is your martial soul powerful to this extent?"
She knitted her brows, her pale blue, watery eyes brimming with confusion.
Ah Yin could sense that Ji Feng's mental power was roughly at the Soul Saint level. That was also why his Eye Technique could easily affect a Soul Emperor. But how could awakening a martial soul raise his mental power straight to the Soul Saint level?!
This was nothing like the Douluo Continent she knew!
Ah Yin had never even heard of a Soul Scholar without a single soul ring who could not only defeat a Soul Emperor with years of cultivation, but whose martial soul could also drag almost everyone on the entire continent into a dream.
Ah Yin considered her own Blue Silver Emperor a top-tier plant-type martial soul, but compared with Nahida, even calling her trash seemed like praise. They simply did not seem like products of the same world. Even the so-called God Level could not possibly be this absurd, could it?
Ah Yin felt as though everything she knew had suffered a devastating blow!
Seeing Ah Yin's confusion, Nahida smiled brightly. "The answer is simple: because I am a true god. Although the laws of the Douluo Continent restrict me to existing in the form of a martial soul, my essence is still that of a deity. So even granting Ji Feng a portion of my power is enough to let him defeat a Soul Emperor."
That was what Nahida said outwardly, but a question arose in her own heart as well. Those words were merely meant to fool Ah Yin. In reality, Nahida herself was only a by-product of the Genshin Impact martial soul.
Nahida was also deeply puzzled as to why an individual's martial soul could be powerful enough to summon her.
Even if she was only a projection, she genuinely possessed divine authority.
Having encountered so many people along the way, Nahida had naturally scanned their martial souls with her divine sense. Their very structure was fundamentally different from the Genshin Impact martial soul. Within the Genshin Impact martial soul was an energy powerful enough to nearly rival the world's origin itself, while those other martial souls were merely outward manifestations of bloodline power combined with soul energy.
Nahida believed that the Genshin Impact martial soul was not actually a martial soul at all, but something far beyond those limits, forced to exist in the form of a martial soul only because of the Douluo Continent's rules.
If Ji Feng had heard this, he would have told Nahida quite bluntly in two words-cheat power!
We transmigrators' cheats are just that unreasonable. You have to accept it, whether you like it or not! If you've got time to study the Genshin Impact martial soul, you'd be better off researching how to condense soul rings yourself and increase their ages!
"Is that so? Then, Lady Nahida, is Ji Feng your disciple, or your successor?"
Ah Yin naturally accepted Nahida's explanation and believed that Nahida was willing to help Ji Feng because he had accepted her inheritance or something similar.
What else could it be? Surely a mighty deity could not have been forced to submit to a mere human?
"We're not that distant! In a sense, I'm Nahida too!" As Ji Feng spoke, he suddenly flashed a mischievous grin, and his formerly tall body instantly became petite and delicate.
Short silver-white hair barely brushed past the little girl's swanlike, fair neck. Her porcelain-white face was exquisitely beautiful, radiating an otherworldly ethereality and serenity. Yet under Ji Feng's control, the petite deity pursed her cherry-pink lips, their corners tracing a sly curve utterly at odds with her refined grace. That hint of playfulness instead made him look even more alluring than the real Nahida.
The Nahida standing off to the side naturally vanished on the spot.
The newly appeared Nahida stepped gracefully over to the incredulous Ah Yin on bare, snowy-white feet and tilted his head up to look at her. His emerald-green, cross-petaled pupils stared straight into Ah Yin's eyes as he revealed a radiant, captivating smile and said in a clear voice, "Well? That's why I said I'm Nahida! Actually, I'm the original! That Nahida only counts as my avatar!"
"This is incredible!" As Ah Yin looked at the Nahida before her, an unusual rosy flush colored her cheeks, and a trace of fervor flashed through her beautiful eyes. The very next instant, she had gathered him firmly into her arms!
Breathing rapidly, her cheeks flushed crimson, Ah Yin held Nahida with an utterly intoxicated expression, as though she wanted to knead him into her own body. Her snowy-white softness brushed against Ji Feng's little face from time to time, leaving his body limp as he nestled obediently in her arms, even forgetting what he had intended to do.
"This is wonderful! Lady Nahida! Lady Nahida!"
Ah Yin could feel that merely holding Nahida like this, with his sweet fragrance lingering around her nose, made the very source of her bloodline surge and leap.
Every drop of blood and every strand of soul power cheered and danced. How could she not lose herself in that sweetness and fulfillment, like parched earth finally meeting life-giving rain after a long drought?
Reflected in Ah Yin's watery blue eyes was the utterly docile Nahida in her arms. Yet deep within those eyes, a naked, blatant possessiveness burned like fire, without the slightest attempt at concealment.
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