My Wife Might Be a Saintess-Chapter 43 - 42: 2 Mysterious People?

"He’s a goner, right?"

"Looks like it. What a shame. He was so close to succeeding."

Jiang Ran sighed as well. "That was reckless. He was a remarkable person."

「In the livestream chat」

Chi Xue Child: "Fellow Daoist Po Xiao isn’t really going to die, is he?"

Demon Cultivator Mo Yan: "I doubt it. He’s too cocky for that."

No one else spoke. They were all staring at Jiang Zuo, not even daring to blink.

Jiang Zuo, of course, saw the tentacle as well.

It lunged at him. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

BOOM!

A massive spray of ichor erupted where Jiang Zuo had been standing.

Everyone lost sight of him. In fact, the viscous liquid blanketed more than half of the massive vine.

No one knew what had happened inside.

The onlookers waited for a long time. There were no further sounds, and even the massive vine had stopped moving.

Everyone shook their heads.

"Looks like he’s dead. He was powerful, sure, but what a pity he wasn’t smart enough."

"Yeah, for someone so strong, he just had to try and steal it. I have no idea what he was thinking."

"No matter how great a treasure is, you have to be alive to use it."

Before long, people slowly began to drift away.

Jiang Ran and the others left as well.

Blade Master Hai Bian, however, did not leave.

Liuyue Xue asked, "Is Fellow Daoist Po Xiao really dead?"

Blade Master Hai Bian replied, "It’s uncertain. The mist of ichor hasn’t dissipated, but the vine has indeed gone quiet."

"Really dead? You’ve got to be kidding. Wasn’t he incredibly cocky?" Demon Cultivator Mo Yan commented.

These people could only speculate. But of course, Jiang Zuo couldn’t have died. He was holding a Shield, which had blocked the final blow.

This Shield was unbelievably tough; it had completely obliterated the tentacle on impact.

Jiang Zuo seized the opportunity to approach the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit. But to his utter astonishment,

just as his hand was about to touch it, the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit suddenly flew away.

It was only then that Jiang Zuo discovered the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit was actually alive.

And it was a sentient being.

Jiang Zuo had only read about the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit in records from the Immortal Spirit Cave Mansion, but the accounts were not detailed.

He wasn’t clear on the specifics of how it came to be.

But to find it was conscious... that truly shocked him.

’No wonder... No wonder I couldn’t find anything when I came back for it. So it wasn’t that the process failed, nor was it stolen.’

’It left on its own.’

With the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit gone, his chance at obtaining the Chaos Qi was gone too.

Jiang Zuo shook his head, pushing the thought aside. It was all a wasted effort, which annoyed him.

At least he had gotten the Sun Flame Stone.

Afterward, Jiang Zuo took an untraveled path and departed.

Outside, Blade Master Hai Bian continued to wait.

Much later, the mist finally dissipated. Inside, there was nothing but the intact vine.

Blade Master Hai Bian: "Fellow Daoist Po Xiao... has fallen."

Demon Cultivator Mo Yan: "He’s really dead?"

The group chat went silent.

Po Xiao hadn’t been in the group for long, but he was a true powerhouse. He was a bit cocky—er, no, that cockiness was genuinely infuriating.

But at least he wasn’t malicious. Plus, he was perceptive and incredibly knowledgeable, the kind of member who instantly raised the group’s whole caliber. And now, just like that, he was gone.

Demon Cultivator Mo Yan posted a sighing emoji. "Even though I kind of hated him, should we help with a burial?

How about a Clothes Tomb? Er, wait, it looks like there aren’t even any clothes left. This is tricky. Fellow Daoist Po Xiao died without a body to bury."

"..."

Jiang Zuo, however, was in no mood to check the group chat.

If he had, there’s no telling whether he would have hunted down Mo Yan and killed him.

Jiang Zuo walked along, intending to try and find the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit again, but it was hopeless.

Finally, Jiang Zuo sighed. ’Forget it. Time to go back. There’s no point in staying here any longer.’

His coin had shattered the moment the Ten Thousand Leaves Immortal Spirit flew away.

If he kept pushing his luck, something bad was bound to happen.

Jiang Zuo wasn’t worried about anything else. The only person he was worried about was Su Qi.

At that moment, Su Qi was following Jingyue, and they had just arrived at the base of a cliff.

"Senior Sister, are you sure? Is it really here?" Su Qi asked.

Jingyue nodded. "Trust your Senior Sister. That’s what they said. I’m amazing at reading maps; there’s no way I’m wrong."

"Shouldn’t we report in to our martial uncles? If something goes wrong, at least they’ll know where to look for us," Su Qi asked.

"Then you do it. No, wait! How about we just livestream the whole thing?" Jingyue said excitedly.

Su Qi looked completely exasperated. ’Her senior sister really was a good person, but sometimes she just loved doing such foolish things.’

’An inheritance is such a serious matter. How could they possibly livestream it?’

Jingyue, however, had already pulled out her phone. But as soon as she did, she froze.

She then gasped, "Junior Sister, look! A really incredible person showed up here. Take a look!"

Curious, Su Qi glanced at the phone. The video showed the moment Jiang Zuo had first walked into the lake, carrying himself with the air of a King.

"He is powerful. How did he do that?"

"I don’t know. Let me see if there’s anything else... Oh, there is!" Jingyue said.

They then watched the second video, after which they both sighed in disbelief. "He’s dead?"

’He was so commanding just a moment ago, and now he’s dead, just like that, without a sound?’

"He’s dead, just like that? I was hoping to meet him someday. I wanted to see what he looked like, whether he was a man or a woman," Jingyue said, a little disappointed.

"Senior Sister, this person has nothing to do with us. You can’t just see a mysterious person and immediately need to know who they are and what their whole story is. You’d be doing that all day long."

"Just think, what if the person hidden under all that light turned out to be your husband?"

Su Qi pursed her lips. "How could that be? Jiang Zuo isn’t nearly that mysterious. *His wife* is the mysterious one."

"See? I try to make your husband sound a bit more mysterious for you, and you immediately shoot it down. It’s like you don’t even believe you two can have an exciting marriage!"

Su Qi: "...Are we going in or not? Are you going to livestream or not?"

Jingyue said peevishly, "Of course we’re not livestreaming! With that huge incident just now, the viewership would be all over the place. What if my stream flops? Do you think I, the Saintess, can afford to lose face like that?"

Ignoring Jingyue, Su Qi headed inside. ’What a waste of time,’ she thought.

But the moment Su Qi stepped inside, she froze.

Jingyue followed her in shortly after. "Why did you stop?"

Then, Jingyue froze as well.

Before them was an Array, shattered into ruins. This meant this place really might have been the entrance to the inheritance.

However, the entrance had been destroyed.

Su Qi said in astonishment, "Who did this? The traces are fresh, which means it was destroyed very recently. Did they abandon the inheritance?"

Jingyue went to the edge of the Array and inspected it for a moment. Her expression turned serious. "There’s a trace of cold energy here. It’s very unique. And I can confirm the Array was never activated. This person destroyed this place intentionally... but why?"

Then, Jingyue grinned. "Another mysterious person! Rejecting an inheritance and destroying the Array... unmasking someone like that would be a lot of fun. As for that other guy, who cares if he’s dead?"

Su Qi said wearily, "Senior Sister, there can’t be that many mysterious people around. The timing for these events isn’t that far apart. It was probably the same person, which means he’s already dead.

So just drop your wild theories."