Reborn as a Transcendent-Chapter 754Book 3: : Yae-hime’s Hypothesis and the Peculiar Bead
Why was she still alive if she did not have a heart?
‘Could she be a demonic creature…?’ The thought surfaced, but Lili quickly shook her head and dismissed it.
“Although she doesn’t have a heart, she does have a substitute. A fist-sized energy crystal.” At that moment, Yae-hime recalled where she had seen a similar bodily structure before.
‘Her body shares some similarities with Vera’s clones!’
This girl, who was suspected to be of the Celestial race, turned out to be nothing more than a clone. The realization was simply unbelievable.
“An energy crystal… so she’s something like a clone?” Lili asked, confusion evident in her voice.
“Very likely.” Yae-hime nodded. This girl’s body indeed shared similarities with Vera’s clones. At the very least, the structural framework was alike. However, the internal composition of the girl’s body was far more intricate and complex.
“Gasp!” Upon hearing this, Lili involuntarily sucked in a sharp breath, her heart trembling with unease. The girl who made her feel such a strong sense of danger was merely a clone. Just how terrifying must the original body be?
At that moment, Lili erased the faint trace of killing intent from her heart. If she truly destroyed this clone, it would very likely invite serious trouble. It could even lead to a catastrophic disaster.
“Her original body is probably at least Legendary-tier, or even stronger…” Lili said softly, her small face turning pale.
“That strong?” Yae-hime asked in surprise.
Lili nodded lightly. “Yes. This clone is anything but ordinary. I can feel it. Her strength at her peak was absolutely terrifying.”
“Stronger than you?” Yae-hime found it hard to believe.
After hesitating for a moment, Lili still nodded. This time, it was Yae-hime who inhaled sharply. The temperature in the room seemed to rise noticeably. Because a mysterious force from the girl’s inner core was shielding her, Yae-hime had been unable to examine her clearly.
Now that Lili had said this, a very direct comparison finally took shape in her mind. This was an existence she could not afford to provoke.
“Then what should we do?” Yae-hime asked.
“How about quietly throwing her into the sea?” Lili suggested. After all, the girl had survived being swallowed by a sea beast. Drowning her was clearly impossible. If they were lucky, the ocean currents could carry her far away.
“Let’s not.” Yae-hime shook her head. She simply could not bring herself to do something so cruel. Even knowing the girl would not truly be in danger, it still felt wrong.
Besides, she and Lili had gone through so much effort to drive away the sea beast and obtain this ‘spoils of war.’ There was no way she could just throw it away.
“But keeping her here is still a hidden risk,” Lili said. Although she did not fully understand clones, she knew they shared certain special connections with their original bodies.
The stronger the clone, the stronger that connection tended to be. Because of that, killing her outright was out of the question. And secretly discarding her was something little Hime clearly refused to do.
Lili bit her cherry-red lips, thinking it over again and again, yet unable to come up with a proper solution.
“I’ve decided,” Yae-hime suddenly said.
“Decided what?” Lili looked at her, puzzled.
“Let’s wake her up first,” Yae-hime replied.
“We don’t even know if she’s an enemy or an ally. Waking her so easily feels risky,” Lili said with concern.
“It’s fine. I don’t sense any danger,” Yae-hime said calmly.
From the girl, she only felt a subtle sense of familiarity. ‘Could it be that this child really is of the Celestial race?’
At that moment, doubt quietly rose in her heart.
In the end, Yae-hime only knew the period when the Celestial race appeared on a large scale. She had no idea whether Celestials had existed even earlier than that. If what Lili said was correct, this girl possessed at least Legendary-level strength.
On the Southern Continent, among the factions Yae-hime knew, anyone at the Legendary tier was a dominant figure in their own right. And a single clone already counted as such a figure. That meant the girl’s true body was, at the very least, of Mythical level.
As for anything beyond that, Yae-hime did not even dare to imagine it. No matter how one looked at it, this girl could not possibly be some ordinary cultivator.
‘She’s one hundred percent a Celestial, and within her race, she definitely held no small status!’ Suddenly, a flash of insight streaked through her mind. ‘Right, my bloodline quest still hasn’t been activated. A Celestial appearing at a time like this… it does seem to fit.’
At that thought, Yae-hime merely smiled faintly. To her, the cost-performance of bloodline quests was far too low, practically a tasteless burden.
Asking her to travel thousands of kilometers to the Celestial Island just to activate such a quest was honestly more trouble than it was worth.
She lacked neither resources nor guidance from capable mentors. Going there might even result in her freedom being restricted, just like Nangong Lin and the others.
‘If the bloodline quest were carried out within the Jade Empire, that would be another matter.’
Her foundation was right here. As long as the rebellion succeeded, the benefits she would reap would be endless. There was absolutely no need to endure countless hardships to reach the Celestial Island.
“Little Hime?” Seeing her spacing out, Lili stepped closer, waving a small hand in front of her face.
“Sorry, I got a bit distracted,” Yae-hime said as she came back to herself, sounding slightly embarrassed.
“So you really plan to wake her up?” Lili withdrew her gaze from Yae-hime and looked toward the unconscious girl lying on the bed.
“Yes. It’s necessary,” Yae-hime replied as she walked forward, her pupils abruptly turning jade-green. Whether or not the girl was a key figure for triggering a quest, she intended to wake her up.
“Alright, but don’t restore too much,” Lili said helplessly as she saw the seriousness in her expression and nodded. After all, matters involving the Child of Destiny were not something she could interfere with excessively.
‘I need to stay fully alert in case anything happens!’ Lili stared intently at the girl on the bed, thinking to herself. At present, this was all she could do.
Yae-hime wasted no more words. A green needle condensed in her hand and swiftly pierced into the girl’s unguarded chest.
“Mmm…” As if sensing a faint pain, the girl let out a soft moan, yet she did not wake up.
Yae-hime paid it no mind. The green needle in her hand stabbed again and again, fast as lightning. In the next instant, several surges of powerful life energy flooded into the girl’s body.
Watching the burn marks on the girl’s skin fade away at an astonishing speed, Lili still felt a sense of awe in her heart. ‘Little Hime’s medical skill is truly miraculous!’
After all, those were no ordinary burns, but lingering injuries caused by lightning infused with profound laws!
Yae-hime drove the final needle into the girl’s lower abdomen. Her gaze sharpened as she plunged the entire green needle in. She then pressed her palm lightly against the spot, simultaneously pouring in her own life energy while drawing out the lightning power within the girl’s body.
The sensation she had experienced on the deserted island surged through her once more. Crackling and tingling, numb yet electrifying, it was almost blissful.
Fortunately, thanks to her previous experience, Yae-hime had built up some resistance and was not sent reeling by the impact. This time, she continuously observed her own body from within.
Sure enough, she saw the lightning energy rapidly flow toward the rotating golden bead, where it was completely absorbed, causing the bead to emit a faint glow. An extremely profound aura spread out along with it.
‘This bead seems to grow stronger after absorbing lightning power. Wait. If it can absorb lightning, does that mean it can absorb other types of power as well?’ Moved by the thought, Yae-hime immediately acted, attaching a trace of life energy to the bead.
In the blink of an eye, it was absorbed completely.
