Was it you that night?
Chapter 288 - 286: Transparent Soul

Chapter 288: Chapter 286: Transparent Soul

"It’s me, Shen Qinghe!" Shen Qinghe shouted in Dongfang Wuya’s ear.

Dongfang Wuya, of course, couldn’t see Shen Qinghe, but he felt someone watching him.

Meng Yun thought Dongfang Wuya was hallucinating, "Don’t be anxious, let’s keep looking, we’ll find a clue eventually."

Only then did Shen Qinghe realize that the interior of Spring Breeze Pavilion was filled with portraits of her. Were all these drawn by Xiao Chen?

She froze for a moment, then yanked Dongfang Wuya’s hair forcefully because she feared that he would go berserk. After pulling his hair, she quickly drifted away.

Dongfang Wuya did go berserk and struck out with a palm, but Shen Qinghe was thankful she dodged quickly, leaving Dongfang Wuya hitting only air.

At that moment, Shen Qinghe shifted her target and slapped the top of Meng Yun’s head hard, startling him so much that he leaped into the air, "Who hit me?!"

Dongfang Wuya, looking at the startled Meng Yun, felt this person was a disgrace. It could be anything strange, probably some solitary ghost...

That’s not right, not even solitary ghosts could escape his sight, so this was not a solitary ghost.

If the other party was a ghost, they definitely wouldn’t dare to provoke him, unless they were specifically looking for him. Could it be Shen Qinghe?

"Is... is it Shen Qinghe?" Dongfang Wuya asked cautiously.

At that moment, his palm was struck, and the person wrote the word "Yes" in his palm.

He immediately became overjoyed, "Is it really you?!"

Shen Qinghe then found that she could respond. She picked up a writing brush and wrote "I am Shen Qinghe" in five big black characters across the air.

Dongfang Wuya and Meng Yun exchanged looks, both feeling pleasantly surprised as they asked in unison, "How are you here?"

Shen Qinghe, upon realizing she could use Spiritual Energy to write in the air, was quite taken aback. She explained that her soul had separated from her body, and also how Xiao Chen had hidden her physical form behind the mountains of Sky Pole Sect.

Dongfang Wuya made a swift decision, taking Meng Yun with him towards the back mountains of Sky Pole Sect.

With Meng Yun, the Formation expert, they quickly broke through the Formation behind the mountain.

But by the time they arrived, the place was deserted, Xiao Chen’s figure nowhere to be seen, and naturally, this included Shen Qinghe’s physical body as well.

"Xiao Chen must have anticipated our arrival and took Shen Qinghe’s body away first," Meng Yun shook his head, "This man is really calculative. If he took Qinghe’s body, as long as her soul returns, she will still be in his hands."

Shen Qinghe was seated on Dongfang Wuya’s shoulder, not because she chose to, but because Dongfang Wuya insisted on her sitting there, saying he was afraid she might get lost.

"Shen Qinghe, can you leave again if you return to your own body?" Dongfang Wuya asked.

Shen Qinghe wrote in the air, "Don’t know! I feel that, with Big Senior Brother’s cunning, he would have contingencies. If I return to my body, he might not give me another chance to separate my soul."

Meng Yun felt the situation was tricky, "Is Xiao Chen that formidable?"

"In today’s Three Realms, only Xiao Chen can fight me on equal footing. He is the Ancestral Dragon, known for his warlike and murderous nature. How could he be incompetent?" Dongfang Wuya sneered with a curled lip, holding tight to Shen Qinghe’s other hand, "You can’t return to your body!"

"But my body has fallen into Xiao Chen’s hands. I have to get it back, and also I fear..." Shen Qinghe thought of Xiao Chen’s perverse behavior, worried that even without her soul in it, Xiao Chen might still harm her body, the thought alone sent chills down her spine.

"Fear what?" Dongfang Wuya pressed.

"I’m afraid Big Senior Brother, in a fit of anger, would destroy my body." Shen Qinghe changed her phrasing to avoid upsetting Dongfang Wuya.

Dongfang Wuya sneered, "Do you take me for a three-year-old child, unaware of your concerns? How could Xiao Chen possibly bring himself to destroy your body? He would be only too delighted..."

His voice came to an abrupt halt, for he dared not imagine such a scene.

Before seeing all the portraits of Shen Qinghe at the Spring Breeze Pavilion, he simply thought that Xiao Chen abducted her to contend with him. But after seeing those portraits, he should have realized that Xiao Chen had deep feelings for Shen Qinghe.

Being a man himself, he naturally understood the inferior nature of men: they cling to those they fancy and do not let go. Could Xiao Chen be an exception?

Xiao Chen was also a man of a sly character, perhaps even darker than his.

Seeing that the situation wasn’t right, Shen Qinghe quickly tried to change the subject to prevent Dongfang Wuya from brooding. She wrote in the air, "Logically, you should be able to see my soul. Why can’t you see me?"

Meng Yun, upon seeing her question, suddenly had a wonderful guess, "Isn’t your life-bound magic treasure transparent? Could it be that your soul is also transparent, which is why Wuya cannot see your soul?"

Shen Qinghe was momentarily stunned by the realization that this conjecture made sense.

Logically, for Ancient Gods like Dongfang Wuya and Xiao Chen, there’s no reason they couldn’t see a person’s soul. It was very likely that her soul had become transparent.

After hearing this, Dongfang Wuya also felt that Meng Yun’s guess made sense. It wouldn’t be surprising at all if such a thing happened to Shen Qinghe; this woman was always quite extraordinary.

"Right, Qinghe, now that your soul and body are separated, do you have a way to return?" Meng Yun thought of this important question.

Shen Qinghe didn’t know either, "Should I give it a try?"

"Wait a moment..."

Meng Yun intended to stop her, but he suddenly sensed that something was terribly amiss. Although he couldn’t see it, he could feel the slight difference.

Dongfang Wuya’s expression changed drastically, for the hand he was holding had vanished...

As soon as Shen Qinghe said she would try, she followed the cultivation incantation in the Chaos Immortal Scripture and attempted to practice it. She found herself back in her own body after just one try.

When she practiced the cultivation incantation again, her soul separated from her body once more.

She looked around at her surroundings, unable to discern where she was.

In the midst of her surveying the vicinity, Xiao Chen suddenly asked, "Qinghe, you’re back?"

Shen Qinghe did not draw closer to Xiao Chen, nor did she look at him, feeling that Xiao Chen was most likely testing her. She wanted to figure out the place before returning to find Dongfang Wuya.

"Now that you’re back, don’t leave again; otherwise, I will kill Shu Xiu," Xiao Chen added ominously.

Shen Qinghe stood still, not daring to move. If Shu Xiu was a tool for Xiao Chen to restrain her, then this tool still had significant utility. It would be of no benefit for Xiao Chen to destroy it now.

Yet as Xiao Chen gripped Shu Xiu’s neck, she felt a tinge of nervousness.

In truth, Xiao Chen wasn’t certain if Shen Qinghe had returned. He sensed something unusual in the air but wasn’t sure if this subtle change was because Shen Qinghe had come back.

After all, he couldn’t see Shen Qinghe’s soul.

If Shen Qinghe was as extraordinary in origin as Dongfang Wuya, then she would not be easy to deal with, even if her divine power had not yet awakened.

It was this uncertainty that led him to test the situation with Shu Xiu’s life.