During the time when Feixiao carried them while flying through the sky, Miss Bailu truly experienced what it meant to have "the body flying ahead while the soul chased desperately behind."
Although she was protected by the power of Abundance, and Feixiao had additionally used the power of the Hunt Path to shield Bailu so her body would not be harmed, the intense nausea and the dizziness that felt like her brain was being churned into paste still nearly made the young Vidyadhara Dragon Lord miss the chance to hold back a curse.
"This… was an emergency. Please forgive me, Miss Bailu."
Hearing Bailu's complaints, Feixiao gave an awkward smile, looking somewhat guilty as she turned her head away. One finger lightly traced circles beside her cheek while playing with her beautiful silver-white hair strands.
"Haa… Forget it, forget it. This young lady won't hold it against you for now. After all, the injured person is the priority. General Feixiao, where is the injured person you mentioned?"
Bailu took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. Although she was innocent by nature, it was not hard for her to see that Feixiao was trying to divert attention. Following the creed that the injured take precedence, the young girl decided not to pursue the matter further with her.
Feixiao: '...…'
Hearing these words, Feixiao felt even more embarrassed. The injured… Yunli, that girl, had somehow healed her own injuries. Where was she supposed to find an injured person for her now?
"General Feixiao, where is the injured person?"
After looking around once, Bailu did not see any sign of an injured person. She then gave Feixiao a strange look and asked.
"Uh… about this injured person… her injuries… have already been treated by someone."
Feixiao pointed at Yunli beside her and spoke as if she had already thrown caution to the wind.
"Huh?"
Upon hearing this, Bailu let out a questioning sound. With a somewhat suspicious expression, she looked Yunli up and down, her gaze finally landing on Yunli's arm.
After carefully observing for a while, Bailu puffed up her cheeks slightly and asked Feixiao with clear dissatisfaction:
"General Feixiao, please do not tease Bailu! This young lady's body shows no traces left by the power of Abundance at all. If healing methods were used, there should definitely be remnants of Abundance energy!"
Bailu's words had made it very clear—the girl showed no Abundance aura on her body, and there were no injuries anywhere. This meant she had never been injured at all.
"Eh? How is that possible?"
After listening to Bailu, Feixiao was also stunned. No Abundance aura? Then how did Yunli heal her injuries?
"Hahaha, you two, stop dwelling on this matter."
Just as Bailu's suspicion toward Feixiao was about to reach its peak, General Huaiyan beside them laughed heartily and suddenly spoke up.
"Yunli, this girl, was indeed injured just now, and it was a very serious penetrating wound. That boy Yanqing's sword not only pierced through her arm but also severed the muscles and blood vessels inside."
"The reason Yunli could recover so quickly was not because of the power of Abundance, but because of Causality."
"Causality?!"
Feixiao's eyes lit up, and she asked urgently:
"General Huaiyan, do you mean that Yunli has stepped into the Path of Causality?"
"Exactly." Huaiyan nodded calmly, though inwardly he was already extremely pleased. Despite the old general usually appearing amiable and detached from worldly affairs, he was actually an old boy at heart. Although Yunli had been a bit wild and disobedient lately—like she had entered a rebellious phase—her excellence was undeniable.
The second Pathstrider in the Xianzhou Alliance to step onto the Path of Causality. When this news got out, it would bring glory to his old face.
"Hahaha, as expected. Yunli, come spar with me! Let me see the power of the Path of Causality!"
Yunli: '∑(;°Д°)'
Upon hearing Feixiao's words, Miss Yunli's face was filled with utter confusion. Everything was fine just moments ago—why did she suddenly want to spar? This elder was the Emissary of the Reignbow Arbiter, while she was just an ordinary little girl!
"Hahaha, don't worry. I won't use my full strength. Yunli, I will suppress my power to the same level as yours. How about it?"
"Not how about it."
Feixiao: "...…"
— — — —
Inside the training grounds…
"Master… I'm sorry, I lost again…"
Hearing the footsteps approaching, Yanqing lifted his head dejectedly. After seeing that it was his master, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
"It's fine. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Failure is the mother of success. Failure itself is not scary—what's scarier is being unable to find the direction of success from failure. Yanqing, from this battle, did you gain anything?"
Looking at his somewhat dejected disciple, Jing Yuan gently stroked the boy's head a few times, just as he had done when the child was younger, offering gentle comfort.
"Gains? I suppose so. It's just that there are some things I still don't quite understand. My sword qi clearly hadn't even touched her, yet it seemed to be pulled by something and dissipated halfway. After that, even though I had already stabbed her arm, it still…"
Yanqing scratched his hair in distress. There were some things he really couldn't figure out. How was that done? Those methods were simply impossible to guard against.
"Hahaha, Yanqing, you didn't lose unjustly this time, because the Path power Yunli used is something you've encountered for the first time."
"First time encountering it? Isn't Yunli a Pathstrider of Destruction?" Yanqing was slightly stunned and looked at Jing Yuan in confusion.
"Destruction Path? That should only be part of it. That girl Yunli has stepped into the Path of Causality."
"Path of Causality?!"
Yanqing was naturally no stranger to the words "Causality." During the great catastrophe on the Xianzhou, when the Ambrosial Arbor revived and two Emanators of Extinction invaded together, the Causality Emissary Qingque had single-handedly slain the notorious Destruction Emissary "Zephyro." Since then, Yanqing had held great admiration for the Path of Causality.
After all, as an Emanator of Extinction, Zephyro had been active in the universe for hundreds of years, while Qingque had only been an Emissary for a few months at most.
An old Emanator of hundreds of years defeated by a new-generation Emissary—it showed just how powerful the Path of Causality was.