At night, the moon was hazy. Bo Saixi's pretty face was exceptionally gentle under the reflection of the bonfire. She gazed at the firelight, as if she were thinking about some major decision.
Her two eyes were a little dazed as she looked at the leaping flames in the bonfire before her. Bo Saixi's heart was also like this flame, sometimes bright, sometimes dark, difficult to calm.
She said softly, "Your previous concern was that you were afraid I would expose the Soul Veins and your existence in front of Lord Sea God, and you would be in trouble, right?"
Lin Feng thought for a moment and nodded slightly. "The meaning is about the same."
"Heh," Bo Saixi shook her head, stood up, and came to the side of the barbecue grill. Very skillfully, she picked up another skewer of roasted fish and took a bite. An indescribable meaning was in her beautiful eyes. "You seem to have a hidden hostility and apprehension towards Lord Sea God?"
"To dare to speak like this in front of me, this Great Priestess of the Sea God, are you really not afraid of making an enemy of me because of this, and even that I will report this matter to Lord Sea God afterwards?"
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Lin Feng's mouth. "You won't. You are very afraid of death."
Bo Saixi was slightly stunned for a moment and then immediately laughed. "You are right. I won't. At least, before I become a god, I won't."
"So once you become a god, you will choose to return to the embrace of the Sea God and expose me?" A teasing gaze made Bo Saixi feel a wave of unease.
She paused for a moment and then continued, "Can your Soul Veins really break the shackle that a god's spokesperson cannot become a god?"
"Grandfather should have met you. Seeing is believing. If you don't believe it, then you can leave," Lin Feng waved his hand.
"Grandfather?" Bo Saixi was stunned for a moment, and then her expression became a little subtle. The way she looked at Lin Feng was also a little off.
A jolt in Lin Feng's heart. "You don't know?"
A smile appeared on the corner of Bo Saixi's mouth. "Qian Daoliu, when he had come that day, had only told me that you were his Spirit Hall's new Holy Son. He didn't tell me that you and he had this kind of a relationship."
"Let me think. For you to be able to call him 'grandfather' means that your identity is far from being as simple as Spirit Hall's new Holy Son. Between you and the Great Priest of Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu, there is a deeper origin."
"As far as I know, although that Qian Daoliu is not very particular about this kind of a title, if one is not close to him, they cannot call him 'grandfather'."
"Decades ago, his partner had already passed away, leaving only one son. Although I don't know if he has any descendants, I suppose he should. Is Qian Daoliu's granddaughter your girlfriend?"
Lin Feng looked at Bo Saixi with a strange look on his face. Such a long speech, what is she trying to lead to?
As expected, he only heard the corner of Bo Saixi's mouth lift slightly, her slender, jade-like fingers tapping Lin Feng. "Looking at your expression, it is indeed so. I had originally thought that besides the relationship of Spirit Hall's position, you had no other connection with him."
"From the looks of it now, you should indeed be his junior, and the kind that is related by marriage. In that case, call me 'grandma' for me to hear."
Her face carried a bit of amusement, a bit of seriousness, as if she were really looking forward to Lin Feng's response.
The corner of Lin Feng's mouth twitched fiercely. "No." He shot her an annoyed glance. "You are not related to me by blood or marriage."
Bo Saixi chuckled lightly, as if she had long anticipated Lin Feng's reaction. "What? Is it so difficult for you to call me 'grandma'? Or are you worried that your grandfather, Qian Daoliu, will be unhappy when he finds out?"
"I and Qian Daoliu are of the same generation. Together with Tang Chen of the Clear Sky Sect, the three of us were sworn friends. Although we have different surnames and no blood relationship, our relationship is still very close. We can be considered sworn siblings. So, in terms of seniority, for you to call me 'grandma' is not at all improper," Bo Saixi said slowly, a trace of reminiscence and emotion in her eyes.
She had already come before Lin Feng. Looking at the Lin Feng who was lying on the long bench, she crossed her arms over her chest, her gaze slightly teasing and expectant.
This fellow was so arrogant before, and had even steadily suppressed me in our sparring battle, trapping me in that what-five-element formation for a long time. His words are so sharp. Now I've finally found a chance to 'bully' him. Bo Saixi was secretly pleased in her heart.
Lin Feng raised his eyebrows. "Can't beat others, so you're starting to talk about seniority? The Great Priestess wouldn't be so shameless, would she?"
Bo Saixi looked left and right and laughed. "Did anyone see? This is an isolated island. Can face be boiled in water to eat?"
"The Great Priestess of Sea God Island, throwing a little girl's temper?"
Her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly. "How are you talking to an elder? This is a lesson and a concern from an elder. I advise you, rat, watch your tail juice. Hurry up and call me 'grandma'. I can consider discussing other matters with you."
"Your strength is far superior to mine, yet you are here waiting for me to arrive. It is clear that you also have a plan. After all, Your Excellency the Holy Son of Spirit Hall, you wouldn't want your plan to fall through, would you?"
(Where on earth did this fellow learn this sentence pattern...)
Lin Feng moved closer. His cheek was just a hair's breadth from Bo Saixi's. The night was already deep. In the environment where the temperature had dropped, the breath of each other had turned into a white mist, clearly visible.
It made the latter can't help but lean back a little. She glared at Lin Feng. But she hadn't expected that this action would make her abnormally full chest even fuller.
It had to be said that her figure and temperament were very similar to Bibi Dong's, and were even faintly superior.
Lin Feng said, "In learning, there is no young or old. The one who has attained comes first; when three people are walking, there must be a teacher among them. On this isolated island, seniority does not seem important. Strength is the hard truth. However, I respect you."
"Since you want me to call you 'grandma', then since you lost to me just now, and your strength is not as good as mine, then you should first call me 'teacher' for me to hear."
Bo Saixi... Bo Saixi, hearing this, her willow-like brows stood on end. A trace of annoyance flashed in her phoenix eyes, but it then turned into a cunning smile. She lightly moved her lotus steps and circled to Lin Feng's side, her tone carrying a bit of a teasing. "You want me to call you 'teacher'?"
"Then shape a Soul Vein for me."
Lin Feng raised his eyebrows. "Since ancient times, hasn't it always been that one first acknowledges a master, calls them 'teacher', and then the Dao is passed on?"
Bo Saixi supported her pretty head and nodded thoughtfully. "That seems to have some reason. Then," her voice became even smaller, "Teacher Lin Feng?" The last four words were like the buzz of a mosquito. If not for Lin Feng's exceptional hearing, he would have almost not heard it clearly.
Her cheeks were even more so flushed with a shy blush. Her eyes flickered. It was clear that this "teacher" was also an extremely unusual form of address for her. After all, as the Great Priestess of Sea God Island, when had she ever bowed her head to others, let alone so playfully address a young man as "teacher"?
The person before her was also Qian Daoliu's junior. If in the future she could still see Qian Daoliu, what should she call him? 'Grandmaster'?
The seniority is really a mess...
"You really said it?!" Lin Feng took a step back, a trace of surprise on his face. "I was just joking."
"You!"
Bo Saixi was in a wave of shyness. This fellow had actually teased her like this. She couldn't help but lightly bite her silver teeth. The annoyance and shyness in her phoenix eyes intertwined, making her expression particularly vivid.
She snorted lightly. "I've already said it! What do you want to do! Hurry up and call me 'grandma' for me to hear!"
Lin Feng waved his hand. "I said for you to first call me 'teacher' for me to hear. I didn't say that if you said it, I would say it back."
"You... you are shameless!" The calm state of Bo Saixi's heart at this moment also rippled. Her silver teeth were almost about to be crushed. "Spirit Hall is hopeless! With a person like you as the Holy Son, the next generation is finished!"
If not for the fact that she couldn't beat him, she would have really wanted to beat this fellow to a pulp and then throw him into the sea to feed the fish! And to feed him to Little White!
Lin Feng waved his hand. "Alright, alright. I won't tease you anymore," his pupils condensed. "Under what circumstances would the Sea God sense your condition and the surrounding situation?"
Seeing Lin Feng suddenly being so serious, Bo Saixi also collected her expression and looked at him seriously. "Lord Sea God, although he is omnipotent, it is also impossible for him to pay attention to every single detail at all times."
"Usually, only when I proactively pray for his guidance, or when I encounter a life-threatening danger, as well as when I use the Sea God's power to carry out a major ceremony or battle, will he pay special attention to my condition."
"Generally speaking, as long as I don't communicate through the Sea God Hall, or display my Martial Soul True Body and the final ninth soul skill, he will not sense the situation around me."
"Why do you ask this? Just now I asked you if you had a hostile intention towards Lord Sea God, and you changed the subject. From the looks of it now, you surely have a plot." Bo Saixi's gaze became sharp. "What are you trying to do?"
Lin Feng faced her and walked to her side. "Why are you so nervous? I'm not a bad person."
Hearing this, Bo Saixi snorted lightly, her eyes still carrying a trace of vigilance. "To say you are a bad person is to flatter you, you little thief!"
"You also don't have to defend the Sea God everywhere. If you didn't have your own thoughts, you wouldn't be here talking so much with me. To help you condense a Soul Vein is fine."
"Really!" Bo Saixi's eyes immediately lit up.
Lin Feng smiled faintly and nodded. "Of course. But I also have a condition."
Bo Saixi's heart tightened. She knew that there was no free lunch in this world. Especially the man before her, he would not help her for no reason. "I knew you were holding something back. Hurry up and say it."
"Follow me and leave Sea God Island. Sever all ties with the Sea God."
Bo Saixi's pupils shrank. She had not expected that Lin Feng would make such a condition. She was silent for a moment, her brow furrowed tightly, as if she were weighing something.
"Do you know what this means for me?" Bo Saixi's voice was low and serious.
Lin Feng nodded lightly. "Of course I know. It means you have to give up your identity as the Great Priestess of Sea God Island, to give up the Sea God you have believed in for a long time, and may even suffer the Sea God's wrath. But this is also your only chance to break free from your shackles, to pursue freedom, and even the path to godhood."
"Besides, you can just say that you've gone to travel, that you're in seclusion, or that you have had some comprehension in your cultivation and need to leave Sea God Island for a period of time to look for an opportunity to break through."
"There are too many reasons. If you really want to leave, it's just a matter of a thought from you. Your identity can also be preserved."
"Are you really a god?"
"I don't have a god-seat yet."
"You don't have a god-seat, yet you have god-level strength?!" Bo Saixi's heart was once again shaken. To not have a god-seat yet to possess god-level strength—what an astonishing thing this was.
Her thoughts spun rapidly, her gaze flickering uncertainly.
To sit and wait for a thousand years for a possible Sea God's successor to arrive and then to sacrifice herself, or to choose to take a gamble? Bo Saixi's face was constantly changing under the reflection of the bonfire. She gave Lin Feng a deep look.
Her vermilion lips parted slightly. "Are you sure you can help me?"
This woman... Lin Feng sighed helplessly. His right index and middle fingers came together as a sword finger, and he lightly touched the center of Bo Saixi's brow. A gentle yet deep spiritual power slowly poured into her sea of consciousness.
Bo Saixi only felt the scene before her suddenly change, as if she were in a vast sea of stars, with countless lights sparkling.
It was as if she were in the depths of the universe. In the void at her feet, a ball of a golden fluorescent light was shining with a great divine light. She only felt that her own divine sense had been purified.
The scene before her changed again. The sea of stars had turned into a purgatory. A seven-colored lightning was wantonly roaming in the pitch-black purgatory. Every bolt of lightning contained a destructive power, as if it could tear apart everything in the world.
The lightning was like a living thing, all of it pouring into the space at the very bottom.
"Ah!!!"
"Ahhh! Lin Feng! Let me out! I am willing to be your servant! I don't want a god-seat anymore! If you want, you can just pass all my divine power to Bibi Dong! I beg you! I beg you! Let me out! Ah—"
The shrill scream from the depths made Bo Saixi shiver. Such a painful and desperate voice, as if her soul had been torn apart.
Her face turned pale. Before she could make a move, there was another wave of a daze before her eyes, and she had returned to reality.
She swayed, looking at Lin Feng with some suspicion and uncertainty. "You... you just now, that was..."
"Did you see it? Or did you hear it? That was the Rakshasa God, from the Divine Realm. She was suppressed and killed by me, and her divine soul is imprisoned in my body."
Lin Feng said indifferently.
"Huh?" Bo Saixi was so flustered she staggered back a few steps, her beautiful pupils full of shock and disbelief. "The Rakshasa God? You... you have suppressed and killed the Rakshasa God? How is that possible?!"
"Why is it not possible? A god, is it very strong? You can also be one."
I can also be one? Bo Saixi's throat moved. Her sandalwood mouth opened slightly. "You..."
Lin Feng pressed forward. "Great Priestess, you only have the time of one stick of incense to choose. To leave or to stay, it is all in a single thought of yours."
Bo Saixi opened her mouth. After suppressing her wildly beating heart, she looked at him with a complicated expression. "I know of this matter. Next, will my life and death also be in a single thought?"
Lin Feng smiled, but his gaze was extremely sharp. "I can't say for sure."
Bo Saixi took a deep breath, closed her eyes. A moment later, she opened them again and let out a turbid breath. "I will go with you."
Lin Feng nodded slightly, a trace of praise flashing in his eyes. "A very wise choice."
"I have no other choice, do I?"
"That's true," Lin Feng nodded and drew out a ball of a black-and-white yin-yang energy from between his eyebrows.
"I need to place this in your heart's meridian."
Bo Saixi gritted her teeth. "You're really something."
"You don't want it?"
"I want it!" Bo Saixi said fiercely.
Lin Feng smiled faintly. The ball of black-and-white yin-yang energy slowly floated towards Bo Saixi. In her surprised gaze, it gently merged into her heart's meridian.
Bo Saixi only felt a warm and powerful force surging in her heart's meridian, as if it had become one with her soul. She closed her eyes and carefully felt the flow of this power. An unprecedentedly strange feeling surged in her heart. She only felt that her understanding of heaven and earth had deepened by a trace.
"What is this?" she couldn't help but ask, her tone carrying a trace of curiosity and shock.
"Something that can take your life."
"But this is clearly..."
"A soul ring can also explode."
Bo Saixi snorted lightly. "You would be a pity not to be an emperor. You give a stick and then a sweet jujube."
"You flatter me."
"Then what about the Soul Veins!"
"I will help you condense them when we reach the continent."
Lin Feng no longer paid any attention to her and went to sleep with his head down.
Bo Saixi, who was sitting not far away, looked at Lin Feng silently. She took out the scepter from her soul tool and carefully stroked it, murmuring in a low voice, "Forgive me, Lord Sea God."
"What's there to forgive him for? If you want, in the future, you will be the Sea God. He can be replaced," Lin Feng's voice came quietly.
Bo Saixi was shyly and annoyedly's eyes widened. "Go to sleep!"
"Call me 'teacher' for me to hear."
"Teacher—Lin—Feng!" It was hard. The hand of Bo Saixi holding the scepter was hard. But it had to be said that just now, when Lin Feng had said "he can be replaced," her heart had been beating very fast.
"Mmm, sleep."