Chapter 552: I am Xu Yan, sending two to their death
Xu Yan was sorting through the Domain Dao Rule, trying to perceive if he could gain something from this ancient mountain when suddenly he opened his eyes and looked beyond the mountain.
A figure was approaching.
What surprised him was the woman getting closer; she appeared abnormal.
Like jade, as if transformed from beautiful jade itself.
Her exquisitely beautiful face seemed to have been meticulously sculpted, every detail perfect, as if a master jade carver had spent countless efforts to craft it.
She looked like a normal person but also not quite normal.
"Someone from the Imperishable Temple? It doesn't seem so!"
Xu Yan was puzzled inside. The people from the Imperishable Temple had a gloomy aura, lacking a robust vitality, making them easy to distinguish.
But this woman did not carry that aura of the Imperishable Temple.
And neither did she have the aura of any Domain creatures.
"Could it be, a special True Spirit?"
Xu Yan couldn't help but suspect that although this woman appeared human, she might be a special True Spirit from the Land of Imperishable.
After all, there were many kinds of True Spirits, and some unique, special True Spirits did exist.
"Imperishable True Spirits have no Spiritual Wisdom, but this woman has Spiritual Wisdom, she is not an Imperishable True Spirit. Could it be that there is an Imperishable True Spirit who has developed Spiritual Wisdom, and I just happened to meet her?"
Curiosity consumed Xu Yan.
Although the woman possessed Spiritual Wisdom, she gave an impression of being somewhat slow in thinking, as if she had just awakened her Spiritual Wisdom.
However, Xu Yan wondered, are Imperishable True Spirits this beautiful?
And also, specifically human!
Upon seeing the woman, the phrase "a beauty like jade" surfaced in Xu Yan's mind; she seemed like a finely carved statue of beautiful jade.
"Could it be, apart from the Great Wilderness Domain and outside the Imperishable Temple, there are other people?"
Using the Minor Heavenly Eye, Xu Yan was surprised to see flawless white light, as if gazing upon unblemished beautiful jade, yet unable to perceive its true nature.
Even the Minor Heavenly Eye couldn't see through its essence, which astonished Xu Yan.
The woman's power was only at the Realm Master Level, whereas he had already reached the Establishing Dao Realm. Generally, Masters of the Domain with ordinary power couldn't escape his Minor Heavenly Eye.
Despite her being only of Realm Master Level, he couldn't perceive her essence.
The woman, emanating pure and flawless white light, concealed her nature, rendering the Minor Heavenly Eye unable to fathom it.
"Something isn't right."
Xu Yan frowned lightly.
"I must see what or who she truly is, or even if she is a person at all!"
Xu Yan sat meditating on the mountain, blending in as if he became an inconspicuous stone, silently observing the woman.
"Enter my Domain, and I shall know your nature."
Xu Yan watched as the woman stepped into his Domain's mountains and rivers.
In that instant, Xu Yan was somewhat shocked. The moment the woman stepped into the mountains and rivers of the Domain, it was as though a flawless beam of white light entered, adding a touch of beauty to the landscape.
"Something isn't right!"
Xu Yan increasingly felt that the woman was extraordinary. The moment she stepped into the Domain's mountains and rivers, it seemed as though beautiful jade appeared within his Domain. Stay connected via My Virtual Library Empire
"She doesn't seem like a human."
At this moment, Xu Yan concluded that the woman was not a person in the conventional sense; although she appeared human and identical to other humans, she lacked that tactile sense of flesh and blood.
"But, she isn't entirely not human either."
Xu Yan was at a loss.
Silently observing the woman, the Way of Domain was sensing her, striving to discern her essence, trying to capture some traces of her aura or even to replicate her capabilities.
But, under the sensing of the Way of Domain, he still saw nothing but pure, flawless jade light.
The woman carefully walked around the minor Domain, her eyes revealing some confusion—though the confusion appeared somewhat slowly, giving a sense of dullness.
She looked around and couldn't help but pick up a stone from the ground, squeezing it. It was indeed a real stone, not fake, but somehow, this Domain gave her an unreal feeling.
Slowly exploring within the minor Domain, she seemed to be searching for something, cautious and somewhat naive, appearing slow or perhaps clumsy in her thoughts at times.
Xu Yan was also puzzled. He couldn't see through the woman, even though she had entered into his Images of Heaven and Earth; he was still unable to discern her.
It seemed she possessed some form of powerful Dao Principle that prevented all prying, a mysterious Rule far beyond what a Minor Heaven and Earth Master possessed.
"Strange, is she a human or a True Spirit? The Land of Imperishable truly hides too many unknowns."
Xu Yan sighed inwardly.
The woman wasn't strong, yet she possessed some Rule far beyond the level of power she should have, which was in itself suspicious.
"Was this bestowed upon her by a powerful being for her protection?"
Xu Yan pondered.
Could it be the woman bore a treasure similar to a Master's Jade Talisman?
However, the Rule within her gave him a feeling that it was not granted by external forces but rather intrinsic to the woman.
"Let's test her. As soon as she displays her power, try to imprint it within the Images of Heaven and Earth."
With that thought, Xu Yan's mind flickered, and suddenly the ground beneath the mountain cracked open; a hundred-zhang-long golden True Dragon, with overwhelming Dragon Might, soared up, its piercing eyes looming over the woman.
The woman suddenly stopped in her tracks, and her exquisitely beautiful face slowly showed a hint of astonishment.
Blinking, surprised and puzzled, she looked at the golden True Dragon and after a long while, barely opened her mouth, uttering a crisp and moving voice, "True Dragon?"
Xu Yan watched every move of the woman, feeling an indescribable oddity. That slowness, that dullness, as if a dim-minded person, always a beat slow in reaction.