Chapter 161

Darkness. When Nan Yin closed her eyes, it was a vast blackness, and the same when she opened them, utterly ineffective. "Am I blind?" This abnormal sensation made Nan Yin doubt whether her body had any issues, such as suddenly going blind. "Whoosh" She heard a strange sound of water nearby, feeling something cold soaking her. In that moment, she felt unparalleled relief, as the next moment, Nan Yin dispelled her doubts about being blind because everything suddenly became clear. "Where is this?" As Nan Yin opened her eyes, she found herself sitting cross-legged inside a platinum palace, surrounded by many young men and women dressed in brown armor. They were all sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, apparently meditating. Looking around, she noticed that among these young men and women were not only humans, but also many with various exotic features—some with obvious animal ears, others with unidentified animal horns, and even some with exposed scales, belonging to unknown races. "Could this be a land of demons?" Nan Yin was puzzled because she knew that these people were not demons. They exuded a pure and comforting aura, the opposite of the wild and carefree nature possessed by demons. As Nan Yin felt everything around her was unfamiliar, a gentle voice suddenly sounded in her ears, "Apprentice, are you puzzled?" "Puzzled?" Nan Yin looked up to see an elegant woman in a platinum and white gown come before her, looking very concerned for her. She reached out and gently touched Nan Yin's head. "Are you puzzled about your origins, your current situation, or perhaps both?" The woman sat gracefully across from Nan Yin, asking in a gentle tone. "Where is this place?" Nan Yin asked the question that puzzled her the most. "Here?" The woman tilted her head slightly and said, "This is a land for cultivation." "Cultivation? But why am I here? I was just... I was just." Nan Yin was momentarily stunned, not knowing how to refer to the place she had just been. Was it the God Realm? Perhaps this place wasn't even in the solar system? How should she describe where she had just been? Say that she had just been on Earth? "Don't panic, calm your mind." The woman gently laughed at Nan Yin's slight agitation, then softly uttered four words that instantly calmed Nan Yin's restless heart. "One who arrives here may come from any timeline and any universe, but you only need to know that everyone who comes here has their reasons, reasons that cannot be avoided." "Your bloodline feels familiar to me. You and I must have crossed paths in the future or in the past, but unfortunately, I cannot probe further." The woman spoke words that Nan Yin didn't completely understand, then suddenly reached out and pointed at Nan Yin's forehead. "This is the land of the Holy Spirits, the children of the Summer Majesty. Go and do what you must do. It's not yet the time for you to be here, child." "Ngh..." Coming back to her senses, Nan Yin found herself back in the cave, not knowing when she had fallen to the ground. Beside her, Luo Nü looked at her with a worried expression. "Nan Yin, you've finally woken up." Seeing Nan Yin awake, Luo Nü looked visibly relieved. "I thought you were gone when I sensed your soul's aura disappear!" Her soul's aura disappeared? Nan Yin was slightly stunned and immediately thought of the place she had just been. Could it have been an illusion? "You seem very worried about me." Nan Yin came to her senses and found Luo Nü showing unusual concern for her today, prompting her curiosity. Luo Nü quickly waved her hands, "Of course, I'm worried! More accurately, I'm worried about myself. My seal is in your hands. What would I do if you died?" Luo Nü's tone sounded somewhat panicked, but at the moment, Nan Yin didn't have the mood to pay attention to Luo Nü's abnormal behavior. She got up in confusion, only to find that her appearance had changed drastically. "What... what's going on?" Nan Yin looked down at herself, seeing that her body was covered in dried blood, and the arm that had initially sprouted silver scales was now completely covered in similar scales. But what shocked Nan Yin even more was another matter—she was completely naked! "What's happening to me? Luo Nü, did you take advantage of me when I was unconscious...?" Growing terrified, Nan Yin looked at Luo Nü. "I didn't expect you to be like this!" Hearing Nan Yin's groundless accusation, Luo Nü nearly spat out a mouthful of blood in anger, pointing at Nan Yin, "Don't slander me! Your clothes disappeared on their own!" Disappeared on their own? How was that possible? Nan Yin's first reaction was disbelief, but seeing Luo Nü's determined expression, she wavered. She tried to retrieve a new set of clothes from the system space, only for it to burst into white flames the moment it touched her skin. She watched as her clothes burned to ashes, and then the flames disappeared inexplicably. "So, my clothes disappeared on their own! No, more accurately, they burnt themselves. But what's the deal with these flames?" Combining the scales covering her arm and her blood-drenched body, Nan Yin looked at Luo Nü, hoping for an explanation. Luo Nü sighed and recounted what had happened while Nan Yin was unconscious. Just as Nan Yin began to absorb the energy emanating from Long Yun, she couldn't bear the violent energy and quickly passed out. Soon after Nan Yin passed out, under Luo Nü's witness, the small scales on Nan Yin's wrist began to spread until they covered her entire body, and it was during this process that the blood from the growth of these scales seeped out, explaining the origin of the blood. As the scales covered her body, a white flame like before had burned her clothes, but when the scales had finally spread across her entire body and gradually disappeared, only the scales on Nan Yin's right arm remained. "Ah, I see... the flames are related to my bloodline!" It dawned on Nan Yin. "So, the question is, what is my bloodline?" New readers group: 666403941, welcome to all readers to play and boost updates!