Blue Phoenix Chapter 20 - Human amongst Beasts

Seeing the determination within Li Meilin’s eyes, Wan Qiao could not help but burst out laughing. She understood which emotions currently went through the other woman’s mind as she, herself, multiple times had decided to live as a human in the human world. However, living hidden as a human was much easier than for Li Meilin to pretend to be a beast. Every beast within the capital would know that she was a human and due to this, things would become very complicated.

Although Wan Qiao knew about this, she said nothing and instead once more intensively observed Hui Yue. He had been seated in the same trance-like position for over three hours now, but it did not seem as though he would wake up soon.

Seeing that he was still deep in a trance, Wan Qiao was quiet as she watched the golden specks of light vanish into the forehead of the young man. In all the lives she had lived, this was the first time she had ever experienced something like this.

This golden energy was without a doubt wu wei. However, she knew that the only way to gain wu wei was to refine the essence of the heavens and the earth to qi then refine the qi into spiritual energy, and finally, further refine the spiritual energy into wu wei. As for how Hui Yue could absorb it directly from the air, Wan Qiao was at a loss.

Outside of the grassy area, the land was filled with blood, limbs, and dismembered corpses. Some of these were from humans while others were from magical beasts.

It did not take long before magical beasts from within the forest appeared. These beasts did not seem to care about which side the corpses belonged to. All they saw was meat begging to be eaten before it rotted away.

While these beasts moved everywhere on the battleground, none of them wished to enter the grassy area where the three cultivators were seated. While one was in a complete trance, the two others just patiently waited for the man to wake up.

It took another eight hours for Hui Yue to awaken and as he did, the usually blue eyes turned golden and radiated light as though th

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