CHAPTER 386: CHAPTER 31: SUMMONING OF THE UNDEAD, BEAST BLOOD OF MISFORTUNE

When the Half-Beast Girl was released, she saw Yue Jinghua humming a tune while bending over to pick up mercenary equipment scattered on the ground inside the Heavenly Pit.

Picking things up from a pool of bloodstains, Yue Jinghua’s face showed not the slightest discomfort, even appearing quite intoxicated.

All the while, she could be heard exclaiming, "Mid-level Spiritual Artifact, tsk tsk, eight hundred Fourth-level Dark Pills. So many Spirit Grasses, this guy must have just been to the Ilya Great Forest before his death. Huh? There’s also a Storage Backpack, too bad the capacity’s a bit small, hardly useful. What a pity, used a clever tactic to defeat the Centipede Worm, but in the end, its Dark Pill also turned into a worn stone, such a big loss."

As she spoke, Yue Jinghua kicked the aged Centipede Worm’s Dark Pill, indistinguishable from a stone, far away with her foot.

Before long, Yue Jinghua had thoroughly searched through the private belongings of the Mercenary Inspection Team on the battlefield.

The Half-Beast Girl watched, her eyes wide and jaw dropped.

Just now in Mo Xi’s Sea of Consciousness, through the psychic communication between the Little Xuan Beasts and Yue Jinghua, she already clearly understood everything that had happened outside.

The strength of this Mercenary Inspection Team that had been tracking her for days was all too clear to the Half-Beast Girl. She would never have thought that Yue Jinghua would come out unscathed, and even more so, had resolved them without lifting a finger.

Although there were still two or three mercenaries left at the foot of the mountain, Yue Jinghua had secretly sent the Giant Winged Mosquito King to deal with them.

The elite Inspection Team of over a dozen individuals from Five Saints Town had vanished silently within Mazaro Mountain, leaving no trace for the Five Saints Branch to pursue, should they seek to investigate.

Just now in Mo Xi’s Sea of Consciousness, after pondering for a moment, the Half-Beast Girl had gone from initial distrust to doubt regarding Yue Jinghua.

This young-looking boy, just who was he? That mysterious Star Sea nurturing endless energy, and this group of Little Xuan Beasts that clearly weren’t ordinary, seemed to all hint at his extraordinary nature.

Could it be, he was...? The Half-Beast Girl’s mind flashed like thunder, recalling a certain term.

It was the term her sister, a fate seer, told her on her deathbed.

"Could it be that you are a Summoner?" Possessing many Xuan Beasts, each one utterly loyal without any hint of betrayal, almost ghost-like clones, and the continuous power of the stars, there’s only one kind of person - a Summoner.

A Summoner, which had disappeared from the continent for many years.

The Half-Beast Girl’s face flushed with a rosy color, and her heart became even more unsettled. She had climbed mountains and crossed rivers, braving the threat of being killed by Dark Practitioners, to penetrate into the Canglong Continent; it was not in vain.

If he was a Summoner, then her sister’s prophecy was true, and there truly was hope to save her sister.

"Little girl, I can’t keep calling you little girl, can I? My name is Yue Jinghua, what’s yours? Where do you come from?" Yue Jinghua felt a chill run down her spine under the little girl’s gaze; at this moment, the Half-Beast Girl looked at her as if she were a Ninth Rank Peak Dark Pill.

She was always the one sizing up others, but now being looked at in such a way, Yue Jinghua felt quite uneasy.

"My name, I..." As if it took a great deal of determination, the Half-Beast Girl said: "My name is Qian Luo, from the Bilun Continent."

"Bilun Continent, where is that? Could it be another Different Plane?" Yue Jinghua murmured to herself. It seems so easy to traverse between planes these days. Her younger brother traversed from one, Ye Zi came from another, and now this little girl with bat ears too?

"Bilun Continent is what we call it. According to your Canglong Continent’s terminology, it’s referred to as the Canglong Western Continent," the Half-Beast Girl exclaimed excitedly, "There are still Summoners on the continent?"

"I’m a half-baked Summoner, the weakest kind. Moreover, Summoners do not save people—that’s the job of Pill Masters. Though I am also a Pill Master, my skill in both professions is just enough to scrape by," Yue Jinghua touched her nose. If Qing Pu heard this, he would definitely look at her with great disappointment.

"That’s wonderful," she said excitedly, disregarding her previous cautiousness around Yue Jinghua and rushing over to her.

"Then do you know the Dead Soul Summoning Technique? Please, I beg you, save my sister," begged the girl, with a voice filled with surprise and hope.

Summoning of the Undead?

This was the first time Yue Jinghua heard about summoning undead. But just hearing the term, she could tell it wasn’t something a regular Summoner could accomplish.

It sounded more like something a Dark Demon Summoner would be adept at.

Qing Pu had mentioned that during the Ancient Times, powerful Summoners would practice both Summoning Techniques and Demon Summoning, and it was only after the God and Demon War that Summoners clearly split into two distinct roles: Summoners and Demon Summoners.

Summoners could summon powerful Spiritual Beasts, forming immensely formidable Dark Beast armies.

The Demon Summoners, on the other hand, could summon the darkest forces from beneath the earth, using the power of death to call forth undead legions capable of rivaling a thousand soldiers.

The revival from death that the Half-Beast Girl spoke of repeatedly was precisely the undead army summoned by a Demon Summoner using Dark Power.

Seeing the Half-Beast Girl’s eyes sparkle with unusual brilliance because of hope, Yue Jinghua thought again. She was a Summoner, but at the same time, she was also a Demon Summoner. Although her current level of Cultivation was still far from being capable of summoning the undead, she didn’t exclude the possibility that one day she might learn the Dead Soul Summoning Technique. Perhaps, she could indeed reunite the girl with her sister one day.

After Yue Jinghua agreed to the Half-Beast Girl’s request, the girl then shared her background and origin with Yue Jinghua.

Her name was Qian Luo, descending from an Ancient Half-Beast family lineage of Array Masters. She and her twin sister Qian Mi were twins, and in Half-Beast tribes, twins were considered an inauspicious omen.

She was bullied and tormented from a young age, and it was always just her and her sister against the world.

At the age of six, their talent in Array Mastery also slowly began to reveal itself.

"At the age of six, my sister was tested by the Qian Family’s High Priest and found to have the ability of prophecy. Subsequently, she was chosen by the family to be nurtured into the new Heavenly Destiny Master," the Half-Beast Girl said, sighing.

That very test had disrupted their already unfortunate lives completely.

"If you are twins, and since she has a talent, then what is your talent?" Twins are just a natural phenomenon no more ordinary than any other, yet in the superstition-filled Ancient Times, they were often senselessly labeled as harbingers of misfortune.

"Talent?" As if she avoided the topic, the Half-Beast Girl laughed bitterly as if in pain, "If I could, I would never want this kind of talent—a talent that brings nothing but misfortune and despair to others."