Chapter 977: Chapter 977: It’s Like Suddenly Becoming a Different Person

Shi Yaoguang naturally didn’t know about Quan Jinbei’s situation.

If she knew, she wouldn’t have let Quan Jinbei be alone.

After chatting with Wo Hezhe, her heart was filled with insecurity.

Thinking it over, she decided to personally check on Quan Jinbei’s situation.

It wasn’t okay not to look.

Upon looking, she discovered a problem.

Quan Jinbei was sitting cross-legged, with black patterns faintly spreading across his left cheek.

The patterns on his face didn’t make him look ugly; instead, they lent him a seductive aura.

But seductive...

Is precisely the demeanor Quan Jinbei lacks.

Or rather, Quan Jinbei himself isn’t a seductive person.

The natural feeling for Shi Yaoguang wouldn’t be like this either.

Except for occasional bedroom secrets, cough, as when it’s bedroom matters, naturally they differ from ordinary times.

Upon confirming Quan Jinbei’s situation was awry, Shi Yaoguang immediately set up a formation around the cave.

It could isolate the cave from the outside world and ensure external safety.

If their speculations with Wo Hezhe were correct.

After the child of gods and demons was born, it divided its soul and dispatched avatars into small worlds.

Then Quan Jinbei was very likely one of them.

If not, he couldn’t have practiced the techniques that only the God Clan could cultivate.

This conjecture seemed logically perfect.

But if you think carefully, you can still identify some inconsistencies.

For example...

Shi Yaoguang herself was an exception.

She practiced special techniques as well, and how she acquired her current techniques was, to say the least, pure chance.

Since she could be an exception, it’s also plausible that Quan Jinbei could be an exception.

But...

To know for certain, it still needed verification.

Quan Jinbei was unaware that Shi Yaoguang was observing him; he was wholly immersed in his cultivation realm.

No.

To say it like this is not entirely accurate.

What he was immersed in wasn’t the cultivation realm.

Instead...

It was an environment akin to an Illusion Realm.

In this Illusion Realm, he saw jagged boulders.

And scattered bones everywhere.

Seeing the ground stained red with blood, a word instinctively surfaced in his mind.

Battlefield.

This is a battlefield after a war.

But unlike a typical battlefield.

In wars between two or more parties, those who died on the field wouldn’t just be from one side.

Yet in the place where he was now, the scattered bones on the ground were clearly all from one faction.

And with this, Quan Jinbei had a guess.

The slaughter.

Perhaps, the location where he was standing.

The land beneath his feet once massacred countless people.

As to how it was done, Quan Jinbei wasn’t clear.

After all, he hadn’t participated in battlefield campaigns, so it’s only natural he wouldn’t know what precisely happened.

Although he didn’t know what occurred, staring at the ground full of remains stirred inexplicable anger within him.

This emotion was akin to watching, before his eyes, someone significantly important to him die, yet he was powerless...

Quan Jinbei was very aware that this definitely wasn’t his own emotion.

Let alone this place being desolate, looking not like a proper place where people reside.

Even if this were the Imperial Palace, it has nothing to do with him.

He, Quan Jinbei, is just Quan Jinbei, not anyone else!

Thinking of this, suddenly, he seemed to sense something, and the invisible shackles on him vanished.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

Meeting Shi Yaoguang’s concerned gaze.

"Are you okay?"

Said Shi Yaoguang, using her Divine Sense to scan him thoroughly, ensuring he was fine before breathing a sigh of relief.

Quan Jinbei shook his head slightly, his expression grave, "I was just caught in an Illusion Realm."

"Illusion Realm?"

Shi Yaoguang was surprised, "Where did you come into contact with the Illusion Realm?"

"I’m not sure either." Quan Jinbei was just meditating, when suddenly he entered the environment; as to how it happened, he himself was uncertain.

But he was clear about one thing.

The existence of the Illusion Realm is definitely not simple.

"That Illusion Realm seemed very desolate..."

Upon hearing Quan Jinbei describe the Illusion Realm’s appearance, Shi Yaoguang’s heart sank instantly.

Seeing this, Quan Jinbei asked, "Did you realize something?"

Shi Yaoguang trusted him, immediately recounting what Wo Hezhe said about his techniques being cultivable only by the God Clan.

Both were smart people; with such a statement, it was enough to clarify Shi Yaoguang’s intentions.

What she meant was nothing more than telling him.

He might be the legendary God Clan.

Accurately speaking, he’s the soul avatar diverged by the child of gods and demons, who bears grudges against both the God Clan and the world.

To this, Quan Jinbei found it absurd.

How could he possibly be the child of gods and demons?

If his identity were truly so formidable...

Or say, curious.

Then given his innate identity, it’s improbable that he’d sit idly by.

Since for the past twenty years, there wasn’t any issue arising.

That can only mean, he has no connection whatsoever with that so-called child of gods and demons.

Of course, this was just Quan Jinbei’s self-reassurance.

As for whether he truly is the child of gods and demons, he’s unable to determine himself.

Before the two could conclude whether Quan Jinbei’s identity bore issues, they heard Cheng Lingdang’s anxious voice outside the cave.

"Master, Madame, can you come out for a moment?"

Upon hearing it, Shi Yaoguang lifted the formation and stepped outside.

Once Cheng Lingdang saw her, she said, "I just received a message from Jiu Yanchuan; Chen Shu seems to have suddenly changed his personality..."

She didn’t know much either; before finding her, Jiu Yanchuan first tried contacting Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei, and upon confirming he couldn’t reach them, he turned to Cheng Lingdang, hoping she might have some solutions.

Chen Shu didn’t know what happened; suddenly he had a personality change, and directly in his presence, claimed he wanted to seize the Quan Family.

Previously, for over half a year, Jiu Yanchuan managed Quan Family affairs with Chen Shu.

But assisting with management was due to friendship.

It was precisely due to their camaraderie with Quan Jinbei that they offered help.

Helping between brothers was standard, hardly suggesting anyone owed whom.

But unexpectedly.

Chen Shu suddenly turned against them.

Said the Quan Family’s current state is entirely his achievement.

Previously, considering brotherly affection, he did not compete with Quan Jinbei for recognition.

Now he regrets it, so he wants to reclaim the company from Quan Jinbei.

Jiu Yanchuan initially thought Chen Shu was merely joking.

Unexpectedly, he was actually serious about it.

While shocked, Jiu Yanchuan didn’t forget to notify Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei.

Then came Cheng Lingdang hastily seeking out Shi Yaoguang, "Master, Physician Chen shouldn’t be one who covets power, right? Why would he suddenly trouble us, wanting to seize Madame’s company?"