Chapter 115: Right Here, Right Now!

Feng Xue's callouts weren't fast, nor even accurate, but Sara paid no attention whatsoever—or rather, for this "dog," Feng Xue's safety had never been factored into her considerations.

In a certain sense, Fina was like a Doduo—only when she was headachy (unconscious) could she unleash her psychic power (allowing Sara to take over her body); Feng Xue was merely Sara's "fainting master."

At this point, Sara had already completed possession; Feng Xue's callout accuracy only determined how fast Sara could kill enemies, so in Sara's view, the more precise Feng Xue's callouts, the safer he was—there was simply no reason for him to deliberately misreport.

And Feng Xue was precisely exploiting this mindset: unlike Sara's assumption that "some special skill was needed to barely detect enemies," Feng Xue had a strong countermeasure against camouflage-type foes.

If it were a flawless invisibility ability, Feng Xue couldn't do anything—but if it was merely camouflage, or even a single visible flaw, his 【Observing Heaven's Lifespan】 would automatically register it as successfully observed and display its remaining lifespan.

Then came the "still got an ID floating above their head" compilation of blunders.

Pretending to move away from the enemy, Feng Xue chose the two enemies farthest apart, forcing Sara to sprint back and forth.

This was clearly not suicide—he was giving Seeing Mo Ying a window to strike.

Now, the entire island's wish-energy was stained, like releasing electromagnetic interference in a radio environment or deploying smoke bombs in the air—this undoubtedly severely disrupted systems based on wish-energy and energy observation, which was also why Feng Xue and Seeing Mo Ying's passive dream-link had been interrupted.

But on the other hand, magical energy remained unaffected!

This was also why Feng Xue never considered turning Seeing Mo Ying into a Phantom God—

Though Phantom Gods grow faster, they can only fight using wish-energy, whereas Spirit Ghosts can simultaneously harness wish-energy (others' fear and faith), magical energy (directly supplied by the master), and ghostly qi (absorbed and refined from primordial energy).

Now Sara's perception had clearly collapsed—otherwise she wouldn't have cut off one ear and given it to him—so this was the perfect moment to ditch this burden!

Yes! Ditch him!

Feng Xue didn't believe these pirates suddenly chasing him was coincidence—Sara and Fina must have some secret, but whatever it was, it had nothing to do with him!

The noise of rain and storm, the extremely low visibility, and wish-energy interference—such a perfect setting—how could he possibly resist?

Should he use it?

Use it—right here, right now!

"Yingbao, Ghost Clap!"

As Feng Xue mentally issued the command, a cluster of ghostly qi wrapped around Sara's "ear"—Ghost Clap wasn't mere clapping; it used ghostly qi to disrupt air vibration frequencies, producing sound with no discernible source.

Previously, when he had Seeing Mo Ying deliver a message to Liu Yunxi, he used this technique to prevent Sara from eavesdropping—now, he was turning it on Sara herself.

He randomly picked a tree, carved a hole at waist height, and placed Sara's ear inside; then he strode toward the shore. The cocoon-like ship had reached the beach, and as he watched another figure leap down—clearly with a longer lifespan than the previous fighters—Feng Xue formed a bold idea—

"Yingbao!"

"Got it!" Seeing Mo Ying, perfectly in sync with Feng Xue, immediately understood, opened her ghostly form, and welcomed Feng Xue's full-force infusion.

The equivalent of decades of magical energy accumulated by an ordinary uninitiated Xuan cultivator was poured without restraint into Seeing Mo Ying's body; feeling these already partially transformed energies, Seeing Mo Ying, though reluctant, decisively flew out of the scroll and headed toward the "Silver Sail."

Spirit Ghosts, possessing almost no mass, flew at an absurd speed—in the blink of an eye, they covered hundreds of meters. Feng Xue cast Ghost Veil upon himself, and instantly, his dual vision became triple.

Ghost Veil was a technique to make enemies see illusions—but if those illusions were replaced with real-time projections, one could easily share vision with a Spirit Ghost.

"Twelve o'clock, about seventy meters… hmm, fifty meters?" Feng Xue gave Sara ambiguous coordinates while using Observing Heaven's Lifespan to scan the pirates aboard; most fighters had already landed, leaving only three on deck—including the helmsman—but according to Seeing Mo Ying's perception of "human scent (Note 1)," there were seven or eight more living people inside the cabin.

"The cabin's probably logistics—hit them first. Control them. Don't hoard magical energy—maximum output! When it's gone, come straight back to me for a refill!"

"Got it!" Seeing Mo Ying was delighted by this order; in Feng Xue's Ghost Veil vision, the realistic scene suddenly gained a layer of ink-black tint, as if an SD software had instantly switched the art style!

This was precisely the most basic ability of a "ghost"—spiritual illusion.

But unlike the two ghosts he'd encountered in the ruined temple, who could blur memory and cognition by amplifying a single emotion, Seeing Mo Ying, as a ghost, had only "three years of animation training" in illusion-weaving—fine for scenery, but utterly chaotic when things moved.

For any other Xuan cultivator, they'd either abandon illusion techniques for other ghost arts or endure years of training—but she had happened to meet the outrageously wealthy Feng Xue.

The pinnacle of illusion arts boils down to three words: cannot, will not, does not know. "Does not know" is easiest to understand—simply, the victim never realizes they're in an illusion. "Will not" means the illusion's contents are so delightful that even if the victim senses it's fake, they refuse to wake. As for "cannot"—

It's four words: brute force shatters all!

With overwhelming power, forcibly drag the enemy into the illusion—even if they realize it's fake and want to escape, absolute power crushes all attempts to break free!

Under Feng Xue's magical energy supply, the non-combatants aboard the Silver Sail froze instantly—but Feng Xue didn't let Seeing Mo Ying attack the three on deck; instead, he ordered her to return and refill her energy.

The reason was simple—in the instant Feng Xue conceived the idea of having Seeing Mo Ying kill, only the lifespan of the man standing at the helm changed!

This meant that with Seeing Mo Ying's burst power, the only one she could kill was the helmsman.

"Neither of the two wearing uniforms looked like the captain, and judging by lifespan, the one who jumped down earlier had the longest… the one with half his face covered in hair was probably the Blood Eye, the other the Watermaster's tentacle? They were likely the captain's trusted men, assigned to guard the ship, while the helmsman ensured the vessel could launch at any moment… then…"

Watching the suspected captain's lifespan draw near Sara's, Feng Xue gritted his teeth—the same reckless gambling instinct from his lucky gamble earlier flared up again—

"Yingbao, use Ghost Possession—target the helmsman!"

(End of Chapter)