Chapter 299: A Female Xiao Yan, the Opportunity of the One Who Disappeared in the Middle Passage

"Um... Young Lady Chie, you... you guessed right. I really was a genius. Before I turned ten, I was tested to have an extremely strong talent, but then on the day my mother died, my talent was gone..."

Facing someone she had never met before, someone she had only met for a few minutes today, she shouldn't have been telling her secrets.

But Ye Linyan still decided to tell, because the purity in Kamikawa Chie's eyes didn't seem like a bad person.

Besides, she had already told her own secret; hiding anything would be completely meaningless, so she might as well just say it outright.

"... Although I lost my talent, I could still work hard, and in the end I reached my current realm."

Ye Linyan told her past out loud.

After Kamikawa Chie finished listening, beyond being moved, she still had doubts.

Could it be that the Hua Country novels weren't made up, that some families really were extraordinary? Or perhaps among the readers who summarized and joked about the tropes, some of them were actually extraordinary, and so they wrote out the situation of another world?

Kamikawa Mitsu didn't know Kamikawa Chie's thoughts, otherwise he would definitely have roasted her.

No, Chie, it's all made up — it's just that when it comes from your mouth, it isn't.

"Young Lady Chie, may I ask..." Ye Linyan's words paused, and she asked hesitantly: "Do you know why my talent disappeared?"

Her eyes were full of hope.

This question had troubled her for a long time, and it was an investigation she had never let go of, but sadly she had never uncovered any result.

Kamikawa Chie scratched her head.

I was just guessing blindly. Big Sister Ye Linyan, you ask me, and I don't know either.

At this moment Ye Linyan realized her words had been too rude, and hurriedly added a sentence.

"Young Lady Chie, don't worry, I won't ask for nothing."

Light bloomed from the storage ring.

In an instant.

Surging like a flood, overwhelming spiritual energy, centered on Ye Linyan's hand, swept out in all directions. The three lion heads all changed color, abruptly turning their heads to look at Ye Linyan's hand, the greed in their eyes undisguised.

This was a supreme treasure.

All three lion heads were tempted and envious — even the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of the great Holy Lands would fight over it.

Even Kamikawa Chie could tell this thing was extraordinary: snow-white and jade-like all over, like a crystal-clear apple, with stars and a bright moon flowing within it, as if a stretch of starry sky was gestating inside, glowing with a soft radiance.

"This is a Star Sky Fruit, a fruit legendarily born within the starry sky. It uses the starry sky as soil and stars as nourishment, and only condenses into a fruit after that stretch of starry sky has rotted away. Consuming this fruit will use the power of the starry sky to stimulate bloodline potential and improve the bloodline."

If not for the Sky-Devouring Ao's honored guest, the three lion heads would probably have already erupted in violence and killed everyone present to swallow this Star Sky Fruit for themselves.

Looking at this Star Sky Fruit, Kamikawa Chie was overjoyed.

Improve the bloodline?! If Nii-san ate it, wouldn't he be able to become even stronger?

Kamikawa Chie fell into thought.

How could she help Big Sister Ye Linyan find out why her talent was gone...

Oh right!

Maybe Nii-san knows.

Nii-san is so powerful, he'd surely be able to see Big Sister Ye Linyan's problem at a glance.

It's just helping to take a look at why Big Sister Ye Linyan's talent disappeared — it won't harm Nii-san. If the problem can be seen, they can also get the Star Sky Fruit. Pure benefit, no harm.

Immediately.

Kamikawa Chie looked toward Kamikawa Mitsu:

"Nii-san, can you see where Big Sister Ye Linyan's problem lies?"

The moment her voice rang out, Ye Linyan and the others turned their gazes over. Their impression of Kamikawa Mitsu was that he gave them a palpitation-inducing feeling, as if he had never cared about them at all, only about his own sister.

However, although he didn't speak, his words and deeds carried an indescribable majesty, inexplicably making people revere him, and his mysteriousness was no less than Kamikawa Chie's.

"Her talent was grafted away."

Kamikawa Mitsu said calmly.

"Grafted?" Ye Linyan's brows furrowed, her eyes showing confusion.

Having already understood Kamikawa Mitsu's meaning, Kamikawa Chie explained to everyone:

"It means the talent was transferred away. Big Sister Ye Linyan, your talent wasn't gone — it was transferred to another person. Am I right, Nii-san?"

Kamikawa Mitsu nodded.

After a full long silence, the crowd finally came back to themselves.

"Thank you." Ye Linyan handed the Star Sky Fruit to Kamikawa Chie.

"You're welcome. If there's anything you want us to help with, you can come find us. As long as we can help, we'll definitely help — but we can't help for free, okay?"

Kamikawa Chie played with the Star Sky Fruit, unable to put it down, a little money-grubber look in her eyes.

Just casually looking at someone's 'illness' and getting such a good thing — this kind of favor, helping it costs nothing.

The crowd didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They weren't fools — they could tell what Kamikawa Chie meant.

This meant taking someone's money and dispelling their disaster.

As if remembering something, Kamikawa Chie continued.

"Oh right, Brother Xiao Dong, your surname is Xiao? But the Xiao of desolate?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Um... hehe, can I ask, were you ever called off from an engagement?"

Xiao Dong: "..."

The atmosphere instantly went silent — you could hear a pin drop.

The corner of Kamikawa Mitsu's mouth twitched.

Is Chie getting addicted to asking questions, planning to run through the protagonist template?

And right at this moment, after his sister Chie asked this question, Kamikawa Mitsu noticed that everyone's expression turned strange.

It didn't look like she'd hit the mark, but it didn't look like she'd missed it either.

"Young Lady Chie." Xiao Dong gave a wry smile: "I've never had a marriage engagement broken off, but…"

His gaze turned toward Ye Linyan. Seeing her give a slight nod, he opened his mouth at once.

"But Linyan did have an engagement broken off. Back when her talent was still intact, her family arranged a childhood betrothal for her — she was engaged to a Holy Son of a Holy Land. Later, when her talent vanished, the engagement was called off."

The air went still for a second.

Then Kamikawa Mitsu and Kamikawa Chie said nothing, exchanging a look, each reading the meaning in the other's eyes.

A female Xiao Yan????

Talent vanishing, engagement broken off — isn't that exactly a female version of Xiao Yan?

……

This was a heaven and earth no less vast than the otherworld Kamikawa Mitsu inhabited.

At this moment.

At an unmanned grassy slope at the foot of a mountain, an ancient gateway appeared out of thin air, within which swirled a vortex like a spatial wormhole.

Fwoosh!

The gateway hummed.

A man tumbled out of the gateway and landed steadily on the grass.

Along with him tumbled a treasured sword, radiating majestic heavenly might, faintly resonating like a dragon's cry, a phoenix's wail, and a beast's roar.

At the same moment, in distant, different places.

Three more ancient gateways swung wide, each one likewise ejecting a person and a treasure.

Each person looked different, though their ages were similar, but the treasures that came out were not the same.

They were, respectively, a bamboo slip, a pearl, and a stalk of grass that looked like a sword.

They simply lay there quietly.

After quite a while.

They slowly opened their eyes and awoke.

They shook their dizzy heads, instinctively looked around, and were all dumbfounded.

"Where is this? Wasn't I in a palace on a corner of Heianjing? Did I transmigrate?"

Arriving in an utterly unfamiliar environment, and seeing two suns hanging in the sky — clearly not Earth — terror instantly flooded their hearts.

In their panic, they discovered the treasures beside them.

The treasures they had touched in the palace had come along with them.

……