Chapter 375

"Things have come to a temporary halt here, but where exactly will this Demon Beast hide itself?" Nangong Nayue frowned slightly.

"If I'm not mistaken, its goal must be the Dragon Vein of Itogami Island!" Lingyun said. "The magic power there is the most abundant, and it happens to be the place that guy likes the most."

"The Dragon Vein, I see!" Nangong Nayue nodded slightly. "Alright, the next matter concerns you, this fake transfer student!"

"Eh? Me?" Seeing Nangong Nayue suddenly shift the topic to her, Xiao Lingcai couldn't help but let out an 'eh'.

"That's right. I imagine you don't have anywhere to go right now, so just stay at my place for the time being!" Nangong Nayue said.

"Go to Yuejiang's home?" Xiao Lingcai couldn't help but mutter, and immediately after, she was hit on the head with a fan.

"You are not allowed to add 'jiang' after my name!" Nangong Nayue pointed at Xiao Lingcai with her fan and said.

"K-knew it!" Xiao Lingcai rubbed her head and muttered.

"Teacher Nayue, is this really okay?" Xiao Gucheng asked.

"With me, Lingyun, Ashtarte, Xia Yin, Liuli, and Luo Yexi there, if this fake transfer student wants to pull anything, she'll have to weigh the consequences!" Nangong Nayue said indifferently.

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Xiao Lingcai's forehead. As the daughter of Xiao Gucheng, she had heard her mom and dad talk about these people plenty of times. These people were all incredibly powerful experts. Now, going to stay at Nangong Nayue's house was practically no different from a low-level player who hadn't maxed out their level moving into the lair of a group of top-tier big bosses.

"Um, Teacher Nayue..." Xiao Lingcai wanted to say something, but Nangong Nayue just gave her a faint look, which made her close her mouth involuntarily.

"So amazing, is this the pressure of the Witch of the Void, Nangong Nayue?" Xiao Lingcai thought to herself.

The time had reached night. Nangong Nayue sat in front of Xiao Lingcai with a cup of black tea, and beside her, Yese Xiayin was looking at Xiao Lingcai with a curious expression.

"In other words, you aren't Xuelai, are you?" Yese Xiayin asked.

"Mm!" Xiao Lingcai nodded vigorously, while curiously looking at this girl whom her father called an Angel.

Nangong Nayue took a sip of black tea and slowly opened her mouth: "You said you came here tracking that Demon Beast, so what kind of Demon Beast is it exactly?"

"What I am tracking is an artificial Demon Beast born from a certain experiment. It traverses time, distorts space, devours Dragon Veins, and destroys the spirituality of this land; it is the strongest and most terrifying strategic weapon. If left unchecked, the magic power supporting the entire Itogami Island will be devoured completely, and this island will sink to the bottom of the sea." Xiao Lingcai's expression was heavy.

"This guy sounds like a monster born specifically to deal with Itogami Island!" Lingyun raised an eyebrow. "With Xiao Gucheng holding the fort, for someone to still dare to act so recklessly, they really aren't afraid of death!"

"Eh, Teacher Lingyun, what do you mean?" Xiao Lingcai's pupils shrank slightly.

"Well, well, some things can't escape my eyes, you know!" Lingyun smiled slightly.

"As expected of Teacher Lingyun, such things really couldn't be hidden from you. But since when did you know my identity, Teacher?" Xiao Lingcai sighed helplessly.

"From the very beginning! I am extremely sensitive to the power of time and space!" Lingyun said with a smile. "By the way, Yuejiang, have the people from the Itogami Island Security Force made defensive preparations?"

"Defensive measures have already been taken, but so far, the figure of that Demon Beast has not been discovered," Nangong Nayue said.

"It seems that guy isn't stupid either, actually knowing how to hide." Lingyun raised an eyebrow. "The opponent possesses the talent for space traversal; have the people from the Security Force prepared for this?"

"The Security Force has already set up monitoring at every intersection of magic power. If there is any anomaly in the flow of magic power, an alarm will be issued immediately!" Nangong Nayue said.

"That's good. Now that the net has been cast, if nothing goes wrong, the next step is to wait for the opponent to take the bait! I just hope the Security Force doesn't mess anything up for me this time!" Lingyun stood up and looked out the window.

"Hearing you say that, I suddenly feel uneasy!" Nangong Nayue couldn't help but frown slightly.

"There will be a way when the car reaches the mountain; worrying so much right now won't solve anything. If this Demon Beast really appears again and the Security Force can't handle it, at worst, I'll just take action myself and blast it into dust!" Lingyun shrugged and said.

"But, that Demon Beast, in a sense, doesn't have a physical form!" Xiao Lingcai said quietly.

"Things without a physical form naturally have methods to deal with them that aren't physical, so don't you worry!" Lingyun patted Xiao Lingcai on the shoulder. "Just watch when the time comes!"

Just at this moment, a cyan-white Flash suddenly jumped up on Xiao Lingcai's body. Xiao Lingcai's expression changed slightly, realizing this was a sign that the time-space Technique on her body had reached its limit; she would likely have to return to twenty years later very soon.

Just at this moment, Lingyun suddenly reached out a hand and pressed it onto Xiao Lingcai. The Magic Array appearing from beneath her feet seemed to be affected by some kind of power and actually shrank back.

"Th-this is?" Xiao Lingcai couldn't remember how many times this was that she had shown an expression of astonishment when facing Lingyun.

"No need to be so surprised, it just slightly extended the duration of this Technique," Lingyun waved his hand indifferently. "This kind of thing isn't a very difficult task for me. After all, the time-space barrier of this world isn't very strong."

"Time-space barrier?" A question mark appeared over Xiao Lingcai's head.

"As for this, you will naturally know in the future," Lingyun smiled slightly and did not answer the question directly.

Itogami Island, twenty years later.

A high school girl who looked seven or eight parts similar to Aiba Asagi, wearing a white lab coat and a gorgeous hairstyle, was looking at the computer in front of her in a leisurely manner. The environment she was in was a room similar to a corporate research lab. Countless metal magical tools were placed around the girl, forming a complex Magic Array. The cables extending from those magical tools were neatly bundled together and connected to a small computer.

"Calculating the time, this time-space traversal should be over by now," she muttered while sipping the tomato juice in her cup, small white sharp teeth visible from her lips. "I wonder if Lingcai-jiang has eliminated that Demon Beast."

Just at this moment, a cyan-white Flash suddenly jumped in the room.

"Mm, is Lingcai-jiang back?" The girl put down the tomato juice in her hand.

However, the cyan-white Flash only appeared for an instant before vanishing into nothingness; the girl she expected did not appear.

"Waya, what's the situation?" The high school girl quickly pressed a button at her side, then quickly came to her computer, her hands dancing rapidly on the keyboard.

"Mengcong-jiang, did something happen?" Just as Xiao Mengcong was staring intently at the computer, another figure appeared behind her.

"Mom, the time-space transfer Technique seems to have had a problem; Lingcai-jiang wasn't teleported back." A trace of panic appeared on Xiao Mengcong's face.

The person who appeared behind Xiao Mengcong was none other than Aiba Asagi twenty years later, the highest technical advisor of the Empire. Although twenty years had passed, time seemed to have left no marks on her, only making her look more mature and adding a seductive charm.

"Let me see." Hearing that the time-space transfer Technique had a problem, Aiba Asagi's brow also jumped. Xiao Lingcai and Xiao Mengcong were both Princesses of the Empire and the apple of Xiao Gucheng's eye; if anything happened to either of them, it would definitely cause big trouble.

After carefully interpreting the content on the computer screen, Aiba Asagi let out a soft breath: "It looks like Lingcai-jiang has been temporarily left in the past twenty years!"

"Left in the past twenty years? Who has the ability to interfere with the time-space transfer Technique?" Xiao Mengcong asked curiously.

"Perhaps there isn't one on this island now, but on the Itogami Island of twenty years ago, there existed someone capable of doing this!" Aiba Asagi said.

"Are you talking about Teacher Lingyun, whom Dad mentions?" A trace of curiosity appeared on Xiao Mengcong's face.

"That's right, in my memory, he is the only one who could do such a thing!" Aiba Asagi nodded.

"That sounds really interesting! No, when the time comes, I must make Lingcai-jiang tell me all about what she encountered on Itogami Island twenty years ago!" Xiao Mengcong said, clenching her fists.