Chapter 31: Bloodline Awakening

"What the hell is this?" Bing Po's voice trembled a little, obviously frightened.

She thrust both palms forward, trying to suppress with ice power, but the surrounding air boiled like boiling water.

Zhang Jun and Lin Xue stood back to back, feeling the power vibrations coming from each other's bodies.

It wasn't a simple stacking; it was more like... fusion?

At the summit of Spirit Vulture Peak, the clouds seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, churning nonstop.

A huge yin-yang taiji diagram suddenly appeared, enveloping the entire snow mountain.

Snowflakes floated, but instead of falling, they circled around that taiji diagram, really eerie.

In the lab, Lin Zhen stared fixedly at the big screen, his fingers about to smash the keyboard: "Quick! System, activate and capture this energy fluctuation!"

The wall cracked open, revealing a huge computer inside, blue light flashing nonstop, the machine humming as if about to fall apart.

"Do you feel it?" Lin Xue asked, sensing something moving inside her body, the original toxin seeming to be squeezed out.

Zhang Jun's left eye could see some strange things; he noticed a ball of light inside Lin Zhen's body—that thing... definitely wasn't human.

"That's not Lin Zhen, it's... it's..." Zhang Jun was a bit dazed, "What else got into his body?"

"Extraterrestrial Spiritual Consciousness!" Mo Wuyou's voice cracked, "Damn, isn't that the legendary high-tech that can swap people's brains?!"

Bing Po was still holding on, she roared: "No matter how strong you are, you can't block my Ice Absolute Technique!"

She clasped her hands together, and the cold air of the whole snow mountain, as if obeying her command, condensed into a huge ice sword.

"Retreat quickly!" Mo Wuyou opened a secret passage, "I'll hold her off!"

Before his words finished, the ice sword came down.

Mo Wuyou gritted his teeth and took the hit, his whole body flying far away, slamming into the wall with a "puff" as he spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"You want to run? No way!" Bing Po sneered, condensing cold into ice locks, sealing the exit tight.

Zhang Jun and Lin Xue glanced at each other, suddenly remembering the chip Mo Wuyou gave them.

Zhang Jun fumbled, pulled out the chip, and plugged it into a hidden slot on the wall.

"Click—"

All systems in the lab instantly crashed, the screens controlled by the Extraterrestrial Spiritual Consciousness also went black.

Bing Po seized the moment to attack again, this time targeting Lin Xue.

Zhang Jun didn't think, just stepped in front of Lin Xue and met her with both palms.

But at the instant their energies collided, Lin Xue's body suddenly burst out a bone-chilling cold aura.

That cold aura directly deflected Bing Po's attack!

"What the hell?!" Bing Po stared, "How could you possibly be stronger than my Ice Soul power... even..."

The black aura on Lin Xue vanished, replaced by a faint blue glow.

Zhang Jun finally understood: "Lin Xue is the true Ice Soul heir! The one in the ice crystal is fake!"

Bing Po's face turned white: "Impossible... impossible... I am..."

At that moment, Lin Zhen's system restarted, his voice coming from the speakers: "Analysis complete! Energy waveform match 99.9%! She is indeed the true Ice Soul bloodline!"

Lin Xue seemed to suddenly recall something; her hand gestures shifted, and an ice lotus flower appeared.

The ice lotus spun, each petal icy cold to the bone.

"Nine Turns of Ice, Ice Lotus Blooming!" Lin Xue chanted a mantra she had never heard before.

The ice lotus flew toward Bing Po; Bing Po fought desperately to block, but the petals of the ice lotus tore apart her defense piece by piece.

She dared not meet it head-on, so she could only retreat.

"You're just a copy," Lin Xue said coldly, "Extraterrestrial Heaven copied my bloodline, created you, just to awaken the power sleeping inside me."

Bing Po shook her head in despair: "No! I am the real one! I am!"

"Boom—"

The ceiling suddenly exploded.

A golden shadow descended from the sky—it was Zhang Jun's father, Zhang Tian Gang!

He wasn't dead for twenty years? How is he appearing now? Or is it just a phantom?

Golden light sparkled, like a deity.

"This... this..." Lin Zhen's voice came from all the speakers, terrified, "You actually fused two bloodlines! Zhang Tian Gang, did you plan this all along?!"

Zhang Tian Gang's phantom smiled: "Everything is according to plan..."

He reached out and touched Zhang Jun's brow: "Son, it's time to wake up."

A huge surge of energy rushed into Zhang Jun's body, his internal yin and yang energies exploded off the charts.

Zhang Tian Gang then touched Lin Xue's brow: "Miss Lin, your Ice Soul bloodline was originally passed down from ancient yin-yang masters."

Lin Xue's whole body was enveloped in blue light.

Seeing this, Bing Po went berserk, launching a final attack: "I won't let you succeed!"

Zhang Jun and Lin Xue struck simultaneously; a golden and a blue light beam twisted together, shooting straight at Bing Po.

Bing Po was directly blasted into debris by that force, turning into specks of blue light that vanished.

Lin Zhen's system still ran wildly, trying to record the data of this energy: "Data! I need complete data!"

Zhang Tian Gang's phantom turned, looking at the machines: "Extraterrestrial Spiritual Consciousness, you've hidden long enough—come out."

He waved his hand, and all the equipment exploded.

Lin Zhen's body walked out from inside, but he was off—his eyes were purple.

"Zhang Tian Gang, you really aren't dead," Lin Zhen's voice cold and mechanical, "You discovered me twenty years ago, that's why you did all this."

Zhang Tian Gang nodded: "Extraterrestrial Spiritual Consciousness, you've controlled humanity long enough. Today, let's end it here."

Lin Zhen—or rather the Extraterrestrial Spiritual Consciousness controlling him—suddenly gave a weird laugh: "Just stop? You're overthinking. We've existed far longer than you imagine; this is just a small step in a grand game."

After he finished speaking, Lin Zhen's body collapsed, turning into purple specks of light that vanished.

Zhang Tian Gang's apparition also began to fade: "Children, I can't hold on much longer. Remember, the secret of the Nine Yang True Scripture is not in the text, but in the bloodline. Only the two of you together can open the door to the truth."

"Dad!" Zhang Jun tried to grab him, but he couldn't grab anything.

"Go find your mother; she's still alive, deep inside the Profound Heaven Pavilion… and, the real Lin Zhen is also there…" Zhang Tian Gang's voice grew fainter: "Everything… has only just begun…"

The apparition vanished, leaving only a mess all over the ground and three people with complicated feelings.

Lin Xue looked at her hand, feeling the new power in her body,.

Zhang Jun also understood some things.

Mo Wuyou struggled to get up: "We need to leave quickly; the people from Heaven Beyond Heaven might arrive at any moment."

Zhang Jun looked out the window; the yin-yang pattern above Spirit Vulture Peak was still there, slowly turning, as if turning the wheel of fate.

"Let's go, leave this place first and then talk!" Zhang Jun said.