Chapter 10: Metal Spirit Qi

The sun rose as usual, and before Owen Bertram went out, he warned his sister again: "Don't bump into me when I come back."

Verna nodded vigorously: "I promise."

Owen Bertram patted his belly and threatened: "I'll flick you off a big dump!"

Verna's face showed fear as she nodded quickly.

Before Owen Bertram even left the village, he saw a young girl standing at the entrance. She looked quite young and pretty, all alone.

She wore clothes that Owen Bertram had never seen before and seemed deep in thought as she looked at the large dirt mound behind the village.

Owen Bertram shook his head secretly: Another one to die, such a pretty young girl, what a pity.

"Hey." The girl waved and called out, Owen Bertram looked back at her and as usual put on an ignorant village boy look.

Although she was pretty, since his scam shop was open, he couldn't make any exceptions.

The girl showed a token: "I am an Imperial Court Official, I have something to ask you."

Owen Bertram didn't recognize the token and pretended to be clueless: "What can I do for you, sir?"

The girl clearly disliked being called "sir" but didn't get angry. She gestured: "Come out."

It seemed like she was cautious and didn't want to enter the village. So Owen Bertram went out, curiously staring at her. Such a pretty face, couldn't hurt to look at it a bit more before she went into the large dirt mound, and he wouldn't see her again.

The girl's face turned slightly red, and then she put on a stern face, asking, "Is there really a strong evil energy in the village like the rumors say?"

Owen Bertram was still clueless: "Evil energy?"

Was the cold poison in the village the evil energy she was talking about?

The girl asked again: "Do you feel particularly cold?"

Owen Bertram put on an honest face and nodded: "Yes."

The girl frowned: "Give me your hand."

Owen Bertram obediently raised his hand, and the girl's fingers landed on his pulse. Owen felt a faint warmth pass from her fingers, but it was much weaker compared to the warmth that came through Little Loach's body.

Owen raised his left hand, the warmth hidden in the acupoint of the left chest cavity. Before he could react, it automatically surged out.

"Clang!"

It seemed like the girl heard a clang sound like swords colliding. The two fingers on Owen's wrist felt a sharp pain, and then her hand was flicked away.

She looked at Owen in surprise, but he still had a blank expression on his face.

The girl's expression became solemn, and she asked in a deep voice: "Whose disciple are you?"

When Owen saw the girl's surprised expression, her red, round mouth turned into an O shape. It was quite cute, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

When asked by the girl, he was still clueless: "Huh?"

The girl snorted coldly, gathering her spiritual energy and once again grabbed Owen's wrist.

This time, as the girl used more spiritual energy, the warmth in Owen's left chest and major acupoints reacted even more intensely.

Clang——

The girl's hand was flicked off again, her palm cracked, and blood flowed out!

"Such strong Metal Spirit Qi! At least at the level of Heterotext." The girl looked at him coldly: "You're really good at pretending..."

Owen was confused: Angry? Indeed, women from both worlds are big pigs' feet. You're too weak, can you blame me? I didn't ask you to touch me.

The girl became much more cautious and asked: "How old are you?"

"Fifteen."

The girl's expression became even more solemn. He's a year younger than me, and his spiritual energy has already condensed Heterotext? And it's the extremely rare, offensive fighting technique of Metal Spirit Qi.

She felt a little down in her heart, realizing that she had been left behind by the genius children of this world.

In Waves Prefecture, all those talents were originally left far behind by her, but she got stuck at the bottleneck of condensing Heterotext.

As a result, in such a remote little village, there was a young boy even younger than herself who had surpassed her by far.

"Something's wrong!" The girl pondered, secretly observing Owen Bertram.

How the young generation in Waves Prefecture condensed Heterotext, she knew very well.

Although they all claimed to have done it through their own efforts, she had secretly inquired that almost all of them had been assisted by their elders.

This was forcing the shoots to grow. Temporary pleasure would definitely have bad effects on the future. Although those people had higher realms than her, if there were real battles, she was confident she would be the one to survive.

The true genius little fairy must rely on her own comprehension to condense Heterotext!

In such a small village, could someone really condense Heterotext at fifteen with their own efforts? Impossible! There wouldn't be more than a few in the entire Wood Dynasty.

The girl's thoughts turned: There must be a deeper reason behind this.

But this was Extinct Village, a group of people waiting to die. How could there be any grandmaster to give energy to this boy and help him condense Heterotext?

The girl was deeply curious.

She almost forgot that she came here to investigate the strange evil energy near the village.

Owen grew impatient, wanting to go pearl hunting, and he was looking forward to seeing what changes Little Loach would have undergone after eating the Dominant Ferocious Fish yesterday.

"Do you have anything else, sir?"

The girl said unhappily: "My name is Vanessa Thoughts of Shadow, not sir. It doesn't sound good."

Owen didn't care: "If there is nothing else, I'll leave first."

Vanessa thought for a moment: "Go ahead."

Owen walked a few steps away, then turned around and said: "That large dirt mound is very dangerous. Don't go there. The elders in the village say that there are undead monsters buried there that can use forty-nine different techniques.

Six years ago, a woman in our village approached that place, and the pin on her hand grew three long teeth with strange eyes, turned into a big snake and strangled her alive…"

He even acted out ghost hanging with their tongues sticking out. Vanessa couldn't help but laugh, waved her hand and said: "I know, I won't go in. You can go."

Owen was actually surprised that someone finally paid heed to his advice.

After he left, Vanessa thought for a moment, took out a small clay house from her Brocade Pouch, injected spiritual energy into it, and said one word in her mouth: "Change!"

The clay house floated down and landed quickly outside the village, growing larger and making a booming noise as it fell, turning into a small courtyard.

Vanessa moved in.

Her senior sister's Witch God Arm had become a ghostly sight due to the invasion of evil energy. She and her senior sister were very close, so in addition to wanting to break through the bottleneck and condense Heterotext this time, she was also coming to study the evil energy and help her senior sister solve the problem as soon as possible.

And the evil energy in Extinct Village was the most mysterious place in Waves Prefecture.

Owen didn't know about Vanessa living just outside the village. He quickly came to the riverbank and opened the wooden bottle to release Little Loach.