Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan! - Chapter 260: Heavenly Body!
Chapter 260: Heavenly Body!
Bai Zihan continued his observation.
Meanwhile, Jin Yuanzhan’s sister, after being stared at for a long time, couldn’t help but lower her head in shyness.
Bai Zihan asked Immortal Emperor—
(Have you figured it out?)
He asked but didn’t expect the response she gave.
“Impossible… Could it be…?”
Her words were almost a whisper, as though she dared not believe her own senses.
Bai Zihan raised an eyebrow.
(What is it? Did you recognize something?)
There was silence before Immortal Emperor Feilian finally replied, her tone tight, carrying both excitement and disbelief.
“Let me confirm. I need to check her directly through you. Lend me your body for a while.”
Bai Zihan hesitated.
(You sound unusually stirred… What exactly do you think she has?)
But Feilian didn’t answer his probing, her focus entirely on the girl lying weakly before them.
“Words are meaningless now. I must see for myself.”
Bai Zihan sighed faintly, masking it with a calm expression as he stepped forward.
The girl’s eyes fluttered, confusion flickering in her gaze when she saw him approach.
Jin Yuanzhan instantly tensed, his body instinctively moving to shield her despite his injuries.
“What are you—”
“I’ll be brief.”
Bai Zihan’s voice cut clean through his defensiveness, cool yet steady.
“I’m only going to check her pulse.”
Jin Yuanzhan didn’t know whether he could trust Bai Zihan. After all, Bai Zihan was no doctor—at least he knew that much.
The girl, however, looked at Bai Zihan with surprising calm.
“It’s fine, Brother,” she whispered weakly.
Her eyes, though dulled by sickness, held a faint glimmer of curiosity.
“Let him!”
She could see that Bai Zihan didn’t have any ulterior motive. Moreover, she was curious as to what he wanted to find out.
Jin Yuanzhan’s lips trembled. At last, he stepped aside, though his clenched fists revealed his unease.
Bai Zihan pulled a chair close to her bedside and sat down with a controlled grace.
The girl’s thin wrist trembled as she lifted it toward him. Bai Zihan reached out, his fingers wrapping gently around her pulse point.
But when he spoke, his tone carried an unfamiliar softness—an elegance that was not his own.
“What is your name? And how old are you, child?”
The girl blinked in surprise, her lips parting slightly.
“Jin Yuelin. I turned sixteen this spring.”
Bai Zihan gave a faint nod, though the cadence of his words was oddly gentle, almost maternal.
“Do not be nervous. I am only checking what affliction troubles your body. Nothing more!”
Jin Yuelin tilted her head, confusion flickering in her tired eyes.
The way Bai Zihan addressed her carried a weight far beyond his youthful appearance, as though he were someone much older than he looked.
She didn’t dwell on it for long—perhaps this was simply how nobles spoke. And it wasn’t hard to assume he was one; his attire alone, elegant and refined, marked him unmistakably as a person of status.
Immortal Emperor Feilian checked Jin Yuelin’s body with her divine perception.
“…This aura… this balance of Yin and Yang so twisted… yet so pure at its root—!”
Her voice shook with both awe and disbelief.
“This… This is the Constitution of the Heavenly Poison Body!”
Bai Zihan’s brows furrowed faintly at her words, though outwardly he remained calm.
(And that means…?)
Immortal Emperor Feilian inhaled sharply, as though steadying herself.
(Do you know about the Top Ten Heavenly Body Constitutions?)
Bai Zihan obviously didn’t know anything about that.
There were different constitutions, like that of Mo Tianji, which could be considered one of the top physiques of the Desolate Heaven Empire, but it wasn’t anything like the Heavenly Bodies that Immortal Emperor Feilian spoke of.
Immortal Emperor Feilian’s voice was laced with uncharacteristic reverence, as though she herself couldn’t quite believe what she was saying.
(Among countless physiques across the heavens, there exist only ten supreme constitutions, collectively called the Heavenly Bodies. Each one defies the laws of nature, granting a cultivator the potential to reach heights beyond imagination.)
Her tone grew firmer, steadier, as if forcing herself out of awe.
(And what this girl possesses… is none other than the Heavenly Poison Body—the bane and blessing of all.)
Feilian continued, her voice carrying both excitement and warning.
(The chance of a Heavenly Body appearing is one in ten million. Perhaps rarer. To think such a girl was born here, in this small empire—it is beyond absurd.)
Her words trembled with both disbelief and exhilaration.
(If she survives long enough, cultivates properly, and stabilizes this overwhelming constitution… she could stand at the summit of the world itself.)
(And yet… This is not the only Heavenly Body within this empire. How can this small empire have two Heavenly Bodies? It doesn’t make sense!)
Bai Zihan’s mind stilled. His calm composure cracked, if only slightly.
(What did you just say?)
He asked.
(What do you mean?)
(You just said that there are two Heavenly Bodies in the Desolate Heaven Empire. One is her—then who is the other one?)
He pressed firmly, his inner voice demanding an answer.
There was silence for a heartbeat. Then, Feilian’s voice came, calm but heavy—
(Your sister!)
“What?”
Bai Zihan shouted in real time, startling the others present.
“Did you find something?”
Jin Yuanzhan asked hopefully.
“Ahem! I need more time to be sure.”
Bai Zihan replied. Of course, it was a lie—he needed to discuss the shocking revelation with Immortal Emperor Feilian.
(What do you mean my sister has one of the Heavenly Bodies?)
Bai Zihan’s inner voice trembled, a mixture of disbelief and urgency.
(It is exactly as I say. Bai Xueqing bears one of the Ten Heavenly Bodies… the Heavenly Ice Body—the supreme embodiment of ice. Her every breath resonates with frost, her meridians blessed and cursed by endless cold.)
(When did you discover this?)
(When you all were undergoing my trials. I knew instantly. For a fleeting moment, I even considered choosing her as my successor. Her Heavenly Ice Body is unrivaled. But fate had already been decided. The one to inherit me would be the first woman to finish the trial—not the one with the most brilliant constitution.)
Her voice softened, tinged with something that might have been regret.
(And so, though Bai Xueqing possesses the Heavenly Body, it was Bai Xinyue who seized my inheritance. A twist of destiny, perhaps… or inevitability.)
Still, she would not regret it—for Bai Xinyue was no less extraordinary.
Even without a Heavenly Body, she was born with the Phoenix Physique, a lineage-defying foundation.
And now that she carried the Dao Bone, her potential rivaled even the Heavenly Bodies themselves.
In some ways, Immortal Emperor Feilian felt that Bai Xinyue might surpass them.
Bai Zihan’s jaw tightened. His sister—harbored such a monstrous gift?
(No wonder she looks nothing like those from the Bai Clan.)
Black hair and red eyes were the mark of the Bai Clan. But Bai Xueqing was different.
Her silver hair and icy-blue eyes were the very embodiment of frost.
(Do Father and Mother know about it?)
They must.
After all, there was one thing Bai Zihan had learned about Heavenly Bodies: while they were top-tier constitutions, without the resources to control their overflowing power, they could easily become a curse.
And unlike Jin Yuanzhan, the Bai Clan possessed all the resources in the Desolate Heaven Empire.
Surely, they must have used precious treasures to suppress that dangerous energy.
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