Chapter 308: Wu Yue’s Abilities

Chapter 308 Wu Yue’s Power

The head villager summoned Blaze’s team.

"Xiao Ni was your good friend. You should be the ones to see her off for the last time."

Wu Yue noticed the villagers' strange positioning around the hearse. As they stepped away, an empty circle formed around it, and everyone's eyes were fixed on them.

Eight people happened to stand at the eight points around the coffin. Just as they were about to move,

Wu Yue suddenly spoke, "Wait."

The group looked her way, "What's wrong?"

Wu Yue remembered the test from yesterday—she had a hunch the positions meant something.

She had Shen Que stand at the front, while Jie Chen positioned himself near the head.

Once they were in place, the group quickly realized these positions matched the spots that triggered the killings yesterday—and matched the villagers’ earlier positions perfectly.

They shared a look and moved into place.

Then,

They realized the last remaining spot for Wu Yue was at the coffin’s foot end.

As soon as they were positioned, the wail of funeral horns blared, and the funeral procession began moving toward the burial site.

The villagers closed in suddenly, encircling them, cutting Wu Yue off from the others.

With Wu Yue out of sight at the rear, Shen Que frowned.

Richard said, trying to calm him, "Don't worry."

Shen Que replied coldly, "I hope it's just a coincidence."

This whole damn place gave him the creeps.

At the coffin’s foot end, surrounded by villagers, Wu Yue felt her body growing colder. The white mist’s hallucinations came back.

She saw someone approaching—the little girl.

She was back for her...

No—Wu Yue suddenly realized: if the girl was here now, then who was possessing her, the one that transformed and killed?

She snapped her gaze toward the others, only to find the Blaze members had vanished.

Nothing but endless white cloth and villagers without faces surrounded her instead.

Wordlessly, they kept pushing the hearse. Though her feet hadn't moved, the scenery shifted from the village into the woods.

If she wasn't moving, then what was?

The hearse—

She was on the hearse...

No,

Wu Yue shook her head.

She glanced sideways at the wooden boards beside her, smelling of damp earth, then looked up at the dark coffin lid closing over her—she was inside the coffin.

Wu Yue realized,

She'd triggered some unknown event.

Calm down, Wu Yue. As long as no immediate attack comes, there’s still room to work with.

Think.

Go over all the clues and start analyzing them again.

....

Jiang Yuhua shot up from his seat, "Something’s wrong! Wu Yue’s perspective hasn’t moved at all since just now. That's not like her usual observation pattern after entering the instance!"

Jian Suiyu and Jiang Mubai immediately crowded around. After observing the others’ perspectives, they frowned deeply.

"This is bad. Everyone is looking forward, and none of their views show Wu Yue at the back."

While Jiang Mubai was searching through various perspectives, his voice suddenly shot up,

"Sis!! Detected intense mental energy spikes inside the instance!!

The psychic waves are spiking through the roof—SS, SS+, SSS..."

Jiang Mubai turned to Jiang Yuhua, his face went pale, "It’s Wu Yue’s. Shen Que and Brother Huaizhi are both in stable states."

Jiang Yuhua quickly worked Wu Yue’s comms, sending her a one-minute signal to unlock her perspective, but Wu Yue’s screen stayed frozen.

Jiang Yuhua’s face went deathly pale, "It’s over. Something’s about to happen. This was the exact state of the Jiang family operatives before they went down."

Jian Suiyu, "How? Wu Yue had such a good read. Everything was progressing smoothly. Why would she suddenly trigger a death condition?

What exactly did she trigger? Damn it, there’s just too little information!!"

Jiang Mubai, watching the psychic levels surge to SSS+, took deep breaths,

"Sis, it’s about to go bad, sis! Contact Brother Huaizhi now! Wu Yue’s mental readings are gonna blow!!"

Jiang Yuhua’s hands were shaking bad. She slapped herself hard across the face, took a deep breath to steady herself, then swiftly used the control interface to send a prearranged emergency ping to Jiang Huaizhi by releasing a one-minute jamming wave.

Jian Suiyu began picking up on something, "Shouldn’t we just let Wu Yue use her psychic power to muscle her way out now?"

Jiang Mubai gaped at Jian Suiyu in disbelief, his eyes darting suspiciously across his face.

After a long pause, he confirmed,

"Baby Sis didn’t tell you."

Jian Suiyu blinked rapidly, "What? What didn’t she tell us?"

Meanwhile, Jiang Huaizhi, who had just received the signal, paled instantly. Without a second thought for the funeral procession, he turned around and saw Wu Yue at the rear, her expression twisted in a way that wasn't right.

Jiang Huaizhi’s gut dropped, "This is bad."

Shen Que immediately turned, "The hell's happening?"

He looked at Wu Yue, sensed something was off about her, and without hesitation, he charged toward her.

But the moment he grabbed Wu Yue—

A light "peng"—

Wu Yue turned her head toward him with an eerie smile before exploding into a cloud of white mist, dissipating into the air.

Instantly, Shen Que’s mind exploded in shock.

A terrifying aura erupted from his body as his Spiritual Energy surged violently, fanning out like a crushing pressure net.

Jiang Huaizhi immediately stopped him. "No."

Shen Que pinned him with a venomous glare. "What do you mean?"

Jiang Huaizhi said, "No. Wu Yue’s Spiritual Energy is fluctuating. If you release such intense Spiritual Energy now, it'll trigger a catastrophe."

Shen Que demanded, "What will happen?"

Jiang Huaizhi hesitated, glancing at Shen Que and then at the confused Blaze operatives.

Jiang Qian muttered, "No way... Did Baby Sis really not tell you?"

Shen Que snapped his gaze toward Jiang Qian, his unleashed Spiritual Energy making Jiang Qian stagger back.

"Tell me what?"

The Blaze operatives shared uneasy looks, and Richard quickly moved to contain Shen Que.

"Calm down."

Both on and off-screen, Jiang Yuhua and Jiang Huaizhi spoke simultaneously:

"You should already know—Baby Sis is the last living descendant of the Lu Clan’s Spirit Contractors.

Her mother, Lu Ling, was the strongest Spirit Contractor of her time, who dominated the Arcane Arts world.

Spirit Contractors contract with spirits to harness their malice, which is also controlled by consciousness. Malice can essentially be considered another form of Spiritual Energy.

Lu Ling’s power defied all known limits.

She stood invincible—her malice fed on the world's collective malice. As long as malice existed in the world, her power was endless. This was the key to her turning the tide in the Climax Battle.

At the same time, Baby Sis’s father, Jiang Cheng, was the undisputed apex warrior of his era.

His body could contain malice beyond comprehension, channeling it at will.

As their daughter, Wu Yue, she manifested both their gifts.

But with overwhelming power comes an equally cataclysmic backlash..."