The Saintess Has A Showdown 514

Chapter 514: A New Evolution!!

–Heavy Rain Realm, Three Lives Gate

Gong Lianyue had regressed her memories by eighteen or nineteen years, back to her infancy, but as a newborn, her eyes hadn’t yet opened, the world a blurry, indistinct haze, even the sounds muffled and distorted, as if filtered through a thick blanket.

“Interesting.” Gong Lianyue was slightly surprised, her assessment of the Cold Waterfall Heavenly Gate’s power shifting.

She hadn’t expected them to be able to block her mental probe. They were more powerful than she had thought.

However, judging by the aura, this concealment was likely to protect the identity of her birth mother, unrelated to this Water Element.

And Gong Lianyue wasn’t interested in her birth mother. She withdrew her consciousness from the memory, returning to the present.

Although she had just reviewed two sets of memories, this wasn’t some cliché time-stopping trick. Gong Lianyue had simply slowed her perception of time by controlling the rotation speed of her eyes. And the World-Ending Azure Sky, still in shock, hadn’t moved, giving her ample time to examine her memories.

Both the most likely possibilities, her birth and her awakening ceremony, had been checked. Were there any other suspicious events, any overlooked clues…?

Her familiarity with the Water Element stemmed from their years together, but this feeling, this resonance within her soul cores, this sense of connection… it wasn’t for the low-rank, Illumination Stage Water Element, but something deeper, a hidden truth.

A truth so familiar, she must have been close to discovering it before, or she wouldn’t feel this way.

Swish!

The next second, a ripple of water, a flash of light, and her consciousness was pulled back four years, to a familiar, elegant mansion, and a vast, icy plain.

Gong Lianyue’s teardrop eyes widened slightly, a sudden realization dawning.

She would never forget this day, the day her life had changed forever.

The Snow Foxes, the Black Mud Whale, the Seven-Star Titan Moonquake Fox, her breakthrough to the Illumination Stage, contracting the Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower…

Every detail, vivid and clear, even after four years.

She hadn’t initially understood the Water Element’s connection to this place, until her memories, like a flickering film, shifted from the snowy plains back to the mansion.

Having just broken through to the Illumination Stage, she had first chosen a battle technique for the Water Element within its spirit space, then eagerly entered the Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower’s spirit space to choose its technique, Deep Sea.

Wait, the Water Element’s spirit space!

Whoosh—

Her vision shifted, and Gong Lianyue found herself back within the Water Element’s spirit space.

A blue sky, a blue sea, a gentle breeze, and a shimmering, ice-blue, diamond-shaped crystal floating in the air.

A water spirit crystal, covered in frost, radiating a chilling aura.

“That’s it!!!”

As the image before her dissolved into water, Gong Lianyue finally understood.

Her two companion spirit beasts, the Ice Banquet Cold Rakshasa and the Nether Spring Narcissus, one purple, one black… this deep blue, icy crystal wasn’t theirs.

This… was her own life core!!!

After her spirit beasts awakened their true forms, their bodies had become private, no longer accessible to her.

She hadn’t entered their spirit spaces since then, leaving their development to them, forgetting about this detail.

After four years, the truth was finally revealed. She had found the Water Element.

Bang!

Back in reality, as the others watched in confusion, Gong Lianyue plunged her hand into her own soft, watery chest.

Without hesitation, her arm sinking deep within, she reached her two soul cores, the mark of her Dual Soul Body.

Instantly, all her contracted spirit beasts’ information was displayed.

[Ice Banquet Cold Rakshasa]
[Ice Forged Decapitator]
[Lian Huan Bai Mei (Love Illusion White-browed Concubine)]
[Nether Spring Narcissus]
[Nether Princess Bai Xue]
[Purgatory Crimson Halberd]
[Sinking Moon Prison Master]
[Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower]

“No, that’s not it!!!”

Gong Lianyue’s grip tightened around her soul cores, her watery fingers digging deeper, as if trying to rip her own heart out.

After a few tense seconds, the icy layer covering one of her soul cores melted away.

And the illusory panel displaying her spirit beasts’ information flickered, the familiar names vanishing, replaced by a new list.

[Water Element]
[????]
[????]
[????]
[????]

“??????????”

“??????????”

After a long string of mental question marks, Gong Lianyue, still reeling from the shock, finally calmed down.

So, not just this Water Element, but four other beings had been hidden within her soul core, huddled together.

She had been searching everywhere, and the answer had been within her all along.

As a Dual Soul Body, not only did she have two companion spirit beasts, but also two separate soul cores, each with its own spirit beast list.

Realizing this, Gong Lianyue was mortified. She, a Dual Soul Body Spirit Master, hadn’t noticed this until now, after reaching the Sun and Moon Realm. She deserved to have her eyeballs plucked out.

Looking at the innocent Water Element before her, Gong Lianyue suppressed the urge to discipline it, forcing a smile as she gently stroked its head.

The Water Element, having revealed itself first, had been spared, its large eyes blinking innocently.

As for the other four, still hiding…

Gong Lianyue’s other spirit beasts, sensing their impending doom, couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy.