If she could establish her foundation with a Supreme Dao Foundation, Bai Sha’s potential would instantly soar to incredible heights. Any future bottlenecks in her cultivation would become swift and easy to overcome.
After all, the Dao Foundation was the very basis of cultivation!
After her delight subsided, Bai Sha didn’t overlook the other items on the table.
Besides the Sea Spirit Pearl, there was only one other object on the table: a letter.
Bai Sha picked up the envelope, opened it, and slowly read its contents.
The author of the letter was naturally the one who had left behind the Sea Spirit Pearl. The gist of the letter was that the author was gravely injured and near death, knowing their end was near. Thus, they left this Sea Spirit Pearl as a gift to a fated individual to use as a Dao Foundation for Foundation Establishment. If the fated one obtained the Sea Spirit Pearl, they should remember to take this letter to serve as the author’s grave marker.
Additionally, the letter stated that the recipient could perform Foundation Establishment right there. This place was extremely safe and would not suffer the slightest disturbance.
Reading this letter, Bai Sha vaguely felt something was amiss. She suppressed the joy in her heart and pondered.
Very quickly, she realized what felt wrong.
After obtaining the Sea Spirit Pearl, one doesn’t necessarily have to use it for Foundation Establishment. It could be used for other things, like artifact refinement or array formations. Why did the letter’s author seem to assume the recipient would definitely use it for Foundation Establishment? Did they already know that the one arriving would be someone at the peak of Qi Condensation needing to establish their foundation?
A trace of vigilance arose in Bai Sha’s heart.
She left the letter on the table, stored the Sea Spirit Pearl in the Moon Spirit Pearl, and immediately turned to leave.
Bai Sha moved very quickly. After leaving the small room, she swiftly passed through the corridor. But just as she was about to reach the exit, the door ahead slammed shut with a loud bang.
This made Bai Sha halt abruptly. She instinctively cast the Hardening Art, causing a layer of luster to flow across the surface of her body, as she warily scanned her surroundings.
At that moment, a sigh echoed.
“How can a mere Qi Condensation Demon be so cautious these days? It’s bad enough that the one who came is a Demon and not a human cultivator, but to stay this composed is truly unreasonable.”
“Who are you?”
Bai Sha immediately demanded upon hearing the voice.
The voice responded calmly, “Who am I? I am, naturally, the master of this place—and the one who will soon be the master of your body!”
As soon as the words fell, Bai Sha saw the envelope in the small room float up and rapidly change form, turning into a fist-sized miniature figure. By appearance, it seemed to be a clean-shaven, middle-aged man.
The moment it materialized, it shot directly toward Bai Sha with astonishing speed, arriving before her almost instantaneously.
In that instant, Bai Sha understood the situation.
Body Snatching!
What resided within the Sea Spirit Ruins wasn’t any opportunity at all, but a trap for Body Snatching!
Moreover, the one attempting the possession had a cultivation level at least at the Nascent Soul stage. The fist-sized figure rushing toward her was unmistakably the Nascent Soul cultivated by a human Cultivator!
Shocked as she was, Bai Sha’s reaction was not slow in the slightest. With agile grace, she shifted sideways, causing the Nascent Soul to miss his target.
“Huh?”
This sight greatly startled the Nascent Soul. Normally, a Qi Condensation being should never have been able to dodge him.
He immediately lunged toward Bai Sha again.
“Too slow.”
Speaking calmly, Bai Sha employed the Fluttering Shadow Dance, effortlessly evading the Nascent Soul’s repeated charges.
At this critical moment, Bai Sha had naturally not hesitated to use one of her two Demon Core Talismans: the Fluttering Shadow Dance Talisman. As a result, no matter what the Nascent Soul tried, he couldn’t catch up to her.
Although the Nascent Soul’s cultivation level was high, the Nascent Soul before her had clearly undergone some ordeal. It now appeared exceedingly withered; its aura was almost undetectable. Any Golden Core or Demon Core existence could likely annihilate it with ease.
“A Golden Core Talisman? No, a Demon Core Talisman?”
The Nascent Soul halted his charge toward Bai Sha, his expression turning grim.
After painstakingly plotting for so long, planning to rise again after a successful Body Snatching, why did he have to encounter such an individual?
So cautious, refusing to comply with his wish and perform Foundation Establishment on the spot, and on top of that, possessing a Demon Core-level talisman! This completely prevented him from carrying out the possession, thoroughly disrupting his plans.
Looking at the Nascent Soul, Bai Sha couldn’t help but feel a little rueful.
If she wasn’t mistaken, in the previous life, the one who ultimately emerged from the Sea Spirit Ruins was probably not Jiang Tianya, but this very entity before her.
He had used some unknown method to spread news of a Supreme Dao Foundation to a group of Qi Condensation Cultivators. The goal was to lure those Qi Condensation Cultivators here to perform Foundation Establishment, allowing him to seize the opportunity to snatch their bodies.
Had anyone else arrived, the Nascent Soul’s plan would likely have succeeded. Unfortunately for him, he had met her.
At this point, the Nascent Soul’s expression shifted a few times. Then, seemingly thinking of something, he put on a friendly smile and said, “By your voice, you are a young lady. You are so cautious; I realize that possessing you is destined to be impossible. As it happens, you are female, and possessing a different gender was never truly my wish. So, I shall abandon the possession attempt. Let us conduct some other transaction instead. You can likely see that I am a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. I know a great many things. Revealing just a tiny fraction would be inexhaustible wealth for you. In return, you could help me capture someone to bring here for the possession. What do you think? In this matter, the initiative would lie entirely with you.”
“A waste of time. Not interested.”
Extremely decisive, Bai Sha directly took out the other Ice God Spear Talisman and channeled her Demonic Power to activate it.
Seeing this, the Nascent Soul’s face drastically changed. “Another Demon Core talisman? Stop! There is clearly still much we can discuss! Do not act rashly yet. I also know the locations of many treasure troves; knowing them would benefit you endlessly in the future.”
“You just want to stall for time until my talisman’s duration ends. And with the Sea Spirit Pearl, I think it’s already enough.”
Bai Sha’s heart remained completely unmoved.
Before her, an ice-blue spear of frost condensed into being.
The size of the ice spear conjured by the Ice God Spear Talisman depended entirely on the user’s will. In her previous life, when using this talisman, Bai Sha had made the spear enormously large. However, at this moment, there was no need for such size; it wouldn’t affect the spear’s might.
“Go!”
With a single thought from Bai Sha, the ice spear shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bowstring.
