Versatile Mage: I Awakened Nine Stars

Chapter 406 Lord of the Sahara

Xu Shen felt he was about to die.

In his dazed state, he seemed to see those bright silver eyes radiating intense light.

The light was so dazzling that he could feel the burning sensation in his eyes even with them closed.

But he was so old that he didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

That's it, that's it.

The stubborn old man is finally dying...

"Next up, Xu Shen!"

Xu Shen opened his eyes somewhat blankly, letting his body's instincts lead him unsteadily onto the podium.

The reason he was so clumsy was that he had not yet become familiar with this youthful and energetic body.

Class teacher Xue Musheng frowned, his expression solemn.

The students watched him walk toward the Awakening Stone without blinking.

"No, that's not right..."

Xu Shen suddenly withdrew his hand from the Awakening Stone, as if he had touched a burning flame.

"Hurry up, there are other students waiting behind you."

Xue Musheng was somewhat dissatisfied, but he didn't say much.

He has taught too many students, and they all have all sorts of bizarre behaviors when they awaken. Xu Shen's probing is nothing out of the ordinary.

Xu Shen's expression was somewhat strange.

He raised his hand and pressed it on the Awakening Stone.

Before that power even entered his spiritual world, he had already uttered the words "light system" as if in a trance.

"It really is true," Xue Musheng said with some surprise, his gaze towards Xu Shen becoming somewhat strange. "Don't be discouraged, the late-stage Light Element is still very powerful."

Xu Shen remained silent and returned to his seat.

"I've been reborn."

He thought to himself.

Suddenly, he paused for a moment.

"Why? Why did I say 'again'?"

Xu Shen was puzzled and turned to look at his deskmate, only to find that the face was so unfamiliar.

Look around the whole class.

Mu Bai, Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou...

Apart from these three, the other faces were completely unfamiliar.

Xu Shen was stunned.

suddenly.

The piercing pain in his mind made him clutch his head and faint to the ground.

An elegant white fox suddenly appeared in the classroom.

Everything in the classroom seemed to have fallen into an eternal standstill.

The white fox's nine snow-white tails stretched out like clouds, gently wrapping around Xu Shen's waist and lifting him up tenderly.

Xu Shen seemed to sink into a fluffy carpet, his brows relaxed, his breathing even and long, sleeping peacefully in the soft couch woven from his tail.

The fox mother scrutinized Xu Shen for a long time, then suddenly patted the desk and said, "That broken bamboo, are you going to come out on your own, or wait for me to pull you out and chop you into bamboo sections?"

A moment later, a vibrant green bamboo suddenly appeared in the center of the classroom.

The bamboo leaves rustled, and although it was a plant, it clearly carried an absurd sense of flattery.

"I need to borrow your spiritual power to see his past."

Although the fox mother's voice was elegant and alluring, it carried an undeniable air of authority.

"I...can't...do it..."

The voice was harsh and rough.

Even though the Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo's cultivation was extraordinary, it was still the first time for a young woman to simulate human speech with her spiritual power. It sounded just like a deaf person learning to speak for the first time.

"You just need to keep your illusion going."

The fox mother spoke in a cold tone.

"it is good."

The Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo's voice held a hint of joy. Constructing illusions that were hard to distinguish from reality based on the other party's memories and emotions was its specialty; for it, doing this was simpler than eating or drinking.

"You must not allow it to corrupt his soul any further."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

The Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo's voice had become much clearer, and its beautiful female voice even had a touch of the fox mother's charm. Even the fox mother couldn't help but take a second look at it because of its ability to learn and imitate.

The bitter bamboo of the seven emotions recedes.

Suddenly, the classroom changed.

The illusion crumbled like a mirror, and fragments of memory shattered into points of light and vanished.

The spiritual world is chaotic and formless, with occasional ripples revealing the traces of time. An invisible wave of time emanates from between the fox mother's brows, scooping up a wave from this sea of ​​memories.

Snow mountain.

The cold wind is biting.

Young Xu Shen knelt with a white cloth tied around his forehead.

There was a new grave in front of him.

Standing behind him were his parents' comrades-in-arms.

This memory is so long ago, so long that the flowers on the grave have faded in color and variety.

The fox mother's eyes gained even more silver hue.

Suddenly, colorful points of light began to converge on young Xu Shen.

The bouquet gradually became clearer, and along with it, the entire mountain, the entire city of Bo, the entire land of China, and even the entire world gradually became complete.

The fox mother stepped into the void, and in just a few steps, she appeared in Kunlun, tens of thousands of miles away.

Beyond the realm of mental illusion.

Yu Mian still held Xu Shen's hand tightly.

She opened her eyes wearily.

The Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo had clearly gained the upper hand in its battle with his spiritual power, but for some reason it suddenly declined.

In just a few short seconds, the once lush bamboo leaves turned yellow and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As if in an instant, the autumn wind arrived, and the fallen leaves rustled down, making the swaying bamboo forest seem suddenly weak and frail.

"Don't do it."

A phantom female voice appeared in Yu Mian's heart.

"The Kunlun Fox Mother?"

Yu Mian's eyes sparkled with a strange light.

Ah Shen was right.

As expected, the fox mother made her move.

As expected of one of the top ten rulers of this era, he almost completely drained the spiritual power of the Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo with just a slight move.

Yu Mian hesitated for a moment, then followed this unusual mental fluctuation and entered Xu Shen's mental world.

In a valley in the Kunlun Mountains, where peach blossoms were in full bloom, the mother fox was fast asleep.

Its mouth was slightly open, and it lay on its back with its four paws pointing upwards and downwards, its pink belly rising and falling with its breath. Its four furry paws were curled up like little steamed buns, occasionally twitching slightly, and its nine tails were spread out and swayed gently like ocean waves.

Above the sky, the pupils of the other fox mother widened several notches.

Even she never imagined that her sleeping posture would be so... embarrassing.

It tilted its head, landed on the cloud, and tried to change its sleeping position.

But when its claws missed, it realized that this was just an illusion it had created using the power of time.

The fox mother pursed her lips and quickly disappeared into the valley.

When it reappeared, it was in a world shrouded in yellow sand.

With a light slash of its claws, space twisted and a crack appeared.

The mother fox leaped in gently.

This is a huge and magnificent temple.

A golden lion lay curled up in the center of the empty temple, like a frozen sun.

Its fiery mane resembled flowing golden lava, and its body was woven from pure light and fire. With each breath, tiny specks of light drifted from its nostrils.

Its sleeping posture was much more normal than that of the mother fox.

The fox mother stared at it for a long time, her expression incredibly complex.

Yu Mian didn't blink.

The fact that the Kunlun Fox Mother treated it with such care, coupled with the sudden disappearance of the Sand Sea Mystery Realm, is remarkable.

With her intelligence, it wouldn't be hard for her to guess who this person was.

Sekhmet!

The Sahara, one of the world's three great rooftops, residing in the labyrinthine desert and revered by Africans as the Sun Goddess, unexpectedly entered her field of vision.

Even Yu Mian stared wide-eyed, unable to look away, as the elf was born from such a fiery, sun-like flame.

Unfortunately, the fox mother did not stay long.

In the blink of an eye, the fox mother appeared beside the young Xu Shen on the snowy mountain.

The illusion collapsed in an instant.

Yu Mian sensed that the Seven Emotions Bitter Bamboo seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Come again!"

The fox mother's voice brooked no refusal.

The bamboo grove shook even more violently.

(End of this chapter)