Ch 172: Anya: ??? How did my Heroic Spirit become a Golden Heroic Spirit?

“Bald donkey… call me Snake Demon.” Anya almost spat the words out, grinding her teeth.

Fa Hai remained silent, shrugging with a wry smile, his meaning clear… Please don’t make things difficult for him.

“Forget about that!” Anya took several deep breaths, forcibly calming herself. She shifted her focus, lightly pressing her Heroic Spirit communicator near her ear, and said expressionlessly, “Nüwa, connect me to Kyoto!”

The Confucian-Taoist Method, no matter how highly it’s valued, it’s not enough. It’s a method that can truly change the world… Although, given the previous situation, they should expedite it urgently, she felt she still needed to remind and emphasize it. Promoting that method even a minute or a second sooner would have an extraordinary significance for the entire Divine Province.

“That’s right. I need to tell Old Meng too!” Fa Hai suddenly realized, this method was the Confucian-Taoist Method.

If Mencius knew, wouldn’t he excitedly run back on the spot? After all, for this era… perhaps it symbolized the beginning of the great flourishing of the Confucian-Legalist school!

After a moment, both used their identities as proof and reported to their superiors, then breathed a sigh of relief.

After calming her emotions, Anya closed her eyes and sensed the state of her body, her expression suddenly freezing.

“…How is this possible?” Anya abruptly opened her eyes, her gaze filled with shock and bewilderment. With a thought, a silver-white snake shadow condensed behind her, erupting with a terrifying golden light.

It was a breathtakingly beautiful White Snake, as always, with a woman in a phoenix robe faintly visible behind it, wearing a crown, peerless under heaven.

Golden Heroic Spirit!

This doesn’t make sense…

Anya was dazed. She was clearly a Purple-Golden Heroic Spirit. Upgrading a Heroic Spirit’s grade was already inconceivable… let alone going from the pinnacle of Purple to Golden. This was no less than suddenly hearing that all the Demonic Cultists of the Demonic Yuan had self-destructed, and those Demonic Human experts whose strength even surpassed hers had come to her jurisdiction, weeping bitterly and surrendering to her…

The emphasis was on, impossible! Absolutely impossible! And even if that happened, why would she be the one to encounter it?!!

She subconsciously pinched her wrist hard, her face twisting. The pain was real… She became petrified again, stiffly turning her head after a long while to look at the Golden White Snake behind her, feeling her scalp tingle and her worldview shatter.

“…Weren’t you originally a Golden Heroic Spirit?” Fa Hai was somewhat confused. “You fused with the Queen Mother of the West’s Divinity with That Person’s help… Even if your compatibility with the Queen Mother of the West’s Divinity was low, you should at least be an Earth Gold Heroic Spirit… Wait!”

Fa Hai belatedly realized something was wrong, his body trembling. “Then why were you… Purple-Gold before? That’s not right… the previous memory mist! Another history-defying, heaven-deceiving lie? Damn it.”

If he only felt regret upon learning about the heaven-deceiving lie before, Fa Hai’s attitude was completely different now that it truly affected his own interests, replaced by rage.

“Which God survived that great disaster! And then, after Emperor Taizu died, took action against us? Which beast!”

“Could… could it be Lishan Laomu?!” Fa Hai muttered. He had no evidence, but after thinking it over, he felt that only that unfathomable existence was qualified to silently plot against all of them!

“Shut up!” Anya reprimanded subconsciously. That was her teacher. It would be one thing to reprimand her with evidence, but to just randomly accuse a powerful figure without evidence?

How could you be so brazen?!

“Yes, Empress!” Fa Hai replied subconsciously.

Then.

The scene fell into an eerie silence again.

Both tacitly skipped over the topic.

“Speaking of which… When did I fuse with the Queen Mother of the West…? No, I think I really did!” Anya’s eyes were glazed over.

She hadn’t awakened the Queen Mother of the West’s memories before, awakening more of her gratitude and affection for the person in front of her… But now that Fa Hai mentioned it, she felt she had some impression.

“Moreover, not only Golden… but Earth Gold?” Anya said dazedly, “I had already completed my Second Awakening… I was at my final form, but now I inexplicably feel like I can awaken one more time…”

“?? Third Awakening? Has there ever been such a case before?!” Fa Hai took out a piece of paper, constantly wiping the cold sweat from his bald head. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong… These things were unheard of…

It would be one thing if only one thing happened, they could still say they were ignorant… but for it to happen continuously!

“I suddenly remembered something.” Anya pursed her lips, “What happened to me seems to be similar to what happened to…”

Fa Hai paused, remembering the information he had seen about Chu Mo, his expression changing. The Heroic Spirits that That Person awakened seemed to be able to influence the Heroic Spirits of others to change…

But in the past, the influence on those Heroic Spirits was still limited.

And this time… this earth-shattering change! It should be the first time, right…

“And if it really is according to past practice, it shouldn’t just be me who’s like this… It’s a large-scale, collective change, a change in the people of an era, and, is there a possibility!” Anya looked at Fa Hai after a brief silence. She remembered that Fa Hai seemed to be a loyal subordinate of Chu Mo as well, right?!

Fa Hai was stunned, realizing something, his body also trembling slightly. A monk wearing a red kasaya condensed into form behind him.

His temperament was completely different from the previous violent and domineering Fa Hai, who seemed like he would shout “Mighty Heavenly Dragon” at any moment.

He exuded a sense of peace and transcendence!

“I am the Huai River God of Zhenjiang! Also the Yama King of the Netherworld.” Fa Hai murmured. The moment he summoned his Heroic Spirit, countless memories flooded back, he thought of many, many things…

At the same time, he confirmed the new grade of his Fa Hai Heroic Spirit… successfully elevated from the original Purple to Human Gold!

Moreover, this was because… he seemed to have fused improperly! If it was a perfect fusion, as one of the high-ranking figures with real power in the Netherworld… the Yama King, he would at least be of Earth Gold quality.

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Fa Hai and Anya looked at each other, both remaining silent, indicating that they needed to sort out their thoughts. They were truly dazed by the gold bar that had fallen from the sky!

Suddenly.

A panicked and noisy sound rang out from outside. Fa Hai’s pupils suddenly contracted, subconsciously putting away his Fa Hai Heroic Spirit.

Anya was a step late, so a group of people rushed in, and after seeing the gradually dissipating Golden White Snake behind Anya, their expressions changed drastically.

“Damn, a Golden Heroic Spirit! Is… is it Prefect Anya?!!”

“My god… I sensed it before, I thought… I didn’t expect it to actually be Prefect Anya herself?!”

“?? A golden snake… which snakes are golden? Which snakes were there in the Sui and Tang Dynasties…”

“If it’s not from the Sui and Tang Dynasties… it might be the White Snake that Emperor Gao of Han beheaded! But from the Sui and Tang Dynasties… are there really golden snakes?!”

They were shocked, confused, and dazed.

The group that arrived was the top tycoons of Jiangning Academy at this moment. After going to the North Campus and not finding their target, they carefully sensed it, and then sensed this brilliant Golden Heroic Spirit aura… and rushed over rapidly!

They never expected… they originally thought that the person who awakened the Golden Heroic Spirit was taken away by the Prefect, but it turned out to be the Prefect herself?!

“Bullshit…” Fa Hai retorted subconsciously, but just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, the words all got stuck in his throat. After all, refuting this would mean explaining Chu Mo’s matter… They needed to hide Chu Mo’s identity!

But to put the blame on Anya… it was fine on the surface, but for some inexplicable reason… he felt somewhat uncomfortable! It was as if Anya had infringed upon Chu Mo’s honor… even though he knew this idea was absurd.

After a brief silence, he thought of something and exchanged a glance with Anya, nodding under her confused gaze. He summoned his Heroic Spirit with a serious expression.

It also emitted a golden light!

The expressions of several people changed drastically. Their brains crashed… What, what was happening?!

They could still say they didn’t see clearly the White Snake that flashed by earlier… but this, aside from changing clothes, wasn’t this tmd Fa Hai?!

“Actually, there has never been any Heroic Spirit Awakening! That golden light from before… was just a great figure beyond imagination… That great figure is a senior that both Prefect Anya and I deeply respect… He personally took action and cleared away the mist on us… making the quality of our Heroic Spirits even deeper. Thus creating an unimaginable commotion!” Fa Hai said expressionlessly.

He was preparing to use this to completely eliminate the possibility of his opponents casting their gaze on Chu Mo. After all, he had said it was a great senior… so he must be stronger than both of them, and an old-timer.

Who would have thought that the one who completed this inconceivable feat… would be a young prodigy who had awakened several Heroic Spirits?

A deathly silence.

The people who arrived subconsciously wanted to refute. Compared to this possibility, they were more willing to believe that the two of you had simultaneously awakened a Golden Heroic Spirit… This event had a small probability, but it wasn’t impossible!

But a Purple Heroic Spirit clearing away the mist to become a Golden Heroic Spirit… and there were two of them… had never happened in history.

However, looking at the Fa Hai Heroic Spirit emitting a golden light, those who wanted to refute choked. Facts speak louder than words!

After an unsettling silence…

The person at the very front swallowed hard, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked cautiously and respectfully, “May I ask, can the two of you… introduce this senior? Regardless of whether we can gain anything… I owe the two of you a great favor!”

If what the two of them said was true… being able to upgrade two Purple Heroic Spirits at the same time… then no matter how highly one valued the mythical figure who accomplished all this, it wouldn’t be enough!

If he could gain this person’s approval and upgrade his Azure Heroic Spirit to a Purple Heroic Spirit, wouldn’t that be easy? Although they all said it was clearing away the mist… but who knew if his Heroic Spirit had any mist…

The man’s heart surged with excitement the more he thought about it. Then… he was doused with a bucket of cold water.

“That person has already left, naturally not wanting to see you!” Fa Hai sneered, “Alright… don’t gather here in a group! Didn’t you see the new courses I issued earlier? Even if you are academicians and scholars, don’t you need to teach classes?!”

Under Fa Hai’s stern and indifferent gaze, even though everyone had quite a few opinions in their hearts, they still reluctantly retreated step by step after looking at each other. With each step they took, they looked at Fa Hai expectantly, obviously hoping that Fa Hai would change his mind…

However, Fa Hai’s attitude was very firm, sending them off with his gaze.

After a brief silence, Fa Hai asked, “Are you going to enter the new Heroic Spirit information?”

“They already know about it… how can I not enter it?” Anya glanced at Fa Hai strangely, then said quietly, “However, we must stick to the previous explanation… No matter who it is, we can’t say it!”

After a moment of silence, Fa Hai asked, “Even to your teacher?”

“Even to Zhu Yuanzhang!” Anya said decisively.

She naturally trusted her teacher very much, and also knew that her teacher had a very deep connection with Chu Mo. But even so, she was unwilling to let Chu Mo bear even a trace of risk…

“I understand!” Fa Hai said “Amitabha,” word by word, “This humble monk will also do so.”

The next moment, his figure disappeared.

Anya thought about many, many things in place. In the end, she walked to the window, gazing in the direction Chu Mo had left earlier, a thousand words ultimately turning into a sigh.