Chapter 282: Fu Jing Jing and the Heavenly Calamity.
Chapter 282: Fu Jing Jing and the Heavenly Calamity.
The reflection snorted at Angel's declaration and began looking inside Angel's mind.
At that moment, the trial began. However, something unexpected happened. Angel's reflection suddenly frowned, clearly confused. 'What is this?'
Angel was prepared for whatever her reflection was about to say, but she realized that something was wrong when she saw a frown on its face. 'Did something happen?'
After waiting for some seconds and not hearing anything coming from the reflection, Angel felt that something was wrong, so she tilted her head and asked it. "What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
The reflection woke up from its thoughts and looked at Angel with a weirded-out face. "You… You don't have heart demons?"
Angel blinked, and she suddenly understood why it was frowning. 'Is my Spiritual Breakthrough affecting the trial?'
Thinking of that, Angel puffed her chest and said with a bragging tone, "Of course not! Yasenia smashed them all! I made a Spiritual Breakthrough long ago, thanks to her~."
The reflection was even more baffled, "Impossible. A Spiritual Breakthrough is not enough to erase all doubts about yourself. Everyone has something they fear. For example, your love for your mate is very deep. Don't you fear losing her?"
Angel asked, surprised, "Why would I fear that?"
The reflection, which had Angel's face, looked very cute because of her dazed face. She frowned and asked somewhat impatiently, "You don't fear that? What would you do if she died!? Don't you fear something like that happening!?"
Angel opened her eyes and yelled angrily, "Why do you say scary things!? That won't happen!"
The reflection smirked since denying possible truths would not only strengthen itself but make the trial more difficult. Still, when none of that happened, the smile on its face froze. 'Eh? Why am I not strengthening?'
It frowned again and was increasingly confused by the second, "So you do fear that happening, else you wouldn't have reacted so strongly. How could it not become a heart demon if you fear it so much!? This doesn't make any sense!"
Angel humped and looked sideways, "I'm not talking to you anymore. Saying such a bad thing, I don't like you."
The reflection's speechless levels reached an all-time high, "Are you a child!? You are doing a trial that could kill you! Why are you acting like a spoiled baby!?"
Angel humped again, "Not talking."
The reflection smirked smugly and said, "You talked! Ha!"
Angel blinked twice and argued back, "Who is being childish now? How could you trick me like that?"
The reflection was about to talk back with a smile and tease her but stopped. 'Wait, aren't I supposed to test her? What am I doing?'
Fu Jing Jing's voice interrupted with a gentle laugh, "So that's how it is. Indeed, it is like I thought."
Angel and the reflection stopped speaking. Angel tried finding Fu Jing Jing, but she couldn't see her.
She heard her ask, "Angel, did you have heart demons in the past?"
Angel nodded, "Yes! But they were all smashed by Yasenia~." She bragged again, afraid that miss Saint didn't hear her the first time.
Fu Jing Jing was amused but continued asking. "They completely disappeared after Yasenia took care of them, right?"
"En!" Angel nodded proudly.
"No matter how much you feared something, it didn't develop into a Heart demon again, right?" Fu Jing Jing asked again.
Angel nodded again. "That's right! And every time I fear something, I speak with Yasenia, and she always pampers me~."
Fu Jing Jing laughed and humored Angel, "Yasenia is really good. You are very lucky, Angel."
Angel's smile widened so much that her cheeks began to hurt.
Fu Jing Jing suddenly said, "Good, you've overcome the trial."
The reflection, in Truth, was the soul of the infinite Mirror under Angel's feet. It wasn't just a trial. It also had its own thoughts. After hearing Fu Jing Jing's verdict, it didn't like it. This was the second time failing to see through someone's heart, and it didn't like it. The Mirror felt like its pride was hurt. "How could that be possible for her not to have an ugly side? Jing Jing, you should be aware that it is completely impossible! Even The He-"
Fu Jing Jing interrupted. "I know. However, Angel has a special constitution. She has something called [True Heart Of Glass]. Although it seems like a big coincidence, you know it isn't. I've waited for this for too many years to call it a coincidence. I could even complain and sigh with a "finally," if I wanted to, fufu."
Angel's reflection, or the Mirror, was surprised, "She really has the same constitution you had?"
Fu Jing Jing appeared between them and nodded, "That's right. There isn't anyone more worthy of gaining my inheritance than Angel in this world."
Angel looked at Fu Jing Jing and spoke, confused, "But my constitution is called [Prismatic Constitution], not [True Heart of Glass]."
Fu Jing Jing smiled gently and patted Angel's head, "You are right, child. But a single body can have multiple physiques. Moreover, it isn't that uncommon to have a double constitution. I would say that one in every four cultivators has a double constitution. At least, back when I was alive, the proportion was like that."
Angel blinked, surprised. "But I've never heard anything like that. Not even the seniors have spoken about this once. Even the tests I've taken have never spotted this additional constitution, not on me or anybody I know."
Fu Jing Jing thought for a second, "Maybe something has changed? It is true that for a cultivator to manifest this secondary physique, the secondary one has to be compatible with the main one. Furthermore, if they don't awaken before you enter the Nascent Soul realm, the most dominant physique will end up erasing the other. However, even the most common of tests should reveal the extra physiques."
Angel was startled. Then she became somewhat fidgety. Fu Jing Jing asked, "Is there something wrong, Angel?"
Angel nodded and said with hastiness. "I have to tell Yasenia and the others about this! She might also have another hidden body constitution."
Fu Jing Jing shook her head, "It doesn't matter if they know or not. It isn't something that can be triggered after knowing about it. They must have a really big fortunate encounter to awaken it if they haven't until now."
"In your case, it was awakened by dual cultivating with Yasenia after overcoming your heart demons. Her powerful and cleansing Yang energy combined with your Yin perfectly and awakened [True Heart of Glass]. I find it somewhat ridiculous that someone's Yang energy can do that, but since it happened like that, I can't deny it."
Angel was surprised, "Yasenia did?"
Fu Jing Jing nodded with a rare interest in her white eyes, "Truly a mystical person. I would like to meet her."
The Mirror seemed to have its pride hurt because this only happened once in its extremely long life, that was with Fu Jing Jing, so he said. "I'm still not convinced. Although having that hidden constitution is quite normal. Once someone awakens the physique, it becomes a Unique Constitution. Are you telling me that this weak girl awakened it? Even you only got it after understanding your own law!"
It said indignantly, but somewhat cutely since it was still in Angel's form, "I don't accept that she awakened it by having sex!"
Fu Jing Jing shook her head, "I got it not because I was born with it, but because I managed to peer into the World Law of Truth. My [True Heart of Glass] was not innate but acquired. Therefore, little Angel is a better master since she was born with it naturally. That means that she was basically born to wield you. You will have a new master soon, [Mirror of Truth]."
The Mirror frowned, unhappy, but since it had Angel's face, it was giving Fu Jing Jing the itch to pinch those tender cheeks.
The Mirror sighed and turned toward Angel. "I will accept you as my master if you can maintain your determination to improve after seeing the scene that gave the nickname "Saint" to Jing Jing."
Before Angel could deny or agree, her world turned black, and she lost consciousness. Fu Jing Jing frowned after she saw Angel's soul sink into the Mirror's surface. "Truth Mirror, that scene is not something a mortal cultivator can withstand. Not even the so-called Transcendent Cultivators would remain sane after seeing it."
The Mirror snorted, "So what. Why would I accept her as a Master if she can't even withstand that?"
Fu Jing Jing looked at it with a complicated gaze, "You didn't even give her a chance to accept."
"Nonsense! Why wouldn't she accept possessing one of the strongest treasures of the Universe?"
Fu Jing Jing shook her head, "You've really changed. Did accomplishing that feat increase your arrogance? Her mate, Yasenia, doesn't seem like a normal cultivator. Pray that it doesn't go too badly, or the consequences may be more than you can handle." With that, Fu Jing Jing entered the Mirror to see whether Angel could overcome it or not.
The Mirror frowned and then sighed, 'The backlash from that was making me absorb too much of human nature. Now, I've developed too many negative emotions and sometimes don't know how to handle them. Let's hope it doesn't kill her.' Then, it disappeared as its conscience returned inside itself.
When Angel opened her eyes, she was floating in a completely different place. It was somewhere up in the sky, and she could overlook most of the world from there. The sheer size of the world left Angel breathless.
The scenery was truly spectacular. The little girl could see the continents, oceans, clouds, and many different landscapes from above. What surprised Angel was that, although immense, Angel could somewhat discern a semblance of curvature in the horizon. Her thoughts wandered for a second, 'Is the world round? But wow, it is... Too big.'
Suddenly, Angel's attention was captured by a small aura fluctuation to her side. She turned her gaze, and a woman slowly stepped out of a spatial fissure.
She was an otherworldly beauty with white eyes and black hair. The aura she released was something Angel had never felt before. It was incomparable to the soul form of the same woman, like a firefly and the Sun.
It didn't just bend the world laws around her, but her own body seemed to be an amalgamation of truths as if everything that composed her existence was made of different laws and concepts.
*Rumble!*
This loud sound made Angel look up, and her eyes widened in fright.
Above her, a sky full of fearsome thunder rumbled. The clouds were made of black thunder. The thunder rolling on those "clouds" was constantly changing between every color in existence. And the size of even one lightning was as big as a World. The whole Tribulation was basically endless.
Angel couldn't see the end or the beginning of that Black Thunderstorm.
What was worse was that the strength of that lightning was strong enough to shatter stars, reform solar systems, and collapse black holes.
A strength that nothing was able to go against.
Gods? Immortals? A common Human? Everything was the same before the wrathful Heavens.
However, Fu Jing Jing was floating right below that World-ending Calamity, staring at that Heavenly Calamity. Her white eyes were without ripples, her bearing calm.
Angel felt like her heart would burst from the powerful emotions that this scene portrayed.
A single woman was facing the entirety of the Heavens.
Fu Jing Jing spoke calmly, yet her voice echoed everywhere worldwide. Not a single living creature could not hear her. "Heavens, you've already punished the Gods enough for their mistake. You are overreaching the scope of fairness. You are becoming biased!"
*RRUUMBLE!!!*
The sky roared wrathfully with world-ending lightning. Even if it didn't speak a word, all living creatures could instantly understand the meaning of that thunderous wrath.
"How dare an insignificant ant go against me!?"
However, even then, Fu Jing Jing was indifferent to the rage of the Heavens. She closed her eyes for a second and said, "Since you insist on carrying on the punishment, I will let you see your current true self, Heavens. I will show you your current Truth."
Angel opened her eyes to the limits at that statement, 'A single human wants to judge the heavens!? What is this but absolute insanity!?'