Mystical Journey

“Sexual release is the only way to balance out Slayer’s violence.” Parakeet spoke as though this had nothing to do with her, wearing a faint smile on her face. “Hence, I was chosen. This body had been patched up, repaired, and used for a long time, and it’s also picked up many extremely useful skills to help him achieve release.” She moved her body rhythmically. “See, isn’t this skill helpful? Don’t you feel great?”

Yuria suddenly felt a surge of displeasure and distorted emotions coming from his heart. All of a sudden, he felt as though the girl on top of him was so unbelievably dirty. So much so that he almost wanted to puke, but his body continued to produce that unceasing sense of euphoria.

On one hand, he wanted to escape from here, but on the other, he could not help but continue to meet her advances, thrusting unstoppably.

“Did you know?” Parakeet’s smile faded. “The truth is, my employer is Illusionist. You can send this information to your teacher. I think he would be very happy to know that.”

“What!?” Yuria’s heart grew unbearably pained. “The reason you approached me this time was so that you could reach my teacher?!”

“That’s right… If I could just sleep with him, I’d be willing to do anything. Tsk-tsk… What a powerful man.” A pure smile of adoration appeared on Parakeet’s face. “Did you know? He was the one who killed the practically invincible Slayer with his own hands. Even Sea God had to retreat when faced with Slayer’s final form…”

Smack!!

Yuria slapped her fiercely. He got up and quickly put on his clothes, then he rushed out of the boat cabin, panting heavily.

Parakeet’s left cheek swelled up quickly, and as she dazedly watched Yuria run outside, she suddenly began to laugh maniacally.

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Huff… huff…

Yuria panted heavily, his head a complete mess. He tried to find a reason that would justify Parakeet lying, but no matter how he analyzed it, no matter how much he wanted to lie to himself, Parakeet’s expert and exceptional skills in bed, as well as the wounds on all the crucial parts of her body, all proved that everything she said was true.

Ah!!!!

Out of nowhere, Yuria began to roar madly, as though trying to viciously vent the heaviness in his chest. By strangely, his roar shook the fish in the surrounding sea and made them float to the surface, belly up. Large schools of fish had all been knocked unconscious.

The sound waves formed many ripples that spread out wide and crashed into the distance.

The power behind this simple sound wave seemed to be a bit overpowered.

Yuria himself was shocked by this sudden change. He abruptly silenced his voice and looked down. There was a web of tiny cracks on the deck of the boat beneath his feet as well, and the cracks spread outward from the center. They were clearly also formed by the sound waves from his angry venting shout.

“Have you noticed it?” Parakeet’s voice came from behind him. She walked out slowly, wearing white night-robes to cover her heavily scarred body.

“Your power and your body are growing stronger and stronger, and sturdier as well.”

Yuria’s brain was a mess. He did not dare to turn around and look, just the sound of her voice already awakened the unstoppable impulse to kill in his heart. His disappointment and depression kept piling up in his chest, growing taller and stronger.

“Do you want to know why?” Parakeet laughed. “It’s all for one thing. Yuri’s Kiss.”

“Then why did you come after me?” Yuria turned around. He was no longer a young, naive child, he was just emotionally vulnerable. He steadied his emotions and said, “What’s Yuri’s Kiss?”

Parakeet walked up to him, and they stood at the jetty together.

“Illusionist caught them so that they could invent something for you.”

“For me?” The answer in Yuria’s heart was growing clearer.

“That’s right, for you.” Parakeet’s smile grew even more bewitching. “Could it be that you still can’t believe that Illusionist, the leader of White Crab, is actually your younger sister, Yurijue?”

Yuria’s brain was even more confused now.

“Xiaojie… Illusionist… Mother…” He lowered his head and wiped his face forcefully.

“Mother?” Parakeet shook her head. “Your mother died several dozen years ago. Light Path is not your mother, all of it was a dream your little sister made for you. Mother, relatives, friends, family… Do you believe me? I’ve followed you for more than eighty years, and we’ve slept together at least several thousand times, do you believe that? Hehehe…” She began to laugh manically again.

“No way!!” Yuria’s expression sank. “Don’t you try to trick me!” He shoved Parakeet away and walked toward the cabin again.

Parakeet stood alone at the helm, smiling. She looked at Yuria’s back when he walked away as though she was looking at a child throwing a tantrum.

“Tell your teacher that Illusionist is at White Crab Island.”

When he heard the voice from outside, Yuria tried his best to calm down his emotions, taking out his phone quickly and sending a message to his teacher, Garen. But his brain was still a whirling mess of confusion.

“No, she might be lying to me, she’s just saying it to get to me, I shouldn’t believe her so easily. I have to find Xiaojie, and ask her myself! And Mother… Mother…” He remembered that Mother knew perfectly well that he was looking for her and still refused to appear, disappearing without a trace even until now. And his younger sister had suddenly vanished mysteriously too, while others could easily get a hold of his location whenever they wanted, leading to the attacks by White Crab. That included Teacher Garen, Big Sister Nine-Tailed Fox and the rest, everyone had been ambushed.

White Crab’s motives had always been unknown. They defeated him many times, but they never had any intention of killing him.

“I have to get to the bottom of this!” Yuria gripped his fist tightly.

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Under the cover of night, Garen slowly entered the nearest port. There were several large white yachts stopped in the bay within the marina, and one ship was slowly sailing out of it.

The place where Garen alighted onto the port was also the darkest part of it.

He looked into the distance directly in front of him and saw a horizontal road ahead. A car just happened to drive past a streetlamp as he watched, and there was a young man with his earphones on, holding his phone as he strolled past leisurely.

At night, this port seemed quiet and orderly.

“This is the port Yuria mentioned.”

He had changed out of his torn-up rags into a clean white suit, provided by a flashy middle-aged man who had passed by him on a cruise ship. It looked costly and was clearly used for formal dinners.

“Excuse me, are you Mr. Garen?” Suddenly, a woman’s voice came from the darkness on Garen’s right.

“You are?” Garen had noticed this woman hiding behind the crates a long time ago, he simply did not point her out. Now that she had spoken, it clearly showed that she was the person sent here to receive him, waiting for him here in advance.

“I am the person Mr Yuria arranged to greet you, please come with me.” The woman walked out naturally. She wore a black office lady skirt and looked just like a regular white-collar worker. Her looks were very average as well, she was the type that did not catch any attention at all.

Garen naturally followed her to the roadside nearby. There was a white car parked there, and the two of them got in, one in the front seat and one in the back.

At this point, Garen did not worry about traps or anything like that, his abilities allowed him to be completely fearless of whatever the woman might be planning.

“Where are we going?” he asked nonchalantly.

“Lady Light Path has wanted to meet you for the longest time, but she can’t make an appearance right now, so we borrowed Yuria’s name to receive you. I hope you’ll understand,” the woman said in a low voice, finally revealing the truth.

“Light Path?” Garen remembered who that was now, it was Yuria’s mother, the woman who used to be the top bounty hunter in this world. He was wondering why Yuria did not come to meet him in person. It was slightly illogical considering Yuria’s personality.

“You guys sure are something, making me go to her,” Garen said off-handedly.

“No… Please don’t take it that way,” said the woman hurriedly. “We’re very, very sorry, but we have no choice, the lady, she… Sigh, you’ll know when you get there, sir.”

Garen was not particularly bothered, and just nodded.

“Get driving then.”

In the night, the car accelerated slowly, driving toward the main road.

Just then, near the port, Yuria just got out of a cab. He dialed Garen’s number hurriedly, but no one picked up. Glancing at his phone, he saw that there was no signal.

“Damned stupid phone! What the hell is this!”

Ever since he separated from Parakeet on the ocean, he had been in a vicious mood and decided to get to the truth behind all of this no matter what.

It just so happened that he was to meet Teacher Garen here, but he never thought that there would be no phone signal here.

“There’s probably a signal jammer here,” he hazarded a guess inwardly. “Parakeet invited Teacher over here using my name, but she won’t let me receive him. What on earth is her goal?” He was frustrated, but he did not worry about Garen’s safety at all. Considering how strong the Minister was, and how he had even killed Slayer, what were the chances of a terrible situation like the Three Nations’ allied raid happening in a small place like this?

Since the wanted order came down from the Three Nations, the truth was they would be grateful if Garen never picked a fight with them. They would never anger him on purpose first.

Yuria flagged down another cab quickly and drove toward the distance. In the car, he asked the driver.

“Cabbie, does your phone have a signal?”

The driver gave him a strange look and waved his phone slightly.

“That is weird, it looks like there isn’t much of a signal here. Strange, I just noticed it too.”

Yuria instantly felt helpless.

The signal only returned after the car went on for quite some distance.

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“Hello? Yuria?” Garen took out the communication device’s earphone and stuffed it into his ear. “I’m fine, you don’t have to come meet me anymore. Something came up on my side, I’m going to meet someone, don’t worry.”

Garen sat in a bright, wide reception hall. The whole floor of the hall was made of black marble, such that he could almost see his reflection in it.

And right now, there was a young woman sitting opposite him. She wore pearl earrings and a long black lace dress, looking dignified and majestic, beautiful and graceful. The only flaw within this beauty was that the woman was blind in both eyes. She could not see anything at all.

Hanging up the call, Garen sat on the chair with his back held straight. He casually pressed a few buttons on the table, adjusting the brightness of the wall light beside him slightly and turning it dimmer.

“Alright, Lady Light Path, let us now talk about what happened between you and the siblings, Yuria and Yurijie. You said just now that those two aren’t actually your children at all, what does that mean?”

The woman sat properly on her seat and sipped at her tea lightly. If someone could look at the hem of her skirt underneath the table, they would notice that she did not actually have legs. They seemed to have been amputated by someone.

“It’s just as you understand it, it’s exactly what I just said,” she replied, gently and deeply.