The Record of Unusual Creatures - Chapter 657

Chapter 657: The Battle with "Vivian"

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren did not react immediately when something went wrong with the magical book. That was until he felt the chill air with the smell of blood coming from the book. He was horrified and quickly threw it away. “What the hell is this?”

When the book hit the ground, it opened, facing the moonlight. The illustration of the “Summoning of the Blood King” was almost completely covered in red. The red was moving like a surging blood as if the book was bleeding and the blood covered the pages. It was absolutely terrifying.

At the same time, the summoning circle suddenly changed. The patterns Lily draw just now, began to distort and change the shape, quickly correcting itself into the complete form as if it had come to life, and the ritual items ignited themselves without fire, turning into a pale flame floating in the air. Lily immediately jumped and yelled, “Oops, shoes! My shoes!”

“Are you still thinking about this at such a critical moment?!” Hao Ren immediately jumped out of the summoning circle when he heard Lily yelling, and slapped her on the back of the head and said, “Something’s wrong!”

The Nangong family reacted immediately as it happened. Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wudi immediately took out the crossbow and silver dagger, making them look like ace hunters regardless of their combat power. Meanwhile, Nangong Wuyue and Ayesha had already twisted together and hidden at the corner. Now that Hao Ren knew from whom Wuyue inherited the cowardice.

Suddenly, the summoning circle was changing rapidly. The moment they realized what was happening, blood mist was already permeated from the pages, twisting and growing larger and larger in the air. It looked like an evil spirit sealed in the book was struggling to free itself, and it also looked like the strange wicked book was spouting a lot of blood.

Y’zaks saw it and stretched out his hand into the summoning circle without hesitation. As he was ready to ruin the strange book, a shrill sound was coming from the blood mist—the summoning ritual seemed to have been completed.

Y’zaks immediately stepped back and protected his daughter while observing the changes of the blood mist attentively.

The blood mist was pumping like the heartbeat, and the next second it suddenly shrank into a figure. At this moment, Hao Ren already took out his silver lance, ready to strike the blood mist with plasma flames. However, when they saw the figure in the blood mist clearly, they all stunned.

It was… Vivian!

The ‘Vivian’ appeared in the blood mist was wearing a long black dress, looking like an aristocrat who was ready to attend the banquet. She was standing in the air with her eyes closed tightly, and her long blood red hair was dancing in the air without wind.

“What are you doing, battie?” Lily was holding her Frostfire Claws, fully alert. However, she got angry at once when she saw that the figure in the blood mist was actually Vivian and scolded, “just pulling you out of the house, do you have to act so odd to scare…”

Before the husky finished her word, the red-haired Vivian already opened her eyes slightly. The pair of eyes glowing with dim light stopped on Lily for a little while, looking a little impatience. Hao Ren suddenly felt the danger at that very instant and hurriedly pushed Lily aside. “Be careful!”

A dark red light appeared out of nowhere in the spot where Lily just stood. After a flash of red light, the plants on that spot had withered, and the hard rocks instantly turned into ashes.

“OMG!!” The hair on Lily’s tail all stood straight up at once.

“This is not Vivian!” The data terminal suddenly came out of Hao Ren’s pocket and said, “Be careful! Avoid anything coming from her!”

And now, ‘Vivian’ seemed to have been awakened from the chaotic state. She tilted her head stiffly, finally opened her eyes, and a strange voice coming from her throat. She looked down at the people outside the summoning circle and said several syllables in a hoarse voice. Hao Ren focused on it and could barely understand what she was saying. She said, “Come back…”

And as she said it, the earth was suddenly shrouded in red lights coming from the moon!

Where the red light shone, the trees withered, the stones turned into ashes, and even smoke was coming from Y’zaks’s skin. Hao Ren raised his lance, ready to fight, but suddenly he saw lights coming from the residential area, so he quickly shouted, “Lead her to the moors!”

Hao Ren then rushed to the red-haired Vivian in the air without hesitation, trying to stab her with the plasma lance in his hand. However, the attack did not work: She seemed to have expected the attack from the start and dodged it in the air like she was weightless. The lance just left a scar on her arm, and just tilted her head like nothing happened, and pointed to Hao Ren and said, “Come back …”

Hao Ren did not expect the attack to cause any harm to her. He just wanted to draw her attention. After confirming that the hatred had shifted to him, he turned to the depths of the wilderness, running and shouting at the data terminal, “We need to get a good place to fight! I’m worried that here isn’t enough for her!”

A red light was split from the moonlight, shining on Hao Ren’s shield. He immediately felt the weight, aware that there was a lot of incomprehensible power in this attack, and that a simple shield could only counteract some of the power. But there was no time to analyze too much. He could only keep running forward!

At this moment, the red-haired Vivian looked at the scar on her arm. A strange hissing sound was coming from her throat and then she immediately chased after Hao Ren.

“Landlord finally got her attention,” said Lily.

Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wudi took out a few spell cards and threw them away in all directions. These spell cards were burnt in the air without fire and quickly formed a nearly transparent wall. The invisible force pervaded and interfered with the sensing capability of the ordinary people’s of this area. The residents who turned on the lights in the distance soon calmed down. And after this, Nangong Sanba, Nangong Wudi and the rest of them immediately chased after the red-haired Vivian.

This bizarre team was running to the depths of the wilderness. The devil, who looked exactly the same as Vivian but was manic and weird, kept attacking all living things in her sight, leaving a lot of withered plants and ashes of rocks along the way. Hao Ren was carrying the shield and attracting the devil, and at the same time, secretly startled and thought: The devil’s power seemed similar to Vivian, but was more dangerous.

Her power seemed to be able to transform objects directly into decay and dead!

After confirming that he was far from the residential area, Hao Ren stopped, looked at the dark horizon in the distance and breathed a sigh of relief. He then raised his lance and turned toward the red-haired Vivian. At the same time, other people had also arrived. Needless to say, they had already besieged ‘Vivian’. All kinds of attacks were throwing at the ‘Vivian’ under siege.

The Demonic Flare, silver crossbow, exorcism cards, the Plasma Flare, as well as the fierce Frostfire Blades. There were no flaws in the attack and the red-haired Vivian looked like there was no way of escape. However, the moment the attack fell on her, something unexpected happened:

The evil spirit suddenly turned into a red light, blended into the moonlight, and then disappeared into thin air.

Lily stopped suddenly, holding her Frostfire Claws, looking around and asked, “Did she run away?”

“Not so easy…” Hao Ren said and frowned. Suddenly, he noticed the moonlight was reddening, and the reddish moonlight was shining on everyone. He then noticed that his skin was turning death-like gray. “Moonlight! Beware of the moonlight!”

Chapter 658: The Pan Is the Most Powerful Weapon!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Where the moonlight shone, the Countess of the Crimson Moon would be there.

However, only a few people had personally encountered the moonlight of the Countess of the Crimson Moon, and there were even fewer people who could escape from it. Therefore, no one had ever been able to tell what kind of ability the oldest vampire had, and no one knew what her real fighting style was—they could only speculate on her strength through ambiguous and vague descriptions left by their predecessors.

Under the crimson moonlight, all life started to wither away, and even inanimate things began to decay. Plants withered and fell, and the bare ground was also stained with a lifeless black color. A faint, almost indistinguishable sound was echoing amid the moonlight. The noise made them dizzy and unable to concentrate. They heard the sound of birds flapping their wings in the woods. The flock was also disturbed by the crimson moonlight. Hao Ren saw a flock of sparrows flying out of the woods and fell to the ground. It was terrifying.

After the moonlight had enveloped the earth, the figure of the red-haired Vivian finally emerged. She appeared from the moonlight and skipped around in it, so they could not capture her. She bellowed and attacked every one of them randomly, continuously appearing and disappearing mysteriously. Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wudi raised their crossbows before they fired at her repeatedly.

Bang! Bang!

The trajectories of silver arrows crisscrossed into a light net in the air, but the arrows were only able to brush past the devil. After seeing the enemy’s way of dodging the arrows, the experienced Nangong Wudi suddenly realized a terrifying possibility: this devil could probably partly sense her opponent’s mind! Her attacks and defenses were exactly like a rehearsed play. Their attacks were just to cooperate with her!

Their energy was severely depleted as they fought in the moonlight. Even the healthiest Lily quickly felt a sense of dizziness coming from the depths of her mind. She was shaking as if she was about to fall under the red moon. The gray and crimson air was swirling up from her body towards the moonlight. “Landlord… I’m feeling a little cold…”

Y’zaks was burning with roaring flames to resist the strange moonlight, and he held up the Demonic Barrier to shield all of them. However, the shield had limited power—the moonlight’s attack was beyond all magic and curses. Even Y’zaks did not know how to deal with it. “We must find a way to avoid the moonlight! And we have to lure that devil farther away… The moonlight is going to spread to the urban area!”

“MDT, find a place where the moon can’t reach!” Hao Ren shouted while he jumped to the side. The moment he jumped, another light hit the spot where he stood earlier, and a vast expanse of ground was directly turned into dead land. “Send everyone and this devil away!”

“I’m trying!” The MDT was running around in the air and shouting, “The devil keeps moving around, I can’t target it… F*ck!”

The red-haired Vivian appeared again in the moonlight. The MDT was already covered in blue light at this point, and it immediately rushed to her. “Watch me!”

Bang! The MDT finally hit the red-haired Vivian at the back of her head. The first effective attack turned out to be a brick tactic from the MDT. Hao Ren was almost stunned, and so was the devil. The MDT would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It immediately shouted, “Open the door!”

A beam of teleportation light that reached the sky suddenly lit up and all of them disappeared together with the devil.

The crimson moonlight in the sky flickered before it suddenly disappeared, and the moors returned to silence again.

Hao Ren quickly recovered from the momentary dizziness. He shook his head, and immediately clenched his lance as he made a stabbing motion to the side. It felt like he had stabbed something. He jumped away before the counterattack struck him. The devil was flying in the air not far away, and one of her arms was almost completely cut off by the light blade!

The devil roared angrily, trying to summon the moonlight again, but this time her efforts were futile: there was no moon there.

Hao Ren just had a chance to look around. He saw a vast expanse of red wasteland, while the others were not far away, confronting the devil in a tense situation. Lily was holding her Frostfire Blades, ready to attack. She kept coughing and asked, “Where is this place… It’s making me a little uncomfortable.”

“Mars!” The MDT’s voice came from the air.

They quickly put on their life collars (Hao Ren gave them one and got them to carry it with them everywhere they went). Lily was waving her Frostfire Blades happily, mocking the devil in front of her. “Ah ha! Let’s see where you’ll find a moon this time! There’s nothing here!”

The devil glanced at Lily, ignoring her mockery. She just raised her finger and said, “Come back…”

All of Lily’s hair stood up and she immediately jumped away. A black dent appeared in the ground where she was stood earlier, expanding hundreds of meters behind it as if the earth was festering.

“She’s still stronger than you even without the moonlight!” Hao Ren reminded Lily loudly. Then, he turned to the rest of them and said, “Now she has no way to be invisible, everybody, go!”

Without hesitation, all of them attacked her immediately.

All kinds of attacks were thrown at her from all directions, so much so that the red-haired Vivian had nowhere to run. But even in that situation, she did not panic. It was as if she had no feelings. She was hit by a series of attacks, and before she was hit by Y’zaks’ Demonic Flare, she glanced at Hao Ren without any expression and said, “…You? Come back…”

Hao Ren was breaking out in cold sweat. The moment the devil looked at him, he sensed his shield capacity falling rapidly like a bursting dam. After he avoided her eyes, he wondered what did “come back” mean.

The devil, however, clearly would not answer his question. She was wounded in a series of attacks, but still, there was Blood Mist coming out of her wounds to heal those wounds. She ignored her wounds and floated in the air, preparing to launch a second attack. Y’zaks frowned at her state, nodded and said, “Her speed of recovery has slowed down. Our attacks are working!”

Hao Ren gritted his teeth, clenched the silver lance in his hand and said, “Be sure to catch her alive! We have to figure out what’s going on here!”

As he got ready to fight, the devil in the air rushed towards them again!

The red-haired Vivian was surrounded by Blood Mist. Where she passed, not only did the earth begin to rot, the air was also rapidly filled with the eerie mist as if the world was eroding. Her strength was increasing, or recovering over time. Hao Ren knew that he could not delay, so he set the plasma flame of the lance straight to the maximum and rushed towards the devil without hesitation.

He was going to give the devil a head-on strike and Y’zaks would release the Demonic Seal while the devil was healing. If it did not work, he would have to use his Dimensional Pocket… Although this may destroy a lot of things in the Dimensional Pocket, he did not want to let this strange and suspicious devil run away!

But just as he was about to race towards the devil, a black figure suddenly appeared.

Vivian emerged from a red light, looking bewildered. She was still wearing an apron, and with a pan in her hand, she looked like she had just stepped out of the kitchen. “What are you doing?” She asked, looking surprised.

Hao Ren pointed behind Vivian and shouted, “Watch your back!”

Vivian felt that something was not right behind her. She turned around and saw a figure surrounded by red mist racing towards her. Before she could discern and think carefully, she raised her hand, and the frying pan hit the devil right on the face.

Bang! The devil was directly knocked down by a pan…

Chapter 659: Is She Dead Yet?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There was a loud bang. It was not easy to hear any sound in Mars given its thin atmosphere. With the swing of a pan, Vivian hit the mysterious red-mist spirit and sent it flying before it landed 10 m away. It left a trail of decay and corrosion on the ground as a result. Vivian had yet to fully grasp what was happening. She just reacted out of reflexes, and she was in shock. “What is this?!”

She was coughed as the air of Mars made it difficult for her to breathe. Although it was not deadly, it was an uncomfortable environment for an unusual creature like her.

Cough, cough

“Why is this place so terrible? Where are we now?”

“Put your life-support collar on!” Hao Ren reminded loudly, but he had no time to explain things to her. “Watch out! That thing’s coming again!”

The strike of the pan did not injure the evil spirit; after crashing down and flipping a few times on the ground, the evil spirit bounced back up in the air. Its long, red hair fluttered despite the still air. The cold Blood Mist around her was forming into a storm. However, she was not as unbridled as before. Facing Vivian, her dark eyes finally revealed a hint of shaken confidence; she flew around and rumbled angrily in the air as if she was in a state of great hysteria. Everyone was confused about the situation but had been too afraid to do anything. They just watched as the monster went bananas. Meanwhile, Vivian furrowed her eyebrows before she shapeshifted into a vampire with the same chill air and Blood Mist around her. “…What is this? Where did you find this thing?”

“I don’t know! It just came out of the magic book!” Lily shouted. “I’ve been wanting to ask you what’s happening—why does that thing look exactly like you? You have another clone other than Hessiana?”

“Looks exactly like me?” Vivian was dumbstruck looking at the evil spirit that was flying aimlessly not far away. “How do you know it looks like me? That thing is faceless!”

Holding a spear in his hand and was ready for another round, Hao Ren was dumbfounded when he heard what Vivian said. “What did you just say? Faceless?”

“Yeah,” replied Vivian, pointing her finger to the faceless figure she saw. “It’s a shadow, it’s faceless. I’ve never seen an otherworldling like it!”

Everyone was surprised. They invariably looked at the red-haired ‘Vivian’ who clearly had a face. Vivian was the only one seeing otherwise: to her, that thing was just a dancing mist with the figure of a human!

They had no time to figure out the details. The evil spirit seemed to have suddenly regained its consciousness. It was charging at them again, more ferociously. If her previous attack was somewhat elegant and gentle, then now she was simply a bloodthirsty beast in pursuit of the destruction. Sensing the dire situation, Hao Ren immediately stood in front of them. “Save your breath, let’s finish it off first!”

Hao Ren used his the silver spear’s plasma flare wounded the evil spirit, but he quickly felt his vitality was drained from his body when the evil spirit touched him. He swiftly dodged the thing in mid-air while Lily wielding her Frostfire Claws came up in his place. Behind them were Y’zaks and the Nangong father and son duet who were ready for a spell offensive.

The evil spirit was so powerful and strange that wherever her eyes landed and fingers pointed would leave a trail of destruction. Even the Steel Membrane Shield could not hold much longer. Fortunately, Hao Ren had drawn the monster away from populated areas before he let the MDT teleport them to this desolate place or else when the red moon shone, it was going to be a catastrophe!

Although Vivian had not figure out the situation, the tacit understanding among the team members had enabled her to react quickly. While Lily was wielding her Frostfire Claws engaging the enemy, Vivian began to summon a powerful lightning storm as large group of bats was circling in the air creating two tornadoes simultaneously. Hovering in mid-air, Vivian ordered the two tornadoes to converge. Meanwhile, she could see in her peripheral vision that Lily thrusted her claw into the enemy’s body. “Doggie, hold that thing up!” Vivian shouted.

Lily had no clue what Vivian’s intent was but she obliged by lifting her claw together with the spirit up. The next moment she knew it, a thunderbolt had struck her.

A powerful current ran through the body of the evil spirit and down the Frostfire Claws, Lily instantly lit up like a torch. She dropped and looked like a chow chow—in dark hair. The husky was furious. “Battie! You’re psychopath!”

“I’ve done the math. You will be fine!” Vivian felt no guilt—she had absolute confidence in her ability to control the precise amount of force to use.

Meanwhile, the evil spirit took 99% of the force of Lightning Storm. Just like what the pan did to her, she was blown hundreds of metres out before disintegrating in the air in a violent burst of red mist. She suffered a heavier blow this time. Immediately, Y’zaks had observed something. “Let Vivian deal with it! She could control this monster!”

“I’m not so sure…” Vivian charged at the spirit with her swarm of bats. “…but you can count on me!”

Seeing the swarm of bats flew towards her, the red-haired ‘Vivian’ wailed as if she was frightened. The ground began to decay, blacken, and char under the corrosive blood mist. An unstable magical energy filled the air. Vivian (the genuine one) seemed to be ignorant of all these. She went directly for the enemy.

The Lighting Storm was busting with lightning and ear-splitting explosions for a while. Soon, all these died down quickly as the bats came back into Vivian’s body. She looked at the scorched pit on the ground, frowning. “Is she dead yet?”

“Dead?” Hao Ren was shocked. He came up. “I was thinking to capture her alive…”

A dark pit was what was left after the battle of the two ‘Vivians’. The evil spirit was nowhere to be seen except a pool of red liquid flowing slowly at the bottom of the pit, as if the stubborn thing was still alive. Lily tossed a small rock into the red liquid cautiously, but there was no reaction.

The liquid gradually subsided, as if it had lost its last trace of vitality before it turned into a pool of blood, like the residue of blood magic.

Gaping into the pit for a long while, Nangong Sanba began to feel a chill ran up his spine. “What is that thing?”

Hao Ren’s brows knit together and went down the pit. Taking out a small metal tube and collecting the liquid, he said, “I don’t know… but guts feeling tells me that it’s wise to collect some samples if you don’t know what it is.”

Vivian found the pan on the gravel that she had thrown out, saddened by the dent on the pan. “I was thinking to make Rollie some egg cake… by the way, what were you guys doing? Why did you guys start a fight with that thing? Where is this place?”

“Before I answer your question, may I know how you come here?” Hao Ren was even more perplexed than Vivian was. “Do you know how far this place from home?”

“I don’t know,” said Vivian, shrugging. “After bathing Rollie at home, she demanded egg cake. So I went into the kitchen to make egg cake. And I realised that you guys had gone. I went out to look for you and saw a glowing pentagram circle behind the house. I went up to check out the thing, there next thing I knew, I was already here.”

Done with the explaining, Vivian frowned and looked at the desolate world around her. “What the hell… It feels like an alien planet.”

“You got it right. This is really an alien planet,” said Hao Ren, and then purged his mouth. He was at a loss of how where to begin. “This is Mars.”

Vivian. “What?”

“It’s a long story,” said Hao Ren, scratching his head. He knew it was not only because of Lily’s recklessness but also he had to take part of the blame for causing this. “You still remember that magic book… Actually Lily and I was doing a test.”

Vivian was stunned.

Just when she was about to ask, Lily suddenly beckoned to them on the side of the hill. “Can you people please talk later? There’s a situation here!”

Nangong Sanba looked up. “What situation?”

Like a brigand spotter, Lily sticking out her head on the hillside. “Dang it! Looks like there is a rover…”

Chapter 660: So What Exactly Is This? Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A man-made probe the size of a car was slowly moving on the red surface of Mars. It moved so slowly that is was almost limping—due to the distance between Mars and Earth, the time lag in controlling things such as rover remotely could be very huge. It must move at a very slow pace to prevent accidents from happening. However, while the rover was slow, it had been busy. The front-mounted camera was snapping photos as it went. Now it was moving toward Hao Ren and his team’s direction.

Considering the speed of the rover and the distance between it and the hillside, it might take the little guy a long time before it got here, but it would eventually reach the rolling slope as long as it did not change its course halfway.

Hao Ren looked over his shoulder at the scotched marks on the ground behind him and the vitreous crystals that the Plasma Flare and Demonic Flare had caused, as well as all the debris. He was wondering. “Why this thing happened to us? How could we stumble into a probe in place as big as Mars?”

“No matter what; you’ve got to pick up the mess,” the MDT snorted. “This is an untouched planet. The humans on Earth will be sending send more probes eventually. You think you can get away with it by leaving the mess behind? Before the rover reaches here, clean up the scene but remember not to damage the rover. That thing is protected by the imperial law.”

Nangong Sanba turned around and looked at the mess. “How do we even clean up this mess? Shall we scoop the entire place away?”

“There are two options now,” Lily said. “One; scoop the hell of out here. Two; find an LCD TV, play a Mars video, and I’ll carry the TV in front of the rover’s camera…”

Hao Ren could not believe Lily’s ingeniousness; she was beyond repair.

“Taking into account the conscientiousness and precision of science, we must ensure that all clues here are eliminated,” said Y’zaks, rolling up his sleeve. “I’m an expert in this field, so I will handle this with surgical precision…”

Staring at the runes on Y’zaks arms, cold sweat trickled down Hao Ren’s forehead. “Are you sure it will be accurate enough? Sound not very convincing to me—”

Before he could finish talking, a light appeared in the sky, a meteorite was crashing down at an angle from the sky. A loud boom was heard followed by a small mushroom cloud rose up slowly into the sky. It was done.

Y’zaks had figured the precise impact force and angle of the meteorite. The rover was outside the impact zone. Traces of evidence were completely destroyed, including the blood stain (of the evil spirit) had vaporised. The vapour had mixed with meteorite steam and other space gases and instantaneously blown away by the shock waves. It could never be detected.

Of course, the rover must have seen the moment of the falling meteorite, but that easier to explain away as a normal meteorite strike than trying to justify there had been aliens fighting on Mars. To be honest, Hao Ren and his group could not care less about this issue now.

They must find out what that thing was, and the relationship between that thing and Vivian.

They double-checked everything making sure no evidence was left behind. And then they quickly left for home. The first thing Hao Ren did when back in his house was to check out the Summoning Circle. What was left behind the house was only a piece of scorched land in the open, and some white ashes. Looks like the Summoning Circle that Lily built had self-destructed when it ran out of energy. The husky stared at the ashes, almost crying. “My shoes… I was planning to wear it this winter…”

“Can’t you not whine about that now,” said Hao Ren, dragging Lily back into the house by her tail. “Let’s first see Vivian’s condition.”

Siting on the sofa and surrounded by everyone, Vivian was baffled by what had happened this evening. It were Lily and Hao Ren who sneaked out, conducted that freaking test and dragged her into this. The vampire maiden now felt she had gotten herself at the wrong end of it. She checked herself making sure she was all right. “I feel completely fine… just a little tired. That thing was really badass.”

“Indeed,” said Hao Ren, pursing his mouth. “She challenged us all singlehandedly and had almost succeeded. Had I not cut her off from the moonlight, I’m afraid everyone would be in trouble. Only you – Vivian. You could hurt her. Is something going on between you and her?”

“You’re saying that it was the experiment of the summoning ritual that had brought ‘her’ out?” Vivian frowned, eyes on Lily. “Didn’t I told you that don’t try to study those mystic things? What for aside from getting us all into trouble?”

Lily spat her tongue out, pointing her finger at Hao Ren conveniently. “I’ve said long ago that it was Mr. Landlord’s fault…”

“Don’t kid me. Mr. Landlord might be whimsical at time, but without you, thing would not come to as such,” Vivian had known the husky and Hao Ren’s characters for a long time. “Let’s not talk about this. Did you say that the evil spirit looks like me?”

“Spitting image,” said Y’zaks, hissing. Her was always more truthful. “Only the colour of the hair and her aura are different. Couldn’t you see her face?”

Even Y’zaks had seen the face of that thing, so most likely it was true. Vivian’s brows knit tightly together, perlexed. “Spitting image? I don’t know what was going on. All I saw was just a figure, red in the dark, like a shadow. Its face was as blurry as it could get, I didn’t even know whether its was a man or woman, less so the look.”

“This precisely shows that the evil spirit has something to do with you,” Hao Ren looked at Vivian, face serious. “Only you that couldn’t see its face, or that the evil spirit was hiding from you, or that there was some kind of mutual interference between you two so much as that the evil spirit was also confused when she saw you.”

“Battie could hurt her! By using a skillet!” Lily blurted. “If that is no connection, then I don’t know what is.”

Though Hao Ren was rendered speechless by how Lily saying things, he must admit that Vivian’s reaction at that time was no less stunning, especially when she smashed the evil spirit with a skillet and blew it twenty metres out—her skillet skill could rival that of the Sword of Heaven.

Vivian was still in heartache for her losses today. “That was a good skillet…”

Hao Ren took the small blood sample out from the dimensional pocket. The tube was a dedicated bio sample container with transparent crystal shell on both sides to facilitate the observation of the sample inside. Now the viscous liquid inside had completely calmed down, looked just like normal blood. He twisted the bottom of the metal tube where there from a dedicated sampling port that prevented back-flowing contamination, and dripped a drop of blood sample into a petri dish and handed it to Vivian. “Please analyse it see if it’s blood.”

Vivian took the blood, sniffed it under her nose, and stuck out his tongue to taste it. Hao Ren hurriedly reminded her, “Careful! This thing is of unknown origin!”

Vivian thought he was right. She divided a small bat from her body and tasted the blood inside the petri dish. She frowned. “It’s blood… but it’s strange. I can’t tell what species it is. It’s been changing.”

“Change?” Hao Ren looked at the sample container in his hand. “Is this thing still alive?”

“No, it’s dead. There isn’t a single breath of life is left,” Vivian and the little bat sucked their mouth in unison, seemingly sharing the same sense of taste. “But it’s still changing in the state of death. It’s constantly transforming into the blood of other creatures… no, not right. It just feels like other creatures, but in reality, it is just a type of disguise. The blood’s original characteristics are unknown; it only shows similar characteristics of biological blood.”

“How could this thing even exist?” Hao Ren knew not much about blood magic, but he still could recognise what Vivian said did not make sense. “You mean this thing is not really blood?”

“Could ordinary blood turn into a person and fight with you?” Vivian rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. “Anyway, I have to ask Hessiana about the origin of this magic book. Wizard who left this behind must not some ordinary fellow, but I have never heard of any wizard who has such a high attainments in blood magic.”

Vivian did not believe the ‘summoning ritual’ recorded in the magic book. She felt that it was more like a seal. The book contained a magical creature based on blood magic. The so-called ‘summoning ritual’ Lily and Hao Ren performed had accidentally release the creature.

Anyway, it seemed that Hessiana would soon had her wish granted: Vivian was going to look for her.

Her visit was going to be punitory in nature, though…