Chapter 9: Attacked, and you want me to return the ring like that?
Chapter 9: Attacked, and you want me to return the ring like that?
### Name: Jiang Yun
**Identity:** Holy Son of the Sacred Fog Domain [???]
**Affiliation:** Sacred Fog Domain
**Cultivation Level:** Saint Level 8
**Body:** Sacred Bone (Unearthed), Time Body, Samsara Body, Star Body, Eye of Exploration, Sacred Ice Body
**Special Professions:** Saint-level Alchemist, Saint-level Formation Master, Saint-level Weapon Refiner
**Skills:**
- (Saint-level Samsara Clone Technique): Can create clones with abilities and cultivation equal to the original body, without special physical traits. Each stage of cultivation can create 13 clones; one Emperor-level body can be assigned per clone at creation. If the original body dies, as long as one clone survives, the original body can be revived.
- (Saint-level Clone Technique): Can create clones by sacrificing some cultivation or spirit; cannot replicate special traits. If a clone dies, it cannot be revived.
- (Saint-level Time Form): Time within is 1000 times faster than outside.
- (Saint-level Heaven's Concealment Form): Conceals presence from Heaven or outsiders; if cultivation is below Emperor level, it is undetectable. Under the Luck Child form, appears as a normal person but collapses if attacked severely.
- (Saint-level Spirit Gathering Form): Attracts spirit energy 100 times from outside.
- (Saint-level Weapon Refining): Improves weapon forging success and strength by up to 90%.
- (Saint-level Heavenly Alchemy): Enhances the success rate and reduces impurities in pills by up to 90%.
- (Saint-level Ice Blade): Creates an ice blade dome with a radius of 10,000 meters, filled with extreme cold and sharpness.
- (Saint-level Ice Body): Transforms the body into ice, making physical attacks ineffective; must be attacked through advanced spiritual methods.
- (Saint-level Star Fist): Releases powerful punches based on the number of stars.
- (Saint-level Ice Control): Can create ice from the air or within a 1000-meter radius.
- (Saint-level Eternal Ice): Enhances ice-based attacks 100 times.
- (Saint-level Healing): Uses natural or consumed spirit energy to heal wounds, injuries, or damaged origins down to Emperor level.
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**After studying the techniques for three days without cultivating, Jiang Yun focused on developing techniques related to time and stars. He had always been fascinated by these forces since before his death, but now, he found star-related techniques impractical because their strength depended on the number of stars in his body. Since better techniques existed, he decided against creating star-related techniques for now.
Regarding time-related techniques, Jiang Yun began studying time control, such as stopping and reversing time. However, he discovered severe side effects: using time-based powers, whether stopping or reversing time, rapidly reduced his lifespan. Unable to accept this drawback, he decided to abandon time-related techniques until his cultivation improved or he found a body with a longer lifespan.
While contemplating these techniques, the system in his body suddenly spoke up:
[Host! All these techniques can be upgraded without any restrictions? What have I bound myself to?]
Jiang Yun simply smirked and ignored the system. He then turned his attention to the ring he obtained from Ye Chen. Using the Eye of Exploration, he examined the ring, and the system's information appeared with a notification:
"Ding! Found the Daughter of Fate!"
Jiang Yun frowned slightly. "System, your detection range is really limited."
The system replied slowly, [I just woke up.]
**Name:** Long Xichao
**Identity:** Daughter of Fate, Former Elder of the Dragon Clan
**Affiliation:** -
**Cultivation Level:** Spirit Formation Level 2 (Collapsed)
**Body:** Sacred Dragon Light Body
**Special Professions:** -
**Skills:**
- (Emperor-level Dragon Breath)
- (Emperor-level Light Destruction)
- (Emperor-level Light Shield)
- (Emperor-level Light Mirror)
- (Emperor-level Dragon Transformation)
**Luck:** Gold (3,500,000)
Jiang Yun was speechless. He looked at the information on the person in the ring. This woman, Long Xichao, was a former elder of the Dragon Clan. Jiang Yun was impressed by her background but did not show it. He asked flatly:
"How long are you going to hide?"
Long Xichao did not respond and pretended not to be in the ring. Jiang Yun did not care and activated his power, causing her to scream in shock and pain.
"How did you know I was in the ring?" Long Xichao asked, trembling.
Jiang Yun did not answer but instead offered:
"Surrender or die."
Long Xichao was shocked and thought:
"This kid is not just an ordinary Spirit Formation level. The power he just used had traces of Heaven's laws, which only someone above Nirvana level could wield. If I were at my peak, he would be like an ant I could easily crush."
She hesitated, but before she could decide, Jiang Yun immediately activated the Heaven's Concealment Form and tried to extract her sacred Dragon Light Body from the ring.
As he was pulling out the origin, a dark shadow appeared. The shadow, a powerful Saint-level figure, attacked Jiang Yun with such force that he was thrown off the mount. The shadow grabbed the ring and fled quickly.
This attack caused panic throughout the Sacred Fog Domain. The Holy Emperor and elders rushed to the summit. Lin Qingyi arrived first and nearly killed the dark shadow immediately but the shadow managed to escape miraculously.
Lin Qingyi quickly examined Jiang Yun, finding him severely injured with most of his bones broken but no bleeding. She roared in anger and ordered all elders to hunt down the dark shadow immediately. Despite some elders disliking Jiang Yun's past actions, they followed orders due to his status as the Holy Son of the Sacred Fog Domain. His attack in their domain was an insult to their honor.
Lin Qingyi then rushed to heal Jiang Yun, but before she could, she noticed Jiang Yun's body turning into ice, and another Jiang Yun emerged from the Holy Son Hall.
Jiang Yun's master was shocked and asked him immediately:
"Are you injured?"
Jiang Yun replied calmly, "It's fine. That was just my ice clone."
His master sighed in relief and asked, "Do you know the identity of the attacker?"
Jiang Yun confidently answered, "It's the Blood Demon Sacred Domain."
She asked further, "Are you sure?"
Jiang Yun replied confidently, "I saw their emblem."
Upon hearing this, Lin Qingyi's anger intensified. The Blood Demon Sacred Domain was one of the eight Sacred Domains in the Northern Continent and had power nearly equivalent to the Sacred Fog Domain. She reported the incident to the Holy Emperor immediately. Although Jiang Yun was unharmed, she still worried and gave him valuable spirit stones, treasures, and longevity pills.
Before she left for the conference hall, Jiang Yun asked a question that made her pause:
"Master, if one day I were to become an enemy of the whole world, would you choose me or the world?"
Lin Qingyi stopped and asked with confusion, "What did you just ask?"
Jiang Yun respectfully blessed her before walking into the Holy Son Hall without addressing the question further. Lin Qingyi, puzzled, rushed to the conference hall, reflecting on Jiang Yun's question. She knew the question was important but did not answer him because the answer might create an irreversible path in the future. She thought:
"It will never come to that. If it does, I will stop it myself."