Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 227 Mu Clan
Venice River Trial Ground

"After you have these magic tools, your strength will be greatly improved, and you will not be easily defeated in the world academy competition. In order to help you obtain such a complete set of magic tools, even the old patriarch has come out in person. You must not let us down." Zhou Yilin stroked his daughter's head, his eyes full of anticipation.

"That's definitely not the case. With my current level of cultivation, there aren't many people who can be my opponent." Mu Tingying answered very confidently. She believed that she could beat everyone except Lin Ran.

"By the way, is Mu Ningxue still in the team?" Zhou Yilin asked.

"Yes, she is very annoying. I have never seen such a shameless woman. She has a bad reputation, but now she wants to come out and embarrass herself. Isn't this bringing shame to our family?" Mu Tingying said.

"She always competed with you before, but now she has no chance," Zhou Yilin said.

Hearing this, Mu Tingying couldn't help laughing. This was probably her favorite sentence recently.

Before, she was in the aristocratic family and had been suppressed by Mu Ningxue's talent and cultivation for many years. Now she has finally turned the tables. This feeling is better than she had imagined. It feels so good to be spoiled and surrounded by people in the aristocratic family and to have almost all the best resources belong to her.

"They seem to want to seize Mu Ningxue's bow. Do you want to go?" Zhou Yilin said.

To be honest, Mu Tingying wanted to go very much, but she calmed down when she thought of Lin Ran. That guy was a monster. It would be best if Pansy and the others could succeed, but it didn't matter if they failed.

"I need to practice." Mu Tingying said.

"That's right, let others do the dirty work."

……

The Mediterranean breeze blows gently, like a pair of gentle hands caressing your head.

A long silver thread was flying in the wind. Mu Ningxue turned her head slightly and looked at the silver thread fluttering in the wind...

Not all the hair is snow-white. It seems that there are some hairs that are dark black. This was basically invisible in the past, but now you can clearly feel the dark black hairs mixed in with these pure snow-white hairs.

The dark hair color was her natural color, just like her mother's hair, dark as silk, very beautiful and peaceful, not this extremely eye-catching snow-white, which gave her a desolate, pale and sad feeling that was lingering.

"Once your hair has regained its color, you won't be tormented by the cold nightmare anymore, and it will be at your service." These words were still echoing in Mu Ningxue's mind.

The change in hair color is the best proof that she is gradually gaining control of this power.

He would probably be surprised.

……

"Mu Ningxue, so you are here. I have been looking for you for a long time." Suddenly a man's voice came from behind.

Mu Ningxue slowly turned her head and looked at the man with a gentle smile. The expression on her face gradually became complicated.

"What a twist of fate! I promised you ten years ago that as long as you wanted to and worked hard, you would become the most powerful ice mage in our family. But I never expected something like that would happen." The man walked onto the bridge, leaned on the railing, and couldn't help but sigh.

Mu Ningxue didn't say anything. She didn't quite understand why this person was here.

A large part of her talent and excellence came from the man in front of her. It was this man who chose her from among the many branch families of the Mu family and let her live in the huge Mu clan, where she enjoyed treatment like a princess and the most superior training resources.

Mu Ningxue still hadn't figured out this man's position in the Mu family. It seemed that just one word from him could make the entire family council hesitate. Even though she herself wasn't a direct member of the entire Mu family, he could still promote her to the highest position...

"Have you always wanted to know who I am?" The man saw what Mu Ningxue meant and couldn't help but laugh.

"Yeah." Mu Ningxue nodded.

"From now on you don't have to call me Mr. anymore. It sounds like I'm your teacher. You can call me Pansy." said the man.

"Pan Xi, your last name isn't Mu?" Mu Ningxue asked in surprise.

According to her inference, this person must at least be a member of the clan leaders' meeting. After all, he can decide the direction and development of the entire clan.

Pansy immediately shook his head, showing a lazy expression and said: "I am like a ghost in this family."

"What do you want to say?" Mu Ningxue said calmly.

This man should have appeared earlier. When the Mu He incident happened and caused a huge blow to their entire branch family, the man with the most say in the entire Mu family was nowhere to be seen. The reason why Mu Ningxue was able to gain a foothold in the entire Mu family was, on the one hand, because of her own strength that crushed others, and on the other hand, because of the support of this man.

Mu Ningxue had never expected this man to bring her any help. He was like an enlightenment teacher, leading Mu Ningxue to this ice road. However, Mu Ningxue did not regard this man as the person she trusted the most, because Mu Ningxue knew very well that under his command, there must be many people like her who were chosen. As long as Mu Ningxue could not occupy the strongest position one day, she would be replaced immediately.

Mu Ningxue was a little confused. Since he had given up on her because of the Black Church incident, why did he show up again now? Shouldn't he communicate more with Mu Tingying now?

"You know, Bing is the pride of our family. Although there are many big families in the whole China that can keep pace with us, no family can be stronger than us in terms of cultivation or strength. No family can cultivate more high-level mages and super-level mages than us. So, do you know why?" Pansy asked.

How could Mu Ningxue know the reason?
The Mu family has always been very large. A branch of the Mu family like her can have a very high status in a small city. There are countless branches of the Mu family like hers. The Mu family controls the highest voice in countless cities in the country.

Apart from its long history, Mu Ningxue really couldn't imagine why this clan could be so powerful, like a behemoth, like an empire!
"Hahaha, when we were at our peak, the clan's glory once wanted to change. It was no longer ice, but a bow, a crystal bow that looked completely made of crystal." Pansy said. Mu Ningxue was suddenly stunned. The first thing she thought of was the ice crystal bow that seemed to have signed a contract with her soul!
"Yes, that's it." Pansy seemed to be able to see through what Mu Ningxue was thinking and a smile appeared on her face.

"I don't quite understand." Mu Ningxue said puzzled.

"There are still many things you don't understand, but I'm going to tell you a cruel truth next." The smile on Pansy's face gradually faded.

"What are the facts?"

"It's this contract. You don't own it alone." Pansy gradually walked in front of Mu Ningxue, her voice gradually becoming softer. "Do you still remember what I told you at the beginning, that this is a ladder that steps on other people's bodies to reach the throne of the noble family? I think you must have regarded this sentence as a metaphor at that time. In fact, this is not a metaphor, but a fact."

Mu Ningxue just looked at him calmly. Now she felt a dangerous aura approaching her, and the source of this dangerous aura was the man in front of her.

"Besides you, there are many people like you in our family, so you are not unique." Pansy said.

"But I've never seen anyone else use it." Mu Ningxue said.

"Hahaha, we naturally won't use this kind of thing on other direct descendants, and at this stage, you are the strongest one in the Sha Bow Contract, and now its control is in your hands." Pansy said.

Before Mu Ningxue could ask, Pan Xi quickly continued, "On the day the Sha Bow was born, we broke it into pieces and gave them to some talented mages like you. The Sha Bow is only an entry-level one and is only suitable for soul fusion with blank mages. Have you forgotten that I would give you similar pieces every once in a while and let you melt them down?"

Mu Ningxue naturally remembered that ice crystal fragments would be delivered every few months, and Mu Ningxue never asked about it. She just did the same as she did at the beginning, placing the fragments in the palm of her hand and letting them melt slowly.

Every time a fragment was melted, Mu Ningxue felt that her cultivation had improved a little, and the Ice Crystal Bow in her soul would become more powerful. Of course, the terrible coldness would naturally increase. Only by continuous practice could she prevent her body from being entangled by the Ice Demon.

"Your hair has begun to return to its original color. It seems that you and the Ice Crystal Bow are getting along better and better." Pansy reached out and suddenly stroked Mu Ningxue's hair.

Mu Ningxue was very disgusted and she quickly took a few steps back.

"Why are you suddenly telling me this now?" Mu Ningxue's vigilance has become increasingly high. She believes that this guy would never appear for no reason, nor would he tell her these things that even the core members of many aristocratic families don't know for no reason. It's like telling it to a dying person.

"Let me explain it this way, you should understand. The Sha Bow needs the power of recovery, and the way to recover is to turn into fragments and coexist with the soul of an ice magician. So in order to make the recovery power purer, we choose ice magicians, and the best ones are the ones who have just awakened ice abilities. When these fragments are almost recovered, we will collect them one by one, and then concentrate them on one person, and then form a complete Sha Bow on her body." At this time, there was a hint of indifference in Pansy's words.

"So my cultivation has been improved after obtaining the fragments!"

"That's right. You can think of yourself as a queen ant. The other worker ants are like slaves, providing you with these fragments and carrying them to you. In the end, you will build an exquisite and perfect ant nest!" Pansy said.

Hearing this, Mu Ningxue was already filled with anger.

"Where are the people who lost their fragments?" Mu Ningxue suddenly asked in a very serious tone.

No one knows that feeling better than Mu Ningxue. When the fragments are separated from a person's soul, they will cause great damage to the person, and may even be life-threatening!
"Don't worry, these fragmenters are not dead, but because the fragments are leaving their bodies, their years of hard cultivation will be completely lost, and they will become ordinary people. However, it is hard to say, after all, some people will commit suicide after losing their cultivation. I don't care about such people." Pansy said.

Mu Ningxue was now furious.

If she knew that this contract would make her stronger at the cost of depriving others of their cultivation, then she would never continue to practice it. This is clearly a kind of evil magic!
"By the way, your mother is also one of the contracted bow slaves." Pansy suddenly laughed, and the smile on his face became weird.

"You...what are you talking about!!" Mu Ningxue suddenly trembled all over.

Memories of her mother suddenly came flooding back to her. She recalled how her mother suddenly looked extremely haggard, with empty eyes as if she had lost her soul, and then she passed away in depression!
……

Lin Ran met Mu Tingying, and the woman seemed to be waiting for him.

"Is there something wrong?" Lin Ran asked.

Mu Tingying said, "You just came back."

"Yeah." Lin Ran nodded and said, he had indeed just returned.

Mu Tingying sighed. Before, the people of the Mu family were patient because they were worried that Lin Ran would do something bad. But they didn't expect that the day they couldn't bear it anymore, Lin Ran would come back.

It seems that the plan to seize Mu Ningxue's ice bow will not succeed.

Mu Tingying took out her cell phone to send a message. To be honest, she didn't want to anger a monster because monsters would go crazy.

Lin Ran looked at Mu Tingying for a while and said, "Are you planning something?"

Mu Tingying did not answer directly. She looked at Lin Ran and said, "Mu Ningxue's ice bow is very powerful, right? As long as you join the Mu family, we can provide you with such a magic tool."

"Does this count as bribery? Although it's great, Mu Ningxue is mine now, so does that mean the Ice Bow belongs to me? And I don't have to consume my own magic power. You should know that Mu Ningxue is very beautiful." Lin Ran said.

Mu Tingying couldn't help but say, "You really like her."

Lin Ran didn't say anything. He always felt that something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)