Ms. Diviner: The Prodigal Daughter's Return

Chapter 378: 378 Mu Tianlie

The only thing that made Mu Hanyan feel relieved was that the opponent hadn’t released all their strength at once. Instead, they had been unleashing the Nine Heavens Star Power progressively stronger with each wave. Otherwise, not to mention her current state, even the Sword Saint at the peak of his powers might not have been able to withstand it.

What kind of person was this, with such terrifying power!

Finally, another surge of the Nine Heavens Star Power was absorbed into her Heart Meridian. Mu Hanyan took a deep breath to brace herself for an even greater and more daunting force. But at that moment, the pressure from the other’s longsword on her forehead eased.

”Descendant of the Mu Family, so you are from the Mu Family. Good, good, at last my waiting hasn’t been in vain. The Mu Family has a successor, hahaha...” That person burst into uproarious laughter.

What, you just realized now that I am a descendant of the Mu Family? Does that mean we should be enemies, not allies? Mu Hanyan felt a bitter frustration—as her life had nearly been ended by this person, who only now realized her identity.

Despite her frustration, Mu Hanyan was still somewhat perplexed by his words. What did he mean by his waiting not being ’in vain’, and by there being a ’successor’?

Just as she was about to ask, that majestic figure suddenly shattered like a soap bubble, turning into countless rays of light and illusions before vanishing from view, leaving only that hearty laughter echoing faintly in her ears.

”This...what is this...” Mu Hanyan rubbed her eyes, unable to believe what she was seeing.

This person, more terrifying than the Sword Saint, was merely an illusion? Had everything prior been just an illusion?

”Clang!” A crisp sound rang out as a black token, slightly smaller than a palm, fell to the ground, disrupting her muddled thoughts.

Mu Hanyan picked up the token and saw three small characters inscribed on it: Mu Tianlie.

She remembered that the man had claimed his name was Mu Tianlie, so this must be his Life Token. Such Life Tokens were a kind of Alchemy Artifact—twin tokens that allowed relatives to sense each other’s life or death even from thousands of miles away.

However, crafting such Life Tokens was extremely difficult, and they were said to be lost to time. Only some long-inherited major families still had them in their possession, and only the most core members of the direct lineage were worthy of owning one. Mu Hanyan had traveled far and wide, visiting Anyun Country and several neighboring nations, but had never seen such a token.

It seemed that this Mu Tianlie must have held a high position within the family. With this thought in mind, Mu Hanyan casually flipped the token over and was instantly taken aback.

On the black Life Token, numerous silver specks twinkled faintly. To others, these might appear to be marks of age and wear on the token’s surface.

But Mu Hanyan recognized at a glance that this was clearly a Star Chart. Although incomplete, it bore an astonishing resemblance to the profound and complex Star Chart of the Star Illusion Thousand Machine.

Could it be that this was not a Life Token but a Star Plate similar to the Star Illusion Thousand Machine?

Even Mu Hanyan herself found this hypothesis hard to believe—the miraculous nature of the Star Illusion Thousand Machine was crystal clear to her, being far beyond mere legendary Divine Artifacts.

Mu Hanyan often felt as though the Star Illusion Thousand Machine was a living being rather than a cold, lifeless Divine Artifact—if it indeed was an artifact, it was one with a spirit of its own.

To encounter such Heaven and Earth Treasures was already the fortune of several lifetimes—how could she expect that another person from the Mu Family would have a similar fate?

Whether it truly was such a coincidence or she was mistaken, for a moment, even Mu Hanyan herself could not be sure.