Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 777: Making it up with all your might

Chapter 777: Making it up with all your might

Li Qingran's footsteps paused as she turned back in confusion. "Is something wrong?"

For a brief moment, her heart tightened.

Could her identity have been discovered...

After all, on the surface, she was the legitimate daughter of the Flame Boar Family. Logically, she shouldn't have awakened a sword as her Battle Soul. Over the past few days, she had read many stories about the Canglan Continent. There were indeed Soul Masters who awakened Battle Souls different from their family's bloodline heritage.

But generally, there were only three scenarios.

Illegitimate child, mutated Battle Soul, or closely related Battle Soul.

The first scenario didn't need much explanation. If it wasn't your own seed, wasn't it normal not to inherit the family bloodline? The third scenario was like the Flame Boar bloodline awakening a Suckling Pig Beast Battle Soul, which was also quite common.

The second scenario, mutated Battle Soul, was extremely rare.

Some mutated Battle Souls were actually inferior to their non-mutated counterparts.

Similarly, an ordinary Battle Soul could, through mutation, become an extremely powerful existence. However, mutated Battle Souls did not possess the heritability of bloodlines. They couldn't be used to establish a vast Battle Soul bloodline family; they could only serve as high-end combatants or power-holders within a certain family.

Her current situation wasn't a mutated Battle Soul, nor was it a closely related Battle Soul.

It was more like Yang Fei had cuckolded the Flame Boar Family patriarch, Li Ji.

But Li Qingran knew Yang Fei hadn't done such a thing.

Her current Battle Soul situation was abnormal, and she was terrified of someone spotting the problem.

Outside the Canglan Mirror, Chen Huaian was equally tense, holding his breath, afraid someone was about to cause trouble.

Wouldn't it be fine to just let his sweetheart disciple complete her awakening?

Why did they have to suddenly call her back...

The Soul Master looked up and said, "Shall I assign two Soul Masters to escort you back? If you need to buy anything, you can ask them. Afterwards, they will also escort you to the Battle Soul Hall."

He had seen Li Qingran's file.

He knew Li Qingran and her mother Yang Fei had been driven out of the Flame Boar Family.

Regardless of whether Li Qingran was an illegitimate child or not, their Battle Soul Hall only valued talent, not family affairs. What if the Flame Boar Family suddenly caused trouble because of Li Qingran's Battle Soul and ruined his good fortune?

It was better to provide a direct escort.

It would also let the Flame Boar Family see how much they valued Li Qingran.

Li Qingran: "..."

Oh, it was just an escort.

Then it was fine.

Her goodwill towards this world increased by a few more degrees.

Although her initial arrival had been met with a bunch of unpleasant experiences, aside from those few individuals, the other people she encountered were quite friendly.

"Then I thank you very much."

Li Qingran instinctively wanted to cup her hands in a traditional salute but then remembered this world didn't have such etiquette. She quickly hid her hands behind her back.

The Soul Master was momentarily stunned by Li Qingran's strange gesture but didn't dwell on it.

Two Soul Masters dressed in Battle Soul Hall attire escorted Li Qingran.

They made their way all the way back to the simple, crude little hut where she and her mother were temporarily staying.

When Yang Fei saw her daughter return safely and heard she had actually succeeded in awakening, and what's more, possessed the legendary innate full Soul Power, she was moved to tears. She pulled Li Qingran into a tight embrace.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Mother knew... Mother knew you could do it!" she choked out, repeatedly stroking Li Qingran's hair as if she couldn't get enough.

However, when she heard that Li Qingran had awakened not the family's inherited Flame Boar, but a strange longsword she had never seen before, the joy on Yang Fei's face was instantly replaced by shock and a trace of panic.

"A sword? How could it be a sword?" she murmured subconsciously, her face paling slightly as she urgently grabbed Li Qingran's hand. "Qingran, Mother... Mother can swear to the heavens, I absolutely never did anything to wrong the Li Family!

You are definitely of the Li Family's bloodline!

This... what on earth is going on?"

She was terrified her daughter would be burdened with the stigma of being an "illegitimate daughter."

She was even more afraid this sudden mutation would attract unnecessary trouble.

However, Li Qingran felt it was rather inconsequential.

Now that they had already left the Flame Boar Family, what did it matter if she was an illegitimate daughter or not?

It was just that Yang Fei had been married into the Flame Boar Family for many years. Seeing Li Qingran awaken her Battle Soul and possess innate full Battle Power, she inevitably still harbored some hope of returning to the Flame Boar Family to hold her head high. But no matter what, Li Qingran would not return with Yang Fei.

The two Soul Masters exchanged glances upon hearing this.

Li Qingran wasn't an illegitimate daughter? That was a bit strange.

One of the older Soul Masters suddenly spoke. "Madam, there's no need for alarm.

Although Battle Soul mutation is rare, it is not entirely impossible.

Might I venture to ask, before Miss Li returned to the family, where did she primarily live?

Did she experience anything particularly unusual?"

Hearing this, a perfectly measured look of embarrassment and recollection appeared on Li Qingran's face.

She lowered her head slightly, her voice gentle and carrying a hint of barely perceptible panic. "I... I don't remember my childhood very clearly.

I only vaguely remember it seemed to be in a very large forest... There was no fixed dwelling. We went wherever our feet took us. When hungry, we'd pick some wild fruits or dig up edible roots. When thirsty, we'd drink from mountain springs... At night, sometimes we slept in tree hollows, sometimes just... slept on the ground..."

So her daughter had lived such a hard life while wandering outside?

Hearing Li Qingran's description and thinking of the bits and pieces of those years Li Qingran spent wandering the wilds, Yang Fei felt sorrowful and guilty, but also couldn't help feeling a belated fear.

World Beasts were everywhere in those wild mountains. How incredibly lucky must the child Li Qingran have been to avoid the gaping maws of those World Beasts?

Being able to see her daughter again now was truly a blessing from the deities.

Li Qingran paused, as if struggling to recall, her voice even softer. "It seems... there was a very large... World Beast?

It didn't seem to have any intention of harming me. Sometimes it would share a bit of its prey with me...

I was little back then and didn't know fear. I just... lived with it and its cubs for a period.

Later... later one day, many very powerful people came, wanting to kill it...

It was gravely injured, hid me and its cubs away... I never saw it again after that...

Then I ran desperately, I don't know for how long, until I finally saw a city."

Not a single word of this was true, of course.

Mainly forced by circumstances, she could only do her utmost to fabricate a story.

However, she was, after all, a Cultivator, highly skilled in the art of concealment.

While saying these things, her face didn't redden, her heart didn't race, as if she had truly experienced such a childhood.

Yet, Li Qingran had underestimated the experience of these Soul Masters.

Although she spoke without wanting to lie, in the eyes of these Soul Masters, this story was full of holes.

Immediately, someone frowned.