"I couldn't even see that person. Who exactly was he? There's someone beside me who could dare to rob the treasury of the Western Emperor? Who exactly is he?"
Glaze was lost in deep thought, trying to understand who the thief was. All he knew was that it was a man.
Just as it was hard for the Royal Guards to find Glaze, it was hard for Glaze to find this person. Glaze had seen the guards, but the guards hadn't seen Long Chen.
Similarly, Long Chen had seen Glaze, but Glaze hadn't seen him.
"I need to find wherever that person is. I need that water at any cost!" Clenching his fist, Glaze made a determination. "No matter what it takes, I'm going to find that guy."
....
Long Chen was sitting on the bed, staring at the Cauldron, waiting for time to pass.
After enough time was over, he stood up and opened the Cauldron. It was the time for the process to be finished.
As he opened the Cauldron, smoke started coming out of it, spreading everywhere.
Soon, the whole room was filled with white smoke
It was only after the smoke was cleared that everyone was able to see things again.
Snake Monarch and Long Chen looked inside the Cauldron to find a body lying inside the Cauldron.
It was the body of a lady that seemed to be in her early twenties. Her long red hair came down to her waist.
Because she wasn't wearing any clothes, her big breasts were clearly visible.
"You made it from your imagination, right?" Xun asked Long Chen as she glared at him, noticing what he had created.
He certainly created a body that seemed like a woman similar to her. It was as if it was how Xun would have looked if she looked more grown up.
"I didn't want you to complain later," Long Chen replied, looking innocent. "Now go in. Let's see how it is."
Xun took a deep breath. Now that she has her body before her, she was a bit nervous.
"Go on! It's not that hard. Let me see if it worked," Long Chen let out, placing his hand on Xun's back, pushing her towards the body.
"W-wait!" Xun was taken aback as Long Chen pushed her inside the Cauldron.
Since Long Chen could torch her, it was easy for him to do it.
Xun fell on top of the body, entering it before she disappeared.
"Ah, how long is it supposed to take?" Snake Monarch asked Long Chen, looking at the unmoving body for five minutes. "Did she enter?'
"She entered five minutes ago," Long Chen told the Snake Monarch, concerned himself.
It had been a long time since Xun entered, but she wasn't moving at all. He wondered if something went wrong.
"Don't tell me you messed up the process?" Snake Monarch asked Long Chen.
"I am sure I didn't," Long Chen answered.
"Why isn't she waking then?" Snake Monarch asked. "She entered five minutes ago, didn't she?"
"Xun, are you alright? Open your eyes," Long Chen called out to Xun, who still didn't open her eyes.
Finally, Long Chen started getting concerned as Xun didn't open her eyes even after all that. He wondered if something went wrong, and she was stuck inside the body, unable to reply.
"Did you really have to throw me?" A female voice came, which seemed similar to Xun's voice yet different.
The red haired lady opened her eyes as well.
"Ah, you're fine. Congrats on successful transmigration in a body. Now you're a human as well," Long Chen told Xun, happy that she was safe.
"It... Feels so different. I can actually touch things and feel them," Xun said, touching the Cauldron, feeling its hard texture.
"This is just the start. There's still a lot for you to experience. Welcome to a human's life," Long Chen reminded Xun as he reached out his hand to help her get out of the Cauldron.
Xun grabbed Long Chen's hand and came out of the Cauldron.
"Here, get dressed," Long Chen gave her a pair of clothes.
Xun took the clothes and got dressed. She walked over to the mirror and looked at herself.
"This is me now... A real person," she muttered.
"Yeah, that's you now. You're not trapped in any ring. You're free now," Long Chen replied.
"If I want to go back to the ring temporarily, how do I do it? You said I should be able to, right?" Xun asked, turning around.
"That, ah, I lied actually. I didn't want you to waste the opportunity, so I told you what you wanted to hear. Actually, you can't leave that body now. Your connection to the storage ring is gone forever," Long Chen broke the news to Xun, sitting back on the bed.
Now the Xun was away from the Bloodline Temple; he felt slightly safer. She was out of the control of the ring. He could tell her the truth now, and she couldn't disappear to hide herself like before. This was exactly the moment he had been waiting for.
"WHAT?!" Xun yelled in shock.
"Yeah. That's the truth. In any case, why would you even want to go back? You can enjoy the human life now,* Long Chen told Xun, smiling.
"What the heck did you do?! Do you have any idea what you did?! It was important for me to be inside the rings. Otherwise..." An enraged Xun started yelling, but she stopped before she could say something she would regret.
"Otherwise, you can't free Tian Shen by sacrificing my bloodline and making me a waste?" Long Chen asked, smirking. "Is that what you were trying to say Xun?"
"W-w-what?! How did you..."
"It's not shocking, my dear Xun. It was actually pretty easy for me to know. As for how I knew, I won't tell you that secret," Long Chen let out, smiling.
"Making you a waste? What do you mean?" In the conversation between the two, Snake Monarch was the only one who was confused. He didn't understand what they were talking about.
"Tian Shen is the previous inheritor of this bloodline. At least that's what she is manipulated to think. In reality, he was a third who stole this bloodline from the rightful inheritor," Long Chen told the Snake Monarch.
"What nonsense are you speaking! He was no thief! He was the inheritor who was trapped in the Bloodline Temple for doing nothing wrong!" Xun told Long Chen.
"Nope. That's what you think happened. But your memories are manipulated. No almighty being created you to find heirs for his Bloodline."