The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

366: I’ll Help You So Let’s Find It Together

Using an elegant air step no one had seen before, Feng Wu was in front of the woman in an instant.
The woman barely registered Feng Wu’s movement before she was knocked back by the sword’s hilt.

“Ah!” The blow to her stomach made her feel as though her organs were shattering painfully.
It made her spit out a thick blob of blood.
A trace of fear showed in her eyes afterwards.

“Feng Wu! Are you all right?!” Zo looked worriedly at Feng Wu after she finished her fight.

Why are you asking her? Isn’t the one injured the other. . .  The people enjoying the show thought.

Feng Wu shook her head, letting him know she was OK.
The little baby sitting atop her head hadn’t been disturbed at all, having laid in her hair since the start of the fight.

Rui Baby looked at the woman on the ground in disdain.
Geeze.
The woman was really ugly.
Rui Baby was going to have to wash his eyes out later.
The sight of her was polluting his vision.

Rui beasts were different from other beasts.
Beauty and ugliness weren’t based on outward physical appearance – it was what was on the inside that made a person’s appearance.
Those with ugly hearts but beautiful bodies appeared as ugly monsters to them.

The opposite was also true.
A person with a beautiful heart but an ugly physical appearance could look average in their eyes.

Those who were beautiful, both inside and outside, were elevated to gods in seconds.

So in the eyes of this rui, Feng Wu was an incredibly beautiful person.
Rui Baby had never met anyone so beautiful in all his years.

“I’m OK.” Feng Wu said.

“Let’s go then.” Zo noticed the others were looking at them strangely.
He took Feng Wu’s hand and led her toward the tunnel path she’d chosen earlier.

The people left behind watched as Feng Wu and Zo walked into the tunnel.
It made them pause.
Should they follow?

Indecision was a bad disease to have.
One brother hesitated for a moment, but finally walked down the path after Feng Wu and Zo.

Since the same path was picked by three people, the rest of the group decided to follow along as well.
They could end up picking the wrong path if they chose themselves, so going with the majority was a safer option.

Feng Wu had said they would die if they picked the other path.
They had no idea if what she said was true or not, but the most credible thing to do was to put your money were your mouth was, and she had already taken the first steps herself.
She picked the path she said wasn’t deadly.

What she said had some effect on the group, and so they followed behind Feng Wu and Zo.

There was a herd mentality and few wanted to go the other way.
Even the woman beaten by Feng Wu didn’t pick the other tunnel pathway.
Everyone had picked this path.
If she chose the other one, she would be going it alone.

Walking alone would be too dangerous.
Even if she wanted to kill Feng Wu right away, she wouldn’t gamble and take the path no one took.

Feng Wu and Zo didn’t know this.
They kept walking carefully through the crystal-walled tunnel.

There was a lot of light in the tunnel because of all the crystals so Feng Wu put her light away.
It was a winding passage filled with silence so it was hard to tell how long it was or where it led to.
They just kept walking and didn’t see any of the people following behind them.

“Feng Wu, I’m sorry I dragged you down this path.” He felt uncomfortable as he remembered how the woman had attacked him earlier.
The strong will want to kill the weak.
They didn’t need a reason either.
It was a sorrow the weak had to live with.
If Feng Wu hadn’t stopped the woman, he doubted anyone would have stood up for him.

“Why did you come here?” Senior Ming Xi said it was a dangerous place.
He hadn’t even let Jier come, so why did Zo come?

Feng Wu looked closely at Zo but she couldn’t figure it out.

“I want to find something, something that will change my destiny.” It would change the world’s destiny as well.

“What is it?” If it was anyone else, she wouldn’t have asked further, but she didn’t understand, and her habit was to ask for clarification if she didn’t understand.
She didn’t think about the question causing the other person embarrassment or anything like that.

As for Zo, he wouldn’t have answered had it been anyone else who asked, but this was Feng Wu, so he couldn’t help but answer.

“The Heart of Water.
It’s also called the Heart of Water Elemental.
It’s a treasure that takes tens of thousands of years, maybe even longer, to form from condensed water element.
My body’s been poor since I was little.
I have innate ability for water magic, but my ability is too low for me to become a water magician.
I have no ability to be a sword user either.

I heard the Heart of Water might be hidden inside the tomb, so that’s why I came.
Only when I find it will my water talent improve and I can become a water magician.”

The Heart of Water? Feng Wu thought for a while.
She remembered reading about the five elemental hearts.
They were rare treasures, not seen in a thousand years.
They were on par with divine treasures.

“I’ll help you find it.” Feng Wu understood Zo wasn’t healthy and he needed the Heart of Water to get better, that it would make him stronger.

Master said the world belonged to the strong.
If you weren’t strong enough, then you could become cannon fodder at any time.
But what was cannon fodder? Her master hadn’t made it clear.

Although she didn’t know what a cannon fodder was, she knew she didn’t want Zo to be one.
It had to be pitiful to be one.
This was the conclusion she came to based on her master’s expression whenever he mentioned it.

“Thank you Feng Wu.” Zo was sincerely thankful.
They hadn’t known each other long, but she had been very kind to him.
He was really worried about scumbags taking advantage of her.

They talked as they walked and thirty minutes later they came upon a stone gate three meters high by three meters wide with ten identical murals on either side.
The paintings were of the same person in different settings.
It was a man of obvious high standing. . .