Shadow Hack
chapter-703

After four hours, night covered Crow Soul Valley, but everything was still deathly still.

Inside the flame-ice cave behind Goddess Nuwa’s image, Miss An woke up and rubbed her temples.

“My head hurts, I… How did I suddenly lose consciousness?”

The first thing she noticed was that she and Li Yunmu were in a strange cave and curiously asked, “We…. How did we suddenly appear here?”

“You led me here!”

“I?”

Miss An pointed at her nose and asked with incredulity on her face, “How is that possible? I am not the least bit familiar with this place!”

“This is your home!”

Miss An was startled by Li Yunmu’s words. She shook her head while looking around. “Have you eaten something wrong today? Stop playing with me. I-I don’t even know who my parents are. How can this be my homeland? Moreover, I’ve grown up in the western region and have never left it.”

Li Yunmu led Miss An to the woman lying on stone bed and said, “This is your mother! You resemble each other greatly!”

Miss An looked at the clan chief of Crow Soul Valley and felt her heart tremble for some reason. But she was still unable to accept it.

She shook her head. “There are many people on Earth who look similar. I… How could I possibly be her daughter? Don’t fool me, this is impossible!”

Miss An chose to evade the topic, refusing to believe it. But at the same time, she wasn’t willing to abandon her mother. She felt like grieving.

“Since you are not her daughter, why are you crying?” Li Yunmu couldn’t help saying.

Miss An wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes and said, “You mind your own business! I…”

[Little girl, you aren’t being reasonable. You really are the daughter of the clan chief of Crow Soul Valley. Twenty years ago, because your birth brought calamity upon the clansmen, your mother sent you to the western region so that you could live properly. She bore the burden of the whole clan on her shoulders, so she had no choice but to abandon you.]

“Who? Who is speaking?”

Miss An quivered from head to toe. She couldn’t help but anxiously look all over the place. Who exactly was it that was talking to her just a moment ago?

Li Yunmu spoke to her in a calm voice. “That was the guy inside me. Didn’t you want to peel him off my body all along? Right now, he is talking directly to you.”

[I found this information in the memories of this woman. If you want to become the master of Crow Soul Valley, you will have to absorb her, meaning you’ll have to take the last bit of consciousness existing in your mother.

[Of course, you can also sacrifice yourself to resurrect your mother. You’ve got only these two options!]

The system’s words shocked Miss An. Could it be that the woman who looked very much like her lying on the stone bed was truly her mother?

“Why would I become the master of Crow Soul Valley? I don’t want to!”

Li Yunmu took a deep breath and said, “Miss An, I truly need to go to the Ancient Lands. If Crow Soul Valley isn’t restored to its original form, I won’t be able to enter the Ancient Lands and find the ancient secret method, which would put my world in danger.”

Seeing Li Yunmu’s anxiousness, Miss An waved her hand and said, “Alright, what do you suggest then? You can choose the method to restore the Crow Soul Valley!”

“Do you want to sacrifice yourself to resurrect your mother?”

Miss An snorted. “I am not a fool! I want to live, since you chose to let me become the master of Crow Soul Valley, then naturally I will absorbed her remnant consciousness. In any case, this is what she owes me!”

When Miss An said that, emotions flooded her heart. The unspeakable grief gradually swallowed her.

Teardrops also appeared in the eyes of the woman lying on the stone bed. How had she wished for her child in front of her to call her mother!

Even if she had been lying dormant for a long time, she felt no regret in allowing her daughter to become the master of Crow Soul Valley.

[Have you thought it over? The person lying here is truly your mother!] the system said indifferently.

Miss An nodded. “I know what she wants. She chose to send me away instead of letting me be killed because she wanted me to survive. Therefore, I can’t fail to live up to her expectations and have to live properly. If not for her, then for myself.”

After Miss An finished talking, Li Yunmu felt quite moved. Just recently, she had been telling him that she was an orphan, and right then, she had found her mother.

[Then I will help you absorb her consciousness!] the system said calmly.

Miss An nodded in reply. Then, her body was surrounded by some energy which kept constantly rotating around her. White smoke also surrounded the woman lying on the stone bed.

Gradually, Miss An felt her body being moved. Her consciousness seemed to have been invaded by another one.

After that, the white smoke surrounding the woman dissipated, and her body turned into a strand of green smoke that soon disappeared.

When Miss An saw it, she covered her face and began to weep soundlessly.

When she raised her head, she clearly saw a woman who looked completely like her wave at her and yell, “An Ning! Live happily!”

Miss An became the master of Crow Soul Valley, but what exactly did she need to do to restore the original appearance of Crow Soul Valley?

[That person who was conspiring against us had a spell formation arranged for herself. It is the key to restore the Crow Soul Valley.]

The system again set up a spell formation identical to the one they had seen inside the cave.

“How do you know that the previous spell formation looked like this?”

[I recorded everything that happened here, so I can see it clearly,] the system answered.

After the system finished laying out the spell formation, it was time to restore Crow Soul Valley to its original state.

Miss An felt like she understood what needed to happen next. Without waiting for the system or Li Yunmu to do anything, she cut her finger over the spell formation and poured a drop of her blood at its center.

Moments later, Li Yunmu saw a strange scene. The entire Crow Soul Valley began to restore itself to its former glory.