48 Aurelia Julius Caesar Magna Inventor

The Cthulhu word from Liu Xu Feng mouth made all the light source within the room dimmed for a moment before return to normal. Everyone except Xia Zheng looking at each other in distress and alarm. The ominous air from nowhere engulfing the room, the atmosphere getting darker and darker despite the time of day.

Xia Zheng then lifts up his cane and then smashed its point end on the ground. The smashing sound reverberates mixed with the cleansing white qi that explodes from the tip of his cane. All of the ominous air disperse like a tiny fire being doused by the rainstorm. But...

Suddenly, Liu Xi Ling collapse without reason like a puppet that its string got cut. Xia Zheng quickly uses his spiritual qi to support her body and not let her head smash on the floor.

Liu Xu Feng quickly comes to the side of his daughter and checking her pulse. His face pales after checking her pulse and looking at Xia Zheng with doubt and blaming.

"Recheck her pulse," Xia Zheng said as he hides his left hand that's forming many hand seal behind his back.

"Huh? Her pulse has returned" Liu Xu Feng exclaim in confusion.

"Eh? Father?" Liu Xi Ling said in confusion and looks around but when she's looking at Xia Zheng her eye sharper with hostility for a second before it disappears.

After Liu Xi Ling returns to normal, Xia Zheng then saying to everyone in a serious tone.

"Don't speak that hideous name again. That hideous name priest has the power over you for a long time. You might return to being an unreasonable power-hungry person again."

He then turns to Liu Xi Ling.

"I have some business that needs to speak with Miss Liu alone. Could you please give us sometimes?" Ge said to both of her father and grandfather.

Both of them looking at each other before turning to smile at their (grand)daughter with a deep but kinky and meaningful smile which irritated her a little bit.

Sir Xia Zheng despite being blind, His cultivation is unmatched by none within this realm, and his demeanor is upright and respectable like a hero of old and his face is handsome. His only flawed is that he's blind, but from what they saw today, they could say that they can disregard this flaw. Because his movement nearly has no different than ordinary people.

"Then we will leave this matter to your hand sir Xia," The grandfather said in respect before bringing his son-in-law out of the study room and leave both Xia Zheng and their (grand)daughter alone.

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After both Liu Xu Feng and Liu Fu Ming go out of the room. Xia Zheng brings the talisman out of his storage ring and throws it around to seal this room.

The talisman is in place, the strong qi divides the boundary between inside and outside of the room. Now no one can hear what they are going to talk even they are competing in a shouting match at each other.

Xia Zheng then starting to ask some question to Liu Xi Ling.

"Tell me the truth, Who are you?"

His direct question makes Liu Xi Ling jolt, Her heartbeat is faster than usual, but she quickly calms down before smiling at Xia Zheng.

"Yes, I'm not Liu Xi Ling." She answers as she stands up and turns to looks at Xia Zheng who's sitting on the luxurious chair.

She bends in curtsy at Xia Zheng and starts to re-introduce herself despite knowing that Xia Zheng can't see her.

"Let me formally re-introduce myself. My name is Aurelia Julius Caesar Magna Inventor. Aurelia is my name, Julius is my sub-clan name, Caesar is my clan name, and Magna Inventor is my title name." She then stands up straight and continues.

"I've come from the planet called earth. I'm working as a scientist at the Roman Republic Central Laboratorium. We're experimenting with our invention before it's a malfunction and explodes. I died, and my conscious awoke in this body."

Aurelia introduces herself and needs to gamble come clear with him about her real identity otherwise this Xia Zheng might decide to exorcise her. Because a moment ago when he's using his yang qi to exorcize the ominous evil air, it also expel her soul from Liu Xi Ling body.

At first she tried to act like nothing happen after her soul return to Liu Xi Ling body but with Xia Zheng hidden hand seal that calls her back to Liu Xi Ling body let she realize that it's impossible to deceive this man because he's the one who returns her soul to Liu Xi Ling body in the first place.

Xia Zheng nodded and smiled at her in astonish like he just founding a rare treasure.

"Fascinating, Then what should I call you then? Aurelia or Liu Xi Ling?" He asks.

"You can call me whatever you want, but please call me Liu Xi Ling when a third person is around." She said and sighed in defeat, She doesn't know if this decision of her to reveal her secret is correct or not. But, She needs to bite the bullet.

Xia Zheng silence for a moment as he touches his chin like he's thinking or deciding something important. He nodded to himself like he already decided on something, then he removes his blindfold.

The color of his iris is white cloudy with no sign of response when she tried to test if his eye response to her movement. This means that his eyes are surely blinded.

But, Xia Zheng brought a white porcelain pill bottle out from his storage ring, he pours a pill from this bottle into his hand and eats it.

In a short moment, His eyes return to normal. A pair of beautiful black obsidian eyes appears in place of those cloudy white eyes like there's nothing wrong with his eye in a first place.

"What!?" Aurelia exclaim in astonished. What she saw is an unbelievable scene even for the standard of this wuxia like a magical world, because from what she knew on both of her own world and this world from the meager knowledge of Liu Xi Ling. That it's impossible to restore the blinded eyes to normal and she already checks the reaction of his eye that it's 100% completely blind.

"Aaaaahhhh It's been a month since I last saw something with my own eyes. Mind eyes are great and all but it still can't compare to seeing things with your own eyes. Huh?" Xia Zheng utters in complaining tone to himself before catching Liu Xi Ling who's so shocked that her mouth opened large enough to put an egg into it.

"Cough! Miss Aurelia right? It's ok to call you Aurelia right? Or should I call you Miss Caesar or Miss Julius?" He asked with curiosity.

Aurelia snaps out of her shocked state with the light coughing from the man in front of her.

"Ah, Ye… Yes?" She nervously asks and stares straight at his eye like she wants to discern something from it.

The man chuckling a little bit before changing his demeanor from a carefree to a bit of added formality but his nonchalant air can still be seen from his attitude unlike a moment ago before he's removing his blindfold.

"Ok, Let me re-introduce myself as well, My real name is Zhu Wu Shang, the son of Zhu family. Zhu is my family name and Wu Shang, is my name. Now I'm working toward destroying the Immortal Palace sect in the upper realm." He said with a confident smile.

Somehow Aurelia feel the great anger rising when he speaking about the upper realm even she didn't have any dealing with the upper realm. Maybe because she knew about Liu clan grievance with the upper realm, but the anger that comes from disdain and sympathy for the Liu clan shouldn't be strong like this. It's like it comes from somewhere deeper within her soul.