"Come, let me explain it to you slowly!"
Ian Chu led Vivian Ouyang to the side, took a sofa out from his Storage Ring, placed it on the ground, and pulled her down to sit beside him.
"Do you know where this is?" Ian asked, looking at her.
"No idea!"
Vivian Ouyang shook her head.
"Then do you know who Nina Feng is?" Ian asked again.
"No idea!" Vivian shook her head again, but suddenly seemed to remember something: "Just now, did you call me Nina Feng?"
"That's right!"
Ian nodded. "Nina Feng is the Divine Maiden of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan. She cultivates an extremely strange technique called the Great Dream Immortal Tome. This technique allows her to split her divine soul into three thousand parts, reincarnating as three thousand different beings. And you—you're one of her three thousand reincarnations!"
Hearing Ian's explanation, Vivian Ouyang couldn't help but look shocked, blurting out in disbelief, "Th-this can't be possible!"
Ian Chu said, "Try to remember what happened to you before!"
At his words, Vivian Ouyang gradually calmed down and started recalling, "After we separated on the Insect Horde battlefield, I returned to Myriad Flower Valley for seclusion. I kept cultivating until I lost all consciousness, and I only just woke up now!"
"That's right!"
Ian Chu said seriously, "You must've been fused with by Nina Feng while you were in seclusion!"
"But now..."
"Don't worry, I'll explain." Ian Chu waved his hand, then patiently explained how her soul mutated, how her obsession prevented Nina Feng from perfecting the Great Dream Immortal Tome, and how Nina ended up sealing herself inside Vivian's soul.
"So you're saying Nina Feng is inside me, and if she shows up again, I'll disappear?" Vivian's expression instantly changed, fear flashing across her face.
Ian Chu sneered, "That's her plan—she wants to use me to sever her obsession and help her perfect the Great Dream Immortal Tome. But she has no idea I'm not that easy to scheme against. This time, she'll lose more than she bargained for!"
Vivian immediately understood. No wonder Ian Chu called her Nina Feng before and even wanted to kill her—he thought she was Nina Feng, not because he truly wanted her dead. Once she figured it out, all the little grudges in her heart disappeared.
"So what do we do now?"
"You don't need to do anything! Come on, I'll take you somewhere!"
As he spoke, Ian Chu led Vivian Ouyang into the Divine Temple's training room, then said seriously, "From here on, don't resist. I'll use a divine art to dissolve Nina Feng's soul so you can absorb it and take her place!"
"Alright!"
Vivian knew that if she didn't get rid of Nina Feng, she would completely disappear from this world.
With a thought, Ian Chu raised his hand and sent out ten Puppet Mastery divine arts, firing them into the sealed soul cluster hidden within Vivian's soul.
Perhaps sensing danger.
Nina Feng tried to break the seal and regain control of the body, but at that moment, Ian Chu unleashed another soul-control divine art, suppressing her soul and making her stop struggling, passively accepting the Puppet Mastery arts.
With the help of the Soul-Control Brand, and with Nina Feng unable to resist, the ten Puppet Mastery divine arts instantly enslaved her soul.
"It's done!"
Ian Chu felt a surge of joy in his heart.
He reached out and forcibly pulled Nina Feng's soul out of Vivian Ouyang's soul. Then, a ball of flame appeared in his hand as he began to refine Nina Feng's soul.
Soon, Nina Feng's soul was refined into a mass of pure spiritual power. Except for her cultivation memories, Ian Chu erased all other memories from it.
"Vivian, absorb it. From now on, you'll be able to control Nina Feng's body!"
"Alright!"
Vivian nodded, took the ball of spiritual power, and swallowed it, slowly beginning to digest it.
Nina Feng's spiritual power was immense. With Vivian's soul strength, it would take years to digest, so Ian Chu set the time ratio to one to a thousand.
In a flash, twelve years passed inside the Divine Temple.
But in the outside world, only four or five days had gone by.
After twelve years of absorption, Vivian had completely assimilated all of Nina Feng's spiritual power and cultivation memories.
The next moment, Vivian slowly opened her eyes. When she saw Ian Chu in front of her, her eyes sparkled with joy—she knew she would never disappear from this world again.
Thinking of this, she called out Ian Chu's name and threw herself into his arms, unable to hold back: "Ian Chu, this fairy will never vanish again!"
"That's right!"
Ian Chu was overjoyed too. He lowered his head and kissed Vivian Ouyang's lips with bold affection, and she shyly returned the kiss.
After their embrace, Ian Chu led Vivian out of the Divine Temple and introduced her to everyone.
Everyone was surprised at where Vivian Ouyang had suddenly appeared from, and even more shocked by how close she was with Ian Chu. Princess Myra, for some reason, felt a pang of jealousy in her heart.
"Sister in white, is that you? I've missed you so much!"
Chloe Snow—Snowy—couldn't help but rush over in excitement.
"You... you're Snowy? How did you get so big!" Vivian said in genuine surprise.
"Sister in white, it's so wonderful to see you again!" Snowy said excitedly.
"My name is Vivian Ouyang. From now on, just call me Sister Vivian!"
"Greetings, Young Master Chu!"
"Hello, Young Master Chu!"