Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation Chapter 37 – Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Transcendent in the Human World

Chapter 37: Chapter 37 Transcendent in the Human World Chapter 37: Chapter 37 Transcendent in the Human World Jiang Ning climbed the stairs without pause and reached the 16th floor.

The Spiritual Consciousness Tracking Spell indicated that Lin Zida's mark was located in the east unit, motionless at the moment.

Jiang Ning's Divine Sense passed through the walls and sensed two people inside, one was Lin Zida, and the other was a man around thirty-five or thirty-six years old.

Was Ding Shuyan not residing here?

Jiang Ning pondered and continued to use his Divine Sense to explore several bedrooms.

The house was large, formed by connecting a middle unit with an end unit.

This indicated that the household had some background, buying two apartments at once and combining them, giving them more shared space than a large flat—clearly, money was not an issue for them.

Moreover, before merging the two units, the construction plans needed to be approved by the authorities, and generally, such through-wall renovations were not approved.

It was rumored that Ding Shuyan came from a well-connected background, so for her family, this was just a trivial matter.

Jiang Ning continued with his investigation using Divine Sense, and he discovered something unusual in a bedroom to the east.

His Divine Sense detected a dress, which looked almost identical to the one Ding Shuyan wore the other night.

“This must be Ding Shuyan's residence,” Jiang Ning withdrew his Divine Sense.

Jiang Ning looked at the door, knowing that with his ability, his Divine Sense combined with a burst of Sword Qi could unlock it, but that would cause quite a commotion and surely alert the people inside.

Jiang Ning had observed from downstairs earlier, the windows of the building were sealed with aluminum alloy, making it impossible for him to sneak in from the side.

“This is troublesome.”

Ultimately, his cultivation was too low, and he could use too few spells. Otherwise, a single use of Divine Sense could have made the people inside hallucinate and open the door on their own.

Since Jiang Ning could not do it, he decided to stand at the door and cultivate while waiting for Ding Shuyan to return.

After about an hour, during which Jiang Ning had swallowed a Qi Gathering Pill,
he said, “She's coming.”

The elevator stopped at the 16th floor; his Divine Sense struggled to pass through the elevator's steel walls, and a silhouette appeared within his perception, making it out to be Ding Shuyan.

At that moment, Ding Shuyan felt a chilling sensation, and her bright eyes hid a hint of terror.

The premonition from her Sixth Sense had appeared again, stronger than ever before, with an almost overwhelming malevolence causing her body to tremble slightly.

“Oh?”

Enveloped by Jiang Ning's Divine Sense, he naturally noticed the changes in her.

‘It's surprising. I didn't expect to find someone with such a sensitive Sixth Sense in the modern world.'
People born with a sensitive Sixth Sense often trust their instincts to the point of paranoia, as they have never been wrong before.

‘Then it's not surprising. The person who directed Lin Zida to investigate me is Ding Shuyan.'
Jiang Ning truly felt a bit unlucky. The first time he took action in the modern world, he was detected—what kind of luck was that?

Had he known this would happen, he would have acted somewhere deserted from the start.

As the elevator doors slowly opened, Ding Shuyan, merely a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, although braver than most, was particularly terrified after realizing someone had spied on her in the confined elevator space.

The constant sensation of being watched, alerting her continuously, forced her to take a deep breath as she stepped out of the elevator.

Jiang Ning, still concealing his form, focused on Ding Shuyan and squinted slightly.

He suddenly moved, his Spiritual Power transforming into a large hand, grabbing Ding Shuyan's fair neck.

Ding Shuyan trembled, her dark eyes flickering, trying to locate the person in the shadows, but only the continuous warnings from her Sixth Sense reached her.

An unknown fear enveloped her, as if death might take her at any moment.

‘It's definitely the Invisible Man, he knows I'm investigating him, and now he's come for me!'
A wave of regret suddenly surged in Ding Shuyan's heart; she had trusted her Sixth Sense too much, thus sending someone to investigate the truth.

But she had overlooked that if the person she was investigating was a transcendent being, then once detected, they would definitely come for her.

The sensation of being choked around her neck continuously reminded her.

That person had come for her.

What fate awaited her?

Having received an elite education since childhood, Ding Shuyan had thought she was not afraid of death. However, when the real pressure of death struck, she was terrified.

She feared enduring severe torment; she feared a disgraceful death.

Who was he?

Was he Jiang Ning?

Regardless of who it was, she needed to escape; otherwise, facing a transcendent existence, her end would be miserable.

She had seen much of the world and knew the dark side of human nature.

Ding Shuyan slowly moved her feet, inching toward the door—a few meters away, which took her a full five minutes to reach.

Her fingers pressed on the door lock, the fingerprint recognition unlocking the door.

She wanted to immediately flee into the house, but the choking on her neck became fiercer.

Ding Shuyan closed the door, but her mood did not improve at all; she knew that the shadow had followed her into the house.

“You're back!” Lin Zida said.

Ding Shuyan felt the choking sensation on her neck ease considerably, but it still hovered in front of her, ready to clamp down at any moment.

Unchanged in expression, she responded,
“Mhm, I'm back.”

Lin Zida stepped closer, and Ding Shuyan knew he wanted to talk to her about the investigation. She wanted to stop him but dared not.

She worried that the Invisible Man would kill everyone present.

“I had Wang Yong check—Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong get along very well and always go home together.”

“That night, Song Sheng had a fight with their classmates, knocked into Xue Yuantong's desk, and Xue Yuantong was hit by the desk. Then Jiang Ning stepped forward and made Song Sheng apologize,” Lin Zida said.

If it had been earlier, Ding Shuyan would have been pleased to hear this news, since it filled in her deduction and made things seem more reasonable.

This game, entirely at her manipulation, would become all the more interesting.

But now, she wished she could block it all out.

After Lin Zida spoke up, her investigation of Jiang Ning was completely exposed.

And that person was right by her side.

“Okay, I get it,” Ding Shuyan said with inner sadness, though her face showed nothing; her aunt had taught her early on how to keep her expression unchanging, like Taishan collapsing in front of her without altering her color.

Lin Zida didn't notice and continued to play his game; he had recently found another game called ‘Dark Souls' which was increasingly addictive.

Ding Shuyan walked into her room and closed the door behind her.

Then she leaned back in her chair, facing the wall.

In a low voice, Ding Shuyan muttered, “You can kill me, but I remind you, I've backed up the investigation files in the mailbox. If anything happens to me, my aunt will take over, and with her capabilities, she will definitely catch you.”

Jiang Ning laughed. Did she dare threaten him?

A surge of Spiritual Power clenched Ding Shuyan's mouth as Jiang Ning activated his Divine Sense, and a Shocking God Stab struck her.

Ding Shuyan's Sixth Sense wildly warned her, and the next instant, a soul-wrenching pain descended upon her. She groaned, her mouth gagged, and her delicate body trembled.

After a long while, she could finally breathe; the sweat on Ding Shuyan's forehead soaked her hair, clinging to her face, her eyebrows furrowed, and her eyes weary, possessing a disturbing, chaotic beauty.

The pen on the desk moved without wind, revealing a line of writing:
‘Continue investigating, and die.'
Ding Shuyan stared at the line for a long time, wordless.

At this moment, the proud air she had cultivated from childhood utterly shattered.

She had thought she was different, priding herself on seeing through the laws of social operation.

Her peers seemed naive and ignorant in comparison; she thought she towered above them, the player of the chess.

Now she realized that her intelligence, beauty, experience, and family background were useless under the stark difference in absolute power.

If Jiang Ning wanted her dead, she would die.

This sensation of having her life controlled by someone else was overwhelmingly oppressive.

Slowly, she said in a hoarse voice:
“I will not investigate you anymore.”

“Any trace of you, I will erase.”

“Please spare me.”

That pain, having experienced it once, she did not want to endure it a second time.

And she finally understood why Song Sheng had screamed on the sports field; he had faced the same attack that day.

That person, a Transcendent, she was sure it was Jiang Ning.

Yet Ding Shuyan dared not utter a word, knowing that once she spoke the name, she would undoubtedly die today.

A white pill fell onto the table.

Another line of writing appeared:
‘Swallow it, prove your sincerity, or die.'
Ding Shuyan looked at the white pill, knowing it must be some sort of poison.

Without hesitation, she swallowed it.

In the shadows, Jiang Ning's expression remained cold.

At first, he considered the option of killing Ding Shuyan, but then thought killing her might bring even more investigation.

It might be better to cut it off here; Ding Shuyan was intelligent, and alive, she was more useful than dead.

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