Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

Chapter 525: Ch 525 – A New Powerful Ally to cling to!

As a woman of the Phoenix Clan with Vermilion Bird bloodline, Changli had served as the National Advisor for a thousand years in the Great Dragon Dynasty. Humans and dragons ruled together here. The prejudice and cold stares she usually encountered were likely a thousand times worse than Yino’s.

“Not bad. You have ambition.”

After a long while, Changli nodded faintly with slight relief. She did not offer much evaluation.

She gave a relieved smile and finally stood up. Her black silk legs took a step forward from under her skirt and stopped a step away from Yino. Changli bent down slightly and extended her red hand toward the young boy kneeling in apprenticeship.

“I like young people with ideals and ambition.”

She pursed her red lips slightly and spoke gently.

At these words, Yino’s eyes widened instantly. He looked up carefully. He stared at the hand extended before him. It bore a Vermilion Bird totem tattoo, and its spiritual patterns shone with a golden-red halo.

“What? Are you worried it is hot?”

Changli tilted her head slightly.

Yino did not respond. He simply pressed his palm against hers silently.

She grasped Yino’s hand. In an instant, the Vermilion Bird totem on Changli’s hand radiated dazzling golden spiritual patterns. An unprecedented blaze of fire began to flow through Yino’s palm and penetrated his entire body.

However, unlike the visual effect of burning fire, Changli’s true energy did not burn. It simply made Yino feel warm all over. It felt as if even the resentment and violence accumulated deep in his heart were being purified into nothingness. The so-called state of becoming a Buddha in one’s heart was probably what Yino felt right now.

“How does it feel?”

After a long purification, Changli spoke softly.

Since she was already bending down, now that she was holding Yino’s hand, her face was almost close enough to touch the tip of Yino’s nose.

Yino subconsciously stood up to avoid it. His face inexplicably turned rosy.

“Heh… you really are just an adolescent little boy, are you not?”

Unknowingly, a slight blush also appeared on Changli’s face.

She straightened her waist and crossed her arms over her chest. She smiled with curled lips. Her gaze toward Yino shifted instantly from appreciation to a bit of playfulness.

That gentle yet teasing look seemed to say: I listened to you brag about grand ambitions for so long, but your nature is still just a ten-year-old little virgin.

“So… so… does this mean you agree to accept me as a disciple…”

Yino remained blushing. He raised his hand to scratch his face with nervousness.

He did not know why his face would not stop burning. He was not usually this shy. But now, his body was full of Changli’s fire energy. Perhaps because the impure thoughts in his mind had been purified, Yino lost his usual disguise and was expressing his true inner emotions? Was that why he could not suppress his blushing at all?

Could it really be the effect of her fire?

Thinking of this, Yino looked at the slightly teasing smile on Changli’s face again. He suddenly realized the truth.

No wonder she suddenly covered her lips to steal a laugh…!

She pretended to pull Yino up by the hand, but actually used the opportunity to inject her fire to draw out Yino’s true feelings.

But perhaps Changli did not expect that once the fire entered his stomach, Yino’s usual calculating disguise would be purified. It left only the instinctive admiration and desire of an adolescent boy for a beautiful woman.

“I suppose so. You have passed the preliminary stage.”

“However, you are not allowed to call me Master just yet.”

“My disciple is not someone just anyone can become. In the coming days, I will give you several tests… Only when you have truly proven your Dao Heart, will I allow you to address me as Master.”

Changli stood with her hands behind her back and turned away. She stopped teasing Yino and restrained the shy redness on her face.

Yino remained on one knee behind her. He cupped his fists in salute. “This Disciple understands.”

Seeing him so obedient, Changli could not help but sigh with unbearable compassion.

“Actually, even if you did not come to find me today to become a disciple, I would have still found time to recruit you to the Dragon Palace in the future.”

“Is it because… of the relationship between my mother and you?”

Yino did not dare look up but still asked tentatively.

Changli froze for a moment at these words. She just wanted to get a bit closer to Yino, but she did not expect him to say something so shocking.

“To ask such a question proves you already asked me once in the illusion?”

“Mm… But just like before, Master… oh, your ladyship, you did not answer.”

Yino stopped halfway. He deliberately corrected himself as if he had misspoken.

Hearing him call her Master so awkwardly, Changli narrowed her eyes. She hesitated in her heart for another few seconds.

“Accepting you as a disciple has nothing to do with your mother.”

She looked back again. She turned her back to him, hands behind her, and gazed at the sunset’s burning clouds in the western sky.

“Nothing to do with mother?” Yino heard an unexpected answer.

“Even if you were not her child, as long as you still possess this special Heavenly Mandate characteristic, no matter how many times the timeline repeats, I would still accurately discover your uniqueness from anywhere in the world at a certain moment and find you…”

Speaking to this point, Changli paused involuntarily.

In her mind, she recalled the billions of future deductions. She remembered the endings where Yino died without a burial place across billions of timelines…

Although Changli did not think she was wrong for not saving Yino, seeing a Yino who had truly defied the heavens to change his fate standing before her caused a shock. It stirred ripples of prejudice and guilt toward this child deep in Changli’s heart.

When she resented the unfairness of the world, was Yino not also a discarded chess piece she had looked at with cold contempt and thrown away at will?

“Sorry…”

“Master, what did you just say?”

Yino blinked and asked curiously.

But soon, he hurriedly patted his own clumsy mouth. “Sorry, Lady National Advisor…”

“Never mind…”

Changli sighed. She was finally conquered by him.

“Perhaps this is what I owe you in this life. Take this Vermilion Jade. In the future, just call me Master.”

“!!!”