Tranxending Vision - Chapter 537

Chapter 537: 537

Xia Lei had actually already asked Princess Yongmei all the questions he wanted to ask . However, this Princess Yongmei before him was vastly different from the Princess Yongmei from before . This one right now was the most complete version of her thus far .

“What do you think I am?” Princess Yongmei raised her arms and twirled in a circle before Xia Lei . She was so beautiful she could charm the birds and the beasts . She had all the right curves, front and back, and she was oh so sexy . She had no clothing either, so all her secret places were on display, uncovered . Add her lifelike visual to the mix, and she could easily incite the desires of any man, and make him do her bidding .

“Stop playing around . Answer my question seriously,” said Xia Lei . He was aiming to get Princess Yongmei to obey him, and he knew that this would not be easy . He was trying to tame a spoiled princess of the Ming dynasty after all!

“All right, I’ll answer your question seriously . ” Princess Yongmei had a wicked smile on her pale face . “I am a woman . A woman without clothes . ”

Xia Lei was speechless .

This Princess Yongmei was not only arrogant but cheeky, too .

“Are you happy with this answer?”

“You don’t even have a body . Do you count as a woman?” said Xia Lei .

“Must I have a body to be a woman? Human bodies will grow old and die sooner or later, but the soul can live on forever . You represent the former, and I represent the latter . ”

Xia Lei felt like a whole new horizon had opened up to him, and he could not help thinking about the implications . In religious teachings, people’s souls either went up to Heaven after they died, or down to Hell . People who were still alive could not see the dead . Several scientific studies had been conducted about what happens after death, but no one could prove that a soul remained after death . A soul was also considered to be complete nonsense by modern people, but there was a live example from the Ming dynasty right in front of Xia Lei right now!

Princess Yongmei had used this way to tell him the answer . She was a soul .

“You say you are a soul . Why is there only one of you?”

“I don’t know either . ”

“You don’t know? How is this possible?”

“I’m looking for the answer too . ”

“If you are a soul, then there must be more souls than you on this Earth . I can see you, so I can see other souls . However, I have not seen any other soul other than you . What’s going on here?”

Princess Yongmei shook her head . “I don’t know . ”

“Plus, I found your corpse in Afghanistan, and also in the sunken ship . What’s going on with these two bodies?”

Princess Yongmei suddenly drew close to Xia Lei, and her face almost touched his . Her eyes were full of surprise . “What did you say? I had two bodies? How is that possible?”

Xia Lei froze on the spot .

From Princess Yongmei’s reaction, she did not know that she had had two bodies . Additionally, she did not like her body to be referred to as a ‘corpse’ .


“Did you have a twin sister?” asked Xia Lei .

“No, definitely not,” said Princess Yongmei . She then stared straight at Xia Lei . “Tell me, is this true? I have two bodies?”

“It’s true . I saw them myself . They were exactly the same . And please don’t come so close to me . You don’t know how cold you are . ”

Xia Lei felt like he was going to be frozen solid in that short time that she had drawn close to him . It was a cold which seeped into the bones, and difficult to describe . This coldness was not obvious when he was opening up the void, but in the close quarters of the cockpit, the cold was obvious .

“I must find out what is going on . ” Princess Yongmei took several steps back, and continued, “I know you want to find out what these alloy pieces are, and the truth behind them . What I can tell you is that I don’t know . In actual fact, I received an order from my father, the emperor, to take the compass and search for those alloy pieces . ”



“Your father-emperor did not tell you why he was looking for the alloy pieces?”

“He mentioned it to me once . It’s to live forever . ”

“To live forever?” Xia Lei’s heart thumped .

“To live forever…” Princess Yongmei laughed abruptly . “I went to Afghanistan . I made the Hun tribe there my subjects, but I only found one piece there . The compass pointed me onwards, west . I went to Jerusalem, but I could not find anything there . That place was the holy ground of the Christians, the church of Christ . There was no way for me to do much unless I took control of the city, but I lacked the power . Our Ming troops could not cross the Himalayas to Jerusalem either . I returned to Afghanistan, and built the City of the White Horse of Tomorrow, to prepare to make that city my base . I was going to gather my strength, recruit troops, grow my military strength . But I fell ill, and I did not know what the sickness was . The doctors I brought could not treat me . And then…”

Princess Yongmei did not continue .

“And then what?” asked Xia Lei anxiously .

Princess Yongmei laughed bitterly . “And then I knew nothing, till I saw you . ”

This was Princess Yongmei’s treasure-seeking experience?

Xia Lei sank into his thoughts . Princess Yongmei’s memories were missing a lot of important events, but he believed that what she told him was true . She had gone to Jerusalem, and this explained why the Sacred Heart necklace was in her tomb . Another thing was that Princess Yongmei had no idea what illness she had contracted, but he knew . Those who came into contact with the ancient alloy had one of two possible outcomes – madness, or death . Ning Jing was still being held under observation in the hospital right now . She was one live example .

Xia Lei’s brain quickly pieced together the clues Princess Yongmei had provided .

Princess Yongmei’s treasure seeking route had been to Afghanistan, then Jerusalem .

She had gone treasure-seeking on the orders of Emperor Yongle, in search of eternal life .

Princess Yongmei had gone mad because of her interaction with the ancient alloy, and she did not know what happened after she’d gone mad .



These were what he had gleaned from his conversation with Princess Yongmei, and it was better than the nothing he had known before . However, Xia Lei had another big question looming in his head now . From Princess Yongmei’s memories, he was sure that she had only gone to Afghanistan and Jerusalem, but not to the vassal states of the Ming dynasty . So what was with the Princess Yongmei in the sunken ship?

“I can tell you one thing . The illness you suffered was madness . Those who come into contact with the alloy will either go mad or die . What you suffered was probably the former . What I don’t get is that you don’t remember what happened after you went mad, but why can you remember your experiences during your life after you met me?” asked Xia Lei .

Princess Yongmei was silent for a bit before she said, “I can see, in that strange void, I can see . In there, the things I’d done would mysteriously appear before my eyes . I can see myself walking, eating, writing a letter to my emperor… But I’ve never seen… how I became like this . ”

This was her tactful way of saying that she did not know how she died .

“One last question for you . You are sure you did not go to the Ryuku Islands?”

“I am sure . The City of the White Horse of Tomorrow is a considerable distance from the Ryukyu Islands . I had received a royal command . How could I turn my back on my emperor’s orders, and go to the Ryukyu Islands?” said Princess Yongmei .

It seemed the female corpse in the sunken ship had become an unsolved mystery .

Xia Lei found it all very strange, but his body had gone through so many strange developments that he no longer found it so strange . The mystery of the female corpse in the sunken ship was quite mild when one compared it to the secret of AE .

“My final question . I know you want very much to get close to the necklace around my neck . I’ve talked to you before, and you also know that there is a capsule in this pendant . My question is – Why do you want it?”

“It makes me feel comfortable . I feel like I’m alive when I get close to it, like I have a body of flesh and blood . And it also seems to make me more powerful . ” Princess Yongmei looked pleadingly at Xia Lei . “Can you let me get close to it? I swear to you that I will not destroy it . I have no body, and I have no way to eat it, so you don’t have to worry about losing it . ”

Xia Lei hesitated . “Just this one time . But you must come out when I tell you to come out . ”

Princess Yongmei spoke excitedly, “Yes, of course, I promise . ”

Xia Lei took off the necklace around his neck and held it out to Princess Yongmei . He did not want her to come rushing at his neck, because it was a truly uncomfortable feeling .



Princess Yongmei’s body suddenly collapsed on itself, and she was compressed into a ball of light in the blink of an eye . She winked into the pendant .

Xia Lei felt the pendant in his hand become ice-cold all of a sudden . It felt like an ice cube . This cold feeling vanished quickly, however, and the pendant returned to its normal temperature .

What was Princess Yongmei doing in there?

Xia Lei’s left eye twitched at the thought and the outer shell of the pendant disappeared from his vision . He saw the AE capsule in the pendant, and the powder which the capsule contained .

There was just the powder, no Princess Yongmei, and no light .

A minute passed . “All right, come out,” said Xia Lei .

But Princess Yongmei did not come out . The AE capsule remained the same too, no more, no less . However, the Princess Yongmei who had gone into the pendant had disappeared .

“Hello? Did you not hear me? Come out, or I’ll trap you back in that void,” threatened Xia Lei .

Princess Yongmei still did not appear .

Xia Lei then used his X-ray vision on the ancient alloy . The terror gripped him once again, holding his body captive before it disappeared . Every time he did this before, Princess Yongmei would be either released or imprisoned . However, this time seemed to be an exception . He endured the torture of the ‘door-opening’, and the door was open, but Princess Yongmei did not go in .

“This…” Xia Lei stood in the cockpit, flabbergasted . He did not know what to do anymore .

Princess Yongmei had disappeared in such a bizarre fashion .

The yacht continued on its way to China, its hull cutting through the waves .

Xia Lei’s thoughts ran with the wind, off to places he didn’t even know . He had no idea what he should do next .