Wen Rou made a decision and gazed deeply at the Mind Body of Jian Ruyan, which was subdued by Mu Jinyu, then let her consciousness return to her body and opened her eyes.
"Xiaorou, what's wrong? Could it be that Little Yanzi's soul is inside you?"
Standing by, Su Zijin, seeing Wen Rou open her eyes again, couldn't help but ask anxiously.
Su Zijin had just heard Wen Rou say something upon waking up and then fell into a dazed state along with Mu Jinyu, ignoring the outside world.
She understood that Mu Jinyu must have entered Wen Rou's Sea of Consciousness and the two were talking inside the Sea of Consciousness, which explained their current state.
Then she pondered the words Wen Rou had said upon waking up, and gradually coming to her senses, she guessed that Jian Ruyan must have attempted Soul Seizing on Wen Rou right before passing away.
This prompted her question.
"Yes, Mom, let's talk about it later..."
Wen Rou looked up and said to Su Zijin, glanced at Mu Jinyu who was standing by with his eyes closed, knowing he was subduing Jian Ruyan's soul, preventing her from interfering with her own Soul Seizing, which was why he hadn't snapped out of it yet.
Taking a deep breath, Wen Rou didn't talk to Yu Linglong and the others around her, started to recite the incantations of the Technique of Soul Seizing silently, then raised her hand and placed it on Jian Ruyan's forehead, to prevent her from uncontrollably seizing the bodies of Yu Linglong, Lin Qiaoxia, and the others during the process.
"You all step back!" Wen Rou, not entirely reassured and fearing an accident, told Su Zijin and the others.
"Uh..."
Hearing Wen Rou's words, Su Zijin and the other women looked at each other, then Su Zijin and Mu Hongchen decisively backed away and had Yu Linglong, Lin Qiaoxia, and Xu Qingya follow them!
After retreating several dozen meters.
Only then did they stop and tentatively asked, "Is this okay?"
"Mm." Wen Rou responded with a hum, closed her eyes, and began to operate the Cultivation Pathways of the Technique of Soul Seizing, slowly withdrawing her Spiritual Mind from the Sea of Consciousness.
Soon, Wen Rou felt her body lighten, as if she could be blown away by the wind at any moment, out of control.
She instinctively looked down and could "see" below herself with Jian Ruyan and the unmoving Mu Jinyu standing beside them.
"Is this what it feels like to have the soul leave the body? It's pretty magical!"
Wen Rou murmured softly, unheard by anyone.
She suddenly thought of Tieguai Li from the Eight Immortals, a handsome man with profound Taoist practices capable of astral projection. Once, during his astral projection, he asked his disciple to watch over his body for seven days. If he did not return, it meant that he had ascended to immortality, and his disciple could cremate his physical body. On the sixth day, with the disciple needing to return home and believing the master would not return, he cremated Tieguai Li's body and left. On the evening of the seventh day, Tieguai Li returned but could not find his body, panicked and in distress. Without a body to sustain his soul, it flickered like a candle in the wind, and he was forced to enter a crippled corpse.
Thus, he became known as Tieguai Li!
Wen Rou thought her situation was similar to that of Tieguai Li; she, too, had no body to return to and could only use Jian Ruyan's body.
The one consolation was that Jian Ruyan was not an unsightly monster. Her appearance compared favorably with Wen Rou's, making it easier to accept.
Otherwise, she might not have been able to make the decision to seize Jian Ruyan in return.
"Whew..."
A gentle breeze blew by, and Wen Rou immediately felt her soul tremble, daring not to think further, she swiftly darted towards Jian Ruyan's physical body!
A few minutes passed.
"Wen Rou, please take care of Little Yanzi, she's not in critical condition, but after all, she's narrowly escaped death and it might take some time for her to wake up. Please look after her."
Having said this to "Jian Ruyan," Mu Jinyu then flew rapidly toward Yu Shenfeng and his disciple at the foot of Yinlong Mountain!
"Okay." Wen Rou responded, also with a peculiar expression, and looked at the unmoving "herself."
Having swapped bodies with Jian Ruyan, there was a strange novelty to it that required her some time to slowly adjust.
Wen Rou carefully looked at "herself," and softly said, "So this is how I appear to others."
This was the first time she had viewed the full appearance of "herself" from an outsider's perspective, and it truly felt very special.
Then, Wen Rou activated Jian Ruyan's distinctive True Cold Ice Essence and conjured an ice mirror out of thin air. She looked into the mirror at Jian Ruyan's face and smiled a "Wen Rou"-style smile.
The cold aura of Jian Ruyan seemed much softer all of a sudden, not as icy as before.
Wen Rou couldn't help but laugh and said, "So this is what Sister Ruyan looks like when she smiles."
Indeed, she had never seen Jian Ruyan smile and was quite curious about how Jian Ruyan would look when smiling, but since Jian Ruyan was always cold and distant, she never dared to ask her to smile.
Now, due to a bizarre twist of fate, having swapped bodies with Jian Ruyan, she decided to indulge her curiosity and see Jian Ruyan smile!
"Are you... Xiaorou?!"
At that moment, Su Zijin, accompanied by Yu Linglong and others, slowly approached Wen Rou. Seeing Jian Ruyan with a "Wen Rou"-style smile, they, already suspecting, tentatively asked.
"It's me, mom..."
Wen Rou, hearing Su Zijin's words, suddenly snapped back to reality, restrained her smile, and solemnly and gracefully replied to Su Zijin.
Su Zijin, hearing "Jian Ruyan" calling her mom, also felt quite strange.
Even though Xiang Mantang recognized her as godmother, Jian Ruyan did not share such closeness with her, let alone call her mom. Occasionally, the word "godmother" would slip out just to show respect in front of Xiang Mantang.
But now "Jian Ruyan," with Wen Rou's voice, calling her mom was certainly eerie and even shocking to her!
Mu Hongchen looked at Jian Ruyan, then at Wen Rou, and then back to Su Zijin, with a weird smile, said, "Congratulations, sis, you've gained another daughter-in-law."