The Soul-Merging Array

Chapter 59

Gu Ling glanced at the setting sun, sat cross-legged on the ground, shielded his eyes from the light, and asked, resting his chin on his hand, "Is Yu Lin unable to get out?"

"No." Gu Ling looked at Chen Muyao. The young man stood still, abandoning his usual lazy and easygoing demeanor. Unlike Gu Ling, he had been guarding for a long time.

"If all else fails, I'll go ask my father! I heard he has an old acquaintance in the Divine Medicine Valley, who knows, he might be able to save Zhou Da Meiren's life." Gu Ling was thinking this when a figure shielded him from the sunlight.

"Idiot, do you think you can just invite the Divine Medicine Valley as you please?"

It was Yu Tao'er. She put her hands on her hips and sneered, "If I were a disciple of Divine Medicine Valley, I would watch you die."

"You're not one," Gu Ling scoffed, turning his head away.

Yu Tao'er also snorted and looked at Chen Muyao. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had seen him. In her memory, the young man was still young, wearing white clothes and running around at the foot of the mountain. He often appeared in front of her with injuries.

Unfortunately, she, as a doctor, had little compassion.

He simply watched coldly as Elder Feng led the man into the medicine room.

"He's fine, just some internal injuries."

Chen Muyao then looked away from the formation and said, "Explain in detail."

“He has lost part of his mind, and his memory is forever stuck at the age of three. He might recover in the future, but it’s only a possibility, and the probability is very small.” Yu Tao’er did not hide Linghu Miao’s symptoms, but only told him based on the examination results. “Take good care of the patient, and perhaps a miracle will happen in the future.”

Gu Ling retorted bluntly, "Three years old? Wouldn't that make him an idiot?"

Yu Tao'er turned around and glared at the rude person, her smile forced and insincere. "You'd better pray that you'll never get away with this, or you'll be in for a world of hurt if you fall into my hands."

Gu Ling looked away, pretending to be nonchalant as he stared at the instep and said nothing more.

"I see."

Yu Tao'er nodded, just like Quan Jin, "Where's Little Moon?"

"Little Moon?"

Gu Ling muttered, "If you want to find the moon, go find it at night. Why are you looking for the moon in broad daylight?"

"You're so annoying, don't you think?" Yu Tao'er prided herself on having a good temper, but meeting Gu Ling was like meeting her nemesis.

"She's inside the Nine Kill Formation." Before the words were even finished, Chen Mu flicked his wrist, knocking Yu Tao'er's Gu worms to the ground. He then met the woman's accusing voice, "How could you let her in? Don't you know how dangerous the Nine Kill Formation is? Is she mentally challenged, or are you?"

Chen Muyao's fingers, which were resting at her side, twitched, and she lowered her eyelashes.

He just didn't expect that this person would try to clear Quan Jin's name in this way.

Jealousy took root, yet he couldn't utter a single word of accusation.

What is his stance?

She just used people to pass the time when she was bored.

The seemingly calm Nine Kill Formation was shattered by light. Amidst the sound of iron locks breaking, the seemingly indestructible barrier cracked slightly. Chen Muyao sensed something, his pupils widened, and the next second, the spiderweb-like barrier completely shattered and turned into dust.

The Nine Kill Formation has been broken.

This formation is hailed as the most unbreakable formation in the Qingyun Sect.

It was actually broken by a girl in her early twenties.

Zhou Yulin clutched her abdomen. The first person she saw when she broke through the formation was him, and the first person she met again after her rebirth was still him.

It was him, in some mysterious way.

Before she could react, a gentle breeze carrying the scent of gardenias brushed against her face, and Chen Muyao was tightly embraced. "Thank goodness, you're still alive, thank goodness..." Her hands were covered in dried blood, and her face and body bore fine sword wounds. Chen Muyao froze, not daring to move an inch.

Yu Tao'er coughed twice, reminding Zhou Yulin that there were other people nearby.

Zhou Yulin then released Chen Muyao.

"Congratulations on surviving the Nine Killing Formation." Yu Tao'er raised an eyebrow and said irritably, "You just escaped from the brink of death, and the first thing you did was hug someone else's fiancé. You're something else, Zhou Yulin."

Zhou Yulin hesitated for a few seconds, then said, "Then... shall I hug you too?"

Yu Tao'er was really angry at this person.

Gu Ling, on the other hand, was laughing so hard he was clutching his stomach.

"Alright, come back with me for a check-up first, we'll talk about the details later when everything is fine."

Yu Tao'er's words were met with tacit approval from everyone.

After the group said their goodbyes, Gu Ling called out to Zhou Yulin. Under Yu Tao'er's displeased gaze, he hurriedly whispered in her ear, "I'll be waiting for you on the fifth floor of Lan Yue Tower at midnight tonight."

After saying that, she slipped away. Yu Tao'er commented mercilessly, "Troublemaker."

"By the way, how did you break the Nine Kill Formation? This is a formation set up by the founding ancestor of the Qingyun Sect. No one in the world has ever broken it. All those in the Qingyun Sect who have tried to seek justice in the past hundred years have died inside." Yu Tao'er looked at Zhou Yulin, who was calm and composed, with curiosity and guessed, "You didn't really have some kind of fortuitous encounter, did you?"

Zhou Yulin: I guess so. I survived entirely by luck.

Yu Tao'er smiled faintly, "A sword to the abdomen, if it had been a little off, would have caused you to bleed to death long ago. The sword wounds on your body are not fatal, but I remember that the injury on your wrist last time was clearly not healed yet."

Seeing that the patient seemed completely unaffected, Yu Tao'er became quite exasperated. "How can a patient be so disobedient! Don't you want these hands anymore? You promised to be the greatest swordsman in the world, how come you want to be a disabled swordsman now?"

Yu Tao'er's provocation tactic was clearly ineffective against Zhou Yulin.

She stood side by side with Yu Tao'er, but was taller than her. "I haven't forgotten, I just have something I really want to do."

Yu Tao'er asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"Protect your family and those you cherish."

"Everyone has an end in life. There will always be things to care about in life. If you don't live for yourself, then live for what you care about. I have lived for myself and I have no regrets. It's just that I didn't get to see the people I cherish. Happiness is ultimately a regret."

Yu Tao'er shook her head disapprovingly, "Living like this is too tiring for you."

"Then let it be tiring," Zhou Yulin smiled lightly. "Anyway, who isn't tired when they're alive?"

Yu Tao'er wanted to refute Zhou Yulin, but felt that what he said made some sense. However, she still retorted, "Nonsense! All nonsense. You're just trying to fool people like this. You even managed to fool Chen Muyao. How amazing are you?"

Yu Tao'er couldn't hide her gossip at this point, "Tell me, you're really good at managing your husband! You even managed to snag a man who was about to get married. How did you make him so devoted to you? I want to learn too."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yulin recalled the Hehuan Formation that Yu Tao'er had set up that day. "Tell me first, is the Hehuan Formation real or fake?"

Yu Tao'er didn't expect Zhou Yulin to bring up such old grievances. After stammering for a long time, she finally revealed the truth under Zhou Yulin's gaze, "This formation was set up by my grandmother. She said it was a love formation, and one could not escape without the fusion of souls."

"But you've come out, I think we should..."

Seeing that Zhou Yulin's expression was off, Yu Tao'er hesitated to continue. "You know, my grandmother is old. The Joyous Union Formation requires the fusion of souls. You were poisoned and unconscious, so he shouldn't..."

Yu Tao'er seemed to belatedly realize something, her face turning deathly pale. "Damn it, I really wanted to use the Death Powder on you. The fact that you didn't die means that someone else took the brunt of the poison for you. The Death Powder is extremely potent and will invade your spiritual veins in no time. So, the only solution is to force it into your soul."

The two looked at each other, Yu Tao'er looking embarrassed, while Zhou Yulin seemed thoughtful.

"You mean, he accidentally merged with my soul to save my life, breaking the Joyous Union Formation." Knowing she was in the wrong, Yu Tao'er wiped non-existent cold sweat from her forehead and chuckled dryly. "That should be it. It really was an accident."

Zhou Yulin walked quickly forward, but halfway there she turned in the opposite direction. Yu Tao'er shouted, "What are you going to do?"

"Looking for someone."

It goes without saying who to look for.

Yu Tao'er paused, wanting to pull the man's hand back.

That's it. She shouldn't have gotten involved in the karma between these two in the first place.

*

Chen Muyao had just returned to her dormitory room when there was a loud knocking on the door.

Like a home invasion robbery, the moment the door opened, the intruder slammed it shut, trapping Chen Muyao against it. "You like me, don't you?"

Words, though seemingly tangled and complex, flowed freely from her lips.

Chen Mu's face darkened, and he sneered, "You're being far too presumptuous."

Unexpectedly, the person who would normally be furious upon hearing such words was now simply staring calmly into his eyes and smiling slightly, "It's not surprising that you like me, you don't need to feel ashamed or guilty about it."

Zhou Yulin maintained Zhou Zhao's demeanor, and the confident words coming from her mouth sounded somewhat out of place, but that didn't stop Chen Muyao from thinking that this person was crazy.

"No, are you sick and can't you understand? I..." She pulled his head down, stood on tiptoe and kissed him. In her false words, only her heartbeat was real.

Amidst Chen Mu's hundredfold lies, Zhou Yulin patiently searched for that one genuine heartbeat.

The rest of the words were stuck in his throat. After a brief kiss, Chen Muyao covered his mouth with his hand, not daring to look at Zhou Yulin or speak, as if afraid that the other person would kiss him again or do something crazy.

The young man's deep eyes swept across the woman's clear and honest face. He was extremely self-righteous, as if he never felt that his actions had crossed any lines. This was the same person who was calling out someone else's name in his own bed.

"Don't be nervous." Zhou Yulin put on what she thought was a very friendly smile. "I'm here to ask you some questions."

Chen Muyao said coldly, "Are you asking with your mouth?"

"Yes, that's right." The person readily admitted to the irony.

"What else should we use?"

Chen Muyao: ...

Zhou Yulin was no less nervous than Chen Muyao. Her palms were sweaty. Who could understand? The forced kiss on Chen Muyao had exhausted all her courage.

"When I was on the verge of death because of Yu Tao'er's poison, you used your divine soul to forcefully break into my spiritual veins to save me, didn't you?" She stared at Chen Muyao, not missing a single expression on his face.