Chapter 7

Lin Yibai watched expressionlessly as his legs stepped out of the cabin door uncontrollably. The night wind, carrying a damp coolness, blew across his cheeks, but it could not blow away the almost stagnant feeling of powerlessness trapped deep within his body.

However, the moment she stepped out of the room, a red shadow flashed silently in front of her like a stream of fire, and the fluttering of her skirt brought about subtle ripples of spiritual power - the person who came was Su Hong.

Lin Yibai's eyes flickered slightly, a hint of surprise flashing across them. However, in just a moment, she understood: Su Hong must be worried about her and had placed a sensor restriction outside her door. If she took a step forward, she would alarm this protective aunt.

"Yibai?" Su Hong frowned slightly, sizing up her slightly stiff posture. Although there was suspicion in her eyes, her tone remained gentle. "It's late at night. Where are you going?"

Lin Yibai looked at her quietly, having already given up the idea of ​​speaking.

Sure enough, the next moment, her lips and tongue opened and closed on their own, uttering the same sharp and arrogant words as her original self: "I want to get off the boat and go to town. Now, immediately!"

Su Hong was startled for a moment, then gently advised, "What do you want to buy? It's late at night, and the shops in town have long since closed. We're on an important mission, and we'll set sail in an hour after we've stocked up. Be good, go back to your room and get some rest. If you need anything, just let your aunt send a message to the next supply point and have it ready in advance."

"I don't!" Lin Yibai heard himself retort in a voice that was almost screaming, his arms waving exaggeratedly. "Aunt, you don't know, there's an embroiderer who came to Yunni Town. The cloud shirts she weaves are hard to come by. If you go too late, there will be nothing left! The other young ladies from the sects in Yunzhou have them, but I don't - last time I went to a banquet, they had the audacity to laugh at me for being a country bumpkin from the remote northwest!"

"I don't care, I want that dress!"

These absurd lines flowed out of her throat like a cue from a play, flowing smoothly yet emotionlessly. Lin Yibai rolled his eyes wildly in his sea of ​​consciousness, wishing he could go deaf. His original body's suicidal skills were truly unparalleled, and his death was entirely deserved!

A trace of helplessness and heartache crossed Su Hong's beautiful face, but she still tried to comfort him gently: "Baibai, it's just a piece of clothing. Your aunt neglected you during her seclusion. Now that you've come out of seclusion, I will definitely find the most beautiful clothes in the world for you..."

But before she could finish her words, she saw "Lin Yibai" suddenly pull out the jade hairpin on her head, the sharp tip of the hairpin directly against her snow-white neck, and a few hysterical tears flashed in her eyes: "Better? How could it be better! I must get that cloud shirt today. If my aunt doesn't agree, I will die here now, so as not to go back and embarrass myself!"

"No!" Su Hong's face instantly turned pale. She wanted to grab the hairpin, but she was afraid that the shock of spiritual energy would accidentally hurt her. In her concern, the Qi-combining stage master lost his composure and said anxiously, "Okay, okay! Auntie promises you, put the hairpin down quickly and don't hurt yourself!"

She was afraid that Lin Yibai would do something irreversible, so she could only agree repeatedly: "Auntie, I will allow you to go, I will allow you to go! But I really can't bear the thought of you going alone, so I will accompany you..."

However, just as Lin Yibai's wrist drooped slightly, and the jade hairpin was about to leave his neck, in the split second that it took place—

Something strange happened suddenly!

"Oh? It's the 'Extreme Yin Mysterious Body' that only appears once in a thousand years? Wonderful, wonderful!"

A hoarse, dry voice filled with creepy greed, like the cry of a night owl, suddenly tore through the silent night of the port!

The next moment, a ball of black fog as thick as ink burst out from the shadow of the dock without any warning. It was faster than one could imagine and instantly engulfed Lin Yibai who was standing by the side of the ship!

"Yi Bai!" Su Hong's pupils suddenly shrank, and she was filled with shock and anger. The vast spiritual power of the Qi-combination period immediately burst out without reservation. With a flick of her red long sleeves, an unparalleled sharp blood-colored light slammed towards the black fog!

Almost simultaneously, another grayish-blue figure appeared silently, ghostlike, beside Su Hong. It was Shen Qing. His face was as sullen as water, and for the first time, a flash of horror crossed his calm eyes. His fingers swung like swords, and a condensed, grayish-black sword energy, seemingly capable of cleaving space, struck first, juxtaposing Su Hong's blood-red radiance and striking fiercely at the black mist engulfing Lin Yibai.

——The angry combined attack of the two masters in the Heqi stage is powerful enough to destroy mountains and break peaks!

However, what shattered the two men's hearts and minds was that the two terrifying attacks that were enough to change the color of mountains and rivers, when they touched the black fog, were like a drop in the ocean, unable to stir up even a ripple, and were silently swallowed up and annihilated by the deep darkness, as if they had never existed!

"How is this possible?!" Su Hong screamed in shock, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief and horror.

Shen Qing's pupils also trembled, and a trace of fear suddenly appeared on his usually indifferent face: "This breath, could it be..."

Before he could finish his words, a scornful sneer emanated from the black mist, as if mocking the two men's presumption. Then, the black mist enveloping Lin Yibai faded and dissipated before their very eyes, like a ghost, leaving no trace behind.

"No——!" Su Hong let out a shrill cry, and the spiritual power around her body surged wildly, and she was about to fly into the air and chase after him regardless of anything——

Unexpectedly, Shen Qing suddenly grasped her shoulder with such force that her bones cracked. His tone was unprecedentedly solemn and stern, as he spoke word for word, "We can't catch up! This person is at least a master of the Spiritual Transformation Stage! If he had even the slightest intention of killing us, you and I would have been dead! Now we can only report this to the Sect Master through secret methods and make further plans!"

Su Hong's struggles froze. Gazing at the empty ship's side and the vanishing black mist, a wave of bone-chilling powerlessness and despair gripped her. The surging spiritual energy around her receded like a tide. She stumbled, her crimson dress spreading out, and she fell helplessly to the cold ground like a red butterfly with its wings broken.

With endless regret and anxiety, a broken whine escaped her lips: "Child..."

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On the other side, Lin Yibai, who was wrapped in the black fog, felt like she was stuffed into a high-speed rotating drum. The cold black fog stuck to her skin, and the chill that penetrated into her bones made her teeth chatter uncontrollably.

It wasn't simply a low temperature, but an energy atmosphere filled with evil and death, which made her body, which was already of low cultivation, instinctively feel fear and rejection.

After realizing she was kidnapped, she was confused at first and didn't understand why: "What's going on? I don't remember this part in the original novel..."

Unexpectedly, when she regained consciousness, she immediately screamed in her mind—

"System! System! This plot breakdown wasn't caused by my OOC! I need to punish the person who caught me! Don't shock my head or deduct my points!"

System OS: [...How come this person, with his life practically in danger, is still most concerned about punishment? ?]

Lin Yibai waited for a long time, but his mind was still dead silent.

The system did not respond, nor did it impose any penalties for this sudden plot deviation.

But Lin Yibai didn't feel any peace of mind from the silence. Instead, he felt even more anxious: the plot had taken another wild turn, and this time it was heading in a completely unknown direction! Who had kidnapped her? And what was their purpose?

Could it be that she, the cannon fodder destined to fill up the Demon Mountain, hadn't even touched the edge of the final ending, and was now going to die inexplicably in this opening copy of Yunni Town?

Just as she was trembling with fear and her mind was wandering, a soft exclamation came from above her head. The mysterious demon who had abducted her suddenly uttered a hoarse voice with a hint of surprise and amusement: "Hmm? It really is... a natural sword bone! What a boy who hides his edge, he almost hid it from my perception! Haha, it really is easy to get, I finally found you!"

Sword bone? This devil couldn't be talking about... Lin Yibai's heart skipped a beat, and then an ominous premonition arose.

Before the laughter faded, Lin Yibai felt the black fog surrounding him surge violently again, and then an invisible terrifying force penetrated the spatial barrier and suddenly grabbed downwards - the next moment, he saw another figure being violently dragged in from the outside world and fell heavily into the sticky black fog.

Amidst the black fog, their eyes met.

Lin Yibai met a pair of familiar eyes that were as dark as a cold pond. At this moment, a hint of astonishment that could not be completely concealed was clearly reflected in the depths of those eyes.

It’s Yan who is missing!

The boy's naked torso was covered in hideous, crisscrossing whip marks and horrific scars from insect bites. The cold, heavy shackles still bound his hands and feet. This sudden change caused his muscles to tense as if they were iron. His sharp, hawk-like eyes quickly scanned the strange, sticky black fog around him, and he quickly suppressed his initial instinctive suspicion and transformed it into a state of complete and intense alertness.

At this critical moment, the sword mark at the corner of the eye also emitted a faint red light.

And just as his sight fell on Lin Yibai, who was also in a mess in the fog, the remaining trace of astonishment instantly froze and shattered, turning into a bone-chilling coldness that hurled towards her like a sharp sword.

—Her again? Was this strange kidnapping another new torture trick set up by this witch?

His eyes were fixed on her, as if he was determined to find any flaws in her disguise.

"Oh, it's not me, it's really not me this time!" Lin Yibai waved his hands repeatedly, digging his toes into the ground in embarrassment, wishing he could disappear from the spot.

Meeting under such circumstances was really... so unexpected.

The demon above was clearly in a very good mood, and at this moment he let out another hoarse laugh: "Great, great! I never thought that during my visit to this remote water town, I could acquire both the Ultimate Yin Mysterious Body and the Natural Sword Bone! Yin and Yang go hand in hand, dragon and tiger unite, this is heaven helping me achieve enlightenment! Hahahahaha!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the black fog accelerated suddenly, enveloping the two people with different thoughts, blending into the endless night, and completely disappeared between the vast sky and earth, leaving no trace.