Chapter 334
"Ah—" The boy couldn't help but let out a heart-wrenching scream of pain.
Lingwu expressionlessly drew her sword, took out a pure white handkerchief, and wiped the blood-free longsword.
"One eye in exchange for the personal blessing of the Venerable One."
Ling Wu spoke slowly, and after a moment she tilted her head to look at Bai Yu, who was covering his right eye, his face covered in tears and blood.
She said, "Little brat, your life is sometimes too valuable."
She was so valuable that someone once offered their soul as a sacrifice, demanding that he grovel on the ground like a stray dog, wagging his tail and begging for mercy.
Bai Yu stared intently at Ling Wu with his only remaining left eye, but ultimately fell unconscious due to the severity of his injuries and the lack of medicine.
The spirit-repelling herb, soaked in blood, was silently extinguished by a wisp of spiritual power, perishing along with its owner's cherished memories and joy.
After Lingwu finished everything, she turned around to see if the little phoenix had been frightened by her.
To her surprise, the little phoenix stood there, staring at her intently, its shimmering eyes glistening with moisture.
This is……
She scared you to tears?
But Jing Si asked, "Have you suffered some great injustice?"
As soon as he spoke, the tears he had been hiding in his eyes began to fall uncontrollably.
The traces of her existence were in his blood, so much so that the emotional fluctuations of Ji Lingwu's body could indirectly allow Jing Si to perceive some fragmented emotions.
The moment the longsword pierced through Bai Yu, the man in black seemed to be crying.
The crying sounded like the satisfaction of revenge, but it also sounded more like the sorrow of finally glimpsing the dawn after struggling for a long time at the bottom of the cliff.
Ling Wu couldn't detect any traces of time on Jing Si's body, which proved that he hadn't been reborn.
Moreover, Jing Si from her previous life died five years ago along with Jing Yi, so Ji Lingwu's future is unknown.
Therefore, Lingwu glanced at him a few more times.
This little phoenix is the only special being whose fate was rewritten by her, yet it can still sense the original body's pain.
“It’s gone now.” Ling Wu answered calmly, then paused beside him as she was about to leave, adding a word of caution: “Don’t be tempted by that first impression.”
Ling Wu disappeared from the spot as soon as she finished speaking, leaving Jing Si behind with his head down.
The boy's face, so exquisitely beautiful that it could be described as pretty, was filled with bewilderment and an unconcealable sorrow.
For him, one glance was not a mistake that would ruin his life, but rather a decision that would define his life.
"What should I do?" he muttered to himself.
Junior Martial Aunt will soon ascend to immortality, and the Upper Realm will be incredibly prosperous, with countless immortals appearing around her.
He exhaled, glanced at Bai Yu, whose fate was unknown, and turned to leave.
He needs to cultivate quickly to catch up with her.
As for Bai Yu, he was unsure of his junior uncle's intentions and could only observe from the sidelines.
The secret realm has been open for half a year, but three days in the secret realm are equivalent to one day in the outside world, which means that everyone has to stay in the secret realm for a full year and a half.
Over the course of a year and a half, every so often, the treasures Bai Yu possessed would be taken away by Ling Wu, who would appear as a woman in black robes.
And so it went, until the day I was about to leave.
Bai Yu was even able to calmly and proactively untie the storage bag he had snatched the moment the man in black appeared, and hand it to Ling Wu with both hands.
"Is this enough to ensure my safe escape?" Bai Yu asked meekly.
Ling Wu weighed the storage bag in her hand, looked around inside, and raised an eyebrow when she saw the abundant spiritual herbs and treasures inside.
"You little brat, you used to hide treasures when I wasn't around, didn't you?"
Although they still call him "little brat," he has grown half a head taller than Ling Wu in the past year and a half.
However, half a year ago, Bai Yu had looked down at Ling Wu because of his height. After being slightly "punished" by Ling Wu, he would always bend his knees or kneel down to talk to Ling Wu.
Sometimes Bai Yu felt that there was a strange emotion mixed in with his relationship with the man in black robes.
However, he only felt this way occasionally when he felt that "she" had abused him to the point of illness.
"No, it's just..." Bai Yu pursed his lips, not explaining to the man in black robes.
He just didn't want the Immortal Venerable to worry about him.
"This time, can you let me go?"
After asking his question, Bai Yu heard no reply for a long time before looking in the direction of the man in black robes.
But there was no one there; the man in black had left sometime earlier.
Bai Yu felt a strange unease because of "her" leniency this time.
But no sooner had he thought of it than he saw the man in black robes turn back.
Before Bai Yu could even laugh at his own naiveté, he heard the black-robed woman mutter to herself in a delicate voice, "I'm too late again. Does she hate me that much?"
Fuxue felt wronged and was displeased to see Bai Yu secretly watching her.
However, considering that she had seen the man in black robes show mercy to Bai Yu several times, she did not dare to use her full strength. She only used her spiritual power to make Bai Yu's mouth bleed before letting out a soft "humph".
"If you, you one-eyed ugly monster, dare to look at me like that again, I'll gouge out your eyeball too!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Fuxue disappeared.
After being glanced at by the ugly monster, she needed to quickly wash herself clean. If she lost "her" again after the secret realm closed, she might never find "her" again in her entire life.
Meanwhile, Lingwu, who had roughly guessed Bai Yu's fate, quietly awaited the opening of the secret realm.
"Boom—" Just before the secret realm was about to open, a huge sound suddenly rang out, enough to cause the entire secret realm to collapse.
Ling Wu frowned and rushed towards that place, only to see the tallest paulownia tree in the entire secret realm tilting downwards!
Beneath the paulownia tree lay Jing Si, his face pale and devoid of spiritual energy!
"This little phoenix is quite a handful." Ling Wu sighed inwardly, then used her spiritual power to help Jing Si put the phoenix tree into her possession.
Jing Si drew a sliver of his mind from the fluctuations of spiritual energy, and his spiritual consciousness, which had originally recognized this ancient divine tree as its master, almost loosened.
This time, Ling Wu didn't use her androgynous voice, but instead used her usual cold and aloof voice to startle the listener: "Drip into my life essence."
In the urgency of the situation, Jing Si had no time to ponder the changes in the voice, and immediately bit his fingertip to squeeze out his semen.
The next moment, the enormous suction force almost sucked all the blood out of his body!
He hurriedly swallowed a pill, but he still couldn't resist the ancient divine tree's absorption, and his heart panicked for a moment.
Ling Wu quickly reassured her: "Don't be afraid, calm down."
After calming himself down, Jing Si did as instructed, and finally, just as he was about to be ejected from the secret realm, a small golden sprout appeared in his dantian.
"..." This is the sycamore tree that almost pierces the sky?
Ling Wu noticed his confusion and explained, "A mismatch in cultivation level will temporarily reduce the level of the spiritual treasure, but it will return to its original state as your cultivation level increases."
Before Jing Si could even respond, he was ejected from the secret realm.
When he opened his eyes again, he was met with his mother's worried expression: "You brat, you didn't run into that man in black, did you?"
The man in black robes...
Was his mother referring to the black-robed man who had just saved him, his junior uncle, and her own junior sister?
The words of shock stopped on his lips. He looked around and asked first, "Where is Junior Uncle?"
"Your junior uncle is in seclusion, but he should be coming today. However... hey! Get out of my way!"
Jingyi was only halfway through her sentence when she saw the woman in the ice-blue dress landing on the spirit sword, so she pushed Jingsi away.
"Junior Sister, you've finally emerged from seclusion!"
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