The woman wore a white jade mask on her face.
The mask's facial features were incomplete, with only a willow-leaf-shaped opening where the left eye would be. The rest of the mask was spotless.
Her body was wrapped in circles of black cloth, from head to toe, with no skin exposed.
The black cloth was thin, and even in the vague pale mist surrounding her, her figure could be seen.
However, before Geng Qiaoer could take a closer look, Lu Qing's signal came from the Biscuit line.
She immediately flew back to Lu Qing.
"metropolitan!"
"Something went wrong."
Lu Qing frowned slightly and motioned Geng Qiaoer to look at the two female cultivators with ghost paintings.
Linglan was hunched over, one hand clutching her neck, the other resting on her thigh, clutching her robe tightly. Veins bulged out from her hands, making her look rather ferocious.
Ling Zhu's entire body was shaking, and veins were visible on his exposed wrists.
Her expression also became extremely painful.
Lu Qing took out another string of knots and tied them directly around Ling Zhu's wrists. However, the knots seemed to be on fire, and began to emit wisps of red smoke. Although the blue veins on her wrists disappeared a little, at this rate, the knots would not last long!
Linglan suddenly made some indistinct whimpering sounds.
Seeing this, Lu Qing took out another string of knots and handed it to Linglan.
"Their condition isn't right. Is it related to that thing behind them?" Geng Qiao'er speculated. "There's a woman inside that black ball. I think it's the Ghost Painting female cultivator, but judging by her aura, she doesn't seem like... Hmm, has her aura changed?"
"Um?"
"This thing is starting to come alive! I'll try to get rid of it first."
After Geng Qiaoer finished speaking, she turned around and flew towards the black ball.
"It is indeed so."
Geng Qiaoer's spiritual sense swept across the black ball and this world.
She discovered that this strange world was indeed connected to the black ball, like a seed that sprouted and grew into a towering tree. This black ball was the core.
The size and power of the black ball were the largest among all the strange things Geng Qiaoer had ever seen.
If the black ball - or even not the entire black ball, but just any monster from this world was caught and placed in Kyushu, it would be an absolute disaster!
But to Geng Qiaoer today, this black ball is just a larger sandbag.
If Geng Qiaoer had possessed her current strength against the Blood Demon, the Blood Demon wouldn't have had a chance to show up in Jiuzhou. There's no need for Geng Qiaoer to lead an entire day's worth of cultivators from the Artisan Peak to chase him beyond the heavens!
Phantom flames erupt!
A circle of green flames quickly spread outward with Geng Qiaoer as the center.
This strange world was like a ball of ignited cotton, burning!
"No... No..." Linglan suddenly struggled to raise her head, looked at Lu Qing, and said with difficulty, "Leave Lingzhu behind... You go! You go!"
"Don't worry, it will be over soon." Lu Qing comforted.
"Big Sister, Big Sister..."
Lu Qing was startled and asked, "Is that Lingmei?"
"..." Linglan breathed hard and did not answer.
Lu Qing immediately said to Geng Qiaoer through the Biscuit line: "That's Lingmei!"
"Lingmei? Yeah, I just noticed that too. Don't worry, Sect Master, we've already rescued her." On the other end, Geng Qiao'er immediately sent a reply. "She and the black ball aren't one, but they've merged with each other, much more deeply than Lingyu!... But, thanks to you, Sect Master, I've reached this level, so separating them isn't that difficult..."
"good."
Dozens of seconds later, Geng Qiaoer wrapped Lingmei in a light green cloud like a quilt and returned to Lu Qing.
"Lingmei has been rescued." Lu Qing informed Linglan and Lingzhu of the news.
However, the condition of the two has not improved.
"It's okay. Once the black ball burns out, it will probably turn back to normal."
The two of them stopped where they were, waiting for the black ball to be mysteriously burned up by Geng Qiaoer's emerald flames.
The two could clearly feel that this strange world was collapsing. After all, the movement was too loud and the manifestation was too obvious.
First, the strange aura subsided, and Lu Qing felt that the pressure he felt was getting less and less.
Secondly, the pitch-black boundary began to blur, and faintly, some light from the outside world could be seen streaming in. If Lu Qing's strength was a few levels stronger, then, like Geng Qiaoer, he should be able to sense Li Rulan's aura from the outside world.
After a few minutes, the strange world was burned to a black ball.
The boundaries of the outside world have also become less blurred.
However, Linglan and Lingzhu's conditions still did not improve, in fact, they became worse!
Several black stripes appeared on Lingzhu's face!
Her eyes were closed tightly, her eyebrows were trembling, her teeth were clenched, and the muscles on her face twitched from time to time.
"This is strange..." Geng Qiaoer looked back at the black ball and found that it had been burning for longer than she expected. Then, she turned around and asked Lu Qing, "Sect Master, take a look at this thing. Is there anything wrong with it?"
However, Lu Qing could not see anything.
But Lu Qing still looked at the black ball a few times and said, "There's something strange about this black ball. There's something wrong with their condition. Let's leave here first."
"Huh? They..."
"What's wrong?"
"I feel like something has changed about them..."
After the two finished their conversation, Geng Qiaoer directly burned a hole on the boundary of space, and then she and Lu Qing left this strange world which was now just an empty shell.
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