His words were merely a notification.
Almost as soon as he spoke, the attack was launched at Yichan, with black mist condensing into swords and stabbing at him.
The abbot had no time to check on Yichan's injuries.
He did his utmost to seal the black mist summoned by Qingxin, and was devastated at the end of the year.
"Qingxin, you're so foolish! Dancing with demons, what good can come of it? I didn't even realize you'd already fallen into demonic ways. And now you're even going so far as to prey on your most beloved junior disciple?"
Qingxin stabbed Yichan almost out of frustration, ignoring the words of the abbot.
He stared intently at Yun Lian's pained expression.
Her once vibrant, multicolored heart began to change color. As long as the grief was immense enough, he wasn't worried about Lin'er not waking up, hahaha…
"San'er, how long until that woman from the foot of the mountain arrives?"
"At most three minutes. Qingxin deliberately sent her to Yichan's side so that she could deliver a heavy blow to him at the crucial moment."
"Phew, ready to go to the next world?"
"Of course, my host, System 003 is always ready and at your beck and call."
Qingxin watched as Yunlian's emotional fluctuations gradually stabilized, and her newly dyed exquisite heart even showed signs of returning to normal.
Qingxin slapped him hard to the ground, the force of which quickly created a deep crater.
"Yun Lian, why do you think demons would fall in love with humans? They clearly have a hard-won cultivation path, yet they foolishly give up their lives for just a few words."
A mind with seven orifices and exquisite beauty is only perfect when it is touched by the seven emotions and six desires.
But why is she still not afraid or angry even now?
Qingxin's thoughts were in turmoil, and the black mist around him seemed to have a mind of its own, spreading in all directions.
Yun Lian ignored him, and with a single breath, all her demonic power was sealed off by him. She could only watch helplessly as Yi Chan's life force was rapidly depleted, and his black hair turned white.
But she herself seemed to have been rejuvenated, the fine lines that had crept up on her with the years quietly disappearing, leaving her almost as smooth as an infant, her hair as black as ink, black and white intertwined.
"Demons are never stupid. We just yearn for human emotions, not because we are heartless. Human life is only a few decades long, while the lifespan of demons is long."
Over the long years, one also needs a balm to soothe the soul, a balm for the heart. Have you asked Lin'er? Did she consent to you committing such a heinous crime?
Qingxin felt as if a sore spot had been touched, and cried out in pain and anger.
"Shut up!"
But upon seeing that figure in the distance, his expression instantly softened, the lingering anger and tenderness swirling together on his face, making it appear even more distorted.
"It's finally here."
Everyone who was fighting the demon summoned by Qingxin looked in that direction.
The woman saved by Yichan stumbled and climbed up to the Taoist temple. Her clothes were covered in yellow dust and torn by the rocks. Her fingertips were mixed with mud and blood, a shocking sight at first glance.
"Master Yichan..."
With one eye swollen and his lips chapped, making him almost unrecognizable, his eyes widened in terror when he saw that figure.
She's here again...
It must be the devil...
Otherwise, why would I not even be able to see the little fox when she appeared?
Yichan tried hard to force himself to look at Yun Lian, but it was as if an invisible hand was forcing him to look only at that woman.
"Cloud... Pfft!"
Even calling out her name felt like it was against the laws of the world; the pain prevented him from finishing the call.
"Little fox..."
At this moment, all Yichan wanted to do was walk up to the little fox and let her know that he had never changed from beginning to end.
He didn't know why he felt so much pain whenever he thought of the little fox's smiling face.
He may have become a monster too.
Yun Lian watched as Yi Chan crawled toward her, tears streaming down her face.
His hands, which he used to knock on wood and send blessings, were now a bloody mess.
"Young Taoist priest..."
Seeing their suffering, Qingxin laughed even louder.
"Fu Ya, what are you waiting for?"
Fu Ya was grabbed by the neck by a pair of hands formed from pure black mist, and she struggled to get down.
He glared resentfully at Yun Lian, who was bound.
It's all because of her. If she hadn't suddenly appeared and caused so many changes, she would be living a carefree life far away from Yichan right now.
She will only start living with Yichan when it's her turn to appear.
But because of her appearance, everything changed. In order to ensure that the plot proceeded normally, she had to force herself to do things that she disdained and was unwilling to do.
Fu Ya's hand holding the knife trembled, but she still quickly caught up with Yi Chan. Just as she was about to pass him, he grabbed her ankle.
His head was bowed, revealing a pained expression that made his original appearance almost unrecognizable.
"Please...don't hurt Yun Lian...as a way of repaying my kindness in saving your life..."
Fu Ya was extremely anxious, calling out in her mind, "System, is there something wrong with you? How can he call for someone else when I'm here?"
"System, system???"
Fu Ya couldn't hear a reply from the system, and her heart sank instantly. All she remembered was that the system had told her to make sure the story followed the original plot.
As long as the little fox's heart is successfully extracted and the fox dies, everything can return to normal.
In the system space, 003 was playing with the small system he had just captured.
"Host, absorbing the energy of the small system now will accelerate our rejection by this world, but I have already shielded the abilities of this small system."
The host can continue playing without worry.
"San'er, you're so kind. Don't worry, I'll be offline soon."
Yun Lian felt full of power, perhaps because she had just acquired a small system.
Fu Ya had already stepped on the side and was coming back towards this side again, while the Taoist abbot exhausted his life force and finally sealed the spacetime rift between his feet and the Demon Realm.
At this moment, the wind filled his robes, making him appear more imposing than Qingxin.
“Junior brother, I really don’t want us to come to this point unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s not too late for you to turn back now.”
Qingxin saw the compassion in his eyes, but laughed even louder.
"Senior brother, once the arrow is released, there's no turning back. You taught me that, have you forgotten? No one can stop me from resurrecting Lin'er! Including you."
Yun Lian gazed at the two locked in combat and softly murmured, "With my own body, I summon Zhu Rong; let the fire of Zhu Rong ignite!"
The moment Yun Lian uttered the incantation, the Sleeping Beauty in the ice coffin spontaneously combusted without any fire.
The moment Qingxin saw it, she was almost heartbroken.
"No! No! No! Lin'er, Lin'er, don't leave me!"
In that moment of distraction, Qingxin endured the abbot's palm strike to his heart and almost without hesitation threw himself into the ice coffin.
"Water! Quick, put out the fire! My Lin'er hates the heat... she'll get angry if we stay any longer."
The moment the corpse was burned in the ice coffin, everyone felt as if the immense force pressing down on them had deflated. Yichan almost immediately engaged Qingxin in combat.
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