Xie Zhou looked up at the bottomless abyss in the sky and couldn't help but feel a little ethereal. He never thought that he, who had been so clever all his life, would be able to stay here forever. It was truly laughable.
If this had happened before time travel, such aspirations probably wouldn't have arisen.
However, she could not give up. Even if it meant giving up, she had to take him away with her last hope.
Xie Zhou stood up and looked around, only to find that it was all darkness. This space-time was like a space without switches or doors. Apart from the darkness, there was only that wooden door that emitted a strong light.
Rather than calling it a gateway to life, it's more accurate to describe it as an insurmountable obstacle that prevents one from even getting close.
Whenever I lift my leg to move closer in that direction, I feel as if my body and mind are becoming distorted.
Difficulty breathing is the simplest problem; lifting your legs and having weak, limp steps are the most troublesome.
"Spirit Insect, do you think the three of us might be trapped here forever, never to get out?"
Thinking about this, she couldn't help but feel a little sad. She hadn't eaten so much or seen so many sights, so how could she be trapped in darkness forever?
However, the current situation isn't something I can simply decide to do. I need to make the guy who's been watching me all along understand what it means to admit defeat.
"I'm really funny. I just said you didn't have all the snacks and couldn't understand what I was saying, but now I'm still so bored that I'm chatting with you. If you can react, you can try to turn into a human form for me."
But after waiting for a long time without any reaction from the spirit insect, he knew that he had been talking to himself and the wind had stopped.
"Junior sister, I'm here!" Luo Fentian slowly descended from the sky. As soon as his fingertips tapped the ground, he suddenly detected a powerful magnetic field coming from the other side of the door.
"Senior brother, what brings you here?"
Xie Zhou couldn't help but scream inwardly, "This is bad! There's no protective barrier around Luo Fentian's side, and Hua Zilai..."
Before I could even imagine it, I saw the person who was being restrained on the side frantically moving towards us.
Luo Fentian naturally noticed this as well, and immediately swung his sword to fight him. With the help of the Sword Sect seniors outside, dealing with this person in front of him was more than enough.
But we can't expend too much energy, since we'll need more to support us when we go out.
After a series of fights, the boy was defeated. A talisman was pasted on his forehead, and his originally volatile body became quiet. He stood there, stunned and at a loss.
Xie Zhou then hurriedly released the barrier and ran out to check if Luo Fentian was injured.
"Senior brother, are you stupid? You could have just waited for me outside, why did you have to come in? Those people outside didn't give you a friendly look, did they?"
Although she uttered a series of complaints, her heart had already melted away. She never expected that there would be someone in that cold sect who would treat her with genuine kindness.
This is probably the only instance of tenderness within a sect that I've witnessed in my lifetime.
Luo Fentian gently shook his head, raised his arm, and showed the other person that he was indeed not injured.
"Junior sister, don't worry. Before I came in, the seniors in the sect infused me with their life's cultivation, so now ordinary people can't beat me."
"Really?"
In fact, Xie Zhou would understand this without even asking, since the scene of the two fighting just now showed that Luo Fentian had already undergone a complete transformation and his current strength could be compared with his own.
"But what happened to this guy just now? It was like he was being controlled by something and didn't recognize me."
"Hua Zilai was controlled by a mysterious force as soon as he entered, and I have already lost a great deal of spiritual power."
The two exchanged a helpless glance before examining the pair of sharp wings on the boy's back.
"Host, you absolutely must not let Luo Fentian kill Hua Zilai."
Upon hearing the system's words, Xie Zhou couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and open a private chat window. "You didn't come out when I was being beaten half to death, but now you're telling me not to kill this boy. What exactly are you up to? Do you want to watch me get beaten to death outside before you're satisfied?"
"Oh dear, host, I was just checking the situation outside for you and found out that Luo Fentian was coming in. Besides, a system like me really can't help you improve your spiritual power, so you'll have to rely on yourself."
The system can only provide auxiliary support from the sidelines; it cannot directly cause damage.
Then, light footsteps came from deep in the corner, instantly attracting the attention of the two people.
Luo Fentian, who spent most of his time cultivating deep in the back mountains, naturally recognized the voice. "Junior sister, be careful, it's a spider."
As soon as he finished speaking, he ran towards the source of the sound and began fighting a large group of spiders.
Xie Zhou looked behind him and suddenly realized that there was also a spider on this side. He had no choice but to draw his sword and stab back and forth. On one hand, he had to be careful not to hurt Hua Zilai, and on the other hand, he had to keep the spider away from the two of them.
Since this guy couldn't move, the entire burden fell on Xie Zhou's shoulders. Due to the huge losses he had suffered before, he was no match for this endless horde of spiders.
He quickly gave up, panting heavily on the ground with the blade of his knife. "Senior brother, this can't go on. These spiders are insane, they're like an endless swarm, you kill one and another comes."
"Junior sister, just hang in there a little longer. I believe we'll find a breakthrough soon, and then we'll be safe once we get out." Luo Fentian was also feeling a bit lost. The endless darkness here was filled with footsteps all around, and he couldn't find the exit by listening to the sounds.
So all they could do was slowly approach the darkness to see if there was a mysterious force behind it.
Xie Zhou was eventually unable to escape the spider's grasp, but suddenly a huge light flashed from his forehead, instantly healing the boy beside him.
At this moment, Xie Zhou's forehead was adorned with beautiful red flower petals, radiating a powerful force. Even he himself did not know where this force came from, nor why it had suddenly appeared.
Luo Fentian turned around and looked at the scene, and couldn't help but frown. This seemed to be a scene he had never seen before.
He couldn't help but ponder and mutter to himself, what exactly was that thing on Xie Zhou's forehead? It was a rosy color, like flower petals, and the power it contained was hard to fathom.
But the spiders that kept rushing towards him made it impossible for him to react. He turned around and continued to fight them, trying to find a way to make them retreat.
The boy felt his vision gradually focus, and the intense scream in his head slowly faded away.
It felt like being suddenly enveloped in a warm embrace.
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