Bai Xi thought the Bone Lord would attack her, but to her surprise, he simply released his power, seemingly to prevent her from suddenly attacking him, and even spoke to her with a serious expression.
“Our strengths are evenly matched. Even if we fight, the outcome will be fifty-fifty. I just want to activate the teleportation array. I can share half of the benefits with you.”
The meaning conveyed by the Bone Lord made Bai Xi pause slightly, but she did not lower her guard against him.
Her hand instinctively reached for the teleportation array core at her waist, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she felt it was still there.
"Then why not say what it's used for?"
Bai Xi continued to ask.
"Because... I don't know either."
The Bone Lord remained silent for a moment before uttering words that nearly made Bai Xi stumble.
"You've already been inside that room, and you know there's a mirror that reflects your future appearance and brings you endless benefits."
Perhaps fearing that Bai Xi wouldn't believe him, the Bone Lord offered a brief explanation.
"It told me that this teleportation array would bring me great benefits and make me a god."
After hearing his words, Bai Xi was utterly speechless. Putting aside whether the mirror was a good thing or a bad thing, if it were so easy to become a god, then this continent wouldn't have gone an entire era without the birth of a new god.
Although......
Her ultimate goal is also to become a god.
"You just believe that?"
Bai Xi frowned and asked back.
Before the Bone Lord could answer, the alternate dimension they were in suddenly trembled violently, as if something outside was about to break in.
Bai Xi subconsciously looked behind her, but did not see the entrance she had come in through.
The image of seeing Xiu and the others still lingered in her mind, and she began to doubt whether they wanted to save her, but she was already a useless ghost.
Even if they are rescued, they probably won't be of any use.
Xiu, however, still owes him the Heart of the Ocean.
I wonder if he has found a way to get it back yet.
The thought flashed through Bai Xi's mind for only a moment before she turned her head to look at the Bone Lord again.
"I believe it, because what the mirror says always comes true."
The Bone Lord did not take advantage of the situation, but patiently preached to Bai Xi.
"Fine, I don't want to argue with you. You can have this teleportation array, but you have to promise me one thing."
After a moment's thought, Bai Xi didn't give up on killing the Bone Lord, but the current situation was rather special and time was of the essence. Rather than fighting to the death, he wanted a promise.
There were a few guys waiting for her outside. If she were to fight the Bone Lord here, who knows what unexpected things might happen.
As for the rest, we can settle accounts later.
Anyway, she's not exactly a gentleman.
"What?"
The Bone Lord looked puzzled.
"If you want to become a god, no one will stop you, but you are not allowed to invade the territory of living beings, you are not allowed to go to their lands, and you cannot kill any living beings."
After saying these words, Bai Xi still felt something was off; after all, she was a spirit of the dead.
Advocating for the interests of living beings in this way doesn't seem like the behavior of a proper dead person.
But no matter what, she did what she wanted to do.
"Also, let me beat him up to avenge... my friend, you almost killed him."
This was also a compromise, with Bai Xi crossing her arms, indicating that she had completely given in.
The Bone Lord was eerily silent for a few seconds, looking at Bai Xi with the same disdain one might give a 'lunatic' look; both of his requests were utterly insane.
But he seemed to really crave the teleportation array, so he took a deep breath and agreed to Bai Xi's request.
"Can."
His gaze was fixed on the teleportation array, but he never expected that Bai Xi would start casting contract magic. The parchment of the magical creation floated in mid-air, waiting for him to sign his name.
The condition is that he must not harm any living beings, and that Bai Xi should beat him up in exchange for giving him the teleportation array.
"..."
The Bone Lord's face contorted for a moment, seemingly not expecting Bai Xi to go to such lengths, even resorting to a contract.
Besides... how could an undead possess light magic?
His eyes showed incomprehension.
However, perhaps it was his longing for the teleportation array that made his hands tremble as he began to sign the parchment.
Bai Xi stood by with her arms crossed, waiting to give the Bone Lord a good beating later. She did this to test whether the Bone Lord had any ulterior motives.
She couldn't believe that a city lord would go to such lengths for a teleportation array.
He sacrificed so many clones, and even got beaten up by the progenitor of vampires, all for a one-on-one meeting with her, and signed such a humiliating contract, yet his ultimate goal was just the core of the teleportation array?
Suddenly, Bai Xi seemed to vaguely sense something.
She looked down at her own soul form, her expression instantly filled with murderous intent.
She noticed that her feet had become somewhat transparent. The reason the Bone Lord had released its death power and waited so long was to silently devour her.
Her lack of awareness is likely due to his machinations; this is definitely a conspiracy.
In an instant, Bai Xi destroyed the contract magic on the spot, and her entire soul rushed towards the Bone Lord without hesitation.
The Bone Lord realized his plot had been exposed and stopped pretending, revealing the sinister smile befitting an undead.
"Why did you have to find out? In just a little while, you were going to become my nourishment!"
The White Bone Lord's arrogant voice echoed in the alternate dimension, and to Bai Xi's ears, it was nothing short of mockery.
"Indeed, I let my guard down and forgot that the undead are all cunning creatures."
Bai Xi wasn't angry; instead, she remained unusually calm. Sometimes, one learns from one's mistakes, and it turned out that being soft-hearted towards the enemy was her biggest error.
Although she couldn't be said to have any soft spot for the Bone Lord.
He's just too soft-hearted towards those few outsiders.
After the initial confrontation, Bai Xi no longer held back her magic, unleashing it from her magic book as if it were free, clearly aiming to kill the Bone Lord.
She had been a Saintess of Light, after all, and her mastery of exorcising evil spirits was at least at a high level, if not top-notch.
Light magic is unique in this respect: it is magic that targets the undead and demons, but has no effect on ordinary living beings and cannot cause any damage, making it unsuitable for combat.
Light-based mages seem quite weak.
But against the undead and demons, that's tons of damage.
The Bone Lord naturally experienced the full effect of Bai Xi's hard work. His originally composed demeanor gradually turned sour as time went by.
However, Bai Xi was always in his alternate dimension, so he could continue to devour her, consuming twice the amount of energy. He just needed to hold on.
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