Chapter 168 Bewitching the Mind
The sound of the water wasn't loud, but it was especially noticeable in the quiet suburban night.
However, a dense thicket of reeds stood tall, directly blocking the source of the sound of water.
As the saying goes, you can only hear its voice but not see its form.
What in the world could be more alluring and irresistible than this half-revealed, half-concealed state?
Driven by curiosity, the boy couldn't help but mobilize his spiritual power to further expand the range of his perception, allowing his divine sense to directly sweep across the reeds in front of him.
However, the moment the boy glimpsed what lay behind him, he was stunned.
The full moon hung high in the sky, its pale light falling sadly on the water and onto a person as well.
—This is a metaphor for a light boat.
The young man was naked, standing in the water, which was just above his chest.
The hairband he usually wore to tie his hair up had been removed and placed aside, and his wet, long hair cascaded down like an inky waterfall, tangling and spreading behind him.
Several strands of hair were lifted by the water's surface, floating gently in front of the young man like water plants.
Just as the boy looked over, he saw the other person's head emerge from the water with a splash.
He met a Yu Qingzhou who was completely different from the one he knew.
His hair was disheveled, and he looked bewildered.
Perhaps because he had held his breath underwater, the young man tilted his long neck back and breathed in small gulps with his mouth slightly open. His shoulders, which were entangled in strands of hair, rose and fell with the rhythm of his breathing.
Water droplets slid down Yu Qingzhou's forehead and chin, converging at her neck, then dripping down her slightly bobbing Adam's apple to her collarbone, before gently falling back into the clear lake water at the bottom of her chest, disappearing without a trace...
Seeing this, the boy suddenly felt a tightness in his throat.
Not only his throat, but his entire body suddenly felt strange because of the scene his divine sense had glimpsed. A familiar heat rose in his blood, climbing up his cheeks and the top of his head.
It's as if those drops of oil weren't water from a lake, but oil falling into a fire; the fire, upon seeing the oil, would naturally burn very high.
Upon seeing that unfamiliar scene, the boy felt as if a fire was raging within him, sometimes surging into his heart, sometimes into his head, and sometimes into that indescribable place...
Every part of his body was affected.
The boy thought to himself that he was doomed.
Then, one could faintly hear the vines, which had been behaving themselves for some time, suddenly begin to tremble violently in the cracks of the rocks, accompanied by a thunderous rumble.
Something came rushing in with the sound of the wind.
The boy looked up in despair and saw brick-sized stones mixed with clods of dirt falling from the sky, hurtling towards him.
Not only his area, but the entire Spirit Realm seemed to be included in the attack range of this unexpected rain of mud and rocks.
Under normal circumstances, the boy could manipulate the vines to block the view in time.
The problem is, if things were normal, this out-of-control situation would never have happened.
He is a spirit, so he cannot cause any real harm.
But the pain you have to endure is exactly the same as when you're outside.
In fact, the boy used to be able to offset most of the pain with his hardened appearance when he was in demon form, but now, unarmed, he is no different from an ordinary human.
—Oh no, to be serious, there are some.
For example, if an ordinary human were to suffer the same blow, they might just go straight to the underworld and wait in line.
But it's different for him, because he would be in excruciating pain, but he would definitely not die...
The expected excruciating pain did not come.
The boy tentatively opened his eyes and found that everything in front of him, including the out-of-control vines, falling stones, and clods of mud, was frozen in mid-air.
Within this area, everything except him seemed to have their time frozen at the same moment.
Before the boy could recover from his surprise, he heard that familiar voice.
"What's wrong, Qingxiao?" came Yu Qingzhou's slightly puzzled question from outside.
It seems that the other party noticed the abnormality of the Azure Sky Sword and recalled it in time, thus saving the boy from a mixed double beating of mud and stones.
The boy wanted to answer that he was not Qingxiao at all.
But upon hearing those words so close to his ear, he was momentarily lost in thought.
He knew that Yu Qingzhou was actually talking to the Azure Sky Sword.
However, after this period of adjustment, the boy, as the sword spirit, has been able to achieve a high degree of sensory sharing with the sword itself.
So asking that question just now was actually not much different from Yu Qingzhou speaking directly into the boy's ear.
The last time the two of them were this close was in that dimly lit cave in the Asura Domain.
At that time, Yu Qingzhou was seriously injured and unconscious.
The other self, dragging an equally weak body, swayed as it carried the other back into the cave.
After feeding her some of the medicine she carried with her, Yu Qingzhou didn't look so weak anymore.
Then the boy stared at his other self, as if bewitched, staring intently at Yu Qingzhou's lifeless, dull face.
Especially that mouth, and then... as if possessed, another version of itself suddenly lowered its head and licked the wound on Yu Qingzhou's chest.
Upon seeing this, the boy could barely contain his shock.
Although he admitted that he had indeed been lusting after this human body from the very first glance and was plotting to devour him.
But... it's definitely the kind of eating method where you tear it apart with your teeth and swallow it whole.
Instead of being like that other version of myself, unable to cause any further harm, just licking my wounds...
Moreover, there has always been an unwritten rule in their monster-farming community.
The aforementioned behavior, if done only to oneself, is called normal licking; if done to others, it has an additional meaning—it is an intimate act that only occurs between immediate family members or spouses.
Now, the boy sees another version of himself using his body without permission, engaging in such inappropriate intimate behavior with a mere human—a human who had recently severely injured him.
The boy was completely opposed to it.
However, he did not have complete control over his body at this moment.
And also...
The air was thick with the smell of blood, which indeed exuded an irresistible allure.
The boy no longer remembered how he had gotten caught up in it—
It seemed that at the same moment he tasted the blood from that human's body, the boy who had been watching coldly suddenly felt a tremendous pull.
It tugged at the boy's soul and slammed it violently into his original body.
When he finally came to his senses, the person who was licking and biting Yu Qingzhou in a daze suddenly changed to the boy himself...
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