Yu Yi raised her other hand and tried to push his face away, and Xue Chenjing instinctively shrank back. Yu Yi's hand paused and she immediately tried to retract it.

For some reason, every time she touched him, he looked as if he was in pain. Instead,

Xue Chenjing held her hand tightly, tilted his head and pressed his cheek into her soft palm, rubbing it flatteringly, his wet eyelashes pressed against his fingertips, and warm tears flowed down her fingers into the gaps between them, wetting her palm.

Her eyes, red from crying, were full of pleading, like a dog trying its best to please its master.

"My dear, I won't hurt you. I will make porridge for you, cook your favorite dishes for you, make snacks for you, watch the sunrise with you, listen to the rain with you, dry your clothes for you, and sew your clothes if they are torn."

"Can you like me?"

Xue Chenjing said all these things he had done for her in the past few days - temporary tasks issued by the system.

If Yu Yi could not hear the system's voice, she was almost certain that she would be deceived by his appearance and really think that he loved her to the point of madness and could not extricate himself.

Although Yu Yi knew it very well in her heart, the way Xue Chenjing cried and begged her was really hard to control.

She heard a ding, like the sound effect of completing a level in a game.

[System: Ding——The target's favorability peak exceeds 10%. Congratulations to the host for completing the first phase of the main mission: First meeting with you. The host's loving and tender efforts have successfully impressed the target of the strategy, left a deep impression in her heart, and warmed that cold and broken heart.]

Yu Yi: "???" No, he just cried a little bit beautifully suddenly.

[The main mission is completed, and the sub-plot "Lishan Zhenjianshi" has been unlocked.]

The person leaning on her immediately stood up, let go of her hand, quickly retracted the flattering and pleading expression on his face, and said with a long sigh: "Finally!"

Xue Chenjing's eyelashes were still dripping with tears, and he laughed out loud in ecstasy. He didn't even look at Yu Yi, and turned away without any regrets.

The squirming tentacles quickly pulled away from behind Yu Yi, picked up the clothes scattered on the ground and put them back on him.

Yu Yi fell to the ground from mid-air, blinked his eyes, and didn't react.

- This bastard, does he have to change his face so quickly? !

Xue Chenjing rolled up his sleeves, made his five fingers into claws, and grabbed his arms hard. He gasped in pain and dipped his fingers in the dripping blood to draw a blood-red magic circle on the open ground.

Every line of the array he outlined was stained with the red of blood, and the bloody smell quickly spread, making people want to cover their noses and hold their breath.

But as the last line of the array fell and the magic circle took shape, the blood energy in the array suddenly gathered, and the whole magic circle became clear and transparent, like a clear spring in the mountains, and even exuded a bit of pure and flawless taste.

Xue Chenjing took a step forward and walked into the formation.

His footsteps created ripples in the formation, like water drops falling into a lake. Yu Yi suddenly caught a glimpse of a huge black shadow from under the ripples.

The shadow flashed by until Xue Chenjing took another step and the ripples spread out from under his feet again.

This time, Yu Yi saw countless wriggling tentacles in the shadows under the formation. In addition to the tentacles, she seemed to see something else.

Some roaring beast shadows, entangled pythons, flapping birds, and even distorted human faces, as well as many things that she couldn't tell what they were. The anaconda formed a group of weird shadows.

Xue Chenjing finally stood in the center of the formation, and the shadow under his feet seeped into the formation, looking like he was coexisting with the strange black shadow hidden at the bottom of the formation.

When Yu Yi thought about the tentacles that had tied her up and had penetrated into her mouth, which might have come from there, her stomach was full of acid and she felt like vomiting.

Xue Chenjing had completely forgotten her existence at this moment. He stretched out his hand to take out the sword-suppressing stone, covered the stone with his own blood, and threw it into the air.

The originally calm magic formation suddenly boiled, and countless shadows rushed out from under the magic formation, like fish jumping out of the water, and crashed into the sword-suppressing stone suspended in the air.

The barrier on the swordstone was triggered, and a layer of golden barrier erupted, covering the outside of the stone. The black shadow collided with the barrier, and the valley suddenly rang with the screams of wild beasts. The

endless black shadows were blocked by the swordstone barrier again and again, falling back into the magic circle below, and then rushed out of the magic circle again and again, continuing to crash into the swordstone, like a madman.

Even the bone demon could not bear the temptation of blood, jumped up from the ground, opened the bone knife from his body, and chopped at the swordstone barrier.

Xue Chenjing stood in the magic circle, submerged by the shadows that kept pouring out around him. Only his fluttering clothes could be seen between the interlaced shadows. The red-gold headband intertwined with the flying black hair was particularly eye-catching.

He looked up at the swordstone above his head intently, with an undisguised look of joy and ecstasy on his face. He no longer looked like the dog that cried and begged her to like him. He had the aura of a villain.

The barrier of the swordstone was shaken by the impact, making a sound like a bell.

Yu Yi watched coldly for a while. Her tampered cognition had returned to normal. Thinking of everything that happened before, she didn't want to be a tool for Xue Chenjing to unlock the plot at all. She just wanted to stay away from the villain and be beautiful alone.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, she led Senior Brother He to retreat into the forest, intending to escape.

A black shadow hit the golden barrier, fell from midair, and suddenly landed in front of Yu Yi.

The black shadow suddenly expanded and turned into a three-headed vicious dog, stepping on her, baring its teeth at her, and barking like a mad dog.

The fishy saliva fell to the ground and immediately turned into a dispersing black gas, and a large area of ​​the surrounding grass and trees withered instantly.

Demonic breath?

Yu Yi was horrified, picked up the Green Bamboo Sword, poured the remaining spiritual power in her veins into the sword body, and stabbed it hard into the bloody mouth in the middle that was biting towards her.

The three-headed vicious dog let out a miserable "howl", turned its other head, and bit her arm.

The green bamboo sword got stuck in the throat of the evil dog. Yu Yi couldn't pull it out, so he had to let go and retreat. He rolled back twice to avoid the bite of the three-headed dog, and hurriedly pinched the sword to summon the spirit sword.

The spirit sword was stuck in the throat of the evil dog and hummed. The green flame on the sword burned the three-headed dog and made it roll and wail.

Xue Chenjing frowned and touched his throat. Finally, he noticed its movement. Two tentacles shot out from the magic circle, wrapped around the three-headed dog that was roaring fiercely, and suddenly dragged it back to the magic circle.

"Stupid thing! I told you to break the Swordstone, what are you biting?" Xue Chenjing scolded, and stepped on the dog's head in the middle, pushing the howling three-headed dog back into the dark shadow at the bottom of the formation.

In less than an incense stick of time, Yu Yi fell from "my dear wife" to "what the hell". She had no time to get angry. Her hands danced out a shadow and once again performed the sword technique to recall the Green Bamboo Sword.

However, as the three-headed dog was trampled into the bottom of the formation, Yu Yi's connection with the Green Bamboo Sword was instantly severed. She performed the sword technique to recall the sword several times in a row, but the spirit sword did not react at all.

The red-crowned crane paced anxiously beside her. Seeing that she could not recall the spirit sword, it spread its wings without thinking, turned around and rushed towards the formation under Xue Chenjing's feet.

"Senior Brother He!" Yu Yi shouted, crouched down, jumped up neatly, pounced on the back of the fairy crane, and rushed into the formation with Senior Brother He.

At the same time, the sound of the Swordstone stopped, and the wind in the valley suddenly stopped and the shadows disappeared. A crack appeared on the golden barrier of the Swordstone, and it quickly spread to the surroundings like a cracked ice surface. In the blink of an eye, the barrier was completely shattered. The

Swordstone turned into a golden light and shot into the sky. Then there was a loud bang, and the sky was split open. A dark and towering mountain stood out in the clouds.

The roar was like thunder, rolling from the sky to the earth below, shaking the clouds and mountains.

The sword-suppressing stone opened, Xue Chenjing was overjoyed, his attention was occupied by the mountain above his head, and he didn't even hear the system shouting in his ear, "The heroine ran into your magic circle",

Xue Chenjing waved his sleeves to retract the magic circle under his feet, and the strong wind whistled through the mountains and forests, rolling up the barrier covering the clouds and mountains, and the flying shadows, bone demons, and the muddy ground at the bottom of the hot spring lake were all submerged in the magic circle.

The array line converged into Xue Chenjing's body, and he tapped his toes, leaving only a big bird shadow spreading its wings to hold him up, flying into the clouds and mountains, and disappearing into the dark mountains.

As Xue Chenjing left, the miasma dissipated, and the green mountains and clear waters of Yunshan reappeared in the world. The monks trapped in the mist finally saw the scenery around them clearly. They realized that they had been crossing mountains and ridges for so long, but they had been circling around Yunshan.

The dark and towering mountains pressed down on the clouds, blocking the sunlight completely, and the mountains and forests were still dark.

"What is that?" A monk shouted, "Is it a mountain?"

"Why is there another big mountain above the clouds! Is it another illusion? Or a secret realm?"

"This place is lacking in spiritual energy, how could such a large secret realm be born."

The three people from Wanxi Sect were in a dense forest, still looking for their lost junior brother. When the mountains appeared at the end of the clouds, the fluoresce in their hands also burst into a dazzling light.

The Sword-Suppressing Stone is the most precious treasure of Mount Li. Only the talented disciples of the inner sect of the Mount Li Sword Sect are qualified to enter the Sword-Suppressing Stone to seek their own life sword. Ordinary cultivators have naturally never seen the true appearance of the Sword-Suppressing Stone, and have only heard of the legend about it.

Everyone looked up, until they saw the faint red word "Zhen" in the center of the clouds and mountains, and then someone reacted, "It's the Sword-Suppressing Stone! The Mount Li Sword-Suppressing Stone has been opened!"

Pei Jingchao and his group had already found the bottom of this valley after passing through several layers of misty mountains and seas. When the mist disappeared, they were less than ten miles away from the hot spring lake.

The sound of the Sword-Suppressing Stone barrier being hit also reached the ears of Pei Jingchao and the others. They followed the sound of the bell and rushed into the valley, but they were one step too late.

The Sword-Suppressing Stone barrier was broken, and Pei Jingchao looked at the mountain towering over the clouds, a little unbelievable, "How is it possible?"

"Impossible, except for my father, no one can open the restriction of the Sword-Suppressing Stone." Yao Yuxiu shouted, stretched out her hand to wipe her eyes, and used her spiritual vision to look at the mountain in the sky.

When the disciples of the Lishan Sword Sect entered the Sword-Suppressing Stone to look for the sword, they entered through a mountain gate opened by the mountain entry order. She had only seen the Sword-Suppressing Stone being enshrined in the altar in the back mountain, and had never seen the majestic mountain after the restriction was broken.

"This is indeed the Sword-Suppressing Stone." Pei Jingchao said. He also knew that the barrier outside the Sword-Suppressing Stone was an ancient seal left over from the Ji Clan period, and no one could shake it.

The order to enter the mountain only opened an entrance. No one could open the ancient seal on the Sword-Suppressing Stone, including Jue Chenzi, the head of the Lishan Sword Sect.

This was also the reason why the Lishan Sword Sect was not afraid to announce the news after the Sword-Suppressing Stone was stolen and asked all the cultivators in the world to search for it together.

Now this ancient seal was torn open by someone with brute force, how could this not surprise Pei Jingchao.

But now is not the time to consider who has the ability to open the sword-suppressing stone. Countless monks have already flown out of the Cloud Mountain and entered the Sword-suppressing Stone above their heads. They naturally cannot fall behind.

The majestic mountain covers the sky for a hundred miles. Not only the monks near the Cloud Mountain, but also the monks in other places have seen this mountain that appeared in the sky for no reason. For a moment, countless streams of light surged towards this cloud-end mountain.

...

Yu Yi had no idea what was happening outside. She and Senior Brother He plunged into the magic circle together and immediately fell into the deep and boundless nothingness. The light above their heads quickly dissipated, leaving only endless darkness.

She hugged Senior Brother He tightly and continued to sink in the darkness.

Plop, plop.

The sound of a heartbeat rang regularly in Yu Yi's ears. At first, she thought it was her own heartbeat or that of Senior Brother He, but later she realized it was not.

Something was gathering around them. She thought it was probably the strange black shadows she saw outside the formation.

Did they fall into the inside of that strange black shadow? This thing actually had a heartbeat?