"No way! Are you two kidding me? There's no time left! Do you really want to be a pair of reckless, chaotic siblings on the run?"
"..."
Shen Yunhao snapped out of his daze, quickly released his mouth with a "pop," and began to lower his head to arrange the materials.
Mo Yan blushed and turned her head away.
I've never seen her face turn this red when she cast the Netherfire Curse...
She herself never expected that the first time she would take the initiative to kiss Shen Yunhao would be at such a moment.
Before long, the spirit array and materials were set up. In the center of the array was a prismatic crystal stone the size of a lead ball, which was crystal clear.
This is a common spirit-gathering crystal on the market, which has the effect of storing spirit arrays and is an essential item for most spirit array masters.
The spirit array master will store the inscribed spirit array in it and use it in battle, saving the troublesome step of setting up the spirit array, making it more convenient and faster.
Only now did Shen Yunhao take a deep breath, his fingertips tightening slightly. "Are you ready? After the spirit array is activated, I will first evacuate this ice bridge, but I have been..."
"Nonsense!" Mo Yan waved her hand. "I know, I know, just mind your own business. Don't wait until I wake up and you're frozen to death..." She deliberately dragged out the words, but her fingertips unconsciously tugged at the hem of her clothes. "That...that would be hilarious! Hehe!"
Without further hesitation, Shen Yunhao raised his hand and pointed. The next moment, the crystal shone brightly, as if spiritual patterns were spreading out from it, covering and spreading across the ice bridge beneath his feet like ripples.
Immediately afterwards, the dozens of top-grade spirit stones that Shen Yunhao had prepared in advance to support the spirit array were instantly reduced to dust.
A large-scale spirit array set up by a Spirit Void Realm expert may not be fully activated by Shen Yunhao's spiritual energy alone; it requires the power of top-grade spirit stones as an auxiliary.
He was about to get up when he suddenly felt a slight tugging at his sleeve.
"Hey...you..." Mo Yan lowered her head, her eyelashes casting uneasy shadows on her pale face. Her voice was as soft as falling snowflakes, her fingertips trembling, but what came out was, "Take...take care of yourself..."
Despite the seemingly sudden expression of concern, Shen Yunhao easily discerned the girl's hidden thoughts.
He grabbed her small, cold hand; the girl's wrist was so slender it seemed it would break at the slightest touch. "I'm not going anywhere! I'll stay right where you can see me when you open your eyes."
Mo Yan pulled her hand back, her face flushing even more. "Who...who asked you that!"
But a reassuring smile quietly appeared on his lips, as if his uneasy mind had suddenly calmed down.
The pre-drawn spirit array was set up very quickly, and soon spread to the entire ice bridge.
At this moment, Shen Yunhao also safely retreated to the shore, looking nervously at the girl in the purple dress who was meditating alone on the ice bridge...
At a certain moment, the tranquil atmosphere was suddenly broken by a low groan from the girl. Mo Yan had already bent over, and a look of intense pain appeared on her face.
At the same time, the waning heat completely erupted!
In an instant, the entire ice bridge trembled violently! Mo Yan's slender body arched sharply, her ten fingers digging deeply into the ice—
"Ugh—!"
A heart-wrenching scream pierced the cold wind, and an eerie purple light suddenly appeared beneath the girl's skin, as if thousands of vines were surging within her flesh and blood. Then, her hair grew wildly, transforming into winding vines.
"Wisteria!" Shen Yunhao subconsciously stood up and wanted to rush forward, but was stopped by Bai Xiaoruo.
"Idiot! Going there now won't help at all; it'll only hurt her! Trust her; she can get through this on her own!"
Shen Yunhao's raised leg froze in place, and he could only watch helplessly as Mo Yan continued to "transform" in the center of the ice bridge.
At this moment, with her cultivation sealed and the intense pain of being burned by the Netherfire, Zi Teng could no longer maintain her human form.
Not long after, the girl in the middle of the ice bridge stubbornly raised her head, looked at Shen Yunhao on the shore, and revealed a bitter smile that was hard to understand.
Shen Yunhao felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart, "Wisteria..."
"She seems to be struggling to maintain her human form... but now, it looks like she can't hold on any longer..."
Sure enough, as Bai Xiaoruo finished speaking, the girl's human form on the bridge completely disintegrated, and a giant purple vine that blotted out the sky rose from the ground!
The thick vine trunk is covered with ancient demonic patterns, and each leaf exudes a sinister demonic aura, resembling a ghostly shadow. Dark demonic flowers bloom one after another, and each petal is adorned with fine golden lines.
This scene was many times more bizarre and terrifying than the wisteria itself that Shen Yunhao had seen in the secret realm!
This is... the real Dark Abyss Vine!
Shen Yunhao then realized that the wisteria forms that the girl had manifested in front of him before had all been modified to conceal the characteristics of the "demon vine".
Shen Yunhao could roughly guess why the girl did this.
During her time by Shen Yunhao's side, she didn't want Shen Yunhao to see her, didn't want to become the so-called Dark Abyss Demon Vine, and just wanted to be someone's bratty little sister, an ordinary vine demon.
At this moment, Shen Yunhao finally understood the bitter smile the girl had given him.
She was, in the end... still that terrifying Dark Abyss Vine.
At this moment, Mo Yan had mostly lost consciousness. The entire purple magic vine expanded and extended without needing to cover the entire ice bridge, while many vines also reached down into the bottomless abyss below.
However, what truly worried Shen Yunhao was the scene at the central main vine.
The dark red ghost fire emanating from the black millet gnawing at the vines like living creatures, while the lower vines condensed into crystalline ice crystals, slowly extending upwards to resist the ghost fire.
At the point where ice and fire meet, some of the vines were charred and turned to ashes, while others were frozen stiff and shattered into ice shards.
The faint, plaintive cries of a girl echoed in the air, causing Shen Yunhao's emotions to rise and fall.
No wonder Mo Yan didn't want others to come over. As proud as she is, how could she want outsiders to see her in such a disheveled state!
"Snap!"
Just then, the main vine suddenly split open with a hideous wound, and golden-purple liquid gushed out, instantly vaporizing into blood mist by the Netherfire before it even hit the ground. The entire demonic vine convulsed in agony, its thorny whips lashing out uncontrollably, sending countless shattered ice fragments falling into the abyss.
"This is the primordial essence of the demon race! I never expected the process of breaking the curse to be so difficult; even the Dark Abyss Demon Vine at the Void Realm has been tormented to this state!"
Bai Xiaoruo couldn't help but sigh.
Shen Yunhao stared intently at the largest black flower at the top of the wisteria. In the center of the layered petals, the figure of a girl curled up could be vaguely seen. She was trembling, hugging her knees, and with each burst of ghostly fire, more golden blood beads seeped from the flower's stamen.
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