“Who are you?” Qin Yu looked at the woman in red who suddenly appeared in front of them, frowning. Jun Shi beside him was also like that, his eyes full of vigilance.
After being asked by Qin Yu in a stern voice, the woman’s steps stopped and the bells on her ankles stopped shaking. She looked at the two people who not only stood there motionless but also looked at her with vigilance, and her eyebrows frowned as she looked at them.
She couldn’t help thinking, what’s wrong with them, why are they different from other men? What exactly caused this? Is it because I am not beautiful today? Normally, those men would have pounced on her long ago and they would not be indifferent like them!
Thinking of this, the woman in red immediately took out a mirror and then shook her head thankfully. With a beautiful face and a graceful figure, anyone who saw her would see her as a beauty, so it was not her fault. That is, she shifted her gaze to Qin Yu and the others, her eyes were seductive, her red lips were raised, “Do the two gentlemen have hidden illnesses?”
At first, Qin Yu thought he had heard it wrong, until the other party repeated it again, he realized that it was not an auditory hallucination, and his expression suddenly became complicated. Jun Shi was more direct as he asked the woman directly, “Why do you say that, young lady?”
Qin Yu was also curious. And then he saw the woman in red twisting her hair with her fingers, as she said with a look of resentment in her eyes, “If not, why are the two gentlemen so indifferent to me? Could it be because I am not beautiful enough?”
Qin Yu’s temples twitched, and he thought, of course it’s because you have bad intentions written all over your body, but he replied, “Yes, it’s because you are too ugly!”
“What did you say?!” The woman in red stopped what she was doing and looked at Qin Yu fiercely, her eyes full of anger and shock. As Qin Yu observed her reaction, a look of deep thought flashed across his eyes, and then he raised a sneer, and hit her more mercilessly with a sarcastic look, “Has no one told you? You are so ugly that it is disgusting!”
“You are looking for death!” The woman covered her ears with both hands, her face was distorted as she glared at Qin Yu with a murderous look in her eyes, as if she was going to take Qin Yu’s life in the next moment.
“Daojun!” Jun Shi immediately grabbed Qin Yu’s arm when he found that the woman was going crazy, fearing that he would anger her again.
Qin Yu gave him a comforting look and said, “Don’t worry, I know what to do.” Jun Shi thought that Qin Yu should not be a person without measure, so he relaxed. As a result, before he turned around, he heard Qin Yu say to the woman again, “If I were you, I would end my life, so as not to pollute the eyes of the world!”
Jun Shi’s throat choked. Is this the Daojun he knows? But it’s too late to say anything now, because the woman in red obviously doesn’t intend to let them go.
The woman held her head and roared, her voice was rough, no longer as soft and pleasant as before, but rather like the roar of a wild beast.
Qin Yu raised his eyebrows, “Are you finally going to reveal your true face?” Jun Shi glanced at Qin Yu after hearing this.
Qin Yu looked at the woman and continued, “It is recorded in ancient books that there is a monster named Tunhuan, who specializes in transforming into a beautiful woman to seduce men, suck their blood and devour their vitality. It is worth mentioning that Tunhuan itself is extremely ugly and it hates it when others dislike its appearance the most.”
“Shut up!” The woman, no, it can no longer be called a woman at this time, it should be called Tunhuan, as Tunhuan just took off its beautiful outer skin and revealed its true body. After removing the illusion, it is clearly an ugly monster with poisonous sores all over its body.
“I’m right.” Qin Yu raised his lips.
“So what?” Tunhuan took out a copper bell and shook it gently, “Today is the day you die anyway.”
As soon as the bell rang, as if in response, a continuous stream of bells came from all around. Jun Shi looked around, but unfortunately he could not see anything except fog. Qin Yu reminded him, “Its helpers are here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the two were surrounded by a group of people who suddenly appeared. The bells just now came from the bells on their necks. “These are the previous victims.” Qin Yu said.
“Victims?” Jun Shi glanced at their faces, even though their facial features could no longer be seen, the bloody holes on their bodies that kept bleeding, and the sobbing that sounded like tears, and he was shocked for a moment.
“Don’t sympathize with them,” Qin Yu observed Jun Shi’s expression of pity and explained, “They died because of their lust for beauty, and…”
As he spoke, he chopped off the head of the person who attacked him with a sword and crushed the bell on his neck, “…and after death, they continued to harm others as puppets. What is there to sympathize with? Concentrate on chopping off their heads and destroying the bells so that they have no chance of rebirth.”
With Qin Yu’s explanation, Jun Shi no longer hesitated and immediately raised his sword to chop. The two were very powerful, and within a few breaths, there was no one around. “Now, only you are left.” Qin Yu pointed his sword directly at the culprit.
Tunhuan didn’t expect this to happen. It looked at the two in horror and retreated for a while. It was weak and relied on illusions and puppets to survive to this day, but now the puppets are gone and the illusions that had worked every time were useless to them. It seems that there is only one way to go for it.
Qin Yu stepped forward with a sword and said bluntly, “Go to hell, you monster who even does bad things with a skin!”
Seeing that the natal sword was about to pierce into Tunhuan’s heart, Jun Shi suddenly screamed behind him, and Qin Yu fell into a coma as soon as he turned around.
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“How do you feel?” A magnetic voice exploded in Qin Yu’s mind.
Someone was talking and Qin Yu tried to open his eyes, but what he saw was not the scenery in the Nine-Layer Secret Realm, but a white house with many sophisticated experimental equipment.
The voice asked again, Qin Yu wanted to open his mouth to speak, but found that he couldn’t open it at all, and not only his mouth, Qin Yu was horrified to find that except for his eyes, all other organs were out of his control.
“Sorry, I forgot, you can’t speak now.” As the voice sounded, Qin Yu’s eyes were covered with a touch of white. He looked up and saw a man in a white lab coat. He had been talking just now, and he was fiddling with the experimental equipment on the table with his back to Qin Yu.
After a while, the man said, “When I came here, I passed a lake. The color of the lake water is like emerald, very beautiful, as beautiful as your eyes. I like it very much. If we have a chance in the future, we can go to see it together.”
When he said the last sentence, the man turned his body around and Qin Yu finally saw his face clearly at this time. It was an incomparable handsomeness, as if the creator had poured all his efforts into creating it. What Qin Yu cared about most was his eyes. Those eyes seemed to be filled with starlight and they seemed to glow at a glance, making people want to indulge in them.
The man looked at the time and smiled, “Now, you should rest. See you tomorrow.”
Qin Yu suddenly panicked. He wanted to say no, but he couldn’t say it at all. He could only watch himself fall into darkness and then his consciousness fell into silence.
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“You finally woke up, Daojun!” Junshi looked at Qin Yu with concern, with a rare look of joy on his face.
Qin Yu rubbed his dizzy head, as he raised his head, he couldn’t move his eyes away when he looked into Jun Shi’s eyes. After Jun Shi discovered this, his face instantly became red. He quickly turned his face to the side and looked elsewhere and whispered, “Is there something on my face?”
“No.” Qin Yu shook his head, but had no intention of explaining further. He asked another question, “Why did I faint?”
Jun Shi helped Qin Yu sit up and said, “The reason why Daojun fainted was because he was hit by the illusion of Tunhuan. I noticed it at the time and wanted to remind you, but it was too late. It’s all my fault that I didn’t find it in advance.”
“Your Highness, don’t blame yourself. After all, it’s my own fault for underestimating the enemy. By the way, what happened to the Tunhuan?”
“The illusion it cast on you should have been its life-saving illusion. It felt like it had lost half its life after casting it. I followed up with a sword and killed it completely.”
Qin Yu nodded, looking at the mist that had begun to dissipate and said, “Since we have eliminated it, let’s continue to move forward.”
“Daojun has just woken up from a coma, so you should rest for a while before you can hurry on your way.” Jun Shi was a little worried about Qin Yu.
“Don’t worry, it’ll be fine. I know my own body.” Qin Yu was about to get up, but Jun Shi pressed his shoulder and pushed him back, “Daojun, you should sit for a while longer. I have strong doubts about your three words ‘I know’ now.”
Qin Yu was puzzled at first, then suddenly thought of what happened before he fell into a coma, and immediately laughed, “This time I really know. And last time it was also forced by the situation, otherwise Tunhuan would not have lost his composure so quickly.”
Jun Shi turned his head to the side, with a cold and hard attitude of “Don’t try to confuse me with sweet words”, Qin Yu had no choice but to rest honestly in the end.
When they got on the road again, the fog had completely dissipated. Qin Yu thought that they would be able to reach the Nine-Layered Ancestor’s mansion very smoothly. However, after coming out of an underground cave with many forked roads, Qin Yu found that he and Jun Shi were lost. “I underestimated how bad he was at finding his way.”
However, he thought that although Jun Shi’s strength was not as good as his, he was also a master among thousands. There should be very few things in the secret realm that could hurt him. Therefore, Qin Yu did not turn back and planned to go directly to the forest in front.
On the way, Qin Yu suddenly asked the system, “Did Jun Shi do anything while I was unconscious?”
The system thought for a moment and replied, “According to my observation, he did not do anything except staying by the host’s side and waiting for the host to wake up.”
“I know.”
The system pondered for a while and said, “Why did the host ask this? Did you find any problems?”
Qin Yu casually brushed away the branches blocking the way ahead, “No, but I always feel something is wrong. Forget it, let’s not talk about this. System, after I was unconscious, I suddenly had an extra memory in my mind…”
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“…So, there is no precedent in your database for this?”
The system said in a muffled voice, “Yes, I’m sorry, host, I can’t find it.” Qin Yu comforted it, but just after comforting it, an arrow suddenly flew past him and shot straight at the tree trunk behind him.
Qin Yu’s face was stern, and he flew onto the branches of a tree high up on his toes. From here he saw a fierce fight going on in front of him.
There were two people in total, one of whom Qin Yu knew. One of the two men held a knife and a bow, while the other held a whip and was agile. The two fought back and forth, with murderous intent, and it was obvious that they were both trying to kill each other…
In the end, Qin Yu’s eyes stayed on the man holding the whip, watching him defend, counterattack, and watched him inject his true energy into the long whip and pierce the other’s heart, with blood spilling on his face. He watched him gently wipe the blood from his lips with the tip of his tongue, with a seductive smile. Then he watched him turn around and wave to him excitedly, “Benefactor!”
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