Raindrops pattered down, battering the leaves until they bobbed and dipped. Wind wrapped in rain whipped through the forest, making the whole woodland sway without end.
The rain had completely turned the dirt road into a soup of mud, making the entire path terribly slick and hard to travel.
Yet even on such a difficult road, someone was still hurrying along.
The thin figure wore a Straw Raincoat and a conical hat, glancing back from time to time as though wary of pursuers behind her.
As a gust swept by and blew aside the hat's gauze veil, it revealed Shangguan Yuting's delicate face.
Though she wore a conical hat, the wild wind blew in every direction. Raindrops still clung to Shangguan Yuting's face like beads of water on a lotus leaf.
Several black tentacles stretched out from beneath her clothes and quickly wiped away the droplets.
Then, at that very moment, the wild laughter behind her made Li Sui's heart lurch. "Hahahaha."
"Fuck, after all these years of rotten luck, I'm finally turning things around! I actually ran into a Heart Su! Hahaha!!" The voice was coarse and grating, like a saw biting through wood.
A violent wind carrying the sound of bells swept past, and a large tree before Li Sui came crashing down with a rustle, blocking her path.
Li Sui turned around and saw a burly-faced man grinning wickedly at her. "It's useless. You took my medicine, so you can't use those Heart Su tricks of yours."
The scars on his bald crown proved that he had once left home to become a monk, but the hair around it showed that he had long since returned to secular life.
What was more, if he truly were a Buddhist Disciple, he could not possibly have been holding a