Stirred by an Unpleasant Scene

Half an hour earlier.

Le Ling, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly fell into a nightmare.

Over the past few nights, because of Qian Daoliu's soothing presence, she had gradually gone from falling into nightmares the moment she closed her eyes and fell asleep to no longer having them at all.

So Qian Daoliu's comfort had been effective; Le Ling simply knew nothing about it.

But for some reason, tonight, while she had clearly been enjoying a sweet dream, the scene abruptly changed. Once again, she saw her father being killed and collapsing in a pool of blood.

At once, she was dragged back into an endless, terrifying nightmare.

Le Ling struggled continuously within the nightmare, but it was as though an invisible hand had seized her, leaving her completely unable to move!

As she struggled, the murderer who had killed her father appeared before her.

Le Ling's eyes instantly turned bloodshot in the nightmare. The words revenge seemed to have been carved into her very blood!

She suddenly stretched out both hands and viciously clutched the murderer's throat.

At that moment, a voice sounded beside her ear.

"Kill that murderer! Yes, kill him!"

"As long as you kill that murderer, you can avenge your father!"

Seduced by that voice, Le Ling tightened her grip, using all her strength to choke the other person!!

Then, for some reason, the face of the person whose throat she was strangling transformed into the face of the man she had always loved.

She saw Qian Daoliu's lips moving as if he were saying something to her, yet she could not hear a single word!

And that tempting voice continued to echo by her ear.

Afterward, Le Ling saw that the face of the person whose throat she held alternated between the murderer's blurry visage and Qian Daoliu's face.

But because of this, she suddenly realized it. This was not real—it was an illusion. She had been subjected to mind control through hallucinations!

At that moment, the voice that had tempted her earlier rang out by her ear again.

"Not bad, realizing it so quickly!"

"That was indeed an illusion just now, but what comes next is real. Enjoy it well, hahaha..."

As the seductive voice faded, the scene before Le Ling changed again. When she saw it clearly, she saw two people entwined on a bed.

One was Qian Daoliu, and the other was the woman he had married through an alliance.

Le Ling had seen that woman beneath the hills of Spirit City on the day Qian Daoliu was married, so she recognized her immediately when the scene appeared.

Watching the two people on the bed and listening to those obscene sounds, Le Ling's heart instantly felt as though countless ants were devouring it. Tears unconsciously streamed from her eyes.

Her hands at her sides clenched into fists. Overwhelmed by grief, she suddenly let out a furious roar and completely broke free from the other party's illusory mind control!

"How is that possible!"

"You're merely a human Soul Elder—how could you break free from my mind control so quickly!!"

That seductive voice was utterly astonished.

Le Ling was now completely awake. Seeing that she had regained her senses, Qian Daoliu, whose throat she had been strangling all this time, immediately embraced her in delight.

"Ling'er, you're finally awake!"

But Le Ling did not even look at him. She pushed him away directly, then turned and swept her gaze around.

She had already wiped away the tears from her face. In an icy tone, she shouted, "Come out!!!"

The moment her words fell, seven purple foxes appeared not far from them. At the same time, red light shone from the eyes of all seven purple foxes as they stared at Le Ling.

That red glow carried a sense of danger and mystery!

Seeing the seven purple foxes from behind Le Ling, Qian Daoliu was slightly startled.

Three-Eyed Demonic Fox!

It possessed powerful charm and illusion skills, capable of affecting an opponent's mental state. It could even have a certain effect on Soul Masters at the Titled Douluo level!

No wonder it had been able to control Ling'er just now!

Qian Daoliu looked at Le Ling and reminded her, "Ling'er, this Three-Eyed Demonic Fox has cultivated for as long as sixty thousand years, and it also has a clone skill. You may not be able to defeat it. Let me handle it."

Le Ling did not respond. Right now, she had no desire to pay any attention to Qian Daoliu.

With a frosty expression, she glared at the seven identical Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes across from her. She knew that six of them were clones.

"The one thing you should never have done was use a scene of him being with another woman to provoke me!"

"You're courting death!!!"

As soon as she spoke, she immediately summoned her martial soul and attacked the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox on the far left.

At that moment, the other six Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes immediately converged on the one at the far left, and the seven instantly fused together.

When Le Ling attacked, the seven Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes that had just fused into one swiftly split into seven again.

Their eyes still emitted an intense red glow as they stared at the human woman before them.

Seeing the Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes split back into seven, Le Ling did not stop. Instead, she continued attacking the one on the far left.

Just as the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox thought its trick had succeeded, Le Ling's pupils suddenly turned a fiery red.

"Second Soul Skill, Crimson Light Storm."

As her words fell, light and fire instantly merged, and the violent storm they produced surged toward the Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes.

But this soul skill did not strike the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox on the far left. Instead, it feinted left and attacked the one on the far right.

The moment Le Ling heard Qian Daoliu say that the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox possessed a clone skill, she knew that six of the seven Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes in the distance were illusory clones.

She immediately used her Innate Skill, Phantom, to counter the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox's clone skill.

Thus, from the very beginning, she had seen that the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox on the far left was the true body!

Later, after the seven Three-Eyed Demonic Foxes fused together and then split into seven again, the one on the far left was no longer the true body. But Le Ling pretended not to notice and continued attacking it.

Her goal was to make her opponent think she had failed to identify the true body, lowering its guard so she could use her second soul skill as a feint!

At this moment, the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox's true body on the far right had never expected this human woman to see through its clones.

Thus, it was completely unable to evade the incoming Crimson Light Storm!

A howl rang through the night sky of Sunset Forest.

The other six Three-Eyed Demonic Fox clones instantly vanished, while the true body was left barely alive beneath the assault of fire and light.

The first tail behind Le Ling swung, sending a circular ring of flame wrapped in fire toward the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox's head.

The already dying true body could not withstand it at all and died on the spot!

The Three-Eyed Demonic Fox was dead, yet Le Ling's expression remained icy.

Watching Le Ling fight the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox from a short distance away, Qian Daoliu suddenly recalled what Ling'er had said to it just now.

He realized that the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox might have shown his Ling'er some unpleasant scenes, and that those scenes were likely related to him.

At that thought, Qian Daoliu's heart suddenly trembled!