Girl, You're Playing with Fire!!

Outskirts of Luoshui Town.

"It's disappeared!"

"Looks like Lord Sikong is ready to revive."

The Heavenly Fiend Hall disciples guarding the outskirts had clearly sensed the changes in Luoshui Town.

"Still, this was faster than the Hall Master expected."

"Does that mean we can move around freely for a few days?"

"Hahaha, you brat, thinking of picking flowers again?"

"I'm telling you, don't mess around. Wait until we see Lord Sikong before doing anything."

The few of them chimed in one after another.

They failed to notice a figure rapidly closing in on them at full speed.

Li Xuanxiao landed without unleashing any fierce Sword Qi. Not even the faintest breeze around him was disturbed.

Yet before the crowd could react, his sword flashed through them at a speed nearly impossible for the naked eye to catch.

Every sweep of the blade precisely harvested an enemy's life.

The blood only burst forth after Li Xuanxiao had sheathed his sword.

Li Xuanxiao swiftly fled, making sure none of these Evil Cultivators had concealed any poison that would explode upon death.

Then he burned everything clean with a single fire.

Li Xuanxiao spread out his Spiritual Sense. Only after confirming that no one was nearby did he let out the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest sigh of relief.

Had two days already passed?

Li Xuanxiao examined his body internally.

Mm, although he had been trapped within a Blessed Land,

the spiritual energy contained within had indeed benefited him greatly.

Though it had only been two short days.

"..."

As the restriction vanished, all its rules naturally disappeared as well.

The people trapped here did not flee. Instead, they stood numbly in the town, looking at one another.

They seemed to have long grown accustomed to life here.

As for those who had already lost their five senses, they still huddled against the walls, feeling nothing at all.

The rules had vanished, but their five senses remained sealed.

Zhang Tianxin planted her hands on her hips and laughed heartily. "A mere Body Integration Realm! Brother Li and I are invincible when we join hands!!"

Then she muttered to herself again:

"The two of us are so fated. In this vast world, we actually met twice in succession, and both times in peril. Could this be Heaven's will? I might as well become sworn siblings with Brother Li."

Give up that dangerous idea already!!

Li Xuanxiao thought as he watched from the shadows.

Li Mengyun had originally even prepared her last words. Now that she had survived the calamity, her entire body felt weak, and everything seemed unreal.

Was it over??

These few short days had felt unbearably long.

Li Mengyun thought again of Li Xuanxiao, who had saved her twice, and looked around everywhere.

Where was he? Why was he nowhere to be seen?

Li Mengyun could not help recalling what had happened not long ago.

That figure, when she was about to suffer humiliation.

That bloodstained face had been so stalwart...

Li Mengyun's cheeks flushed slightly.

It seemed she had found the male lead from Storybook Novels~

Just as her thoughts ran wild, Zhang Tianxin inadvertently discovered the letter Li Xuanxiao had left for her in advance.

"He's already left first!"

"What?" Li Mengyun asked tentatively.

"He said he has orders from his master, and that he was injured too, so he needs to return and recuperate."

Li Mengyun looked disappointed, then softly said, "He's a Shushan Disciple, isn't he? I should go thank him properly for such a great favor..."

Li Xuanxiao in the shadows: (O_o)??

Girl, you're playing with fire!!

Zhang Tianxin unfolded the note. Six large characters were written on it.

"If fate wills it, we shall meet again in the martial world."

Li Mengyun puffed out her little lips slightly.

In the letter, Li Xuanxiao had also asked Zhang Tianxin to help the people in town whose five senses had been sealed, if it was convenient.

Zhang Tianxin did not refuse and led those people toward her sect.

As for Li Xuanxiao, after everyone had left, he set up a simple large formation around Luoshui Town and began chanting the Rebirth Mantra.

So that those who had died here could return dust to dust, earth to earth.

Afterward, he found quite a few letters among the corpses.

Some belonged to travelers who had received letters from home.

They had not returned home for ten years, and their families missed them dearly.

Yet on their journey home, they had accidentally entered this place.

Others carried marriage contracts. Somewhere, perhaps, a lovely woman was waiting for them.

Some letters had been written by people who knew there was no hope of escaping and carried them on their persons.

May my younger brother take good care of our parents. As for my wife, let her remarry.

Some were written to children not yet born, wishing them peace in all things...

At the ends of the letters were their home addresses and the names of their family members.

If someone should discover this letter and happen to pass by my home, I earnestly beg them to deliver it to my family. I do not wish for them to worry day after day.

Li Xuanxiao sat on the grass, opening the letters one after another.

Li Xuanxiao carefully put away every letter and swiftly departed.

"..."

Several months later.

Morning sunlight fell over a village. A husband and wife who had risen early to prepare for farmwork found a sheet of letter paper and five taels of silver by their door.

Neither the couple nor their youngest son could read, so they took it to their eldest daughter-in-law.

The eldest daughter-in-law had studied a little. After reading for a long while, she could not help bursting into loud sobs.

Her tears and snot streamed down. The child in her arms did not understand and merely reached out to pat his mother's cheek.

Watching this scene from afar, Li Xuanxiao let out an almost inaudible sigh.

Indeed, Zhang Haoran's mayfly girl was born in the morning and dead by evening.

He had been willing to trade his life for hers, all for the mayfly girl who had given him hope.

But behind that lay the shattered homes of countless families. What had the common people done to deserve this?

"..."

After delivering the last letter, Li Xuanxiao rushed back to Shu Mountain without stopping.

The path of ruthlessness had never been true ruthlessness. It was the path of all living beings, a selfless great love.

Since one had already stepped onto the road of cultivation, why cling so stubbornly to mortal affairs?

To be lost was to suffer the bitterness of reincarnation; to awaken was to find heaven and earth broad.

The myriad living beings drifted on, cause and effect circling endlessly.

If the world was filled with things that went against one's wishes, the more one clung to them, the more bitter the suffering became.

Zhang Haoran was the finest example.

"..."

"You're saying that while I was away, the restriction was broken? Elder Sikong died? And the disciples guarding the outskirts vanished too?"

Inside Asura Hall.

Liu Qiushui slightly raised her lovely willow-leaf brows.

The disciple who had come to report the news did not dare move an inch.

Liu Qiushui suddenly smiled.

The disciple was so frightened that his face turned bloodless, and his entire body shook like chaff in a sieve.

The Hall Master had been angered to laughter.

"I underestimated him. You may leave."

Liu Qiushui waved her hand dismissively.

The disciple felt as though he had received a pardon and hurried away.

Liu Qiushui's slender fingers lightly tapped against the armrest of her seat.

"To form a perfect Golden Core and break the restriction of the Body Integration Realm, he truly is no ordinary man.

What a pity. Since he did not die, why did he not come to Asura Hall to find me?"

Liu Qiushui murmured softly to herself.

With a casual wave of her hand, Liu Qiushui summoned a round mirror before her.

With a light tap, a person's face appeared in the mirror.

"This subordinate greets the Hall Master."

"How exactly are you serving as an undercover agent in Shu Mountain? Didn't you tell me Murong Mo was already dead? Why is he still alive and well now?"

"What? Murong Mo is alive? He really did die."

"Idiot!"

Liu Qiushui clenched her hand in the air.

The undercover agent clutched his heart and howled in agony.