The moment Chaos saw that face clearly, its muddled pupils suddenly contracted!
"It's you?!" Chaos spoke in bewilderment. "Impossible... How could you be here?!"
Lin Qiye stood in the corridor before the second-floor ward, calmly looking down at Chaos as he slowly spoke:
"You seem to have forgotten that I was originally its master... There is karma between it and me, and as long as that karmic connection exists, I can enter."
Chaos stared fixedly at Lin Qiye. Above its head, a progress bar appeared:
Lin Qiye Treatment Progress: 83%
Chaos froze for a moment, then burst into laughter. "So what if you got in? You came out of a ward, which means you're a patient here. Since you're a patient, you can't hurt me... Coming back only means you'll die with them."
As soon as it finished speaking, Chaos raised its palm. The light and shadows around it rapidly collapsed, transforming into a beam brimming with destructive force that thundered toward the corridor outside the second-floor ward!
Primordial Celestial Venerable frowned and shot forward!
Boom—!!
A golden flower bloomed in the void, tearing the beam apart. Clad in a bloodstained Daoist Robe, Primordial Celestial Venerable stood weakly before Lin Qiye and spoke hoarsely:
"Lin Qiye, this is not a place you should be... Leave, quickly."
Lin Qiye shook his head. He stepped past Primordial Celestial Venerable and instead positioned himself in front of him.
Looking at the straight, dark crimson figure before him, Primordial Celestial Venerable was slightly stunned.
"Celestial Venerable, humanity has been under Heaven's care for the past thousand years... This time, let us do it." Lin Qiye's voice slowly drifted back to him.
Primordial Celestial Venerable frowned, about to say something else, when he realized that this Lin Qiye seemed somewhat different from the