Sacrificing Oneself to Become a Buddha and Embrace a Beauty

"Heh, maybe I can really be the final beneficiary," Qi Bei thought maliciously. If he was going to be bait, there had to be a price.

Time ticked by, and the last sliver of sunlight vanished, ushering in the night.

The nights in the Undead Mountain Range could truly be described as a dance of demons.

Within Qi Bei's sight, several zombie skeletons were already shambling aimlessly in his direction. Soon, they would detect Yao Rao's presence.

Yao Rao clearly sensed the danger as well. She extended her left hand, and a heart appeared in her fair palm...

That's right, a heart polished like blue crystal.

Incredibly, this heart was still beating.

Even with just sight, one could feel the immense power contained within each pulsation of the heart.

Yao Rao dripped a drop of blood onto the blue crystal heart. Then, she planted her magic staff into the ground with her right hand and uttered an even more obscure and difficult-to-understand magic spell.

Suddenly, the blood-red light of the magic array began to surge like boiling lava, then wrapped around the Specter layer by layer. However, Qi Bei, who was within it, remained unharmed.

The Specter let out another sharp cry, its translucent body swelling violently before slowly shrinking like a deflating balloon.

Outside the formation, Yao Rao's pretty face was as pale as paper. She spat out three mouthfuls of blood and collapsed onto the ground.

The Specter vanished within the magic array, replaced by an Undead Bead, half golden and half glazed.

A duel between two powerful beings; it seemed Yao Rao had achieved the final victory.

Qi Bei still didn't dare to act rashly. He realized that Yao Rao was probably not the high-level mage he had imagined, but a more powerful King Grade Mage, or even an Earth Grade Mage. Mages of this caliber could kill him with ease even with a sliver of their magic remaining.

At this moment, more than ten undead creatures not far away had discovered Yao Rao and were charging towards her.

And just then, two streaks of silver flames streaked across the night sky.

When they landed, Qi Bei realized they weren't silver flames at all, but the silver glow flashing in the eye sockets of a skeleton.

"Silver Armored Skeleton, a high-level undead!" Qi Bei's heart leaped. If Yao Rao died, he wouldn't escape either.

A sharp glint flashed in Yao Rao's icy blue eyes. The moment the Silver Armored Skeleton lunged, the tear-shaped pendant on her chest shattered, unleashing thousands of wind blades that swept through the air.

Qi Bei watched helplessly as the Silver Armored Skeleton was instantly reduced to dust, and everything in the path of the wind blades turned to powder.

Gulp.

Qi Bei swallowed hard. If he had made a move just now, his fate would have been even more miserable than that of the Silver Armored Skeleton.

Yao Rao glanced at Qi Bei, a hint of apology in her eyes. Then, she slumped to the ground, unconscious.

The light of the magic array dissipated the instant Yao Rao fell. Qi Bei squatted down and picked up the half-golden, half-glazed Undead Bead from the ground.

This enchantress had gone to great lengths, and what she wanted was likely this Undead Bead.

The immense commotion caused by the thousands of wind blades had stirred up the Undead Mountain Range, and Qi Bei was sure many undead would swarm over soon.

Qi Bei put the Undead Bead into his cloth pouch and turned to leave. However, he hesitated, taking several steps without moving. The hint of apology in Yao Rao's eyes before she fainted kept replaying in his mind, and the mark on his left palm kept flashing.

"Sigh, I'm still too kind. Even though this enchantress used me as bait, she didn't intend to kill me. Fine, I'll save you this once, but the price you pay won't be this simple," Qi Bei muttered to himself. He slung Yao Rao over his shoulder and took off running.

Qi Bei had survived in the Undead Mountain Range for a full eight months, so his ability to escape was second to none. Soon, he found a cave and settled down.

Qi Bei put Yao Rao down and sat cross-legged beside her, opening his left hand and staring blankly at the golden, flashing Divine Dragon pattern on his palm.

Actually, the reason he had hidden his hand behind his back earlier was because the Divine Dragon pattern on his left hand had reacted, sensing the presence of a supreme Yin Body.

Yao Rao possessed the supreme Yin Body, so when she used her mental magic to hypnotize him, he had a trick up his sleeve and planted the Dragon Seal within her.

"Cold... so cold!" Yao Rao suddenly mumbled.

Qi Bei touched Yao Rao's hand, but the skin he touched sent a shiver down his spine. How could she be so cold?

Perhaps it was because Qi Bei's large hand was very warm, but the unconscious Yao Rao instinctively moved closer to the source of warmth. She rested her head on Qi Bei's lap and tightly hugged his waist with both hands.

Qi Bei shivered uncontrollably from the cold. Damn it, she's colder than ice!

Qi Bei didn't even need to activate his inner force; it began circulating at an accelerated rate on its own.

Fortunately, the Divine Dragon Art Qi Bei cultivated was a supreme Yang technique. Otherwise, he suspected he would have frozen into an ice pop along with this enchantress.

Yao Rao felt an unprecedented warmth and clung to him even more, as if wanting this warmth to completely envelop her.

"Might as well go all the way. I'm sacrificing myself for Buddha, truly great." Qi Bei lay down and pulled Yao Rao into his embrace completely.

Holding Yao Rao was like holding a millennium-old block of unmelting ice. Qi Bei harbored no impure thoughts; his entire being was focused on circulating the Divine Dragon Art.

Time flew by, night receded, and the sun once again graced the sky.

Yao Rao woke up groggily, feeling enveloped in warmth that made her reluctant to move.

She remembered using the energy of the Heart of the Sky to destroy the Specter, but she had reached her limit. Then, a Silver Armored Skeleton had attacked, forcing her to use the Protective Tear Pendant left by her master, which contained one of her master's Heaven Grade Magics.

After that, she had fainted. The cold poison that had lain dormant in her body for ten years suddenly flared up. Logically, without her master by her side, she should have died. And that brat she had bound with the Wind Binding Technique must have been torn to shreds by the undead.

Thinking of that brat, Yao Rao suddenly jolted, her hazy mind instantly clearing.

Thump, thump, thump... Yao Rao heard a steady heartbeat through her not-so-thick chest. The air was filled with an unfamiliar male scent. Clearly, she was in a man's embrace.

Yao Rao didn't panic. Her clothes were still on...

Wait, what was that [censored] pressing against her between her legs? And a large hand was resting on her buttocks.

Yao Rao's eyes snapped open, and she wanted to instantly tear this man who had desecrated her to shreds with a magic spell.

However, as the incantation flashed through her mind, her body was completely devoid of magic power.

Yao Rao's heart sank. The cold poison would last for ten days, and during these ten days, she would lose all her magic power.

In other words, for the next ten days, she would be completely defenseless.