The scent of tea had yet to fade from the cave when Lin Zhixia rose to take her leave—she had promised Yang Wudi that she would return to the Tang Sect residence in Heaven Dou City and help the Medicine Hall sort out the storage inventory for Immortal Herbs. The moment she stepped out of Shrek Academy's gates, the afternoon sunlight was suddenly swallowed by a shadow, and a wave of Soul Power carrying the smell of scorching rushed at her from behind!
"Watch out!" Lin Zhixia's Star Breath Perception had barely sounded its warning when her body instinctively twisted aside, but she was still a step too slow—Mo Xuan sprang out from behind the wall, his left leg bone glowing with an eerie black-red light. An invisible Nightmare Flame Mist had already spread soundlessly, brushing against her sleeve.
This was the soul skill of Mo Xuan's Purgatory Nightmare Flame Left Leg Bone—Fallen Illusion · Flame Hell Bewildering Dream! Lin Zhixia felt her temples suddenly sink as her consciousness instantly began to blur. She could even see the cold smile curling across Mo Xuan's lips. "Lin Zhixia, it's time to settle the score for what happened at Canglan Academy."
At that critical moment, Lin Zhixia bit down on her tongue and forced herself to regain a sliver of clarity. The star patterns at her fingertips suddenly lit up—she condensed the divine power of the Starfall Judgment God into a thin beam of signal light and shot it toward Shrek Academy. This was her final chance to send a message. Then darkness swallowed her vision, and she fell completely into the illusion.
There was no scorched smell within the illusion, only warm yellow lamplight—it was the little wooden house where she had lived when she was five. Steam rose from the