"Ying Ru Shi!"
Ying Ru Shi opened her eyes in the blood pool. Seeing Yan Qing plunge into it, his right hand flailed about as he tried to grab something. "I can't see you! Grab me!"
His right hand was wrapped in bandages. Coincidentally, Ying Ru Shi's right hand was wrapped in bandages too. Their injuries had completely healed when they advanced to the fourth turn of Foundation Establishment, but they had both tacitly kept the bandages as decorations.
The bandages decorated more than just the thieves' appearances. They also adorned their memories.
Ying Ru Shi reached out and seized Yan Qing's hand tightly. Yan Qing gritted his teeth. The blood pool felt as heavy as a mountain of corpses and sea of blood, but he poured all his strength into pulling her out!
Yan Qing tumbled onto the blood lotus. Looking at Ying Ru Shi, drenched in blood from head to toe yet with not a speck of blood on her white hair, he finally let his pounding heart settle. "I thought Ying Le had eaten you."
Ying Ru Shi looked around and saw the Four Forms of Nethercloud spread throughout the altar. It was clearly Yan Qing manifesting the Inner Scenery of his Dao Foundation.
"I couldn't get close to the blood pool. Whenever I came within five steps, [Pillow in the Red Dust] would distort my perception." Noticing her gaze, Yan Qing explained, "I later used [Eye of Instant] to teleport, but that didn't work either. The landing point of my teleportation would be twisted to another location. So I manifested my Dao Foundation and covered this area. The Dao Foundation was an extension of my will, so illusions couldn't distort it. Then I used [Eye of Instant] to teleport onto the Dao Foundation and crossed [Pillow