"Gu Yi... don't go..."
Lin Yuan murmured softly, his divine sense chasing Gu Yi's through his sea of consciousness.
It took Gu Yi two hours to clear away the inner demon, thanks in large part to his Demonic Cult cultivation technique.
The Demonic Cult's techniques were rather uncanny, but they weren't actually all evil. In fact, they sometimes had many ingenious uses.
But the moment he cleared away that annoying inner demon, Lin Yuan's divine sense awakened. Without giving Gu Yi any chance to leave, it launched straight into a chase through his sea of consciousness: Gu Yi fled, Lin Yuan pursued, and Gu Yi couldn't have escaped even with wings.
Although he had once been at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and possessed powerful divine sense, clearing Lin Yuan's inner demon had still taken some doing.
Fortunately, he had managed to clear it away in the end.
Gu Yi cursed under his breath. "You bastard... you're never going to stop, are you?"
Removing the inner demon had already drained his mind and energy, and before long, Lin Yuan's divine sense had entangled his.
"Gu Yi... don't hide from me... please... I really miss you..."
Lin Yuan's eyes remained tightly shut, yet he seemed even more accustomed to this darkness.
Being unable to see didn't hinder him in the slightest as he... Gu Yi...
He was so practiced that Gu Yi felt as though the two of them were still inside the barrier and had never left.
"Gu Yi... I've been looking for you all this time..."
"Gu Yi... why are you hiding from me..."
"Gu Yi... I love you. I want to become your Dao Companion..."
"Hiss..."
Gu Yi put on his clothes and fled while Lin Yuan was still asleep, before he could wake.
He was at the point where he wanted to give himself a couple of slaps just looking at himself.
He needed to hurry and meet up with Xie Wenyun and the others.
The male lead certainly lived up to his role. By the time Gu Yi found them, Mu Yang had already led the few dozen remaining disciples in killing nearly all the black-clad men He Yan had sent in.
Only Chu Jing and a few lackeys remained, hiding somewhere unknown.
When Gu Yi found them, he heard one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.
The good news was that Yezi had brought Xiao Cheng's injuries under control.
The bad news was that Lin Ning, Xie Wenyun, and Jiang Lingzhou had all gone missing and hadn't returned for three days.
Through the deductions Yezi and the others made, Gu Yi also reached a shocking conclusion: he and Lin Yuan had spent seven whole days in that lair!
Thinking back now, he really had to thank that man named Chu Jing for inflicting One Leaf Obscures the Eyes on Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan had kept his eyes closed for all seven days.
Otherwise, he would have died of embarrassment!
As for how the three of them had disappeared, that story began seven days earlier.
At the time, Gu Yi had gone to rescue Lin Yuan. After Jiang Lingzhou and Xie Wenyun dealt with those black-clad men, they asked Lin Ning where Gu Yi was.
Seeing that Gu Yi and Lin Yuan still hadn't returned, Lin Ning felt somewhat guilty, too.
"Could you stop standing here saying it's all your fault?!" Jiang Lingzhou's tone was hostile. "Senior Sister Ye is only at Foundation Establishment. How could you let her go rescue him?"
"I'm sorry..." Lin Ning held the unconscious Xiao Cheng, her tears never stopping.
In her worry, she had lost her composure. Thinking of how Lin Yuan still hadn't returned, she had spoken without thinking. She hadn't expected Gu Yi to actually run off to rescue him just like that.
"That's enough," Xie Wenyun said. He was worried about Gu Yi too, but this wasn't the time to argue.
The three decided to look for Gu Yi and Lin Yuan together, then meet up with Mu Yang.
Sticking together was the safest thing they could do now.
With Lin Ning carrying Xiao Cheng on her back, the four arrived at the place where Lin Yuan and Xiao Cheng had fought earlier.
They found no sign of Lin Yuan or Gu Yi, only black-clad corpses strewn across the ground.
Jiang Lingzhou's sharp eyes spotted the tassel from Gu Yi's jade pendant on the ground, proving that Gu Yi had been there.
"Could Senior Sister Ye have already rescued Lin Yuan and taken him away?" he asked, holding the tassel.
Xie Wenyun looked at the gravely injured Xiao Cheng. "Let's find Miss Yezi first. Xiao Cheng has taken my pill, but he still needs treatment as soon as possible. Junior Sister Ye and Lin Yuan might already be there, too."
So the four hurried without pause to find Yezi and Mu Yang.
Yezi immediately went to treat Xiao Cheng's injuries.
To their surprise, Mu Yang told them that Lin Yuan and Gu Yi hadn't come to them at all...
The moment Jiang Lingzhou heard that Gu Yi hadn't returned at all, he exploded. "Senior Sister Ye never came to find you? Then where could she be? No! I'm going to look for her right now!"
"Jiang Lingzhou, don't be rash!" Xie Wenyun stopped him. "Wait a little longer. If Junior Sister comes back after we leave, won't we miss her again?"
Xie Wenyun was no less worried about Gu Yi, but this secret realm was so vast. If they left this campsite, they could very well run into those black-clad men again.
Junior Sister was already missing. He couldn't let Jiang Lingzhou risk himself too.
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