"Yino...?"
Beneath the phantom mist of the dark forest, Yuyan slowly widened her beautiful eyes.
As the familiar voice entered her mind, her heart began to beat once more. The emotional surge from narrowly escaping death at the demon abyss cliff made her almost instinctively step forward.
"It's , Senior Sister..."
"Senior Sister... don't be afraid, I'm coming to save you..."
The boy's phantom continued calling out gently.
He extended his hand in an embracing gesture, walking step by step toward Yuyan.
Yuyan stood frozen in place, montarily entranced by what she heard.
But the instant those blood-stained palms moved to embrace her, the Frost Chant sword guarding her side suddenly erupted with sword intent without warning, slashing the approaching monster into fragnts.
The stench of blood filled the air, and Yuyan finally snapped out of her recent dream-like state.
She looked down, gazing at the foul-slling chunks of flesh scattered everywhere, then surveyed the secret realm around her once more.
Finally, she slowly raised her hand to her chest, drawing the silver sword back into her palm.
"Frost Chant, Mother was right..."
"Most of the ti, swords see more clearly than people."
"Back then in the Sacred Hall too—you must have recognized Yino early on, which is why you deliberately deflected your path..."
Yuyan lowered her eyelashes and sighed wearily.
This outco was both unexpected yet reasonable to her, nothing particularly surprising really, since this was the demon abyss after all, and Yuyan had simply been shown the most vulnerable scene from her heart through demonic illusion.
"So this must be the legendary demon abyss."
"But..."
"How am I supposed to escape this endless darkness..."
Lost in thought, the hope that had just ignited in her heart plumted into despair once again.
Though the demon had been slain, as the illusion shattered, Yuyan's expression gradually grew lancholy. Bathed in this boundless darkness and silence, she had never felt her inner world to be so lonely.
She was so lonely that...
In her mont of crisis, aside from that boy, she couldn't imagine a second person worthy of trust in her mind.
But Yino's cultivation wasn't even as high as hers—how could she have the audacity to hope that Yino would appear out of nowhere in the demon abyss to save her?
Or rather... Yuyan shouldn't have such thoughts, because she would only drag Yino down with her.
"Yuni was right—I might have so unresolved feelings..."
"If my thoughts of him weren't so deep, how could I possibly be emotionally disturbed by such crude illusion from a re lesser demon?"
Thinking this, Yuyan sighed and suppressed the unease and emotions in her heart once more.
"There must still be a chance to see daylight again!"
"From now on, I can't let my thoughts wander anymore. I must rely on my will to determine my path... otherwise, constantly thinking of him will only make it easier for the demonic mist to exploit my weaknesses!"
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"So Master, what do we do next?"
"i has already descended into the demon abyss to hunt Yuyan, and... that realm below the demon abyss belongs to the breeding ground of the Fallen Clan..."
"If we just leave things be, when i finds Yuyan, she'll eventually be toyed to death by i using her ho field advantage."
At the edge of the demon abyss cliff, Liuli looked at Zichen, who had lost consciousness and was sleeping like a baby on the ground, then turned back to Yino with so concern.
Though they hadn't seen each other for months, Liuli wasn't the clingy, affectionate type like Jinyue. Now that two major troubleso tasks were resolved, Liuli naturally maintained her practical attitude, turning to coordinate future plans with Yino.
On the other side, Yino had just finished the final round of evil technique slave marking on Zichen. Now with so free ti, he walked with Liuli to the cliff edge to gaze into the abyss.
In the depths of his being, Yino felt sothing in the demon abyss calling to him.
He couldn't help but stare, srized, his body involuntarily stepping forward step by step—
"Master, you're not a pure evil cultivator, so don't try to gaze into the abyss."
At the crucial mont, Liuli's vines reached out to wrap around his waist and pull him back, preventing him from being hypnotized by the demon abyss and impulsively falling off the cliff.
Yino blinked, snapping out of his trance-like gaze into the abyss.
"Mm... I forgot about that..."
Yino sighed and slapped himself twice as a warning.
At the sa ti, he sat up and said thoughtfully:
"As for what you just ntioned... there's no need to worry about Yuyan's safety. i can't kill her."
"Master is so confident? But that's the demon abyss... and Yuyan is a righteous sword immortal most hated by evil demons..."
Liuli couldn't help but voice her curiosity.
It wasn't that she truly worried about Yuyan, but considering Yino's position, she really couldn't understand what his plan was.
If Yino truly harbored feelings for his senior sister, then why didn't he step forward directly just now, join forces with Yuyan, and work together with Liuli to take down both i and Zichen?
With Liuli and Yuyan's combined strength, they had at least a sixty percent chance of capturing i alive!
But instead, Yino chose a decision that left Liuli confused—sending Yuyan down into the demon abyss. Wasn't this personally pushing his beloved senior sister into a tiger's den?
Or perhaps... Yino simply didn't care about Yuyan's life or death, and she was just another chess piece to be used along his journey.
Thinking this, Liuli felt inexplicably lancholy.
After all... If Yino could be so cold even toward his senior sister, then wouldn't Liuli, this evil sect holy maiden with even shallower bonds, be even more likely to beco Yino's next discarded piece at any ti?
"Fine, you've successfully appealed to my soft heart."
At so point, Yino also felt irritated and clicked his tongue.
Actually, according to the original ga's main plot developnt, Yino was quite confident. After all, in the original work, Yuyan at peak Nascent Soul stage was able to appear at the right mont in the third volu's finale to save the protagonist. So logically, now that Yuyan had broken through to Divine Transformation stage, it would be even more impossible for her to be captured and corrupted by i before the third volu's great battle.
The cause and effect simply didn't make sense...
But theory was theory. Now that Yuyan had actually fallen off the cliff, hearing Liuli's description made Yino sowhat worried despite himself.
He still had other matters to attend to and couldn't personally go down to accompany his senior sister for now.
So, out of sight and out of reach, Yuyan had beco Schrödinger's immortal in Yino's mind—no one knew whether she had been captured or not...
Moreover, though the original Yuyan appeared at the decisive battle to save the protagonist, who knew what Yuyan had experienced in the demon abyss secret realm before her appearance?
"Liuli, you make a good point. This approach is indeed sowhat reckless and doesn't match my usual style."
After much consideration, Yino pressed his hand to his forehead and spoke calmly.
He patted the red-dressed holy maiden's shoulder with his other hand, saying earnestly: "How about this—you go down and capture Yuyan together with i, but of course... you won't actually be capturing Yuyan. You'll just keep secretly causing trouble, like giving i wrong directions, or dropping the ball at crucial monts to let Yuyan escape..."
"...?"
At these words, it was Liuli's turn to look troubled.
She had already been nearly driven to frustration by Yuyan before.
Back on the battlefield in Western Province City, Yuyan had been quite aggressive toward her.
But now, just when Liuli had finally reunited with Yino, he was asking her to go back and secretly help Yuyan, her enemy.
"But I already aroused i's suspicion when I showed weakness to Yuyan before... If I keep acting like this in the future..."
Liuli lowered her eyelashes, her cool beautiful face showing traces of resentnt.
Yino wasn't stupid—he could naturally sense the change in Liuli's temperant throughout this journey.
So Yino stepped forward, wrapping his arm around the red-dressed holy maiden's waist, while his right hand gently caressed her lower abdon beneath the blood-colored evening dress—
"Don't worry. By the ti i becos suspicious of you, she won't be far from having evil marks planted on her."
Speaking casually, as Yino's words fell, his fingertips gently rubbing her abdon began to glow with spiritual energy.
In an instant, the evil mark beneath her dress lit up with dazzling purple-black light patterns.
"Mm—?!"
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