Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

Time passed, second by second.

After Tian Yan gave up attacking and turtled up behind her defenses, the battle inside the Dao Field became completely one-sided.

For the moment, however, none of that had anything to do with Xu Yuan.

Because before he made his move, the mad woman would not attack him.

Standing behind the woman in red with a perfectly calm expression, Xu Yuan watched with great interest as the barefoot girl of nation-toppling beauty struggled two hundred feet away.

After fifteen minutes, Tian Yan’s little face had gone deathly pale, yet a sickly flush had faintly surfaced on her soft cheeks.

The Beguiling Sakura Flower had not yet taken effect, but the seductive miasma filling the Dao Field seemed to be making the poison sink even deeper into her.

A second rank cultivator could indeed threaten a Transcendent cultivator at certain moments, but the vast gulf between them was still enough to make one despair, especially after the Transcendent cultivator opened their Dao Field.

An ordinary Origin Awakener Realm cultivator facing this sort of attack from a Transcendent expert might have been destroyed body and soul in the blink of an eye. The fact that Tian Yan could hold out for so long while only defending and not attacking was already proof of how terrifying the Heaven Deriving Art truly was.

But even the Heaven Deriving Art was not invincible beneath the heavens. Once the battle became a drawn-out stalemate, it turned into a contest of whose source qi reserves lasted longer.

Tian Yan cast one spell seal after another, and her transmitted voice was already carrying a faint tremor. “Xu Changtian, you... hurry up.”

Xu Yuan smiled at her slightly. “Don’t rush. It’ll be ready any moment.”

Tian Yan was so angry she nearly choked. “Th-this is already the third time you’ve said that!”

When Xu Yuan heard this, he shook his head and simply cut off the transmission. Then he asked inwardly, “Old Luo, are you ready?”

The Sage’s remnant soul replied with a chuckle, “It’s already been fifteen minutes. Of course I’m ready.”

After discovering that even when he circulated his soul art, the mad woman still did not attack them, the Sage’s remnant soul had relaxed completely.

Xu Yuan lifted his eyes and looked at the pale-faced Tian Yan across from him. “How much longer do you think Tian Yan can hold on?”

The Sage’s remnant soul thought for a moment, then laughed softly. “She can still transmit her voice without letting it leak out. That girl should be able to last a while yet. What, are you planning to wait until she’s about to collapse before making your move?”

Xu Yuan looked at Tian Yan and the mad woman without answering immediately.

Right now, there were three sides on the field. Although his side had the most people, they were also the weakest. Tian Yan and the mad woman were both their enemies.

Either one of them, if set against him and Ran Qingmo, would be powerful enough to crush them almost one-sidedly. If they wanted to leave this secret realm successfully, they had to borrow someone else’s blade to kill.

Xu Yuan did not care whether that blade was the mad woman or Tian Yan. He only cared that while the blade killed, the blade itself had to be ruined too.

After pondering for a long while, Xu Yuan made his decision. “Then let’s wait a bit longer. If Tian Yan really can’t hold on, she definitely won’t obediently sit there and wait for death. Besides, there’s still no message from Ran Qingmo’s side. We’ll wait until she’s almost at her limit...”

“I heard that! Xu Changtian, you bastard! I heard all of it!”

Xu Yuan paused. He turned his head and looked over. The girl’s entire face had gone dark. She could hear them from that far away?

With a strange expression, he asked the Sage’s remnant soul in his heart, “She can hear our conversation from this distance?”

“Two hundred feet isn’t that far...” After a pause, the Sage’s remnant soul laughed quietly and said, “But it’s not exactly close either. If that girl can still use the Heaven Deriving Art to eavesdrop on us from this far away, she probably has plenty of strength left. Tsk, tsk. Look at that little face, pale and flushed at the same time. She was most likely acting.”

Tian Yan fell silent after being exposed.

Hearing this, Xu Yuan immediately focused and looked at her pale face. Their gazes met across the air, and the girl glared at him viciously. He rolled his eyes at her. As expected, flat-chested women were hard to fool. The iceberg and enchantress were still the cutest.

Tian Yan urged him, “Xu Changtian, hurry up and attack!”

Xu Yuan gave a light cough and transmitted, “It’s not time yet...”

“Ten breaths. I’ll give you ten breaths.”

“Don’t rush. It’s not that we’re unwilling to move, it’s really...”

“If you still don’t do anything, I’m aiming at you!”

Xu Yuan sighed.

Their fragile alliance had become dangerously shaky.

To keep this temporary alliance from falling apart, Xu Yuan still spoke quietly to the Sage’s remnant soul. “Old Luo, wait another ten breaths. After ten breaths, make your move.”

After saying that, Xu Yuan gripped Clear Whisper and assumed the opening stance of Forward Step Slash. Oh no, it was called the Void Step Slash now. Forward Step Slash was too unlucky a name.

Ten breaths passed in the blink of an eye.

The Sage’s remnant soul made his move right on time. What he unleashed was a kind of soul seal. It was shaped like an inverted triangle and gave off an eerie black light. It slammed into the mad woman soul body from behind, then exploded all at once.

“Ahhhhh!” A shrill scream rang out. The mad woman soul body, which had been so solid it looked no different from an ordinary person, was instantly blown apart by half.

The pink Dao Field fell into chaos. At the same time, countless streams of mist surged toward Xu Yuan, thick with killing intent.

Tian Yan’s eyes narrowed slightly at the sight. Her previously pale little face flushed red in an instant. Without the slightest hesitation, two mantras slipped from her red lips. “Swift! Blink!”

With the true words blessing her, her body grew light. She was preparing to run. She had been waiting this whole time for Xu Changtian to make his move and draw that mad woman’s attention, so she could seize the chance to escape from this bizarre Dao Field.

The Beguiling Sakura Flower would take at least another forty five minutes to activate. That was more than enough time for her to hide somewhere inside this secret realm.

The plan flashed through the girl’s mind. Her figure blurred, shooting toward the edge of the pink Dao Field.

And then, she discovered that a man’s back had suddenly appeared in front of her.

Tian Yan froze for a split second.

Before she could even think, that figure flashed again. When he appeared once more, he was already outside the Dao Field.

His robes fluttered in the wind, sleeves drifting gracefully. Xu Yuan did not even look back as he dove into the palace below and vanished from sight.

Tian Yan’s little mouth opened, but no words came out. Once again, only she was left behind.

The mad woman, whose body had been blown apart by the Sage’s remnant soul’s sneak attack, condensed back together in the blink of an eye.

Only this time, her soul body was clearly a little more illusory than before. In exchange, the madness on her face had grown even more deranged.

Tian Yan’s eyes widened and her jaw went slack.

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The Splendorbloom Sect’s technique transmission hall rose nearly a hundred meters high, and each step of Xu Yuan’s boots echoed through the empty space.

At last, he dropped down onto a rotten meditation cushion and sat there, panting heavily.

The plot protagonist’s Void Step Slash consumed far too much energy. Even with Luo Daofan’s soul power supporting him, using it twice had still hollowed him out completely.

Still, its burst of speed really was fast enough.

Two Void Step Slashes had carried him over a thousand feet in an instant.

Of course, that was thanks to the Sage’s remnant soul. If Xu Yuan had used it on his own, he would have moved a hundred feet at most.

The Sage’s remnant soul drifted out of the soul ring, stared at Xu Yuan, and said with a hint of admiration, “Xu boy, I never expected that Void Step Slash improved by that Qin brat could actually be used as an escape skill.”

Xu Yuan gave a light laugh, looking quite relaxed. “There’s plenty you don’t know. To be honest, that kid really is a Heaven-sent genius.”

Only when one actually used this sword skill did one understand the mysteries hidden within it. Qin Mo, the man who created it, truly deserved to be called the protagonist.

Used properly, it might really be able to dodge Xu Changge’s causality sword. Unfortunately, the consumption was simply too enormous.

When the Sage’s remnant soul heard this, he did not react much. He only shook his head lightly. “There are far too many geniuses in this world. Only a genius who lives long enough to grow can be considered a true genius.”

Xu Yuan smiled and turned toward the Sage’s remnant soul, preparing to tease him a little. But then he suddenly noticed that the old man’s formerly solid figure had become much more illusory. He frowned and asked, “Old Luo, what happened to you?”

“What?”

Xu Yuan pointed at his soul body.

The Sage’s remnant soul understood and shook his head. “It’s nothing. That soul seal just now consumed quite a lot. Once you get out, find me some pills or medicinal herbs that restore the soul, and I’ll recover.”

Xu Yuan hesitated slightly. “You can’t recover on your own?”

He was not worried about soul restoring herbs. After all, his old man had a vast family fortune. He could squander a little and no one would even feel the itch.

The Sage’s remnant soul grinned. “I don’t even have a body. How am I supposed to recover?”

Xu Yuan thought for a moment. “So in other words, every bit of soul power you use is gone for good?”

“Naturally.” The Sage’s remnant soul nodded and sighed faintly. “Without a body, I am nothing more than duckweed without roots.”

Xu Yuan more or less understood why the old man was so desperate to get himself a new shell. He laughed softly, then changed the subject. “Right. How much damage did that soul seal of yours do to the mad woman just now?”

The Sage’s remnant soul pondered briefly, then said in a quiet voice, “It should have injured her source soul, but the injury probably isn’t too serious.”

As he spoke, he glanced in the direction of Sakura Leech Lake and said leisurely, “If you want to kill her, the most important part is still having that little lover of yours cut down the Beguiling Divine Sakura, break her Dao Field, and let Tian Yan make her move.”

After a brief pause, the Sage’s remnant soul asked solemnly, “Xu boy, you’re certain that Beguiling Divine Sakura is the mad woman’s body, right?”

Xu Yuan shrugged. “Other than a divine tree like that, have you ever seen anything else that can live for tens of thousands of years? Besides...”

As he spoke, he tapped the cherry blossom mark between his brows and said no more.

The Sage’s remnant soul focused slightly, then let out a long sigh. “In that case, that woman named Yu Chu was actually one body with two souls. One was refined into the tree spirit of the cherry tree, left with only obsession, while the other took over the Beguiling Divine Sakura as her body. The only thing I don’t know is why that woman went mad.”

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, then pointed at the enormous technique transmission hall, which was still perfectly intact. “That probably has something to do with the destruction of the Splendorbloom Sect.”

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