“Goodness me, I was just having a normal sleep, how did I almost get wiped out?”
The alarm clock by the bed was still ringing, he hadn’t had time to turn it off yet.
Chen Huaian looked at the game screen with lingering fear.
When he woke up, the first thing he did was log into the game. However, a blood-red prompt box popped up on the game interface saying that Li Qingran was provoking the Heavenly Way and would soon be killed by it. This was unacceptable! He instantly selected an option built into the game to halt Li Qingran’s actions; there wasn’t even time to reorganize his thoughts.
As the blood-red warning disappeared,
Chen Huaian let out a sigh of relief.
“Damn it, this python-like suffocating feeling, let me see what exactly happened!”
He didn’t know what happened while he was sleeping, but he could infer a bit from the states of Li Qingran and Yue Qianchi.
[State: Trapped in Illusion, Confused Consciousness]
[Cultivation Progress: 12/1000 (Early Foundation Stage)]
[Goodwill: 99]
This was Li Qingran’s status bar.
Yue Qianchi’s goodwill and cultivation progress couldn’t be seen, but her state had an additional <Nightmare Erosion>.
Yue Qianchi was running around crazily, her face full of fear and panic, as if she were avoiding something.
Chen Huaian silently turned the volume up to the maximum and finally heard clearly.
“Fire! So much fire! Go away…”
“It’s burning, someone help put out the fire, aaaah!”
She tripped over something and fell headfirst into a mud pit, then scrambled back into a corner, curling up into a ball, chin resting on her knees, head buried in her arms, her body shaking uncontrollably, and sobbing sounds coming from under her arms.
[Your teammate ‘Yue Qianchi’ is being eroded by the Heart Demon of Illusion, please help her escape this predicament!]
“There’s no instruction on how to help her escape the predicament!”
Chen Huaian was at a loss, not even finding a button to talk to Yue Qianchi.
“Oh right, I still have a foolish apprentice!”
He slapped his forehead and quickly sent a message to Li Qingran: “Qingran, your senior sister has gone crazy, give her two slaps or pour a bucket of cold water on her, make her wake up!”
[Qingran, your senior sister has been consumed by the heart demon, help her escape!]
Li Qingran was staring blankly at a corner.
Hearing Chen Huaian’s voice instantly brought her back to her senses.
She was startled for a moment, her eyes immediately reddened, tears streaming down her cheeks, but despite crying, the corners of her lips were slightly raised with a mix of joy and trepidation after the shock.
“Master! Master, you’re alive!”
[Your master is very much alive! What nonsense about dying? Go save your senior sister!]
Upon hearing Chen Huaian’s voice again, Li Qingran completely snapped out of it.
Seeing Yue Qianchi’s pained expression, she hurried over to help, pinching her waist secretly along the way.
Hmm, the pain was real.
It was definitely real.
The master was truly alive.
What she experienced before was all false.
Li Qingran originally thought that extreme sorrow would feel like suffocation.
But now, the joy made her breathing difficult, hard to calm down.
“Sister, wake up!” She took a deep breath, paused for a moment, and waved her hand in front of Yue Qianchi.
The next second, her hand was pushed away.
“Fire! So… so big fire!”
“Put out the fire! Qingran, quick, put out the fire! Can’t you see the fire?”
“Sister, there is no fire, it’s an illusion.” Li Qingran tenderly hugged Yue Qianchi. It was the first time she saw such profound fear on Yue Qianchi’s face, like her head was pressed into a pitch-black deep pool, opening her eyes to endless darkness, and her throat filled with suffocating cold when she opened her mouth.
It was an extreme despair.
As if abandoned by the whole world.
“Fire, how can there not be, scorching fire!”
“Qingran, quick, put out the fire! There’s no time! The fire will burn everyone!”
Yue Qianchi stared at Li Qingran, tears and mud mixing together, smearing her delicate face.
“Master, what should I do?”
Li Qingran looked towards the Void.
Chen Huaian was madly clicking on the talent page, studying his already accomplished Meridian-Opening Needle Technique, paying no attention to Li Qingran’s situation.
Another consumption would bring him to perfection.
Then he could safely open all meridians without any disability.
However, he still kept his previous promise.
A wooden basin of icy water and a whip appeared in front of Li Qingran.
A cold voice came from the Void: [Here you go, choose.]
“Master, should we really treat Sister this way?” Li Qingran looked at the icy water and the whip, hesitating: “Wouldn’t this be a bit too harsh…”
There was no response from the Void.
Seeing Yue Qianchi’s condition worsening,
Li Qingran pondered for a moment, eventually dragging the icy water over.
Then she soaked the whip in the icy water, bowed to Yue Qianchi: “Sister, forgive me!”
After speaking, she directly turned Yue Qianchi around, then lashed her with the whip.
“Genius!”
Chen Huaian was also stunned by Li Qingran’s choice.
How did that phrase go?
Kids make choices, adults want both.
Isn’t this proven by Li Qingran?
Whipping her butt with icy water, truly ruthless!
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was that with the plot progressing, new cash points had already appeared.
<1> Spend 6998￥ to use a Purple Void Divine Thunder Talisman to split the illusionary formation.
<2> Spend 19998￥ to summon the Black Scale Flying Sword to break the illusionary formation.
<3> Spend 44444￥ to elevate the avatar to the initial stage of Union momentarily, using the eleventh move of the Qinglian Sword Canon – Nine Heavens Milky Way.
All three options could pass the plot.
It was simply the difference between passing normally, passing doubled, and passing super-doubled.
Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes, focusing on the amount needed to upgrade the Meridian-Opening Needle Technique to perfection.
After a while, he looked up at the sky and sighed:
“Boundless Celestial Venerable, this Spirit Intuition Valley, has a great connection with your humble servant!”
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