Chapter 271: Gazing From Afar

Gao Yu had been receiving his inheritance inside the body of the Evil God. When the evil god suddenly smashed the mountain peak and pulled the thunder python out of the air, Gao Yu woke up.

After that, the soul fragments of the Demon God’s shadow, its thoughts, its memories, and all kinds of mysterious and profound characters flooded out of the sacrificial altar into his body, his veins, his bones, and his mind to merge with his body even faster.

The speed of his assimilation increased.

When the Evil God flew out for the second time and grappled with the thunder python, a great amount of combat experience and insights became large amounts of memories that quickly flowed into his mind.

It was at that time that Gao Yu was sucked into the black heart of the evil god and came into complete, raw contact with the Evil God.

Gao Yu continuously absorbed memories from the Evil God, pieces of its soul, large amounts of combat experience, and ancient knowledge. Then he finally accepted the inheritance of the Evil God in its entirety.

In that moment, Gao Yu was the Evil God. He was able to use his thoughts, his power, and his limbs to control the body of the Evil God!

The enormous body of this Evil God could be accurately controlled and used to cast all kinds of lost, secret arts.

When he opened his eyes and went to follow the will of the Evil God, to tear the enormous blood colored demon and the thunder python into pieces, he saw Qin Lie in the brow of the blood demon.

Gao Yu suddenly froze.

A string of thoughts appeared in his mind. He looked closely, wanting to make sure that the person at the blood demon’s brow was Qin Lie.

He quickly confirmed it.

It was undoubtedly Qin Lie!

At this moment Gao Yu, whose blood, flesh, and soul had a strange connection with the Evil God, suddenly resisted the will of the evil god with his own will!

“Boom!”

The Evil God flapped its black wings that resembled black clouds as its enormous body suddenly fell from the sky.

It landed on a few hills, causing them to crumble and the earth to shake.

“Hmm!” Xue Li’s voice resounded in Qin Lie’s mind again. “Strange… the person who has finished receiving that Evil God’s legacy seems to have turned on his master! The successor of this Evil God is resisting the will of the Evil God and has refused to chase us!”

Between the brows of the blood demon, Qin Lie stuck his head through a window in the blood and looked behind him.

He saw the incomparably frightening aura of the Evil God suddenly wither after its previous continuous surge.

Then it landed with a boom on the ground.

He felt a trace of anger and saw savagery in the eyes of the Evil God.

He also saw a blurry figure in those eyes that slowly became clear…

Gao Yu was using his soul consciousness to control the body of the Evil God. As his own influence spread, his shadow became clearer and more evident in the eyes of the Evil God.

“Gao Yu!” Qin Lie suddenly shook.

He finally understood why the Evil God would strangely fall from the sky and did not chase after him even after its power grew.

It was Gao Yu!

Gao Yu was hidden in the body of the Evil God. At that crucial time he used his soul consciousness to pull on the Evil God and disturb the Evil God’s soul, causing it to then fall from the sky due to a loss of control.

Gao Yu’s figure became clear in the pupils of the Evil God. From inside the Evil God’s pupils he also saw Qin Lie. He saw Qin Lie’s joy and also his urgency…

“You recognize him?” Xue Li’s voice resounded inside Qin Lie’s mind.

“He’s a friend of mine! A very good friend!” Qin Lie shouted.

“So that is the reason. I was wondering why the Evil God gave up on chasing us.” Xue Li’s voice was slightly surprised. “I had not expected the successor to this Evil God to be your friend. Very interesting. This friend of yours has a strong mind. He has just received the inheritance yet dares to betray his master… ha, if he falls into the deep abyss of evil, he could possibly become a great calamity.”

Qin Lie was silent. He only gazed at Gao Yu in the eyes of the Evil God, watching as his figure became blurry again.

He already guessed that the clarity of Gao Yu in the Evil God’s pupils meant that Gao Yu was in control. If he became blurry, then the Evil God was in control…

And, right now, Gao Yu was undoubtedly not in control. He didn’t know what Gao Yu, who received the inheritance and then immediately betrayed his master, would suffer for resisting the will of the Evil God.

“Don’t worry, nothing will happen to the boy. It is extremely difficult for an Evil God to choose a successor. The successor of the Evil God is responsible for bringing the Evil God back to life. No matter what that kid does, the Evil God will not abandon him,” Xue Li said.

Hearing him say this, Qin Lie felt slightly reassured.

In Icestone City, when everyone had been trying to kill him, it had been Gao Yu that killed the martial practitioners of the pavilion at a crucial time and helped him escape onto Commerce Street. Gao Yu helped a blood covered Qin Lie make it to Li’s Shop.

Today, in this Nether Realm, when the Evil God’s aura was growing, it fell at its strongest time.

—Once again, it was Gao Yu who saved him.

Qin Lie looked deeply at Gao Yu’s figure that gradually blurred in the eyes of the Evil God. He was deeply moved and resolved—regardless of whether or not Gao Yu fell into the abyss of evil, as long as he, Qin Lie, was alive, he would help Gao Yu recover himself!

“Hah, pretty good determination. Have you thought it through, though? There will be a day when this boy called Gao Yu will become the public enemy of the continent, more hated than even the evil races of the Nether Realm. If everyone wants to kill him, what will you do?” Xue Li said with a cold smile.

“If that day ever comes, I will pay any price to save him. No matter who wants to kill him, I will do my best to interfere!” Qin Lie shouted.

“If you do that, you will become enemies with the world!”

“That does not matter!”

“Hah! Good boy! You have quite the courage!”

As Qin Lie and Xue Li’s soul conversed, the blood demon was like a bloody red arch in the sky that flew towards the Nether Battlefield.

Drops of fresh blood occasionally dripped to the ground. The body of this blood demon was quickly shrinking.

“This blood golem is formed from fresh blood. When the power in the blood is used up, it will disappear.” Xue Lie’s soul fluctuations started to settle. “I’m also a bit tired, so I’ll return to your orb.”

The bloody mark inside Qin Lie’s soul lake seemed to be cleansed by water. It slowly grew faint and then disappeared.

Xue Li’s presence quickly sank into the Soul Suppressing Orb and Qin Lie recovered the ability to move.

Once he regained control, he discovered that the blood demon wrapped around him resembled a piece of ice left in the sun. It was quickly melting, dissolving in droplets of blood.

Qin Lie’s body rapidly fell through the sky.

“Prak prak!”

A long streak of lightning came from the body of the shrunken python and wrapped around him, pulling him back into the mouth of the python.

Qin Lie’s body was covered in blood as he appeared beside Song Tingyu. He was with her in the mouth of the python once again. He looked through the opening of the mouth into the distance.

“Qin Lie, was that your voice that came out of the blood demon just now? You were inside the blood demon, right?” Song Tingyu’s eyes shone as she stared at him unblinking. “Were you controlling the blood demon during the battle?”

Qin Lie did not make a sound, responding with silence.

He always used silence to respond to things he did not want to answer. He used his actions to tell Song Tingyu she asked something she should not have.

“You!” Song Tingyu glared at him. She snorted. “I’ll remember this!”

Qin Lie remained silent.

Song Tingyu seemed to be angry with him and did not make a sound nor look at him.

An hour later, the body of this thunder python shrunk by half once more.

When they reached a dense patch of forest, a soul fluctuation made from lightning came from the body of the python. In the next moment, the python spat Qin Lie and Song Tingyu towards the forest. Then its body rapidly shrank to the size of a thumb and burrowed back into Qin Lie’s neck to hide.

“I’m tired…”

Qin Lie rubbed his head. He could understand the last message from the python. He knew that much of the thunder and lightning energy the python had absorbed from the lightning pool had been expended in the fight.

He actually had a whole pile of questions about the Evil God, about the Demon God Mountain Range, about the enormous python itself…

Yet Xue Li and the enormous python, who could answer his questions, were resting at the same time and told him that he should not disturb them. Qin Lie wanted to cry.

Then he realized that he was also extremely exhausted.

Falling into the forest, he watched the branches of those vicious plants like incoming teeth. He wanted to attack but found that his eyes were blurry and his mind was dizzy. Even his body was swaying, and unable to stand properly.

He instantly understood the state of his body—he had lost too much blood.

The forbidden art of Blood Fiend Sect that Xue Li used to gather the blood of the Horned Demons and make a blood golem—he had cast it with the blood in his own body.

Since the loss of blood surpassed the tolerance of his body, he now felt dizzy and out of strength.

But they did manage to escape. Knowing this, he relaxed. When his mind relaxed, his consciousness blurred and he slowly fainted.

Chapter 272: Almost Broke It…

Qin Lie felt as though he had a very long dream.

In the dream, he could not make out the appearance of the person beside him and was unable to recognize them.

In the dream, he continued to learn, learning all kinds of strange languages, different types of speech, deceit and calculation, adjusting to all kinds of environments…

In the dream, there were people that taught him great amounts of knowledge. He needed to soak inside a large medicinal pool all day to have the medicinal fluid clean out the impurities in his body. Great care was taken with his three daily meals; what he could eat and drink was strictly monitored at all times…

In the dream, he was like a puppet with no choice but to accept all this.

In the dream, he seemed to be restrained and deprived of any freedom.

He had a feeling that he would be broken by that invisible pressure. He felt terror and helplessness as though his soul would crumble.

He covered his chest and breathed deeply, trying hard to wake up from the dream.

Qin Lie suddenly opened his eyes.

He was beside a lake that was filled with clear water, lying beside a wet stone. Glittering stones covered the bottom of the lake.

In front of him, Song Tingyu’s body was covered in a haze of rainbow light. She was soaking in the lake and using the water to wash her body.

Those rainbow lights completely shrouded Song Tingyu’s beautiful body so he could not see a thing.

Qin Lie looked forward and then moved his gaze away. He furrowed his brow and used his consciousness to probe his body.

He quickly found that, other than being slightly weak from excessive blood loss, there was nothing wrong.

His thoughts shifted and he took out some dried meat from his spatial ring. Beside the rock, he slowly swallowed. There were scenes of the four great beings fighting in his Soul Lake. He was immersed in it and could use his mind to feel it. He could feel the world-shaking battle and the exquisite manipulations of the power that the four great beings performed.

A long time later, he noticed that Song Tingyu had come next to him. He opened his eyes wider and, when he looked at Song Tingyu who had finished bathing, his eyes lit up.

Song Tingyu’s curvy body was covered in a spirit armor that flowed with light. The spirit armor seemed to be made from a kind of transparent jade material, glowing and glittering. The spirit armor was also skin tight and exposed all of her seductive curves.

The spirit armor left her white arms, half of her legs, and her long, white neck exposed.

These exposed areas were covered in exquisite adornments like a star pendant, a five colored precious stone, or a beautiful piece of jade. It expressed her noble, elegant presence beautifully.

Her long hair was wet and hung off her shoulders. When she moved her head, droplets flew like diamonds.

“What, have you never seen a woman before?” Song Tingyu covered her mouth and smiled. Her beauty was like hundreds of flowers in bloom, bright and enchanting.

“How long have I been unconscious?” Qin Lie slowly focused.

“If we were to count according to our time, you were unconscious for two days and one night, so a relatively long time. It is rare for normal martial practitioners to be unconscious for so long.” Song Tingyu wiped at her wet hair, a beautiful smile playing at the corner of her lips as she spoke. “You were very interesting when you were unconscious. You were talking in your sleep about escaping some place and what other people had arranged for you…”

Her eyes glittered brightly. She looked meaningfully into Qin Lie’s eyes and observed the minute changes in Qin Lie’s expression.

Qin Lie froze, clearly stunned.

A long while later, when he refocused again, he asked her, “Where are we now?”

Song Tingyu was very disappointed. She did not see anything unusual from Qin Lie’s face. “We are almost at the Nether Battlefield. I took you and hurried to leave the Demon God Mountain Range at the fastest possible speed for the last two days. I was afraid that the Horned Demon warriors and the two Evil Gods would catch up so I did not dare to linger.”

“Oh.” Nodding, Qin Lie became silent again. A long while later, he asked, “Are you confident that we can pass through the Nether Battlefield?”

“The Nether Battlefield is between Nether Realm and Scarlet Tide Continent. It is vast and has seven levels in total. We usually set up a defense line on the fourth level and are active below it. The lower three levels are very close to the Nether Realm and the nether demonic energy is very strong. There are also many Nether Realm elites, demon insects, and nether beasts stationed there so we will not go…”

Song Tingyu’s brow furrowed as her expression became serious. She carefully explained the state of the Nether Battlefield. “We need to pass through the Nether Battlefield from the bottom level and go upwards. We should be able to go back to the Scarlet Tide Continent if we can get to the fourth floor. But the lower three levels… not many humans would go there and would die if they did, so I am not very confident.”

“There are seven levels in total. The bottom three are the closest to the Nether Realm and are full of strong individuals.” Qin Lie murmured under his breath, his expression grave.

“Ding!” The crisp green bracelet on Song Tingyu’s left hand suddenly gave a soft sound like glass breaking.

Her face suddenly changed as she shouted, “They haven’t given up!”

Qin Lie was shocked.

“There is an old Horned Demon that has been constantly chasing us. This geezer is very strong and the area covered by his soul is extremely vast. There were a few times where he almost detected us.” Song Tingyu’s brow furrowed and a seven colored sphere suddenly appeared in her hand. “This geezer moves at a very fast speed. It seems that he has guessed our general position. We can only hide.”

Circular waves of light came from the round ball. The rainbow light formed a bright eggshell of light that covered her body.

“Come in.” She waved her hand at Qin Lie. “That geezer’s not the same as the nether beasts that you encountered before. His perception is extremely terrifying. As long as there is vitality and even the tiniest of soul fluctuations, he can detect them. That geezer has six horns and cultivation akin to the Fragmentation Realm. He is very scary.”

“A six horned warrior!” Qin Lie was astounded. He did not hesitate and hurried into Song Tingyu’s barrier of light.

Like a drop of water merging into the sea, there was only a small ripple on the light barrier as it sucked his body in.

The light barrier was very narrow and just perfect for holding Song Tingyu while still having some extra space. After Qin Lie entered, however, this ball of light was clearly too small…

“This Flowing Rainbow Shield was specifically forged for me and perfect for holding me alone. Any more and it is a much tighter fit. You… stay close to me and do not expose your body to the outside. If you leave the protective range of the Flowing Rainbow Shield, that old Horned Demon will be able to sense you.” Song Tingyu bit her lips, her eyes bright and shining as she ordered Qin Lie.

At this time, Qin Lie was shoulder to shoulder with Song Tingyu, and already very close but even so, half of his arm was not able to come in.

“I, uh…” Qin Lie had an awkward expression.

“Idiot…” Song Tingyu rolled her eyes and pulled his arm roughly.

Qin Lie and Song Tingyu suddenly pressed together in a spooning position. Song Tingyu was in front and he was in back. They were tightly pressed together in this position.

In this position, he and Song Tingyu were both covered by the Flowing Rainbow Shield and his arm was not exposed.

“Hold my waist…” Song Tingyu said.

“This…” Qin Lie hesitated. “Miss Song, we…”

“Cut the nonsense. I’m going to take you and jump into the lake. The water can hide the Flowing Rainbow Sheild! What are you thinking about?” Song Tingyu scolded in a low voice.

Qin Lie understood with a guilty expression. His arms wrapped around Song Tingyu’s slender waist.

His hands came around Song Tingyu’s flat stomach and he could feel the softness and warmth of Song Tingyu’s waist…

“Grab on tighter, I’m about to go down.” Song Tingyu said.

There was trace of red on her white neck. Qin Lie’s head was behind hers and he could see it clearly.

Qin Lie subconsciously tightened his hands.

His lower half naturally came into contact with Song Tingyu’s bountiful behind. He could clearly feel it. Under his pressure, it clearly changed shape and retreated flexibly…

Qin Lie’s mind shook. A fire of uncontrollable lust rose within him. His lower body quickly reacted and rose as well.

“You bastard!” Song Tingyu instantly felt the change between his legs and cursed in a low voice. Her neck was so red it was almost seemed to be bleeding. Before Qin Lie could react, she suddenly flew up. The Flowing Rainbow Shield rose in an elegant curve and landed in the water next to them, sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Strangely, the bright rainbow barrier of light disappeared once it came into contact with the water.

From the outside, Song Tingyu and Qin Lie’s figures seemed to disappear from the world.

Any signs of life and soul aura fluctuations were completely concealed. It really was uncanny.

Yet inside the light barrier underwater, Qin Lie suddenly grunted in pain. His hands pressed at his lower half, his forehead covered in sweat, but he did not dare to make a sound.