Chapter 377: Chapter 377
Wen Zhixing offered a slight smile as he clasped his hands. He had a favorable impression of Jiang Baiyu and was surprised to encounter her here.
"What a coincidence. Just a few days ago, I went to your cave abode looking for you. I didn’t expect you had also entered the Demonic Ruins." A peculiar light flashed in Jiang Baiyu’s eyes, then she added teasingly, "I even thought you were deliberately avoiding me."
It had been a week since she last looked for Wen Zhixing. At least ten days had passed by now.
So Wen Zhixing entered the Demonic Ruins alone and has been here for so long. His courage is truly remarkable.
"Jiang, you’re joking. That’s not the case at all. If I had known you were looking for me, I would have been waiting respectfully in my cave abode long ago," Wen Zhixing said with a gentle smile, then asked, "May I ask why Jiang was looking for me?"
Jiang Baiyu shook her head. "It wasn’t anything important. I just wanted to team up with you to come to the Demonic Ruins. I didn’t realize you had already gone in ahead of me."
"So that was it." Wen Zhixing suddenly understood. It was just as Jiang Baiyu had said—truly a coincidence. If he hadn’t encountered them this time, Tong Huaqin might have genuinely met with disaster.
"Jiang, we owe big brother a great deal this time! If it weren’t for him, we would have been in serious trouble," Lingyin and Lingle said in unison, tugging at Jiang Baiyu’s sleeve, a hint of relief in their eyes.
"Oh?" Jiang Baiyu was momentarily startled, her gaze then sweeping over the others. She had been so engrossed in her conversation with Wen Zhixing that she had neglected the rest of the group.
At this moment, Tong Huaqin’s face was pale; she was clearly injured. For a cultivator at the Genius Spirit Realm, being wounded in the outer areas of the Demonic Ruins was quite humiliating. But it also indirectly highlighted the dangers of their journey.
Gong Changyun couldn’t even muster the courage to meet Jiang Baiyu’s gaze. He knew his earlier actions weren’t something that could be openly discussed. Sharp-witted individuals would see right through him.
Jiang Baiyu then noted the distance between the two of them and instantly grasped the situation.
It seems some people’s actions are truly disappointing.
"Is that so?" Jiang Baiyu’s gaze bypassed Gong Changyun and settled on Tong Huaqin.
"Jiang..." Gong Changyun began anxiously, attempting to explain himself before Tong Huaqin could speak.
"Forget it. We can discuss this when we return," Jiang Baiyu interjected, clearly not intending to listen further or ask what had happened. Instead, she turned to Wen Zhixing with a smile and said, "Then, we must thank Wen this time."
"It was merely a slight effort," Wen Zhixing replied, waving his hand dismissively. He really didn’t want to get involved.
Just as he was about to say more, panel prompts suddenly appeared.
[Your puppet, Ning Xiaoyu’s divine soul has been forcefully stripped.]
[Ning Xiaoyu’s Puppet Body has been broken.]
[The Longevity Essence Blood contained within Ning Xiaoyu’s physical body has been refined, condensing into a Genius Spirit Seed.]
"What!" Wen Zhixing froze the moment he saw the panel prompts, his eyes wide with disbelief.
What’s going on? The divine soul stripped, the Puppet Body broken? Something has gone wrong! Wasn’t everything fine before? If Si Nanyan and the others hadn’t been keeping him updated and reassuring him, he wouldn’t have stayed in the Demonic Ruins for so long.
At the same time, a Nine Heavens Thunder Leaf descended into his Sea of Sense, stirring ripples across it. A blurry figure was reflected within Wen Zhixing’s Sea of Sense.
"In my next life... Xiao Yu will serve Sir once more."
In the vision, Ning Xiaoyu, dressed in a white gown, wore a faint smile. She bowed her head slightly towards Wen Zhixing, her body dipping in a gentle curtsy.
"Xiao Yu..." Watching the ethereal silhouette before him, an inexplicable sorrow surged in Wen Zhixing’s heart. He was already beginning to understand.
Wen Zhixing couldn’t help but reach out.
However, before he could make contact, the ripples in his Sea of Sense intensified, and Xiao Yu’s figure dissolved into specks of starlight, vanishing completely.
[Ning Xiaoyu’s soul has been extinguished.]
[Your connection with Ning Xiaoyu has been severed.]
The next moment, the bond between them was completely severed. This also meant Ning Xiaoyu was truly dead.
"Dead..." Wen Zhixing’s aura erupted violently, a blood-red light flickering in his eyes. He had never anticipated this. Ning Xiaoyu was actually dead. Moreover, her soul was utterly annihilated, and even the essence of her physical body had been refined into a Genius Spirit Seed.
Although Ning Xiaoyu, this puppet, was initially something of an experiment for Wen Zhixing, and he hadn’t cared for her deeply, he still found it unacceptable that she had been killed .
"Purple Cloud Divine Sect! Qin Tian! Qin Yang!" Fury blazed unrestrained in Wen Zhixing’s eyes.
The thing he feared most had finally occurred. Certain individuals from the Purple Cloud Divine Sect had started to behave shamelessly.
It was obvious who had killed Ning Xiaoyu. How could he not understand that this was aimed at him?
"Wen, what’s wrong?" Jiang Baiyu and the others naturally noticed something was amiss with Wen Zhixing. One moment he had been calm and composed, and the next, his face was dark and grim. Clearly, something significant had happened in that instant. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
Lingyin, Lingle, and Tong Huaqin all looked concerned. They wanted to speak but hesitated, somewhat intimidated.
Only Gong Changyun’s eyes lit up, a glint of schadenfreude appearing within them.
He wished Wen Zhixing would die right now!
"It’s nothing!" Wen Zhixing gritted his teeth and shook his head. Taking a deep breath, he added, "Jiang, I have something urgent to attend to, so I must take my leave now." He was forcibly suppressing his emotions.
"This..." Seeing Wen Zhixing’s reluctance to say more, Jiang Baiyu and the others didn’t press him further.