prynovel Chapter 467 453: Yueqiu is in Trouble
Chapter 467 453: Yueqiu is in Trouble
"Yueqiu, Yueqiu, what's wrong?!"
Watching the silver-haired girl fall backward, Pei Yuhang's pupils constricted. He shot toward the bed like a bolt of lightning, his long, powerful arm catching Qing Yueqiu's frail body as she collapsed.
He pressed his palm against the Spirit Platform Acupoint on Qing Yueqiu's back, and a torrent of thick Pure Yang True Qi surged into the girl's meridians.
But even as the vigorous, life-filled Pure Yang True Qi flooded into Qing Yueqiu's body, the girl in Pei Yuhang's arms remained firmly in the grip of a nightmare.
Her long, silver-white hair, soaked with cold sweat, was stuck messily to her pale cheeks.
The girl's lips trembled ceaselessly, and soft whimpers escaped from between her teeth. Her long eyelashes fluttered violently like the wings of a broken butterfly, but her eyes refused to open.
It was as if she had fallen into an eternal Abyss of nightmares.
"Wake up… Yueqiu! Wake up!"
Pei Yuhang's voice had grown hoarse. He gently caressed his disciple's icy cheek with his other hand, the coldness he felt through his fingertips making his heart clench.
He looked up at Lu Ruoxi and asked anxiously, "Senior Sister, what's going on? What's happening to Yueqiu?"
Lu Ruoxi's expression was grave. She extended a hand, and a wisp of fluorescent white Divine Thought slowly seeped from her fingertip, drifting like a fine thread toward the girl's brow.
But just as the Divine Thought was about to touch her skin, a sinister, cold aura suddenly erupted from within Qing Yueqiu's body.
Lu Ruoxi's pupils constricted. She watched as the strand of Divine Thought was abruptly severed, dissipating into specks of fluorescent light.
"There's something inside Qing Yueqiu's body! It could be a curse, or maybe… an outside soul…"
Lu Ruoxi cried out in horror. The second half of her sentence was barely a whisper, but Pei Yuhang understood her meaning.
'Possession…'
"Is it that Curse Seal?"
Pei Yuhang murmured, a sudden understanding dawning on him.
"Junior Brother Pei, do you know something?"
Pei Yuhang closed his eyes. When he opened them again, they were filled with grim determination.
He nodded heavily. A few stray locks of hair fell across his forehead, casting a dark shadow over his brow.
"Senior Sister, it's a long story… but this is my fault. I was careless, I let my guard down, and that's why Yueqiu is now being—"
"I'm going into her Sea of Consciousness to save her!"
Pei Yuhang said resolutely, taking a deep breath.
"You're going to enter someone else's Sea of Consciousness?! Junior Brother Pei, have you lost your mind?!"
Lu Ruoxi's face paled. For a moment, her usual gentle tone was gone, replaced by a sharp, rebuking edge.
She hurried forward and gripped Pei Yuhang's shoulders, her fingertips turning white from the force.
"Junior Brother Pei, surely you know what it means to enter another's Sea of Consciousness!
The slightest mistake, and your Divine Soul will be severely damaged! Or even worse… It's too dangerous!"
But Pei Yuhang seemed not to hear her, his gaze fixed on Qing Yueqiu's pale face.
"Senior Sister, my mind is made up. You don't need to say any more."
"…"
Lu Ruoxi looked at Pei Yuhang's lowered gaze and bit her lip in frustration, her teeth leaving a faint mark on her cherry-red lips.
'If… if Junior Sister Ye were here now, maybe she could talk some sense into him.'
'But now, it's just me… There's no way Junior Brother Pei will listen to me!'
A sour feeling spread through her chest, but Pei Yuhang's voice pulled her back to reality in the next moment.
"Senior Sister, I'm about to begin. Please help me guard my and Yueqiu's physical bodies."
"Wait!"
Lu Ruoxi gritted her teeth and said decisively, "Since you insist on entering Yueqiu's Sea of Consciousness, Junior Brother… then at least let me, your senior sister, help you in some way."
With that, she formed a hand seal, her slender, jade-like hands tracing a mystical pattern in the air.
As she moved, a faint blush crept onto her porcelain-white cheeks. Her red lips parted slightly, and a cyan Treasure Pill, shimmering with a halo of Spiritual Qi, slowly flew out from her mouth, glowing with a lustrous sheen in mid-air.
"Senior Sister, this is…"
"It's a Lifebound Spirit Pill that I refined using my body as a furnace, imitating the Demon Race's method of cultivating an Inner Core."
Lu Ruoxi's voice was as gentle as water. Her gaze held a hint of bashfulness, yet it also shone with determination.
"If you don't mind, Junior Brother, hold my Lifebound Spirit Pill in your mouth. It will strengthen your Divine Soul and reduce the risk."
Pei Yuhang was silent for a moment, his deep eyes gazing at the senior sister before him who always gave so much without a word at critical moments. Then, he solemnly extended his hand.
"Thank you, Senior Sister."
Pei Yuhang took the Lifebound Spirit Pill and placed it in his mouth.
The moment Pei Yuhang touched the warm Spirit Pill, Lu Ruoxi's body trembled violently, and a fine shiver ran across her jade-like skin.
She hastily turned her face away, unable to hide the blush on the tips of her ears. The Lifebound Spirit Pill was already an inseparable part of her body. Having her junior brother hold it between his lips made her feel a shyness akin to intimate physical contact.
But there was no time for her to dwell on it, because Pei Yuhang had already begun to perform the technique to send his Divine Soul out of his body.
Pei Yuhang closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged. The next moment, waves of golden Spiritual Qi billowed out from the surface of his body.
It finally coalesced into a semi-corporeal, semi-ethereal version of Pei Yuhang, which appeared before Lu Ruoxi.
"Junior Brother Pei, although the Divine Soul of a Void Refining Cultivator can exist independently outside the body, you can't stay inside Qing Yueqiu's body for too long. Otherwise, it will inevitably affect Yueqiu."
Pei Yuhang nodded to Lu Ruoxi, then transformed into a streak of light and flew into Qing Yueqiu's body.
HUMMM—
In an instant, a crimson Suppression radiated from within Yueqiu's body, forming an astral wind as thick as a wall that blocked Pei Yuhang's path.
He finally understood how Lu Ruoxi must have felt when her attempt to probe Yueqiu's body with her Divine Thought had been cut off.
'To be able to block the Divine Soul of a Void Refining Great Cultivator… It really is you, isn't it? The Ji Shenyun that Yueqiu spoke of!'
Just as Pei Yuhang prepared to forcefully tear through the crimson Suppression.
HUMMM—
A sword hummed. The Silent Sword at his physical body's waist trembled slightly. Then, Bai Jingjing flew out in her Soul Body form, transforming into a Divine Soul Sword that hovered before Pei Yuhang.
'Pei Yuhang, take hold of me!'
For the first time, Pei Yuhang found Bai Jingjing to be so reliable. Wielding the Divine Soul Sword—the transformed Sword Spirit—he slashed down, precisely cutting a fissure into the weakest point of the crimson tide surging from Qing Yueqiu's body.
'An opportunity!'
Pei Yuhang's eyes narrowed. Before the fissure in the crimson tide could close, he transformed into a streak of light and instantly plunged inside.
The colors of his surroundings faded in an instant. In the blink of an eye, all he could see was endless darkness.
Pei Yuhang knew he had entered Qing Yueqiu's Sea of Consciousness.
A person's Sea of Consciousness is vast and boundless. The slightest misstep could cause one to become lost within, which is why entering another's is such a dangerous affair.
HUMMM—
Just then, a cyan divine light shone from within his body. The light transformed into a ribbon, slowly pointing the way for Pei Yuhang through the endless darkness.
It was his senior sister's Lifebound Spirit Pill, guiding him toward the deepest part of Yueqiu's Sea of Consciousness. Pei Yuhang tightened his grip on his sword's hilt and followed the ribbon of cyan light, descending deeper into the Sea of Consciousness.