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Yun Tianmo felt somewhat dissatisfied that Ouyang Zixin had not arranged for her to be with him, and was a bit annoyed that she was concerned about the safety of his subordinate, even taking the time to arrange things personally. However, the proud and aloof man did not realize that his jealousy was somewhat unreasonable. It was only when he saw Nangong Tuo grimacing while accepting to team up with his subordinate that he slightly satisfiedly curled the corners of his lips.
"Mo, I can hardly recognize you anymore," Yun Tianying teased from the side, feeling fortunate that he and Yun Tianmo were siblings and had always had a good relationship; otherwise, at this moment, Yun Tianmo might very well abandon him.
Facing his brother's teasing, Yun Tianmo remained unfazed, as if Yun Tianying's words did not concern him at all.
"You, knock her out," Ouyang Zixin instructed the shadow guard with a beckoning gesture, pointing at Zhao Feiyu. "Time is tight and the mission is important; hurry up."
Zhao Feiyu was about to protest, but before she could make a sound, she felt a sharp pain at the back of her neck, darkness enveloped her, and she fainted. Subsequently, she was tied up by Ouyang Zixin behind her back. Fortunately, Ouyang Zixin had grown quite a bit during their time in the secret realm; otherwise, carrying her would have been quite a strain.
In fact, Nangong Tuo had expressed a desire to help, but Ouyang Zixin looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Isn't the defense range limited to just two people? Isn't one more too many? If you carry her and something happens to her, what will you do?" This left him speechless; he had initially insisted that having an extra person was absolutely not allowed because he wanted to use the defense as an opportunity to be alone with Ouyang Zixin. Now he realized it had become a weapon for her to counter his words.
At the same time, Yun Tianmo also disapproved of Ouyang Zixin carrying Zhao Feiyu. He suggested letting the shadow guard take over, but Ouyang Zixin rolled her eyes at him and said, "You as the master are being too irresponsible. What if this girl wakes up and insists that your subordinate takes responsibility? What will happen to his lifelong happiness?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone except Yun Tianmo collectively looked up at the sky. Ouyang Zixin was indeed formidable; how could she so naturally say something like that about a girl who would demand responsibility from a man upon waking? Was she really a girl?
"Don't glare at me; do you think I want to be a laborer? I have no choice!" She explained that her spatial movement with Nameless was supposed to be a secret. If it weren't for not wanting innocent people to be dragged into this mess, she wouldn't go through such trouble. Carrying someone while performing spatial movement was no small feat.
Once everything was ready, the pairings were fully formed, standing around the Stone Cauldron in three positions. Ouyang Zixin stood directly in front of the handprint while carrying Zhao Feiyu. She double-checked their positions before taking a deep breath and starting the countdown.
Three...
Two...
One!
Almost simultaneously, Yun Tianmo activated the Source Serpent Scale Shield, and a dense array of scales formed an absolute defense around him and Yun Tianying, enveloped in a dark red glow. Meanwhile, Nangong Takuya activated the Mystical Artifact, raising a Barrier around himself and the shadow guard sent by Ouyang Zixin for protection.
Nameless also initiated spatial movement at that moment, quickly transporting Ouyang Zixin away from the Stone Cauldron.
Just as the three groups were barely set up for defense, the Divine Escape Hand Seal triggered by Ouyang Zixin emitted a blinding white light. This caused a brief visual blur for everyone, as their vision was filled with a bright white. Fortunately, this lasted only a short time, and they quickly regained their sight, only to see that the Stone Cauldron had transformed into a pure white light entity; it could no longer be called a Stone Cauldron but should now be referred to as the Light Cauldron.
"No wonder that hand seal felt like it was embedded in metal; it turns out the stone on the outside of this cauldron was merely an illusion," Ouyang Zixin said as she adjusted Zhao Feiyu, who was about to slip off her back. She had suspected that the Stone Cauldron couldn't possibly be so bare without any cracks after receiving a hand seal; there was indeed something deeper at play.
The Light Cauldron radiated brilliant light all around, illuminating the entire Underground Palace brightly. The cauldron itself emitted deep rumbling sounds as it spun with the light.
When the Light Cauldron was still the Stone Cauldron, Nameless had previously entered to check it out; it had been completely empty inside. How could it now produce such sounds? This gave Ouyang Zixin an uneasy feeling. Just then, Zhao Feiyu behind her let out a sound, seemingly waking up. Ouyang Zixin hurriedly set her down and shouted, "If you're awake, quickly cover your ears!"
She then swiftly turned around and waved her hand at Yun Tianmo, shouting, "Cover your ears! There's something wrong with the cauldron's sound!"
The positions of the three groups were already somewhat spread out, and now they were even further apart. Ouyang Zixin could see Yun Tianmo looking over but noticed that he seemed unable to hear what she was saying. She gestured frantically and covered her ears with both hands, signaling for Yun Tianmo to do the same.
However, for some reason this time, Yun Tianmo showed no reaction at all; the tacit understanding they had developed was completely gone. Instead, Nangong Tuo saw Ouyang Zixin waving her hands and appeared to be shouting as well, mimicking her gestures joyfully.
"This cauldron's sound is indeed problematic," Ouyang Zixin gritted her teeth and gave up trying to communicate with Yun Tianmo. She turned to Nangong Tuo and gestured for him to cover his ears. But that fool just grinned stupidly and waved his hands happily, completely failing to grasp Ouyang Zixin's meaning.
The shadow guard nearby seemed more normal; he glanced over at Ouyang Zixin. Unfortunately, although he saw her covering her ears, he didn't think much of it—after all, she was Master’s woman; he dared not look too closely.
"Damn it, are you all crazy?" Ouyang Zixin lamented in frustration. But when she turned to look at Zhao Feiyu while covering her ears, she nearly spat blood. This person was supposed to be with her; at such close distance, surely she could hear her telling Zhao Feiyu to cover her ears!
You can take a look at Zhao Feiyu; she wasn't listening at all but was sitting still, her eyes fixed on the Light Cauldron, her expression calm and natural. At first glance, it was impossible to tell that she had already lost focus.
"Nameless, keep teleporting!" Ouyang Zixin felt she could no longer stay with Zhao Feiyu, as it would be dangerous. She hurriedly instructed Nameless to continue moving through space with her. After all, Zhao Feiyu had already lost her senses, so even if they performed spatial movement in front of her, it wouldn't pose too much of a problem.
The sound of the Light Cauldron's collisions lasted for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick. During this time, the light flared up about five times, and there were five notably loud collisions. Ouyang Zixin continuously moved through space during this incense stick's duration to avoid being directly illuminated by those lights.
"Stop." Ouyang Zixin felt a bit exhausted; what usually felt like a short period now seemed to stretch on for hundreds or thousands of years.
—Master, one less person.
What?!
Ouyang Zixin had just stopped and didn't have time to look around when she heard Nameless say this. She was instantly alarmed; despite preparing defenses for so long, it turned out to be useless as people continued to disappear.
"This time it's not an illusion. Is it a sound?" Ouyang Zixin sighed. Indeed, one cannot use a fixed mindset to deduce the design of these mechanisms. "Let's go check on Yun Tianmo."
The person who had disappeared was Zhao Feiyu. Ouyang Zixin had once wanted to protect her, but unfortunately, she ultimately failed. Now they were left with only five people.
After the sound of collisions ceased, Yun Tianmo and Yun Tianying quickly regained their senses. Yun Tianmo flashed and rushed toward the spot where Ouyang Zixin had been. When he found no one there, a chill surged through him, causing the temperature around him to drop to freezing levels.
The shadow guard with Nangong Tuo had intended to come along, but Nangong Takuya inexplicably refused to lower the Barrier.
"Yun Tianmo, another person is gone..." Ouyang Zixin saw Yun Tianmo standing with his back to her and weakly said that if only she had thought about the changes from sight to sound a bit more and prepared accordingly. Now another person was gone while she was busy avoiding danger and hadn't clearly seen what had happened.
A good opportunity wasted once again.
Upon hearing Ouyang Zixin's voice, Yun Tianmo abruptly turned around. Seeing her walking towards him unharmed, though looking somewhat listless, he felt a bit relieved. However, with so many people around, he suppressed his worries and the impulse to immediately pull her into his arms to stop her from wandering off, gazing deeply at her as he said, "I know."
Huh? He knows?
"I just saw you put her down, and then..." Yun Tianmo started but suddenly stopped, a scene flashing through his mind. He felt like he might have misunderstood something. "Did you call out to me?"
Ouyang Zixin rubbed her forehead. Did he just realize that now? If she didn't usually see him as a quick thinker, she would have wondered if he was slow on the uptake.
"Did none of you hear what I shouted earlier? Were your ears ringing?" Ouyang Zixin scanned everyone except Yun Tianmo. She needed to confirm whether what she heard matched what they heard, just like the bizarre appearance of the Blood Basin Mouth.
After Ouyang Zixin's careful inquiries, she finally discovered that what they heard and saw was different from her own experience.
When Ouyang Zixin shouted, everyone retreated into a defensive stance. However, the Stone Cauldron did not change at all, nor was there any white light or deep rumbling sound. What Ouyang Zixin referred to as waving and shouting was merely seen by them as a normal gesture of confirming safety, which frustrated Ouyang Zixin.
"Did you not see me covering my ears?" Ouyang Zixin gestured to indicate that she had indeed been covering her ears; how could that possibly be just a normal safety confirmation gesture?
"I saw you waving at me and smiling happily, so I waved back," Nangong Tuo grinned. This was the first time Ouyang Zixin had actively smiled and greeted him; he was thrilled at the moment.
"All I saw was you waving too, but since we agreed beforehand to stay still for a while until confirming that the Stone Cauldron posed no further danger, we didn’t move either. It wasn't until the end that we suddenly noticed you had disappeared from your spot, and then Mo came over to check," Yun Tianying said quickly, feeling the sharp gaze from Yun Tianmo and hastily changing his concerned tone to one of mere observation.
"I disappeared from my spot?" Ouyang Zixin frowned upon hearing this; it didn’t make sense. She needed to think it through carefully from start to finish.
In front of the Divine Escape Hand Seal were her and Zhao Feiyu; on the left were Yun Tianmo and Yun Tianying; on the right were Nangong Tuo and the shadow guard, each group about three meters apart. After she activated the Divine Escape Hand Seal, she immediately performed spatial movement and retreated about ten meters. At that moment, both Yun Tianmo and Nangong Tuo remained in place without moving. This is why she thought they couldn’t hear her due to the distance and their defensive stances.
However, according to Yun Tianying's statement, in their eyes, she should have remained completely still until they noticed she had vanished only after she felt the sound of the cauldron stop. Here, "the original spot" referred to where she initially stood—directly in front of the Divine Escape Hand Seal.
"I didn't disappear from one spot; I moved multiple times," Ouyang Zixin said, and everyone fell silent.
Actually, when she had just stepped out, everyone was puzzled and wanted to ask her how she had vanished from that spot, and where Zhao Feiyu had gone.
"So, you all saw that my actions were completed in front of the Stone Cauldron. I never moved from my position, right?" Ouyang Zixin asked.
Yun Tianmo and Yun Tianying did not respond, and the shadow guards also remained silent. Only Nangong Tuo looked at everyone, and seeing no one answer, he nodded and said, "Yes, everything happened in place, including when you set down Zhao Feiyu."
"And then?" Since they could see her put down Zhao Feiyu, did that mean they also saw how Zhao Feiyu disappeared afterward?
This time, even Nangong Tuo was unwilling to speak, which made Ouyang Zixin's face turn pale. She thought of a very bad possibility; if that were the case, she would truly have no way to defend herself. But the issue needed clarification; she couldn't take the blame. Even if she was misunderstood first, she had to clear it up. "Did you see me just leave her behind and then she vanished?"
Looking at Ouyang Zixin's suddenly pale face, Yun Tianmo felt his heart tighten and coldly said, "Don't overthink it; it's not your concern."
Zhao Feiyu's disappearance was nothing significant in Yun Tianmo's eyes. Not only did he not believe Ouyang Zixin would abandon someone, but even if it was as they saw it, he didn't think it was a big deal.
"How can it not be my concern? She's on my team, and I'm fine while she disappears right before everyone's eyes!" Ouyang Zixin said word by word. This feeling was truly unpleasant for her, but she didn't know how to explain. She wasn't Yun Tianmo; she couldn't ignore the distorted gazes of others; it made her feel very uncomfortable.
This matter needed an explanation! She wouldn't take the blame for this! (To be continued.)
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