Would he wait for her to return?
Yuan Shu’s lashes trembled, but she did not answer.
After meeting a devoted partner like Sheng Yang, Yuan Shu no longer held out hope for anyone else.
Besides, she had already blown herself up. There was not even the slightest trace of her left in that world.
Who could she expect to wait for her?
“Don’t talk. I’m going to rest for a while.”
Yuan Shu felt a little sleepy. She shifted her body, leaned against the side of the pool, and relaxed.
Not long after Yuan Shu fell asleep, a handsome figure in snow-white robes suddenly appeared in the passage nearby.
His pale, snow-colored eyes lifted slightly and swept toward the cave on the left.
He sensed the aura of low-level spiritual power coming from there—roughly at the Nascent Soul Realm.
Were they the outsiders who had trespassed into the forbidden grounds?
To have made it through the numerous defensive formations in the underground palace and reached this place, they must have had some ability.
Unfortunately, their good luck would end the moment they encountered him!
Si Lingce’s face was as cold as frost. His figure flashed through the passage, and he appeared atop the stone wall of the cave.
Looking down, his gaze fell on the woman bathing in the pool.
With only one glance, Si Lingce looked away.
As expected, she was an outsider cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm. He simply had not expected her to be a female cultivator—and to be bathing at that.
Yuan Shu had once loved soaking in this spirit pool. Now, it had actually been occupied by someone else.
Irritation welled up inside him, and he was just about to attack when a violent surge of spiritual power suddenly erupted from deep within the underground palace.
It was as if a great battle had broken out!
Si Lingce’s eyes widened slightly.
This was…
Someone was forcing their way into the central underground palace!
His expression changed. In the next instant, he had already vanished from the cave.
Compared to a single spirit pool, the central underground palace, where more traces of Yuan Shu remained, was clearly far more important!
After all, if the spirit pool became dirty, another one could be built later. But the central underground palace was Yuan Shu’s final resting place!
…
Yuan Shu had no idea that she had just narrowly escaped death. The violent tremors of the underground palace startled her awake as well.
This kind of disturbance meant that the formation in the central underground palace had been activated!
Was it the demon race? The Earth Demon Sha Clan?
Or perhaps someone from the Falling Immortal Sect?
Yuan Shu hurriedly rose from the water.
In the next instant, the ground beneath her feet became unstable, and a surging force of spiritual power rose from the formation beneath the underground palace.
Before Yuan Shu could react, the scene before her began to change!
“Shushu, the positions of the underground palace’s formations are changing again!” the Hehuan Divine Tree reminded her through her sea of consciousness.
In truth, Yuan Shu did not need its warning. She could already feel a powerful force of space pulling at her.
She had originally intended to use her spiritual power to steady herself, but in the next instant, the formation spirit of the underground palace, which she had held in her palm, was jolted out.
Immediately afterward, it transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the passage of the underground palace.
She, too, was dragged into a spatial passage by a tremendous force.
…
When both her feet landed firmly on the ground, Yuan Shu looked up and discovered that she had fallen into a matrix space.
The space was not large—about the size of a small room.
The walls surrounding her were formed from the underground palace’s formations. They were pitch-black, absorbing all the light around them and making the entire space appear dim and eerie.
Yuan Shu was still looking around in surprise when a startled cry suddenly came from behind her.
“Y-Yuan, Junior Sister Yuan?”
The voice was clear and pleasant, carrying a trace of astonishment and disbelief. It sounded somewhat familiar.
Almost instinctively, Yuan Shu turned around.
Mu Fengyun was dressed in a light-blue robe, with a thick fox-fur cloak draped over his shoulders. At that moment, he was staring at her in shock, his face filled with utter disbelief.
Yuan Shu froze for a moment. Following his terrified gaze, she looked down.
The spatial teleportation had come so suddenly that she had only just risen from the spirit pool. She was not wearing a single piece of clothing.
Yuan Shu had never expected to be teleported here—and to come face-to-face with Mu Fengyun at that.
She instinctively tried to take clothing from the Divine Tree’s space. Yet the moment she raised her hand, the clothes failed to appear.
Yuan Shu was puzzled. She tried several more times, but the Divine Tree’s space seemed to have suddenly been cut off from her. There was no response at all!
“Junior Sister Yuan, this place suppresses space. There’s no way to use a storage bag here.”
Mu Fengyun had already recovered from his intense shock. He turned around, not daring to look at Yuan Shu.
But he seemed to have noticed what she was doing and hurriedly explained.
“What?” Yuan Shu was astonished.
Spatial suppression?
Even the Divine Tree’s space could not be used here?
Could this place be…
“This is a spatial formation. Junior Sister Yuan, we’re currently inside the formation.” Mu Fengyun answered her question first.
Clearly, he had entered before her and had already figured out some of the formation’s characteristics.
Yuan Shu thought of the disturbance from earlier.
There was an even more powerful defensive formation surrounding the central underground palace. That formation was connected to the formation spirit.
If it suffered a powerful attack, the formation would activate an emergency measure, randomly stuffing every living creature within the underground palace into one of the many interlocking formations.
She had most likely been forcibly teleported into this rectangular formation just now!
On the other side, Mu Fengyun had never imagined that his reunion with Yuan Shu would take place in such an awkward situation.
And Yuan Shu had appeared before him completely naked.
Several mischievous droplets of water still clung to her jade-white skin!
Although he had turned away with the proper restraint of a gentleman after that hurried glance, he had still…
He had still seen everything clearly.
Every inch of her.
Junior Sister Yuan… she was truly beautiful!
His heart began to race uncontrollably.
It was as if he had returned to that day at the Mu residence, in that room, on that bed.
To suppress the Cangming Ice Soul for him, Yuan Shu had kissed him without the slightest hesitation. Her small hand had gently, yet firmly, stroked his chest.
His mind was filled with the scene he had just witnessed.
That slender waist he could wrap in one arm, those long and delicate legs, that graceful figure, and…
Mu Fengyun swallowed. His thoughts ran wild, and his entire body began to heat up uncontrollably.
It seemed that even the Cangming Ice Soul within him no longer felt cold.
Meanwhile, Yuan Shu walked to the wall and knocked on it. She then probed it with her spiritual power and discovered that it was indeed a small formation within the chain of interlocking formations.
Her expression turned helpless.
This kind of small formation should be located near the outskirts of the underground palace.
She had already reached somewhere near the center of the underground palace before this.
The formation’s teleportation destinations really were random!
Now, if she wanted to return to the center of the underground palace, she would have to spend quite some time again.
What was more, this matrix space was itself a trapping formation. How was she supposed to get out?
Yuan Shu furrowed her brows, somewhat troubled.
Just as she was pondering this, the dark wall in front of her suddenly moved.
?
Yuan Shu’s eyes widened, and she instinctively took a step back.
At the same time, Mu Fengyun, behind her, noticed that something was wrong as well.
“Junior Sister Yuan, the walls of this space are closing in!”
Yuan Shu turned her head. With one hurried glance, she saw that all four dark walls were moving toward the center, and they were moving quickly.
In the space of a few breaths, the area where they could move had already been reduced by half!
Yuan Shu’s eyes widened slightly.
She had never entered a matrix space before, so she truly had not known that its method of killing trapped opponents would be like this!
The two of them retreated step by step until their backs pressed against each other.
“J-Junior Sister Yuan, I have a fox-fur cloak here. You…”
