Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

Chapter 320 317: A Thousand Years of Great Dream (1): The Scholar Yuhang and the Daoist Nun Qianyan

The girl's mind buzzed as she realized she was out of the running. An immense panic gripped her heart like a giant hand.

She frantically pounded on the Spiritual Energy Ball's barrier before her, her thin lips drained of color in her panic.

"Wait!"

"Lin Qianyan, what did you do?!"

"You bastard! Are you trying to steal my victory?! You fucking bitch, send me back—!!"

...

Watching Ji Xichan continuously beat against the Spiritual Energy Ball, Lin Qianyan felt a warmth spread through her heart. A gentle look flickered in her eyes, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly, as if she were gratified by Ji Xichan's concern.

"Miss Ji is truly a good girl. To think she'd be so angry and regretful after we gave her the chance to live... I hope this doesn't make her feel guilty for the rest of her life."

"Qianqian, we're not dead yet. Don't be so dramatic!"

Pei Yuhang said speechlessly to Lin Qianyan as he formed hand seals for Sword Control.

Lin Qianyan blinked her beautiful eyes and said playfully, "I was just trying to lighten the mood, wasn't I?"

"Wait, Qianqian. Have you noticed that the Mirage Qi around us doesn't feel hallucinogenic at all?"

Pei Yuhang's serious tone immediately made Lin Qianyan's expression turn grim.

At that moment, the two were jointly gathering Spiritual Qi to form a thick barrier to block out the Mirage Dragon Illusion Qi.

Although their joint Barrier was strong, according to the domineering nature of Mirage Qi recorded in ancient texts, there should have already been signs of the Spiritual Qi distorting and the barrier beginning to melt.

However, the Mirage Qi enveloping them was like ordinary fog, having no effect at all!

'The Mirage Qi... is ineffective?'

Pei Yuhang's brow furrowed slightly. Just as he let out a sigh of relief, the motionless Mirage Dragon suddenly began to tremble violently!

Its forehead split open, and in an instant, a blinding golden light shot straight toward Pei Yuhang.

"This is bad! It's locked onto me! Qianqian, you have to go!"

Pei Yuhang slashed open the barrier with his sword, about to let Lin Qianyan leave on her own.

But the Jasper Pool Saintess stood resolutely in front of him and said softly, "My dear husband, Qianqian worked so hard in her cultivation precisely to protect you. How could I possibly leave first?"

"Qianqian, you—"

In the blink of an eye, the two were completely engulfed by the golden light.

After the golden light dissipated, all that remained was a translucent, solid golden sphere. Inside, Pei Yuhang and Lin Qianyan were sealed, one of their hands clasped with fingers intertwined.

"Master—!!"

In the distance, Qing Yueqiu was flying over at full speed, using Sword Control to tear through the void.

Upon seeing Pei Yuhang imprisoned within the Mirage Golden Dragon Ball, her crimson, beautiful eyes first widened in disbelief, then she let out a mournful cry like a cuckoo weeping blood.

After Lin Qianyan was sealed, Ji Xichan also managed to tear open the Spiritual Qi barrier before her.

She stared at the golden sphere sealing the two inside, clenching her fists in frustration.

The girl's fingertips dug into the delicate skin of her palms, and dark red blood slowly trickled from between her fingers.

'So, fate truly does exist in this world... If you can't have something, you just can't have it.'

'I'm destined only to pave the way for others...'

...

...

Pei Yuhang opened his eyes, feeling a chilling wind blowing against his face, stinging his skin.

"I... Where am I?"

He looked around and saw nothing but grave mounds, one after another, with white paper money fluttering in the air.

The sky was an oppressive, leaden black. The only sounds were the whistling wind, like a wail, and the strange cawing of crows.

He was dressed in the simple white robes of a scholar, carrying a basket of books and dry rations on his back.

'I... right... My name is Pei Yuhang, and I'm on my way to the capital for the imperial examinations! What terrible luck. I'm not familiar with this wilderness and ended up wandering into a Chaotic Tomb Ridge.'

Pei Yuhang hugged his arms, a little scared. A worried look appeared on his handsome face.

He took a deep breath and quickened his pace, hoping to get out of this place as soon as possible.

"Young Master~"

"Don't go, Young Master~"

A series of coquettish calls reached him. Pei Yuhang looked toward the sound and saw a breathtakingly charming figure in red, waving a bright red handkerchief at him.

"Young Master, I've twisted my ankle. Could you come and help me?"

The red-clothed beauty's thin lips parted slightly. Her lovely appearance was so pitifully charming it could move anyone's heart.

However, Pei Yuhang's expression turned sharp. Without a second glance, he hoisted his books of Saintly teachings and bolted in the opposite direction!

'Are you kidding me? I've read my share of folk ghost stories. Lonely ghosts and Fox Spirits absolutely love handsome, unparalleled scholars like me!'

Seeing Pei Yuhang flee, the beauty's alluring face twisted in an instant.

"Damn you, little scholar! What are you running for? Am I not beautiful enough for you?"

RATTLE—

A ghastly white skeletal hand suddenly shot out of the dirt and grabbed Pei Yuhang's ankle, causing him to fall heavily to the ground.

Pei Yuhang looked back in terror and saw several skeletons bursting out of the ground around him. They pinned his limbs and began to roughly tear off his clothes.

"You Demon Fiend! If you're going to kill me, then kill me! Why humiliate me?!"

The red-clothed beauty sneered, straddled Pei Yuhang's body, and extended her long fingernails, beginning to caress his firm, well-defined muscles.

"You're just a little scholar, all smooth-skinned and delicate-looking, yet you have such sturdy muscles... And, you're even a virgin~!

"I've never had one this good before!"

The red-clothed beauty licked her lips, her eyes gleaming.

A bad premonition arose in Pei Yuhang. His eyes widened in terror as he said, "What are you going to do? Don't tell me you want to—"

"Shut up! You're just a human-shaped vessel of Yang Qi, yet you talk so much!"

The red-clothed beauty threw out a pair of underpants, reeking with a foxy musk, crumpled them into a ball like a rag, and shoved them into Pei Yuhang's mouth.

Pei Yuhang, who had diligently studied the books of saints and sages since childhood, tasted the salty bitterness in his mouth and shed tears of humiliation.

'I'm no longer clean... Defiled by a vile demon. How can someone like me ever pursue the pure, romantic love story I've yearned for since I was a child?'

...

After a period of extreme humiliation, the red-clothed beauty, having absorbed her fill of Yang Qi, let out a satisfied puff of green smoke.

Meanwhile, Pei Yuhang, covered in red marks and hickeys, was like a young wife bullied by a tyrant, clutching his book basket and crying.

Pei Yuhang's aggrieved sobs greatly irritated the red-clothed beauty, who was now feeling refreshed.

Her small hand gave Pei Yuhang's firm, perky butt a hard squeeze before she said in a sinister voice:

"Hee hee hee~ To think your constitution is so special. Even after I drained you once, you're still so full of life."

"I'm going to take you back with me and dote on you day and night. Who knows, you might even get me pregnant with a precious Ghost Infant~"

Pei Yuhang's face instantly turned deathly pale. Being defiled was one thing, but getting a lonely ghost and Fox Spirit pregnant with his child... The very thought made Pei Yuhang want to vomit!

A grim look flashed in his eyes; he considered suicide. But the red-clothed beauty's next words immediately plunged him into despair.

"Little scholar, don't even think about dying~

"I happen to know Corpse Refinement. If you die, I'll seal your soul inside your body, refine it into a Vajra Indestructible Corpse Puppet, and make you stay erect forever!

"I'll call a hundred Female Spirit Monsters every day to play with you!"

"Hee hee hee~ Little scholar, just submit to me and be my kept man~"

RUMBLE—

Just then, a bolt of white lightning illuminated the heavens and the earth, as well as the faces of Pei Yuhang and the red-clothed beauty.

THUD—

A set of jade-white toes landed gently in the mud and dust, yet remained completely unstained.

The black-haired Daoist Nun flicked her long sleeve. As her transcendent, pretty face looked toward Pei Yuhang, a trace of pity appeared in her beautiful eyes.

"Demon Fiend, you deserve to die for abducting an innocent man!"

The red-clothed beauty sensed the power of this beautiful Daoist Nun and let out a shriek, about to flee.

But in the next moment, a Thunder Talisman had already landed on her. As a white light illuminated the entire graveyard, the foxy Spirit Monster was struck down, her Divine Soul utterly destroyed.

The beautiful Daoist Nun slowly walked up to Pei Yuhang and draped her own Daoist robe over his body.

Feeling the lingering warmth and elegant fragrance from the robe, Pei Yuhang's gaze trembled slightly. He asked gratefully, "I, Yuhang, thank you for saving me, Daoist Priestess! May I be so bold as to ask for your esteemed name?"

"It's nothing so esteemed. My name is Lin Qianyan, just a humble Daoist Nun traveling the world."