Battle Through the Heavens, Reborn as Xiao Yan's Sister

Chapter 110 Why is your face red? (4k two-in-one)

"Hopefully there won't be any danger..." Although Yun Yun was still a little worried, now that she had come this far, she had no reason to back down.

Xiao Yue smiled upon hearing this. What place like this isn't dangerous? It's just a matter of the timid starving to death and the bold getting rich.

then,

Yun Yun walked in front of Xiao Yue, and the two of them entered the cave one after the other. The cave was pitch black, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Only the seven-colored spiritual light on Xiao Cai's body provided them with a sliver of light.

The cave walls were damp, and the sound of dripping water was particularly clear in the quiet environment. The air was filled with a musty and damp smell, and a cold, damp chill swept over you.

"hiss~"

Xiao Cai let out a soft hiss in the darkness, emitting a bright light that illuminated a small area around her. The cold, yin energy here was two to three times stronger than outside, showing that the little creature really liked this place.

"The yin energy is quite strong..."

Xiao Yue could clearly feel the heavy yin energy in the air. If an ordinary person stayed there for a few minutes, they would be eroded by this heavy yin energy and suffer from chronic illnesses.

They continued deeper into the cave, where they were completely swallowed by darkness, and the walls around them became increasingly smooth, as if they had been carefully polished.

An ancient and mysterious aura permeated the air, sending chills down one's spine.

This was a dark underground palace, but not entirely black; rather, it was a strange, ghastly reddish-black, as if the entire subterranean world had been soaked in blood and solidified into black, filled with a chilling aura.
"Can you open this door?"

Xiao Yue asked Yun Yun,
The entrance gate to the underground palace ahead was clearly under some kind of restriction, and its pattern was exactly the same as the Azure Cloud Seal that Yun Yun had mentioned earlier.

"My sect still possesses a method to break the Qingyun Seal; we can give it a try..."

The words fell,

Yun Yun closed her eyes, extended a slender, jade-like finger, and gently touched the pattern on the door, as if sensing the strange energy fluctuations flowing through the restrictions on it.

Time passes slowly,
It wasn't until quite a while later that Yun Yun suddenly opened her eyes, her hands forming a complex hand seal in front of her, and the rich, azure battle energy began to gather around her.

At the same time, the patterns on the gate began to flash with dazzling light, as if stimulated by a powerful force.

"boom!"

The gate to the underground palace emitted a deafening roar, and the entire palace seemed to tremble under the impact of this force. An even stronger, colder aura rushed out from inside the palace, sending chills down one's spine.

"This underground palace is very eerie!"

Yun Yun said with a somewhat solemn expression,
It is certain that the founding ancestor of her Yunlan Sect came here hundreds of years ago, and for some unknown reason, he set up a seal and restriction here before leaving, thus closing this place up again.

"Let's go in and take a look. I'm quite interested in what's inside," Xiao Yue said, and then she stepped inside.

Xiao Yue has a bit of an adventurous streak deep in her soul. She has always enjoyed exploring the unknown. The White Tiger Visualization Diagram was brought out from an ancient ruin on Mount Tai on Earth, and she still doesn't know the origin of that visualization diagram.

There's nothing to hesitate about.
The two people and the snake quickly entered the dark underground palace ahead.

"Ok?"

As soon as she entered, Xiao Yue noticed something was wrong. With a strange distortion of space, her surroundings completely changed.

Yun Yun, who was just next to her, has also disappeared. The two were separated by spatial power, and now only Xiao Cai is with her.

"Spatial teleportation...?"

Xiao Yue's eyes flickered slightly.

All that could be seen was a hazy gray expanse, with endless gray-white mist drifting everywhere. Gusts of cold wind blew through the mist, accompanied by faint wailing and screaming sounds that sent chills down one's spine.

"Why are there so many souls?"

Xiao Yue frowned slightly.

These wandering spirits in the underground palace are all of very low level. They appear dazed and confused, lacking any intelligence, and act solely on instinct. They must have been quite weak in life.

Generally speaking,
If one's own strength has not reached a certain level, the soul after death will lose the protection and nourishment of the physical body and will find it difficult to continue to survive. The soul will naturally dissipate and return to the world in no time. Alchemists, on the other hand, can sustain themselves for a longer period of time.

"Oh!"

Xiao Yue casually struck down a ghost that was charging towards her with a palm strike.

At the same time,

The wandering ghosts suddenly flew towards Xiao Yue as if they had gone mad, moving at an extremely fast speed. Countless ghostly hands in the black mist reached out to grab her, stirring up gusts of chilling wind!
Seeing this, Xiao Yue didn't tolerate them. Suddenly, a huge white tiger spirit phantom leaped out from behind her.

"Roar!"

With a thunderous roar like a tiger soaring to the sky!
Immediately afterwards, a powerful suction force emerged from the gaping maw of the pale, ferocious tiger, swallowing up all those hideous ghost faces along with the pitch-black wind, leaving nothing behind!

Now, Xiao Yue's white tiger spirit phantom looks more and more real, no longer as illusory and indistinct as before. It has a beautiful and healthy body, white fur as white as snow, black stripes on its body that extend outwards in a fierce manner, and cold and murderous blood light shooting out from its eyes, exuding a terrifying aura.

"Woohoo~"

The colorful little snake beside her seemed to be excitedly imitating the white tiger's spirit, roaring to the sky as if cheering her on, looking quite proud.

Seeing its adorable appearance, Xiao Yue couldn't help but chuckle, and together with the white tiger spirit behind her, she patted its little head.

At this moment, the howling and wailing in the underground palace had gradually subsided. The ghosts that had been rushing in frantically were all eaten up like snacks by the powerful suction of the White Tiger's soul and disappeared without a trace.

The surroundings returned to a deathly silence, with only the occasional distant gust of wind blowing through the gray-white mist, emitting a soft whistling sound.

If anyone saw this scene, their eyes would probably pop out of their sockets. This army of ghosts, which even ordinary Dou Huang would be wary of, was so easily eaten up by the white tiger behind her like a snack!
"Let's go... let's go find Yunzhi and meet up..." Xiao Yue put away the White Tiger's divine soul, and then left without looking back.

This underground palace is very large.
Moreover, it seems to have more than one floor, which makes Xiao Yue even more curious about this strange place.

……

……

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the other side,
After being separated from Xiao Yue by the power of space, Yun Yun was trapped in an illusion array within the underground palace.

In the illusion, Yunyun was as if she were lost in a thick fog, surrounded by distorted sights and sounds, which aroused Yunyun's deepest desires and fears.

When they finally struggled free...

Yun Yun felt as if she had woken up from a long nightmare, and the feeling of reality and illusion intertwined made her unable to distinguish for a moment.

Now that she had broken free from the illusion and regained consciousness, her face was flushed for some reason.

"Why are you blushing?"

Xiao Yue approached her, seemingly curious. Upon hearing this, Yun Yun's pretty face flushed even more. She hesitated for a moment, as if searching for the right words to describe the illusion she had just experienced. Her heart was filled with mixed feelings, including surprise at her own disciple's unusual behavior and embarrassment at Xiao Yue's actions in the illusion.

"I saw Yanran in the illusion, and you too..." Yun Yun's pretty face flushed red, and she stammered a little.

She didn't know what was wrong with her.
In fact, she had noticed something unusual about her disciple's heart a long time ago, but she didn't think about it in that direction.

But now,

However, in her illusion, she saw her disciple committing a heinous act against her in the hot spring...

As for Xiao Yue, she was pulled back by the illusion to the time when she and Xiao Yue were healing in the cave after she was injured by the Amethyst Winged Lion King, except... there was a slight change...

"Tell me in detail what happened between you and me?" Xiao Yue asked, a playful smile flashing in her eyes.

Then she stepped forward, gently grasped Yun Yun's wrist, and pushed her against the rock wall. A slight smile appeared on her lips, as if she were admiring Yun Yun's shyness and panic at this moment.

"I…"

Yunyun blushed.

She paused slightly just as she was about to speak, then bit her tongue and suddenly came to her senses. Azure battle qi swirled in her hand, and she struck Xiao Yue's chest with a palm strike.

"Oh!"

Xiao Yue's body instantly disintegrated, turning into a shower of light before vanishing into nothingness!

"What's wrong with me?"

After shattering the illusion, Yun Yun's voice was weak and trembling, as if she were recounting a secret that was difficult to say. This illusion array was most likely to arouse some suspicions and thoughts hidden in people's hearts. As the saying goes, what you think about during the day, you dream about at night!
"That wretched illusion..."

Yun Yun gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and after regaining her senses, the blush on her face faded, and she looked at the illusion that had been created around her with a mixture of shame and anger in her pretty eyes.

She was overthinking things. How could her disciple possibly become like that? And how could anything happen between her and Xiao Yue? It was all the illusion at work!
"Why would I have such a strange dream... It's all because of this illusion array!" Yun Yun said, somewhat annoyed.

The words fell,

Her hands were already rapidly forming hand seals and incantations, and layers of cyan battle qi ripples formed in front of her, spreading out like water ripples.

"break!"

Yun Yun gave a soft shout,
The ripples of battle aura instantly contracted and then burst forth with dazzling light, like the blazing sun in the sky, dispelling the surrounding darkness. The illusions that had troubled her vanished without a trace at that moment.

Yun Yun took a deep breath, feeling the flow of battle qi within her body. Recalling the unbearable illusions she had just experienced, she couldn't help but feel ashamed and annoyed.

"Calm down, don't think about those things..."

Yun Yun forced herself to calm down again. This was all a deception created by the illusion array. She shouldn't be influenced by these false things! It was all just a mental illusion and delusion. She couldn't let these things affect reality.

"Yunzhi?"

Xiao Yue's voice came from behind.

Yun Yun was startled upon hearing this, and almost instinctively swung her palm at Xiao Yue behind her.

"boom!"

Seeing this, Xiao Yue raised her eyebrows slightly. She turned slightly to the side to dodge Yun Yun's attack, and at the same time reached out and firmly grabbed Yun Yun's wrist.

"what happened to you?"

Xiao Yue frowned slightly as she looked at her.

Yun Yun was slightly taken aback when Xiao Yue grabbed her wrist. She then looked at Xiao Yue's face carefully, and then at the puzzled little seven-colored snake on Xiao Yue's shoulder. Only then did she realize that Xiao Yue was no longer the illusion in her mind.

"I'm sorry, I was just too nervous..."

Yun Yun breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of apology on her face, her tone revealing a touch of helplessness and bitterness.

She knew her reaction had been too intense, but it was also because of the lingering fear she felt after escaping from that endless illusion. The psychological trauma caused by such interconnected illusions was terrifying.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yue raised her eyebrows slightly, then looked at her flushed face, a playful smile flashing in her eyes: "Why is your face so red?"

Her tone was teasing and playful, as if she were mocking this usually composed and reserved, but now unusually flustered, mature and beautiful woman.

"..."

Yun Yun was speechless upon hearing this.

How should she answer this question? Should she tell the truth that she dreamt of her own disciple in the illusion... that he committed all sorts of outrageous acts against her at the hot spring in the back mountain... and that she and Xiao Yue made up all sorts of absurd things in the cave out of thin air?

She felt that doing so was too absurd and too embarrassing, so she chose to change the subject to avoid Xiao Yue's difficult question.

"I was just trapped in an illusion array in the underground palace, but it's been resolved now. Let's go check out the second level!" Yun Yun quickly changed the subject, afraid that Xiao Yue would ask more questions, and then took the lead in walking forward.

Seeing that she seemed unwilling to recall it,

Xiao Yue and the seven-colored snake on her shoulder exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of curiosity in each other's eyes.

However, Xiao Yue did not press the matter further. She smiled slightly, knowing that everyone has their own secrets, and Yun Yun's personality has always been elegant. She would not have lost her composure like this unless she had been greatly stimulated.

The two people and the snake continued on their way and soon arrived at the second level of the underground palace.

The atmosphere here was noticeably more oppressive than on the first floor, with a faint smell of blood permeating the air.

"It seems like a lot of people have died here."

Yun Yun frowned; she had never been comfortable in such cold and damp places.

Xiao Yue nodded upon hearing this. She could sense the evil aura here, indicating that many secrets were hidden beneath this underground palace.

The two continued exploring forward.

suddenly,

A strange laugh rang out, echoing in the enclosed space, sending chills down one's spine.

"Who's there?" Yun Yun asked softly, while simultaneously channeling her battle qi and cautiously observing her surroundings.

"Hehehe... You've finally arrived." A cold female voice rang out, accompanied by gusts of eerie wind, and pale, ferocious faces appeared on the surrounding stone walls.

"Hiss! Waaaaah~"

The colorful little snake was startled and instantly wrapped its tiny body around Xiao Yue's arm, curling up into a ball. It cautiously poked its head out to observe its surroundings, seemingly quite frightened.

(End of this chapter)