At the same time, I traveled through time and space, I dominated the heavens and the worlds

Hearing Lin Bei say this, Li Ruonan was stunned for a moment.

She quickly composed herself, put the small camera aside, and knelt down in front of Lin Bei without hesitation, kowtowing heavily with a pleading expression on her face.

"Sir, I don't know why you say that. Tongtong is a piece of my flesh and blood. How could I possibly trade her life for mine? I'd rather trade my own life for hers!"
I don't know why Tongtong has become like this. Didn't you say she'd be fine after seven days? But why is her condition so serious? I don't think she'll even make it to the seventh day. Please, have mercy and save my daughter!

Lin Bei sat in the armchair, propping his face up with one hand, watching Li Ruonan choke back tears and kowtow.

He wasn't as easily swayed as the Old Master and his wife.

He looked at Li Ruonan's miserable state and found it all laughable.

Lin Bei chuckled, his gaze toward Li Ruonan growing increasingly cold.

"It's just you, me, and your half-dead daughter here. Who are you trying to fool? You don't think that by recording a video and editing it later, you can spread the curse of the Great Black Buddha Mother more widely and lighten the curse on you, do you?"

At this point, Lin Bei slightly raised his hand and activated the power of the Shadow Monarch.

A stream of black liquid flew from Lin Bei's fingertip and wrapped around the small camera that Li Ruonan had deliberately pointed at him at a speed that was too fast for the naked eye to detect.

Li Ruonan didn't know what Lin Bei had done, but she saw her small camera being enveloped by a ball of black liquid, then swallowed up and disappeared.

Li Ruonan froze for a moment, then screamed and lunged at the black liquid. She tried to pry it up with her hands, hoping to salvage the small camera.

The black liquid immediately seeped underground, flew rapidly towards Lin Bei, and disappeared into his shadow.

Li Ruonan stared blankly at the spot where the small camera had been. She forgot to continue pretending to be pitiful and crying, and instead turned her head to look at Lin Bei with resentful eyes.

"What have you done? What have you just done?! Where is my camera? Why did you destroy my camera?! I just wanted to record my daughter's illness, why did you do this?!"

Li Ruonan's voice was shrill with excitement, almost to the point of being shrill.

Lin Bei glanced calmly at the somewhat deranged Li Ruonan, knowing full well that he had ruined her plans.

But Lin Bei remained calm and simply smiled faintly.

"So, as I just said, I know what you're planning, and I know what you want to do. Don't try to fool me with your clumsy acting. I see right through you."
Sacrificing your daughter's life must be unbearable, but you can't survive without it. What are you going to do? The Great Black Mother can't wait any longer. Either you die, or your daughter dies. Haven't you noticed? She's been following you."

Lin Bei's words echoed in the lobby late at night.

As he spoke, a chilling wind began to blow through the lobby.

Even with the lights and the surrounding statues of deities, the chill still seeped into Li Ruonan's heart.

Her face was pale, and she stared at Lin Bei stiffly.

Of course she was afraid.

He had been afraid for six years, which is why he wanted to use his daughter to pay for his own life at the hands of the Great Black Buddha Mother.

Besides, this daughter was chosen by the Great Black Buddha Mother even before she was born; this was her destiny.

What she's doing now is simply a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, it fulfills the promise made by the Great Black Mother six years ago, and on the other hand, it saves its own life. Isn't that a good thing?
Not to mention, six years ago, it was the fairy boy who gave her some strange things to drink that saved this daughter.

Chen Letong's fate originally belonged to the Great Black Buddha Mother. She only played a role in pushing things along. What did she do wrong?

Li Ruonan stared intently at Lin Bei, her whole body trembling with anger. She was both shocked and afraid. Of course, she knew that ever since she escaped from Chenjiazhuang six years ago, the Great Black Buddha Mother had been following her.

After six years, the Great Black Mother's patience was almost exhausted, and she would always make some noise to warn her.

Not to mention the strange things that happened frequently in her home after she brought Chen Letong back.

If they don't sacrifice their daughter to the Great Black Buddha Mother, not only will Chen Letong die, but she will too.

But Li Ruonan was conflicted.

After all, it was her own flesh and blood, and she was still somewhat reluctant to part with it.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have brought her daughter to the Taoist priest for help.

Li Ruonan felt conflicted. She bit her lower lip and looked at Lin Bei again. For some reason, as long as this young man was present, the feeling of being entangled by the Great Black Buddha Mother would lessen a lot.

Last time was like that, and this time is too.

Li Ruonan had a vague feeling that this young man could definitely save her and her daughter.

Thinking of this, Li Ruonan suppressed her resentment and bitterness, hurriedly crawled to Lin Bei, raised her head and clasped her hands together, pleading desperately.

"No matter what I thought before, at least now, I don't want my daughter to die, so please save her. Look at her, she's really about to die."

Lin Bei felt that Li Ruonan's shamelessness and feigned pitifulness had reached a new level.

Why is Chen Letong dying?

It was all Li Ruonan's fault. She had clearly told them not to feed her, but Li Ruonan insisted on doing it anyway.

If you don't believe that a Taoist master can help, then don't ask for help in the first place.

A cold glint appeared in Lin Bei's eyes. He had no interest in saving Chen Letong or Li Ruonan. He simply chuckled and said indifferently.

"Save me? I can't save you. If you hadn't repeatedly courted death, things wouldn't have come to this."

Since you worship the Great Black Buddha Mother, don't expect the gods to be willing to save you. Besides, the righteous gods have never given up on saving you before; it is you who have repeatedly given up the opportunity to be saved.

"If you don't believe me, ask the righteous gods here. Do you really think they'll still save you?"

After saying that, Lin Bei casually pointed to the wall behind him covered with statues of righteous gods.

Just as Li Ruonan looked up at the statues of the gods, all the statues turned their backs and refused to look at her.

The sculpture moved, which startled Li Ruonan so much that she screamed.

Lin Bei found her noisy and said helplessly, "Why are you making such a fuss? Didn't you see this scene before when you were in Chenjiazhuang? If I remember correctly, all the symbolic sculptures of the Great Black Buddha Mother turned around to look at you. And you knelt down and worshipped them very devoutly."

Hearing Lin Bei say this, Li Ruonan finally realized that something was wrong.

Why does this man know so much about her?
Who is this man?
How much more does he know? Why does he speak as if he witnessed it himself?
Li Ruonan was puzzled. She had indeed planned to edit the video she had filmed and send it out, but now her small camera had been destroyed by this young man named Lin Bei. How did he know about these things?
Before Li Ruonan could continue thinking, all the bright lights around her suddenly went out.

The lobby was shrouded in darkness.

Li Ruonan panicked and quickly got up to go to the wheelchair. She gripped the wheelchair handle tightly and looked around warily.

She had encountered this situation before. It was because the Great Black Buddha Mother's patience was running out, so she made some noise to warn her to hurry up.

But now, things seem a little different.

Li Ruonan vaguely sensed that the Great Black Buddha Mother's manifestation this time might be related to Lin Bei.

Perhaps the Great Black Buddha Mother is already impatient to take Chen Letong's life and then leave this place to return to Chen Family Village.

Li Ruonan was puzzled. Could it be that the Great Black Buddha Mother was afraid?
Afraid of a human?
How can this be?

While keeping a watchful eye on her surroundings, Li Ruonan dismissed her ridiculous idea. She bit her lower lip, feeling the temperature around her getting lower and lower, and even sensing something approaching her. She then considered pushing her wheelchair away from there.

But after pushing it only a couple of steps, the wheelchair got stuck.

Li Ruonan was taken aback and quickly bent down to look at the front wheelchair.

As she bent down, she met a pair of scarlet eyes at the bottom of the wheelchair.

Li Ruonan felt a sudden numbness in her head, screamed, and fell backward, landing hard on her bottom.

A wave of immense panic washed over her, and she felt as if she had returned to that night six years ago, to Chenjiazhuang, a place she could never escape.

"It's going to kill me!"

When this thought crossed Li Ruonan's mind, all her rationality was consumed by fear. She could no longer maintain her remaining dignity, so she threw off her wheelchair and scrambled out of the lobby in a panic.

She wanted to leave this place, to escape it. She absolutely did not want to be entangled with the Great Black Buddha Mother. She wanted to live a normal life!
Li Ruonan was so scared that she didn't even want Chen Letong anymore. She couldn't care less about her daughter. In the face of instinct, nothing was more important than her own life.

After all, Li Ruonan is such a selfish woman.

She screamed and scrambled to her feet, running toward the main entrance. A strong wind was blowing in the hall, and the only sounds in the darkness were the rustling of curtains and banners.

The voice was like a death knell for Li Ruonan, constantly reminding her that she had been abandoned by the true god.

Li Ruonan stepped out the door and looked at the vast night. She subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and ran into the darkness. But she had only run a few steps when a familiar scene appeared before her.

She's back again.

Back in the lobby.

Li Ruonan's eyes had adjusted to the darkness. She stood frozen in place, trembling, her gaze slowly sweeping across every corner of the lobby.

The statue of the righteous god with his back turned on the wall, the wheelchair in the hall, the unconscious Chen Letong in the wheelchair, and the grand master's chair placed in the center of the hall, and the young man sitting in the grand master's chair.

When Li Ruonan met Lin Bei's eyes in the darkness, she gasped for breath upon seeing his cold gaze, then screamed, covered her face, and cried out.

"Please let me go, please let me go! I'll give you anything you want, just let me go!"

Just as she finished speaking, something vaguely approached Li Ruonan in the darkness.

No, to be precise, that thing was near Chen Letong in her wheelchair.

From the moment the lights went out, Lin Bei sat motionless in the armchair, watching Li Ruonan run out and then run back, before finally breaking down.

Just as something indistinct in the darkness tried to approach Chen Letong, Lin Bei slammed his teacup back onto the small table beside him.

A dull thud silenced the raging wind that had swept through the entire lobby.

Lin Bei glanced coldly at the thing hovering beside the wheelchair: "My life is tied to hers. Are you sure you have the ability to eat her?"

With just this one sentence, the blurry substance that was about to completely envelop Chen Letong suddenly stopped.

The next second, the thing disappeared from Chen Letong's side and teleported to Li Ruonan's side.

This time, Lin Bei didn't speak, but just looked calmly at Li Ruonan standing in front of him.

Li Ruonan had been haunted by the Great Black Buddha Mother for six years, and was already extremely familiar with the feeling of the Great Black Buddha Mother manifesting.

Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Great Black Buddha Mother wouldn't take her life if she took Chen Letong away, she didn't expect that because of Lin Bei's words, the Great Black Buddha Mother would immediately change her target and attack her.

Li Ruonan's eyes widened in terror. She let out a piercing scream and then lunged towards Lin Bei, pleading, "Please, save me! Save me! I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Master, please save me! I know you have a way to deal with it. Please, I'll give you anything you want!"

Lin Bei waved his hand and used "Severing the Void" to create an invisible wall between Li Ruonan and himself.

He watched as Li Ruonan slammed against the transparent wall, repeatedly pounding on it, her face contorted in pain as she cried for help. Lin Bei sneered and uttered a single sentence indifferently.

"What I want, you can't give me."

Li Ruonan's cries for help abruptly stopped, her expression froze, and then despair appeared on her face as she began to curse Lin Bei.

Li Ruonan cursed him for being cold-blooded and inhumane, saying that he had a way to save her but instead watched her die.

The more offensive Li Ruonan's insults were, the happier Lin Bei became. He beckoned towards the wheelchair, and a stream of black liquid gushed out, stealthily moving to the wheelchair and bringing it to Lin Bei's side.

Lin Bei raised his hand and gently stroked Chen Letong's head. The deathly aura that lingered on Chen Letong's face turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated into the air.

Chen Letong's complexion improved instantly, and even the rotten parts on her body disappeared instantly. Her cheeks were flushed, and she looked completely healed.

After doing all this, Lin Bei glanced at Li Ruonan indifferently.

"See? If I want to save someone, there's no one I can't save. But you, I simply don't want to save. So take your resentment and let the Great Black Buddha Mother take you away."

On the other side of "Broken Void," Li Ruonan's cursing stopped the moment Lin Bei rescued Chen Letong.

She looked at Chen Letong, who had recovered, with a dazed expression, and seemed to finally remember that she was a mother.

Her face was ashen, her gaze fixed on Chen Letong, before she finally closed her eyes.

The moment she closed her eyes, the blurry mass that had been waiting for her suddenly lunged forward and enveloped Li Ruonan.

The next second, Li Ruonan disappeared from the spot, the lights came back on, and everything in the lobby was as usual.

If Chen Letong, in her wheelchair, hadn't been here, perhaps everything that had just happened could have been explained as a hallucination.

Lin Bei stood up, stretched his arms, and pushed Chen Letong toward the room of the Old Celestial Master and his wife.

After knocking on the couple's door, Lin Bei handed the sleeping Chen Letong to them and said calmly.

"I need to go out for a bit; I'll be right back once this is resolved." (End of Chapter)