Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

"court death!"

Blood rushed to my head.

The butcher roared.

The ninth-level body cultivator's qi erupted suddenly, and the dark red blood energy blew up the surrounding scorched earth.

Without any hesitation, he turned around, clenched his fist, and punched Xia Tong in the face.

This punch was delivered without reservation, its speed so fast it broke the sound barrier.

Where the fist passed, the air was compressed to an extreme degree, producing a thunderous roar.

At the same time, Lin Bai also moved.

He didn't want Xia Tong to die, he wanted the truth.

The dark figure merged into the shadows and instantly appeared behind Xia Tong.

The shadow cloak stretched out into a huge curtain, attempting to completely lock down the surrounding space.

The ten-meter-tall, agile figure leaped into the air, its giant palm striking the butcher's fist, attempting to block the fatal blow.

We were a step too late.

The butcher's fist touched Xia Tong's forehead first.

However, at the moment of contact, Xia Tong's body underwent a bizarre disintegration.

Her skin, clothes, and even hair instantly transformed into countless crimson petals.

The powerful punch of the ninth-level body cultivator lost its point of impact and crashed into the void.

The violent energy surged forward, piercing through a small hill behind it.

The fault collapsed, and jagged rocks pierced the sky.

The shadowy tentacles of the dark, mysterious body pierced the center of the petals, shredding only the air.

Lin Bai frowned deeply.

There was no feedback from the energy detection, and mental perception was completely ineffective.

The petals in front of me have no substantial physical structure and are not affected by high temperature environments.

The red flowers, though torn apart by the strong wind, did not shatter; instead, they swirled and rose with the airflow.

A petal brushed past Lin Bai's profile as it broke free from the encirclement.

Xia Tong's voice rang directly in Lin Bai's ear, carrying a final hint of amusement.

"Lin Bai, I look forward to seeing you again next time."

The petals drifted down to the ground, losing their color and vanishing into nothingness the instant they touched the earth.

In less than two seconds, no trace of Xia Tong could be found in the entire space.

The volcanic ruins have fallen silent once again.

Only the sound of the butcher's punch causing the collapse still echoed.

The butcher remained in a punching stance, his right arm bulging with veins from the excessive force.

He slowly straightened up, withdrew his fist, and his face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

He turned around, staring intently at Lin Bai, his ninth-level aura overflowing uncontrollably.

"Who exactly is she?!"

The mighty God of Slaughter of the Xuanming Realm was used as a shield to conceal his identity and was even called a piece of trash. This evil anger almost made him lose his mind.

Lin Bai sheathed the dark short sword in his hand and calmly met the butcher's angry gaze.

"I'd like to ask you the same question," Lin Bai said in a flat tone.

The butcher gritted his teeth, making a grinding sound.

He glanced at the two hidden figures, one in the light and one in the shadows, beside Lin Bai, and ultimately suppressed the rage he was trying to unleash.

There's no benefit in a head-on confrontation.

"Good, very good." The butcher snorted and kicked the half of the stone pillar in front of him, shattering it.

Ning Wei carefully led Hong Nan over.

She glanced at the butcher's gloomy back and lowered her voice to say to Lin Bai:

"I don't know what grudge you have against that maid."

"But the magic array is collapsing at an accelerating rate, and before long, the accumulated power will erupt all at once."

"We can't stay here any longer."

Lin Bai nodded.

He raised his hand, and both his Power Body and Dark Body transformed into points of light, converging back into his body.

"Walk."

......

A month later.

The Tongtian Peak Secret Realm, Central Region.

A beautiful mountain peak stood before the three of them.

The mountain peaks are surrounded by clouds and mist, with green pines and cypresses nestled among the cliffs, and pavilions with painted red walls built in the crevices of the rocks.

Lin Bai stood at the foot of the mountain, looked at the scene before him, and turned to look at the burly man beside him.

"Old Butcher," Lin Bai said, "Are you sure this is a dwelling left behind by an alchemist?"

The butcher, who had been staring at the mountaintop, twitched involuntarily at Lin Bai's words.

"That's true." The butcher forced a stiff smile.

"I also came in when the Tongtian Peak Ruins first opened."

"There was someone in the team who knew a lot about the ins and outs."

He glanced at the place and was quite certain that it was the site left by an ancient alchemist.

Lin Bai didn't respond, waiting for what would follow.

The butcher felt extremely uncomfortable under their gaze and could only continue explaining:

"Back then, our team was all focused on physical training and internal energy cultivation. The energy circuits and node formulas that alchemists worked on were on a completely different path from what we, the physical cultivators, were doing."

"Trying to break into such a top-tier historical site would be extremely risky and could easily lead to our deaths, so after discussing it, we decided to go somewhere else."

Lin Bai looked away.

Over the course of a month, the group explored many places together.

I have gained some understanding of this Tongtian Peak Secret Realm.

This place felt more like a miniature world to Lin Bai.

More accurately, it is a cave dwelling built by a group of top experts with completely different cultivation systems living together.

At the very least, every site that Lin Bai and his team discovered had a clear purpose.

That volcano was specifically used to cultivate Fire Element Fruit.

They later discovered several other sites, including a medicinal herb garden, a weapon-refining workshop, and an alchemy workshop.

However, it's unclear whether the original owner took everything with them or someone else got there first.

There haven't been any significant gains.

Hong Nan and the few surviving students had been sent out of the secret realm by him half a month ago.

These people are too weak; leading them would slow things down too much.

If Lin Bai didn't need the knowledge in Ning Wei's mind, he would have even wanted to give Ning Wei away.

The level of this place... is really beyond their reach.

As for why the butcher obediently followed...

That's because they had clashed the day after the volcanic remnant collapsed.

The butcher was seething with anger and took advantage of Lin Bai's rest to make his move.

As a result, the ten-meter-tall power-generating body burst forth directly from the ground.

He grabbed the butcher's legs with one hand and slammed him against the rock face five times.

The butcher's protective armor shattered completely, two of his ribs broke on the spot, and he coughed up blood.

The moment the dark dagger was pressed against the butcher's neck, the butcher finally understood reality.

He completed the identity transformation from "Ninth-Order Killing God" to "Old Butcher".

Ning Wei ignored their conversation.

She squatted on the ground, her eyes fixed on the open space in front of her.

He dug a fist-sized gray stone out of the soil, weighed it in his hand, and tossed it ten meters to the left into the bushes.

The gray stone traced an arc.

The instant of contact with the space above the grass.

The stone vanished into thin air.

Not a speck of dust fell on the ground.

Ning Wei's eyes narrowed, and she broke off another dry branch, throwing it onto a bluestone slab on her right.

The tree branches also vanished into nothingness in mid-air.

"It's truly an alchemical array!"

Ning Wei stood up, brushed the dirt off her hands, and spoke with delight.

"It's not just one, it's a superposition of multiple arrays. The entire mountain, except for the staircase directly in front, is covered by this spatial strangulation array."

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