After descending the mountain, my aloof fiancée became completely devoted to me.

Lin Ping said calmly, "Living under someone else's roof, committing evil in one place, crippling your cultivation is already merciful."

Mo Qi collapsed to the ground, filled with resentment, and roared, "Don't be so smug! My master has already laid a deadly trap. Shen Aoxue's soul is destined to be possessed! You can't protect her! Before long, the one by your side will be a complete and utter evil spirit!"

The moment those words were spoken, the courtyard fell into a deathly silence.

Zhu Xiaohan's expression changed slightly, and Alu's body stiffened, a deep unease welling up in her heart.

Lin Ping's eyes suddenly darkened.

He looked towards the dark valley a thousand miles away, his voice icy and chilling: "Hiding your head and showing your tail, all you do is play tricks on the soul."

"Since you want to play this game of possession, then I'll play along to the very end."

As soon as he finished speaking, he casually waved his hand, and a strong wind swept up, directly sending Mo Qi, whose cultivation had been destroyed, flying out of the manor and crashing into the night, his life or death left to fate.

After dealing with Mo Qi, Lin Ping turned around and quickly walked back to his bedroom.

As soon as he stepped into the room, the scene before him made his eyes suddenly freeze.

On the bed, Shen Aoxue, who had been sleeping soundly, slowly opened her eyes.

Those stunning eyes, half clear and gentle, half dark and cold, the two extreme gazes intertwined and overlapped, causing the soul to fluctuate in utter chaos.

She turned her head slightly to look at Lin Ping approaching, a faint yet strangely unfamiliar smile curving her lips.

A sweet female voice, tinged with a hint of androgynous coldness, softly rang out:

"Lin Ping... the original soul you've painstakingly protected is almost at its breaking point."

"Now it's my turn to spend time with you."

Inside the bedroom, a chill instantly permeated every inch of the air.

Zhu Xiaohan darted forward, immediately blocking three steps away from the bed, her jade hands clenched tightly, her spiritual energy taut, her pretty face full of vigilance. Alu clenched her palm into a mudra, her clear eyes fixed on Shen Aoxue on the bed, her eyes filled with panic, yet she still guarded her side tightly, not daring to relax for a moment.

Shen Aoxue on the bed slightly raised her head, her long hair scattered on the snow-white pillow. Her face was still stunningly beautiful, but her eyes were clearly divided, half gentle and half cold and sinister, making her extremely eerie.

Two completely different spiritual energies clashed wildly within her body, even causing the surrounding air to slightly distort.

"Are you about to collapse?"

Lin Ping walked calmly to the bedside without stopping, his expression showing no sign of panic, only a cold glint flashing deep in his eyes.

He casually raised his hand, a wisp of extremely faint pure white spiritual light swirling around his fingertips. Though seemingly weak, it contained the primal power to purify all evil in the world. To outsiders, this spiritual power appeared unremarkable, like the basic spiritual energy of an ordinary cultivator, showing no trace of the power of a top expert.

It was precisely this unassuming demeanor that made him appear as if he were at his last gasp, perfectly confirming the villain's suspicion that he had suffered excessive spiritual energy depletion.

Shen Aoxue's eerie smile deepened, and her voice, a mixture of cold femininity and sinister tones, rang out once more:

"You depleted your own essence to forcibly suppress a powerful enemy, thinking you could protect my soul? Little did you know, my master had been planning for years, using the entire earth veins of the Southern Frontier to lay a trap. From the moment you stepped into the Wutong Manor to protect me, you had already lost."

She slowly raised her fair wrist, a wisp of pitch-black evil energy swirling around her fingertips. As the evil energy swirled, the temperature in the bedroom plummeted again, and a thin layer of black frost quietly condensed on the walls.

"Mo Qi is nothing but a pawn, used to exhaust your mind and disrupt your rhythm. Now your spiritual power is less than three-tenths of what it used to be, and you are powerless to suppress the ancient evil within me."

The chilling tone, laced with mockery and control, fixed intently on Lin Ping: "Lin Ping, drop your resistance. Surrender obediently, and I might spare your life, allowing you to remain in this city and protect everything you have."

"Otherwise, after I completely devour Shen Aoxue's soul, the first people I'll kill are these two beautiful girls beside you."

As soon as she finished speaking, the darkness in her eyes intensified, her clear gaze was quickly suppressed, and her entire demeanor instantly became eerie and cold.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiaohan angrily shouted, "How dare you! Stop trying to bewitch the master!"

With a swift movement, her Foundation Establishment spiritual power erupted, and she raised her hand to unleash a cyan spiritual technique, attempting to temporarily suppress the restless evil power within Shen Aoxue's body.

But as soon as the magic technique approached the bed, it was violently shattered by a powerful and sinister force!

The remaining evil power launched a counterattack, heading straight for Zhu Xiaohan's heart with incredible speed!

"Watch out!" Aru exclaimed in alarm and immediately activated her protective magic shield.

Click!

The pale blue protective shield shattered instantly. Aru was forced back two steps by the residual force, her pretty face turned pale, and a faint trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

Zhu Xiaohan was also forced to stagger and her breathing became disordered.

The two of them joined forces to defend, but they couldn't stop the wisp of evil power overflowing from Shen Aoxue's body!

Shen Aoxue, lying on the bed, let out a cold, mocking laugh: "Two mere ants dare to attack me? If you weren't still useful, that attack would have been enough to annihilate your souls!"

The situation seemed to have completely collapsed, and a crisis loomed over the entire bedroom.

In a dark valley thousands of miles away, a figure hidden in the black mist seemed to be looking down on everything in the manor through layers of space, his heart filled with certainty.

In his view, Lin Ping's essence was severely damaged, his mind was exhausted, and he was at his limit, utterly powerless to turn the tide. Today, he could not only completely possess Shen Aoxue, but also cripple this returning top expert from the city, clearing away the biggest obstacle in Southern Xinjiang.

In the bedroom.

Seeing the two women suffer setbacks, the evil spirit within Shen Aoxue became even more arrogant.

Lin Ping, who stood in front of the bed, remained calm and showed no sign of panic throughout.

He lowered his eyes slightly, looking at Shen Aoxue, who was half-human and half-evil spirit, and spoke softly, his tone somewhat indifferent: "A worm hiding in someone else's soul dares to presume to talk about victory and defeat?"

"You said you drained my spiritual energy and disrupted my rhythm?"

Lin Ping slowly raised his other hand, a seemingly casual movement that instantly froze the sinister energy in the entire bedroom.

"Do you really think that when I suppressed the evil power and repelled Mo Qi, I used my primordial spiritual power?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Aoxue on the bed suddenly froze.

For the first time, a hint of surprise and uncertainty flashed in those eerie eyes.

In the dark valley a thousand miles away, the aura of the black mist figure suddenly stopped.

impossible!

According to the calculations of the person behind the scenes, in order to protect Shen Aoxue's true soul, Lin Ping must have continuously consumed his original spiritual power. In addition, he had to withstand Mo Qi's evil earth vein technique. At this moment, he must be exhausted in body and mind, and his spiritual power is depleted!

This is an absolute strategy derived from the geomantic veins of southern Xinjiang; it is absolutely impossible for it to go wrong!

The evil spirit within Shen Aoxue coldly demanded, "What do you mean? Don't try to be mysterious! Your depleted essence is already a done deal; you can't fool me!"

"Are you kidding me?"