Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 436 - Two Hundred Ninety-Four: Granting You Eternal Life

Chapter 436: Chapter Two Hundred Ninety-Four: Granting You Eternal Life

The sudden arrival of a woman’s voice sent a chill through the atmosphere.

Li Qingyan stood with her blade held across in front of her body, and together with Bai Muxi, they shielded Xu Yuan in the middle, their gazes sweeping around as if trying to locate the source of the voice within the blood fog.

But that cold and elegant voice was like mist, elusive and vast, its direction indiscernible.

Li Qingyan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as she glanced at Xu Yuan and telepathically communicated:

"This ghost... is it a woman?"

"A woman?"

Xu Yuan thought back briefly, the image of the boss in a 2.5D display surfacing in his mind, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He smacked his lips, pulling a strange smile:

"Maybe so, I haven’t seen her."

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan’s gaze also began to sweep around, pondering the words he would say next.

And in that silent stillness,

the woman’s voice came again, but beneath its elegance was now a hint of brutality:

"Humans, answer my question!"

"No, should I answer just because you asked?"

"....."

The chasm fell quiet for a moment,

and the blood fog surged like boiling water.

The woman’s voice carried a hint of murderous intent:

"Human, I know your identity is indeed not simple, but it seems you don’t understand your own situation?"

Xu Yuan, hiding between Li Qingyan and Bai Muxi, surveyed his surroundings before speaking out loud:

"Since you’re willing to speak, it means you want to negotiate with us. Isn’t showing yourself the most basic courtesy in a negotiation?"

The cold and elegant voice suddenly let out a few light laughs:

"Human, do you think that without this Blood Divine Stone, I cannot break free from the prohibition? Without this Blood Divine Stone, at most, it would take me a few more years..."

"Do you think you’re ugly and dare not show yourself?"

Xu Yuan abruptly interrupted the voice of the blood fog, stepping slowly next to Li Qingyan. Under her puzzled gaze, he gently traced her fierce and beautiful cheek and her slender yet seductive body with the back of his finger, looking into the blood fog: "After all, as a woman, turning into such a monster, it’s normal to feel inferior in front of my princess and Xiao Bai. But I’m not prejudiced against that......"

Before he could finish,

"Whoosh!"

A flesh tendril shot out abruptly from the blood fog, slicing through the void, speeding towards Xu Yuan’s head.

It moved rapidly, so fast that even Bai Muxi, who had lost the Blood Divine Stone Jade Pendant, couldn’t see its speed clearly.

Li Qingyan’s red pupils flickered with divine light, her hand holding the Scarlet Blade swiftly flicked upwards, her red robes billowing.

"Clang!!!"

A ringing sound reverberated throughout the cave as the tendril was deflected by the blade.

It missed Xu Yuan’s head by a fraction, but the wind it brought up still left a shallow cut on his cheek.

And everything returned to calm, only then did Xu Yuan catch sight of the flesh tendril, about ten centimeters in diameter, next to his face.

The tendril was covered in vicious spikes, which, after a moment’s pause, rapidly retracted along its original path, disappearing back into the blood fog. Following this, the cold and elegant voice spoke again:

"Human, my patience is limited. You’d best not speak nonsense again. The powerful one you’re relying on can’t completely protect you."

Li Qingyan’s expression was extremely grave as she telepathically communicated:

"This ghost is very strong. If we fight, I’m completely no match for it. Why don’t you give me the Demon Crystal?"

"No need."

Xu Yuan didn’t communicate telepathically but spoke directly: "Among those who have achieved Mortal Transcendence, there are disparities. That ink snake from before can’t even compare to this woman."

Could Xu Changge and Qin Weijiu, who are from Primordial, be compared?

They couldn’t be compared at all.

Xu Yuan even felt that if his older brother were here, he could probably take down this Mortal Transcendence ghost boss with a single strike of the Sword of Cause and Effect.

The first day he missed Xu Changge.

After all, even with the enhancement of the "purple gear" Black Death Bacterial Armor, Li Qingyan couldn’t defeat that previously injured ink snake, let alone the ghost boss of this silent Underground Palace.

Pausing for a moment,

Xu Yuan looked out into the blood fog, narrowing his eyes slightly, and spoke in a low voice with a smile:

"However, I guess it won’t take action again since those tendrils just now could have divided."

A minor skill of the boss of the Underground Palace.

A tendril would shoot out, and after a one-second delay, the tendril would erupt like a branching tree into thousands of offshoots.

In the past, Xu Yuan would have used the Step Void Slash to dodge this move, but now it seemed unavoidable, too fast for his current level of cultivation to react to.

Thinking this, Xu Yuan chuckled and said:

"If I’m not mistaken, your flesh has already enveloped this cavern, hasn’t it?"

The cold and elegant voice didn’t respond immediately, but Li Qingyan’s eyes sharpened.

She had a clear memory of how big the spherical cavern created by the Source Crystal Bomb was. Could the ghost’s form really be that massive?

Subconsciously, she turned back to look at Xu Yuan,

only to see him still smiling lightly, his heartbeat steady as ever.

The information she knew and her own judgement made Li Qingyan subconsciously grip the handle of her blade a little tighter.

But the next moment,

she exhaled slowly, emptying her mind, deciding not to think any further.

Facing the threat of death, giving up thought and following commands didn’t seem too bad...

"Human."

As Li Qingyan’s thoughts wandered, the voice from within the blood fog spoke once more, "It seems you truly understand me very well."

"No, no, no, the one who understands you even better, this young master hasn’t even started talking yet,"

Xu Yuan waved his hand and smiled, looking around, "Although you’ve wrapped this place with your flesh, your true body isn’t here.

"Am I right...

"Luo Xiran?"

The cold and elegant voice took on a chill:

"Human, who exactly are you?"