Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 443 - 296: I, Xu Changtian, the Spectre!_2

Chapter 443: Chapter 296: I, Xu Changtian, the Spectre!_2

Xu Yuan’s eyes flashed with amusement, and the Qingyu in his hand, still sheathed, tipped slightly upward.

"Dang——"

A crisp sound,

The momentum of the knife was halted, the blade, trailing sparks, trembled slightly due to the struggle, but Xu Yuan’s sword scabbard did not retreat even a fraction of an inch.

Xu Yuan put a bit more strength into his hand to flick the blade away, slowly turned around, and curiously asked,

"What are you doing?"

Li Qingyan sheathed her knife, glanced at him, and said in a low voice,

"I was just wondering."

"Wondering what?" Xu Yuan asked.

Li Qingyan looked at the countless sword marks on the walls of the melt cavern:

"Why you chose to make yourself swallow that Demon Crystal and become a ’different ghost’, instead of me. Now it seems you felt that your combat power would be stronger if you did."

Xu Yuan suddenly fell silent, his eyes lowered, a suitably complex expression appearing on his face:

"No, I didn’t want you to take the risk, the uncontrollability of ghostification is too high."

"......"

Li Qingyan’s eyes paused for a moment, she pursed her lips, and the corners of her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she didn’t say it.

Xu Yuan saw the expression on her face and just felt a trace of satisfaction rise in his heart.

Then a hint of amusement appeared in those phoenix eyes of Li Qingyan, her slender index finger tilted down his chin, and she tilted her head and laughed,

"Changtian, I would believe that if you said it. Do you believe it yourself?"

"....." Xu Yuan.

Caught. She’d seen right through him.

In a life-and-death moment, couldn’t this woman be moved, even a little?

Just as he was thinking,

"Thank you."

A rustling sound suddenly came.

Xu Yuan was startled, and instinctively looked up.

The air current stirred, bringing a burst of cool breeze.

A sudden gust of this cold wind blew the red-robed woman’s hair into a fluttering dance in the air.

Seemingly dazzled by her own long hair, she turned her head slightly, reached out to tuck a few strands that had scattered in front of her eyes behind her ear, and then slowly looked at him with a gentle smile on her lips.

A smile that could captivate a city, perhaps it was just like this.

She looked at him, those beautiful phoenix eyes filled with a gentle, watery tenderness:

"Regardless, Changtian, you took a risk with your life, so, thank you."

"......"

Hissss....

Xu Yuan found his heartbeat sped up for a moment—ghostification really had significant side effects.

Mentally repeating ’Big Ice Lump’ to himself a couple of times, Xu Yuan lightly chuckled and waved his hand:

"Don’t worry, everything is within your commander’s control."

Having survived a great disaster and escaped death, Li Qingyan seemed to be in a good mood too, throwing him a glance:

"This time you’ve finally been reliable for once, don’t get careless."

Xu Yuan raised a finger and waved it in front of her, teasingly cautioned,

"Qingyan, I’m much stronger than you now, mind your words."

Li Qingyan stood tall and graceful, her hand on the handle of her knife, raising an eyebrow and smiling playfully,

"If I don’t mind my words, does the commander intend to enforce a Formation right here?"

"......"

Xu Yuan licked his lips, grabbed Li Qingyan’s shoulder, and turned her around.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound, beneath the cover of red clothes, the peach-shaped behind gave rise to a delightful wave.

Under Li Qingyan’s astonished gaze, Xu Yuan withdrew his hand, nonchalantly saying,

"The discipline is done, we can talk about serious matters now."

Bai Muxi glanced at Li Qingyan’s expression—wanting to be angry but unable to—and struggled to hold back her laughter as she said,

"Young Master, so what should we do next?"

Xu Yuan turned his gaze back to her, pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice,

"With my current strength, I’m still not enough to confront that Luo Xiran."

"What?"

Bai Muxi’s beautiful eyes revealed surprise upon hearing this, and she glanced instinctively at the sword marks around her and the sticky flesh and blood on the ground: "But Young Master, you just...."

"That wasn’t Luo Xiran’s true body."

Xu Yuan raised his hand to rub her head, his voice carrying a trace of gravity, "The reason she left is simply because she doesn’t want to waste the Life Origin in the Blood Nest with me."

"So, if this so-called Life Origin is inexhaustible, we can’t kill her?" Li Qingyan had already adjusted herself by now, her voice cold, "But Changtian, your current condition should be similar to hers, right?"

"Of course."

Xu Yuan smiled, a light flashing at his fingertips as he drew across his palm. A shallow cut appeared immediately, and before the blood could even begin to flow, the wound had already healed as if it was never there, "I can feel that my body is now identical to a ghost’s, and since it shares the same origin with her, it means that it’s highly likely that neither of us will win if we fight."

Li Qingyan pondered for a moment before suggesting, "Then, is it possible for you to keep fighting her until the so-called Life Origin is exhausted?"

Xu Yuan smiled and shook his head, "Accumulated over ten thousand years, how easy would it be to exhaust it completely?"

Li Qingyan was somewhat surprised by this response, "You can sense it?"

"Of course," Xu Yuan said as if it were a matter of course.

Although he might not yet compare with Luo Xiran, the ten-thousand-year-old ghost, his perception could now cover a great distance, even clearly sensing the movements of the Black Death Mycelial Mat dozens of miles away.

Upon hearing this, a spark of clarity flashed in Li Qingyan’s phoenix-like eyes, "Does that mean you can directly find the Blood Nest where that woman’s body is located through this sense?"

"I can’t sense the main body, but the Blood Nest..."

While Xu Yuan murmured and closed his eyes to carefully sense for a dozen breaths, he opened them again with a grin, "I can barely confirm the Blood Nest’s direction... wait."

As he finished speaking, Xu Yuan instinctively looked in the direction of the depths of the Blood Nest, clenching his fists tightly.

The Black Death Mycelial Mat is a medium for ghosts to transmit Life Origin and also a way for them to sense invaders.

While he was using the dead Mycelial Mat in the Underground Palace to sense the location of the Blood Nest, suddenly, a large area of the Mat cleared out.

The empty area continued to expand rapidly, and in virtually an instant, an area of several hundred miles disappeared from his sense, becoming a void.

And along the corridors he could still sense,

a breath-taking hairless giant tiger was dashing toward that blackened area.

That was one of the Mortal Transcendence BOSSes in the Underground Palace...

Seeing this, Xu Yuan immediately understood what Luo Xiran was trying to do, and his heart sank.

Seeing Xu Yuan’s expression, Li Qingyan’s heart tightened, and she quickly asked, "Changtian, what’s going on?"

Xu Yuan took a deep breath, looked away, and composed himself with a touch of helplessness, "That Luo Xiran has established an isolation zone around the Blood Nest."

"Isolation zone?" Li Qingyan was slightly puzzled.

Xu Yuan pointed to his crimson eyes without whites, "As a ghost, I need to use the Black Death Mycelial Mat to find the Blood Nest in this Underground Palace, and Luo Xiran has cut off the Mat near the Blood Nest."

Li Qingyan’s reaction was still quick, getting straight to the point, "She did that... is she trying to buy time?"

Xu Yuan grinned, still nonchalant, "That’s the most probable reason."

None of these BOSSes are easy to deal with.

You, Xu Changtian, need the Demon Crystal of other higher-level ghosts to "sustain your life"?

Then I, Luo Xiran, will summon all these high-level ghosts with Demon Crystals back to the Blood Nest and disrupt the Mycelial Mat around it to stall for time.

Stalling until your humanity’s intellect is gradually eroded by the ghost’s instinct.

As for delving into the Blood Nest?

Finding the Blood Nest takes time, and even if we locate it, the three of us will face two Mortal Transcendence ghosts, the intelligent Luo Xiran, and an unknown number of Primordial ghosts...

Among these Primordial ghosts, although there are weak small fries like the cat demon encountered earlier, there are also powerful elite Primordials.

With such a drastic difference in combat strength, even in "Cangyuan Chronicles," a top player like Xu Yuan would probably only manage to join the Wind Spirit Moonshadow Sect.

After exchanging a glance,

both Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan seemed to reach the same conclusion, their expressions growing somber.

However, soon,

Xu Yuan patted the Wrapped Chest Princess’s slender waist and said with a smile, "No need to rush."

"I’m not in a hurry," Li Qingyan glared at Xu Yuan, taking in the devilish patterns on his face, "What about you?"

Xu Yuan rubbed his forehead, then suddenly turned to look at the four boxes of Source Crystal Bombs on the ground, a hint of murderous intent appearing in his crimson eyes as he licked his lips.

After noticing Xu Yuan’s gaze, Li Qingyan’s pupils contracted, "Changtian, you’re not thinking of going in yourself..."

Xu Yuan casually shrugged his shoulders, looking at his hands covered in patterns, and grinned, "Now that I’ve become a ghost, naturally I have to experience its undead nature, don’t I?"