Thirty li away, his figure finally stopped.
A stone sword appeared in Lu Ye’s hand.
“Husband!”
The one approaching was Bai Qiulan.
She looked at Lu Ye, her eyes already brimming with misty tears, full of affection and remorse, tinged with grievance.
Lu Ye examined her closely, a strange glint flickering in his gaze.
By the looks of it, Bai Qiulan’s rear didn’t seem to have any noticeable issues, and her strength wasn’t particularly formidable either.
“Call me by my name.”
Lu Ye corrected her address.
“Husband...”
A flash of sword light burst out in an instant.
Bai Qiulan’s expression changed drastically. Layers of Taiyin shields appeared in front of her, but they shattered one after another beneath the sword light.
They weren’t even on the same level.
“Pfft!”
Half of Bai Qiulan’s body exploded.
Lu Ye’s brow furrowed ever so slightly—Bai Qiulan was still this weak.
If he hadn’t held back, that sword would have been enough to kill her on the spot.
“Lu Ye...”
Only then did Lu Ye nod in satisfaction. Just hearing the words “husband” gave him a headache.
“What do you want from me?” Lu Ye asked.
“I beg you to save Hongling. Hongling knows she was wrong. She’s gone mad now. As long as you save her, I swear she’ll never appear before you again or disturb your life. She’s in a deranged state right now, shouting every day that she wants to come find you. Please, I beg you, save her!”
Bai Qiulan’s voice was mournful.
“I’ve already said, there’s nothing between us anymore. Even if she’s gone mad, it wasn’t because of me. I have no obligation to save her.”
“In the past life, you all taught me one thing—that I should mind my own business. And now I’ve learned that lesson well.” Lu Ye spoke earnestly.
“But Yue Hongling lived an entire lifetime with you... She once truly loved you... Even if there’s just the tiniest sliver of feeling left—”
As she spoke, Bai Qiulan suddenly paused.
Unconsciously, she had begun blaming Lu Ye again.
“I’m sorry. I should be pleading with you as her master, begging you to save my disciple. If you don’t save her, that’s not your responsibility either.”
The part of Bai Qiulan’s body that had been blasted apart was sealed by Taiyin power. She bent her knees and actually knelt down, bowing her head to Lu Ye.
Lu Ye frowned # Nоvеlight # slightly and dodged aside.
“System, is there anything wrong with her?” Lu Ye asked inwardly.
“Ding. No abnormalities detected.”
“So you’re saying... Bai Qiulan really is starting to change?”
“Ding. Based on her behavior this time, yes, there has indeed been a change.”
Lu Ye suddenly took a step forward.
The Fragrance of Ascension instantly enveloped Bai Qiulan. Her eyes filled with violent struggle, and her blood-red pupils locked onto Lu Ye.
She had an Emperor’s Dao heart, and being on the very edge of the Fragrance of Ascension’s range, she barely managed to keep her sanity.
But Lu Ye stepped forward again.
A roar burst from Bai Qiulan’s mouth as she lunged toward Lu Ye.
Lu Ye didn’t retreat.
As she approached, Lu Ye’s true essence turned into ropes that completely bound Bai Qiulan’s body.
Lu Ye looked at the tightly restrained Bai Qiulan...
Damn it. It was those perverted islanders’ fault. Watching their messed-up acts every day had made him bind Bai Qiulan in this ridiculous posture without even thinking.
Bai Qiulan kept trying to get closer to Lu Ye.
But she couldn’t.
Lu Ye reached out and touched her body, his true essence flowing wildly through her, inspecting her inch by inch.
No abnormalities.
Not even the slightest one.
So... Bai Qiulan really came this time just to beg him to save Yue Hongling?
Had she truly changed?
Even under the lure of the Fragrance of Ascension, Bai Qiulan had not shown any abnormality.
Under the system’s observation, Bai Qiulan had not shown any abnormality.
Under his personal inspection, Bai Qiulan still showed no abnormality.
Which meant—the Source of Darkness hadn’t tainted Bai Qiulan. Only Chu Ling had been affected.
Lu Ye’s figure vanished.
The ropes of true essence automatically unraveled.
The distance between the two instantly widened to thirty li.
Bai Qiulan gave chase, but Lu Ye was far faster than her, waiting for her to regain her clarity.
At that moment, one powerful aura after another surged toward the scene.
These powerhouses had just arrived when they were greeted by a shocking sight—
A woman in the Destiny Realm... was chasing down Lu Ye?
Huh?
Seriously?
Then they looked again—and saw that the formation at the Three-Valley Deadlands had actually been broken.
It had really been broken!
A wild joy surged in all their hearts.
Lu Ye’s power had never been fully displayed before. His invincibility in the Third Heaven relied on drawing others into the Three-Valley Deadlands and destroying them there.
But now, the Three-Valley Deadlands was gone...
So what was there to fear?
Forget whether Lu Ye was truly a reincarnated powerhouse or not—just the factions who had feuded with him wouldn’t let this chance slip by.
Sure, Lu Ye hadn’t struck at them yet.
But that was either because he wasn’t strong enough at the moment, or he didn’t have the time.
What if he got stronger?
They couldn’t just sit around and let their fate hinge on Lu Ye’s whims.
“Kill!”
A figure in the Unity Realm turned into a terrifying beam of light, piercing the sky as it charged toward Lu Ye.
A Samsara Realm cultivator erupted with boundless divine radiance, launching a ranged assault.
Even cultivators of the Causality Realm each unleashed threads of karmic force, trying to bind Lu Ye with karma and suppress his strength.
Bai Qiulan’s blood-red eyes showed hesitation.
Strictly speaking, Bai Qiulan was more like a true Emperor than the rest.
Because in the past life, what Lu Ye did for her was to help her continuously expel the poison of Chaotic Taiyin. As long as he helped her overcome that most difficult hurdle, Bai Qiulan could cultivate freely.
She could detonate Chaotic Taiyin power at will.
So she regained her clarity quickly.
Seeing so many people trying to kill Lu Ye, Bai Qiulan let out a shout, and a terrifying chill swept out.
The speed of many attackers dropped.
She... was still helping Lu Ye?
Well, that was normal. Even after reincarnation, even though she was much stronger than Lu Ye—she was in the Spirit Severing Realm while Lu Ye had only been in Qi Gathering at the time—
Bai Qiulan was always a peculiar one.
Even when she planted the Yin-Yang Devour Dao Gu in Lu Ye, even when she inserted the Taiyin Marrow Worm into him, she never considered herself his enemy.
That was one of the reasons why Lu Ye hadn’t left the Grand Dao Sect immediately after being reborn.
First of all, the Grand Dao Sect wasn’t a demonic sect. Even demonic sects wouldn’t allow wanton slaughter of disciples, let alone the Grand Dao Sect.
Didn’t you see that even when the Demon Emperor wanted to use the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner to massacre the demonic race, the Earth Demon Emperor stopped him?
Second was Bai Qiulan’s personality.
Her personality was such that... she never thought of herself as a bad person.
She believed she was a good person.
She wouldn’t do anything bad.
Even poisoning people—in Bai Qiulan’s mind, that was “setting things right.”
However, Bai Qiulan’s power was too weak. When facing true powerhouses, she could only slightly reduce their speed.
No one paid her any mind. They all rushed straight toward Lu Ye.
Lu Ye’s figure halted.
And began to kill.
