My enemies became my companions

Chapter 703 Watching
Sometimes, Chen Yi wondered if he hadn't been affectionate enough towards the little fox. She didn't seem to have such deep feelings for him, and she was even a little rebellious, though obedient. She was well-behaved, but not clingy at all.

We should use some tricks, some methods, and a few magical techniques, and refine some elixirs, so that she can't live without us.

But then I thought, wouldn't that be too cruel to the little fox?

She has always tried her best to be well-behaved.

So sometimes, Chen Yi would think that he should just harden his heart and go all the way. Even if he couldn't live without himself, it would be best if he could be like Da Yin, whose heart seemed to be on the outside but was actually on the inside, and who was obsessed with the feeling of being with himself.

However, after seeing her so pitiful and sorrowful appearance, it was hard not to feel sorry for her. If he shed a few tears, Chen Yi's heart would soften, and he would inevitably be at a disadvantage.

Even though the little fox escaped back then, Chen Yi didn't really resort to any harsh methods, unlike how he did whatever he wanted to Da Yin. Even though she hadn't learned to like him yet, was still resentful about the past, and was still more afraid of him, she was just adapting to him. In the end, he still couldn't bring himself to be ruthless.

Even the promise to have a child was unknowingly passed up, and she was no longer pressured.

Now that things have come to this, the little fox in front of me has changed drastically. It seems to have come from a past life, yet it also has memories of the future. This seems to give me a reason to explore it further.

Chen Yi shook his head slightly, clearing these random thoughts away.

Regardless of the circumstances, it is still important to leave the world of ignorance.

“I once strayed into the forbidden area, and now that I’ve come out, I do know how to get out. I didn’t tell you before because you were not trustworthy.”

"Now... if we don't work together, we'll have no chance of escaping this situation."

"The world of ignorance is the world of ignorance, which is the gathering place of ignorant thoughts in people's hearts. What is ignorance? In the words of Buddhist scriptures, it is greed, anger, and delusion, it is attachment. Whether it is good or bad, it is all ignorance. As far as I know, if one wants to get out of this, one can achieve sudden enlightenment and become a Buddha on the spot. The body dies but the Dharma does not die. One enters the state of Nirvana, and naturally there will be no more ignorance. One can naturally transcend from this state..."

"It seems you don't like the first one. Fine, I won't continue. The second one is a moment of enlightenment, but enlightenment is useless at this moment. You need to find enlightenment from ignorance and leave the Five Poisons Dead Tree. The so-called Five Poisons Dead Tree is the root of the world of ignorance, and its roots happen to be planted in the real world."

"We don't have much time left. If we continue to wallow in ignorance, our distracting thoughts and worries will only increase, and we will fall into beginningless ignorance."

Not long ago, Yin Tingxue recounted all of these events in detail.

She thought Chen Yi would be suspicious and wary, so she explained everything in detail, and at the end, she even asked one question:
"I don't know if you are really Chen Yi. Now, the only thing we can do is work together and put aside our differences for the time being. If you have any concerns, please feel free to speak them."

Chen Yi stood up abruptly, clapped his hands, and said, "Let's go."

Yin Tingxue's eyes widened slightly, clearly not having reacted yet. What she couldn't understand even more was why this man was so unguarded towards her.

In short, the two humans and the ghost continued their journey through the world of ignorance.

I wandered aimlessly, not knowing where I was going.

There was absolutely nothing unusual about it.

Chen Yi looked around. The depths of this ignorant world had returned to their original state, desolate and boundless. The road beneath his feet was flat and without any undulations, as if there was nowhere he could not go. But if he really wanted to go somewhere, it was all the same.

That ancient street in Beijing seemed to have been nothing more than a fleeting phenomenon.

Having experienced what had happened before, Yin Tingxue was much calmer than before. She led the way without saying a word. Donggong Ruoshu was afraid of attracting attention again, and was also worried and wary of Yin Tingxue, so she didn't speak either.

Walking in this desolate world is almost the same as being dead.

Like a lost soul, wandering aimlessly.

Chen Yi frowned slightly, thinking that this was a forbidden area of ​​the Unknown World, and it shouldn't be so quiet and silent, without any abnormalities.

The deathly silence was so pure that even the sound of the wind, or the subtle feedback of footsteps on solid ground, was blurred, as if walking on a void of illusion.

The more I walked around here, the more unnatural my body felt, like I was trying to imitate someone else's gait.

"Are we on the right track?" Chen Yi stopped and broke the unsettling silence with his voice.

Yin Tingxue did not turn around, her voice clear and cold: "There is no mistake. Although the world of ignorance is based on ignorance and is chaotic and disordered, things will turn into their opposites when they reach their extremes. In the past, my sect's Holy Maiden of Great Strength used her supreme vow power to forcibly open up a place of light here, like a lone lamp in the darkness. As long as you find there, you will have clues and ways to leave."

Chen Yi suddenly remembered the old saintess who had been acting strangely lately. She always curled up in that cauldron of lifelessness and had once told him that the cauldron of lifelessness was a door. So that's how it is. That cauldron... it seems to really be a passage connecting to this world of ignorance.

"How much further do we have to go?" Chen Yi pressed, his gaze sweeping over the seemingly unchanging grayness before him. "I don't know," Yin Tingxue replied crisply. "When I fell into this place last time, I was also in a daze, unaware of how much time had passed. I was only moving forward by a sliver of spiritual insight. When I would arrive depended entirely on fate, or rather, on whether that place of light was willing to reveal itself."

Hearing this, Donggong Ruoshu was a little dumbfounded. If that were the case, wouldn't they have to stay here forever? How boring!

A thought flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but shudder. With Chen Yi's character of having severed all three of his three corpses, leaving only the restless corpse, how could the unapproachable Yin Tingxue in front of him possibly satisfy him? In the end, when only the three of them remained in this desolate world, would Chen Yi let go of her as an extra?

I'm afraid it won't be considered a snack, but rather a main course.

The silly girl felt a pang of regret, but then she realized that this regret wasn't enough, and she was filled with deep remorse.

Previously, she thought that becoming a ghost would make her fearless and allow her to tease Chen Yi from time to time, thus completing some of the tasks assigned by the Empress Dowager. However, in this strange and unpredictable world where wishes can come true, the ghostly body is no longer a protective charm. Thinking about what had happened before and what would happen afterward, Donggong Ruoshu wished she could immediately shrink into the shadows and never show her face again.

But she is a ghost, and has no shadow.

Just then, Yin Tingxue, who had been moving steadily ahead, suddenly stopped and looked up at a certain empty space to her side.

Chen Yi followed her gaze and initially saw nothing, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that the dark space seemed to be rippling with a very subtle, water-like ripple.

Yin Tingxue's eyes sharpened, and she whispered, "Something... is approaching, it's... the Lord of Resentment again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yi suddenly felt an unusual heaviness in his shoulders, as if something was pressing down on them. He found it very difficult to move his feet, and that chilling feeling surged into his heart again.

The weight didn't come from a physical object; it was more like it was pressing directly on his soul, making each breath difficult, as if filled with molten lead. He could almost hear the faint groans of his bones under the invisible pressure.

The surrounding darkness rolled on, and the two people and the ghost stopped again, holding their breath, waiting for the Lord of Resentment to pass by, just as before.

The darkness rolled ever larger, like a thick, inky tide, carrying whispers and hisses that sent chills down one's spine, surging in from all directions and slowly receding into the distance.

Everything seemed to be going as they had expected; the behemoth was merely on a routine patrol and had not noticed them, these few insignificant specks of dust.

The suffocating rolling sensation gradually subsided, and the heaviness was about to dissipate.

Chen Yi breathed a slight sigh of relief and continued forward, but after taking two steps, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.

In the darkness, something trembled. Chen Yi turned his head and looked closely. It was crystal clear...

It was an eye, which emerged from the darkness without warning!
The eye was enormous, almost filling Chen Yi's entire field of vision. The pupil was not round, but an irregular void that was constantly twisting and changing. It reflected no image, only the deepest nothingness.

It stared intently at Chen Yi.

With a sudden buzz, Chen Yi's mind went blank for a moment. Then, he saw the darkness around that eye boil over, like molten iron, surging violently and losing all order.

Another buzzing sound came from my head, louder than before, followed by a silent, frantic scream.

It also sounded like a low growl.

Then, the endless darkness, no longer flowing, surged toward him like a torrent bursting its banks or a volcanic eruption!

As darkness completely enveloped him, Chen Yi's head throbbed with pain, as if countless tiny ants were crawling along his veins, gnawing at his nerves, causing both itchiness and pain that seemed to burrow into his brain. It was as if invisible iron skewers were skewering his brain and roasting it over a raging inferno, the excruciating pain accompanied by an indescribable burning sensation. He wished he could smash his own skull, and his internal organs felt as if they had been thrown into a blender, churning and churning, making him nauseous. His consciousness swirled and sank in extreme pain and chaos, and the dam of reason was being breached by wave after wave of intense emotions and suffering.

People gradually became numb, and their senses gradually lost their ability to distinguish things under excessive stimulation. Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the destructive dark tide seemed to be satisfied and slowly receded.

As the boundless tide of darkness receded, the scene before us changed once again.

No longer was that desolate, gray void; in its place was a narrow, damp alleyway.

On both sides were mottled earthen walls, with thick moss growing at the corners. A faint musty smell and a faint, almost imperceptible, stench of blood filled the air. The darkness overhead was thick, like night. At the end of the alley, the sounds of bustling city life could be faintly heard, but the sounds seemed to be muffled and indistinct, as if separated by a thick layer of glass.

Chen Yi suddenly looked up and gazed in all directions.
Yin Tingxue and Donggong Ruoshu...

Missed.

(End of this chapter)