My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Hua Ran looked at Qiao Yi lying on the ground.

Go and gently pat her.

"Master Wife...Master Wife!"

He reached out to check Joey's breath; she wasn't breathing.

Hua Ran immediately sent all the yang energy she had received from Qiao Yi back into Qiao Yi's body.

If the soul is forced to leave the body for too long, the body will decay first.

Therefore, the wife's body must be protected, otherwise, if her soul returns, it will be scattered and destroyed!

Meanwhile, the dragon whiskers behind Hua Ran were still waving wildly.

When Hua Ran turned around, she only saw two eyes as big as copper bells.

One is mixed black, and the other is gray and white.

One eye turns forward, and the other eye turns backward.

"Zhulong..."

He immediately stood up and hugged his wife's "corpse".

"It's Zhulong!"

The man with the butterfly birthmark on his face chuckled.

"Is it Zhulong, or Zhulong that's already so chaotic it's out of control? Your wife, she'll never come back. Do you know where she was taken? She's entered the gap between forward and reverse time. In this situation, she can only be torn apart, her soul scattered, ahahahaha~"

Hua Ran's eyes instantly changed from pure black to emerald green.

He bit his lower lip, his whole being exuding a cold and murderous aura.

The man was still laughing.

"This is a win-win situation. The master was just wondering how to eliminate this woman who suddenly appeared! And now, without her yang energy, you can only become weaker... So, it's not impossible to have a derivative replace you..."

At this point, the man felt a chill run down his spine.

"Why is the yin energy... the yin energy has suddenly become so strong?"

Looking at Hua Ran again, his cloak fluttered to the ground, his brown fox ears stood up, and his tail grew much longer.

In an instant, he appeared in front of the man.

"Your plan has succeeded. Are you happy?"

"Then when..."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt himself unable to move.

This vixen clearly didn't do anything.

He was just standing in front of himself.

He tried to run away, tried to use all sorts of magic, but nothing worked.

He could only watch Hua Ran in horror.

"What did you do..."

The blood-red reflection in Hua Ran's eyes seemed to suddenly appear, as if several people had appeared, holding down the man with the birthmark on his face, and chopping off his hand in front of a platform.

"Ahhh!"

In real life, the man screamed in pain.

He then realized it was just an illusion.

He was panting heavily and gave a contemptuous laugh.

"I'm already a spirit after death, what am I afraid of? All you can do is scare me, hahaha..."

Hua Ran didn't speak, but simply lowered her gaze.

The man looked down as well, but this time he couldn't laugh anymore.

Because of his left hand, which was broken at the elbow.

Blood is flowing down.

"H-How could this be! I'm already dead, I'm just a spirit! And you were just showing me a hallucination!"

“Send my wife out.”

"I...I can't...I won't...I was just following orders to get rid of Joey!"

Hua Ran's eyes darkened further.

He grabbed the man and led him to the spot where his wife had just left, whereupon dragon whiskers wrapped around him and lifted him up.

Countless hands above him were tearing at him.

"no, do not want!"

"If you can't do it, then go inside and think of a solution for my wife!"

In an instant, his soul vanished in their hands.

Hua Ran suddenly knelt down on one knee.

He covered his chest with one hand and held his wife with the other.

"Sure enough, when a large amount of yang energy rushes back into my wife's body, my chest will ache..."

Now, Hua Ran is actually willing for his wife not to be able to receive yang energy, because that would prove that his wife deceived him just like she did in the secret realm at the bottom of the river last time!

But no, no!

The dragon's whiskers were still throbbing, and it even tried to grab Hua Ran as well.

Countless pale hands attacked Hua Ran, who picked up Qiao Yi while keeping one hand on Qiao Yi's body.

Because the flow of yang energy to her must not be stopped!

After finally managing to jump to a distance, Hua Ran's chest pain intensified.

He tilted his head and vomited a mouthful of blood.

His vision blurred, and he was swaying unsteadily.

"No... I must leave... I absolutely cannot let my wife's body be harmed any further..."

At that moment, Inugami arrived and pulled Hanazon away.

"I'll use magic to carry Joey, you go first!"

Inugami also saw the flamboyant dragon whiskers covered in white hands.

"What the hell is this thing... Wait, you've been channeling yang energy into Joey?!"

"If we don't do it this way... the wife's body won't be able to hold on for much longer..."

The dog god stared with his almond-shaped eyes.

"Do you still want the baby?!"

He grabbed Hua Ran's hand and said, "Do you know that this will damage your existing limbs and absorb your own body's vital energy, so the child won't be able to eat!"

"I……"

Inugami was furious.

"A child without nutrition, with only a soul and no body, is that still human? How can it live? Even you, currently surviving as a soul, need yang energy, let alone such a small child!"

Hua Ran wiped away her tears with her free hand.

Take a deep breath.

"I know what I'm doing, and I won't let the child suffer!"

The dog god didn't know what to say, so he could only leave with Hanazono and Joey's "corpses".

Now let's talk about Joey.

Her soul was in a space surrounded by white.

The wind on the left is blowing with the current and passes very quickly.

The wind on the right is blowing against the current and is passing by very quickly.

Joey tried calling her own system.

"Is Tongtong... still there?"

"Yes, baby~"

Joey nodded.

This means that this is not some kind of hallucinatory magic, but a direct stripping of the soul.

"It brought me to a strange space... Speaking of which, I think the strange beast that made this place so strange must be the Zhulong."

The Classic of Mountains and Seas describes it as having a human face and a snake's body, and being red in color. When its eyes are open, it is daytime; when its eyes are closed, it is nighttime. It is called Zhulong.

Many people also regard Zhulong as the god of time.

But in reality, the Candle Dragon can only affect a piece of land, and cannot affect all things in the world.

Furthermore, a normal Zhulong's eyes rotate slowly in the same direction, but this Zhulong's eye is facing forward and backward. Could it be because of... Hua Ran's severed limb?

At that moment, another person entered the space.

It was the man with the butterfly birthmark on his face.

"It's you!"

Joey immediately set up a barrier around him.

"What else do you want to do?"

"Do you think I wanted to come in here? This place... once you come in, you can't get out, your soul will be scattered!"

The man looked up and cried for help.

"Master, save me! Save me! Please look at me! I got Joey in here, that's all thanks to me! You can keep Joey here and get me out!"

Joey first brushed a yang energy past his neck.

"Who is your master?!"

"I can't say... saying it would make things even worse than they are now!"

Joey raised an eyebrow.

A huge bubble appeared in the space and dripped onto Joey's barrier, which immediately shattered.

"Baozi, something terrible has happened!"