After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

However, the expected pain did not occur. Instead, a loud thud broke the almost stagnant atmosphere.

The woman's eyelashes trembled as she slowly opened her eyes, only to be met with the sight of the man in black lying in front of her.

She paused for a moment, then mustered her courage and staggered forward to check.

The man in black was already lifeless, and the black mist that had been used to conceal his face had completely dissipated, revealing a completely unfamiliar face.

The woman then noticed that the man in black's clothes were wet, as if soaked in some kind of liquid.

Looking down at her palms, she saw they were stained bright red. The woman screamed and fell to the ground.

After a moment, she forced herself to calm down, suppressed her fear, reached out and took the storage bag from the man in black's waist, picked up the flying sword that had fallen to the side, and resolutely ran towards the direction she had glimpsed in the air before falling.

After she left, Huo Yu released the concealment spell and appeared in the woods with Long Yucheng.

"Senior brother, why didn't we just show ourselves in front of her?"

Long Yucheng was filled with doubt. It was he who had decisively struck when the man in black made his move, killing him instantly. Just as he was about to inform the woman that she was safe and sound, Huo Yu pulled him back into the concealment spell.

Huo Yu shook his head:

"The situation is unclear, so let's wait and see."

Although Long Yucheng still had many questions, he nodded and quietly followed the woman who had switched from flying to running, side by side with Huo Yu.

Fortunately, she was not far from the edge of the dense forest, and the woman did not run for long before a vast lake with rippling blue waters appeared before her.

The moment she saw the lake, a glimmer of hope shone in the woman's eyes.

But she didn't rush forward. Instead, she stopped and used a cleansing spell to remove all the mud from her body before walking gracefully to a small boat moored by the lake. She said softly:

"Boatman, could you ferry me across this lake?"

An old man on the boat, dressed in a straw raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat, glanced at the woman:

"One spirit stone, we'll set off once the four of us are gathered."

There was already a young man dressed as a scholar on board. Including this woman, they only needed to wait for two more people before setting sail.

The woman gritted her teeth, took out three spirit stones, and handed them to the boatman, her words earnest:

"Boatman, I have urgent business to attend to. Could you make an exception and set sail immediately?"

The boatman slightly raised his eyelids, glanced at her, accepted the spirit stones, and gestured for the woman to board the boat.

Huo Yu and Long Yucheng followed closely behind and boarded the ship.

Inside the cabin, the scholar's gaze never left the woman's face from the moment she appeared.

After she boarded the boat and settled down, the scholar smiled and spoke, his words gentle and refined:

"We, your humble servants, greet the fairy."

The woman merely managed a weak smile and said simply:

"Wang Yun".

The scholar, seemingly oblivious to the woman's subtle reluctance to speak further, continued the conversation:

"Could it be the Wang family of Taihu Lake? I have long heard of them. Around Taihu Lake, the Wang family, the Shi family, and the Ji family stand in a tripartite balance, jointly governing this land."

The woman's smile grew increasingly forced:

"Many of the rumors are exaggerated. My Wang family is just a small family by Taihu Lake."

The scholar, however, seemed oblivious to the woman's implied meaning. He gently shook his head and looked at her earnestly, saying:

"No, no, if I had any doubts before, after seeing you, fairy, all my doubts have vanished. Your beauty surpasses even the autumn moon on this lake; how could you possibly be raised by an ordinary family?"

Upon hearing this, Long Yucheng felt his teeth ache. Ever since he had the experience of transforming into a dog, he was eating dog food wherever he went.

Not only did he feel a sour taste in his teeth, but it seemed that other creatures in the lake were also disgusted by the sour scholar's words. In an instant, ripples spread across the entire lake surface, as if gently stirred by an invisible hand.

As the ripples spread outwards, a massive black shadow suddenly swept past beneath the wooden boat.

Its enormous size is astonishing; compared to it, the wooden boat is like a lonely fallen leaf on the lake, so small that it can be almost ignored.

"What is this?"

The scholar was so shocked by the breathtaking scene before him that he was speechless for a long time.

The boatman glanced at him sideways and said irritably:

"Don't worry about anything that was brought here by your sarcastic remarks. My ship is protected by special markings, so it won't attack."

The scholar was speechless. Seeing that Wang Yun, who was on the same boat, looked normal, he knew that what the boatman said was true. He could only nod repeatedly to show his belief.

However, the creature in the water did not leave after skimming over the bottom of the boat; instead, it changed direction and approached again.

The boatman also sensed something was wrong, and Wang Yun stood up in shock, staring at a huge head slowly emerging from the water!

The head was shaped like neither a fish nor a snake, and the head alone was a hundred feet long.

At this moment, the enormous head slowly rose out of the water right in front of the wooden boat, its two murky, dull, huge fish eyes staring blankly down at the people in the boat.

As it moved, the giant waves it created were as high as city walls, almost swallowing the entire small boat whole.

Fortunately, an array suddenly lit up on the ship, tightly enveloping the entire ship in an oval-shaped shield of light, preventing the towering waves from directly hitting the people inside and killing them.

Even so, the boatman had lost his composure and cried out in terror:

"The Lake God has appeared! How could this be! Could it be that there is someone on this boat who displeases the Lake God!"

As he spoke, his gaze lingered between the scholar and Wang Yun, as if weighing who to throw overboard to appease the lake god's wrath.

The scholar had never experienced such a thrilling scene before, and was so terrified that his legs trembled and he could not even stand up.

Although Wang Yun was slightly calmer than the scholar, she was still filled with fear, especially when she saw the boatman's gloomy gaze, her heart tightened even more.

However, before the boatman could make a decision, the lake god suddenly plunged back into the water like an arrow, even faster than it had risen to its feet.

Immediately afterwards, a giant wave tens of meters high crashed onto the ship like a tidal wave, directly shattering the protective formation. The powerful impact almost knocked the three people inside the ship unconscious.

Fortunately, the boatman was experienced. In this critical moment, he quickly stabilized the boat, avoiding the fate of capsizing, and then without hesitation, he steered the boat away from the water.

"Has the lake god already left?"

Only after rowing hundreds of feet away from that body of water did the scholar dare to speak.

He was now soaked to the bone, utterly disheveled, and all traces of his scholarly demeanor had vanished. Recalling the harrowing scene that had just unfolded, he was still shaken.

Upon hearing this, the old man's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted sternly:

"Be careful!"

The scholar was so frightened that he quickly shut his mouth, not daring to even breathe.

Wang Yun, standing to the side, was also filled with confusion.

The Wang family has lived by Taihu Lake for generations and had long heard of the legend of the lake god. However, no one in the family had ever seen the lake god in person.

The lake god appeared without warning, but did nothing and quickly retreated.

Moreover, whether it was her eyes playing tricks on her or not, she seemed to see a hint of fear in the lake god's enormous, dull eyes.