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

Long Yucheng was stunned as soon as he slowly woke up from his deep coma.

The last image in his memory was of the eerie black mist that filled the hall, and everyone working together to attack some unknown object.

However, when he opened his eyes again, he found himself back in that dark passage, being held by the collar by something unknown, flying through the air at an astonishing speed.

Just then, the cold voice of the Heavenly Path Assistant rang in his mind, abruptly waking him from his daze:

"The mission objective has disappeared, the mission has failed, and the main mission has been updated."

Long Yucheng glanced at the task bar and saw that the original main quest to obtain the inheritance of the Primordial Thunder Dragon had been replaced with the [Main Quest: Obtain the Crimson Flame Sword], and the reward had changed from the original Soaring Dragon Spear to the Heavenly Wind Sword Technique.

Although the target of this new mission, the Crimson Flame Sword, sounded several levels lower than the Ancient Thunder Dragon Inheritance, Long Yucheng did not feel too much regret.

After all, he didn't even know where the Ancient Thunder Dragon's inheritance was, so it was inevitable that someone else would get there first.

Ultimately, it's because this garbage system is too unreliable. The task guidance is vague and sometimes even misleading—Long Yucheng still harbors resentment about the embarrassing experience of being rescued by a hero only to be rescued himself.

However, compared to the mission, what is more urgent right now is to figure out where I am, what has happened, and what the UFO carrying me is!

Long Yucheng fumbled along his collar, suddenly feeling as if something had bitten his finger. Then, he fell heavily to the ground.

Ignoring the pain, Long Yucheng sprang to his feet, only to find a miniature eel-like creature before him. He immediately questioned it:

"Who are you? Who sent you? Where is my Senior Brother Yu?"

However, a doubt also arose in Long Yucheng's mind:

"How can the eels in this secret realm be so peculiar, with horns and fins, and even the ability to fly?"

The hybrid dragon tried to communicate with him through telepathy, but to no avail.

It scrutinized Long Yucheng closely, and upon closer inspection, it nearly vomited blood—this silly boy was only at the first level of Qi Refining, and hadn't even developed his divine sense yet, so he couldn't hear its voice at all!

Since it only knew this one way of communicating, and communication failed, it simply decided to pick up the kid and run away first.

Unexpectedly, Long Yucheng suddenly looked behind it and exclaimed in surprise:

"Senior Brother Yu!"

Huo Yu had become an inescapable psychological shadow for the hybrid dragon. Upon hearing the words "Senior Brother Yu," it would instinctively turn its head away.

However, let alone its new master who nearly caused it to fall from its cultivation level with a single blow, there was nothing behind it, not even a ghost in sight.

When it turned back, it saw that Long Yucheng had already run more than ten feet away.

"..."

Speechless, the mixed-race Gu Long decided to just secretly follow this silly boy.

Anyway, the master's order was to take this kid away, find a safe place to wait for him to meet up, and he would be a locator on either side of him.

Following this kid now is just as good, and it even saves some spiritual energy.

Taking advantage of the horned eel's distraction, Long Yucheng turned and ran, making full use of the newly mastered Shadowless Escape Technique, until he had shaken the strange creature out of sight before stopping to catch his breath.

Now he is all alone again, and he has no idea what the situation is like in the Rotunda.

Long Yucheng took out a map jade slip, wanting to see where the madwoman's attendants were now, so he could avoid the master and servant.

However, he found that no matter how much spiritual power he injected, the jade slip did not react at all. It was clear that the dragon was in the stage of closing its breath, and the jade slip was now just a piece of useless jade.

The teleportation jade slip was still usable, but as soon as Long Yucheng took it out, he felt that familiar sense of crisis and promptly stuffed it back into his pocket.

For a moment, he didn't know where to go.

However, upon further reflection, since he didn't know the way, Long Yucheng decided to do the same thing he did when he first entered the ruins: turn right at every fork in the road, leave it to fate, and go wherever the road leads.

As he turned the seventh corner, Long Yucheng suddenly felt a pang of anxiety. He immediately pressed himself against the wall and looked around, but found no living creatures other than himself. However, his sense of crisis did not diminish at all.

After a moment's thought, his gaze finally settled on the seemingly unremarkable passageway in front of him. He tore a strip of cloth from his sleeve, tied a knot, and threw it forward.

The strip of cloth vanished a foot away from Long Yucheng, causing Long Yucheng's pupils to shrink sharply.

The next second, ripples appeared out of thin air in the passage, and the strip of cloth he had just thrown in suddenly emerged from the center of the ripples, flying straight toward him at a speed several times faster than when he threw it out.

Long Yucheng couldn't dodge in time and was hit directly in the face. Fortunately, it was just a piece of cloth, so even if it flew fast, it didn't have much force.

He examined the strip of cloth closely but found nothing unusual.

After pondering for a moment, Long Yucheng took out the map jade slip from his pocket again, threw it forward with force, and took a step to the left as he released it, pressing his body against the stone wall.

Just after he finished this series of actions, he saw the jade slip first disappear into the passage, and then reappear out of thin air like the strip of cloth before, and shoot towards the spot where Long Yucheng had been standing. Finally, it crashed into the stone wall at the corner and shattered into several pieces, with the fragments scattered in all directions.

Long Yucheng stepped forward, picked up a fragment of a jade slip, and glanced at the passage behind him with lingering fear.

Although he didn't understand why only this place had the restrictions still functioning, after figuring out the general purpose of the restrictions, Long Yucheng decisively gave up the idea of ​​passing through here and chose to return the way he came.

At this moment, not far from where Long Yucheng was, a gray beam of light flew rapidly towards them, and inside the beam of light was the "madwoman" that Long Yucheng had mentioned.

This woman surnamed Ling never expected that the passage would be fixed at the moment the dragon held its breath, and that the flying artifact she was carrying had recently turned into scrap metal without any spiritual power.

Left with no other choice, she could only expend a large amount of spiritual energy to fly through the air.

Feeling the rapid loss of spiritual energy within her body, the woman surnamed Ling frowned deeply.

In this spirit-suppressing field, not only have the pills and magical artifacts lost their function, but what troubles her even more is that the mechanical puppets that consume spirit stones to operate have all turned into a pile of useless wood.

This woman surnamed Ling, whose original name was Linglong, joined the Qiongshan Sect twenty years ago and became an inner disciple.

In just twenty years, she cultivated from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, all thanks to the mental cultivation method she practiced—the "Thousand Transformations Technique".