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

Upon hearing this, Long Yucheng not only did not stop, but ran even faster.

Yun Liushui never expected that Long Yucheng would join forces with him based on just a few words from him.

Seeing that Long Yucheng had already rushed into the Gen Gate in a panic under his and Linglong's threats, Yun Liushui sneered, and with a thought, activated a restriction with the help of the Thunder Dragon's inheritance power.

Just as Long Yucheng was about to crash straight into it and die a horrible death, he abruptly stopped, made a sharp turn, brushed past the barrier, and escaped into another side path.

Yun Liushui didn't know if this was the so-called protagonist's halo working again, but he gritted his teeth and relentlessly pursued her, activating several restrictions along the way and successfully trapping Linglong behind him in one of them.

However, Long Yucheng repeatedly evaded the restrictions that could have instantly killed him in the same way, running and shouting:

"Senior Sister Ling has already been dumped, why are you still chasing me!"

Yun Liushui ignored him, and he hated Long Yucheng's protagonist aura to the core.

Clearly, although Long Yucheng lost the Thunder Dragon inheritance, he gained a new cheat code; otherwise, how could he have avoided the traps he set up time and time again?

Yun Liushui now had only one thought in mind—to kill Long Yucheng before he grew up and eliminate any future troubles!

Under Yun Liushui's deliberate manipulation, Long Yucheng was soon forced into a passage with no forks.

Only Yun Liushui knew that there was a special restriction in the center of the passage that even he could not close. If Long Yucheng entered, he would die. If Long Yucheng did not enter, then he would send Long Yucheng on his way!

As Long Yucheng ran around a corner, the restriction was less than three zhang away.

Yun Liushui sneered inwardly and increased his speed, wanting to see the protagonist die in front of him.

However, after turning the corner, what they saw was not Long Yucheng, who had died tragically under the restrictions, but a silver light as fast as lightning.

Yun Liushui stared wide-eyed in disbelief. Before he could react, the silver light pierced through his chest and struck the wall behind him, producing a metallic clang.

Yun Liushui could not hear any sound. He collapsed to his knees, clutching his chest, feeling the loss of temperature caused by the gushing blood from his body. The last thing he saw was Long Yucheng's cold gaze as he left.

"Clang." A bottle slipped from Yun Liushui's arms.

He seemed to finally come to his senses, stretched out his trembling hand, tightly grasped the white porcelain bottle, and struggled to pull out the stopper with his blood-stained fingers. Yun Liushui frantically poured the pills from the bottle into his mouth.

That was originally a spiritual medicine for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, capable of regenerating flesh and bones with a single pill, but it had no effect in the surrounding spirit-suppressing force field.

Meanwhile, Long Yucheng, having run for an unknown amount of time, suddenly collapsed to the ground, his legs giving way beneath him. After struggling frantically for a while before finally getting up, he realized that his hands were trembling uncontrollably.

His thoughts were still on the moment the dagger pierced Yun Liushui's chest.

Although using the previously discovered restriction to kill Yun Liushui was part of his initial plan, witnessing life disappear before one's eyes was a feeling that no amount of prior planning could provide.

This was the first time he had killed someone in his more than forty years of life spanning both lifetimes.

Unlike the understated descriptions in novels, and unlike the visually striking scenes of blood splattering in movies, Long Yucheng could not describe the feeling of Yun Liushui kneeling before him, clutching her wound, using any of his previous experiences.

I felt dizzy, as if my head was stuffed with cotton wool. My heart was pounding wildly with adrenaline, but I was unusually calm, as if a third person was controlling my body, not myself.

Long Yucheng couldn't even remember how he got here. It wasn't until the adrenaline started to wear off that a wave of fear, dread, nausea, relief, and a strong sense of unreality washed over him.

After leaning against the wall and taking more than ten deep breaths, Long Yucheng finally managed to calm down. He dragged his heavy body forward numbly, only to see a long sword floating in mid-air, emitting a faint red spiritual light, at the next corner.

Huo Yu was currently speeding in a certain direction at the limit of his current cultivation level. His consciousness had clearly witnessed the entire process of Huang Xiao devouring the two people in succession.

The Emperor Xiao was not delayed for long by the two, and its speed became even faster after it was devoured.

Huo Yu's expression was slightly gloomy, but this was not due to the urgency of Huang Xiao catching up with him again, but because he still had not found any trace of Long Yucheng.

Even when facing Huang Xiao, who had already taken a half-step into the Nascent Soul Realm, Huo Yu was 30% confident that he could escape from this secret realm right under Huang Xiao's nose.

However, if he were to leave now, everyone in this secret realm would become a sacrifice for Huang Xiao to recover his cultivation, and Long Yucheng would naturally be no exception.

Huo Yu had just discovered how to use Long Yucheng to change the Heavenly Dao Value, so he naturally wouldn't let him die easily.

Looking at the thick black mist gradually approaching in the passage behind him, Huo Yu sighed inwardly. After sending a divine thought to the mixed-blood dragon, he stopped and unleashed the Heavenly Sun Tranquility Dao Intent to confront Huang Xiao head-on.

When the black mist was still several feet away from Huo Yu, accompanied by a cold snort, a huge ghostly claw suddenly burst out from the black mist and swiftly attacked Huo Yu.

This ghostly claw was no longer comparable to the previous phantom; it was so solid that it was almost like a physical entity, with its black scales clearly visible.

When the ghost claw rushed into the range of Huo Yu's Dao intent, it hesitated slightly, but it did not burn directly as before. Instead, under the strong golden light, its momentum did not diminish. It spread its four toes and fiercely grabbed at Huo Yu.

Huo Yu remained calm and composed. With a thought, sparks of fire appeared in the air half a foot in front of him, quickly condensing into a curtain of fire that separated him from the ghost claws.

Huo Yu's control over flames had reached a state of perfection. He no longer needed to use hand seals; he truly achieved the ability to move at will and make his words come true.

The black claws gripped the curtain of fire fiercely, and black energy surged where they met.

Under the suppression of the mountain-like black mist, the firelight instantly intensified, but it was still unable to withstand the power of the ghost claw. It twisted and disintegrated into several balls of flame, which were quickly swallowed by the black mist.

After the Ghost Claw shattered the fire curtain with a single strike, its speed did not decrease, and it was about to completely destroy Huo Yu in the next instant!

At this critical moment, the illusory sun behind Huo Yu transformed into a red fire phoenix bathed in golden light.

Accompanied by a phoenix cry that seemed to pierce through the divine sense, the fire phoenix shot out and collided violently with the black ghost claw, its body radiating brilliant golden light.

When the light faded, the ghostly claw had vanished without a trace, leaving only a fire phoenix with its feathers gone and its color somewhat dimmed.