Chapter 418: The Immortal Caressed My Crown
"Give! Her! Back! To! Me!"
Min Tianci gasped out each word, a mouthful of blood spewing forth with every syllable. After five such words, five puddles of dark red blood stained the ground.
He had forcefully overdrawn his body's strength, bearing the terrifying aura emanating from the two individuals before him, just to utter his true feelings with immense difficulty.
Gazing at the man before her, his lips constantly oozing blood, his entire body trembling and spasming, struggling even to stand steady, Ye Zi's emotions were incredibly complex.
On one hand, she shared memories with her sub-personality. Upon reawakening, Ye Zi received all the memories from this new personality during their time together, learning from everything she saw that Min Tianci had indeed been exceptionally kind to Yue Die.
Especially when she received them, she experienced these memories from a first-person perspective, as if Min Tianci had been caring for her personally, leaving an exceptionally deep impression.
Emotionally and logically, it was difficult for her to harbor any dislike for this young man.
On the other hand, no matter what, Min Tianci was not someone Ye Zi, as the primary personality, genuinely liked. With a disposition as cold as ten thousand years of profound ice, the very concept of liking another person simply did not exist for her.
This inexplicably added segment of memory made her feel profoundly awkward.
After fully reawakening and recovering, she felt as though she could break through at any moment; with just a slight touch of her finger, the door to Chemosynthesis would swing open.
In this state of near-overflowing power, coupled with the emotional and memory confusion brought on by her recent awakening, she found herself slightly unable to fully control the power within her.
As a perfected Fifth-Tier practitioner, even an unconscious fluctuation of her power was enough to grievously wound Min Tianci, who had only just entered the Third Tier.
Conversely, Bai Mo, whose aura had already begun to continuously permeate and slowly, with his own power, wash away and dissolve the resonance energy field of hatred throughout the forest, exerted far less pressure on Min Tianci, as the vast majority of his attention was directed elsewhere.
"Thank you.” Ye Zi thought for a long time. Not adept at expressing her emotions, she ultimately only managed to utter these two words.
Then, without another word, she gently placed her right hand on Min Tianci’s head, preparing to use her healing Spirit Arts to tend to his injuries.
“Take your hand off me! You’re not her, I don’t need your false pity! Give her back!” He disregarded his worsening injuries, forcefully trying to push Ye Zi’s hand away.
Of course, Min Tianci didn’t succeed. Proud as she was, how could she accept his refusal? Ye Zi’s power was simply beyond his ability to resist.
Receiving Ye Zi’s unreserved output of power, his injuries healed at a visibly rapid pace. His face, originally pale from copious blood loss, gradually regained its healthy color.
Not only that, Min Tianci could also feel another gentle force within his body, slowly enhancing his overall physical and spiritual faculties...
“You...” He desperately wanted to reject this gesture, which felt like a declaration that their bond was severed, yet his body was utterly unable to resist, passively accepting the 'spiritual anointing'.
“I thought you’d just kill him while you were at it, to solidify your Dao Heart.”
“At least I’m still human. Haven’t you noticed, though, that you’re drifting further and further away from the concept of humanity?” Ye Zi retorted.
“The immortal caressed my crown, binding my hair for eternal life...” Bai Mo did not reply, merely reciting the poem to himself.
A few minutes later, Ye Zi retracted her right hand, then used her left to tap a sphere of light into Min Tianci’s chest, leaving him with a cultivation technique she had collected. She then turned to leave.
“Three days from now, report to the Northern Development Headquarters.” Half of Bai Mo’s palm suddenly transformed into a streak of light and flew towards Ye Zi.
As the installation package for the Destiny System terminal, this white light met no resistance from her. She knew clearly that this was part of their deal: five years of her freedom in exchange for his intervention this time, to awaken her from her slumber.
“It ends here; neither of us owes the other anything.” She tossed these eight words to Min Tianci, then vanished into the dense forest...
“Yue Die...” His face etched with despondency, he felt as though his heart had aged at least twenty years from the experiences of the past half hour.
He slumped to the ground, his eyes brimming with tears as he stared at the direction where Ye Zi had vanished, his hands grasping aimlessly at the air, as if trying to hold onto something.
“If I can’t even hold onto the one I love, what kind of man am I?!” Min Tianci, leaning against the base of a tree, self-deprecatingly slapped his own face hard, heedless of his hands and face already swelling.
Ye Zi’s cold departure undoubtedly dealt a massive blow to his self-esteem, causing Min Tianci to question his own life and igniting an intense longing for power.
He believed that it must be because the disparity between them was too vast, which led to him having such an insignificant outcome.
“If I can become truly, truly strong, stronger than anyone else, then I can definitely keep Yue Die forever, and not be left with this cold woman!”
“One day, I will save you! You just wait!”
“Can a mortal truly catch up to an immortal’s pace?” After reading Min Tianci’s thoughts, Bai Mo suddenly felt that this development seemed familiar, like a trope he had encountered many years ago.
“If one simultaneously engages in relationships with multiple personalities within a single body, does that count as an alternative form of harem?” Bai Mo’s thoughts leaped to a more distant place.
Subsequently, his figure grew fainter and fainter, until he finally vanished into the Secret Realm Forest.
“It’s all your fault! If you hadn’t suddenly appeared, how would that woman have awakened, and how would Yue Die have vanished?!” Min Tianci thought, grinding his teeth, yet he still dared not glance in Bai Mo’s direction.
He knew his life still hung in the balance, at the whim of the other party. He had not the slightest understanding of this super-powerhouse, Min Tianci was unaware of his personality or preferences. He wanted to continue living, to eventually find Yue Die again, and so he had to cautiously conceal his hatred.
“Young man, do you hate me that much?” Just as Min Tianci was furiously cursing in his mind, the white silhouette that had vanished reappeared before him once more.
“...” Seeing Bai Mo’s gaze, Min Tianci understood: his petty schemes had been completely seen through, and there was no point in concealment. It would be better to die with some integrity than to perish in humiliation.
And so, he prepared for battle, even though the disparity in power was immense.
Min Tianci decided: he would be a hero for a few seconds, rather than a coward for a lifetime!
“Those who wish me dead on this planet probably number over a billion. What are you, then?” Bai Mo said indifferently.
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