Very long dark gray hair, woven into two long braids that almost reached her ankles, perfect and pale skin that looked like it never saw the sun and yet didn’t seem sickly, and a graceful petite frame with curves in all the right places.

A face, which beauty could not be hidden by the mask covering its lower half.

This was undeniably, the leader of the Bahshi Assassination Group and a senior member of the council of the Hong Family, formerly known as the Hand of Silent Death, and the current Supreme Demon Ghost, the Ruler of a Myriad of Ghosts, Hong Xinyi.

And yet, her current state was so severe it was hard to imagine her being the same person, blood both dried up and fresh covering her from head to toe, and dripping from numerous grave wounds, listless and weakened beyond measure.

This appearance drove a dagger into Wu Long’s heart to look at, and yet he could not turn away from her, his gaze fixed on her face.

The spatial rift closed up above, disappearing as abruptly as it appeared, right after Hong Xinyi fell out of it, almost as if it fulfilled its purpose.

And yet neither Wu Long nor Fen Baihu could take Hong Xinyi away into the Dream Realm.

"She’s too strong", Fen Baihu said, frowning as she tried as much as she could, her mist swirling around them, but was rebuked by the presence and pressure of the assassin. Although, it was more accurate to say that it was Fen Baihu who was currently too weak to force Hong Xinyi into her realm, even if the latter was also in a severely weakened state, and unconscious on top of that, adding, "But... her resistance is weakening"

"That’s because she’s becoming weaker by the moment, by the time she’ll be weak enough that we can take her away it’s going to be too late for her", Wu Long replied with an anxious look since he didn’t have any immediate means to help her - his conundrum was that she was too strong for him to be of help, and yet too weak to survive on her own without help, "First, let’s start moving for now, it’s not a good idea to stay in this area, we’ll try to think of ways to help her on the way"

The entire continent witnessed the phenomenon and that something fell out of the wormhole, soon there will be search parties looking for opportunities everywhere, and Hong Xinyi’s mere presence was disrupting both Wu Long’s and Fen Baihu’s powers of concealment, making them rather easy to discover.

Since they couldn’t retreat into the Dream Realm, he flew in the direction of the most uninhabited wilderness area of the continent at the fastest speed he could muster as Fen Baihu landed on his shoulder in her little fox form, while he was combing through the vast knowledge in his head in order to come up with ways to help her.

Her cultivation level was too high for any medicine or pills to have any effect, as was the case with medical techniques - so Wu Long couldn’t even borrow Gong Liwei’s help in this case.

The good news was that her cultivation level was rapidly dropping, by the time she appeared, her cultivation dropped to less than a ten thousandth of her original one, otherwise her mere appearance in this world unconscious without being able to control her aura would have obliterated almost all life in the entire world that the Soft Meadow Continent was located on, and devastated the non-living environment about as much as the Great Calamity did to the Battle God’s Cradle.

Even still, she still was too powerful even now. Most cultivators in Boundless Profound World would die just by being remotely near her, Wu Long was fine only because he had Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art and Fen Baihu didn’t take damage from her presence due to her unique traits.

There were also a lot of mysterious details, such as her clothes and possessions not causing a massive disturbance and not weighing so much he couldn’t lift them, her spatial rings being absent, and more, but he shoved those to the back of his mind for now.

"There is a way", Wu Long said, "I just need a place where I can concentrate in"

"It can’t be that easy", Fen Baihu narrowed her eyes.

"Don’t worry, my life won’t be in danger, there is a price to pay but it is trivial in this case"

There was not even a moment of delay in making the decision, as if it didn’t cost him anything important, and yet Fen Baihu had a feeling that ’price to pay’ was not at all so simple and painless as he made it sound.

As they reached deep into wilderness, Wu Long found a secluded place, thousands upon thousands of talismans appearing from within his spatial ring and spreading around to begin weaving concealing formations, while Fen Baihu seamlessly turned into her human form landing next to him, spreading her mist to surround this place as far as she could to further conceal them.

"Whew~, made it in time before you did anything drastic", as he made a stone podium to lay Hong Xinyi onto with the Stone Rune, a voice resounded from behind him, both Wu Long and Fen Baihu turning around with vigilant eyes.

His eyes then widened as he saw a stunningly beautiful woman with glowing golden eyes and black hair looking at him with a smile.

Meanwhile, all of the fur on the eight tails and fox ears of the Celestial Fox stood up as her eyes widened as well, her body shuddering but as if frozen in place, not making any movements.

Xun Yawen’s smile widened as she saw her reaction, "Relax, Foxy, I’m a friend of Wu Long’s"

Fen Baihu glanced at Wu Long, who nodded in confirmation, which calmed her down mentally but couldn’t do anything about her Mythical Beast instincts.

"I’ll answer a few questions later, but let’s deal with the urgent matter that’s making you so anxious first", Xun Yawen then said as she appeared behind them, on the other side of the platform next to Hong Xinyi, "I cannot heal her directly but I can instantly drop her cultivation level to one where you can treat her, without worsening her condition, the price, of course, is that her cultivation will be gone permanently along with all benefits of it not just the cultivation base itself"

Wu Long turned to her, and after just a moment of thinking unlike the instant decision when it concerned his own price, nodded, "Thank you"

"Don’t thank me, it is a kind of transaction", Xun Yawen smiled, "It happens to be beneficial to you, but the one I’m making a transaction with is her"

She raised her hands, her delicate fingers touching Hong Xinyi’s forehead and abdomen at the same time, golden light shining from where the tips of her fingers touched the assassin beauty.

In just a moment, both Wu Long and Fen Baihu instantly felt that the powerful oppressive feeling from Hong Xinyi faded, and then completely disappeared as her cultivation fell to the Mortal Transcendence Realm.

At the same moment, her body which gave off an ethereal feeling, as if it was truly not of this world, regressed into a more human-like flesh and blood. And the biggest transformation of all was her hair turning from dark grey to midnight blue, darker and yet giving off that vivid color of blue, which caused Wu Long to slightly freeze as he had an inkling of what happened.

"Done", Xun Yawen said with the same tone as before, as if nothing big just happened, adding with a conspiratorial tone of voice, "I will come back to talk more when she’s stabilized - don’t take too long though, I may need to leave early to not draw unwanted attention to you, and don’t go into the Dream Realms of the Foxy here if you want to talk, I can’t enter there"

Her figure disappeared even before the sound of her voice as the last few words came as a sort of echo while Wu Long quickly took out a few pill bottles and fed some of them to Hong Xinyi, crushing a few to apply them directly to her wounds.