Chapter 262: Chapter 162: Where’s the Little White Fish?

Ji Xueruo stared blankly at You Su’s immobile silhouette, everything froze at this moment, even the blood gushing from her pierced abdomen coagulated in mid-air.

With a "crack," a pitch-black crack appeared in the pure white world, expanding rapidly until it spread across the entire space.

The illusion collapsed at this moment, and cold winds violently surged in from the fissures. Ji Xueruo murmured to herself:

"It worked..."

The wound on her abdomen visibly healed rapidly, and the half-step Void Realm’s power that could easily subdue mountains and seas vanished in an instant, like a balloon suddenly deflated.

As the world disintegrated, the true face of the world behind the illusion was revealed. They were already inside the magnificent underground divine palace.

In the dim world, two massive eyes of the creature known as Cangtux were the only source of light. Countless dark green eyes continually formed and dissolved on its surface, resembling nauseating bubbles emerging from a viscous oil field.

This divine beast, originally formed by dragon bones, now looked a decayed mess, like a shapeless monster made from filth.

Tough and slender tentacles nearly filled the entire palace, each covered in sticky liquid. At their ends were clusters of twisted, pulsating smaller tentacles, like nerve endings.

The tentacles’ suction cups attached to their prey’s neck, injecting the illusion carefully crafted by Cangtux into their brains, causing them to sink endlessly and unknowingly become nourishment.

You Su and Ji Xueruo also had a tentacle attached to the back of their heads, writhing as it hoisted them up in front of Cangtux’s enormous eye.

The illusion Cangtux prepared meticulously over millennia was broken by two mere ants of the Middle Spirit Platform Realm. It gazed at them, casting a ghastly green light that illuminated them both as it tried to memorize their faces.

Instead of exerting any power, Cangtux simply dangled and observed, its eyes filled with a thousand years of accumulated resentment and agony, enough to suffocate the two.

Ji Xueruo frowned painfully; not even the most bloodthirsty fiends on earth could match Cangtux’s intensity of emotions. This hatred was like a fine wine brewed over millennia, that even a sip of it could make one become Cangtux’s most loyal servant.

"Close your eyes!"

You Su shouted, waking the gradually lost Ji Xueruo.

Ji Xueruo shut her eyes tightly, feeling a lingering fear, and envisioned the gentle, handsome face of a young man. Lying in his arms, his smile was as gentle as the moon, making her forget the evil in Cangtux’s eyes, breaking free from the quagmire of hatred.

Was it because he was blind...

Ji Xueruo found it unbelievable. Being of the same age, why was his heart so strong it could withstand Cangtux’s millennia of accumulation?

Only because he was blind, unable to see Cangtux’s mystical eyes, could explain it.

But only Cangtux, with its myriad compound eyes glimmering simultaneously, knew — within this boy’s ink-black eyes lay a pain more profound than its own...

Thus, its spiritual contamination had no effect on the blind boy.

Cangtux seemed unwilling to give up, deciding to continue polluting You Su’s mind with words. Suddenly, a voice appeared in You Su’s Sea of Consciousness.

The voice was ancient and heavy, like a Sanskrit chant transmitted across millennia —

"The source of sin grasped the sword of redemption... Foul Dragon, Void Nightmare! Don’t think hiding in the unknown can let you live to the end! You... will also die soon! Hahaha..."

Cangtux laughed openly, as if sweeping away the gloom of a thousand years, but in the next instant, its carefree smile abruptly stopped!

Suddenly, the dark and vast palace lit up as bright as daylight, and blinding white light, like a sharp sword, aimed to pierce through all evil. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

A tall man, standing on the crest of a wave, appeared beside You Su, surprisingly the source of the white light! With a solemn face, he used a water blade to sever the tentacle behind You Su’s head.

Meanwhile, Ji Xueruo was rescued by a Female Immortal standing on a green lotus flower, also backed by an array that continuously radiated this evil-breaking white light.

Just as Little White Fish had said, You Su and Ji Xueruo’s task was to break Cangtux’s illusion and rescue those trapped within. To directly kill this millennia-old monster was a task they couldn’t accomplish.

The first ones to awaken were the two long-missing Patriarchs of the Jade Ring Pool — Venerable Chengtao and Mr. Cuihe.

The two Venerables embraced You Su and Ji Xueruo, and behind them, all the people hung under Cangtux’s countless tentacles awoke, their eyes filled with furious anger.

This divine beast’s body had rotted for a thousand years and chose to become a foul entity serving as a Dream Master. But its strongest illusionary tactic had been broken, without the means to beguile hearts, it would now face its final judgment.

And the events that followed were no longer the business of the two young ones of the Middle Spirit Platform Realm...

Ji Xueruo took one last look at the now-sleeping You Su, the boy’s profile smooth and beautiful. Finally, she relaxed her mind and closed her eyes in exhaustion...

...

The lake wind brushed past, making You Su’s thick eyelashes tremble. He slowly opened his eyes, the world appearing blurred yet less shadowed.

Two gentle voices chimed in unison:

"Mr. You! You’re awake!"

Yo Meng and Yo Long each grabbed one of You Su’s hands, excitedly pressing their well-stuffed sleeves against him.