124: Discovered

“Ugh!”

A short, almost inaudible gasp, suppressed with great effort, came from beside him.

Mo Yuhan rigidly turned his eyes and saw Instructor Ruo Lin’s cheeks, under the clear moonlight, flush with two unusually vibrant patches of red at a visible speed, spreading all the way to her earlobes and neck.

Her eyes, which were always gentle and smiling, were now wide open, filled with extreme shock, helplessness, and an indescribable embarrassment.

She abruptly turned her head away, almost daring not to look at the breathtaking scene in the lake, one hand instinctively covering her burning cheek, while the other shot out like lightning, with a hint of panic and an undeniable force, firmly covering Mo Yuhan’s eyes.

“Close… close your eyes! Don’t look!”

Hot, trembling air, accompanied by Ruo Lin’s unique warm scent, a mix of faint water vapor and body fragrance, rapidly puffed against Mo Yuhan’s ear.

The breath felt like an electric current, numbing half of Mo Yuhan’s body. He could clearly feel the instructor’s fingers trembling slightly as she covered his eyes, her palm hot and damp.

An unprecedented sensation, a mix of immense embarrassment, shame, and a hint of helplessness like being caught doing something ‘improper’ by an elder, coiled around his heart like a vine, making him wish he could dig a hole and crawl into it immediately.

This feeling was a hundred times harder to bear than being surrounded by enemies.

Just at this moment of extreme awkwardness, when the air seemed to solidify—

In the center of the lake, Yue Mei’s languidly stretched body suddenly stiffened.

Her purple, rhombus-shaped eyes, which had been shimmering with a hazy, spring-water-like glow, sharply turned towards the bush where Mo Yuhan and Ruo Lin were hiding.

The hazy wetness instantly receded, replaced by an icy, murderous intent, like two poisoned blades, piercing through the sparse branches and fiercely striking the two of them.

“Who?!”

A soft shout, filled with icy rage and unchallengeable majesty, exploded like thunder by the silent lakeside.

The calm lake surface suddenly burst open, and a massive column of water shot into the sky.

Mo Yuhan shivered all over, as if doused with ice water from head to toe, all his amorous thoughts instantly crushed by the fear of death.

He abruptly pulled down Ruo Lin’s hand covering his eyes, his hand still warm and slightly sweaty.

At the same time, his other hand shot out like lightning, fiercely grabbing a strange herb growing on the moist sandy ground by the lake, close at hand.

The herb glowed with a dreamy silver light, its three slender leaves like crescent moons, with liquid starlight flowing through its veins, emanating an ancient, cyclical, and endlessly vital mysterious aura—it was the Reincarnation Grass they had painstakingly searched for.

His fingertips touched the cool, slippery herb leaf, and Mo Yuhan, without hesitation, infused Dou Qi into his fingertips and yanked it out.

With a soft tearing sound, the Reincarnation Grass, along with a small clump of moist soil, was pulled out by the roots.

From the broken stem, a few drops of crystal-clear silver sap, emanating strong spatial fluctuations, seeped out, covering his palm and bringing a strange, cool, sticky sensation.

Almost at the same moment Mo Yuhan succeeded, the towering water column crashed down.

Under the moonlight, a graceful figure, enough to dim the heavens and earth, stood proudly upon the water.

Yue Mei!

At some point, her body was covered by a layer of light gauze, formed from purple energy and clinging to her skin, barely concealing the most crucial points, yet outlining her breathtaking curves even more temptingly.

Her wet purple hair clung to her smooth back, and water droplets continuously dripped from her hair tips.

She stood barefoot on the gently rippling lake, as if treading on a flowing mirror.

Her captivating face no longer held any trace of languor, only icy killing intent and a monstrous rage at being offended.

“Two little mice who don’t know their place…”

Yue Mei’s rhombus-shaped purple pupils locked onto the two behind the bush, her enchanting voice now laced with venom, every word carrying bone-chilling coldness, “Peeking at this King bathing? And coveting the herbs of my clan’s sacred lake?”

Her gaze swept over the Reincarnation Grass glowing with silver light in Mo Yuhan’s hand, and the rage in her eyes intensified, “Put that down, and then… use your lives to appease this King’s wrath!”

The moment the last word “wrath” left her lips, a terrifying pressure belonging to a Dou King powerhouse erupted like a tangible tsunami.

The air groaned under the immense pressure, and the bush where Mo Yuhan and Ruo Lin were hiding was instantly crushed into dust as if by an invisible giant hand.

Both felt as if their chests had been struck by a heavy hammer, their blood and Qi surging, and with a muffled grunt, their bodies were uncontrollably pushed backward by that overwhelming pressure, their feet plowing two deep furrows in the soft sand.

“Run!”

Instructor Ruo Lin’s reaction was incredibly swift. The moment the pressure descended, she forcefully suppressed her surging blood and Qi, and her water-blue Dou Qi erupted, instantly condensing into a rhombus-shaped giant shield shimmering with water ripples in front of her.

“Profound-tier Mid-level Dou Skills: Water Elemental Mirror Wall!”

Bang!

The invisible wave of pressure violently crashed against the water mirror shield, emitting a dull, thunderous roar.

The water mirror vibrated violently, its surface instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks! Ruo Lin’s delicate body trembled, her face paled, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, but she still managed to block this remote attack, gaining precious breathing room for Mo Yuhan.

A sharp glint flashed in Mo Yuhan’s eyes, without the slightest hesitation.

His clothes behind him ripped with a tearing sound, and a pair of huge wings suddenly unfurled, the power of Xuan Huang Purple Flame frantically pouring into them.

“Eagle Wings, Phoenix Flight Step!”

He tightly clutched the Reincarnation Grass in his left hand, and with his right hand, he fiercely grabbed Ruo Lin’s arm, executing profound footwork, leaving a string of blurry afterimages like Gui Mei.

The fiery wings on his back flapped fiercely.

Boom!

A violent airflow mixed with scorching high temperatures exploded, propelling their bodies like arrows released from a bow, shooting towards the vast sand sea on the outskirts of the Oasis.

Their speed was so great that a persistent purplish-red flame trail lingered in their wake.

“Trying to run?!”

A cold sneer flashed in Yue Mei’s rhombus-shaped pupils, but more so, a furious rage at being provoked by ants.

She didn’t even bother to move her feet, merely raising a jade-like arm, fairer than frost and snow, with elegant casualness, and making a vague grasping motion in the air towards the direction the two were fleeing.

“Profound-tier High-level Dou Skills: Charming Snake Binding!”

Buzz!

In the air, countless energy threads, almost invisible to the naked eye, formed instantly from condensed purple Dou Qi.

These threads were as fine as hair but incredibly tough, carrying strong Binding and paralyzing effects, like living venomous snakes, coiling from all directions towards the rapidly fleeing Mo Yuhan and Ruo Lin.

Their speed far surpassed the two’s escape velocity.

“Be careful!”

Ruo Lin felt the chilling Binding force coming from behind her and sharply warned. She suddenly broke free from Mo Yuhan’s hand, forcefully twisted her body, and facing the purple threads coiling towards them from all directions, she rapidly formed hand seals.

“Profound-tier Mid-level Dou Skills: Thousand-Layer Water Arrows!”

Her water-blue Dou Qi boiled around her, instantly condensing hundreds of thousands of sharp water arrows, about a foot long! The water arrows, like a torrential rain of pear blossoms, shot out with sharp whistling sounds towards those purple energy threads.

Chii chii chii chii!

The water arrows and purple threads violently collided and cut.

Most of the threads were temporarily blocked and severed by the dense water arrows, emitting harsh friction sounds and faint sounds of energy annihilation.

However, Yue Mei’s strength far surpassed Ruo Lin’s, and this “Charming Snake Binding” was her signature Dou Skill, not easily broken.

Still, dozens of tricky purple threads, like maggots on bones, penetrated the water arrows’ blockade and instantly coiled around Ruo Lin’s arms and waist!