206: Chapter 206 Reunion Under the Night Sky

It was late at night.

Today, the Longxiang Academy was exceptionally quiet.

Almost all the students had gone out on missions; only a few who were injured or had completed their tasks had returned, but most of them were already resting in their dorms.

In this silence.

On the Longxiang Academy's Wenqing Bridge.

A white-haired girl sat on the stone railing of the bridge, her mind full of worries. Leaning against a baluster, she looked up at the dark night sky. The starlight reflected in her golden eyes, twinkling.

When she returned to the Longxiang Academy, she received a call from Leng Xiaoyue.

On the other end of the phone, he told her very anxiously that Linglong had disappeared.

Xing Yaoyan told him to wait in his room and that she would bring her over immediately.

Upon seeing the little cat-girl in her arms, Leng Xiaoyue breathed a long sigh of relief. However, seeing Ying Linglong unconscious like this, he still frowned and asked about what had happened.

Xing Yaoyan briefly explained the fact that she had joined the Star Cult and that her Soul was bound to a special Breath of the Abyss. She then urged him to take good care of her and, if anyone from the Security Bureau came, to refuse to let them near her in the name of the Yao Race.

She wasn't sure when Ying Linglong would wake up, but this was the best way for now.

Of course, Leng Xiaoyue still asked the question: why didn't she, who was also a girl, take care of her?

Xing Yaoyan only gave a slight, bitter smile in response.

And from her smile, combined with recent events, Leng Xiaoyue quickly understood the unspoken bitterness behind it.

Finally, he just nodded to her with a comforting smile, promising he would take good care of her.

But this was just a small interlude.

What really made her feel a bit suffocated was the subsequent interrogation of Huan Wuxing in her Spiritual Sea.

She learned many things from her.

Like how the things that turned people in those underground bars into monsters were special potions they had specifically made using Star Soul fragments mixed with Breath of the Abyss. By overdrawing a person's vitality in advance, they could briefly gain the power of a Star Beast.

She also mentioned that the Star Cult was not actually the spreader of the Breath of the Abyss, but rather its resolute resisters, and they had conducted extensive research on the Breath of the Abyss. It was only due to special reasons that they had to find sacrifices to dispose of the excess Breath of the Abyss, such as the previous Amusement Park incident and using potions to mutate humans.

These were all actually means for them to quickly process the Breath of the Abyss.

Finally, she told her that every month, all the Priests of the Star Cult needed to collectively upload their consciousness to a Mysterious Space to have a conversation with the Star Cult Leader to report on their recent work.

Sometimes, the Leader would also use special methods to issue individual tasks to everyone in the Star Cult, using techniques so eerie that no one could guard against them.

At that time, Xing Yaoyan had snorted in disdain.

She was the Heaven-Swallowing Star Wolf who could suppress the Breath of the Abyss; she didn't believe this so-called Star Cult Leader was so powerful that he could talk to her through the Breath of the Abyss she had firmly suppressed...

But she soon changed her mind.

Because just now, a voice like a sleep-talker's murmur reached her ears:

“Find the hidden 'Star Gazer' within the Longxiang Academy and control him with the Breath of the Abyss.”

The words were short.

After the voice ended, Xing Yaoyan was horrified to find a strange small black ball in her storage space, looking like a black pill.

She hadn't felt any fluctuations of power, any presence, or any malicious red light... this little thing just appeared in her storage space...

Only then did she realize she might have truly overestimated herself.

This pirate ship called the Star Cult was truly not easy to get off...

However, after a series of subsequent tests, she breathed a shallow sigh of relief.

The owner of that murmur probably couldn't monitor the members of the Star Cult at will. After all, if he were truly that divine, he wouldn't be unaware that Huan Wuxing had been captured by her...

But... her heart still felt inexplicably oppressed.

Xing Yaoyan lay in bed with her eyes wide open from nine o'clock in the evening until twelve, unable to sleep. So she got up and began to wander through the empty Longxiang Academy campus.

Finally, she stopped at the so-called Wenqing Bridge and sat quietly alone on the bridge, staring at the sky in a daze.

She heard that this bridge used to be a feature of the Longxiang Academy and a Holy Land for dating that every Longxiang Academy person long ago aspired to.

But for everyone now, there were plenty of places outside the campus with better environments, and this place quickly became what everyone called a “relic of the old era”...

But in Xing Yaoyan's eyes, this stone bridge deeply attracted her because on this stone bridge, which was out of place with the high technology of this world, she could feel a long-lost sense of familiarity.

This stone bridge was perhaps the thing most similar to the world of her past life in her memory...

This time, she didn't tie her hair in a ponytail as usual, but let her long white hair drape behind her, floating gently with the night breeze. She also put on the long white dress with gold silk inlay, which she hadn't worn in a long time, materialized from the Power Of Will.

With her current strength, this dress was almost no different from a real dress, and she didn't have to worry about being discovered.

Besides... it was late at night, and there was almost no one on campus, so she didn't have so many concerns.

She gently rubbed the white hem of her dress with her fingertips.

“What a pity... it's not easy for this Young Miss to wear a dress once, but unfortunately, no one is lucky enough to see it...”

She teased herself.

But soon...

“Thud... thud... thud...”

This dull, slight sound was so obvious in the quiet night.

Sensing something, Xing Yaoyan turned her head toward the source of the sound and saw someone standing on the bridge not far behind her—someone she was extremely familiar with.

“Qian Mo... why are you here...”

Amidst her surprise, she also instantly realized that her current attire was completely inconsistent with her usual persona, and for a moment, she felt a bit shy.

Damn... this guy... he still walks without making any sound at all, I didn't even know when he got so close to me...

“Good evening, Young Miss Xing Yaoyan... you're still not asleep at this late hour...”

“So what? I just can't sleep. Speaking of which... why did you come to this place? I remember this area is deserted year-round and is known as the most remote area in the entire Longxiang Academy.”

Xing Yaoyan answered him while pretending to be calm, even trying to turn the tables on him.

But what she didn't notice was that her subconscious action of twirling a strand of hair falling over her forehead still betrayed her lack of inner calm.

“Is that so? I can't sleep either... Young Miss Xing Yaoyan, it's quite a coincidence for us...”

The boy said as he slowly approached her with a smile.

A coincidence...

The white-haired girl tilted her head and pursed her lips.

Thinking to herself that today was really unlucky; she had just said no one would see her in a dress, and a few seconds later, she was proven wrong...

Wait...

Xing Yaoyan suddenly looked up, staring at the boy with a face full of surprise and suspicion, his eyes inexplicably soft and mixed with various complex emotions.

“What did you just call me?”

“Xiao Yan...”

The boy's tone carried an unquestionable firmness and tenderness:

“I found you...”