185: Chapter 185 Ye Qingyu's Acting Skills and Bait

Inside the map of mountains and rivers, that dim dungeon space.

Su Yun's figure appeared silently.

The smell of blood and rot in the air was ten times stronger than before, thick like a mist that wouldn't dissipate.

On the ground, complex and eerie dark red patterns were carved.

These patterns converged in the center of the dungeon, forming a giant array that slowly writhed like a living creature.

In the center of the array, Ye Qingyu was lying there on all fours in an extremely humiliating posture.

Her originally fair skin was covered with crisscrossing blood-colored demonic patterns.

These demonic patterns seemed to have a life of their own, moving under her skin, making her look eerie and terrifying.

Hearing footsteps, her hollow and numb eyes instantly lit up, replaced by a nearly frantic and morbid zeal.

“Master!”

She let out a scream of extreme joy, like a believer seeing a deity descend.

She didn't even dare to look up at Su Yun.

Before long, she finally crawled to Su Yun's feet.

She looked up, her once pure and ethereal face now filled with humility and a desire to please.

After doing all this, it was as if she had completed a supreme mission, and she lowered her head contentedly.

“Master... Qing Yu... Qing Yu finally sees you again...”

Her voice was hoarse and broken, yet it carried a spine-chilling affection and dependence.

Su Yun looked expressionlessly at the creature at his feet, who could no longer be called “human.”

He had to admit that Zi Yun's talent for torturing and destroying people was indeed top-tier.

In just three days, she had completely transformed a proud and resentful Star Moon Saintess into a loyal dog that only knew how to wag its tail and beg for mercy.

“Husband, look, how are Yuner's results?”

Zi Yun's figure stepped out from the shadows, smiling sweetly as she leaned into Su Yun's embrace, speaking as if seeking credit.

With a hint of proud flush on her face, the way she looked at Ye Qingyu was like admiring the most perfect work of art she had created with her own hands.

“Not bad,” Su Yun commented indifferently, reaching out to wrap his arm around her waist. “How is the processing of her memory going?”

“Don't worry, Husband,” Zi Yun smiled confidently.

“I have shattered all of her original memories and woven a new set of memories to implant into her.”

“In her new perception, you and I are gods who have existed since the beginning of creation, the sole meaning of her existence.”

“And that so-called ‘Moon Goddess’ is merely a despicable false god who stole the power of the gods and deluded her into falling.”

Zi Yun's fingertips gently stroked the top of Ye Qingyu's head, like comforting a pet.

“Now, she is filled with bone-deep hatred for that ‘Moon Goddess,’ believing that all her past misfortunes were caused by that false god.”

“Her greatest wish now is to personally drag that false god down from the altar and sacrifice her to you, her true master.”

Hearing this, a hint of approval flashed in Su Yun's eyes.

This script was well-written.

Compared to a simple Puppet, an avenger full of “subjective initiative” was clearly more believable.

“Very good.” Su Yun nodded. “It's time to let this bait lure the big fish.”

Just as Su Yun's voice fell.

A sudden change occurred!

Ye Qingyu, who was lying on the ground, suddenly began to tremble violently without any warning.

The blood-colored demonic patterns on her body seemed to receive some kind of summons and began to flash frantically.

An extremely cold aura that did not belong to this world burst out from within her.

“Hmm?” Su Yun's eyes narrowed.

It's here!

In mid-air, the air distorted violently like ripples on water.

Wisps of deep blue light threads appeared out of thin air, quickly weaving into the phantom of an ancient and desolate bone mirror.

The frame of that bone mirror was polished from unknown beast bones, covered with dense primordial runes.

The mirror surface was a patch of Chaos, impossible to see clearly, yet it emitted a terrifying pressure that made one's Divine Soul tremble.

“Quick!”

Su Yun shouted low, his reaction extremely fast.

With a thought, that vast dark-golden Origin of Heavenly Dao instantly swept out.

Like an invisible tide, it completely enveloped and concealed the presence of himself and Zi Yun.

To the outside world, the two seemed to have evaporated into thin air, leaving not a single trace of their existence.

At the same time, Zi Yun, having received a signal from Su Yun's eyes, immediately issued a new command through the ‘Heart-Eroding Lead’ left deep within Ye Qingyu's Divine Soul.

Almost at the same time the bone mirror phantom took shape.

The fanatical and humble expression on Ye Qingyu's face vanished without a trace.

It was replaced by a complex expression mixed with pain, despair, resentment, and a hint of relief from surviving a disaster.

Under Zi Yun's secret control, blood began to seep from the wounds on her body, making her look miserable to the extreme.

She struggled, using all her strength to reach out toward the bone mirror phantom, her throat letting out a hoarse wail like a cuckoo weeping blood.

“Mas... Master... save me...”

Hum!

The surface of the bone mirror suddenly brightened, the Chaos dissipated, reflecting a pair of cold, aloof eyes devoid of any emotion.

The owner of those eyes seemed to sit atop the Nine Heavens, looking down upon all things in the world, viewing all living beings as ants.

A voice as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, yet carrying extreme majesty, came from the bone mirror, echoing directly within Ye Qingyu's Sea of Consciousness.

“Ye Qingyu.”

Just three words caused the temperature of the entire dungeon space to drop to the freezing point.

In that voice, there was an unquestionable scrutiny and suspicion.

“Why has your aura undergone such a strange fracture?”

“The Divine Soul mark I left in your body was silent for as long as an hour three days ago, completely losing contact with me.”

“Speak, what exactly happened during these three days?”

“Was... someone performing a Soul search on you?”

The Moon Goddess's voice was like a knife with every word, piercing the heart with every sentence.

Her Divine Thought, like an invisible sharp sword, pierced through the bone mirror and stabbed fiercely into Ye Qingyu's Sea of Consciousness.

Trying to find even the slightest flaw from her most minute Soul fluctuations.

Hiding in the shadows, Su Yun's eyes narrowed slightly.

This Moon Goddess was even more cautious and suspicious than he had imagined.

Ordinary pleas for help and acting would probably not deceive her at all.

He could feel that Ye Qingyu's Sea of Consciousness was already showing signs of collapse under the Moon Goddess's massive Divine Thought pressure.

If this continued, before they could finish their play, Ye Qingyu, the “actor,” would be scared to death by the other party's “director.”

Su Yun's gaze fell on Zi Yun beside him.

Zi Yun gave him a charming smile, her eyes full of the confidence of “Husband, please rest assured.”

Her fingertips moved slightly, and an extremely subtle Divine Thought thread silently connected to Ye Qingyu's Divine Soul Origin.

The next moment, Ye Qingyu, who was almost speechless from the Moon Goddess's pressure, suddenly flashed a look of bone-deep hatred in her eyes.

She looked up, staring directly at those high and mighty eyes in the bone mirror, and began to laugh miserably and shrilly.

“Soul search? Hehe... Master, you think too highly of your humble servant.”

As she laughed, she spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

“For these three days, I have been trapped in this dark dungeon, suffering the torture of that pair of bastards thousands of times every day!”

“My Physical Body was destroyed, my Divine Soul was torn apart, and my Dao Heart was repeatedly trampled under their feet!”

Her voice was filled with endless pain and resentment, and it wasn't acted out.

Rather, it was Zi Yun using the ‘Heart-Eroding Lead’ to completely ignite the most primitive negative emotions deep within her Divine Soul.

“As for the aura fracture you mentioned... hehe, that's because to protect the last trace of the mark you left, I didn't hesitate to detonate part of my Divine Soul, forcibly creating a Soul vacuum, and only then did I manage to deceive them!”

“I thought... I thought you would come to save me! I thought you would bring down divine punishment and crush those ants who desecrated you into fly ash!”

“But I waited for three days! Three whole days! And all I got was your cold questioning!”

Ye Qingyu's emotions progressed layer by layer under Zi Yun's micro-management.

From the initial plea for help, to the despair in the middle, and now to the resentment, the transition was seamless and without any flaws.

This performance even made Su Yun, hidden in the shadows, want to applaud her.

As expected, the top-tier lies are often wrapped in the most genuine emotions.

A loyal servant trapped in a desperate situation who hasn't received rescue for a long time—it's only natural for them to feel a hint of resentment toward their master.

This was more effective at dispelling the other party's suspicions than constant begging and fear.

The Moon Goddess on the other side of the bone mirror fell silent.

In those cold eyes, an imperceptible ripple seemed to flash.

Clearly, Ye Qingyu's “outpouring of true feelings” had worked.

But it wasn't enough.

There was still one last straw needed to crush her reason.

Ye Qingyu took a deep breath, a strange and frantic smile appearing on her face.

She looked at the bone mirror and said word by word:

“Master, although I am trapped here and have suffered all kinds of torture, I have discovered a massive secret...”

“In the deepest part of this Star-Moon Holy Land's underground palace, that legendary supreme treasure is hidden...”

She paused intentionally, and at the moment the Moon Goddess's Divine Thought fluctuated violently, she used all her strength to roar out those three words.

“Falling—Star—Plate!”

“As long as you are willing to descend and save me, that supreme treasure, which can determine the success or failure of the ‘Liquidation Array,’ will be yours!”