Chapter 52

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Chapter 52: Run Away, Run Away!

"It really has some value."

Mo You stared at the strange little piece of bone, squinting slightly and swaying his tail in excitement.

Seemingly ordinary, but harboring hidden magical secrets within, the gift from the Lord of the Cold Abyss City was quite to his liking.

"Bring the thing closer for me to see."

His tone was commanding and authoritative, daring to treat a strong figure from the Transmigration Realm in such a way.

As the young master of the Black Snake Tribe and the true owner of Cold Abyss City, he naturally had the confidence.

As expected, the Lord of the Cold Abyss City immediately walked forward respectfully and presented the treasure.

The young City Master below frowned when he saw this, subtly glancing at the dark mist with disdain.

Mo You, hidden in the black mist, was still attached to the giant python. He couldn’t directly pick up the strange bone to examine it closely, so he could only observe from a distance.

Then, to the amazement of the onlookers, the grey bone started to shimmer with colorful lights, as if it had suddenly come to life.

A clever demon cultivator immediately knelt down, excitedly exclaiming, "The treasure is sentient, it showed a vision upon seeing the young master. It seems to be preparing to acknowledge you as its master!"

Mo You remained silent, focusing all his attention on the bone.

He did sense a very subtle fluctuation on the bone’s surface, like a soul but even more elusive and difficult to grasp.

Nearby, the Lord of the Cold Abyss City continued to speak flattering words.

"In the past few hundred years, I have never seen it exhibit such a phenomenon. It is said that only divine objects select their owners in this way. It seems like you are truly fortunate…"

These words are true, only legendary magical objects will choose their owners willingly.

With his persuasion, Mo You impulsively used a bit of his soul’s power to tentatively touch the bone fragment.

At that moment of contact, he heard a fierce roar in his ear, and saw a faint image of a gaping mouth with sharp teeth more terrifying than any weapon present. What kind of monstrous creature is this?!

What’s even more frightening is that the soul he sent out was actually consumed by the other entity.

Indeed, it was devoured, Mo You even heard a faint belch!

What kind of creature is hidden inside this bone? He had traveled through the Demon Realm and explored the Four Continents, but this was something entirely unheard of! Could it truly be a mythical beast brought by the gods a thousand years ago?

He originally planned to imprint his soul mark on this treasure using the soul rule directly, but now it seemed highly aggressive, with hints of backlash!

It seems like he will have to patiently study this after his strength has recovered. Mastering this magical object entirely will greatly enhance his power.

The guests nearby seemed completely unaware of these strange occurrences, even the Lord of the Cold Abyss City holding the treasure chest didn’t sense anything amiss.

Mo You looked at them secretly, confirmed it wasn’t a plot, suppressed his excitement, and said calmly, "Okay, just take it down first."

The Lord of the Cold Abyss City nodded, but as he tried to close the box, he felt a faint resistance, as if something didn’t want him to put the bone back in.

"Hmm? It really is something with a spirit."

So he stopped insisting, put it in the box, and ordered the attendant to carefully take it to the treasury.

Wen Yun in the corner had given up singing magic at this point, she was trying hard to focus her mental energy to calm the dragon bone.

She could feel its excitement and eagerness, the dragon bone seemed to be giving its all to return to her hands, but it was now too weak, having exhausted all its strength devouring Mo You’s soul’s thread just now.

Wen Yun looked at the dragon bone with only a few remaining fragments, feeling heartbroken.

Why is the baby dragon so small now?

Her Dragon Bone Magic Wand was originally made from the spine of a fire-type dragon, amazingly long enough to reach high beehives without trouble, but now there’s only this little bit left.

Ye Shubai beside Wen Yun didn’t know why she suddenly stopped casting spells. Thinking she needed a wand, he quietly asked, "Do you need to use my wooden sword?"

Wen Yun sighed softly, "No, it’s too fragile now. If I release a large-scale attack here, it might end up breaking it."

It seemed that the dragon bone wand had been brought along with her by the Time Space Spell. However, she drifted 500 years into the future in the time warp, while it had already arrived in this world 500 years ago. Seeing its pitiful state now, it was probably broken by the time warp.

She couldn’t let her wand be in danger again. If it broke again, it would be lost forever.

Ye Shubai was puzzled, "Him?"

Wen Yun pointed to the box in the hand of the Lord of the Cold Abyss City and explained softly, "That’s my wand spirit. It came with me, but… it’s severely injured."

Pausing for a moment, she said seriously, "It has been with me for hundreds of years, and now that I’ve found it, I can’t leave it here alone."

Ye Shubai glanced at the extraordinary bone and asked, "Is this the wand spirit that knows magic and has been wholeheartedly protecting you?"

Wen Yun looked uncomfortable and unconsciously touched her head, nodding vaguely, "Yes…"

Right?

What else did she say?

She said this wand spirit is clever and sensible, she said he is smart and gentle, and it seems like she also said he is as handsome as Ye Shubai…?

Oh no!

Ye Shubai didn’t notice the strange look on the girl’s face next to him. He lowered his gaze and said softly, "According to the Lord of the Cold Abyss City, he has been waiting for you for five hundred years."

He gave Wen Yun a deep look, as if he had finally made a major decision. "I’ll go distract their attention, you rescue him while they’re distracted."

Wen Yun saw his eyes suddenly turn icy, even reaching for the Brightwood Sword hidden in the space bag as if preparing to shout, "Ye Shubai is here," she was almost dumbfounded.

She abruptly grabbed Ye Shubai, trying to pull him under the table, but he was tall and strong. Helplessly, she had to throw herself onto him to barely hold him down.

"What are you trying to distract?" Wen Yun was so angry she almost swore, "Your powers are greatly reduced now, do you want to go out and get caught by them?"

Ye Shubai frowned and said, "Even though I dare not claim victory, escaping is also an option."

It means you are still the fastest sword cultivator, and others still can’t catch up with you, right?

Despite his casual words, Wen Yun knew this was a very dangerous situation. If he were to expose his identity and try to leave unharmed, it would almost certainly end in bloodshed.

Wen Yun sternly glared at him and urgently scolded, "No, I can’t let you take such risks!"

Ye Shubai looked at her with a complex expression and whispered, "But what about your wand spirit?"

Wen Yun couldn’t help but feel a sourness in her heart. Sword cultivators were really foolish, including the seemingly talented Ye Shubai, who was willing to risk everything for his wand spirit.

She was not one to speak with inspiring or emotional words, so she awkwardly argued, "You are my sword spirit, why would I trade you for a wand spirit? That deal is not worth it at all, I will never agree."

Seeing that Ye Shubai was still not convinced, she anxiously leaned towards him and quickly reminded him in a whisper—

"Who said we have to steal it? Can’t we just sneak it back?"

*

Stealing requires skill, and Wen Yun happened to possess that skill.

The gift-giving ceremony ahead was not yet over. All the gifts that were just presented had been carried by the maid into the treasury behind the main hall. There were at least a hundred guards surrounding the treasury. To steal the dragon bones from under their noses without alerting the people in front was no easy task.

Extremely difficult.

After noticing another round of boasting and applause in the main hall, Wen Yun stood up and turned to the guard patrolling beside her, whispering, "Excuse me, where is the restroom?"

The guard flashed the knife in his hand, ignoring her.

Wen Yun approached him and tried to appease him, saying, "People from small tribes like us have never seen so many good things before. Have you eaten your fill from this abundance? I can’t resist now. If I make a fool of myself at Master Mo You’s birthday banquet and upset the nobles…"

As she spoke, she skillfully pulled out a handful of magic crystals and handed them over.

The guard glanced discreetly, relaxed his frowning brows, and impatiently pointed in a direction, "Over there, go quickly and don’t cause any trouble for me."

Wen Yun said thank you and held Ye Shubai’s hand, running towards the back. They were in a dark corner and nobody noticed them leaving because everyone was focused on the main hall.

Only Mo You felt a strange fear in his heart. He wondered why he suddenly sensed two unpleasant energies.

Unable to investigate further due to his injured spirit, Mo You assumed that it was just another soul from the Black Snake trying to take over his body.

Thinking about this made him more agitated, especially when he looked at Xie Xun below and found him more irritating.

The Xie Family had no more value to him, and Xie Xun was only useful for increasing his reputation in the Demon Realm. Whether Xie Xun lived or died didn’t matter to him.

Hoarsely, he ordered, "Tie up that dog and take him down for everyone to see what these so-called righteous people are really like."

As soon as he said this, someone came forward to take the iron chain tied to Xie Xun and urged him to come down. But Xie Xun lay still on the ground, only the movement of his heavily breathing abdomen showing that he was still alive.

The guards of the City Master’s mansion kicked him down the steps of the hall, dragging him like a dead dog in front of many demon cultivators, regardless of whether he got up or not.

"Haha, this is the head of one of the Four Great Families? So this is what the righteous path is really like!"

"Hello, mean dog, haven’t drunk alcohol for a long time, right? I’ll give you a pot!"

In the openly scornful gazes, Xie Xun shrank, quietly covering his face with his hand, but couldn’t stop the teasing and mockery coming at him, making him feel even worse than if he had been killed.

Mo You also looked down at Xie Xun outside the hall.

Just then, a sudden violent spasm in his chest made his previously stable soul start to violently collide again, as if an invisible force was pulling and trying to push him out of the python’s body.

"You worthless thing! I should never have had a shred of mercy to put you into the body of the black python!"

"You dare to challenge me for this body, you’ve lived long enough!"

The python’s tail, in pain, started to thrash uncontrollably, even the black mist nearby began to waver, causing the guests sitting in the hall to sense that something was amiss, looking over with suspicion in their eyes.

Two souls began to battle for control of this serpent body, and Mo You felt a deep hatred in his heart. If he hadn’t been injured by Wen Yun’s spell back then, he wouldn’t have ended up in this situation, unable to even erase a fragment of a soul!

"If you dare to cause trouble again, I will kill your brother!"

The snake suddenly turned its head towards Xie Xun, who was curled up outside the palace, with its cold golden vertical pupils full of killing intent.

Sure enough, after the divine thought was sent out, the other soul that was still violently fluctuating suddenly calmed down, as if retreating back to its corner, and Mo You finally regained control over the snake body.

However, everyone in the palace noticed the movement in the black mist just now, even the Lord of Cold Abyss City was uneasy, carefully paying attention to the situation inside, not daring to be distracted.

Even Wen Yun, who was already lying on the roof of the treasury, had not expected this twist of fate, inadvertently helping her climb up smoothly.

Her mental power was exceptionally strong, so she had been paying attention to the situation in the palace all along. When she sensed something amiss over there, she immediately embodied the belief of seeking wealth in danger to the extreme. She quietly sneaked to the back of the treasury and used a Floating Skill to fly Ye Shubai up to the roof.

At this moment, the two of them were wearing black beast skins, almost blending in with the same color roof.

Wen Yun’s heart was beating fast, not because she was nervous about stealing, but because she sensed that the dragon bone wand was right below. She could even hear the roar of the stupid dragon.

"You fool, shouting like this when you’re already in such a state, do you know that’s called impotent rage…"

She cursed it fiercely in her heart, and then carefully penetrated her magic elements through the roof, gently casting a Floating Skill on the dragon bone wand.

Using Floating Skill to make the treasure fly out on its own, this trick didn’t work for stealing things, it was a little Charmander’s idea in the first place.

It was under its guidance that Wen Yun managed to steal and teach herself all kinds of spells from The Church of Light’s spellbook…

Of course, after even the spellbook for the Spell of Light Judgment was lost, the roof of The Church of Light was covered with forbidden air spells, and nobody could climb up there anymore, Wen Yun also lost the chance to steal light-based forbidden spells.

She tried to control the small piece of dragon bone to float upwards, it was very clever too, suppressing its excitement at the moment, no light leaked out.

However, halfway through flying, the dragon bone stopped, no matter how hard Wen Yun tried, it remained motionless.

Wen Yun was puzzled, it’s just a Floating Skill, it shouldn’t run out of magic halfway, right?

And the current situation seemed more like the dragon bone itself didn’t want to move…

Wen Yun was anxious, what trick was this cursed ancestor going to play again?

Soon she would find out the answer.

The dragon bone pulled her magic towards a beautiful silk box, Wen Yun’s eyes widened, she recognized where the box came from.

If I remember correctly, this box contains the magic boat that the young man from the Fire Lion Tribe gave to Mo You, it grows in water and can cross the outer seas!

She found it funny and frustrating, she almost guessed what the unlucky dragon was up to.

As expected, the dragon bone swayed through the decorative chain of the silk box, then slowly lifted the box up and flew towards Wen Yun.

Wen Yun lifted a piece of tile, quickly grabbed the silk box, but the dragon bone still seemed to want to steal something again.

She was annoyed, couldn’t help but curse the unlucky thing, "It’s so late, and you still want to empty this place?!"

Vaguely, she heard a disgruntled roar from the evil dragon.

Wen Yun didn’t bother with it, she threw the dragon bone and the silk box to Ye Shubai, sneakily looked down.

The commotion on the other side of the hall had ended, even Xie Xun, who was being shown like a dog, had been taken away, it seemed not easy to escape from the City Master’s mansion quietly…

She tugged on Ye Shubai’s sleeve.

"How about we play a game of tag?"

Ye Shubai didn’t ask her what she wanted to play, he simply said, "Sure, I’ll join you."

Wen Yun smiled, pursed her lips, and slyly looked towards a direction, then quickly started chanting an advanced spell.

Unnoticed on the rooftop, tiny dots of light began to shimmer. Yet, in the City Master’s mansion illuminated by bright lights, these faint dots did not catch the guard’s attention.

The guard who received the magic crystal from Wen Yun muttered to himself, "These two bumpkins from the Skywolf Tribe, can’t even eat a piece of meat without dragging it out forever. It’s really embarrassing!"

…

Wen Yun’s palm began to grow hot.

The fire magic elements started to rise, but beyond that, her expertise in spatial magic also began to gather.

This is her proudest magic of the two elements, and it is the first time she has combined them together to cast it.

Suddenly, Ye Shubai remembered that scene.

When Wen Yun thrust her sword, the sword energy appeared from the opposite direction, as if the space was distorted!

He knew what she wanted to do!

"The rules of time and space, controlling not only time… but also space."

Softly whispering, Wen Yun’s eyes seemed to light up with dazzling points, too bright to look at directly.

Just then, a bright light suddenly rose from the opposite direction. At first, everyone thought it was fireworks, even the Lord of the Cold Abyss City furrowed his brows, asking softly, "What’s happening, is it time for fireworks now?"

The people below puzzled, "No, we just finished, for the young master’s hundredth birthday, we set off a hundred fireworks… huh?"

The person’s gaze suddenly passed Lord of the Cold Abyss City, widening, even forgetting to report back, only the trembling lips remained.

"Rubbish! Take them away and kill them," scolded Lord of the Cold Abyss City.

In the demon cultivator world, killing is normal, and every demon cultivator here has taken lives.

But no one obeyed the command. Even his most loyal followers were trembling and looking up at the sky in fear, kneeling on the ground and murmuring, "We have killed too many people, and the gods are angry…"

Countless points of light flew from the west in the sky, like falling stars. According to Demon Realm records, the day when the stars fall is the end of the world.

At this moment, countless fireballs fell from the sky like a storm of fire. The demon cultivators below were going mad, even turning on each other with weapons. They were all shouting angrily, "It’s your evil deeds that brought this divine punishment. By killing you, we can survive!"

"Pigfei, I saw you last year kill that mother and child for a piece of animal skin! It must be your doing!"

"Leoparddragon, last month you slaughtered 355 people in Yimin Village. You have the most blood on your hands, don’t think we don’t know!"

"Everyone knows you used young girls for your dark magic rituals!"

…

In the western sky, there was a rain of fire attacking, while below, demon cultivators were crazily fighting each other.

In the unnoticed sky to the east, a flying sword ascended and swiftly escaped like lightning.

Run away, run away!