NOVEL NEXT Chapter 3: If you want to run away, you can't. People are numb. Don't cue.
"Um..."
"A move like this... Who did you learn it from? The posture is quite standard~"
The girl, who landed steadily, had a hint of surprise in her eyes, still steadily controlling the operation of the magic array in her palm.
When he heard this, Shen Mu couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled in his heart.
Huh?
Isn't this just an ordinary Iron Mountain Crash move?
Wait!
Shen Mu looked at the blonde-haired girl in front of him and suddenly had a feeling that their wavelengths were just starting to match for the first time.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked tentatively.
"Nothing much, just asking casually."
"Besides..."
The girl gradually spread her legs apart, pursed her lips in an indistinct way, and there was an emotion in her eyes that she couldn't hold back. "I can do it too!"
Whoosh!
As soon as she finished speaking, an Iron Mountain Crash move instantly rushed towards Shen Mu, with even greater force than his, and knocked him flying!
"Damn it..."
"This..."
Shen Mu, who was flying backwards, was full of surprise and disbelief in his eyes.
"How about it? My Kun-style Iron Mountain Crash isn't worse than yours, right?"
The girl's astonishing words once again made Shen Mu, who had just managed to land, fall silent for quite a while.
...
"Hahaha! This little guy is rather interesting."
A graceful figure in white clothes stood on the cloud of another spiritual peak, overlooking the area of the spiritual peak where Shen Mu was, and let out several silvery bell-like laughs.
[Qingling, I have something important to discuss with you.]
Suddenly, a cold female voice rang out in Luo Qingling's mind, making her expression gradually calm down.
"What is it?" she asked faintly.
[The eldest miss of the Lin family has broken the isolation magic array you set up in the entrance trial area, and now her whereabouts are unknown.]
"Unknown whereabouts?" Luo Qingling slightly lowered her eyes and looked at the two people who were confronting each other in the forest again, pursing her lips slightly.
"I don't think so."
...
"Kun-style..."
Shen Mu lowered his eyes when he caught the key words, and the spiritual sword in his palm also disappeared, as if he had given up resistance.
"So you also..."
"Are a black fan."
At this moment, he raised his eyes with a complex look in them and had a certain understanding of the girl's true identity.
"It seems my intuition is quite accurate." The girl smiled charmingly. "Sure enough, you're not a native here."
"Humph."
Shen Mu snorted softly. He didn't relax his vigilance just because he knew that the other party was from the same homeland as him. "So? Why on earth did you break into my sect's territory for no reason?"
"Nothing much~ Just taking a casual stroll."
"... Do you think I'll believe that?"
Although there is a common saying in the Celestial Dynasty that when fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears.
But in the current situation, there was a high possibility that it would be a case of when fellow villagers meet, one would stab the other in the back.
So, before thoroughly understanding the other party's true intentions, he couldn't relax his vigilance towards her.
"It seems you're rather wary." The girl had a thought, and the golden array patterns in her palm dissipated.
Shen Mu immediately felt his whole body relax, and there was no longer a feeling of being restrained under his feet.
"How about it? Do you believe me now?"
"..."
Shen Mu took a slight step back, still remaining on guard against her.
"Hey~ I've done this much, and you still don't believe me?"
"Could it be... You're following the path of a mortal cultivating immortality? You're so cautious."
As she spoke, the girl took a step towards him...
"Don't come over! Let me calm down."
Shen Mu stretched out his hand in time to stop the girl's approaching steps, while still hoping in his heart that his fairy master would arrive earlier.
...
After a stick
of incense had burned.
Master, why haven't you come yet...
Logically speaking, with the cultivation level of his fairy master, she should have been able to arrive immediately upon receiving the notification message.
It had been so long, yet she still hadn't come.
Could it be... She didn't want to care about whether he lived or died at all?
As soon as he thought of this possibility, Shen Mu's mood immediately dropped to the bottom, and he felt really bad.
"Hey~ Have you misunderstood me?"
"I was just playing a small, tentative joke with you just now. There was no malice."
Seeing that he had always been on guard against her, the girl's tone was no longer as mischievous and lively as before. She seriously explained to this "fellow villager" in front of her.
"..."
"What's your name?"
After a while, Shen Mu also adjusted his mood and calmly asked the blonde-haired girl in front of him.
"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first before asking others' names?"
Shen Mu gave a soft chuckle, nodded slightly, and confessed frankly, "Shen Mu, with four spiritual roots of miscellaneous grades, in the middle stage of Qi Refining. I've been in this world for two and a half years."
"Damn... Your cultivation time is quite coincidental." The girl exclaimed.
"Alright, stop exclaiming about that. It's just a coincidence." Shen Mu shrugged helplessly.
"Now can you tell me?"
"Lin Yuhe, in the late stage of Qi Refining, with dual spiritual roots of wind and fire. I'm only about two years behind you."
Lin Yuhe
However, when Shen Mu heard this name, his expression froze, and he immediately fell into a momentary daze.
"... What did you say... Your name is?"
"Lin Yuhe." The girl frowned slightly and tilted her head in puzzlement.
Shen Mu slowly lowered his head with a dull look in his eyes...
"..."
"Never see you again!"
Whoosh!
Without any hesitation, he activated the Escape Talisman. It was as if he had seen an extremely fierce evil star. He turned into a stream of light and quickly fled the scene.
At this moment, Lin Yuhe was completely confused.
"Alas...?"
"What kind of person is this? He ran away so fast even after hearing my real name."
[Haha... It seems that person is really afraid of you, especially after hearing your name.]
"Shouldn't be the case, right? It seems that we're meeting for the first time, right?"
The girl was extremely puzzled about this.
And just at this moment, a graceful figure with white clothes and red and white hair slowly landed behind her...
...
Back in his own courtyard cottage.
Shen Mu rushed into the room in a hurry and started packing his luggage without saying a word.
No way, he couldn't stay in the Wind Spirit Immortal Sect anymore. He had to go to a remote area with few people!
Think carefully... Which place would be more suitable?
"Slap!"
Shen Mu slapped the complete hand-drawn map of the Nine Continents Continent onto the table after packing his luggage and carefully searched for remote areas suitable for a weak cultivator like him to live in for a long time.
"Northern Immortal Continent..."
No, this was the second continent that the protagonist would go to after facing difficulties. There was a chance of running into him.
"Eastern Saint Continent..."
Still no good. With my current strength, I can't even break through the ten thousand miles of chaotic areas outside the Crossing Immortal Thunder Sea.
"Southern Ying Continent..."
"Heavenly Divine Continent..."
"..."
...
"Ah~~ I
can't go anywhere!"
Shen Mu was in despair and lay on the table, looking dejected and defeated.
His current strength was too weak, like a weakling in combat, and his innate aptitude was also poor. It would be difficult for him to go anywhere.
He couldn't even run away if he wanted to.
"Alas~"
"Could it be that I really can't escape that tragic ending..."
Shen Mu's arms dropped weakly under the table. He was dull-eyed and already numb.
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