Chapter 108: Quite a Fateful Encounter

"Good heavens, I just took a normal nap and almost caused a total wipeout?"

The alarm clock by the bed was still ringing, not yet turned off.

Chen Huai'an stared at the game screen with lingering fear.

The first thing he did upon waking up was to log into the game, only to be greeted by a blood-red pop-up notification saying that Li Qingran had provoked the Heavenly Dao and was about to be executed by it? How could he let that happen? He instantly selected a pre-set game option to stop Li Qingran, without any time to rethink his words.

As the blood-red warning disappeared.

Chen Huai'an breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damn it, this suffocating feeling like being coiled by a python, let me see what exactly happened!"

He had no idea what occurred while he was asleep, but he could infer something from the statuses of Li Qingran and Yue Qianchi.

[Status: Trapped in an illusion, consciousness blurred]

[Cultivation Progress: 12/1000 (Early Foundation Establishment)]

[Affection Level: 99]

These were Li Qingran's status bars.

Yue Qianchi's affection level and cultivation progress were not visible, but her status had an additional .

Yue Qianchi was seen running around frantically, her face filled with fear and panic, as if trying to escape from something.

Chen Huai'an silently turned up the volume to the max and finally heard clearly.

"Fire! So much fire! Go away..."

"It's burning, someone please help put out the fire, ahhh!"

She tripped over something, fell into a mud pit, then scrambled and huddled into a corner, her body trembling uncontrollably, her chin resting on her knees, her head buried in her arms, with sobs coming from beneath.

[Your teammate 'Yue Qianchi' is being eroded by the illusionary demon, please help her escape in time!]

"But it doesn't say how to help her escape!"

Chen Huai'an was at a loss, not even having a button to shout at Yue Qianchi.

"Wait, don't I still have that silly disciple?"

He slapped his forehead and quickly sent a voice message to Li Qingran: "Qingran, your senior sister has gone mad, quickly slap her or pour a basin of cold water on her, just do something to snap her out of it!"

[Qingran, your senior sister is being devoured by the demon, help her escape!]

Originally, Li Qingran was staring blankly at a corner.

Hearing Chen Huai'an's voice, she instantly snapped back to reality.

She was stunned for a moment, then her eyes immediately reddened, tears gushing out uncontrollably, dripping down, yet even though she was crying, the corners of her lips slightly curled up with joy after the heart-stopping scare.

"Master! Master, you're not dead!"

[Your master is doing just fine! What nonsense about dying? I told you I wouldn't die! Go save your senior sister!]

Hearing Chen Huai'an's voice again, Li Qingran fully regained her senses.

Seeing Yue Qianchi in pain, she hurried over to help, secretly pinching her own waist on the way.

Hmm, the pain felt real.

Clearly, it was real.

The master really wasn't dead.

What she had just experienced was all fake.

Li Qingran thought that extreme sadness would feel suffocating.

But she didn't expect that the current joy would also leave her breathless, hard to calm down.

"Senior sister, wake up!" She took a deep breath, steadied herself, and waved her hand in front of Yue Qianchi's face.

The next second, her hand was pushed away by Yue Qianchi.

"Fire! So, so much fire!"

"Put out the fire! Qingran, quickly put out the fire! Can't you see the fire?"

"Senior sister, there's no fire, it's an illusion." Li Qingran heartacheingly hugged Yue Qianchi. It was the first time she had seen such deep fear on Yue Qianchi's face, as if her head was being pressed into a pitch-black deep pool, opening her eyes to endless darkness, opening her mouth to a throat filled with suffocating cold.

It was a kind of extreme despair.

As if abandoned by the whole world.

"Fire, how can there be no fire, burning fire!"

"Qingran, quickly put out the fire! It's too late! The fire will burn everyone to death!"

Yue Qianchi stared intently at Li Qingran, tears and mud mixed together, smearing her delicate face.

"Master, what should I do?"

Li Qingran looked into the void.

Chen Huai'an was frantically clicking on the talent page, studying his already mastered Meridian Opening Needle Technique, not noticing the situation with Li Qingran.

One more purchase would make it perfect.

Then it would be a 100% safe Meridian Opening without any disabilities, allowing him to safely open all his meridians.

But what he had said earlier still held.

In front of Li Qingran appeared a wooden basin of ice water and a whip.

A cold voice from the void said: [Here, choose for yourself.]

"Master, are we really going to do this to senior sister?" Li Qingran looked at the ice water and the whip, torn between choices: "Isn't this a bit too harsh..."

There was no response from the void.

Seeing Yue Qianchi's condition worsening.

Li Qingran thought for a moment, then finally dragged the ice water over.

She soaked the whip in the ice water, then bowed to Yue Qianchi: "Senior sister, I apologize!"

With that, she turned Yue Qianchi around and whipped her.

"What a talent!"

Chen Huai'an was also stunned by Li Qingran's choice.

As the saying goes, children make choices, adults take everything.

Isn't this exactly what happened with Li Qingran?

Whipping with ice water on the butt, that's really something!

But that's not the point.

The point is, as the plot progresses, a new spending point has emerged.

<1> Spend 6998¥, use a Purple Sky Thunder Talisman to split the illusionary array.

<2> Spend 19998¥, summon the Black Scale Flying Sword to break the illusionary array.

<3> Spend 44444¥, temporarily elevate the avatar to the early Integration stage, use the eleventh move of the Green Lotus Sword Manual - Nine Heavens Milky Way.

All three choices can progress the plot.

It's just a matter of normal progression, doubled progression, and super-doubled progression.

Chen Huai'an narrowed his eyes, his gaze falling on the amount needed to upgrade the Meridian Opening Needle to perfection.

After a while, he looked up at the sky and sighed:

"Infinite Heavenly Lord, this Spirit Rhino Valley and I, we are quite fated indeed!"

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