Novel Full Chapter 470: Ch 470 - In Time to Come
Chapter 470: Ch 470 – In Time to Come
“And… scene.”
Deep in the dungeon, after gracefully dodging the final two sets of feint attacks, Yino landed with elegant precision and sheathed his sword. Behind him, the breeding worm convulsed a few times before exploding in a shower of blood.
Thud-!
As the performance reached its climax, the white fox girl hanging from the ceiling plummeted down. The white-robed boy stepped back and caught her perfectly in a princess carry.
For a moment, Yuebai lay in Yino’s arms, her platinum-marked enchanting eyes slowly widening as if she’d glimpsed the most perfect prince from a fairy tale.
The battle had been too gorgeous, transcending mere violence to become something closer to an artistic dance performance starring Yino alone. Every impossible dodge, every critical sword strike had the audience’s hearts racing.
And Yino, as the star of this show, had moved with effortless grace throughout, like someone taking a leisurely stroll through a battlefield of bullets and blades.
Both Yuebai and Ruoning were left speechless, completely stunned.
Clap~
Clap~~ Clap~~ Clap~
Unlike the other two girls who looked like they’d never seen anything like this, Jinyue immediately started applauding after watching Yino strike his final pose. She knew how to read the room.
Her enchanting eyes remained soft and sweet. In this moment, the girl’s tail swayed behind her, as if she felt a proud sense of participation that surpassed even Ruoning and Yuebai.
After all…
Jinyue had been the first to witness Yino’s true capabilities, and over all this time, she’d become the woman most in sync with him. While Ruoning was still worried and questioning, Jinyue was already several versions ahead.
“How… how is that even possible…” Ruoning swallowed hard, voicing the confusion that the dazed white fox girl in Yino’s arms couldn’t express.
Yino set Yuebai down and smiled. “Nothing special. Just practice makes perfect.”
If you’d faced the same boss over a hundred times, you’d have its entire attack pattern memorized too.
That’s how Yino had gotten through his previous life.
Some bosses were designed to be absolute bastards, unclear wind-up animations combined with those damn feint attacks. One mistimed dodge and you’d waste your escape only to get slapped to death mid-air. For speedrun players like Yino, who tackled story content while underleveled, there was zero margin for error. After getting one-shotted enough times, muscle memory kicked in. Hell, he could probably fight simple bosses like this breeding worm with his eyes closed.
“Before I found this floor’s hidden collectible,” Yino said, “Yuebai, you’d better think about how to prove you’re really Yuebai. I don’t buy that the real one could track Xumo through four floors and beat me to the eighth floor nightmare realm.”
“Otherwise, if you’re fake, I might miss the real Yuebai on this floor.”
Rather than elaborate further, Yino turned to examine the murals along the dungeon walls.
His words snapped Yuebai out of her prince-charming rescue fantasy. She looked toward Ruoning and Jinyue, but neither seemed willing to vouch for her. Finally, she lowered her head in thought.
After about two minutes, something seemed to dawn on her, and her nine fluffy tails began trembling.
“Oh! I know how to prove it!”
“How?”
Still examining the wall murals, Yino glanced back with curiosity.
Their eyes met, and for some reason, the white fox girl’s face flushed red.
Then, before Yino could react, she began slowly lifting her embroidered Liuli Sect robes—
“Master just had his way with this servant recently. Surely Master knows my… inner qualities best.”
“If Master still has doubts… why not give me a thorough inspection right here…”
Ruoning: ?
“Wait! Is that seriously an option?!”
The Liu family’s pampered young miss was utterly shocked by the white fox’s brazen suggestion.
By the time she realized what she’d just heard, it was too late. She reached out to stop the fox girl’s insane proposition, but after a moment of narrow-eyed suspicion, Yino actually nodded approvingly:
“Makes sense. Only that kind of… soul-deep communion could let me truly feel whether your inner self is genuine or counterfeit.”
Ruoning: ?
“Hold on, why does that reasoning make sense to you?!”
Ruoning tried to intervene but could barely find words to protest.
Yino raised an eyebrow, looking at her with genuine confusion. “It’s perfectly logical. What exactly are you imagining?”
“I… what am I imagining?”
“I mean, it’s not like I’d go at it hot and heavy in some illusion…”
“Then… then how would you inspect…”
Ruoning breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next second, Yino rolled up his sleeves. “With my hands, obviously.”
“Wait, with your… hands?! That’s not any better!”
“Are you letting your mind wander again?”
“Huh!?”
Ruoning’s pure heart faced yet another trial.
She tried thinking of innocent explanations, checking her pulse, or placing his hand at Yuebai’s throat to examine her spiritual energy…
But none of those would require Yuebai to lift up her own skirt!
If she was hiking up her dress, what else could Ruoning possibly imagine but… that?
“Alright, hold your breath and push out your lower abdomen.”
Yino didn’t bother explaining further. He simply gripped his right wrist with his left hand, then slowly focused his spiritual energy into his right palm.
Yuebai’s face flushed as she bit her teeth and shyly arched her back.
Truth be told, she’d initially thought Yino really was going to strip her down and have his way with her right there. She hadn’t expected he meant checking the spirit contract mark on her belly.
“Mmm, let me see…”
“These spirit markings don’t look fake. Even if someone could imitate them to this degree, the cost would be enormous. Even if you’re not Yuebai, with markings like these you could serve as my spirit in her place.”
“So yes, you’re the real deal.”
After pressing his palm against the white fox girl’s lower abdomen and closing his eyes in concentration, Yino nodded with his diagnosis.
Finally trusted, the white fox girl released her bitten teeth with relief.
“Actually… the reason I arrived so early was because… right after entering the illusion, I’d only followed Xumo for one floor before he discovered me…”
“Xumo found you?” Yino’s eyebrows shot up.
He knew Xumo had turned against Yuebai, which was why he’d told her to use her cultivation advantage and illusion talents to secretly tail Xumo and record his movements until the fourth floor.
“Yes… Xumo was traveling with the Crimson Prince… even with my abilities, I couldn’t stay hidden…”
As a fox demon, Yuebai had been nervous about lying at first, but mentioning the Crimson Prince made her excuse feel much more reasonable.
“If the Crimson Prince was with Xumo from the start, I can see that.”
Thinking of that antagonist character meant to parallel Gu Wanglan from the game, Yino nodded thoughtfully.
“Exactly… even when I tried pretending I wanted to team up with them… Xumo didn’t trust me at all. He cursed me out and wanted to work with the Crimson Prince to capture me…”
Yuebai looked increasingly aggrieved as she continued her sob story: “I couldn’t fight both of them… I was worried that if I really got caught, it might ruin Master’s plans… so I left from the first floor and headed straight for our rendezvous at the eighth floor… but I never expected to run into this situation here…”
“Mmm, sounds like you handled it correctly. But why didn’t you explain this from the beginning?”
“Because that giant worm scared me silly…”
“…”