Chapter 444 - 443: Found You

Chapter 444: Chapter 443: Found You

Chapter 443: Found You

"Ahem, no need."

Luo Wusheng’s mouth twitched as he declined the seductive invitation, though his head instinctively turned to the side.

Miss Kirin’s small head was resting on his right shoulder, tilted outward slightly, her beautiful eyes gazing at him tenderly, even blinking once in a teasing way.

Luo Wusheng’s gaze unconsciously drifted to her soft, rosy lips.

Judging by the experience he had unknowingly accumulated in certain... fields, that lip rouge must taste incredibly sweet.

’Shit, what am I thinking? This is not the time for that kind of thing!’

Even if the "mouth-to-mouth spiritual transmission technique" really was as effective as rumored, and even if that taste was indeed as sweet as he imagined, Luo Wusheng had no mood for it right now—it was a matter of basic respect for running for one’s life.

That’s right, he and Miss Kirin on his back were currently in escape mode.

Their pursuer was the corpse of the black flood dragon, controlled by the golden feather of the new Netherking.

The enemy also possessed the ability to move freely through this boundless web of spatial layers. Worse still, because the Demon Moon still carried remnants of the flood dragon’s primordial spirit imprint, Luo Wusheng’s spatial travel was far slower than his opponent’s.

If not for his prior preparations—using fishing line to tether the Demon Moon and setting up an escape plan ahead of time—he might have had to take a full Divine Transformation realm attack head-on the moment that golden feather appeared.

As for the current situation... it’s basically a race between luck and time.

This had been Luo Wusheng’s Plan A from the start:

After rescuing Miss Kirin and suppressing the flood dragon, immediately slip away through space.

As long as his luck wasn’t atrocious, with how many layers of reality the Demon Moon linked together, their pursuer shouldn’t easily find them.

But if fortune turned against him, he might accidentally open a rift straight into the enemy’s location—then he’d have no choice but to fight to the death for one last chance to live.

"Speaking of luck... I’d say mine’s been pretty good today," Luo Wusheng muttered.

His plan had gone surprisingly well, he’d managed to spirit Miss Kirin away, and though there had been a few hiccups, his preparations had paid off. They hadn’t even been caught yet.

It was as if the protagonist had blessed him from afar.

Deciding to use the Star-Moon Jade to bind his friendship with the main character had indeed been the right call!

Feeling quite pleased with himself, Luo Wusheng pushed aside his other thoughts. With a flicker of intent, lightning coiled around his right hand, resonating with the faintly glowing orb floating above it.

He was about to tear open a new spatial rift.

Staying in one pocket of space forever was an option, of course—but it was far too risky. Besides, he’d noticed that ever since the flood dragon’s death, each time he used the Demon Moon and his lightning to travel through space, the primordial spirit imprint weakened faster, and his connection to the Artifact deepened.

’Almost there... just a little longer, and that imprint should fully dissolve. When that happens, as long as nothing goes wrong...’

That thought flashed through Luo Wusheng’s mind as he slowly waved his hand—but suddenly, his whole body went numb. The space crack failed to open.

It wasn’t from backlash of the lightning, rather, it was because the girl on his back had just lightly taken his right earlobe into her mouth.

As she did so, an incredibly pure spiritual energy flowed from that contact point into his body, activating his nerves and making the sensation far more intense.

"Hehe~"

The culprit—Miss Kirin—giggled softly under his helpless gaze, then closed her eyes again.

Another personality switch was happening.

Having traveled with this girl long enough, Luo Wusheng had already mastered the art of reading her shifts in state like a seasoned veteran.

"...I’m so tired."

He could only sigh helplessly, silently condemning her habit of "lighting fires but never putting them out," before once again gathering the lightning in his hand.

What could he even do? He couldn’t possibly blame Miss Kirin for acting like this in her current state, could he?

Come to think of it, although he had technically saved Miss Kirin this time, in a certain sense... hadn’t she already "died" before him?

He wondered whether, once she returned to normal, she’d be so mortified by this whole situation that she’d want to end her own life out of sheer embarrassment...

Uh... and in that process, would she also drag a certain young Holy Saint surnamed Luo down with her?

Luo Wusheng thought about it, and realized that possibility wasn’t low at all.

Which only made his heart feel heavier.

. . .

In a silvery-bright void, a dead black flood dragon floated silently, its body emanating waves of deathly qi.

Its once-crimson pupils had turned to gold, and before its massive head wavered the phantom of a golden feather.

The next instant, nearly a hundred spatial rifts tore open before that feather’s phantom, each one showing a different hue and landscape beyond.

Then, on the surface of the feather illusion, a vast and intricate glyph appeared—radiant and sacred, summoning multicolored rays of treasure light from all directions.

From the empty air came the faint chant of countless monks reciting sutras in unison.

There was no doubt—this was not of the Netherkin race.

It was a Sanskrit sigil of the Buddhist Sect.

Beside the Sanskrit symbol, a spectral figure in gray monk’s robes took form within the divine light. His face was obscured, his presence tranquil yet immense. He slowly raised a finger and pointed at the glyph.

At the moment of contact, the Sanskrit symbol split into eighteen streams of light, each one shooting into a different spatial rift.

If Luo Wusheng had been there to see this, his expression would have changed drastically—because those eighteen rifts were exactly the spaces he had passed through earlier.

"Soon..."

The black flood dragon’s desiccated jaws creaked open, issuing that dry, rasping whisper.

. . .

Luo Wusheng was panicking inside.

Ever since that strange and overly intimate method of spiritual energy transmission a moment ago, Miss Kirin hadn’t opened her eyes again.

Had she fallen into weakness after transferring her energy?

Or was it... something else?

The Demon Sect Holy Saint couldn’t help feeling that this situation seemed awfully familiar.

He recalled Lu Yuliu who had once, in front of him, experienced a social-death moment of her own.

So... was this where he was supposed to go buy some milk?

Just kidding.

Of course, Luo Wusheng wasn’t about to leave the unconscious Miss Kirin behind in a place this dangerous.

’Guess I can only hope Her Majesty will show some mercy—seeing as she’s technically still my fiancée, and I did just help her out in a pretty big way...’

As he felt the soft weight on his back, Luo Wusheng suddenly froze.

His gaze shifted to the glowing sphere in his right hand.

At that instant, the coiled phantom of a dragon wrapped around it—bloated and swollen as if it had eaten too much—completely dissipated.

The flood dragon’s imprint was gone!

Luo Wusheng’s eyes lit up in excitement.

All that remained was to destroy the restrictions the Netherkin race had left within the Demon Moon, then control the artifact to open a passage back to the mortal world—and everything would finally be over!

The spiritual energy he had long prepared surged forth, infused with the unstoppable force of heavenly tribulation, flooding into the glowing sphere in his hand.

But then, a space crack suddenly tore open nearby.

A horrifying pressure poured out from the other side.

And a hoarse, dreadful voice came through—

"Fouuund... you..."

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