Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!

At that moment, the beautiful figure disappearing on the horizon suddenly came to a halt and turned back rapidly, only to see the Taoist by the lake looking as normal as ever, solemnly taking out a fishing rod.

"Xiao Lang, what are you laughing at!"

Suddenly, a voice transmission blossomed in Yi Chen's heart.

"It's nothing, Yuan Jun, I just thought of something amusing."

"By the way, Yuan Jun, didn't you say you had some urgent matters to attend to?"

Yi Chen replied while rolling the fishing bait with one hand and massaging his face with the other.

Seeing such a theatrically overdone performance by Yi Chen, the woman in the Peach Blossom Mask decided not to further embarrass herself and after giving the Taoist a piercing glare, ran even faster.

This time, she didn't stop.

"Hahaha~"

The exuberant laughter rang out once again by the side of the vast lake.

Whenever Yi Chen thought of the amazing journey in which Yuan Jun first struggled, then tensed up, and finally resigned to fate, compliantly becoming a little rabbit gripped by the mighty hand of destiny, and then the cycle repeating, he couldn't help but feel elated.

Especially that scene where Yuan Jun looked up at him with pitiful eyes, nearly made him lose his composure.

He had to admit, he was quite nervous when he first entered the spatial passage, but after that...

He was pretending.

Otherwise, how would Yi Chengzi reap the interest due to him?

"Yuan Jun, oh Yuan Jun, this is what they call the wheel of fortune turns; this year it has come to my house." Amidst the smile, a float bobbed obediently upright in the water.

Today Yi Chengzi was in a good mood, so before he went back to look for Ying Si, he decided to cast a line first.

After all, to a great power like Yi Chengzi, only wild fishing could reveal his true fishing prowess.

As for King Jing, today, the Crown Prince no longer found much interest in those kinds of lakes stocked with fish in the Cave Heaven.

After who knows how long, the smile on the Taoist's face gradually solidified, disappeared, and finally became fierce.

At night, the stars filled the sky.

A Taoist rose to his feet and fled into the distance, concealing his aura, his spirit sweeping across heaven and earth, beginning the search for any traces of Deep Red Points on his way back.

He was furious.

"How could I, Yi Chen, come up empty-handed in wild fishing without relying on my cultivation?" A thought flashed in Yi Chen's eyes. He sighed and ultimately decided to make peace with himself.

"It's all Qi Longhu's fault."

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...

The crescent moon hung in the sky, like a curved eyebrow or a hook.

In a dark cave, a handsome and sinister young man sat cross-legged beside a huge snake corpse, he sat in a slump, his body wrapped in thick dark qi, his expression one of agony.

"Zhang Longyi, oh Zhang Longyi, you're really worthless."

"Now that you've got news Yi Chengzi has fallen into the Demon Realm, aren't you too afraid to snatch his Taoist couple and play with her to collect some interest?"

"Have you forgotten how he made you lose face with that Liuying Jade?"

"Having taken control of this cultivation body with Supreme Evil Power, comparable to a Breakthrough Limit Third Layer expert, and with Sea Dragon City just ten thousand miles away from you, you should be infiltrating and stealing the person and running away! Instead, you're carefully plotting, only daring to make a move when you lure Yi Chengzi's Taoist couple out."

"What a waste, squandering this vigorous evil force."

Naturally, the handsome and sinister young man was Zhang Longyi. Months ago, he took a gamble at the moment when the Lord of Lust and Desire was grievously injured, and with an attempt of 'a snake swallowing an elephant', he was half successful.

"Half" because the Lord of Lust and Desire turned out to be quite ruthless and tough, and realizing that things were going south, threatened Zhang Longyi that if it perished, the Supreme Evil Power within it would dissipate, and his efforts would be in vain.

With no other choice, the two reached a compromise. The Lord of Lust and Desire's full cultivation was ultimately dominated by Zhang Longyi's consciousness, and in exchange, Zhang Longyi had to imprison the Lord of Lust and Desire within his cultivation body, and periodically consume a great amount of blood and qi to suppress the physical erosion by the Lord's spirit.

That sort of pain as if thousands of insects were gnawing at his heart was utterly indescribable.

But Zhang Longyi clenched his teeth and endured.

Whether it was the driving force that supported his desperate struggle to usurp the Lord of Lust and Desire or the reason he now willingly endured the agonizing pain, it was all because of a powerful Taoist imprinted on his Heart Lake and haunting him—that was—

"Yi Chengzi, I, Zhang Longyi, hope you don't just die in the Demon Realm."

"All my efforts, betraying my sect, killing my father, and bearing unbearable sacrifices, are so that one day I can stand before you, defeat you, make you weep bitterly, and one by one, destroy what you hold most dear."

"After all, I haven't paid such a price just to someday sit down and share a meal or a cup of tea with you."

After suppressing the restlessness of the cultivation body, Zhang Longyi slowly ended his meditation and the dark qi around him suddenly retracted.

His body split open abruptly, turning into a pile of rotting flesh like slugs, covering the huge snake corpse beside him, wrapping and devouring it.

Red, green, white, gray, black, the differently-colored slug-like flesh blanket looked like a puddle of various dyes mixed together, with many suction-cup-like protrusions covering it densely, terrifying to behold and enough to make one's hair stand on end.

Imprinted at the center of that flesh blanket were the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth of Zhang Longyi.

"This form brings me relief and pleasure."

"My foolish... former master, it's best if you keep your petty and laughable cautious thoughts to yourself."

"That bastard Ying Si, impervious to oil and salt, not only has he surrounded Falling Dragon Mountain with a Great Formation, but he's also sent experts to keep a close watch on this area. Should there be any commotion, it would take only a few breaths for the Imperial Palace to arrive from Falling Dragon Mountain."