Chapter 53: Blinding Light

Song Zhiyou was dizzy.

She was about to lose her mind.

It was obvious, really. A cave this complicated wasn’t meant for people to walk through.

She had been wandering in this wretched place for nearly an incense stick’s time, yet she still couldn’t find the correct exit.

The Water Mirror mainly displayed images from the valley; it didn’t extend inside the mountain path.

As for the exact route, Song Zhiyou had no idea.

She only knew there was a mountain path near the exit, but she didn’t expect it to be like this.

But after walking for a quarter of an hour, she had ruled out two wrong paths. Four remained. Next, she only needed to eliminate three more incorrect options.

With a bit of luck, maybe the next one would be right.

In other words, her luck couldn’t be that bad. Was it really necessary for her to hit the correct one only on the last try, with a one-in-six chance?

Song Zhiyou turned at the fork and finally stopped in front of a cave entrance covered in wet moss.

She held up a paper leaf that gave off a faint light and walked inside.

Just as she took three steps, a faint scraping sound came from another fork behind her.

It sounded like someone was dragging something along the rock wall in her direction.

Could it be that the black-robed heretic had realized and come looking for her?

Song Zhiyou immediately stopped the paper from glowing and quickly walked deeper without a sound.

She remembered that when she was lighting the way earlier, she noticed another fork deeper inside this path.

If she entered that fork, maybe she could avoid the person coming from behind.

Song Zhiyou activated her formation disc and quickly slipped into the fork to hide.

The footsteps outside grew closer, accompanied by the strange dragging sound.

Song Zhiyou held her breath and waited quietly inside the fork for the person to pass.

After a short while, the approaching footsteps gradually faded, as if the person had gone far away.

But Song Zhiyou didn’t let her guard down. She planned to wait another ten minutes before coming out.

She was counting silently in her heart when suddenly her eyes flew wide open.

Wrong!

Something was off!

Without staying any longer, Song Zhiyou shot like an arrow into the depths of the fork!

But in the next second, a rough, eerie voice sounded in front of her.

“You, where do you think you’re going?”

Song Zhiyou slammed on the brakes, stopping dead.

The voice sounded both unfamiliar and familiar. It was male, so it definitely wasn’t the black-robed heretic from before.

In the faint light of the tunnel, Song Zhiyou vaguely saw a black-robed figure about her… no, exactly her height, blocking her path ahead.

And the reason the voice was both unfamiliar and familiar was because she had used that same voice to trick the black-robed heretic earlier.

So she had run into the real owner of that voice.

“So it’s you who impersonated me. Looking for death?”

Little Ghost walked toward her step by step, a cold sneer in his eyes.

He had just been regretting not being able to personally deal with the imposter, but unexpectedly, the imposter had delivered herself to his doorstep.

Song Zhiyou backed away step by step.

“Misunderstanding. It’s all a misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding? Hah!” Little Ghost sneered, unwilling to say more. His hands turned into claws and shot straight toward Song Zhiyou.

But in the next second.

A blindingly powerful light suddenly filled his entire vision… no, more accurately, it filled the entire tunnel!

Little Ghost had no defense at all.

Hit by such intense light, in that instant he felt as if he had gone blind!

“Damn brat, what did you do to me!”

Little Ghost let out an angry roar. He closed his eyes and tried to charge at Song Zhiyou.

But he couldn’t see anything and stumbled around, soon crashing into a rock wall.

Little Ghost was already furious, and he was walking recklessly. The impact produced a loud ‘dong’.

A large bump swelled on his head, bleeding profusely.

In that instant, Little Ghost felt his blood boil. Rage consumed him, an extreme, blazing fury.

Ever since he reached the Golden Core stage, no one had ever dared to toy with him like this!

And to be toyed with by a mere little brat who only dared to borrow his identity!

Little Ghost forced his eyes open, wanting to search for Song Zhiyou.

But as soon as he opened them, the blinding light struck his eyes again!

What kind of disgusting spell was this?!

In theory, it had no offensive power, yet it was extremely irritating and hard to defend against!

What kind of person would cultivate such a spell to this level?

“Bastard, if you’ve got any guts, don’t use that spell!”

But no answer came.

He took a deep breath to calm his rage and listened carefully with his ears.

He only heard hurried footsteps retreating.

Tap tap tap, tap tap tap, tap tap tap.

Veins bulged on Little Ghost’s forehead.

That damned brat had taken advantage of his blindness to escape.

She had mocked him again!

Little Ghost jerked his eyes open.

And again, without preparation, he met that beam of light.

Impossible?!

The person had already run far away, so why was the light still there?

What kind of spell was this?!

Shocked and furious, Little Ghost felt along the wall and fled the fork as fast as he could.

Only after he was completely out did he cautiously open his eyes.

This time, there was no such intense white light in front of him.

However, due to prolonged exposure, stars still danced before his eyes.

Little Ghost quickly adapted and chased in Song Zhiyou’s direction!

He still hadn’t figured out how the brat’s spell could linger so long inside the tunnel.

But Little Ghost didn’t believe she could cast such a wide-area spell a second time!

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