Chapter 54: A Narrow Escape

Little Ghost finally managed to escape from the first mountain path, and the damage to his eyes gradually recovered.

He was short, but in fact, he was extremely fast.

His vision had returned. In no time, he spotted Song Zhiyou’s figure on a winding mountain path ahead.

He sneered and quickly chased after her as she disappeared around the corner.

“You little brat! I’ll tear you limb from limb, cut off all your limbs, make you suffer, and let you know the consequences of angering me!”

Little Ghost let out an arrogant and vicious curse. The next second, Song Zhiyou suddenly stopped and turned around.

“How can you be so vicious? I’ll fight you!”

As she spoke, Song Zhiyou assumed a fighting stance.

Little Ghost thought she was about to attack him foolishly, and he felt nothing but disdain.

Then, a blinding white light filled his vision once again.

Little Ghost didn’t see it coming!

He was blinded. He was blinded again!

That damn brat’s so-called ‘fight’ was just releasing that harmful thing again!

Little Ghost’s eyes went white, and he couldn’t see a thing.

Song Zhiyou had already turned a corner after taking out the glowing page, not bothering to look back.

She sprinted ahead.

Every now and then, she stuck a fully activated light-page on the wall at the upcoming corner.

That way, it wouldn’t affect her vision or fail to affect Little Ghost’s.

After running in a loop, the dwarf behind her had disappeared. Song Zhiyou herself ended up back where she started.

Because from a corner ahead, a very strong glow was emanating.

Clearly, it was from a light-page she had stuck up.

But she wasn’t in the direct path of the light, so she wasn’t harmed.

Not far away on the ground, the candidate from the Lin family was still lying there, unconscious, his condition unknown.

Song Zhiyou ran over, grabbed his collar, shook him, and fed him a pill.

Seeing that he still wasn’t awake, she raised her hand and slapped him twice.

“Wake up! Wake up!”

Little Ghost had already passed this way and was unlikely to return, making this a relatively safe spot.

Finding the exit alone would be slow, so she might as well wake this guy up. They could search for the exit in different directions and get help faster.

But just then, footsteps sounded from behind.

Song Zhiyou stiffened and turned to look.

It wasn’t Little Ghost. It was a black-robed evil cultivator.

For an instant, their eyes met, and both stopped.

Xie Yue looked at her strangely.

“You asked for this person just for this?”

Song Zhiyou had been about to run, but after hearing that, she forced herself to stop.

What was going on?

Could it be that Xie Yue hadn’t encountered Little Ghost and didn’t know that this ‘Little Ghost’ was fake?

No… From Xie Yue’s tone, it was clear that the candidate in front of her had been requested from Xie Yue by Little Ghost.

They must have met.

So…

Was this black-robed cultivator mistaking her for someone again?

Song Zhiyou’s expression turned subtle.

She gave a cold snort, and her tone became arrogant again.

“None of your business! Do your job!”

“Have you caught that brat who impersonated me?”

Song Zhiyou looked closely at Xie Yue and noticed her clothes were torn, with blood dripping from her arm.

Like she had been beaten by someone.

Could it be that these black-robed people not only didn’t know each other but also fought among themselves?

“I’m about to catch him,” Xie Yue said coldly, not elaborating.

She had to find that damn brat and settle the score. She didn’t have time to argue with this ‘Little Ghost’.

Besides, it involved the master’s secret orders, and she didn’t want to get entangled in unnecessary trouble.

With that, Xie Yue walked quickly ahead.

But the next second, she stopped.

Her gaze fell on the bright white mountain path, and her eyes narrowed.

“What is this?”

Song Zhiyou’s heart sank. She knew things were bad.

She had almost forgotten.

She had stuck light-pages in many of the surrounding mountain paths, large and small.

Now it looked extremely strange.

She put on a bold front: “How would I know? They were here when I came in.”

Then an idea struck her: “Maybe it’s a rare treasure appearing…”

She cut herself off, not wanting to say more.

But Xie Yue had clearly heard her.

Her eyes flickered.

After catching that damn brat, she would come back to explore these mountain paths.

Xie Yue set off again and soon disappeared around a corner ahead.

Song Zhiyou breathed a sigh of relief and turned her attention back to the unconscious candidate.

He hadn’t woken up despite her slaps. Could he be dead?

She reached out to check his breath.

He was still alive.

Then the candidate opened his eyes.

Seeing the black-robed Song Zhiyou, he trembled, his eyes filled with extreme terror.

Until Song Zhiyou spoke in her own voice: “I’m a candidate too. Don’t be afraid.”

Hearing this, the candidate’s eyes went wide.

“You… you, you, you…”

Song Zhiyou pulled down her hood: “I’m not lying.”

But the candidate was still pale and listless.

Song Zhiyou had to manually restore his clarity.

Two slaps later, the candidate finally snapped out of his daze.

He held his hot, swollen cheeks and stared blankly at Song Zhiyou.

He couldn’t understand how things had come to this.

“Why did you hit me?”

“Snap out of it. Now is not the time to be in a daze. You’ve seen it too. The evil cultivators are in the valley. Someone has to get out and inform the elders. We’ll split up and look for an exit. Whoever finds it first notifies the elders. Got it?”

Hearing this, the candidate seemed to recall something terrifying and started trembling all over.

He had experienced the horror of the evil cultivators.

“Song Zhiyou, can I go with you? We’ll go together and watch each other’s backs.”

“No!” Song Zhiyou refused without expression.

She stood up and started walking ahead.

But the candidate became agitated. He limped after her.

“Why? You think I’ll hold you back and want to abandon me, right?”

“Song Zhiyou, how can you be so selfish?”

“I know Lin Xiu was killed right in front of you, wasn’t he? Why didn’t you save him? And when I was captured by that evil cultivator, that black-robed person was you, wasn’t it? You could have saved me, but you only cared about yourself!”

“Song Zhiyou, if you don’t take me with you, I’ll tell the elders everything you did! I’ll let them all know you collude with evil cultivators and disregard fellow disciples!”

He glared at Song Zhiyou, growing more agitated, his voice tinged with anger.

He had been tortured into this state, all because of her.

Song Zhiyou stopped.

She turned and stared at the candidate, who was full of panic and anger, and fell silent.

After a long while, she sighed: “I’m sorry.”

Hearing this, the candidate’s expression relaxed slightly.

“You finally admit your fault…”

But before he could finish, a sharp pain shot through him.

He looked down in disbelief at his chest.

A dazzling short sword was embedded in it.

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