Chapter 4:

Carefully, she neatly put away the “gift” from the handsome little demon.

Yao Yao and the item is within Chong Yan’s line of sight.

So he became quiet.

He quietly sat under the tree, lost in thought.

Taking the opportunity, Yao Yao opened the treasure chest in her sea of consciousness and took a look.

Since she was already here, she had to make plans to protect herself and the fragile little demon who couldn’t take care of himself.

After experiencing the blood fever for the first time, she discovered that the water droplet symbol beneath each item in the mall represented her blood spirit pearl. Familiar with the game, Yao Yao immediately realized that her blood could be transformed into spirit pearls, essentially becoming her in-game currency to exchange for various divine artifacts and props in the mall.

Furthermore, she could obtain blood spirit pearls, increase her experience points, and convert them into her spiritual power cultivation through store tasks. It could be said that it was very suitable for the cultivation of modern babies with weak constitutions.

In the original setting, Yao Yao, as a blood bag, didn’t have this ability. In the plot, her only function was to be squandered by the male lead, have her blood drained, and offer everything to the male and female leads, leaving nothing for herself. But after obtaining this new role, Yao Yao’s original player identity merged with this character.

Great, this is reasonable. The big spenders of the game expressed their satisfaction.

Yao Yao looked at the various divine weapons, flying props, and even the various spirit beast mounts displayed in the treasure chest mall, feeling very itchy.

In the original plot, the male lead tamed a golden-winged spirit eagle as his mount using various cheats, often taking the female lead, his junior sister, to explore the world while the original Yao Yao lay weak in bed after having her blood drained.

Looking at it now, the golden-winged spirit eagle only required six blood spirit pearls, and it was still ranked lower in the treasure chest, far from the truly powerful artifacts above it.

Yao Yao had been busy nurturing demons while playing the game and hadn’t cultivated a cultivator herself, so she didn’t know that the countless treasures that countless cultivators in the Spirit Continent dreamed of their whole lives, and even the male lead had to encounter great opportunities to catch a glimpse of, were all lined up here in front of her.

Now, there was only one novice task in the mall. She clicked on it and saw that there was a temple in the Abyss, and her novice task was to clear the temple ruins. Completing the task would reward her with a special blood spirit pearl.

Based on Yao Yao’s many years of gaming experience, the tasks given to “players” were always related to themselves or the characters around them.

How could there be a temple in the Forsaken Abyss, and what did it have to do with her?

Unable to figure it out for a while, Yao Yao exited the sea of consciousness.

When she looked up again, Chong Yan was still sitting under the tree, lost in thought.

After cutting off his attachment to the little vial, Chong Yan seemed to have repaid her and returned to his unfamiliar state, silent and uncommunicative.

Yao Yao was very familiar with this cold and aloof little demon.

In reality. At this moment, the demon is confused.

He realized that he didn’t know what to do.

For the past thirty thousand years, it seemed that he had only been doing one thing: waiting.

In the past, roses would descend from the sky. Sometimes it would be rainy, and other times it would be snowy.

Fruits would fall from trees. Sometimes they were peaches, and other times they were chestnuts.

Clothes would appear in the hole on their own. Firewood would turn into a bed by itself. A pink pillow would appear on the bed.

As long as he waited. Waited patiently.

But what about now?

“Chong Yan.”

The demon raised his eyes and found her face completely filling his line of sight.

He repelled such proximity, but she grabbed his hand, passed her blood to him, so when she leaned in, his bone spurs didn’t cut through.

Yao Yao cleared her throat.

Since she now knew that Chong Yan cherished the things she gave him, Yao Yao felt that, although the explanation might be abstract, she should still try to introduce herself. Besides, even though she wasn’t powerful now, she would definitely become powerful in the future.

So she straightened her non-existent bowtie, pretended to hold a rose, and confidently smiled.

“Hello, Chong Yan.”

“I finally found you.” A voice overlapped just as Yao Yao finished speaking, interrupting her.

The timing was extremely coincidental, causing the small key to shift slightly in the lock.

A dusty figure appeared in front of them, as if he had come specifically.

Yao Yao was startled, her head shuttling back and forth between him and Chong Yan. Did her little demon have other friends?

Chong Yan’s heterochromatic pupils slowly lifted.

This time, his ice-white bone spurs consciously extended along the texture of his arm, dripping like water.

In front of them stood a mysterious person, wearing a black robe with a hood covering the face. The face and body couldn’t be seen clearly, and there seemed to be long hair, but it was impossible to discern the gender. The speech also sounded like a blurred mass.

But the mysterious person looked at Chong Yan and quietly approached. “I am the person you’ve been waiting for.”

Yao Yao was completely confused. Who was her little demon waiting for?

Chong Yan looked at the mysterious person silently, then slowly spoke after a while, “You.”

As the syllables from his throat escaped, accompanied by a feeling of impending avalanche, the brim of the mysterious person’s hat began to tremble slightly.

What… what’s going on?

Wasn’t he severely injured? The mysterious person is confused.

He had been tortured by the Ancient Blood Array, enduring relentless attacks for a day and a night, and had six soul anchoring nails chiseled out. How could Chong Yan have recovered by even a fraction?

He deliberately waited until the expulsion of the blood power dissipated before coming out, but now he was shocked to realize that he had miscalculated.

Although Chong Yan’s human form couldn’t compare to his prime state, just one-tenth of his divine power was enough to suppress all the demons beneath the Forsaken Abyss, making them tremble and kneel once again under the rule of the Forsaken Abyss overlord.

However, Chong Yan did not directly press him to death.

He slowly but clearly said, “How will you prove it?”

The demon system is simple and crude, consisting of four levels: humanoid demon, true demon, mysterious demon, and celestial demon. This particular entity is already at the level of a mysterious demon, belonging to a dominant demon species in the depths of the abyss. That’s why it dares to come out and take risks with its special abilities.

The mysterious demon started to suffocate, cold sweat pouring down. How can he prove that his ability is just an erosion of illusions, transforming into the shape based on the greatest desires of others?

In other words, the current appearance of the entity is what the fierce and powerful demon imagined. This should be its weak point, and it should have believed it at first sight.

“I… I…”

However, he couldn’t make a sound anymore.

A sharp bone spike, covered in frost, pierced through the air and directly pinned him to the tree trunk.

The entity’s blood instantly flowed down the tree trunk, revealing its true form. It turned out to be a pool of shadowy fluid-like creature with a snail-like protrusion as its head. It struggled for a moment, like a dehydrated fish, then became motionless.

The cruelty in Chong Yan’s eyes was now clearly visible.

He was genuinely angry.

“Yao Yao…”

Yao Yao politely exited the scene.

That was close, if she had said that sentence first, would she have been the one pinned to the tree?

The angry little demon was too fierce. Yao Yao retreated behind the tree, clutching the leaves she had grown, while observing him.

She realized that even though the fruits on this tree were all grown from the seeds she had dropped, it seemed like there was no evidence. She couldn’t take out her phone to show Chong Yan, telling him that she had only been one centimeter tall on her phone before.

However, at that moment, a card fell out of Yao Yao’s treasure box and unfolded in her mind.

“Entity: Class Demon,” a mysterious demon species. Can transform based on others’ imagination, confusing their hearts.

Yao Yao understood. Because Chong Yan didn’t know if she was male or female, human or ghost, tall or short, the image of her in his mind was like that.

Yao Yao immediately looked at herself in the mirror.

Her round, black and white deer-like eyes were distinct, with a straight and beautiful nose and delicate lips. Every feature was exquisite, a face that could be remembered as a beautiful moonlight even after death.

Yao Yao confidently stepped onto the stage.

Her quick-thinking brain came up with a solution, “Chong Yan, would you like to enter my sea of consciousness?”

By entering her sea of consciousness, one could see her treasure chest and understand how she had been kind-hearted in the past.

She thought this was a brilliant plan, but after saying it, the air grew silent.

Even the mysterious demon trembling on a distant tree trunk stopped moving.

Chong Yan’s eyes were filled with a restless emotion, as if his sensitive nerves had been touched. Before it could subside, his gaze slowly turned towards her, gradually transforming into an indescribable expression amidst the silence.

“Do you know the significance of the sea of consciousness?” he asked slowly.

Yao Yao, full of innocence, replied, “What significance?”

Chong Yan just quietly gazed at her with his mismatched pupils.

Yao Yao’s treasure chest generously dropped another card, providing her inexperienced cultivation with some knowledge.

In the card, it is written that…

—Whether allowing someone to enter their own sea of consciousness or entering someone else’s, both parties need to trust each other completely.

—As the seas of consciousness merge, yin and yang harmonize, and the spirit becomes one.

In short, it is dual cultivation.

Yao Yao’s face turned red, though she had a flirtatious nature, she still had her principles.

She randomly stuffed the fruits she had plucked from the tree into Chong Yan’s arms, then blushed as she hurriedly distanced herself.

“Um, this, this…”

“This is not something the two of us kids can do.”

Yao Yao’s mumblings happened to pass by the exhausted mysterious demon, which was slowly descending.

It had already been punctured by bone spurs and had no energy left. It just wanted to escape the terrifying oppression of the ancient demon. However, upon hearing Yao Yao’s words, it couldn’t help but become enraged.

“What nonsense, you little brat!”

Yao Yao kicked it away.

Bad demon. If you can’t have it, you destroy it, right?

She had a serious expression on her face, saying, “I’ve known him longer than any rumors.”

The mysterious demon flew away.

You guys are fucking ridiculous.

Yao Yao kicked away the key she almost grabbed.

However, not too far away.

Chong Yan sat under a tree, staring blankly at the fruit in his hand.

After a long, long time.

He slowly raised his head and for the first time, seriously watched the girl’s figure as she walked away.

In the depths of the abyss, thousands of miles of ice withered, and so did the tree.

But.

How did she know there was fruit on the tree?