With that, her fingertips lightly brushed Changqing's burning chest, and his clothes instantly burned to ashes in blue flames.
She snapped her fingers, and immediately, all the candles in the main hall extinguished, and even throughout the Hundred Flowers Cave, not a single ray of light remained.
In the darkness, she took off her clothes and spread them beneath Changqing.
......
Dan Ji anxiously waited outside for a long time, finally hearing a somewhat lazy, yet still authoritative voice from within the hall.
"Xiao Chanjuan, come in."
She cautiously pushed the door open. The candles in the main hall lit up again. Changqing lay peacefully on the ground, Luo Hongyan's clothing spread beneath him, and Luo Hongyan herself was kneeling beside him.
A few wisps of flame covered her snow-white body, which was slowly turning transparent, like a flickering candle about to dissipate.
"Xiao Chanjuan, from now on, you shall follow him and assist him well."
Luo Hongyan seemed very tired and sighed softly as she instructed.
Seeing Dan Ji nod like a pecking chick, she smiled slightly, "You may speak now. I will not punish you, rest assured."
"Yes, my lady," Dan Ji quickly knelt and said.
"You also need not harbor resentment. Following him will not be a loss for you. The Spirit Manipulation Art on you is quite interesting. What is its name?"
Dan Ji was startled, then hastily replied.
"This art is called Love, Separation, and it is a Soul Law Spirit Manipulation Art."
She had lied to Changqing back then; Love, Separation could be used four times, and she actually had one more chance to use it, saving it for a critical moment in case she ever turned against Changqing, to have a fighting chance.
"Hmm... Love, Separation, it certainly fits the current situation."
Luo Hongyan lightly twirled her fingertips, and a faint glow flashed on Changqing's forehead.
"I also left one on him. It's just that this Spirit Manipulation Art is indeed somewhat mysterious. The Love, Separation I hastily left can only be used twice. I hope it can help him."
Dan Ji's heart trembled. Love, Separation was one of the three great Soul Law Spirit Manipulation Arts. This monster in front of her not only knew it but could also instantly decipher Love, Separation and even use it, simply by relying on an imprint on her own body. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would be utterly preposterous.
Luo Hongyan sighed softly.
"He also has a Poison Law Cultivation Technique that is quite good, capable of Dual Cultivation to absorb everything from the other party. I just learned it and made some improvements, leaving both the Hundred Flowers Legacy and the Refining Law Saint Body to him. This is all I can do."
Dan Ji was once again utterly shocked. The mysterious Cultivation Technique left by the Evil Saint, this monster in front of her could actually improve it at will. Wasn't Dual Cultivation only capable of absorbing cultivation? How could she transfer Bloodline, Physique, and even Legacy?
"I have left a Mind Transmission Spirit on you, which will make it difficult for you to have second thoughts. But don't worry, I will erase this memory of yours later. You will feel that this all comes from your true heart. You have no objections, do you?"
"No, no," Dan Ji was completely scared into being a good girl. Even with such an unreasonable condition, her head still shook like a rattle-drum.
"That's good." With that, Luo Hongyan lightly tapped Dan Ji's forehead. Dan Ji felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and in just an instant, her body went limp, and her soul returned to Changqing's mind.
Luo Hongyan sighed deeply, pointing at Changqing, and murmured.
"Against destiny, I have entered the game, and I will not let you have your way."
"You, too, should leave."
With that, her figure swayed, and as the blue flames on her body extinguished, she fell to the ground.
Her gaze returned to clarity, becoming the bewildered Luo Hongyan.
Then, as if remembering something, she showed a sad expression, seemingly speaking to the air, or perhaps muttering to herself.
"Must I leave?"
Although she received no response, she nodded as if she had heard something.
"Then can I leave something behind?"
After nodding to herself again, she walked to Changqing, pried open his tightly clenched fist, revealing the Mind Transmission Spirit she had given him.
After injecting a thought into it, she reluctantly placed the Mind Transmission Spirit back into Changqing's hand.
......
In his mind, that strange clock began to rewind.
When Changqing opened his eyes, he once again saw the familiar ceiling.
"So I really died..."
But at the very end, what was that strange feeling all about?
"Right, I need to confirm first if Dan Ji came back with me."
Thinking this, he quietly called out Dan Ji's name in the room.
"Stop calling. I'm here." The voice still came from the silicone doll's speaker, but it had changed from Dan Ji's voice back to an eerie mechanical one.
It seemed she was still here, so things weren't too bad.
Changqing sorted through his situation in his mind.
In his previous life, he had refined Dan Ji into a blood slave, killed Liu Lu, and used the Hundred Flowers Token to open the Legacy trial.
But the frustrating part was that although he nominally passed the trial, he didn't receive the Legacy. Huo Jiutian told him it was because someone else's performance in the trial surpassed his.
Changqing wasn't surprised that someone else could pass the trial.
Although the trial process was exceptionally grueling, even he didn't want to experience it again. But he believed in the saying that there are always people beyond people, and Heavens beyond Heavens. He had never underestimated the abilities of others.
However, there shouldn't have been anyone in the entire Hundred Flowers Cave capable of threatening Luo Hongyan, and those female demons, by rights, weren't qualified to participate in the trial. Who exactly participated in the trial while he was undergoing it?
The only possibility was that an outsider had come to the Hundred Flowers Cave at that time and joined the trial.
Could it be such a coincidence?
Or perhaps, Luo Hongyan had lied to him? Was this all her premeditation? Did she have an accomplice?
"How is that possible..." Changqing shook his head, dismissing this absurd idea.
Then what on earth happened?
For the first time, he felt his thoughts were a tangled mess, without any clue.
"Dan Ji, when I was in the trial, did you notice anything unusual happening in the main hall?"
"Unusual?" Dan Ji thought for a moment, "Nothing unusual, your trial went smoothly, didn't it? It's just that for some reason, after you received the Legacy, you fell into a coma, and I returned with you to your Heavenly Domain."
"What did you say?" Changqing was stunned, "My trial went smoothly, and I received the Legacy?"
"Yes, you received the Legacy. I felt it very clearly, there's no mistake."
"I didn't die?"
"You're perfectly fine, why would you die?"
"But I clearly returned to Earth..."
Dan Ji helplessly said, "I told you, this Heavenly Domain is just your imagination. You can return anytime. What does that have to do with dying or not dying?"
Changqing was too lazy to argue with her anymore. He was tired of her nonsense about Earth being some kind of Heavenly Domain and himself being some Nie Tian. He began to speculate on his current situation on his own.
Dan Ji had no reason to lie. From her perspective, he indeed hadn't died and had received the Legacy.
So where exactly did things go wrong? Why did he Rebirth?
He needed to sort out the conditions for Rebirth.
One, if he died in another world, he would immediately return to reality, then Transmigrate and Rebirth again.
Two, after spending three months in another world, he would also immediately return to reality, then Transmigrate and Rebirth again.
He was very certain about the time; it was far from three months, with at least a month and a half of leeway remaining.
So what caused him to return was death? But Dan Ji said he didn't die and even received the Legacy. From Huo Jiutian's words, he also knew that to avoid dying during the trial, one must pass the trial and receive the Legacy.
He passed the trial and received the Legacy, so there was no reason for him to die in the trial.
Could it be that after he passed the trial and received the Legacy, he was killed?
But wasn't Luo Hongyan acting as his Protector? How could he still be killed?
Wait, if even he died, then what happened to Luo Hongyan?