Chapter 299: Legendary Stone! (Combined)

It's just like I had a really long, long nightmare…

Zefeina's face was pale; she sat at the head of the bed and gave a helpless smile. "Sorry, I overestimated myself; the ominous aura is more terrifying than I imagined."

As the terrifying existence in the time-stopped world drew away all the surrounding ominous aura to condense a small part of its own body, Zefeina also smoothly escaped from the erosion of the ominous aura.

However, the ominous aura's drain on her vitality has not yet recovered, leaving her somewhat weak; she still needs to enter a dungeon once to fully heal herself.

"I also underestimated the terror of the ominous aura, so this isn't your fault." Qin Chuan spread his hands.

He originally thought that his time-stop ability against the ominous aura would have absolute suppressive power.

But the situation he encountered today gave him a warning.

The existence behind the ominous also possesses a similar time-stop ability.

It can even quietly replace his time-stop ability with its own, thereby avoiding being directly slain by the mysterious power that descends during time-stop.

Of course, judging by the results, his time-stop ability still has the edge.

What exactly the time-stop ability is, Qin Chuan himself cannot explain.

But the existence behind the ominous seems to know.

Just this point alone is enough for Qin Chuan to regard it with utmost importance.

He has a strong premonition that they will surely meet again in the future.

"Alright, I should leave now." Qin Chuan composed himself and spoke slowly.

Although the room's decor is simple, there's nothing improper to see.

But this is, after all, a woman's boudoir.

Moreover, the woman is still wearing a nightgown and sitting on the bed.

"Return the Phantom Spirit Pendant to me."

"Hmm." Zefeina carefully took off the exquisite pendant from her neck, placed it in Qin Chuan's hand, then suddenly smiled and said, "Thank Yue Li for me; she temporarily lent me the couples' pendants meant for you, and I'm really grateful for that."

"I'll pass it on, but the Phantom Spirit Pendant isn't actually a lovers' pendant; it's just a matched pair of red equipment items." Qin Chuan raised his hand and stored the pendant back in his equipment slot.

When Zefeina first came to his door to tell him that Sifenjiade might be bewitching her, Qin Chuan consulted with Lin Yue and decided to temporarily lend Lin Yue's Phantom Spirit Pendant to Zefeina.

This way, if Zefeina ever encounters Sifenjiade, Qin Chuan can use the Phantom Spirit Pendant to instantly arrive on the scene and launch an attack against Sifenjiade.

To conceal the pendant's function, so that Sifenjiade wouldn't see the Phantom Spirit Pendant and learn its effect from the item description, thereby indirectly guessing their plan, Qin Chuan deliberately consumed a one-time red item: 【Tihuak's Graffiti Paint】.

Its effect is to make a piece of equipment permanently lose its description, making it undetectable.

After retrieving the Phantom Spirit Pendant, Qin Chuan lifted his foot to leave, but suddenly remembered something; he lowered his gaze to look at the woman who had once been the vessel of the Sleepless One Sifenjiade—now she had turned into a limp corpse lying on the ground, gradually stiffening.

"Do you need me to handle that?"

"If possible." Zefeina's mouth twitched slightly. "That would really be a huge help."

Nobody wants a corpse lying in their own room.

Qin Chuan lightly tapped the ground; the dark radiance instantly devoured the corpse, and once the dark radiance faded, nothing remained in the area.

He nodded at Zefeina, then immediately sank into the shadows and vanished from the spot.

"Quite the gentleman." Zefeina murmured, a hint of regret in her eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that his partner is equally awe-inspiring, she might have felt a twinge of competition.

Shaking her head to clear her jumbled thoughts, feeling her weak body that made even getting up an effort, Zefeina gave a helpless smile, picked up her phone, and dialed a number.

"Want to join me for an A-rank dungeon?"

A few minutes later, Olierjia in a strap nightgown rushed into Zefeina's room; seeing Zefeina somewhat weak but with the same familiar smile as before, her eyes slightly red, she lunged forward and hugged her tightly, saying, "These past few days you scared me to death."

As the person who knows Zefeina best, even Qin Chuan and Lin Yue could notice the abnormality—how could she possibly not see it?

But Zefeina didn't tell her, so she chose to remain silent.

"It's all over now."

Leaning her head lightly against Olierjia's rising and falling curves, feeling the astonishing softness and warmth of the side pillow, catching a glimpse of nearly fully exposed smooth, fair skin and a faint hint of cherry red in her peripheral vision, Zefeina lightly tapped Olierjia's arm and said, "By the way…"

"You came all the way from dozens of miles outside dressed like that?"

——

"Sir, hello. Since your documents are incomplete, we cannot help you with boarding services to Flame Yellow Country…" The airport ticket clerk couldn't help but glance again at the young man before him, then tentatively said, "Or, you could ask the Flame Yellow Country embassy?"

If it weren't for the fact that this face is too familiar, the ticket clerk would have directly had airport security detain this suspected stowaway.

But for now… let's just forget it.

"Forget it, I'll ask again." Qin Chuan wearily rubbed his forehead and made a phone call to Long Ji.

Without waiting for the other party to speak, he directly stated his intention.

"I'm in Never-setting Sun; arrange a fighter jet for my return?"

On the other end of the line, Long Ji fell silent for a moment.

No…

Do you think fighter jets are like Chinese cabbage?

Who uses fighter jets just to pick up and drop off people?!

Before, that was a wartime special case; now just arranging a regular civilian flight would…

"I just took care of Sifenjiade."

"No problem! You haven't had breakfast yet, right? I'll have the fighter jet pilot bring something along on the way! Youtiao and soy milk, or xiaolongbao? I guarantee it'll still be hot when it arrives!"

"Two meat buns and a cup of sweet soy milk." Qin Chuan smiled.

Still, the Special Affairs Group is warm-hearted; they even knew to ask if he hadn't eaten breakfast.

One and a half hours later, Qin Chuan returned to Yan Da.

Having received the news, Lin Yue had been waiting at the school gate early; seeing Qin Chuan step out of the special vehicle, she smiled and went to meet him, asking, "It's over?"

"Yeah, it's over." Qin Chuan took out the Soul-Sealing Jade sealing Sifenjiade and waved it in front of Lin Yue.

Allowing Blue Star to suffer such huge economic and population losses, we cannot let this guy simply delete his account and restart.

"Things can be considered settled, huh." Lin Yue smiled, then reached out her hand, "You haven't forgotten to get the Phantom Spirit Pendant back from Ze Feina, have you?"

"Of course not." Qin Chuan took out the other half of the Phantom Spirit Pendant and handed it to Lin Yue, watching her carefully wipe the Phantom Spirit Pendant, suddenly recalling Ze Feina's words, "Does this count as a couple's pendant?"

"Of course, this is our first couple's item." Lin Yue glanced at Qin Chuan, her eyes curved, handed over the wiped Phantom Spirit Pendant, "Help me put it on."

"Okay." Qin Chuan walked behind the girl, gently gathering her loose hair to one side shoulder, smelling a faint pleasant shampoo scent in the morning air, while letting the pendant pass over the girl's fair neck, listening to the girl's incessant chatter.

"Do you know how reluctant I was to lend the pendant to Ze Feina?"

"But besides this, there seems to be no other way."

"Back then I was thinking, thank goodness Ze Feina is a girl; if it were a guy, I'd lend you yours and temporarily give you mine to use…"

After gently fastening the necklace's clasp, Qin Chuan let the girl's hair fall back loosely behind her, "I plan to buy a house near the school."

Lin Yue's voice suddenly stopped, and after a moment she spoke in a much softer voice.

"Buy… buy a house?"

"Yeah, now that my identity is exposed, living at school always brings unnecessary trouble." Qin Chuan smiled, "Come with me today to check it out."

"You're buying a house, what am I accompanying you for?"

Qin Chuan, somewhat amused, turned Lin Yue's body, which she was desperately trying to keep turned away from him, back toward him, seeing the red clouds rising on her cheeks, "After buying it, you should move in too."

"That would be more convenient for our actions."

"What action convenience…" Lin Yue's pretty face reddened a bit more, she gave Qin Chuan an annoyed glance, "I think you're just being sneaky for convenience."

"Then you really have wronged me." Qin Chuan sighed, with a sincere expression, "How could I be that kind of person?"

"Then tell me, on that day at Zengmu Dark Sand Island, when you woke up the next day, where did you put your hand?"

"Placed…" Qin Chuan was momentarily at a loss for words.

Lin Yue let out a soft hum, turned her head, and walked away.

"Eh? Where are you going?"

"To look at houses."

——

In the end, Lin Yue still agreed to live together with Qin Chuan, though it was a two-bedroom apartment.

The renovation was excellent, move-in ready with just luggage, Lin Yue only had a small regret.

She preferred the feeling of renovating the new home together.

So the two packed up their belongings from school and quickly got busy.

After a round of renovation, the two-bedroom apartment was now quite different from before, full of liveliness.

Regarding the two moving out of the dormitory, both sides' roommates were naturally reluctant, but they could understand, after all the gap between the two was truly too large.

They were still striving to become stronger, while the roommates had already begun saving the world.

Finally, the two dormitories held another mixer, conducting a small farewell.

After the mixer ended, Lin Yue linked arms with Qin Chuan, walking home, "After we get home, let's enter the Former Demon Tomb together."

"Hmm." Qin Chuan nodded.

He naturally hadn't forgotten, there was still this trouble to handle.

The S-rank dungeon Former Demon Tomb had not been attacked for three consecutive days, now less than an hour of attack time remains.

This matter has now attracted worldwide attention.

As everyone knows, only Luo and Yue Li can currently clear the S-rank dungeon smoothly; other superhumans still have a certain gap to reach that level.

So, why Luo isn't attacking this dungeon has become a hot topic worldwide.

Nobody believes Luo hasn't seen this dungeon.

If one says that the large number of dungeon descents over the past two days drained Luo's energy, causing him to have no time to attack the S-rank dungeon, then today the number of descending dungeons has obviously decreased, not even a single A-rank dungeon, yet Luo still hasn't gone to attack, which is somewhat unusual.

After a day of fermentation, this matter has already aroused considerable public opinion.

Even at the evening mixer, the roommates were asking Qin Chuan why he wasn't going to attack this S-rank dungeon.

Now, this dungeon has also reached the time it should be resolved.

The two returned home, after a brief adjustment immediately entered the dungeon.

In the next instant, all players worldwide paying attention to the Former Demon Tomb dungeon saw a prompt that the Former Demon Tomb was under attack.

While letting out a sigh of relief, they also felt heavy doubts in their hearts.

Why has Luo delayed until now to attack the dungeon again?

On another side, the Special Affairs Group headquarters.

In a meeting room, Long Ji, Feng Yin, and other senior members gathered.

"Have Luo and Yue Li gone in yet?" the person seated at the head said in a low voice, "Let's observe; if the SS-rank dungeon passage can be destroyed by them without causing negative impact, the situation of the Legendary Stone can be made public."

"Otherwise… if we do similar things later, we would need to be extremely cautious."

Everyone in the meeting room nodded in unison.

Regarding whether to actively let the S-rank dungeon descend, there are also many dissenting opinions within the Special Affairs Group.

To continue breaking through, we need to let the S-rank dungeon descend, but if Blue Star's overall strength is too weak, the descent of the S-rank dungeon would be tantamount to a world-ending disaster.

Everything now depends on Qin Chuan and Lin Yue's this operation.

——

Compared to the tension outside the dungeon, Qin Chuan and Lin Yue inside were actually quite relaxed.

In the S-rank dungeon, the boss is merely an ordinary Legendary Stage, unlike the SS-rank dungeon where the boss's strength is at the limit just below the Mythic Stage.

The two have a strength difference of nearly four times.

Facing the S-rank dungeon boss, either of the two now can easily suppress and beat it without needing Spirit Descent.

In less than half an hour, they smoothly completed the clearance, met all advanced strategy requirements, and crippled the dungeon boss.

In a dungeon where killing the boss is the minimum clearance requirement, if you don't kill the boss, the clearance isn't counted, and the advanced requirements aren't settled either.

At this moment, the heavily wounded dungeon boss curled up, trembling, while Qin Chuan and Lin Yue sat side by side on a tall stone tablet nearby, chatting and laughing like an immortal couple.

That stone tablet is the dungeon boss's tombstone.

As a powerhouse of the Nether Ghost Clan, his entrance was crawling out from beneath the tombstone.

Then, there was nothing after that.

Time passed second by second, and eventually the time limit for the dungeon clearance reached zero.

Qin Chuan and Lin Yue stopped their idle chatter, simultaneously sensing that the surrounding atmosphere was quietly changing.

In an instant, the nature of the whole space changed, and the dungeon panel that had been displayed before their eyes quickly vanished.

The dungeon boss that had been trembling just a moment ago now seemed to have a slightly more solid body, its strength steadily climbing, quickly surpassing the upper limit of the ordinary Legendary Stage.

"Heh~" the dungeon boss let out a sinister chuckle, "I never expected the one who showed up wouldn't be that... from Sifenjade..."

"Puchi!"

Qin Chuan raised his hand and stabbed with a blade, piercing the opponent, "All right, your mission is over."

A Legendary Stage–limit Nether Ghost thus disintegrated in confusion, and in the next instant Qin Chuan and Lin Yue simultaneously sensed an abnormal fluctuation at a certain point in the dungeon.

Soon, a gemstone blazing with dazzling golden light appeared in Qin Chuan's hand.

【【Gold Legendary Stone】】: For any race, this is an essential item for advancing to the Legendary Stage, truly a priceless treasure.

(End of chapter)