Chapter 667: The Return of Kurumi

Just at this moment, the figure of Yoshino suddenly began to blur.

"Big brother..." A trace of panic appeared on Yoshino's face.

Lingyun frowned slightly and reached out to grasp Yoshino's right hand. Yoshino's originally blurred figure became clear in an instant.

"Oh, little brother, you really surprise me more and more; to think you could actually pull Yoshino back from the state of returning to the Boundary." Yoshinon's tone was laced with a hint of disbelief.

"Perhaps you will have even more surprising things in the future!" Lingyun said with a smile.

"Yoshino, can you restrain your Spirit Power?" Lingyun asked.

"Restrain? I'll try," Yoshino said weakly.

Under Yoshino's careful control, the spiritual energy on her body began to weaken. In a short while, it had been restrained to an extremely low level.

"That's great, Yoshino," Lingyun said with a smile.

"But keeping it like this all the time is a very tiring thing for Yoshinon!" Yoshinon said, clapping her little hands. "If little brother can stop Yoshino from returning to the Boundary, can you also stop the spiritual energy inside Yoshino from leaking out? After all, once the spiritual energy leaks out, we will be attacked by those hags!"

"This, there's no need to trouble big brother," Yoshino said, lowering her head. "I will try my best to control it."

"You are my little sister; leave this kind of thing to me to solve." Lingyun opened his hand, and a small white Bracelet appeared in his palm.

"Eh, what is this?" Yoshinon said with a curious look.

"This Bracelet can assist Yoshino in controlling the spiritual energy within her body. With the help of this Bracelet, the spiritual energy inside Yoshino will not leak out. At the same time, this Bracelet has another ability, which is to prevent Yoshino from returning to the Boundary." Lingyun placed the Bracelet in front of Yoshino.

Yoshino looked at the Bracelet in front of her, slowly reached out her hand, and took the Bracelet into her own hands.

"Yoshino, are you really going to wear this Bracelet?" Yoshinon was silent for a rare moment before speaking.

"I trust big brother; he won't hurt me," Yoshino said softly.

Although Yoshino was timid, she seemed to have an innate intuition that could distinguish between others' goodwill and malice toward her. Right now, she did not feel any malice from Lingyun.

Yoshino took the Bracelet and carefully fastened it onto her hand.

The moment she fastened the Bracelet, blue light radiated from Yoshino's body, enveloping her entire frame. A blizzard spread outward with Yoshino at the center, but it was immediately sealed within a small range by the Source Power emitted by Lingyun, unable to spread any further.

"Th-this is?" Yoshino felt the spiritual energy in her body constantly surging toward her Bracelet.

After the vast majority of the spiritual energy surged into the Bracelet, the blizzard around Yoshino slowly dissipated, and the blue light around her body also slowly receded, eventually turning into nothingness.

After the light disappeared, Yoshino subconsciously looked at her right hand; the Bracelet on her right hand had turned sky-blue at some point. The sky-blue Bracelet was covered with gorgeous patterns. In the center of the Bracelet, a blue gemstone was embedded.

"What a magical thing; Yoshinon feels like all of her spiritual energy has run into that Bracelet, and at the same time, as long as one thinks about it in their heart, the spiritual energy in the Bracelet will automatically flow out." Yoshinon's tone was full of surprise.

"Thank you, big brother," Yoshino said softly.

Looking at the timid young girl in front of him, Lingyun couldn't help but shake his head slightly. To change Yoshino's current introverted personality, it would still take some effort in the time to come!

"Big brother, can I look around this place?" Seemingly because she had arrived at a relatively safe place, Yoshino seemed very interested in this small shop.

"You can!" Lingyun nodded with a smile.

After receiving Lingyun's consent, a smile appeared on Yoshino's face, and she then walked toward the interior of the shop.

"Hmm, the punishment over there should be able to end as well." Lingyun looked at Yoshino's back and snapped his fingers lightly.

Invisible Source Power spread in the sky, the dark clouds covering the sky began to disperse, and the sun, which had been hidden by the dark clouds, quietly emerged, casting sunlight onto the ground.

In the alley, the solid ice sealing the AST members suddenly developed countless cracks after being hit by the sunlight. Subsequently, the ice layer began to shatter, and the crumbling ice blocks instantly turned into water vapor and disappeared into the air.

In just a few breaths' time, the AST members were all released from their frozen state. Afterward, their group collapsed to the ground almost simultaneously; having fought with a Spirit for so long, they had never seen such a bizarre thing before.

"Achoo—"

Kusakabe Ryoko, who had been released from the ice, couldn't help but sneeze loudly.

Although the Territory on their bodies had blocked the ice layer in time, the cold air within the ice layer had seeped into their bodies. Of course, this cold air would not pose any threat to their lives, but catching a cold for a period of time was absolutely unavoidable.

"I can be certain that this method of attack was definitely not created by the Hermit!" Kusakabe Ryoko looked at her subordinates, who were looking a bit pale, and said through gritted teeth.

"Captain, what do you mean by that?" an AST member asked.

"What do I mean? Is my meaning not obvious enough? When we encountered the Hermit before, we never encountered this situation. You check for me immediately whether there have been any fluctuations of a Swordsman's spiritual energy in this place!" Kusakabe Ryoko said through gritted teeth.

That team member hesitated for a moment, then nodded and took out the spiritual energy monitoring device once again.

Before long, she exclaimed, "Captain, there indeed existed fluctuations of a Swordsman's spiritual energy in this place."

"I knew it was this guy!" Kusakabe Ryoko said through gritted teeth.

"Then Captain, what should we do now? Achoo—" the team member said, and couldn't help but sneeze as well.

"What can we do? Now that both of them are gone. Judging from the current weather, the Hermit should have left as well, so there is no point in us staying here. Retreat! Achoo—" After Kusakabe Ryoko finished speaking, she couldn't help but sneeze again.

"Damn Swordsman, I'm not finished with you!" Feeling that her image had been greatly damaged, Kusakabe Ryoko said through gritted teeth.

Inside the small shop, Lingyun waved his hand casually, dissipating the light screen in front of him, and shook his head slightly.

Afterward, he turned toward an empty corner: "Kurumi, you're back?"

As soon as Lingyun finished speaking, the shadows in the corner twisted, and Tokisaki Kurumi jumped out from the shadows, hanging onto Lingyun all at once.