Chapter 99: Saifrola 15

The figure is still impressive—broad shoulders, narrow waist, long legs, slender muscles—but the skin has already rotted beyond recognition.

His back even shows exposed ribs, yet he seems to feel nothing—after sliding down the inner cavity of the vines, he immediately ends up lying on the ground.

The slime below seems the most corrosive; Lin Zhi Jing even feels the meaty scent emanating from his own back, but recalling what Ye Xi'an said, this bit of pain now means nothing!

Lin Zhi Jing can endure the pain, but their wife must not be in pain!

"Wife! Come down quickly, step on me!"

After Ye Xi'an is freed from Lin Zhi Jing's protection, her body inevitably contacts the slime; she can only press her palms and soles against the surroundings to reduce the area of injury, but hearing Lin Zhi Jing's address to her, she almost slips while stepping.

How come he changed his address just like that? That's way too fast.

But Lin Zhi Jing calling her "wife" does sound rather nice.

Ye Xi'an's mouth twitches slightly, as if trying to hide an involuntary smile, yet she can't help a faint upward lift, revealing a shy delight.

Her ears redden quietly, and her voice, tinged with shyness, says: "I'm coming!"

Then she relaxes her hand and slides down from the narrow opening, her upper body falling onto Lin Zhi Jing, while the parts below her legs still touch the slime at the bottom.

Her pale, tender knees instantly rot, and in pain Ye Xi'an grits her teeth, never having expected the corrosiveness below to be so strong.

Seeing the blood from the knee makes Lin Zhi Jing feel distressed; Lin Zhi Jing sits up, pulls Ye Xi'an's leg onto their own, then places their hand over Ye Xi'an's knee. A burst of white light erupts from beneath the hand, and when the hand is lifted, the knee is restored to its original condition.

After ensuring Ye Xi'an can no longer touch the slime, Lin Zhi Jing lies down again: "Wife, step on me quickly! Whatever you need to do, just go ahead."

"Your back!" Ye Xi'an's knee only lightly touched the slime below and turned like that; Lin Zhi Jing can hardly imagine what Lin Zhi Jing's back looks like at this moment.

"Don't worry, I've been healing myself all along, I won't die; I'm still waiting for you to mark me."

Lin Zhi Jing lies on the ground, their complexion as pale as a ghost, their body soaked in blood, resembling a corpse that just crawled out of a mass grave.

Ye Xi'an still wants them to get up, but considering the tight schedule, decides to first locate a weak point.

"Alright, you hold on a bit, I'll be ready soon!"

Ye Xi'an quickly gets up, kneels on Lin Zhi Jing's body; at this moment they are within the white light, and her task is to identify where exactly this white light originates.

But it's impossible; Ye Xi'an's eyes turn hazy, her brain aches, still unable to discern; watching Lin Zhi Jing beneath her growing paler, she can't help feeling nervous.

Where? From where exactly does this light emanate?

She concentrates with all her might, and suddenly something in her mind feels pierced; a strange energy surges through her body, and her spiritual power ability reaches level 4.

The white light no longer diffuses like that; instead it expands to the size of a round dining table at home.

Although it doesn't pinpoint the weak spot, it's sufficient.

She steps down from Lin Zhi Jing's body and runs toward that spot; Lin Zhi Jing naturally follows closely behind Ye Xi'an.

"This is it!"

Ye Xi'an divides the round-table-sized area into four sections, narrowing it step by step, and finally discovers a strange protrusion in one spot.

Whenever she strikes, the interior of the Mutant Vines trembles as if an earthquake, shaking left and right.

(End of chapter)