Chapter 78: I Haven't Done Anything Yet! (Fourth Update, Seeking First Subscription!)

"..."

Ren Yidao looked at the blood splattered on his lapels and, without hesitation, raised his hand to wipe it away forcefully.

"Mm..."

Li Lingling, in her unconscious state, let out a soft murmur and instinctively raised her hand to protect her chest.

Watching the blood on his junior sister's chest stain his sleeves, Ren Yidao thought for a moment and simply grabbed a corner of her sleeve.

He wiped the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth without ceremony.

Anyway, your sleeve is dirty on both sides, so it doesn't matter if I add a little more, right?

It's fine, I don't mind, no need to be polite with me.

Ren Yidao slowly stood up and stretched forcefully.

"Mm—ha! I'm exhausted..."

This was Li Lingling's residence on Luoyue Peak; at this moment, only the two of them were in the room.

Li Lingling lay on the bed with her brows slightly furrowed, while Ren Yidao stood by the bedside, leaning against the wall with a weary and weak expression.

There were still bloodstains on the bed.

"..."

Keenly aware that he was currently in a very dangerous situation, Ren Yidao narrowed his eyes.

"... Well, the elements are almost all gathered."

Just missing a post-coital cigarette.

If someone were to burst in and see this scene, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to have him dragged off to the magistrate on the spot.

But I clearly didn't do anything!

Question:

If you get misunderstood without having done anything, isn't that a bit of a loss?

Or should I just do something?

After letting his thoughts run wild for a while, Ren Yidao merely dipped his fingertip in blood and placed a red dot on the center of Li Lingling's brow.

It wasn't that Ren Yidao was a gentleman who didn't want to play any other pranks.

It was that he truly didn't have the strength for it now.

The tail behind him had drooped down, hanging listlessly.

Ren Yidao was wilted.

Mm, meaning exhausted to the point of lethargy.

Entering Li Lingling's Consciousness Sea to play the role of a god was, while not as dangerous as the last time he brought Jing Yueqin home, much more complex in its execution.

To suppress Li Lingling's Blood Star Fate, Ren Yidao had sent Luoyue Peak's number one vicious dog, Jing Yueqin, to block everyone's perception from the outside, even using the abilities of his own true form.

Not only that.

After initially discovering Li Lingling's abnormality, Jing Yueqin didn't say a word and went straight to the back mountain of the sect to move an ancient, simple bell to suppress it.

Mm, that is the Supreme Treasure, the Divine Dao Bell, which only the Sect Leader has the authority to use within the Divine Path Sect.

"I don't know how she managed to sneak it out like that... Senior Uncle Sect Leader, hmm, it seems he tacitly approved."

Fine, I acknowledge the caliber of you Divine Path Sect bullies.

Disliked by people, shunned by dogs, and a headache for ghosts.

I, Ren Yidao, am willing to call you the strongest.

With the Divine Dao Bell suppressing it, Ren Yidao was able to act freely; the Great Auspicious Fate of the Auspicious Fortune Beast, combined with the assistance of the Divine Dao Bell, barely managed to keep the situation from worsening.

But this approach was not fundamentally different from Li Long using the Heavenly Son Dragon Qi to forcefully suppress it.

It treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and at most, it can only extend her life by one month.

After doing all this, Ren Yidao also stabilized Li Lingling's mind in the spiritual world, preventing her spirit from collapsing before her physical body.

For this entire day and night, Ren Yidao hadn't rested for a single moment.

"I really have taken on a huge task for myself."

But there was no help for it; who told her to be his own junior sister?

He couldn't just stand by and watch her die.

And besides...

Ren Yidao pinched Li Lingling's tender cheek and shook his head with a light laugh:

"After all, she is now my second adopted daughter."

Using the method he had previously told Shi Anqi, Ren Yidao burned more than half of his Merit to offset part of the baleful energy on his adopted daughter.

However, even though he had already made the employees of the Merit Party work overtime to produce Merit, it was still a drop in the bucket.

"I still need to think of other ways."

Picking up the Yinglong Phantom that had been tossed on the ground, Ren Yidao felt it for a moment and shook his head slightly.

That powerful force had already departed; the Yinglong Phantom left here only possessed the most basic instincts.

The intelligence that had existed when the Yinglong was present had also fallen into a deep sleep and would completely dissipate before long.

To others, this Yinglong Phantom was at most a Dharma treasure for sensing the aura of the Yinglong, and how much one could comprehend from it depended on individual aptitude.

But for someone with the same bloodline as Li Lingling, this would be an excellent Dao Seed, allowing them to obtain all the abilities of the Yinglong Dao Seed after absorbing it.

Coincidentally, there was just such a person in the Divine Path Sect at this moment.

Looking at the young girl on the bed, Ren Yidao narrowed his eyes and gazed in the direction of Lijin Peak, whispering to himself:

"I hope my worst guess is wrong."

He gently stroked the patterns on the Divine Dao Bell and closed his eyes.

"Otherwise, it would be too disappointing for me."

……

……

Lijin Peak.

Yang Wusheng, who was fiddling with a chessboard alone, put down a chess piece.

"Hoo... the time should be about right."

From the moment Luoyue Peak suddenly sealed itself off to forbid outsiders from entering, nearly a day and a night had passed.

At first, he had some doubts about what had happened, but when Yang Wusheng saw that the Soul Lamp of the Twelfth Princess was on the verge of extinguishing, he understood what it meant.

That poor Princess, she was likely beyond saving.

Unlike the brother and sister who knew nothing, Yang Wusheng had come with a mission.

One came from His Majesty the Emperor, which was to have these two people acknowledge that Daoist Ren as their Foster Father.

And as for the other mission, he had been waiting for it for a long time.

From the moment he began serving as a guard for the Princess and the Prince, he had carried a special magical treasure on his person.

No matter the circumstances, once the Princess died unexpectedly, his mission was to take this magical treasure to the vicinity of her corpse, stay for a quarter of an hour, and then bring it back to hand over to the Thirteenth Prince.

And now, it should be the moment for him to complete his mission.

Adjusting his emotions, Yang Wusheng began to play the part of a loyal and devoted guard worried about the Princess's safety.

But just as he was preparing to rush up to Luoyue Peak to inquire, a sound of a door being pushed open came from behind him.

Creak—

"Where are you going?"

Li Yiyi had stopped his cultivation at some point and walked out from behind the door, looking at his guard indifferently.

It was as if he were looking at a stranger.

Feeling somewhat uneasy after meeting this gaze, Yang Wusheng asked uncertainly:

"Your Highness? Why have you come out? Did Peak Master Xie not tell you to practice the basics first?"

Li Yiyi's expression did not change, and he asked again without any emotion:

"Where are you going?"

Something was not right.

In Yang Wusheng's impression, Li Yiyi had always been a youth with good talent who was motivated and hardworking, but lacked depth.

But now, he felt as if he were looking at a different person.

What is this?

"Your Highness..."

"Yang Wusheng, I told you to answer my question."

Stunned by the majesty in the calm words, Yang Wusheng lowered his head subconsciously and spoke instinctively:

"Reporting to Your Highness! This old servant was just about to go to Luoyue Peak to check on the condition of the Princess..."

"Did the Ran Family tell you to go?"

Yang Wusheng:!!!

How could he know!!?

Never expecting his biggest secret to be exposed at this moment, Yang Wusheng forgot to cover it up in his surprise.

But he quickly realized he had been exposed and wanted to open his mouth to make amends:

"No! Your Highness, I haven't done anything yet..."

The words of excuse were swallowed whole, because a Golden Token had appeared in front of Eunuch Yang.

Li Long's "As-If-I-Am-Present Medal"!

Li Yiyi stared coldly at the flustered Yang Wusheng, and he said:

"I don't care which one of the Ran Family told you to do it; I don't want to know right now."

"I am ordering you to stay here; you are not allowed to go anywhere."

Tossing the token onto the open ground in front of Yang Wusheng, Li Yiyi turned and walked toward the house, saying indifferently:

"Kneel."

Thud!