Chapter 571

The violent sound immediately drew Fang Yue's attention.

Turning back, Fang Yue's pupils shrank sharply, his face frozen in stunned disbelief, and he blurted out without thinking.

"Impossible!!"

From the cracked Bone Coffin, the source of the iron chains was a girl with long hair.

Her jet-black hair, even amid 【Heavy Rain】, fluttered like Head & Shoulders in the wind.

Iron chains radiating from her body coiled like strands of hair around all manner of grotesques.

As the grotesques dissolved into blood, they flowed along the chains into her body.

Her youthful, lovely face slowly opened its eyes.

It was unmistakably… Bai Xiaoya's face!

"Bai… Xiaoya?!"

That… was unmistakably Bai Xiaoya's face! Bai Xiaoya's body!

Fang Yue was stunned, forgetting to flee, standing frozen in place, his mind blank.

With his limited knowledge, he could not comprehend what was happening.

Why was Bai Xiaoya here?

Why was the one emerging from the Bone Coffin Bai Xiaoya?

If she was Bai Xiaoya, then what was Bai Daya?

What was their true relationship?

And if Bai Xiaoya was here, how could he possibly rescue her from the game into reality?

In an instant, countless questions flashed through Fang Yue's mind, overwhelming his brain.

Yet almost none of these questions had clear answers—not even a direction for speculation.

If Lord Han or Chen Qing were here, perhaps they could help him analyze what was going on.

But relying solely on himself, Fang Yue could not fathom why Bai Xiaoya had emerged from the Bone Coffin.

It was as if the boundary between reality and the game had suddenly blurred.

Until now, apart from the parchment and Bai Xiaoya's Soul-Hosting Jade Pendant, there had never been a single case where reality altered the game!

And even those two were objects—things Fang Yue could accept after learning part of the truth.

But the problem was… the figure standing before him was Bai Xiaoya—a living, breathing person!

How could a person be ripped from reality, trapped in a game, and then stuffed into a Bone Coffin?

Such a transcendent technique filled Fang Yue with profound dread and terror.

This meant the power within the game could directly affect reality—that certain entities within the game had the means to kill players in reality!

This was power spanning two worlds—utterly inconceivable!

Fang Yue carefully recalled any possible connection between the Bone Coffin and Bai Xiaoya.

The only possibility he could imagine was that Bai Xiaoya had been in a special state, trapped in the game, then captured by the Phoenix Organization for experimentation.

Bai Xiaoya's body had been implanted with a foreign soul, becoming Bai Daya.

The true Bai Xiaoya had vanished without a trace.

Fang Yue had assumed Bai Xiaoya's soul was still imprisoned in the Phoenix Organization's Underground Stronghold.

But now it seemed… she had been turned into a 【Grotesque Object】!

"That… serrated bone sword!"

"So… that was Bai Xiaoya. That was truly Bai Xiaoya!"

The origin of the Bone Coffin was the serrated bone sword; now that Bai Xiaoya had emerged from the Bone Coffin, the only possible explanation was that the sword had been forged from Bai Xiaoya's soul!

Fang Yue's eyes gradually turned red; rage made his entire body tremble.

Fang Yue didn't just stop moving—he stepped forward, one deliberate pace at a time, toward Bai Xiaoya.

"Phoenix Organization…"

【Run!】

Fang Yue's steps quickened; the two-meter black blade in his hand began to take shape.

"How dare they…"

【Run, idiot!!】

His feet moved at incredible speed—【Tanying Erxing】—his figure nearly turned spectral as he charged forward.

"…do something like this!!!"

In blind fury, Fang Yue roared uncontrollably as he lunged forward.

But he had barely reached halfway…

Boom!!

A thunderous explosion halted Fang Yue's form instantly; an invisible shockwave erupted, and he was flung backward exactly as he had come.

3999!

Before the next raindrop struck his skin, 【Night Breath】 frantically surged Fang Yue's HP.

As the violent force hurled him backward, his HP barely hovered between ten and twenty points.

【Night Rain】 had already reached the level of 【Heavy Rain】; at this intensity, 【Night Rain】 was nearing the upper limit of 【Night Breath】.

Grotesques or humans hiding in leaky environments were drenched into sieves and died instantly under 【Heavy Rain】!

And if 【Night Rain】 continued evolving, ascending from 【Heavy Rain】 to 【Fierce Rain】, then everyone in Qingsi County would perish beneath 【Fierce Rain】!

Because human building materials could not withstand 【Fierce Rain】!

It was a corrosive rain that pierced through any barrier, striking every living thing within its range.

Only extremely high-level arrays can barely defend against it, and how long they might hold is uncertain!

Where 【Night Rain】 passes, not a blade of grass survives!

After 【Blood Rain】, all life falls silent!

This is the true horror of 【Night Rain】: at the level of 【厉雨】, only those of 【Rain Level】 are worthy to stand within the rain; others cannot endure even a second!

At the level of 【Blood Rain】, even top-tier Rain Level experts dare not even dare to challenge it.

It is a true natural disaster; apart from immediately evacuating the area, there is no other solution.

Throughout history, countless towns, villages, and even nations have been destroyed by 【Night Rain】!

Now, the black cloud above Qingsi County seems to be evolving toward a higher stage of 【Night Rain】!

The ground began to slowly show very shallow, very faint pit-like depressions shaped like raindrops—clearly one of the signs that 【Night Rain】 is advancing toward 【厉雨】!

If 【Night Rain】 successfully advances, no one in Qingsi County will survive!

As 【Night Rain】 gradually changed, Fang Yue, who had been flung backward, crashed with a thud against a large tree.

Dizzy and disoriented, the bloodline he had just raised immediately dropped back to just over ten points.

【Quickly take pills! Why did you charge in? I haven't digested it yet!! I'm angry!】

The frantic script on the parchment flashed in his mind.

Fang Yue immediately pulled out a hundred pills and swallowed the entire bottle at once; only then did the bloodline barely recover, easing the crisis.

The parchment seemed still angry, ready to scold Fang Yue—but when she saw him rising again, she instantly switched from reprimand to pleading.

【No, don't be reckless! That thing is too strong—we only have a chance once I've digested 【Golden Stone】!】

Hearing this, Fang Yue laughed bitterly.

He had been blinded by rage and lost his reason just now.

Now, he had nearly died—he was fully awake.

"Don't worry, I won't act rashly. We're retreating now. Bai Xiaoya… that thing targets me specifically, so she's lost even the memory of Bai Xiaoya—she's merely something strange."

Yes, merely a strange entity wearing Bai Xiaoya's form!

Only by thinking this could he bring himself to strike.

"Wait—I'll give you release!"

Fang Yue retreated swiftly toward Qingsi, but not to join Lord Han and the others—he intended to go somewhere else first!

…

"Why… didn't I kill him?"

Bai Xiaoya's expression held seven parts confusion and three parts bewilderment.

As if, in that lethal strike, a voice deep in her subconscious had told her not to kill, but to capture the target instead.

(End of Chapter)