Chapter 549: Chapter 549: Twice as Strong Together

The piercing screech of the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix was close, seemingly ready to approach at any moment.

Fang Zhou hurriedly shouted to Ming Aoshuang, “Let’s go!”

Ming Aoshuang struggled to crawl up from the ground, but halfway through, she fell again, panicked, “I can’t, I have no feeling in my legs at all.”

Her legs below the knees were already frozen into ice, making it impossible to stand balanced.

“Damn, you are such a trouble.”

Fang Zhou really wanted to leave this troublesome woman behind, regardless of her life or death.

But now they were in the same boat; Fang Zhou couldn’t ensure he’d escape if Ming Aoshuang died. If she died and he remained trapped there, it would be over.

He could only step forward, lift Ming Aoshuang, and turn around to run.

“Hey, you…”

Ming Aoshuang was a bit surprised, not expecting Fang Zhou to still save her in such a situation.

“Shut up!”

Fang Zhou snorted coldly, suppressing the urge to toss this woman back into the snowdrifts.

Normally, Ming Aoshuang would definitely be furious if a man spoke to her like this.

But now, she just rarely pouted without saying anything else, staying quiet and honest.

Fang Zhou carried Ming Aoshuang and kept running away from the direction of the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix’s screeches.

The ice sculptures around were left behind, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

The surroundings were pitch dark, with only the snow on the ground and the long footprints Fang Zhou left behind.

He carried Ming Aoshuang forward this way, walking in this seemingly endless space, not knowing where to go.

After walking for a long time, Fang Zhou looked down at the silent Ming Aoshuang in his arms, frowning, “Why aren’t you saying anything?”

Ming Aoshuang looked up at him, “Weren’t you the one who told me to shut up?”

“Are you going to shut up just because I said so? If I tell you to eat shit, will you?”

Fang Zhou almost laughed out of anger, “I told you not to trouble me back then, so why did you keep causing trouble? Now you know to keep quiet?”

If it weren’t for this woman, he wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.

Ming Aoshuang’s forehead had veins popping out; words of retort reached her mouth but was forcibly swallowed as she gritted her teeth in silence.

In the face of greater powers, Ming Aoshuang’s strong survival desire forced her to keep quiet, for fear of angering Fang Zhou and being abandoned.

Having finally escaped from those ice sculptures, Ming Aoshuang absolutely did not want to return.

Seeing Ming Aoshuang’s silence, Fang Zhou also lost interest.

This woman was only interesting when she was hopping mad, but now she was sulking like a scolded wife, which was boring.

He stopped talking, carrying Ming Aoshuang and continuing forward.

After walking for another stretch of time, Fang Zhou could not help asking, “How much longer do we have to walk?”

Ming Aoshuang shook her head, “I don’t know either.”

Every cultivator’s Divine Soul Realm is different, but all are limited in size. The higher the realm, the greater the size.

However, Ming Aoshuang’s Divine Soul Realm overlapped with the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix, making it seem infinitely large, unreachable.

Seeing Ming Aoshuang equally clueless, Fang Zhou could only plod ahead.

As they walked, he gradually sensed something amiss, as if something were peering at him from the darkness.

This sense of eeriness sent a chill through Fang Zhou’s heart.

Could it be, there are spirits even in the Divine Soul Realm?

Fang Zhou instinctively scanned his surroundings but saw nothing.

After walking a while longer, the feeling of being watched intensified. Fang Zhou turned sharply, eyes gazing in a particular direction.

A brilliant ruby-like eyeball appeared in the darkness, with its vertical pupil quietly staring at Fang Zhou.

Fang Zhou’s heart skipped a beat. He immediately recognized it as the eyeball from the underground altar, the culprit that sucked him and Ming Aoshuang in.

But why would this thing appear in Ming Aoshuang’s Divine Soul Realm?

Ming Aoshuang noticed Fang Zhou’s odd behavior and followed his gaze. Upon seeing the eyeball, she was taken aback, “What is that thing?”

Fang Zhou gave her a quizzical look.

When the eyeball absorbed Fang Zhou and Ming Aoshuang, she was conscious. She shouldn’t not recognize it.

Unless, at that time, it wasn’t actually her controlling her body, but the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix.

“This thing…”

Fang Zhou was about to explain when a thunderous screech exploded behind him.

The screech made Fang Zhou and Ming Aoshuang shudder simultaneously. As they looked back, the immense silhouette of the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix charged out of the darkness.

Fang Zhou’s scalp tingled, and with almost no hesitation, he rushed towards the vertical-pupil eyeball with Ming Aoshuang in tow.

Now, their only hope was for this eyeball to absorb them again, or everything would be lost.

Ming Aoshuang was already paralyzed with fear at the sight of the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix, clutching Fang Zhou’s shirt tightly.

The distance between Fang Zhou and the eyeball with the vertical pupil wasn’t short, so he sprinted with all his might, his body bursting with unprecedented strength, turning into a shadowy blur.

The Beiming Heavenly Phoenix moved even faster, swooping towards Fang Zhou, spewing a stream of frost.

Fang Zhou had already reached the eyeball with the vertical pupil, while the frost spewed by the Beiming Heavenly Phoenix was right at his back. He could even feel the extreme cold seizing his back, leaving it numb.

In a flash, Fang Zhou’s outstretched hand reached the eyeball with the vertical pupil, and in a swift motion, both he and Ming Aoshuang were sucked in.

Boom!

Cold frost instantly enveloped the eyeball and the two of them.

When the frost dissipated, the eyeball, Fang Zhou, and Ming Aoshuang were already gone from sight.

The Beiming Heavenly Phoenix let out an angry screech, spreading its wings to soar, continuing to chase the rampaging eyeball with the vertical pupil.

…

After being absorbed into the eyeball with the vertical pupil, Fang Zhou felt like he was being shoved back into a spinning washing machine, hurtling around, with the familiar dizziness and nausea welling up again.

“Not again, ahhhhh!”

Fang Zhou’s scream seemed to spin around with him, gradually fading away, until he couldn’t even hear himself.

In the boundless darkness, Fang Zhou felt himself lying on a warm bed again, body feeling utterly frail.

“Damn, really, again?”

The last time he viewed his past life, it took a whole thirty-five years. Although it sped up towards the end, the total duration felt endlessly long.

Unexpectedly, it was happening again, and whose body would it be this time?

“What is this place?”

In the darkness, Ming Aoshuang’s uncertain voice suddenly rang out, “Fang Yuanhang, are you here?”

Well, Fang Zhou didn’t need to guess whose body he was in.

Ming Aoshuang still called out incessantly. Fang Zhou couldn’t help but reply, “Stop shouting, I’m right here.”

Hearing Fang Zhou’s voice, Ming Aoshuang fell silent instantly, waiting a moment before slowly saying, “Where is this place? What was that eyeball just now?”

“I don’t know either; you’ll find out soon enough.”

Fang Zhou replied casually, thinking they should now be trapped inside a baby’s body together.

Wait, wouldn’t this mean merging with this woman Ming Aoshuang?