CHAPTER 580: FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY XINGMOU, GOOD MORNING!

"Indeed!"

Feeling the power surging from the palm of his right hand, Yun Xiao couldn’t help but be overjoyed, and suddenly he remembered the first time he met Shen Xingmou in the Lingtian Empire. Wasn’t it also because of this that he was able to escape?

The main reason Yun Xiao had followed Shen Xingmou away from the Jade Pot Sect was the reassurance provided by this trump card. Previously, he had a better plan in mind and was also uncertain whether the Blood Moon Mark would erupt again at such a critical moment.

As it turned out, the energy of the Blood Moon Jade’s mark possessed a mysterious specialness. It would initiate an autonomous protective consciousness when Yun Xiao faced danger, like now.

"What’s going on?"

When this power erupted from Yun Xiao’s right arm, Shen Xingmou’s face also changed, as she realized that she no longer had control over this force. This shock was no small matter.

It is well-known that Shen Xingmou was a mighty practitioner of the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, and the combination of Earth Power and Sky Power’s restraint should have been impossible for a mere youth in the early stages of the Spirit Vein Realm to escape from. However, the current situation clearly surpassed all her understanding to date.

Fortunately for Shen Xingmou, this was not the first time Yun Xiao’s transformation had unfolded before her eyes. Reflecting upon what happened back in the mountain ranges of the Lingtian Empire, she had made a decision.

Once bitten, twice shy. This time, Shen Xingmou would not let Yun Xiao slip out of her control. As her thoughts stirred, the Black Star Mark in her palm suddenly emitted a dark glow, casting a dim layer of black light around her.

Whoosh!

As the black light twirled around her, Shen Xingmou reached out with her right arm and grasped Yun Xiao’s right arm. Then, something miraculous happened.

The mingling of the blood-red light with the pitch-black light seemed to trigger an extremely mystical reaction. Shen Xingmou suddenly found herself unable to move, and her arm intertwined with Yun Xiao’s felt utterly devoid of strength.

"Eh?"

Yun Xiao sensed this and immediately realized it was an excellent opportunity to break free, but in the next moment, he discovered that no matter how hard he tried, his right arm remained bound to Shen Xingmou’s, unable to break free.

It was an unstoppable force, as if their arms were cast together, and even Shen Xingmou, a strong practitioner of the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, could not free herself.

The only difference was that while Shen Xingmou’s entire body was immobilized, Yun Xiao’s right arm was the only part he couldn’t move. So, after several unsuccessful attempts to free himself, Yun Xiao simply gave up trying.

"Miss Shen Xingmou, our current posture seems rather indecent, doesn’t it?"

Since escape was out of the question, Yun Xiao became nonchalant and tilted his head to look at Shen Xingmou behind the black veil, and from such a close distance, he felt even more that her eyes were like the stars in the vast sea, captivating and profound.

"Stay... stay away from me!"

Hearing Yun Xiao’s words and feeling his breath on her face, Shen Xingmou frowned, trying to push him away, yet no matter what, she couldn’t do it.

"It seems you really can’t move!"

Witnessing this, Yun Xiao’s suspicions were confirmed. Some unknown force had indeed bound Shen Xingmou, the only regret being that he too could not break free from the entanglement of their arms.

"If that’s the case, then a wish I’ve always had should be realized now!"

After realizing this, Yun Xiao chuckled again, and the smile on his face made Shen Xingmou’s heart skip a beat, as a sense of ominous foreboding suddenly welled up within her.

"Do you cover your face with a black veil every day because you’re too ugly to face people?"

Now that it had come to this, Yun Xiao let go of his reservations, and as the words left his mouth, to Shen Xingmou’s horror, he lifted his left arm and pulled away the black veil that had always concealed her face.

"This..."

However, as Yun Xiao removed the black veil, he was stunned by the face that was just a breath away. He could swear that even in his previous life in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, he had never seen a woman of such ravishing beauty.

The woman’s face held a trace of thin anger, a hint of shyness, and a touch of panic from the sudden unveiling of her veil, but none of it could overshadow her unparalleled stunning appearance.

Eyes like twinkling stars, a nose as graceful as jade, teeth as bright as pearls, lips tinted red—the words to describe a devastatingly beautiful woman all seemed apt for Shen Xingmou. For a moment, Yun Xiao found himself at a loss for words.

Upon seeing Shen Xingmou’s peerless beauty, Yun Xiao suddenly realized that his heart, which had hardened from reincarnation, had once again opened, all because of the woman before him.

In his past life as the Long Xiao Battle God, he was betrayed by his brothers and wife. After his rebirth, his heart turned extremely resilient, and while there were no lack of beautiful women beside him, none had ever moved his heart.

Neither Mo Qing, the prodigious young lady from the Medical Pulse lineage of the Jade Pot Sect, nor Liu Hanyi, with the Immortal Poison Body from the Luoyi Sect, nor Xu Hongzhuang, his betrothed from an early age, had truly touched Yun Xiao’s heart.

However, since the first glance at this girl named Shen Xingmou, Yun Xiao felt an inexplicable emotion, and now, gazing closely at her extraordinary face, he knew that his long-sealed heart was finally revived.

"Hmm?"

Just as Yun Xiao and Shen Xingmou’s eyes met, falling into a strange atmosphere, Yun Xiao suddenly felt a searing heat rising from his lower abdomen. This heat rapidly took over his entire body and even his soul and mind.

In just a moment, Yun Xiao’s eyes had become blood-red, and his breathing had grown more rapid. The way he stared at Shen Xingmou was like a ferocious Vein Demon choosing its prey, instilling a trace of fear in her.

"Yun Xiao, what are you planning to do?"

Shen Xingmou’s heart was filled with panic, but her voice contained a threatening tone. However, her words seemed to ignite a spark in a powder keg, causing Yun Xiao to explode instantly.

"What am I going to do? Since you’re so eager to kill me, then I will make you pay a price first!"

Whether these words truly represented Yun Xiao’s intentions was unclear, but they seemed to emanate from the Bottom of the Netherworld, sinking Shen Xingmou’s heart into a deep valley instantly.

Rip!

As his words fell, the blood-red in Yun Xiao’s eyes deepened. Following that, his left hand, empty and swift, reached out and tore off a piece of Shen Xingmou’s left sleeve, revealing a jade-like, fair arm.

"Yun Xiao, I, Shen Xingmou, swear, if you dare to... to me..., I will tear you to pieces!"

It seemed Shen Xingmou already knew what Yun Xiao was about to do, crying out in desperation. But at that moment, how could Yun Xiao possibly heed her threatening words?

Perhaps in the moment when his Spiritual Wisdom was being eroded, Yun Xiao knew that the woman in black before him was there to assassinate him. Now having this opportunity, he certainly had to seize it.

Or perhaps, in Yun Xiao’s subconscious, he had developed an inexplicable affection for Shen Xingmou, compelling him to focus on doing one thing in the instant he lost his sanity.

Rip! Rip! Rip!

A series of sounds of fabric tearing followed, while Shen Xingmou’s scolding grew fainter and fainter, for her body was completely immobilized, simply at the mercy of Yun Xiao.

...

The stars shifted, night turned to day.

Time, beautiful and fleeting, always passes quickly. When the first ray of sunlight in the early morning shone down, the two figures by a hot spring near Yurong Volcano finally revealed their disheveled appearances.

The first to wake up was Yun Xiao. When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was an exceptionally stunning face, still showing a trace of faint blush and tear stains at the corners of her eyes that could not be concealed.

"What... what have I done?"

Yun Xiao’s head throbbed painfully, and he could not quite remember what happened last night. Though his memories of the night before were vague, looking at the state of the woman beside him allowed him to guess a part of it.

Originally, he had found himself trapped without an escape in Shen Xingmou’s hands, yet the eventual outcome was something Yun Xiao had never imagined.

"We shouldn’t stay here too long!"

Thinking of the possibilities, Yun Xiao’s heart tightened, fearing that if Shen Xingmou woke up and remembered everything that happened last night, dismembering him would be a light punishment.

"Hmm?"

Just as Yun Xiao took one last, somewhat reluctantly lingering look at Shen Xingmou’s face, he saw that the young girl in front of him opened her eyes at that moment.

In that instant, their eyes met, so close at hand, and for a moment, it felt as if even the air in Yurong Mountain froze to the freezing point, and all sounds vanished in an instant.

"Uh... um, good morning, Xingmou!"

Feeling the atmosphere turn somewhat strange, Yun Xiao eventually shifted his gaze away slightly. For some reason, after last night’s incident, he naturally omitted the title "Miss" when addressing Shen Xingmou.

"Yun Xiao, you little lecher, I... I..."

Stirred by Yun Xiao’s dry laughter back to her senses, Shen Xingmou seemed to recall what had happened, letting out a piercing scream that almost ruptured Yun Xiao’s eardrums.

Standing up, Yun Xiao touched his nose, and just as he saw the enraged Shen Xingmou also rising to her feet, he almost couldn’t help but get a nosebleed, for at that moment, she was completely naked.

"Cough cough, Xingmou, you might want to get dressed first. This isn’t very decent!"

No matter how reluctant he was to lose sight of her, Yun Xiao instinctively turned his head away. As these words left his mouth, the murderous intent in Shen Xingmou seemed to be swept away at that moment, leaving her stunned and somewhat at a loss.

Then she saw the young man across from her, his bare back fully exposed.