Chapter 1557: Release

Seated cross-legged, Tinglan kept looking around. Mu Guyue had not returned, and all sorts of thoughts began to arise in her heart…

Earlier, while she was cultivating, she had suddenly sensed an abnormality nearby—a spatial fluctuation.

She couldn’t help but awaken from her cultivation. After scanning her surroundings, she discovered that Mu Guyue was gone!

The other party had left without even saying goodbye.

‘Was she taken out by Li Yan? In the mission he’s carrying out, is it finally time to use us? But why… didn’t he take me out too? Or at least tell me in advance so we could prepare…’

Tinglan had also gradually come to trust Li Yan.

For so many years, the other party had paid her no mind, not even saying a word, let alone touching her.

This made her start to believe what Mu Guyue had once told her: that he was truly an ascetic cultivator, not lustful for beauty.

However, apart from having her help refine some artifact blanks at the very beginning, he had never asked her to do anything else for him.

This, in fact, was what had always made Tinglan most uneasy.

After he had asked for her, he had her do a few simple things, and then just let her cultivate. How could there be such a good thing in the world?

Even if Li Yan were to beat or scold her, she would at least feel that she had a purpose. Being “provided for” like this always made her feel uneasy.

But every time she saw Mu Guyue’s demeanor, which showed no worry at all, she was both confused and wondered why Mu Guyue was so carefree.

However, she had already confirmed Mu Guyue’s condition. She had not become a cultivation cauldron. Otherwise, with her devastatingly beautiful face, it was impossible that Li Yan would have left her untouched all this time.

Mu Guyue herself was normal. Not only was there no loss of Primordial Yin, but her qi and blood were becoming more and more vigorous.

Amidst this suspicion and utter confusion, she had passed year after year. But today, Mu Guyue had suddenly disappeared.

This made the awakened Tinglan unable to stop her mind from racing. The more she thought, the more chaotic it became, and the more things she associated with it…

And just as she was feeling uneasy, she suddenly sensed another abnormal fluctuation in space. Just as she was about to raise her head to investigate, she suddenly felt the world spin.

Then, with a thud, her graceful and buxom body swayed and she fell to the ground, unconscious!

On the mountain peak in the sea of clouds, with a wave of Li Yan’s hand, Tinglan’s delicate body flashed and appeared on the ground in front of them.

Looking at the beautiful woman lying on the ground, her face still showing a look of being startled awake, Li Yan did not hesitate. He raised his hands, and Spirit Power surged from them.

Whoosh!

Without any pause, he pulled Tinglan under his palm, placing his large hand on top of her head. With his eyes slightly closed, he began to quickly chant a manual.

Mu Guyue stood to the side, quietly watching Li Yan cast the art. She sometimes felt that this man, Li Yan, had no so-called tenderness for the fairer sex at all.

Such a beautiful woman as Tinglan, even more curvaceous in her unconscious state, her thin dress revealing glimpses of her body beneath, yet Li Yan treated her as if she were nothing, like casually picking up an object.

If it weren’t for her, Li Yan might have killed the other party without the slightest hesitation.

Then she thought of how Li Yan had treated her after they met in the “Earth-True Domain.” Compared to Tinglan, it was like heaven and earth.

‘He is truly a man who is like a demon and an immortal…’

After an unknown amount of time, Tinglan let out a moan and slowly opened her eyes. A sharp pain came from her Divine Soul and Sea of Consciousness.

What met her eyes were white clouds drifting past above, occasionally revealing patches of blue sky higher up. And the white clouds below seemed to brush against her cheeks.

She tilted her head and found that she was lying on a rocky surface, her black hair spread out on the ground, her full body slightly curled…

Her consciousness did not immediately recover. She couldn’t remember what had happened before.

Enduring the sharp pain, Tinglan’s beautiful eyes continued to move. Then, two figures in front of her came into her line of sight.

“Junior Sister Ting, circulate your cultivation method. You were affected when we broke through that restriction earlier!”

Before she could see who the two were, a familiar voice entered her ears.

“Senior… Senior Sister Mu?”

Tinglan’s mind had not yet reacted, but she immediately recognized Mu Guyue’s voice…

A quarter of an hour later, Tinglan, who was sitting cross-legged, opened her beautiful eyes. The pain in her Divine Soul and Sea of Consciousness had greatly subsided, and her mind had become clear.

Then, she stood up and looked at the two people standing side by side at the edge of the cliff, their robes fluttering in the sea of clouds, like a divine couple in a painting.

Seeing her stand up, the two also looked at her at the same time!

Tinglan once again released her Divine Sense. Things were just as she had perceived in her dazed state before. Her Divine Sense was truly like a bird, able to travel wherever she wanted at any time.

It was a long-lost feeling of freedom, of using her cultivation without any restrictions!

“We… we really got out?”

Tinglan murmured in a dream-like whisper.

Earlier, Mu Guyue had briefly explained some of the reasons to her and then told her to quickly recover from her discomfort. Although Tinglan still felt as if she were in a dream, she did as she was told.

“We’re out. Are you feeling better now?”

Mu Guyue gently walked over, then stretched out a long arm and placed it on Tinglan’s shoulder.

Tinglan immediately felt a force enter her body from her shoulder, making her feel much more comfortable.

She slightly turned her head and looked at Mu Guyue.

“Senior Sister Mu, what happened? How did we get out? I only remember us entering a riverbed, and then being attacked by countless fish demons, and then I don’t remember anything…”

As she spoke, she looked at the ordinary-looking man.

At this moment, that person had already turned his face away again, gazing at the endless sky in the distance, no longer looking here. It was clear he didn’t want to disturb their conversation.

“When we were breaking through that space at the end, you were attacked by several demonic beasts. You were hit by their arts and fell unconscious. It was Li Yan who risked his life to save you from the siege. In the end, we finally escaped. I’m relieved that you’re alright now!”

Mu Guyue said comfortingly.

She looked at Tinglan before her and could only sigh in her heart.

‘Junior Sister Ting, I hope you don’t blame me. Perhaps not remembering that period of time is not a bad thing for you.’

The current Mu Guyue would naturally side with Li Yan, so she could only wrong Tinglan.

At the beginning, Li Yan had only planned to remove Tinglan’s soul imprint and then erase all her memories of him.

And while she was unconscious, he would have Mu Guyue take her away, as if they had never met this person at all.

But because of what had happened later, Mu Guyue would not be leaving for the time being, so Tinglan would have to leave on her own.

At the same time as he removed the soul imprint, Li Yan carefully erased all of Tinglan’s memories of the “Earth-True Domain” from the past few years.

And he modified them so that their demon-hunting team had been swept into a secret realm in the Heavenly Demon Prairie. Of course, in this team, not only was Li Yan added, but it was also no longer the “Earth-True Domain.”

In that secret realm, there were all kinds of ferocious demonic beasts. In the end, everyone else died, leaving only the three of them. They had been constantly searching for an exit.

After searching for many years, they finally found an exit recently, and the three of them finally managed to break out.

Originally, the memories of a Nascent Soul cultivator were quite vast, and it was not easy to find a specific memory.

But Li Yan only needed to clear and modify Tinglan’s memories backward from the present, until he traced back to before their demon-hunting team disappeared from the Heavenly Demon Prairie.

So, he didn’t need to search her memories bit by bit. He basically just directly modified Tinglan’s memories of the last nearly two hundred years.

When Tinglan heard what Mu Guyue said, a scene of a riverbed and ferocious fish demons pouncing on them immediately appeared in her mind, and she couldn’t help but shiver.

She felt the terror of the Heavenly Demon Prairie even more. The secret realm was also filled with all kinds of terrifying demonic beasts. It was truly a perilous land ruled by demonic beasts.

She couldn’t help but glance at Li Yan in the distance. In her memory, this person had only joined their team on the Heavenly Demon Prairie.

He was a man of few words and had almost never spoken to her.

However, since the other companions, including the captain and vice-captain, had successively perished, it was the three of them who had supported each other through these years and survived until now.

Tinglan nodded. Looking around now, she felt an inexplicable sense of relief in her heart.

But this feeling was very heavy. She faintly felt that it wasn’t the feeling brought by those secret realm demonic beasts…

“Senior Brother Li, thank you!”

After Mu Guyue’s explanation, an image floated up in Tinglan’s memory.

It was of her spirit power shield being broken by several water arrows. In her hazy consciousness, she saw Li Yan and Mu Guyue rushing over to help her.

But she really couldn’t remember what happened after that. But after Mu Guyue’s explanation, she knew it was Li Yan who had ultimately saved her.

She immediately bowed slightly and saluted Li Yan, who was not far away.

Li Yan was looking into the distance, but his ears were sharp and clear. He had long heard Mu Guyue’s words; she had actually said it was him who had saved Tinglan.

When he had modified her final unconscious memories, he had simply erased what happened afterward, letting her imagine what she wanted. He hadn’t expected to be a hero saving a beauty…

Hearing Tinglan’s pleasant voice, he could no longer play deaf and dumb. He had to turn his head and nod at Tinglan.

He didn’t know if Tinglan, once she knew that he had erased her memories and had once made her his soul slave, would still be as polite as she was now…

Seeing that Li Yan still had the same expression, Tinglan found that it was similar to the impression she had in her memory. She knew that was just his personality.

Afterward, she looked at Mu Guyue again.

“Senior Sister Mu, what are your plans next?”