Chapter 14: The Sound of Heaven

  The ink color suddenly stopped.

  Four Mo warriors emerged from the forest, panting, and stood beside Mò Yán Yù, their faces grave.

  Karu's beheaded corpse still had fresh blood that hadn't dried up, but his body was withered as if he had lost all moisture, and his vital energy was completely gone.

  Four warriors gathered around Mò Yán Yù's side, their eyes filled with astonishment. One of the warriors hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and said: "Miss..."

  Her eyebrows were deeply knitted, her slender body lightly trembling, and after a brief pause, she finally said firmly: "Don't chase anymore."

  "Miss......" The warrior wanted to say something more.

  "Karu was in the realm of Innate Double Heaven, with a boundary similar to mine. His experience in fighting against humans is even richer than mine." Mò Yán Yù weakly shook her head, "No matter what method he used to kill Karu, this means that he has the ability to kill any one of us. If we continue to pursue him, it's possible that none of us will return to Shāng Méng."

  "Are we just going to let him off like that? Miss, we've spent a lot of money to invite Master Kalu back." One of the warriors stammered.

  "Besides giving up, Li Tian, what other good ways do you have to deal with him?"

  That warrior suddenly fell silent.

  Mo Yan crouched down, rummaged through Kalu's body, gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, Kalu has taken away all the medicines and medical classics on him. This trip is really a waste of time."

  Four warriors stood together in silence.

  "Go back to Qiang Sen's side, from now on, no one is allowed to separate!" Mo Yan Yu took a deep breath, stood up and turned around to return the way she came, her hatred for Shi Yan had reached her bones.

  ……

  Shi Yan hastily and recklessly dashed through the dark forest.

  A ferocious and bloodthirsty desire was raging inside him, like a flood beast devouring his sanity bit by bit. Fierce, murderous, and mad emotions galloped in his mind like an unbridled wild horse. His vision gradually blurred, and he faintly felt that the negative forces within him were becoming uncontrollable.

  He was extremely exhausted physically, and his hands and feet seemed unable to gather strength. At this time, fighting with others would only lead to a dead end.

  He didn't know how much longer he could hold on and hadn't anticipated his body would react so strangely without any emergency measures.

  "Boom!"

  The bloodthirsty thoughts in his heart finally burst out completely, Shi Yan panted heavily, his eyes could not see anything, and a voice in his mind kept repeating: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

  Shi Yan understood in his heart that he would soon lose all his sanity and become a bloodthirsty beast who only knew how to slaughter.

  ……

  The ethereal and elegant sound of the guqin suddenly came from afar, like pearls falling onto a jade plate, or the tinkling of pendants. The melody flowed smoothly, like birds lightly flapping their wings, or the gentle gurgling of a spring in a quiet forest. It was beautiful and captivating, drawing people in with its charm. The skill of the player had already reached an exquisite level.

  One after another, the elegant and clear piano sound was like a soft and boneless jade hand gently stroking his heart, soothing his violent bloodlust, and slowly restoring his nearly collapsing rationality to clarity.

  Under the influence of the piano sound, the nearly crazed Shi Yan gradually regained his sanity, and with a mesmerized expression, he slowly walked towards the direction of the piano sound. His entire being seemed to be in the melodious world of the piano sound, and the bloodthirsty thoughts within him slowly dissipated into nothingness...

  In a small valley filled with exotic flowers and grasses, a slender figure gently stroked the strings of an ancient zither, sitting cross-legged amidst the blooms, head slightly bowed, lost in playing, completely unaware that the rocky cliff was slowly approaching.

  Shi Yan stood still a hundred meters away, gazing at the beautiful figure with her back to him, slowly closing his eyes and immersing his mind in the elegant piano melody.

  After a long time, the sound of the piano gradually subsided and finally came to an end.

  Shi Yan suddenly woke up from his intoxication, only to find that the violent and bloodthirsty thoughts in his body had vanished without a trace, as if they had never appeared before!

  However, his body still felt heavy, and his chest was in even more pain. The blow from Karu had clearly caused him a serious injury. After carefully sensing it, he found that the vortex of Qi inside his acupoints was still stubbornly rotating, continuing to digest the pure energy from Karu.

  In the distance, a figure with a classical guitar in hand slowly turned around, slightly furrowing her brow, and gazed at Shi Yan.

  His body trembled slightly, his eyes gleaming, staring at her for a moment without moving, and suddenly exclaimed: "Beautiful!"

  A beautiful woman in a white dress, looking like she's eighteen or nineteen years old, with bright eyes and teeth, skin as white as snow and bones as delicate as jade, her ethereal and charming qualities perfectly blended together, surprisingly, she is a beauty on the same level as Mo Yu.

  The beauty just glanced at Shi Yan and then silently turned around, hugging the guqin, and walked towards the small river 100 meters in front with a graceful posture.

  Shi Yan sighed, this world's beauties were truly top-notch. In this place, he had only seen two women, but both of them were so stunning that they took his breath away and stood out from the rest.

  "Miss, thank you for your piano music just now, can I..." Seeing the beauty walking further and further away, Shiyuan yelled loudly.

  "Alright, kid, stop while you're ahead."

  A majestic figure suddenly jumped down from the ancient tree in front of the stone cliff, it was a middle-aged man with a yellow face and a full beard, wearing a grayish-brown warrior suit, with a broad waist and a sturdy body, lazily carrying a wide sword, blocking the way in front of the stone cliff, gazing at him with a smile that seemed to be but wasn't.

  Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat, his entire body on high alert, as he sensed an extremely terrifying aura emanating from this yellow-faced man.

  Don't think too much, Shi Yan immediately realized that this yellow-faced man was absolutely a martial artist far superior to him in realm. The yellow-faced man looked at him without intentionally releasing any pressure, and Shi Yan felt he was as unshakeable as a mountain.

  Taking a step back, Shi Yan first indicated that he had no malicious intentions and dryly chuckled twice before saying: "The beautiful young lady's zither music is so enchanting that it leaves one with an aftertaste, I just wanted to hear her play a few more times, there was no other meaning behind it."

  This heart-moving girl has an otherworldly piano skill, and the clear and elegant piano sound can apparently suppress his bloodthirsty desire within him. He is uncertain whether his bloodthirsty desire will erupt again, so he wants to find something to rely on to control his bloodthirsty desire within him.

  "I know you're just a pure lecher and don't have any other meaning, otherwise you wouldn't be alive today." The yellow-faced big man smiled and said, "However, this is not a good place for your lechery. I suggest you'd better stay far away from us, lest you bring unnecessary disaster upon yourself."

  "Good." Shi Yan raised his hand and didn't bother to ask further, taking a deep look at the distant figure standing tall and slender, before turning around and leaving.

  ……

  "Old Luo, this person has a very strong aura of death on him. Just now, his whole body was emitting a fierce killing intent, and he almost lost his rationality, but after he calmed down, he still dared to show up, and his eyes... were so unscrupulous. He shouldn't be someone sent by the 'Dark Realm'." Mu Yu Die felt somewhat uncomfortable as soon as she thought of Shi Yan's naked gaze.

  That person seems never to hide his inner desires.

  Although others have intentions for her, when they look at her, at least cover it up a bit, and secretly, they don't dare to show their true thoughts, but that guy's naked eyes are not covered at all, as if he can't wait to swallow her whole, it's purely possessive desire.

  "He's definitely not from the 'Dark Realm', at least those people are in the Innate Realm, but that kid is still wandering around in the Acquired Realm." Luo Hao chuckled and said: "However, that guy does have some guts, he hasn't even reached the Innate Realm yet, but he dares to covet the beauty of our little fairy from the Three Realms of Heaven, truly a shameless audacity, haha."

  "Alas, I don't know when I'll recover. Right now, I can't even exert a bit of strength." Mu Yu Die let out a faint sigh, her heart filled with worry and frustration. "Luo Shu, if it really gets unbearable, don't bother about me, I... have long been prepared."

  "What's the matter?" Luo Hao's face sank, and he scolded, "We're not far from the Merchant Alliance. As long as we can hold on for another ten days or half a month, we'll definitely be able to get through the Dark Forest. Once we reach the Merchant Alliance, 'Darkness' will be powerless."

  "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"

  A strange whistling sound came from afar, and soon three young mercenaries, two men and one woman, emerged from the forest. The leader of them looked serious and immediately said: "Uncle Luo, we didn't catch up with the trackers of 'Darkness'."

  Lu Hao nodded and frowned: "We set off immediately, we must re-select a landing point, otherwise the people of 'Darkness' will soon surround this place."

  The five of them quickly gathered their things and hastily left without lingering.

  ……

  Just leaving those people, Shi Yan's bloodthirsty desire rose up again.

  This bloodthirsty desire is related to Karuna's refined aura, and Karuna has a congenital boundary of cultivation. His refined aura contains too many negative emotions, and when his acupuncture points purify those powers, the annoying negative emotions will occasionally overflow and trigger the bloodthirsty desire in his body.

  The girl's piano sound suppressed that desire, he didn't lose his mind and fall into a crazy chaos. However, the meridians in his body were still purifying Karu's power, and before the purification was complete, there was always a possibility of falling into madness again.

  Before the purification of his Qi in Karu, that beautiful girl was one of the things he relied on to stay awake!

  Feeling that bloodthirsty desire slowly rising to his heart, Shi Yan's heart sank, hesitated for a moment, and then chased towards the girl again.

  The girl's lyre-like piano sound that day could temporarily calm him down, and only by following her would he have the chance to hear that beautiful and elegant piano sound again.

  ……