Journey to the End of the Night
Chapter 73 - 73 73 I Fight You Circle Your Waist

73: Chapter 73: I Fight, You Circle Your Waist 73: Chapter 73: I Fight, You Circle Your Waist Lin Yuan’s heart suddenly clenched, her feelings a mix of warmth and bitterness.

With eyes reddened, she croaked out,

“Don’t waste your efforts anymore.

Tied up by these chains, I simply can’t escape.

Even if you break these two, I am merfolk without legs.

Bringing me along will only be a burden.”

Baili An, with a reverse grip, severed the head of a wolf demon with his sword, and in the motion of withdrawing the blade to conserve strength, took out an Evil Ghost as well.

However, the overwhelming numbers were too many, and amidst the fighting, there were bound to be mishaps.

A corpse demon, that had gained spiritual wisdom, was actually lying in ambush underground.

It burst forth from the earth, biting down hard on one of Baili An’s calves and began to frantically suck blood!

Baili An slashed downwards, stirring the corpse demon’s heart into pieces from above, instantly draining it of its life force.

But the pain from his calf made his pupils flicker slightly, as if he caught a hint of something critically important.

The Autumnwater Sword burst with Spiritual Power, and while drawing elegant arcs with the blade, it attracted all the moisture from the wet mud around, forming countless droplets of water.

The bright, mirror-like sword tip reflected Baili An’s pitch-black eyes.

He raised his palm and cut his wrist with the sword tip, blood floating and spreading out, defying gravity, and infused into each of the countless water droplets.

With a quick turn of the sword tip, the blood-dyed droplets instantly transformed into numerous crimson sharp arrows, shooting out fiercely like a sudden downpour!

Directly thrusting through the brows and hearts of the encroaching Fierce Ghosts and demons, they collapsed.

And so, Baili An found a moment’s respite.

Without daring to delay, Baili An abruptly turned, seized one of the long chains without using the Autumnwater Sword, but bit directly into it with his own Tusk in a fierce chew.

The corpse demon that bit his leg was not of a high level, but its Tusk could still penetrate his skin, which also reminded Baili An.

At times, the corpse demon’s Tusk could also become a sharp weapon.

Lin Yuan watched Baili An’s actions in a daze, hastily saying, “That’s a Xuan Sand rune lock, forged from Gangjin Sea Sand gathered into rune locks, be careful or you’ll break your…

teeth…”

Crack!

A crisp sound!

Her tightly gripped arm dropped, Lin Yuan’s blue eyes suddenly widened, and the last two words came out very lightly.

Baili An felt his somewhat sour Tusk, tossed aside the chain broken into two, and smiled at Lin Yuan, “Looks like my teeth are pretty good.”

Lin Yuan’s head spun slightly.

Quickly after, the other chain also snapped into two parts.

Baili An glanced over at the Corpse Tide that was being forcibly pushed back by Yang Zhao and Huang Kang not far ahead, as they carved a broad bloody path, step by step getting closer to them.

If it weren’t for them having to protect Wen Yu, they could have moved faster.

Baili An’s eyelids twitched, he hastily took the Glazed Umbrella above his head, handed it to Lin Yuan, and said, “Sister Lin Yuan, I’ll carry you out of here; make sure you hold the umbrella.”

“I…” Lin Yuan didn’t take the umbrella.

“Stop dawdling.

Trust me!

We can both make it out alive!” Baili An asserted strongly, shoving the handle into her hand and crouched in front of her, urging, “Hurry up!”

Lin Yuan gazed deeply at the not-so-broad shoulders of the youth.

To be honest, when she learned that the Mountain God had bequeathed all of his heritage to Baili An at the cost of his life, although she had no resentment towards the innocent youth, she felt somewhat angry on their behalf.

She thought to herself how lucky this kid was to receive the heritage and be away from trouble while they had to pay a painful price in life.

Their peaceful homeland was destroyed overnight…

But she had never expected that in the Death Realm beneath the Corpse Tide’s devilish mountain, this foolish kid would actually find his way back.

Amidst starlight and bloodshed, he stood before her, his grey robe bloodstained, surrounded by mortal combat.

He said he would protect her unscathed.

Lin Yuan’s eyes moistened, she bit her pale, cracked lips, took the umbrella in one hand, and wrapped her arm across Baili An’s shoulder, entrusting her body to his back.

Baili An, his right hand holding the sword, instinctively reached back to embrace her.

But as merfolk have no legs, there was only a tail, blue and bloodied from lost scales.

The tail slick, Baili An lost his grip on supporting the tail from the bottom, thoroughly brushing the entire fish tail!

Lin Yuan’s delicate palm clutching his shoulder trembled fiercely, her lips against the nape of his neck softly whistling a breath as if containing discomfort.

Baili An was stiffened by the fragrant breath, then heard Lin Yuan’s trembling voice say, “Don’t touch recklessly…”

Baili An, distressed and helpless, said, “If I don’t touch you, how can I take you out of here, sister!”

He didn’t realize that for the merfolk, the fish tail is an extremely sensitive and private area.

Mating also involved coupling among fish, and even when faced with one’s true love, they would never casually touch a merfolk’s tail with a palm.

To the merfolk, it was an intimately disrespectful act.

In this critical moment, Lin Yuan’s eyes welled up with grievance, her lips murmured softly, “Just focus on fighting the enemy, I will take care of myself.”

With those words, she actively wrapped her tail around his waist, stabilizing her body on his back.

Baili An looked ahead at the mountain pass exit, the never-ending swarm of the Corpse Tide demonic sea pressing in like a shroud.

Yin Crow also flew into the Mountain Realm in massive numbers from the sky, making it nearly impossible to move.

With Baili An’s strength, even if he wasn’t swallowed by the Corpse Tide, he would be caught up by Yang Zhao and Huang Kang from behind.

Lin Yuan bowed her head, looking at Baili An’s sword-holding hand clenched tightly, her brows furrowed, and whispered into his ear, “This Mountain Realm has more than this one exit, head southeast.”

Baili An took her at her word and swung his Autumnwater Sword, barely carving a bloody path.

Lin Yuan, aware of his struggle, didn’t use the umbrella in her right hand but instead bit hard on her fingertip, a drop of blue blood floating up from her finger.

Baili An watched in amazement as the floating blue Blood Pearl revealed a scimitar within.

Lin Yuan grasped the droplet.

In her palm then was a scimitar, as blue as the ocean and gleaming, the slender and transparent blade seemed forged from the essence of the sea, radiating an aura chill as frostfire.

With a pale hand gripping the sword, the sword energy hissed, and the night air was torn apart with surging frosty murderous intent, shredding the mountain wind.

Within three steps of Baili An, corpse demons and evil spirits exposed to the sword’s intent, all froze into frost.

Through the thick layer of ice, Baili An saw the frozen demons and Evil Ghosts, whether demon energy or yin energy, all extinguished within the frost.

As Lin Yuan’s hand guided the scimitar lightly.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

The sound of breaking ice erupted amidst the sea of corpses and demons; then, with the ice shattered, Baili An’s encirclement was instantly reduced.

With the pressure on Baili An significantly eased, his pace to escape quickened.

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