MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 57

Chapter 57: Chapter 57 – I Want You

Chapter 57: Chapter 57 – I Want You

Actually, Shen Yucheng had imagined this day would come. But when it truly happened, he couldn’t utter a single word, a thousand words stuck in his throat.

Li Juemu couldn’t believe it, staring fixedly at Shen Yucheng, seemingly wanting to find a sliver of hope in his eyes: “Brother Shen…”

“Yucheng, is this true?” Shi Wen’s lips were tightly pressed together, as if suppressing some emotion: “All this time, you’ve been cultivating the Forbidden Dao? Do you know what the Forbidden Dao is? It—”

“Shen Yucheng!” Shi Huan roared, interrupting him, “You’re doing great! You actually dared to cultivate the Forbidden Dao! Do you not want your life?”

Shen Yucheng remained silent, head lowered.

Lingyi frowned, coldly looking at Mo Yifeng: “Mo Yifeng, such a big matter, you were actually able to keep it hidden!”

Mo Yifeng didn’t care: “This is a secret between me and Brother Yucheng, why would I tell others?”

Lingyi trembled with anger: “You—”

Just then, Bai Guchen had watched enough of the show and interrupted everyone’s conversation: “Enough. It was like this a thousand years ago, and I didn’t expect that after a thousand years, the world’s attitude towards the Puppet Dao would still not have changed. Shen Yucheng, I’ve said it long ago, you simply don’t belong to their world. Rather than staying here and being scorned, you might as well come to our side.”

Lingyi gritted his teeth: “Shen Yucheng! Do you know how severe the damage to your body is from cultivating the Forbidden Dao?!”

Bai Guchen chuckled, taking over the conversation: “You don’t have to worry about that. Shen Yucheng is a natural Puppet Dao cultivator. The damage you’re talking about will only appear on those who forcibly cultivate the Forbidden Dao after birth. But Shen Yucheng is different. He’s a rare genius of the Puppet Dao—a person chosen by the heavens.”

Having said that, Bai Guchen turned his head, his gaze burning as he looked at Shen Yucheng, tempting him: “How about it? If you actively come over, I’ll be too lazy to attack your companions. Killing two birds with one stone, isn’t that wonderful?”

Shen Yucheng still kept his head lowered, not saying a word, letting everyone’s gazes and words weigh down on him.

Bai Guchen continued to entice: “What are you still hesitating about? Look at them—no one truly welcomes you. Even if you choose them, the next moment they’ll offer you up with both hands, sending you to those sects to be treated as a monster. They’ll only treat you as a natural Forbidden Dao monster, unable to tolerate you, only tormenting you.”

Li Juemu anxiously turned pale: “Brother Shen! Don’t listen to his nonsense! We’ll help you! What happened today will definitely not be leaked! But if you go with him, that’s true eternal damnation!”

Bai Guchen sneered: “You say it so easily. But what about the others? Those Nascent Soul cultivators behind you, they haven’t said a word. Perhaps, they’re already pondering in their hearts how to deal with Shen Yucheng, right?”

Li Juemu stiffly turned his head to look, and sure enough, Li Yuan pursed his lips, silent and unmoving, without the slightest intention of persuasion. Li Juemu’s heart suddenly sank, as if falling into an ice cave.

Bai Guchen’s smile grew even more intense: “How is it, Shen Yucheng? There’s nothing to hesitate about anymore, right?”

Shen Yucheng finally raised his head, his voice low and muffled, faintly carrying some suppressed emotion: “Can I ask you one more time, why do you want to take me away?”

Bai Guchen raised an eyebrow, asking back with a smile that wasn’t a smile: “Didn’t I say it already? Because you belong on our side. Those righteous cultivators will only despise you, use you.”

Shen Yucheng murmured softly: “That’s right… They say they won’t treat me inhumanely, but…”

Bai Guchen revealed a triumphant smile, raising his hand: “You’ve figured it out too, right? Rest assured, as long as you stand on my side, I’ll definitely protect you—”

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Yucheng suddenly raised his head, his face wearing a helpless smile: “I also want to come over. Why don’t you take care of them all first, and then I’ll come over.”

Bai Guchen was slightly stunned, only then noticing that a black array had appeared beneath Shen Yucheng’s feet, with a faint red-gold light shining behind him, as if the sword would behead him with the slightest movement.

And in a place Bai Guchen couldn’t see, a string of immobilization talismans was stuck to Shen Yucheng’s leg.

“Second Senior Brother, Li Juemu just said he would help me.” Shen Yucheng sighed, helplessly saying, “But what do you mean by this?”

Fu Lingxuan, who had been silent all along, then spoke, his tone indifferent: “As the senior apprentice of the Futian Sect, matters concerning my junior brother should naturally be handled by the master. As for what you want to do, I won’t stop you, but as for the outcome, it depends on you.”

Shen Yucheng: “…”

He turned his head to look at Li Yuan, who wore a face of righteousness: “I don’t care about the disciples of other sects, but you’re stepping on this piece of land that has plants, you can’t trample small lives.”

Shen Yucheng: “?” During the competition, when you blew up the arena, I didn’t see you being so protective of plants.

Finally, he turned his gaze to Mo Yifeng, seemingly hoping to get a normal reason.

Mo Yifeng noticed his gaze, smiling brilliantly: “Brother Yucheng, I didn’t do that. The Crimson longsword ran over to you by itself.”

However, the Crimson longsword was already pressed against Shen Yucheng’s neck, the sword energy pressing down, even cutting a red mark on his skin.

Mo Yifeng added in a low voice: “However, I also don’t really want Brother Yucheng to be taken away. You understand, right?”

Shen Yucheng: “…” Understand my ass.

In the end, these people are all lunatics. Instead of using their mouths properly, they insist on doing it this way.

Fu Lingxuan walked in front of Shen Yucheng, his voice lowered extremely, only he could hear: “We’ll settle the matter of the Puppet Dao with you when we get back.”

Shen Yucheng shuddered all over, cold sweat sliding down his spine. He felt that after going back, something terrible was waiting for him.

Bai Guchen narrowed his eyes, the smile on the corner of his lips disappearing: “So, that’s your answer?”

“Since that’s the case…” Bai Guchen’s voice was low, revealing a hint of coldness, “Then don’t blame me for forcibly taking you away. When the time comes, even if you’re missing arms and legs, don’t blame me for being heartless.” As soon as he finished speaking, a blue light suddenly appeared in his palm, and the ground shook violently.

Shen Yucheng realized something was wrong and instinctively roared, “Quick! Get away from here!”

Everyone didn’t know what was happening, but they instinctively retreated backward together.

Bai Guchen didn’t have a trace of fluctuation, coldly saying, “Do you think that’ll work?” The blue light suddenly dimmed and went out, and the world returned to peace. The tremor just now seemed to be just an illusion.

“Just now… what happened?” Shi Wen helped Shi Huan up.

Shen Yucheng didn’t relax, every muscle in his body tensed up. He knew that Bai Guchen would never put on this kind of show for no reason, just to scare them.

His palm suddenly felt a sharp pain. Looking down, the contract mark of the Azure Scale Beast was emitting a scorching light, as if reminding him to pay attention to something.

The next moment, a clear thought rang in his mind: [Pay attention to the ground].

“Be careful underground!” Shen Yucheng almost screamed.

Before he could finish speaking, the earth trembled violently again. Amidst everyone’s shock, they clearly felt a group of huge living things surging from the ground at an extremely fast speed.

A chill instantly crawled up everyone’s spines.

The sound was getting closer and closer, and everyone hurriedly used their magical artifacts to fly into the air, witnessing the ground cracking and collapsing, and countless black shadows bursting out of the cracks. Those black shadows quickly dispersed into several groups, rushing straight at them.

At the same time, the surrounding spiritual energy of the heavens and earth mutated, separating everyone. A wall of earth suddenly rose around Shen Yucheng, trapping him firmly.

He sneered, his gaze sweeping across the four directions: “You’re really cautious, Bai Guchen.”

Looking up, the true forms of the black shadows were mutated disciples, but their monster forms were different from before. Obviously, they had undergone a deeper level of modification.

Shen Yucheng’s brows were tightly locked. Just how many people did Bai Guchen capture to complete these horrifying “works”?

Just then, Bai Guchen’s voice came from above: “How about it? Have some fun with them.”

Before Shen Yucheng could answer, those monsters swarmed over, and the surrounding spiritual pressure pressed down fiercely. Even Nascent Soul cultivators like Mo Yifeng had to deal with it with all their strength.

Shen Yucheng gritted his teeth, enduring the exhausted body and dealing with those monsters. His match with Mo Yifeng just now had already exhausted most of his spiritual power, and now he could stand here entirely relying on his will to persevere.

“Hey, you know the condition of your body, right.” A familiar voice rang in his mind.

Shen Yucheng slashed a monster, sneering, “Why are you only coming out now? With your nature, I thought you would have rushed out long ago to fight Bai Guchen to the death.”

Yan Quanye raised an eyebrow, disdainfully: “Do you think I don’t want to? But would you give me this chance?” He said coldly, “Shen Yucheng, I’m telling you, if you don’t kill that beast, I’ll haunt you for the rest of my life.”

Shen Yucheng didn’t even have time to respond, the golden silk in his hand kept waving, barely resisting the increasing number of monsters. “You, you come out, it wasn’t just to say these things, right.”

Yan Quanye glanced at him lightly: “What do you want to do?”

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Bai Guchen stood in the sky, looking down at the battle situations in each arena, and laughed: “As expected of Nascent Soul cultivators, these moves and experience are indeed solid.”

His gaze swept over the Golden Core cultivators’ side. Although they seemed to be able to hold on, it was impossible to solve this monster army in a short time.

However, when his gaze swept over a certain arena, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Only to see that in one of the arenas, white mist was spreading, and the monster disciples were frantically crashing into the surrounding earthen walls, but Shen Yucheng, who should have been in it, was nowhere to be seen.

Bai Guchen suddenly turned his head, and spiritual pressure burst out from behind him in an instant. Before he had time to completely turn around, an anomaly suddenly occurred in the forest. The trees seemed to have come to life, and the branches grew wildly, turning into countless sharp blades that pierced towards him.

He flashed, barely avoiding the attack of the trees, but the disturbance of the spiritual power made him lose his balance and forced him to land on the ground. As soon as his toes touched the ground, tens of thousands of golden silk attacked at a high speed, tightly Entangledhim.

Between his neck, a golden silk slowly Postedhis skin. “How did you get out?” Bai Guchen asked coldly.

Only then did Shen Yucheng’s figure emerge from behind him, appearing together with the Azure Scale Beast.

Just now, Shen Yucheng had Yan Quanye cast [Illusion], because this spell couldn’t use two Surgeryat the same time, only when the two separated to cast the spell could Shen Yucheng use [Penetration] to escape. But unexpectedly, even the Azure Scale Beast could be invisible together.

In Yan Quanye’s words, this was because his cultivation had increased, expanding the invisible range.

Bai Guchen said, “I’ve wanted to ask for a long time. You also used this move during the last competition. Is it an Earthbound Spirit?”

Seeing that Shen Yucheng didn’t reply, Bai Guchen’s eyes lit up: “You even have an Earthbound Spirit… You’re really worth me personally coming to capture.”

Shen Yucheng’s golden silk moved slightly, drawing a bloodstain on Bai Guchen’s neck: “Tell me, what do you want to capture me for? Don’t fool people with those ghost words.”

Bai Guchen didn’t struggle, but instead revealed a meaningful smile, his tone carrying a trace of madness: “Because I want your body.”