I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 201: The Truth Will Be Revealed Again (Part 2)

In Vermilion Bird City, Mei Shiyu and Xia Changfeng met briefly, but the latter acted as if he hadn't seen him at all, ignoring his presence, while giving the seven who were chasing him a severe beating.

Just like in Qinglong City, Mei Shiyu traveled without hindrance, which was probably at Li Tingyun's behest, and no one dared to stop him.

Even so, he still encountered an accident.

Last time, he had at least left the city and walked a certain distance before the Yin-Yang Curse reappeared. This time, however, he hadn't even been able to leave the city gate when the curse mark faintly burned on the back of his neck.

As if things weren't bad enough, Zhuque City is on fire!

The fire started at the city gate and spread rapidly. Mei Shiyu happened to be leaving the city at that time and almost perished in the flames.

I don't know how I was rescued.

Anyway, when I woke up, I was already lying in the Taiji Hall. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw the familiar coffered ceiling.

Mei Shiyu sat up and touched her neck. Sure enough, the curse mark on the side of her neck had disappeared as soon as she returned.

Was Li Tingyun playing him for a fool? He was playing him for a fool! This person was like a wicked cat that loved to catch sparrows. He would catch them but not eat them, just play with them and make a fuss. He would release them and catch them again, catch them and release them again. The little birds were either played to death or driven to their deaths by anger.

Mei Shiyu is furious right now.

He rushed to the entrance of the main hall, but then hesitated. How could he get out? How could the restrictions be open to him?

Suddenly, a furious shout came from outside the hall:

"Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"

"..."

Who else could it be but Li Tingyun?

Mei Shiyu paused for a moment, then sighed deeply: "He's shouting about killing someone again."

Hearing his angry shout, he must have been furious. The oppressive atmosphere and the intimidating power were so strong that even through the door, Mei Shiyu was stunned for a moment, as if any movement would result in her immediate death.

Those who face his wrath directly will be either terrified out of their wits or are truly brave men.

The palace doors, which were tightly shut in front of me, opened and closed again.

Li Tingyun walked in, smiling warmly and naturally, and asked him, "Awake?"

Mei Shiyu was stunned: "How...how..."

It's like he's become a completely different person!

She turned around as if nothing had happened, a bright smile on her face, she was so carefree.

Mei Shiyu was clearly taken aback by his acting skills, which changed his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book.

Li Tingyun seemed oblivious and casually asked, "How are you feeling? You were knocked unconscious by the thick smoke. Does your lungs feel better now?"

Suddenly, Mei Shiyu was gently nudged by his shoulder, causing her to shudder and leap back a considerable distance. Realizing she had overreacted, she felt quite embarrassed: "I, I'm fine... but why were you so angry outside?"

A dark glint flashed in Li Tingyun's eyes. "It's nothing, don't bother with my business. Do you want to continue?"

Mei Shiyu calmed herself down and looked up at him: "Continue with what?"

“Of course we’ll continue the experiment. Can you walk?” Li Tingyun asked him, “Where do you plan to go this time? North or west? Let me prepare so that I don’t have to save you at the last minute every time. You like this thrilling excitement, but I don’t, I really don’t like it.”

“…Let’s go to the west,” Mei Shiyu said.

Li Tingyun said "okay" and asked him to leave.

Mei Shiyu brushed past him, paused for a moment, and said, "Actually, I hope you won't come looking for me. Whether I live or die... let fate decide. You said you'd let me go and leave me alone. I don't like it when you keep following me like a ghost. I really don't like it."

After he left, Li Tingyun remained rooted to the spot, standing at the entrance of the main hall, maintaining a posture of stepping aside to let him pass. He seemed a bit wooden, and it took him a long time to come to his senses. He rubbed his fingers together and chuckled softly.

Self-consolation: It's okay, he's just a rock, isn't it normal for him to be cold and hard? If you insist on cutting open his heart and stuffing a rock inside, it's bound to hurt him. It was a gamble after all, so of course I have to accept the consequences. Losing is losing, anyway, nobody knows, it's not shameful!

In the blink of an eye, he had calmed himself down and went to White Tiger City to "ambush" the enemy.

However, the plum rains do not travel westward.

He went north.

Fearing that Li Tingyun might go back on his word, they used a feint attack to the east while striking in the west, and a diversionary tactic to strike north while pointing south.

Not long after leaving Xuanwu City, he lost the protection of spiritual energy. The north wind was so strong that an ordinary person would have been frozen stiff long ago, but Mei Shiyu, after all, had an innate ice spiritual root and was quite resistant to the cold. He covered his neck with his hand, and felt a warmth coming from the back of his neck—

This Yin-Yang Curse, which he hated so much, became the only persistent and constant source of heat he could feel in the biting cold wind.

It's somewhat ironic.

My fingernails dug into my flesh, and I wished I could dig them out! Blood trickled out, freezing into shards of ice.

As he walked, he came across a frozen lake.

It's probably the legendary Underworld Pool.

He crouched down, looking at his reflection in the water. The reflection in the water seemed to be him, yet it wasn't. His forehead was smooth, clearly without the cinnabar mark. He touched the red mark on his forehead. The person in the water acted exactly like him, even smiling at him.

But he wasn't laughing.

Mei Shiyu found it strange that the water surface rippled and then nothing could be seen. It was all foggy and white, and there was no reflection anywhere.

A melodious chant came from the bottom of the lake. At first, it seemed eerie, but gradually, people became mesmerized.

Following the instructions, I put my hand into the water.

The moment he was pulled to the surface by the merman who lured him from the bottom of the lake, he thought to himself, "Maybe this is how it is..." He couldn't swim, and he didn't know how to breathe or hold his breath underwater. The icy water rushed into his nasal cavity, like a sharp blade piercing his throat, which was extremely uncomfortable. After a while, his consciousness dissipated, and he stopped feeling uncomfortable.

"No! No! No!"

A heart-wrenching, piercing cry, as if mourning the loss of one's parents and having one's liver and intestines torn apart, resounded through the sky.

Xue Rendong pulled the person ashore, but the whole fish was ruined!

Bubbles flew everywhere, shouting, "Don't die! Don't die! Don't die! Even if you die, you can't die here with me!"

He's not just one fish; he has a whole school of fish behind him! If Mei Shiyu makes a mistake with him, Li Tingyun will skin them alive and make them into a whole fish feast! Damn it! He doesn't want to be reunited with his people at the dinner table tomorrow!

"Wake up, you fucking idiot! Wake up now!" Xue Rendong patted Mei Shiyu's cheek, laid him flat, and squeezed his lungs so hard that his ribs were about to break.

After pressing twenty or thirty times, I bent down, pried open his mouth, took a deep breath, and was about to thrust in—

A kick flew from the sky and sent him flying ten feet away.

The piranha spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered three feet deep.

"Your Highness...please listen to my excuses..."

Li Tingyun: "Get out!!!"

Xue Rendong: "I'm saving people! Really, I'm saving people! Whew..."

"You have to save drowning people this way! I grew up by the sea... This is a family tradition..."

"I was just... trying to transfer energy to him... huff... transferring energy, Master, you should do it yourself..."

"I feel... ugh... I feel... I'm running out of breath... This is killing me..."

After saying that, he turned into a fish.

With a "plop," he jumped into the water.

Li Tingyun pulled Mei Shiyu into her arms, checked his breath, pressed his chest, listened to his heartbeat, and cupped his cheeks.

I almost took a bite.

Mei Shiyu spat a few mouthfuls of ice water at him.

I slowly woke up.

I woke up and saw his face again, it's like a ghost that won't leave me...

He closed his eyes, deceiving himself, and covered them with his arm, not wanting to see anyone.

Li Tingyun yanked his hand away, grabbed his shoulders and shook him violently, demanding, "You fucking played the Thirty-Six Stratagems on me?! Didn't you say we were going west? How did we end up going north? I actually believed your lies! You can actually lie to people?!"

"Don't shake me like that... I'm a little dizzy..." Mei Shiyu was almost shaken apart by him, her voice was shaky, and she was a little annoyed. She deliberately bumped her head into his chin, hurting him a thousand times but also hurting herself eight hundred times. She covered her head and scolded, "Be normal! Speak properly!"

Both of them were in pain from the bump, and Li Tingyun finally let him go, covering his mouth and saying harshly, "Fine! Listen carefully, I'll only say these 'good words' once: I'm going to take care of you, I'm going to follow you, I'm going to haunt you like a ghost, I'm going to fucking haunt you to death!"

"..."

What else can Mei Shiyu say?

Let's just say nothing at all.

He was dragged to his feet by Li Tingyun, but he couldn't stand steadily. Looking down, he exclaimed in fear, "Wait, my leg..."

It's turned into a fish tail!

However, Li Tingyun asked in confusion, "Your leg? What happened to your leg? Is it injured somewhere? Or is it frozen?"

"No, no, no, can't you see? It's not legs, it's a tail! A huge fish tail!" Mei Shiyu's fair cheeks turned slightly blue as he panicked and checked repeatedly. He had grown a fish tail and couldn't walk anymore!

Li Tingyun was skeptical: "How could that be? Where did this fish tail come from? Are you probably just imagining things because you're frozen?"

"No! It's not my imagination! I really saw a fish tail... I feel... I feel like I can't stand up, I have no strength in my legs..." Mei Shiyu explained in a panic, but then she heard Li Tingyun laugh and suddenly realize, "You're the one playing tricks?!"

Li Tingyun scooped him up by his legs and lifted him up nimbly, explaining, "It really wasn't me. Did you just hear the merfolk's song? That's a trick they use to seduce their prey."

"Your consciousness has been disturbed by the singing, which is why you have all sorts of unexpected 'illusions'. This feeling is like being bitten by a poisonous snake or eating a poisonous mushroom. It is an illusion, a hallucination."

"So, how do I appear in your eyes now?"

Practice makes perfect. This time, Mei Shiyu lay in Li Tingyun's arms and didn't struggle as much as before. The main reason was that his attention was diverted, and he was completely immersed in the wonderful illusion.

Looking at Li Tingyun, he was indeed not like his usual self.

He had two "horns" growing on his forehead!

Mei Shiyu reached out, grabbed one of them, pinched it, rubbed it, and kneaded it, marveling at how realistic the texture was.

"Is this really just an illusion?" she asked incredulously.

"Let go..." Li Tingyun's voice trembled slightly, his expression strange: "This is not an illusion!"

"Excuse me," Mei Shiyu quickly withdrew her hand, then realized what was going on: "This, could this be your primordial spirit form?"

The Nascent Soul stage is when the nascent soul transforms into the primordial spirit. The Body Integration stage is when the primordial spirit merges with the physical body. Cultivators above this level, in addition to their original form, also have a "Dharma form"—a term borrowed from Buddhism. In the context of Taoist cultivation, it refers to the "primordial spirit physical form," where some or all of the characteristics of the primordial spirit are outwardly manifested.

Those who cultivate immortality generally only summon their primordial spirit and reveal their "Dharma form" when entering a battle stance, especially in a life-or-death battle.

When Li Tingyun sparred with others, he usually defeated them in one move. To this day, no one has been able to force out his primordial spirit, let alone its physical form.

No one knows what his primordial spirit looks like, just as no one knows what his natal divine weapon is, and whether he even has a weapon is another matter entirely.

Mei Shiyu was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the situation, but still couldn't see the whole picture, and could only speculate: "Your primordial spirit... was it originally a dragon?"

“Yes and no,” Li Tingyun shook his head, the horns disappearing. “That thing, I don’t know how to describe it, it’s just a ‘four-not-alike’.”