Fairy, Don't Be Afraid, I Am Blind-Chapter 62 - 55: Enigma of the Mist

This area is located in the west of the city, desolate and remote. On the other side of the wall is an old house awaiting demolition. You Su and the others easily climbed up the wall in a few steps.

He no longer relied on his Divine Sense, but instead focused his gaze. That splash of bright red was so vivid in his cloudy eyes, like a torch flickering in the night, making it hard not to notice.

You Su crouched down as well, closely following the path of that malevolent spirit. Fortunately, none of the old houses nearby were occupied, so the sudden noises from You Su knocking over things didn’t attract any attention.

The malevolent spirit was very agile, fleeing chaotically in all directions. You Su quietly moved his Qi, using the Ruyi Wind Manipulation Skill to constantly pursue, gradually closing the distance between them.

When he reached a suitable distance, You Su suddenly kicked off the ground, locking onto the spirit with his energy, and charged forward with his sword.

The spirit seemed to realize it was doomed and turned its head, staring at You Su with its inverted eyes. Just as You Su was in mid-air, it suddenly raised its upper jaw, and its mouth suddenly became enormous, mismatched with its slender body!

Knowing it couldn’t escape, this creature actually wanted to swallow You Su whole!

You Su was only momentarily shocked, but the sword in his hand continued its path unyieldingly, slashing the giant mouth of the spirit in half with a graceful horizontal cut.

If there were anyone nearby, they might have noticed that even the mist was split apart where You Su’s sword passed, the vacuum lasting long before the fog knitted back together.

The half-open mouth of the creature fell to the ground and trembled incessantly, suddenly shrinking back and turning into a pool of blood, disappearing. The spirit with only half a mouth left was full of terror in its eyes. It looked at You Su and then quickly turned and fled, full of a desperate will to survive.

But how could You Su let it escape again? At this moment, he only regretted not being able to communicate with the spirit; otherwise, he might have learned more secrets. He moved swiftly to completely exorcise this spirit. Unexpectedly, the spirit burst with great strength, leaping high and crashing through the paper window of an old house, jumping inside.

You Su followed and also jumped inside, not expecting the spirit to panic and run into the house, which worked perfectly for him to capture it like a turtle in a jar.

When he found the creature cowering and shivering in the corner of the wall, he rushed over like a bolt of lightning. As You Su was about to finish the spirit off, he was startled to find it writhing spasmodically like a dying worm in the corner.

You Su curiously thought, could it have fallen into such a state from being chopped like this? Cutting off half of the mouth shouldn’t have left it like this, otherwise, how did it have the strength to break the window just now?

Its twisted appearance was like a person struggling from lack of oxygen. The more You Su looked, the more something seemed off, it was as if its condition was due to internal reasons rather than external force.

As if to confirm this point, the spirit’s body began to decay from the inside out, weird gaping holes appearing on its body, growing larger and causing it to rapidly wither away, eventually turning into a pool of blood.

You Su was puzzled and instinctively thought of releasing his Divine Sense to leave the scene. The entire room was laid bare in his Sea of Consciousness; he was just about to sheath his sword and step away when he sensed something was amiss.

His Divine Sense suffered no restriction in this room!

He began to observe the room again. The door was shut tight, the only gap was the window hole he had just broken through, which indicated that no mist had seeped into this old room yet.

A sudden inspiration led to a bold guess...

The spirit’s bizarre death was because it had left the mist!

Just like humans cannot live without air, this spirit also couldn’t live without the eerie mist!

But the spirits he had encountered before seemed to have no such requirement. This inevitably led You Su to consider more terrifying possibilities...

This spirit had come from the dense fog outside the city! It was an accomplice of that giant mist demon! And it was highly likely that there were more unknown spirits within that fog!

Once this idea emerged, You Su felt it more possible, which also explained why the mist demon constantly spewed mist, to expand the movement range of the spirits within the fog! Thus, allowing Chuyun City to become a playground for these spirits in the mist to behave recklessly!

If this were true, Mr. Liou and the other two absolutely couldn’t escape the fog! Their journey was not one of nine deaths and one life, but ten deaths and no life!

You Su immediately wanted to rush back to the City Lord’s Mansion to inform Mr. Liou, perhaps it was still not too late to stop their departure, but his steps hesitated.

Regardless of whether his guess was correct, if he proposed this theory, no matter the reason, it would likely expose his ability to see the spirits.

But he had been blind since childhood, and he had never left Chuyun City. His sister apprentice and Master, who rarely interacted with the outside world, would surely arouse suspicion...

In a situation where the city is besieged by spirits, while suddenly two spirits appear inside, it is evident how his sister apprentice and Master would be treated...

He had concealed the identity of his sister apprentice and Master for so long, even Gu Yao hadn’t noticed any clues. Was it worth risking exposing his sister apprentice and Master’s situation for the lives of Mr. Liou and his companions?

You Su felt caught in a dilemma. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and made his decision.

...

He Shutong stood on a giant tree protruding from the mountainside, below was an abyss deep and enveloped in clouds and mist.

The wind from the cliff stirred, bringing along her blue hair in graceful dance, and her plain white dress was blown tight against her exaggerated waist and hips, further highlighting her slender and graceful body curves. Yet, her cold temperament discouraged any imagination. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

She had been chasing that evil aura for many days, crossing multiple places, only for it to dissipate once more just as she was close to capturing it, leaving her feeling very frustrated.

By now, she couldn’t help but suspect that this evil aura was deliberately luring her into circles. If so, it could only mean the true target of whatever was behind the aura was Chuyun City.

She left the city knowing Gu Yao’s presence there; a Feather Transformation Realm cultivator is akin to a dragon or phoenix among people, his presence should have secured Chuyun City...

He Shutong hesitated, a strong sense of foreboding suddenly surged like bamboo shoots after the rain, becoming overwhelming.

She slightly frowned, deciding to abandon the spirit that entangled her for days and hurry back to Chuyun City. A sense of destiny told her that something must be happening in Chuyun City!

Just having made her decision, He Shutong gripped her sword hilt tightly and set off at full speed, not yet unleashing her Profound Qi, but still swift as the wind. At the latest, she would be back in Chuyun City in half a day.

While she focused on rushing her journey, the evil aura she had pursued for days reappeared! And this time, extremely close!

This led her to be even more certain that the owner of this evil aura was indeed leading her away, the goal being to prevent her return to Chuyun City!

She ignored the evil aura and sped up even more, flying through the forest.

But the evil aura seemed unwilling to let her go, suddenly accelerating right in front of her to block He Shutong’s path, revealing its form amid the pines and cypresses:

"Lotus Sword Venerable, why are you in such a hurry to leave and where are you heading?"