Chapter 103: Fire and Water Can't Coexist, Harmony Yet Difference (Part 3) Sorry, can't wait...

Under the pressure of the Snow Girl's gaze, Li Zhixing retracted his outstretched foot, gave her an awkward smile, and hid behind the pillar again, his eyes lowered in thought. What should I do? What should I do? Why am I being targeted?

His chaotic mind hadn't yet formed a plan when a sudden flash of silver appeared before his eyes.

Li Zhixing's heart rose to his throat, and he slowly raised his stiff neck—a face emerged from the blood-stained silver hair, its white pupils meeting his own.

"Ahhhh—"

Li Zhixing howled as he ran from under the pillar, stumbling here and there, bumping into table corners and knocking over chairs, not knowing where to go.

The Snow Girl, hanging upside down from the eaves, tilted her head, her white hair flowing and extending, like thousands of vines, like hundreds of hands reaching out, constantly rushing towards Li Zhixing's running direction.

"Help! Snow Girl, don't catch me! Have you forgotten we saved you? I'm a good person—no, no, I'm a good ghost now!"

The Snow Girl's hair struck his feet, and Li Zhixing leaped and fell to the ground, desperately trying to find his way under the table. The upside-down Snow Girl, seemingly done with fun, straightened up and followed him closely like a red and white ghost.

Li Zhixing emerged from the table, his hair disheveled, clutching the hem of his wedding dress. He didn't care about the lives of the two little ghosts. But after only a few steps, he was blocked by a large net.

He hurriedly stopped, but it was too late. He crashed headfirst into the net, his face pressed against the smooth fabric. He was about to scream for help when he sensed something was amiss. The net had begun to shrink rapidly since he had crashed into it. As Li Zhixing rolled over, his feet were forced off the ground, and he let out a surprised "Huh?" Lying sideways, he watched as the two corners of the net closest to the ground rose into the air, level with the other two, and stretched flat in mid-air. Then, it swept him up like a burrito.

Just then, a wisp of the Snow Maiden's hair, like a long whip, slashed across the net.

Li Zhixing, peering through a crack in the net, was jolted back violently, his body coming within striking distance of the Snow Maiden's long hair. He nearly fainted at the sight, thinking, "What a close call!" If the net had been slower, he would have been the one to be ripped apart by the Snow Maiden's hair.

Secretly thankful, Li Zhixing clutched at the netting threads

, weeping and thanking the women who had woven it. He recognized the embroidery of the embroiderers at Jinxiu Villa, the very woven net that had saved his life—no, weren't they inside the barrier? How had they gotten this net? Could it be that they had broken through the barrier to rescue this useless immortal? So touching! A friend in need is a friend indeed... Hey, why isn't it moving?

The web had been rising steadily, but now it stopped moving, as if a force from the ground had seized it, counteracting the upward force.

Li Zhixing cast his eyes downward, peeking through the gaps in the web to observe the movements outside.

The Snow Girl, tall and long like a giant beast, suddenly stood up and, with a single hand, grabbed the rising web. Her white pupils met Li Zhixing's lowered gaze.

Li Zhixing's heart, beating fiercely, suddenly cooled. He was about to sigh, "God is killing me," when a ginkgo leaf suddenly floated into his hands.

On the ginkgo tree lay a cake, with the words "Exiled Immortal" attached to the leaf. "Please bend down and hand the cake to the Snow Girl."

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he could smell a sweet scent from the leaf, which he thought must be contaminated by the aroma of the cake. Li Zhixing had no idea what the illusion masters on the second floor were up to, but he did as they were told. It struggled to wriggle upright like a worm, then quickly squatted down, holding the cake between two fingers and placing it in the Snow Girl's palm.

At this moment, her five fingers with long sharp nails were grasping the woven web, and her palm happened to be empty, leaving just enough space for him to put the cake.

After putting it away, Li Zhixing smiled brightly at the Snow Girl and stood up immediately. He didn't know if the Snow Girl could smell that it was a cake made by Shan Niang from the blending of her facial features.

The Snow Girl was grinning at the woven web, but suddenly something was placed in her palm, and she immediately let go. The cake fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. The Snow Girl hesitated for a moment, grabbed the ground with her limbs, sniffed one of the pieces with her nose, and then her body stiffened and stopped moving.

Ye Qingzhan and Wen Gu, who were being chased by Xie Zhiyan not far away, happened to see this scene when they stopped, and their hearts were relieved.

The several illusion masters on the second floor made a decisive decision at the critical moment. The embroiderers saw the exiled immortal being pursued, and in a panic, Chu Mozhi suggested using thread to pull him up, but she was worried the thread was too thin for the exiled immortal to catch. Yingying's eyes shifted, and she, reflecting on her concerns, proposed weaving a net to retrieve the person.

After the embroiderers finished weaving within the barrier, Qinghuai used the ginkgo biloba to break the barrier. Tianxue used her long whip to drag the snow girl's feet, slowing her down. Tianjin used her sword to coordinate Tianxue's movements from a distance. Mingche kept a close eye on Dr. Fox, fearing he might interfere.

Strangely, Dr. Fox made no move, observing Xie Zhiyan's inquiries from afar, idly observing.

The lords of the illusion united to resist the snow girl. Shanniang hesitated, watching her frantically run through the inn. After a moment's deliberation, she said, "...If possible, please don't hurt her too much." Before she could finish her words, Xinxin, in her arms, seemed frightened by the scene and burst into tears. Shanniang quickly pulled a piece of candied pastry from her sleeve and handed it to her, patting her shoulder.

Whenever Xinxin cried, she found soothing her with candied pastries most effective. Shanniang then took another piece and handed it to Wang Jingshan, who was standing beside her. The boy was trembling, seemingly equally frightened, and took the pastry with trembling hands. Shanniang

watched the two children eat their pastries. Suddenly, her expression paused, as if she had remembered something. She hurriedly said to the others, "My lords, I have a way to stop the Snow Girl. Would you like to try it?"

As the two children ate the candied pastries, she recalled a past incident: Xinxin loved candied pastries, and fearing her children would overeat, she would hide the extra candied pastries. However, every night, one would be missing. She had assumed Xinxin had found the candied pastries and stolen them.

One day, she woke from a dream and, while getting some water, glanced out the window and vaguely thought she saw a white figure. Upon closer inspection, there was nothing.

At the time, she thought she was seeing things, but now she realized it must have been the Snow Girl, and she had stolen the candied pastries.

Shanniang wondered: Since we couldn't get close to the Snow Girl and couldn't wake her with words, could we use scent?

Following Shanniang's advice, everyone decided to give it a try. The three cultivators from Wuya Academy also explained that puppetry was a forbidden technique within the sect, abolished by the elder teachers for fear they would learn it and use it on their fellow disciples. They'd overheard this from their master, but who knew they'd actually encounter it here today?

Tianxue echoed Shanniang's words, saying, "Master said that besides the puppet master being able to break the spell, there's another way to break it: by using the puppet's most cherished possession to awaken its consciousness."

The several illusion masters exchanged glances and divided the work of escorting Ginkgo to the Exiled Immortal.

As they'd hoped, the Snow Girl received the cake and slowly loosened her grip on the weaving net. The embroiderers, quick-witted and quick-handed, yanked the net together, hauling up the Exiled Immortal.

Li Zhixing, having narrowly escaped death, lay at their feet, gasping for air. "I was so scared..."

Seeing him safely ashore, the embroiderers yanked the net from beneath him and used it to scoop up the Snow Maiden, who was still sniffing at the cakes.

Li Zhixing rose from the ground, mindful of his duty as ghost ferryman. He was about to recast the barrier to protect them, but found he could muster no ghost or immortal energy. He cursed softly and hurriedly gazed into the distance with the other ghosts.

Wen Gu and Xie Zhiyan were still evenly matched in the fight, and Ye Qingzhan's barriers were used one after another to block the spears that kept stabbing at her.

Li Zhixing's face was full of worry, and Zhao Jinfan pulled his sleeve. Li Zhixing turned sideways, and was about to ask her what was wrong, but saw Qinghuai also coming over, and they both pointed at Qinghuai's green clothes.

After thinking for a moment, Li Zhixing immediately understood what they meant. He immediately started looking for ginkgo from the sleeves of his wedding dress, but he couldn't find a piece after searching for a long time. He slapped his forehead and remembered that he had changed clothes at night, and the ginkgo was not in the wedding dress.

Li Zhixing secretly lowered his head and cursed himself, and when he raised his eyes, someone handed him a piece of ginkgo. Hu Tangqing smiled at him, "Are you looking for this?"

"Yes, it is!" Li Zhixing's eyes lit up. He didn't bother to ask why she was holding the ginkgo leaf. He hurriedly took it, enlarging the leaf with the renewed magical power within him. He took off Qinghuai's green robe and jumped on it, saying, "Does anyone here know how to shoot an arrow?" He then conjured a bow and arrow from thin air.

"Cover me." Tian Jin grabbed the bow and arrow. "I'll do it."

After nodding at him, Li Zhixing soared into the air on the ginkgo leaf. Tian Jin fired an arrow at Xie Zhiyan's feet, catching his eye. Just then, Li Zhixing reached his destination and threw the green robe over his head.

With his vision obstructed, Xie Zhiyan was forced to halt his attack. Furiously, he tore off the robe covering his head, intending to throw it to the ground, but stopped when he saw the pattern.

Li Zhixing returned, once again riding the ginkgo leaf. At this time, Wen Gu and Ye Qingzhan also overcame many obstacles and reunited with the ghost guests on the second floor. They all looked at Xie Zhiyan who was staring at Qingyi in confusion. Mingche, who had been paying attention to Dr. Fox, asked a strange question: "Why is he standing in the air and doing nothing?"

Just as he was wondering, Dr. Fox, who had been watching the two fights from behind his mask, suddenly turned around and faced them, staring straight at them.

Ye Qingzhan's heart trembled, and she found that Dr. Fox's eyes had passed her. Ye Qingzhan turned sideways and looked at Grandma Chuntao standing behind her. She felt a chill on her back, as if a ghost's palm was covering her. Then, she felt her body fixed in place, unable to move.

Not only her, but Wen Gu and the ghost guests around her could not move.

Only Grandma Chuntao, holding the tiger-head shoes in her hands, shuttled in front of them, constantly moving closer to Dr. Fox. Xie Zhiyan downstairs looked at this place with lifeless white eyes.

Dr. Fox, who had come flying in, landed at the corner of the second floor and slowly walked towards them. At this moment, Ye Qingzhan's eyes were the only ones that could move. She glanced at Wen Gu and their gazes met. Their eyes said: What should I do?

Li Zhixing, who had just stood up from the ground, rolled his eyes back and forth and caught a glimpse of the talismans stuck on their bodies - so that's how it was. In the panic and tension just now, no one paid attention to Grandma Chuntao. After the barrier was broken, she was allowed to move back and forth among the crowd. It was at this moment that she took out the talisman paper from her tiger-head shoes and quietly stuck it on everyone's body.

They were careless, not realizing that the tiger-head shoes could not only hide people, but also talismans.

Watching Dr. Fox walking towards them step by step, confident of victory, Ye Qingzhan instantly understood his previous question.

- Why didn't he easily come to the rescue, whether it was Xue Nu or Xie Zhiyan?

It turned out that he wanted to divert attention to the east and attack in the west, giving Grandma Chuntao an opportunity.

Dr. Fox's purpose in hiding within Grandma Chuntao's tiger-head shoes remains unknown, but he certainly didn't anticipate the Immortal Tianqi's direct exposure. Ye Qingzhan and Li Zhixing were able to relocate the realm master and the ghost guest within the barrier in record time. Breaking the barrier proved time-consuming and laborious, and attacking from the outside was far less straightforward than from within. So Dr. Fox devised a new strategy.

He first unleashed the Night Charm to seduce Wen Gu's mind. When that proved unsuccessful, he used his puppets Xie Zhiyan and the Snow Girl to pursue Wen Gu and the lone Li Zhixing, thereby luring the others trapped within the barrier. To rescue them, they had to emerge from the barrier.

From mid-air, Dr. Fox silently watched the scenes of mutual rescue unfold, secretly calculating when to manipulate Grandma Chuntao into action—as long as she wore the tiger-head shoes around her neck, she would remain under his control. After all, her consciousness was with him.

Grandma Chuntao lived up to his expectations, successfully applying the talismans to their bodies.

He was reluctant to help easily because there was no need to save two chess pieces that might betray him at any time - for example, at this moment, Xie Zhiyan and Xue Nu's eyes gradually regained clarity.

Surrounded by a crowd, Dr. Fox gently played with the whisk in his hand, shook his head, and his eyes moved between Ye Qingzhan and Wen Gu.

"There are only two of you left."

Ye Qingzhan caught his gaze, her heart beating like thunder. The beating of her heart was not the same as before. It was the kind of wild beating that wanted to break through her chest and jump out. It was as if something was really about to jump out of her body.

At this moment, Dr. Fox's fingertips touched her brow.

"You have everything since you were born. I envy you so much." He spoke slowly, but like a poisonous needle, it penetrated her body bit by bit. Ye Qingzhan only felt something flowing out from her forehead, her head became dizzy, her body became weak, and Dr. Fox's words rang in her ears.

"Wisdom is of little use to you, so why not leave it to me and do my utmost to benefit the people. By then, even if you become mentally retarded or sick, your parents will surely stay by your bedside and take good care of you. When the day comes that I can achieve my goal, you can leave in peace without regrets."

Ye Qingzhan didn't know what he was talking about. His eyes closed uncontrollably, and the scene in front of him became increasingly vague. Only one person's eyes became particularly clear.

It was Wen Gu.

His eyes were red.

She didn't know what happened after that after she closed her eyes.

Blood flowed from the corners of Wen Gu's lips, and his eyes became more and more fiery, scarlet eyes that seemed to see through people. The moment Ye Qingzhan closed his eyes, he broke free from the shackles of the talisman, quickly moved to her side, supported her fallen body, and looked at Dr. Fox with eyes like a bloodthirsty poisonous blade.

Dr. Fox's mask was still smiling, but the stiffness of his body betrayed him.

He was very surprised that this young man who looked like he wanted to eat people actually broke his life-destroying talisman.

The only way to break this spell, aside from having it removed, is through physical combat.

Stepping back slightly, Dr. Fox raised his whisk and looked at Wen Gu with interest. "Little beast, are you dying of pain?" he said slowly, undeterred by the fury radiating from Wen Gu. "To break the life-destroying spell, you must use your life against it, causing excruciating pain to your very core."

Wen Gu raised his blade, a cold gleam passing through his eyes. Dr. Fox sighed, his tone tinged with playfulness. "Don't get angry, or you'll die if you use your spiritual energy again." His eyes flickered playfully over the girl in Wen Gu's arms, and Dr. Fox continued, "Then you and her will be a pair of desperate lovers. Haha, how funny."

Listening nearby, Li Zhixing rolled his eyes. Was this funny? What was so funny? He glared at Dr. Fox, constantly gathering his ghostly energy within him. He then glanced anxiously at Hu Tangqing. She looked frail, but her eyes were resolute. He knew she, too, was desperately trying to break free from the spell's shackles.

Not only her, but every person on the second floor, bound by the life-breaking talisman, was desperately trying to break it. Their expressions were agonized as the spell strangled their spines, and they fought back with their ghostly energy, which then backfired on their entire meridians. But none of them gave up, their eyes filled with unyielding determination.

Before Dr. Fox could finish his words, Wen Gu swung the cold blade in his hand, just enough to hit his vitals.

"Even if it means death, I will drag you into hell."

As the words fell, blood began to seep out from all parts of his body. Blood holes of all sizes covered his body the moment Wen Gu finished speaking. The ghosts whose eyes were fixed on Wen Gu were filled with horror.

After all, it was too slow. Dr. Fox turned sideways, blocked the sword with his whisk, and leaped onto the railing. The whisk absorbed the sword energy that was about to take his life. Dr. Fox laughed a few times: "Haha, my life is not something you, a beast, can take away."

Wen Gu stopped talking nonsense. He put his arm around Ye Qingzhan, and with his spiritual power, he once again protected the ghosts on the second floor. He used the wind to tear off the talismans on their bodies, and with one hand, he controlled the sword, and the sharp sword energy forced Dr. Fox into the air. Wen Gu turned around and handed Ye Qingzhan to the ghosts whose ghost power was gradually recovering. After saying "take good care of her", he jumped over the wooden fence and chased Dr. Fox.

Snow Girl and Xie Zhiyan, having regained consciousness simultaneously, were no longer under Dr. Fox's control. Snow Girl whipped her long hair around, transforming into countless vines to pursue him. Xie Zhiyan turned his spear, stepped onto the pillar, and aimed his spear at him.

Dr. Fox watched them, his voice sneering from beneath his mask: "You overestimate your abilities."

He flung several flints from his sleeves, which caught the wind and transformed into giant fireballs, raining down in different directions. The blaze burned before their eyes, and Snow Girl and Xie Zhiyan both changed direction. Only Wen Gu, gripping his ice blade, struck out, meeting the attack head-on.

Li Zhixing, trapped within the barrier, clung to the railing and shouted, "Get out of the way! Are you crazy?"

Wen Gu ignored him, piercing the fireball with his ice blade, clenching it in two. With firelight dancing in his eyes, the young man, his body ablaze with passion, stood before the Taoist Fox, his sword pointed at his throat.

The Taoist Fox continued to smile calmly, as if it was someone else, not him, who was being strangled. After a moment, he said slowly, "What a pity I didn't burn you to death." He looked away, "But it will be soon."

His once handsome face was now covered in scars of varying depths. Blood from the corner of his eye streaked down his cheek in a long streak. Wen Gu raised his sword, and just as his blade was within an inch of the fox Taoist, he felt a sudden, intense burning sensation on his back.

He tilted his head—two massive fireballs were directly behind him, with more and more surrounding them.

The ghosts within the barrier on the second floor held their breath, staring with despair and tragic solemnity at the young man standing in the sea of flames.

Li Zhixing knew Wen Gu had already exhausted his spiritual energy, hanging on by a thread. He dared not look.

Was he really going to perish in the flames?

Wen Gu turned around, watching the white-robed figure recede amidst the blazing fireballs. Blood flowed from the fingers of the hand holding the sword.

Through the flames, he glanced back at the inn's second floor. The girl he loved was still sleeping.

Can't just die like this.

At least he can't hurt her, hurt them again.

The long sword once again cut through the sky filled with flames. Before being swallowed by the fireball, Wen Gu threw the ice blade in his hand and stabbed it straight into Dr. Fox's back.

His body fell down, and he slowly closed his eyes.

I'm sorry, I can't wait for you to wake up...

"Wen Gu!"

Suddenly, Wen Gu felt himself falling into a warm embrace, and a crisp and powerful voice came into his ears. Both the embrace and the voice were too surprising and familiar. Wen Gu used up his last bit of strength, slowly opened his eyes, and heard someone say in his ear: "

Have a good rest, and leave the rest to me."

Ye Qingzhan steadily caught Wen Gu in the sea of ​​fire, flew in the air, and brought him to Li Zhixing's side, "Exiled Immortal, please take a look at him." After she finished speaking, she left a handkerchief and flew to Dr. Fox's side again.

Dr. Fox, who had been so focused on escaping, was too arrogant and hadn't expected the young man to still have time to stab him in the back. He was actually hit and fell to the ground.

Ye Qingzhan stood in front of him, her body surging with purple energy, which transformed into countless thin arrows and soft knives, slashing at the fox Taoist again and again.

She bent down, grabbed the fox Taoist's clothes tightly, stared into his pair of annoying smiling eyes, and said word by word:

"Today is the day you die."

"However you hurt them, I will definitely pay them back one by one."