130: Changing players midway through the season?!

Chu Qianqian felt as if she had been through a long, oppressive, and terrifying nightmare.

In that endless darkness, she felt an unprecedented panic.

She could not perceive anything happening in the outside world and was being pinned down into a corner of her Sea of Consciousness by an ancient, domineering, and despairingly powerful force.

Her Soul could not move, and she couldn't even make a sound.

There was a clear gap in her memory.

The last scene she remembered was the critical moment when that Junior Sister named Mu Yun was using her powers to help her remove the Gu.

Immediately following that was a sharp pain deep within her Dantian, as if her Soul were being torn apart.

She felt something emerge from the depths of her Soul like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon.

Then, she was forcibly squeezed out of her own body by that foreign will.

"No... this is my body!"

In that long darkness, she never gave up.

Relying on that faint and final Bloodline connection, she bit down hard on that power and refused to let go, constantly launching counterattacks within the darkness.

Just now, she felt the power suppressing her inexplicably weaken.

She keenly seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

"Get... out!"

She let out a silent roar in her heart, exerting every last ounce of strength from the depths of her Soul to slam violently against that shackle!

Buzz—!

This time, that originally indestructible barrier actually shattered at the impact!

A long-lost light instantly pierced her eyes, and her sense of touch returned like a rising tide.

Chu Qianqian greedily looked at the familiar, white mist of Yaochi all around her.

An indescribable ecstasy welled up in her heart.

She had finally regained control of her own body!

"Huff... huff..."

She gulped down the moist air within Yaochi, which was filled with Spiritual Qi, feeling her heart beating powerfully in her chest.

That immense joy of recovery and survival after a narrow escape made her nose tingle, and she almost wanted to burst into tears on the spot.

"Great... I'm not dead... I wasn't Possession by that terrifying thing... I'm still alive! I'm still me!"

However, this joy of being "reborn" lasted for less than a single breath.

As her five senses gradually became clear, the sensory feedback from various parts of her body also began to become more specific.

The smile on Chu Qianqian's face froze.

It was replaced by an extremely strange, dazed, and even somewhat terrified expression.

She discovered that right now... something seemed a bit wrong with her?

She wasn't standing on the ground, nor was she sitting in meditation to adjust her breathing.

Instead, she felt like a small boat in the middle of a storm at sea.

The waves whipped up by the storm seemed to pose a risk of overturning the small boat at any moment.

"What... what's happening? Did something go wrong with my Cultivation?"

Chu Qianqian felt her throat go dry.

With an extremely bad premonition, she stiffly lowered her head, inch by inch.

What met her eyes was a face she was extremely familiar with, which currently wore a somewhat mischievous and enjoying expression.

She and Lu Yi locked eyes, and for a moment, the scene was quite awkward.

Lu Yi looked at her, his gaze shifting from his original absorption to one of playfulness.

As for Chu Qianqian, her gaze underwent a roller-coaster-like transformation.

From initial daze to confusion, and then to shock after seeing the state the two of them were in.

She felt her world collapse at this very moment.

"Aaaahhhhh!!"

A shrill scream rang out, her voice even cracking due to extreme terror and shame.

It instantly pierced through the deathly silence of the Yaochi Immortal Realm!

Lu Yi felt that this shout was even more powerful and penetrating than the previous palm strike.

Even the thick surrounding mist seemed startled, scattering outward in a circle.

"Lu Yi!! You... you..."

Every hair on Chu Qianqian's body stood on end in an instant.

Even when facing the threat of death, she had never been as panicked as she was now.

Shame! It was too shameful!

What exactly had happened during the time her Soul was unable to control her body?

Why was she in this state the moment she regained control and woke up?

She instinctively reached out, wanting to push this bastard away.

However, because her Soul had just returned, she was not yet able to control herself well.

"You... what are you doing?! You... you're being insolent! Stop it, quickly!!"

Chu Qianqian's face was flushed deep red, the blush even spreading across her entire body.

Her eyes instantly turned red, and she roared in mortification, her voice carrying a heavy sob.

"Hiss..."

Lu Yi's ears rang from the sudden high-pitched scream.

He looked at the woman before him, who was panicked, ashamed, and so anxious that tears were welling in her eyes, wishing she could find a hole to crawl into.

Then he thought back to that person with the cold gaze who had just treated him entirely like a tool.

If it weren't for the fact that the two of them had never disengaged, it would be hard to imagine they were the same person.

This contrast... was just too great, wasn't it? They were practically two different people.

Lu Yi muttered to himself:

"Why is she acting like a commoner girl being kidnapped now? This acting is too good, isn't it? If she's faking it, she could win an Oscar."

No... Lu Yi connected it to the previous eerie and sudden change in her temperament.

As well as that ancient, weathered aura she had been emitting just now.

Then he looked at her current appearance, like a startled 'pure little white rabbit'.

A flash of inspiration struck Lu Yi, and he finally figured out all the logic!

"I see! The one before was a 'substitute', and this one now is the real person!"

"This girl really does have an old grandpa hidden inside... oh no, an old grandma... that doesn't seem right either..."

"Anyway, she was physically exhausted just now, so that 'old grandma' went offline and gave control of the body back to this girl?"

Once he figured this out, the smile in Lu Yi's eyes grew even deeper.

"Well then, changing people midway? This works!"

Seeing Chu Qianqian's expression of her worldview collapsing and being so ashamed she was about to faint.

Lu Yi didn't stop, nor did he feel awkward.

On the contrary, an unprecedented sense of mischief and excitement welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Heh..."

He gave a wicked laugh, and his arms, which had loosened slightly, suddenly tightened again.

He pressed Chu Qianqian, who wanted to escape, even more closely against himself.

"Let go... mmph!"

Chu Qianqian cried out in surprise.

She only felt her mind go blank; although the time her Soul was separated from her body felt exceptionally long.

She also knew that in reality, not much time should have passed.

But in just this short while, how had things turned into this situation?

Lu Yi leaned in close to her ear, which was so red it looked like it might drip blood, and sighed with a tone of helplessness yet full of mockery:

"Since you're here, don't leave."

"It's perfect timing for you to also experience that Senior's unfinished business!"