Published: February 24, 2025
Chapter 42: Heart Like a Knife Twisted
After Mu Mengyi took the Qiankun Ring and walked away with Xue Ziyan, Tan Yun could faintly hear the sound of their playful conversation:
"Hehe, Senior Sister Mu, your taste is really good. There are not many good men like Tan Shidi, who is both handsome and strong enough to challenge opponents beyond his level. The key point is that he treats you well!"
"Junior Sister Xue, you’re teasing me again. If you keep this up, I might really ignore you."
"Hehehe, Senior Sister Mu, you're blushing..."
Tan Yun's ears were filled with the sound of their laughter, and memories of his first encounter with Mu Mengyi in Falling Star City surfaced in his mind—her icy demeanor.
From the moment he jumped off the crane's back while holding her, to their kiss when she was lost in the moment… and the scene where she emerged from the water, calling his name while her delicate bare feet bled from being cut by the stones in the valley.
Her tears, her smiles, at this moment, swirled deep within Tan Yun's mind.
Tan Yun was sure he liked her. Was it love? He wasn’t certain. Similarly, Mu Mengyi, who was also confused about love at this moment, didn't know if she loved Tan Yun.
All she knew was that she wanted to be with him and didn’t want him to suffer any harm...
Tan Yun shook his head, but the image of Mu Mengyi lingered in his mind.
Taking a deep breath, he calmed his thoughts, and then the figure of Mu Mengyao gradually faded from his mind.
After that, Tan Yun’s expression turned extremely serious. "According to the timeline, Liu Rulong should soon receive the news about the Liu family's extermination, and Wang Futong should also know that I killed Wang Fuchen."
Tan Yun's face suddenly turned cold. "But so what? If they want me dead, it won't be that easy!"
Tan Yun turned and entered Mu Mengyi's pavilion, heading straight to the training room on the second floor. He sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and focused, tracing mysterious patterns with his hands in front of his chest, performing the Primordial Chaos Condensation Technique!
Immediately, in the area of two hundred feet above the pavilion, the rich, fog-like spiritual energy quickly condensed into a vortex of spiritual power over a hundred feet high, madly rushing into the pavilion and flowing into Tan Yun’s brow!
Streams of spiritual energy entered the spirit pool, transforming into wisps of faint golden spiritual power that filled the air above the spirit pool within a hundred feet, enveloping the eight dry wells below, resembling spirit fetuses.
At noon, Mu Mengyi and Xue Ziyan happily returned to the pavilion.
Upon discovering Tan Yun was training, Mu Mengyi quietly entered the training room and gently placed a low-grade spirit weapon flying sword that glowed faintly in front of him, followed by a bottle of elixirs.
"Mengyi, what elixir is this?" Just as Mu Mengyi was about to leave, Tan Yun opened his eyes while still training.
"This is a high-grade spirit胎 pill. Taking one can maintain your cultivation for ten days and increase the absorption speed of the natural spiritual energy by twenty percent," Mu Mengyi smiled and returned Tan Yun's Qiankun Ring to him. "There are still a hundred mid-grade spirit stones left inside."
"Mm." Tan Yun looked at Mu Mengyi with gentle eyes. "The spirit胎 pill is ineffective for me; you should keep it for yourself."
"Really?" Mu Mengyi sounded a bit doubtful, suspecting Tan Yun was reluctant to use it and wanted to keep it for her.
"Of course it's true," Tan Yun replied honestly. "My speed of absorbing natural spiritual energy is ten times that of an ordinary person, so this pill is ineffective for me."
"Mm, I understand." Mu Mengyi nodded. "Don't you want to know about the fallen gods in Fallen God Canyon? Should I tell you now or wait until your training is done?"
"I'm planning to enter seclusion for a month, so you can tell me now. Oh, and regarding the legends of the gods, tell me everything you know." Tan Yun's mind was filled with questions. The Heavenly Punishment Continent was just an insignificant leaf in the vast universe. Why did the gods descend and then fall?