Chapter 2158: I'm Scared, It's Too Dark

Chapter 2158: Too Dark, I'm Scared

In the eerie night sky, flames lingered and swirled, occasionally revealing mysterious phenomena.

Nu Sheng Ti moved with graceful, lotus-like steps, walking through the heavens while carrying the Tenth Emperor of Da Chu, Ye Chen, in her jade hand. His arms hung limply, making him look just like a toad, with no trace of his usual dignity.

"Senior, where are you taking me?"

Nu Sheng Ti only smiled without speaking, occasionally glancing into the void and toward the Ming Jie. She could clearly see Di Huang and Ming Di, her smile carrying a hint of strangeness.

"This woman must be out of her mind!" Ming Di remarked meaningfully.

That was exactly what Di Huang was thinking. He wasn't sure which era this Nu Sheng Ti belonged to—whether she was his senior or his junior. Everything about her was a blank.

Bathed in moonlight, Nu Sheng Ti came to a stop, landing on a mountain peak.

Only then was Ye Chen set down, and she placed a seal on him.

"Where is the entrance?" Nu Sheng Ti asked calmly.

"I really don't know." Ye Chen's laugh was more pitiful than a cry. Tai Gu Hong Huang was incredibly mysterious—even Dong Huang Tai Xin didn't know about it, let alone him.

"In that case, I'll find it myself." Nu Sheng Ti smiled mysteriously and extended her slender jade finger toward Ye Chen's forehead, clearly intending to search his soul again.

"After you said that, I just remembered something." Ye Chen chuckled, not wanting to go through another soul search—it felt more agonizing than being Ling Chi, and he might even lose his life.

"The entrance is sealed in my eyes." Ye Chen pointed to his eyes and slipped back into his bluffing mode.

Nu Sheng Ti's lips curved slightly, turning her extended finger into two, not aiming for his forehead but reaching toward his eyes to dig them out.

The scene was bloody and shocking.

Blood streamed from Ye Chen's eye sockets as both his Lun Hui Mou were removed. At a glance, his eyes were now two dark voids, still gushing blood.

As for his Lun Hui Mou, they were now suspended in Nu Sheng Ti's palm.

Ye Chen's mouth twitched fiercely. Without his pupils, his eyes were pitch black. Had he just dug his own grave? A casual remark had led to his Lun Hui Mou being taken—this woman was incredibly ruthless, digging them out without a second thought.

Nu Sheng Ti paid no attention to him, only examining the Lun Hui Mou in her palm. Under the starlight and moonlight, they shimmered with profound light, the Lun Hui marks on the pupils being the most inscrutable.

After three or five seconds, unable to find any clues, Nu Sheng Ti glanced back at Ye Chen. "Where is the entrance?"

"Could you put my eyes back first?" Ye Chen pointed to his eye sockets. "Since they're my eyes, only I can see it."

Nu Sheng Ti complied, returning them exactly as she had removed them.

"Senior, you should be able to tell that my Lun Hui Mou is in a self-sealed state. If you break the seal, the entrance will reveal itself." Ye Chen covered his eyes and rubbed them for a while, continuing his bluff. Nu Sheng Ti could traverse realms, so she might actually be able to lift the seal on his Lun Hui Mou.

Once the seal was broken, he could use Tian Dao Escape and resolve everything.

That was his plan—always bluffing.

Nu Sheng Ti slightly raised her hand, tilting Ye Chen's chin up as she stared into his eyes. She could see why the Lun Hui Mou was self-sealed—it must have encountered Zhuan Lun Yan and been completely suppressed.

As she looked, she extended two fingers again.

With a spurt of fresh blood, Ye Chen's eyes, which hadn't even warmed up yet, were dug out once more.

"I..." Ye Chen nearly choked, almost spitting blood. "Are you just bored? Standing there digging out eyes like it's nothing! Dig them out, put them back, dig them out again—is this fun?"

Nu Sheng Ti walked away, waving her hand to summon an immortal technique that formed a bronze furnace, burning with Yuan Shen flames. She tossed Ye Chen's two eyeballs into the furnace, where they were refined by the flames.

Ye Chen squatted on the ground. Though his eyes had been removed, his divine sense was still intact, allowing him to see the scene, though he had no idea what Nu Sheng Ti was doing. He was quite worried, afraid she might destroy his Lun Hui Mou—he relied on them for so many things in the future.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, Nu Sheng Ti dispersed the bronze furnace and the Yuan Shen flames, leaving the two eyeballs hovering in midair, radiating a deeper, more profound light with faint traces of Lun Hui Dao essence.

With a gentle wave of her sleeve, the two eyeballs returned to Ye Chen's eye sockets.

This time, Ye Chen's eyes lit up, sharp and gleaming, because the self-seal on his Lun Hui Mou had been lifted. Nu Sheng Ti's methods were rough, but she got the job done reliably.

"Senior, could you teach me that secret method for breaking the seal?" Ye Chen rubbed his hands together. "If I run into Zhuan Lun Yan again, I won't have to bother you."

"Inform me of the entrance's location, and I'd even sleep with you." Nu Sheng Ti's smile was not only strange but now also tinged with a demonic allure, capable of bewitching hearts.

Ye Chen gave a dry laugh, feeling a chill run through his body. Who knows if I'd survive sleeping with you? A perfectly fine senior Holy Body, acting so improperly—flirting with a junior like this, is that appropriate? Though I'm thick-skinned, I still have some principles.

"Tell me the entrance's location, quickly." Nu Sheng Ti said indifferently, a hint of impatience creeping in.

"Forget it." Ye Chen sighed, raising his hand slightly and pointing vaguely into the void.

Sure enough, Nu Sheng Ti followed his gesture and looked over.

Not just her—Ming Di, Di Huang, and even the Dao Zu in Tian Jie were all watching.

It was truly a patch of void, intertwined with flames and bathed in moonlight, but aside from a small bird flying by, there was nothing else.

No one spoke for a long time.

Nu Sheng Ti frowned, staring for a while without seeing anything unusual.

When she turned back to look at Ye Chen, he was gone.

"How clever I am." In the space black hole, Ye Chen wore a profound expression.

So what if she was Nu Sheng Ti? So what if she had invincible power? She was still foolish, falling for his shadow emperor-level acting without fail.

At that moment, Ming Di, Di Huang, and Dao Zu, the three supreme beings, all showed expressions of deep resignation. Through the realm barriers, the way they looked at Ye Chen was full of approval.

Did he realize that he had just tricked the four strongest people in the three realms?

Ye Chen had no idea about this feat. He had already crouched down, peering outside. With his Lun Hui Mou unsealed, he could clearly see the outside world from the black hole, including Nu Sheng Ti.

Nu Sheng Ti was surprisingly serene, as if she could see through the black hole, even winking at him.

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. She could see him? That couldn't be right!

"Come out." Nu Sheng Ti's lips parted slightly, smiling as if coaxing a child.

Her voice was like the music of the nine heavens, incredibly enchanting, and her smile made the world's beauty fade in comparison.

But to Ye Chen, that smile felt a bit eerie, like the grin of the god of death. He shook his head vigorously, pretending not to hear.

In reality, he could hear it, but he was certain Nu Sheng Ti couldn't enter.

"In one quarter of an hour, your Lun Hui Mou will self-seal again." Nu Sheng Ti added, her lips curved in a smile. Indeed, she couldn't get in, as she was still in the Da Cheng realm.

"Stop trying to scare me." Ye Chen dismissed it, instinctively thinking she was luring him out with lies. He wasn't that foolish—he wouldn't fall for it.

Nu Sheng Ti smiled mysteriously and withdrew her gaze from the black hole, sitting down on a large rock.

Meanwhile, in the black hole, Ye Chen had already started fleeing, running as far as possible from Nu Sheng Ti before escaping the black hole to avoid being caught again.

Awkwardly, the quarter-hour limit arrived, and Nu Sheng Ti's words proved true—the Lun Hui Mou, unsealed for less than an hour, dimmed again and fell back into self-seal.

Ye Chen stopped in his tracks, his mouth twitching, his expression a mix of surprise and frustration. Nu Sheng Ti hadn't been bluffing.

Helplessly, he turned back the way he came.

Nu Sheng Ti was still there, sitting motionless on the mountaintop like a statue. Even cloaked in black robes, she couldn't hide her peerless elegance, appearing dreamlike under the moonlight.

In the black hole, Ye Chen rubbed his hands and called out with a chuckle, "Senior?"

"Why are you back?" Nu Sheng Ti turned her head, smiling at Ye Chen in the black hole.

"Too dark, I'm scared."

"That's right to be."

"That seal-breaking secret method of yours—could you teach it to me?" Ye Chen squatted down and laughed. "Once my Lun Hui Mou is unsealed, I'll come out. We're both Huang Gu Sheng Ti, all in the same family!"

Nu Sheng Ti ignored his words completely. Once tricked, she had become wiser.

Joking aside, if she taught him the secret method and he ran off again, where would she find him? Don't try to get close with the Holy Body talk—our Holy Body lineage doesn't have tricksters like you.

"I know Di Huang, the one who fought five emperors alone—we're very familiar, and this divine treasury is his."

"What about Chen Zhan, the epoch-making Da Cheng Sheng Ti? He thinks highly of me and passed on his origin to me."

"The first-generation Sheng Ti Ba Yuan—ever heard of him? I'm acquainted with him too; I'm using his Sheng Gu."

Ye Chen chatted away nonstop, not pausing for breath, speaking as if it were all fact. His goal was clear: to bluff Nu Sheng Ti into teaching him the seal-breaking method.

His endless chatter amused Nu Sheng Ti, though she showed no reaction. This half-baked Sheng Ti was quite entertaining. The divine treasury, origin, Sheng Gu—none of it was his, yet here he was trying to get close. How could he be so shameless?

"By the way, how much do you know about Tai Gu Hong Huang?" Ye Chen kept talking, switching topics since getting close wasn't working. He was sure this would interest Nu Sheng Ti.

Indeed, it did. Her eyes held an indescribable expression.

In the end, she stood up, twirling a strand of hair into a wisp of immortal light.

This immortal light was quite strange, ignoring all barriers and drifting into the black hole.

"Grab it." Nu Sheng Ti said calmly.

Ye Chen coughed, hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and grasped the wisp of immortal light.

Outside, holding the other end, Nu Sheng Ti gently tugged, pulling Ye Chen out. He stared in shock, never expecting escape from the black hole to be so simple.

Of course, not just anyone could do this.

Well, Ye Dazhao was out now and didn't even think about running—not that he could. The moment he emerged, Nu Sheng Ti had seized him.

"Do you know the price of deceiving me?" Nu Sheng Ti asked with a smile.

"Senior won't kill me." Ye Chen wiped the blood from his nose. "We're both Huang Gu Sheng Ti, and besides, only I know the entrance to Tai Gu Hong Huang."

Ye Chen was bluffing nonstop, desperate to survive. Who knew where Tai Gu Hong Huang was? But he had to pretend he knew—it was his only value.

Nu Sheng Ti's smile turned demonic as she picked up Ye Chen and walked away.

The majestic Tenth Emperor of Da Chu had no dignity left in front of Nu Sheng Ti, like a docile lamb. He really must have accumulated bad karma in his past life to keep getting captured like this.

"Senior, since we're so familiar now, could you do me a favor?" Ye Chen lifted his head. "Use your power to bring Di Jun Tong Ming over here."