Insufficient balance

  Lin Yundan grasped Tang Huan's hands and led him into the haunted house, heading deeper inside. Tang Huan was at a loss, unsure of what to do next, when suddenly, a teardrop fell onto his hand.

  Tang Hao endured the pain, turned his head back and saw Lin Yun Dan with tears in her eyes, crying and saying: "Tang Hao, I'm sorry, it's my fault that hurt you, but I really couldn't control myself." After finishing speaking, she grasped Tang Hao's hand even tighter, causing him to cry out in pain.

  Tang Hao could only comfort her by saying: "I know you were forced into this, I don't blame you."

  Lin Yun Dan cried: "I'm so scared! Really! I'm so scared that I'll become a wicked man, I'm so scared that I'll kill you with my own hands, I'm so scared!"

  Tang Hao felt a sharp pain in his heart, he wanted to save Lin Yun Dan, but he had no clue at all, he also wanted to comfort Lin Yun Dan, but he himself was on the verge of collapse.

  Lin Yun Dan's expression turned miserable, "Tang Hao, you still haven't answered my question."

  Tang Hao was taken aback, his expression relaxed, anyway after today, both of them would truly disappear, might as well make the last moment as beautiful as possible.

  Lin Yundan's strength increased again, and Tang Hao let out another heart-wrenching cry of pain. However, he quickly calmed down and smiled, saying: "Yundan, are you willing to be my girlfriend? No, are you willing to be my wife? Let me take care of you for the rest of your life, until the end of our days."

  Lin Yun Dan cried: "I'm willing! I'm willing! Actually, I've been waiting for you to say these words to me, but you've always been like a block of wood."

  Tang Hao revealed a relieved smile. Perhaps he was about to die at Lin Yun's hands, but Tang Hao felt more relaxed than ever before.

  Lin Yun Dan's expression suddenly turned evil, and he sneered: "Since you like me so much, I'll make you feel like you're in heaven and hell later."

  Lin Yun Dan threw Tang Hao into the corner of the basement wall and walked to the center of the basement herself.

  Tang Hao looked around the basement, and there wasn't much stuff, except for a bed and a wooden box, nor were there any other eye-catching things. The ugly man was lying on the bed in the basement at this time, with his eyes closed, but a lustful and satisfied expression appeared on his face.

  Lin Yundan skillfully took out various array disks from the wooden box and placed them beside the ugly man, then took out several glowing spirit symbols, touched them with a hint of tenderness, and stuck them into the recesses of each array disk.

  Tang Hao had also seen some, the Xian Xia world's body-snatching was extremely difficult. Even if one's cultivation was higher than their opponent by a few small realms, they would still be prone to accidents when fighting away from home. Therefore, many cultivators often made preparations to temporarily increase their strength, and this formation should have been used for that purpose.

  Lin Yundan and others made all preparations, came to Tang Hao's face, stepped on Tang Hao's fingers with her feet, and said fiercely: "Take a last look at your girlfriend, soon she won't be your girlfriend."

  Tang Hao wanted to resist, but his whole body ached and he couldn't muster up the strength, so he could only watch as Lin Yun Dan walked to the other end of the formation.

  After Lin Yundan took his place, a black light shot out from Lin Yundan's body and returned to the ugly man's body. The ugly man sat up and licked his tongue at Lin Yundan in front of him.

  Lin Yundan regained her spiritual consciousness and looked at Tang Hao with a desperate gaze, "Hao, I'll go first."

  Tang Hao was extremely anxious and shouted: "Don't just stand there! Run!" Lin Yun Dan cried: "I can't move."

  The ugly man sneered: "No need to struggle, obediently become me."

  Lin Yun Dan's expression turned furious, and she shouted: "If there is an afterlife, I will embark on the path of cultivating immortality, and I will kill all of you depraved and evil demons one by one."

  The ugly man smiled carelessly: "With your body, by the time you're reborn, I'll have already become a giant and can still play with you at my fingertips."

  The ugly man stopped talking, clenched his fists, and the formation began to emit a green glow. Strands of green light swirled into the ugly man's body.

  Tang Hao wasn't a cultivator, so he naturally couldn't see the realm of the ugly man. He just vaguely felt that the mental pressure he was under was getting bigger and bigger.

  In just one minute, the green light stopped entering the ugly man's body, and the ugly man was no longer his original sickly self, but looked like he had become twenty years younger.

  The ugly man smiled slyly at Tang Hao's helpless face, then stared at Lin Yun Dan, whose body was frozen in place.

  The ugly man closed his eyes, and with his right hand's index finger, he touched a point on his own brow. A golden light ball seeped out from the ugly man's brow, and he also fell down along with it.

  The golden light ball slowly crashed into Lin Yun Dan. If Tang Hao's guess was correct, this golden light ball should be the ugly man's primordial spirit. Once this golden light ball entered Lin Yun Dan's body and swallowed his primordial spirit, Lin Yun Dan's body would really be taken over by that ugly man.

  Lin Yun Dan no longer looked at the light ball, but instead used the last bit of time in her life to look at Tang Hao, because she knew that if she didn't look now, there would be no more opportunities later.

  Tang Hao looked at Lin Yun Dan with a lack of energy, her eyes were filled with attachment, but more was a sense of unwillingness, perhaps there were still many things she had not done yet.

  Tang Hao suddenly rushed to the front of Lin Yun Dan, using his own body to block the ugly man. He didn't expect it to have any effect, but he didn't know why he still blocked in front of Lin Yun Dan, perhaps just pure instinct.

  The golden light sphere saw this scene in front of it and suddenly stopped, then emitted the voice of an ugly man: "Little boy, you want to die, I'll fulfill your wish."

  He immediately continued to fly forward, preparing to penetrate Tang Huan and enter Lin Yun's body. The cultivator's primordial spirit was far from comparable to that of ordinary people. The ugly man was confident that with his current cultivation at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, he could destroy Tang Huan's spiritual consciousness.

  However, things turned out to be beyond the ugly man's imagination. The ugly man's primordial spirit had not even approached Tang Hao when a whirlpool suddenly appeared on Tang Hao's forehead, continuously absorbing the spiritual energy from the ugly man's primordial spirit. The ugly man's primordial spirit gradually became fainter and fainter.

  "What kind of monster are you?! Why is my spiritual energy being sucked away by you?! How can this be! How can this be!" the ugly man bellowed.

  Tang Hao didn't know what was happening, only that a power beyond description was constantly drilling into his meridians, but his own meridians were rejecting these spiritual energies.

  The ugly man was not a good kind, but at the critical moment he was decisive. He divided his primordial spirit into two halves, one of which slowly dissipated under the whirlpool's devouring, and the remaining half was extremely weak. It was hopeless to seize the house, so he returned to his original ugly body.

  Tang Hao didn't go far, he felt a strong spiritual power drilling into his meridians all over his body, but the meridians were unresponsive, and the spiritual power could only linger in Tang Hao's body, wandering chaotically.

  Tang Hao felt like he was swelling up like a bun and couldn't help but want to tear open his skin to let the spiritual energy dissipate. Lin Yun Dan regained her freedom, looked at the scene in front of her, and quickly grabbed Tang Hao's hand to stop him from scratching his own skin, then hugged him and shouted: "Hao! Calm down, don't do this!"

  At this time, the ugly man had already stood up and gritted his teeth: "You ruined my chance of becoming an immortal, so I'll make sure you don't live." After speaking, he took out a dagger and walked towards Tang Huang.

  This dagger is the only spiritual instrument of the ugly man, who kills people without a trace. It was originally given to him by his father. If it weren't for his poor qualifications and congenital deficiency in his dantian, he wouldn't be able to store spiritual energy. With the elixir given by his father, he wouldn't have become an ordinary elder in this mortal world.

  The ugly man's face twisted, taking advantage of the two being inattentive, stabbed a dagger towards Tang Hao.

  Tang Hao felt a sharp pain in his back, blood splashing everywhere, but fortunately, the spiritual energy that was about to explode had also found an outlet and burst out of Tang Hao's wound.

  The dagger was knocked flying by this surge of spiritual energy, and the ugly man himself was also pierced through the throat by this surge of spiritual energy. His eyes didn't even have time to close before he fell to the ground.

  Lin Yundan helped Tang Hao up and said with concern: "Hao! You're bleeding."

  Tang Hao only felt a bit of pain, guessing that the spiritual artifact hadn't pierced in yet and he had just suffered some superficial injuries. Tang Hao waved his hand and said, "It's nothing serious, this place is too strange, let's get out of here."

  Lin Yundan supported Tang Hao outside the haunted house, Lin Yundan wiped Tang Hao's face with a tissue and said apologetically: "Sorry."

  Tang Hao was still in excruciating pain, but looking at Lin Yun Dan in front of him, he felt that his own pain seemed to have disappeared. Tang Hao smiled slightly, "It's not your fault, but speaking of which, where did you buy those shoes? The soles are so hard."

  Lin Yundan sulkily pouted and remained silent for a moment before suddenly asking, "Does what you said today count?"

  Tang Hao rubbed his head, "As long as you count, I also count."

  Lin Yun Dan smiled happily and closed her eyes.

  Tang Hao naturally understood Lin Yun Dan's meaning and slowly moved his lips towards Lin Yun Dan.

  "No kissing! Not even in memories!" Yun Xi suddenly appeared before the two, and Tang Hao was also pulled out of his memories.

  Tang Hao found himself back in reality, everything that had just happened was already gone, Lin Yun Dan had left him, and his heart ached again.

  Yun Xi saw Tang Hao like this, and a look of inexplicable sorrow appeared on his face. "Sorry, I shouldn't have let you recall that past."

  Yun Xi lowered his head again, a hint of bitterness on his face, and secretly said, "The Swallowing Spirit Demon's primary divine ability, the Spiritual Energy Vortex, can transform part of the opponent's spiritual energy into original spiritual energy for oneself to absorb. However, due to being a waste spiritual root, I couldn't absorb this original spiritual energy, almost causing my body to explode and die. So you're actually..."

  Tang Hao heard Yun Xi's muttering to herself and hastily asked, "Do you know how that ugly man died?" Yun Xi quickly put on a playful smile, "Who knows! I guess he did too many bad things, so heaven wants to punish him."

  Tang Hao was still in doubt, Yun Xi smiled and said: "Hurry up and eat breakfast, it's almost cold. First of all, let me make it clear that this is my first time cooking, no matter how bad it tastes, you have to finish it all, otherwise I'll make you regret not finishing it."