Looking at Yan Luo’s reddened eyes and her determined expression, Chen Yuyang couldn’t help but chuckle.
‘Take responsibility for me? What are you thinking, girl? If anyone is going to be responsible, my Master should be the first. This girlโฆ’
However, she was also a victim of this illusion array, so he couldn’t blame her.
Yan Luo’s heart was filled with incomparable guilt.
As someone who knew the truth, she had originally thought her grandfather was, at most, creating a tense atmosphere or arranging a small crisis in the secret realm to make it easier for her and Yuyang to build some chemistry.
She never imagined there would be an illusion array centered around lust here.
Grandfather naturally knew the situation here, yet he hadn’t warned her at all!
If she had known this was his plan, she wouldn’t have come to this stupid secret realm even if he killed her!
She had almostโฆ she had almost done that to Yuyang just nowโฆ
Thinking of her wanton behavior โ pulling at Chen Yuyang, tearing his clothes, and touching and kissing him all over โ Yan Luo felt her cheeks burning as if they were on fire.
‘Will Yuyang think I’m a loose woman because of this? Will he start to hate me?’
Yan Luo was anxious.
She couldn’t help but steal a glance at Chen Yuyang, only to quickly lower her head again.
Fortunately, she didn’t see any expression of disgust or disdain on Chen Yuyang’s handsome face.
He remained as indifferent as always.
“Itโs fine, Yan Luo,” Chen Yuyang’s voice was calm, showing neither joy nor anger: “This wasn’t your fault.”
Hearing this, Yan Luo’s heart finally relaxed a little.
“However, you can no longer withstand the illusions here, so do not continue upward.”
Yan Luo nodded vigorously.
Even if Chen Yuyang hadn’t said it, after what she had just experienced, she didn’t dare to follow him any further.
Biting her lip, Yan Luo looked up again and said to Chen Yuyang, “Yuyang, sinceโฆ I don’t see anything in this secret realm anyway, why don’t we just forget it? Letโs leave this place.”
Yan Luo’s voice trembled slightly as she grabbed Chen Yuyang’s sleeve, her eyes filled with a sense of pleading.
Hearing this and seeing Yan Luo’s lingering fear, Chen Yuyang suddenly couldn’t help but laugh softly.
“What, are you afraid?”
Yan Luo’s cheeks flushed even redder.
She pursed her lips but still nodded honestly.
She was indeed afraid โ afraid of doing something else out of line, and afraidโฆ afraid that Chen Yuyang would be disappointed in her because of these things.
Seeing her being so honest, Chen Yuyang didn’t tease her and said indifferently, “Then wait for me here.”
Pausing for a moment, Chen Yuyang looked up toward the stairs.
“Since I’m already here, it would be a waste to return empty-handed. Now, I insist on going up to take a look.”
“Don’t worry. If I can’t handle the trials above, I will withdraw on my own.”
Hearing this and seeing the look in Chen Yuyang’s eyes, Yan Luo nodded obediently and said softly, “Okay, thenโฆ then Iโll wait for you to come back here. Youโฆ you must be careful.”
Chen Yuyang gave a word of agreement and said nothing more.
He turned and walked toward the stairs leading to the seventh floor.
On the sixth floor, only Yan Luo was left.
Left alone, the young girl finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Recalling the scene from just now, she still couldn’t help but blush.
She crouched down and buried her face in her knees, only then feeling a bit calmer.
After a while, Yan Luo gradually regained her composure.
Following that, the anger in the girl’s heart erupted, and she immediately shouted in her mind: ใGrandfather, you’ve gone too far! How could you use such a low-class formation!ใ
Sensing his granddaughter’s rage, Yan Dangmo’s old face stiffened.
He hurriedly spoke to comfort her, “Oh, my dear granddaughter, Grandfather didn’t expect it to be like this either!”
“After all, I didn’t set up this formation myself. How could I know its specific effects would be like this?”
Yan Dangmo acted thick-skinned, pushing all responsibility away.
Yan Luo bit her lip, but she couldn’t find any fault in his words.
Her grandfather wasn’t an array master, after all.
Perhaps he really couldn’t see the clues withinโฆ
“Hmph, I don’t care! Anyway, this is your fault! If Yuyang thinks I’m a lowly woman and hates me because of thisโฆ I, I won’tโฆ I’ll never hear the end of it with you, Grandfather!”
Yan Luo spoke huffily.
Although she didn’t specify what “never hearing the end of it” meant, this was already the harshest thing she had said to Yan Dangmo in her entire life.
“Oh dear, it’s Grandfather’s fault. Grandfather really knows he was wrong!”
Seeing that his granddaughter was truly angry, Yan Dangmo hurried to lower his posture and apologize, showing no sign of an elder’s pride.
“My little ancestor, please stop being angry. I promise that this kind of thing will definitely never happen again, okay?”
“That’s more like it.”
Hearing this, Yan Luo’s anger subsided a bit, but she still felt somewhat dissatisfied.
She muttered, “In short, you have to compensate Yuyang! He was almost, almostโฆ by meโฆ”
“Definitely, definitely!”
Yan Dangmo agreed immediately without thinking.
“After we leave, I will double the reward I promised him for teaching you the fire control method, okay?”
“How is double enough!”
Yan Luo thought for a moment and held up three fingers.
“Triple! It must be triple!”
The corner of Yan Dangmo’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.
This girl’s loyalty shifted outward far too quickly!
She wasn’t even married yet, and she was already focused on emptying the family treasury to subsidize her dream man!
Butโฆ looking at the girl’s huffy yet aggrieved appearance in his consciousness, any resentment in Yan Dangmo’s heart could only turn into a helpless sigh.
Forget it, forget it.
Who told her to be his only precious granddaughter?
Since she liked him, what else could he say?
If there was someone to blame, it was only that things hadn’t succeeded just now.
If it had really happened, let alone double or triple, what would ten times matter?
It would all eventually return to the Yan family anyway.
Moreover, by then, this girl probably wouldn’t care about this; she would likely be secretly rejoicing.
“Fine, fine, triple it is,” Yan Dangmo agreed helplessly.
Only then did Yan Luo nod in satisfaction, the anger in her heart mostly dissipated.
On the other side, the moment Chen Yuyang stepped onto the seventh floor, the hard steps beneath his feet turned into a smooth white jade floor.
The entire space suddenly opened up.
The surrounding scene was actually a massive dueling arena.
Opposite him stood a phantom man clad in silver armor and holding a longsword.
The man’s face could not be seen clearly, but one could feel the sharp sword intent erupting from him.
As soon as Chen Yuyang stepped onto the field, the phantom man moved!
Without any unnecessary movements, the phantom’s wrist flicked slightly, and the longsword in his hand let out a soft tremble.
A streak of green sword qi tore through the air, carrying a surging and violent sword intent as it lunged directly for Chen Yuyang’s face.
The air vibrated, letting out a sharp whistling sound.
“Oh?”
Chen Yuyang’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Moving his body horizontally to the side, the sword qi brushed past his sleeve.
The sword qi struck the ground behind him, letting out an explosion-like roar.
The arena shook, and gravel flew everywhere.
‘It’s still an illusion array, but the content of the illusion is a pure duel.’
Chen Yuyang understood inwardly.
Presumably, the trial of the seventh floor was mainly to test strength rather than to actually kill.
The strength of this phantom man was approximately at the Quasi-Soul Transformation Stage, which was not weak.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t going to fight it head-on!
With a faint smile on his lips, Chen Yuyang directly flipped his hand and took out a few high-grade spirit stones.
Regardless of whether the person observing him in secret was still there, his cards regarding formations had already been exposed after the sixth floor’s illusion.
Therefore, there was no longer any need to keep them hidden.
Today, he had only one goal left: to break the formation and make the person who set it up pay the price of its destruction.
‘So, come!’
Chen Yuyang shouted inwardly.
The high-grade spirit stones he threw out landed on the ground, immediately beginning to connect with one another according to a specific trajectory.
The phantom man’s movements stiffened.
With a sharp light in his eyes, Chen Yuyang threw out high-grade spirit stones one by one.
Before long, the formation broke!
Chen Yuyang did not hesitate and headed toward the eighth floor.
After another moment, Chen Yuyang walked toward the ninth floor.
Within the illusion of the final floor, the strength of the opponent had reached the Quasi-Body Integration Stage.
However, Chen Yuyang’s target was not the illusory opponent, but the formation itself.
Thereforeโฆ
Even this final layer of the formation only managed to block him for less than fifteen minutes.
As the final formation shattered, the true appearance of the ninth floor appeared before Chen Yuyang.
To Chen Yuyang’s surprise, there were actually some items piled here.
He had thought this place would be empty like the previous floors.
Equipment, magical artifacts, and talismans โ all were present.
However, Chen Yuyang’s gaze skipped directly over those things and was instead attracted by an inconspicuous jade box.
The quality of the jade box itself had reached Quasi-Grade 9.
But most importantly, it contained the principles of the laws of heaven and earth.
This aura of the laws of heaven and earth did not belong to the jade box itself but came from external influence.
‘Is it a treasure once possessed by a Half-step True Immortal Realm powerhouse?’
Thinking this, Chen Yuyang reached out and picked up the jade box.
At the moment his fingertips touched the box, its name spontaneously surfaced in his mind.
“Myriad Fire Box!”