With Lu Li’s command, in an instant, the once deathly silent courtyard erupted like a boiling pot doused with cold water, violently exploding open!
Several spiritual lights, long poised to strike, suddenly burst forth from behind the rockery, beneath the eaves, and amidst the flower bushes… charging straight at the black shadow!
There were the scorching Fire Talismans, the piercing Sword Qi, the heavy Vajra Pestle, the supple Demon Binding Rope…
The various attacks from the Dan Ding Pavilion’s guest cultivators wove together into an impenetrable net, descending relentlessly upon the strange black shadow!
Several Dan Ding Pavilion guests hidden nearby emerged from the shadows, forming hand seals as countless intricate Magical Symbols instantly lit up the ground beneath them.
A simple Formation was about to take shape!
“Heh heh heh… Still these few tricks? You Dan Ding Pavilion guys really have no creativity!”
Faced with this thunderous onslaught, the black shadow let out another shrill and grating laugh, as if it had long since grown accustomed to such attacks.
The shadow neither dodged nor avoided; the black mist swirling around it thickened and grew viscous, writhing as if alive.
What followed left every cultivator participating in the siege feeling powerless.
The sharp attacks seemed to strike at empty air, passing through the shadow’s blurred form without locking onto any physical body!
The bizarre scene unfolding was nearly identical to what the Dan Ding Pavilion cultivators had experienced last night at the Zhou family estate!
That thief was nothing more than an incorporeal ghost; ordinary attacks were completely ineffective!
Lu Li watched intently from behind the rockery, brows tightly furrowed.
At this moment, Lu Li carefully observed the undulating black mist of the monster, trying to find a weakness.
The spell this fiend used was truly strange—coming and going like a shadow, formless and intangible, able to virtualize itself to evade most attacks.
For cultivators like Lu Li and the others, only at Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels, this was an extremely troublesome enemy.
However, as he studied further, Lu Li suddenly felt that this demon sect thief’s Soul Evading Technique looked somewhat familiar.
“Hm? This shifting between reality and illusion to avoid damage, the unpredictability of its gathering and dispersing…”
“Feels… so much like the Corpse Qi Escape used by the Yin Corpse Sect in the game!”
Yin Corpse Sect disciples cultivate corpse qi, controlling ghosts as their tools, and their Soul Evading Techniques are famously eerie and elusive.
When their demonic arts reach the Foundation Establishment stage, they can partially virtualize their bodies to dodge harm.
They’re one of the toughest mechanism monsters players face early on before advancing to the Golden Core stage!
Yet, as Lu Li kept watching from afar, he suddenly sensed something amiss.
“Hm? No… the Corpse Qi accumulated by the Yin Corpse Sect is a deeply Yin and filthy purple. When they cast spells, the surrounding aura usually smells of corpses and is accompanied by Phosphorus Fire.”
“But this thief’s black mist is extremely pure, containing only intense Yin cold and deathly stillness, without any Corpse Qi. Even the color is black, not purple…”
“Strange… strange indeed. Similar but not the same. Could it be a variant I don’t know of? Or some other forbidden technique resembling the Yin Corpse Sect’s secrets?”
While Lu Li was rapidly contemplating, the black shadow had already easily dispelled the first wave of attacks, transforming once again into a wisp of black smoke and heading straight for the boudoir door!
Seeing the thief about to break through the blockade, a sudden flash of inspiration struck Lu Li’s mind.
It was a method he had accidentally learned from an NPC while completing a side quest in his previous life’s testing game, a way to counter the Yin Corpse Sect’s demonic arts.
The Yin Corpse Sect’s many forbidden arts, including Corpse Qi Escape, are not invincible.
They most fear being struck by Pure Yang Items infused with filth—Sun-Infused Items that hit their vulnerable spots!
If one drenched them in such Pure Yang Items, their secret techniques would fail, forcing their true form to reveal itself!
At this moment, the easiest-to-obtain item with the clearest counter-effect for Lu Li and the others was none other than Child’s Urine!
“Young Master Shang!”
Lu Li urgently called to Gong Shangyu beside him,
“Quick, pull down your pants! Drench him with Child’s Urine!”
“That fiend is most afraid of Pure Yang items; Child’s Urine might just unravel his virtualizing evil technique!”
“Ah?”
Upon hearing this, Gong Shangyu’s pink eyes widened instantly, her feather fan nearly dropping to the ground.
For the first time, the usually confident, slightly lazy smile on Gong Shangyu’s face was replaced with a flustered, disbelieving embarrassment.
Her fair cheeks rapidly flushed a deep crimson, visible to the naked eye.
“Young Master Shang, hurry and pull down your pants! What are you standing there for? That fiend is about to break through!”
Seeing Gong Shangyu frozen in place, blushing, Lu Li anxiously urged,
“We’re all men here. Who doesn’t have one? What’s there to be embarrassed about?”
“Hurry! Pull down your pants and urinate! Then splash it directly onto that black mist!”
Lu Li didn’t realize the problem at all.
He pulled out a gourd from his storage bag, sliced it into two halves with his sword to make a ladle, and stuffed it into Gong Shangyu’s hand.
At this moment, Lu Li only found it strange that his companion, the young master of Dan Ding Pavilion, was so hesitant at this critical moment.
After all, to Lu Li—unaware of Gong Shangyu’s true gender—this youth looked like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, and as the Dan Ding Pavilion’s Suo Dongjia, his cultivation was also formidable.
The possibility of him still being a child was very high.
This was precisely the moment he needed to step up with Child’s Urine!
“I, I…”
Gong Shangyu’s face burned so red it looked as if it might bleed, her eyes darting away as she stammered and took an instinctive half step backward.
Because, in truth, she was a girl…
How could she possibly have Child’s Urine?
And, in front of her master, no less…
Ah… impossible!
Too shameful!
Besides, if she did this, she’d expose herself to her master.
How could she later formally apprentice under Lu Li and return to the sect?
Her mind was in complete chaos, the shame of a girl and fear of exposure making her want to disappear into the ground.
“Gong Baiyu!”
Seeing the situation growing desperate, Lu Li’s voice took on a stern and confused tone.
“This is a critical matter. I hope you won’t hesitate! Could it be that you…”
Under Lu Li’s increasingly sharp and urging gaze, Gong Shangyu knew further delay would only arouse suspicion.
She steeled herself, closed her eyes, and with lips bitten, spun a shame-filled, desperate lie.
“Senior! I… I’m not a child…”
“Ah! What?”
Lu Li was momentarily stunned, genuinely surprised.
He subconsciously scanned the young master of Dan Ding Pavilion before him, whose elegant appearance and youthful looks belied any childishness.
But then he relaxed.
Of course, a wealthy young master like him, handsome and well-born, must have long had concubines or frequented pleasure houses.
Moreover, in the Mortal Kingdoms of the Kong Xuan World, once children reach fourteen or fifteen, marriage is a common matter.
So it wasn’t unusual that Gong Baiyu was no longer a child.
“Ahhh… Damn rich noble! Left childhood long ago and became a life winner! Meanwhile, I, Lu Li, have lived two lifetimes and am still a child!”
Lu Li gave Gong Shangyu a sharp glare, feeling quietly resentful.
“Enough! I’ll do it!”
Without hesitation, Lu Li unfastened his belt, ready to use his own supply of Child’s Urine to turn the tide.
After all, the situation was urgent; catching that demon sect thief took precedence over everything else!
“Hey… Senior Lu! What are you doing?”
Seeing Lu Li about to undo his belt, Gong Shangyu instantly covered her eyes, cheeks blazing red.
Lu Li found her behavior stranger still, his voice tinged with grievance as he scolded her.
“Gong Shangyu, what time is it now? Why are you still clinging to those formalities?”
“Besides, we’re all men here. Why are you acting so shy?”
As he spoke, he began to relieve himself, catching the precious countermeasure in the ladle.
“Then… at least cover a bit!”
Gong Shangyu tightly covered her eyes, unable to suppress her embarrassed cries.
Her whole body felt like it was on fire, her heart pounding wildly in her broad chest as if it might leap out.
Ah… my master is doing this right in front of me…
The extreme shame, mixed with an indescribable strange thrill, stirred within Gong Shangyu far more intensely than when she had previously secretly watched Lu Li practicing.
Then, still overwhelmed with embarrassment, she slowly parted the ten slender fingers covering her face just enough to peek through.
At the same time, her pink eyelashes trembled slightly as her gaze involuntarily darted toward Lu Li…
Ahhh… this is my master’s…
Hiss… this will, will be the death of me!
So exaggerated!
Gong Shangyu watched from a distance, feeling a hot current rise again beneath her nose.
Fortunately, this time she reacted in time and used secret arts to forcibly stop the blood before the heat overflowed.