Luo Han clearly sensed that she was being stared at by a pair of emotionless, desolate eyes. The next second, he lifted his sword without joy or sorrow and swung it towards Luo Han.
The sword energy was vast and powerful, causing flying debris and rocks, opening up mountains and cleaving the earth. Luo Han could feel the sword energy hitting her face with a violent gust of wind. Fortunately, the time vortex closed immediately.
Behind the disappearing vortex, a mountain was shattered and cut in half.
Luo Han hid in the time and space tunnel, her heart pounding. After a moment of catching her breath, she gasped while holding her chest, “You scared me! Why did you attack me?”
The scenery around Luo Han quickly went backwards. The barren land became filled with cows and sheep, towering trees became tiny grasslands, oceans turned into mulberry fields, and elderly people turned into babbling children. Time went back, and everything returned to a point where it had not happened yet.
With the powerful spiritual power of several ancestors working together, Luo Han could easily decide where to go. After thinking for a moment, she believed that everything needed to be solved from the root, so she chose to go back to the beginning to stop Ling Qingxiao from becoming that calamity.
Luo Han waited leisurely for the time to turn back. Unexpectedly, not long after, the time-space tunnel began to fluctuate, and even the surrounding scenery began to flicker, indicating that the tunnel was about to collapse.
Another severe attack came, the tunnel twisted and turned, and Luo Han was thrown out of the time and space tunnel with a loud churning screech.
“What the hell! Why are you chasing me out and beating me up?!” Luo Han was caught off guard, being thrown out of the time and space tunnel. She was so furious that she gritted her teeth. She now understood why the male and female leads had to resort to forbidden techniques when they were smacked around. Even with her Way of Heaven cheat, Luo Han was still beaten up like her own mother wouldn’t recognize her.
Luo Han stood still for a moment, and then had the presence of mind to check her surroundings. She was standing in an abyss without any daylight, and looking forward, she couldn’t see the end either.
Looking around, there were bare steep cliffs and no living creatures in sight. Luo Han had a bad feeling. Was she thrown into the legendary forbidden land of the immortal world, the Abyss of Eternal Silence?
Luo Han felt dizzy for a moment. According to the plot she had seen earlier, when Ling Qingxiao fell into the Abyss, he had already been abused by his birth mother and foster mother for a thousand years, and the female lead had stabbed him with a fatal blow. He had already blackened, so what’s the use of her appearing now?
Luo Han stood still, feeling frustrated. Actually, she would rather go back to taking exams. Ideally, the Bodhi Tree would have carefully taught her for many years, and become a skilled beginner in the Heavenly Dao. But instead, she had been raised in a human school for her eighteen years of life. All she had learned was studying and taking exams, and she had never heard anything related to the Way of Heaven.
She had been neglected. She didn’t know if it was because her parents didn’t have time to teach her, or if they just found it troublesome and abandoned her at a human school to fend for herself.
It seemed more likely to be the latter.
Luo Han let out a deep sigh. However, complaining was useless at this point. She tried to clear her mind and planned to move forward to explore.
At least, she must find her task target, Ling Qingxiao.
The rocky cliff at the bottom was difficult to maneuver, Luo Han was walking with utmost caution. She didn’t know how long she had been walking, and her legs were sore, but she hadn’t seen a single living person.
Luo Han stopped in her tracks, let out a tired sigh, and wondered where she was.
Suddenly, an invisible aura of danger came from behind, and Luo Han didn’t even have time to react before her body instinctively recoiled. A gust of wind passed by the spot where she had just been standing, leaving deep marks on the cliff wall behind.
The wind missed its first strike, but unexpectedly changed direction and came towards Luo Han again.
Luo Han broke out in a cold sweat. What kind of place was this? The wind actually had intelligence? Her senses were particularly keen in this place. Although the wind was invisible, Luo Han knew exactly from which direction it was blowing.
Luo Han dodged a few times, but the wind’s attacks became more frequent, making it harder for her to avoid them. This time, the wind narrowly grazed her hair. Although Luo Han managed to avoid direct harm, she lost her balance and fell to the ground. Her back hit a sharp rock, causing her pain, and when she tried to stand up, a piercing pain shot through her ankle.
It was over. Luo Han suddenly knew that she was in big trouble. She saw the wind gathering momentum and diving towards her. In this critical moment, Luo Han’s senses were greatly amplified and slowed down. She stared with widened eyes as the danger approached her, her hair being blown into a slight arc by the wind. Suddenly, there was a sharp sound, and a barrier of ice blue appeared in front of her, blocking the attack. The wind struck the barrier, leaving spider-web-like cracks on its surface.
The ice shield disintegrated into tiny glitters and felt cool on her skin. Then a sword intent struck, cutting the wind off in the middle.
The wind dispersed, and after a while it re-formed. It tentatively approached Luo Han, but didn’t dare to attack again. It dissipated quietly into the air.
Luo Han finally let out a breath she had been holding. She knew she was safe for the time being. Immediately, she turned around to see who had saved her.
In the dim light, a person dressed in layered white clothes stood holding a sword at the bottom of the rugged cliff. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and the blood stained his white clothes. He was both beautiful and battered, and had struck the wind decisively with no hesitation.
Luo Han was stunned for a moment. Then, his sword tip moved. This person who just saved her life a moment ago, now pointed his sword straight at her, his voice hoarse and cold, “Who are you?”
Luo Han was stunned for a while before she found her voice, “I’m Luo Han.”
Luo Han couldn’t believe that in just a few moments, she had been threatened with a sword by this devil twice.
She tried to keep her voice calm, “I mean no harm. I’m here to save you. Could you please put down your sword? This posture scares me.”
Luo Han still remembered the calm look that Ling Qingxiao gave her before she entered the time and space vortex. He lifted his sword, and with one swing, he split a mountain and caused the earth to shatter. At that time, he was in the clouds, and Luo Han didn’t see his face clearly, but she could never forget that look.
There was no emotion, no joy or sorrow, no demands.
Only death.
Now, even though this was their first meeting, the sword posture from the Ling Qingxiao before was exactly the same as the person in front of her. Luo Han was sure that this was the ultimate villain who brought endless disasters to the world and nearly destroyed it.
Luo Han never expected that the devil would look so handsome, ethereal, cold, radiating an air of loneliness. She was too scared to move when he stared at her. At such a crucial moment, she even had the thought that if the devil looked so good, why wouldn’t the female protagonist choose him instead of the male protagonist she loves so deeply?
According to the timeline, Ling Qingxiao had just been abandoned by all his loved ones and was stabbed by the female protagonist, falling into the abyss. It seemed that it was from this point that Ling Qingxiao’s hatred for the world grew, and he began to blacken.
Luo Han didn’t know if she arrived in time or not. If Ling Qingxiao had already turned completely black and was determined to destroy the world, then what should she do? She was the Heavenly Dao, and the six realms flourished with thriving creatures. Therefore, she would be able to live as long as the heavens and the earth. But if creatures suffer and the population plummets, Luo Han wouldn’t live long either.
When the Bodhi tree sent her back, he made it clear that they only had time to open the time channel once. If Luo Han couldn’t successfully stop Ling Qingxiao, and he still managed to destroy the world, they would all perish together. If there was no heaven left, where would the Way of Heaven exist?
Luo Han didn’t dare to move and tried to reason with Ling Qingxiao: “I’m really here to save you. Can you please put down your sword, and we can talk it out.”
Ling Qingxiao’s sword tip didn’t move at all. He coldly scrutinized the woman in front of him. She suddenly appeared at the bottom of the cliff, dressed in expensive robes but seemed to have no cultivation. Even at the crucial moment just now, she didn’t use any spiritual power.
Either she really had no cultivation, or she was pretending not to.
Ling Qingxiao remained unmoved and asked coldly, “What exactly are you here to do?”
“I really just want to save you,” Luo Han was almost in tears. “You have to believe me, I came here for you.”
Seeing that the devil was still cold, Luo Han had no choice but to extend her arm and reveal her wrist to him. “If you don’t believe me, you can check my pulse. I have no cultivation, and I’m not capable of doing anything to you.”
Luo Han thought that her declaration would soften even the hardest of hearts. However, Ling Qingxiao directly inserted his spiritual power, and it flowed through her meridians in a big circle.
Luo Han was speechless. With Ling Qingxiao’s level of vigilance towards others, was there really a chance to stop him from turning black and save him?
Ling Qingxiao’s spiritual power ran a circle through Luo Han’s dantian and meridians, but he didn’t find any traces of cultivation. Ling Qingxiao was genuinely surprised. In the immortal world, many infants were inhaling the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth as soon as they were born, and only ordinary people would not have traces of refined spiritual energy in their bodies.
But why would an ordinary person appear alive in the Abyss of Eternal Silence? Her agility when avoiding the rampaging winds just now was far beyond what an ordinary person could do.
Although there were many doubts about this woman, it was true that she had no cultivation and would not cause him harm for now. Ling Qingxiao put away his sword and didn’t want to communicate anymore. He turned and walked away.
However, Ling Qingxiao was already at the end of his strength, and the moment he blocked Luo Han from the wind just now had exhausted all his spiritual power. He had only taken two steps when the energy and blood in his internal organs surged, causing his meridians to ache. The wound where the dragon core was dug out was especially painful. When he talked to Luo Han, he was trying to hold on.
Now he couldn’t hold on any longer and fell unconscious on the ground.
Luo Han didn’t expect that the devil, who had just pointed his sword at her coldly, would collapse after turning around. She carefully got up from the ground, walked over to Ling Qingxiao’s side, “What happened?”
Luo Han wasn’t sure if getting too close would cause Ling Qingxiao to strike at her with his sword. Suddenly, a faint light emanated from Ling Qingxiao’s body. Then, a silver tail covered in scars appeared on the rocks.
Luo Han was dumbfounded for a moment, then slowly muttered, “What the hell…”
At the bottom of this gloomy cliff, the beautiful and cold man lay unconscious on the rocky beach, and his lower body had turned into a slender silver dragon’s tail. It emitted scattered silver light, as if it was made of snow and moonlight.
Blackened, black, or blackening, “黑化完毕” (hēi huà wán bì) can be translated as “completely blackened.” This often describes a characters transformation into a villain or evil figure, often due to a tragic event or negative influences.