The exit of that thicket appeared to be chaotically disordered, but it was actually arranged in a well-organized manner. ording to the knowledge of Taoist arts in her mind, this was a small screening array. If one didn''t deliberately look back, it would be impossible to find the way out.


    Back in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang had trapped tens of thousands of soldiers and generals with just a few stones arranged in the Eight Trigrams Array.


    There must be a highly skilled individual in this small mountain vige!


    "Song Yun, where are you? Please don''t leave me behind, okay?"


    Wen Shu could originally still see his receding figure, but in the instant she lowered her head and then looked up again, Song Yun had vanished!


    So, was she really just a burden?


    Wen Shu stopped in her tracks, squatted down, and hugged her knees, looking very sad.


    If she went back by herself, she would certainly be punished by the vigers. They wouldn''t care who the saintess was; what they always cared about were the cold, unfeeling sacred object and the instructions brought by outsiders.


    "You''re not nning to leave with me?"


    Song Yun reentered the thicket with a look of confusion and asked.


    "You didn''t abandon me!"


    Wen Shu hugged Song Yun tightly, finding his scent incrediblyforting.


    "I was almost scared to death just now. I thought you had abandoned me and run off by yourself."


    "???"


    Song Yun frowned slightly and pointed in one direction, "What is that over there?"


    What Song Yun was pointing at was the exit. Just by passing through that archway entangled by trees, one could reach the outside.


    But Wen Shu, as if her vision were somehow obstructed, dully said, "Isn''t that just a few big trees?"


    "???"


    Song Yun didn''t dawdle, immediately grabbing Wen Shu''s hand and walking towards the outside. However, when he passed through the exit, he found that there seemed to be a barrier in front of Wen Shu, preventing her from leaving.


    "Damn!"


    Song Yun stepped back and sat on arge rock, lighting a cigarette: "Wen Shu, is there anything you haven''t told me yet?"


    "No... nothing more," Wen Shu said, looking down, herrge eyes darting elsewhere, showing guilt.


    "Really not going to tell me?"


    "I really haven''t hidden anything from you! What more do you want me to say?" Wen Shu''s voice turned whiny as she spoke, but it did not soften Song Yun''s heart. He walked straight towards the barrier, and after passing through the screen, Song Yun stood silently outside, waiting.


    Song Yun vanished from her sight once more, and Wen Shu stood there, dazed, for a long time, unable to regain herposure.


    She tentatively stepped forward, but it was as if an invisible wall was imprisoning her inside.


    She panicked, pacing back and forth at the exit. It had been some time since she left the vige, and once the vigers discovered that both she and the sacred object were missing, they would surely search frantically!


    The thicket would definitely be a key ce they would search!


    What should I do, what should I do!


    "Song Yun, I know I was wrong, pleasee back, okay? I''ll tell you everything I know..."


    At this moment, Wen Shu looked like an abandoned child, her eyes misted with ayer of water, her pitiful appearance would make anyone yearn to protect her.


    But Song Yun was not swayed by her beauty; he simply crossed his arms and stood there, quietly watching her "performance."


    "I... I actually haven''t told you something. I didn''t steal the sacred object. Instead, I identally swallowed it into my stomach. If I am caught by the vigers, their madness will surely lead them to cut me open alone!"


    "Song Yun, are you still there? You can''t just leave me here!"


    "I''m so scared, Song Yun... I''m still young, I don''t want to die..."


    As Wen Shu spoke, herposure gradually crumbled. Every additional second she stayed here, the danger grew closer.


    "Then why can''t you walk out on your own?"


    Song Yun''s words were like a warm sun in the winter day. Wen Shu suddenly raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears, and said, "I don''t know either... Although I am the vige''s sacred girl, all the secret matters are controlled by the elders in the n, and I am just a figurehead..."


    "So you''re saying that to take you away, we have to go back to the vige again?"


    Song Yun fell into a dilemma. Not to mention the strangeness of the vige and whether there were masters inside, he considered that hisbat strength had weakened by 50%, and the system had not indicated when he would fully recover.


    Moreover, he had already paid a heavy price for his recklessness before, and he did not want to go through it again!


    "Wen Shu..."


    Song Yun had not finished speaking when he was interrupted by the other. She could tell everything from the look on Song Yun''s face.


    "Song Yun, you should go..."


    "..."


    "Go! They mighte looking for us at any moment! How could you, an ordinary person, possibly beat them? Go!"


    Song Yun slowly exhaled a deep breath. If he really just left her to her fate, would he still be himself?


    He squatted down, patted Wen Shu''s shoulder, and asked, "How strong are the people in your vige?"


    "Ah?"


    Wen Shu was stunned by the question. She murmured, "They are just a little stronger than me, except for a hunter in the family who learned some skills from outsiders for a few years, the rest only have brute strength."


    Song Yun eyed a tree and exerted all his strength to punch it.


    "Bang!"


    The trunk was pierced through, and arge fist retracted. Song Yun pointed at it and asked, "Stronger than this?"


    Wen Shu shook her head frantically, joking, everyone else was a farmer who eked out a living from the soil, they couldn''tpare with this freak!


    "Then let''s go, I''ll apany you back to the vige."


    ...


    After more than half an hour on the road, the two arrived at an archway with threerge characters inscribed on it, Sacred Vige.


    "Ding! Detecting that the host is located in Sacred Vige, would you like to check in?"


    Damn it!


    He was lucky he hadn''t left just now, or he would have missed an opportunity!


    He didn''t know what kind of surprise this mysterious little mountain vige could bring him!


    "Check in!"


    "Ding! Congrattions to the host for sessfully checking in, reward... Buzz buzz buzz..."


    The words from the system that followed were as if they were being blocked by something, which was a first for Song Yun.


    His vignce towards this vige had heightened!


    "Wen Shu! How dare you return! Hand over the sacred object quickly, or the 18 nws will make sure you suffer!"


    Two robust men in short jackets were standing at the entrance of the vige, clenching the clubs in their hands as they approached step by step towards Song Yun and her.


    They resembled the old-timey servants who watched the gates forndlords.


    "And who is this pretty boy!"


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    One of the sturdy men showed a fierce face and bellowed with a wide-open mouth, "Hand over Wen Shu! Otherwise, I''ll make sure you die a horrible death!"


    The two men aimed their weapons at Song Yun, and if they hadn''t been unable to see through the identity of this young man before them, they would have charged already.


    "So much nonsense."


    Just as Song Yun was about to deal with the trouble, he found that Wen Shu was gripping his clothes tightly.


    "What''s wrong?"


    "In the vige, everyone is more or less rted by blood. Those two are children from my maternal uncle''s family. If possible...I mean, if possible, just knock them out. Don''t kill them..."