Chapter 448: Ch 448- Hard to Imagine
"Really? What did miss Yuebai say last night?"
"Hmm..."
Yino meaningfully cleared his throat with another long pause.
He remembered the game he’d played with Yuebai last night. He still remembered how Yuebai was almost worn out, saying with disgust how it was all Ye Huai’s fault for beating up Xumo on his own initiative. Now Xumo misunderstood Yuebai even more, thinking she was like some green tea bitch who cried and ran to get Ye Huai to help her beat up Xumo.
"Mm, little bai said you are a kind-hearted good person."
After a moment’s thought, Yino smiled again and issued another good person card on Yuebai’s behalf.
For a moment, Ye Huai’s lips twitched. Though his heart still held some unwillingness and doubt, in this situation Ye Huai seemed to have no reason to continue pursuing the matter.
After all, good person cards could be understood as praise or as brushing off.
This formula was hard to judge. Whoever probed deeper would be exposing themselves.
At least for now, Ye Huai preferred to believe this was Yuebai praising him.
After all, Yino was already engaged to Ruoning and had announced it publicly.
For all reasons, Yino couldn’t possibly have any private affair with Yuebai.
So the relationship between him and Yuebai should indeed just be ordinary life-and-death comradeship.
Thinking this, Ye Huai successfully convinced himself and calmed down.
He thought, rather than worrying now, he’d wait until after Yino left Liuli Sect. Ye Huai would have plenty of time to privately chat with Yuebai about Yino.
"Oh right! We’re almost at Jinglan Peak’s summit!"
"My master and Miss Ruoning should be waiting for you inside."
During their chat, they’d already reached the peak.
Ye Huai faced Yino with his back to the immortal gate, introducing enthusiastically. But halfway through his words, he discovered the white-clothed boy behind him was already looking up and staring past Ye Huai.
For a moment, Ye Huai seemed to notice there was something behind him.
He turned around and discovered that the great gate of Jinglan Peak’s courtyard was already wide open. That phoenix-crowned beauty with her otherworldly charm sat right in front of the main hall.
In that instant, terrifying pressure swept out from the hall like storm clouds pressing down.
Ye Huai broke out in cold sweat. He didn’t dare make a sound, just quickly knelt on one knee before the gate waiting for his master to speak.
But just as Ye Huai respectfully knelt and waited, he suddenly noticed the footsteps from behind hadn’t stopped.
"—?!"
Ye Huai looked sideways in shock.
In his incredulous peripheral vision, he saw the white-clothed boy withstanding the majesty of the Great Vehicle stage from inside the room. Though each step was difficult, his knees showed no sign of weakness. He just bore the mountainous immortal fury on his shoulders, slowly lifting his leg to step over the threshold, continuing toward the woman in flowing skirts inside.
Ye Huai was already stunned.
From his observations of Yino along the way, the latter indeed had exceptional talent, but was only at Nascent Soul stage...
Above him were Divine Transformation stage, Emptiness Refining stage...
This spanned two full major realms.
How bizarre that Yino seemed completely unaffected, walking as if on level ground.
At least on the surface, his knees showed no sign of bending!
"Showing off?"
Inside the hall, the black-skirted woman resting her chin on her hand raised her eyebrows. Her words carried dissatisfaction but also appreciation for this interesting young man before her.
Whooom!
As the woman’s words fell, the heavy pressure from the hall rose another level.
Thud!
Before Yino could give in, Ye Huai kneeling outside had already fallen to both knees.
This time, the pressure reached Unity stage.
Just kneeling outside the gate, Ye Huai could barely lift his head from fear.
With his head down, Ye Huai couldn’t observe Yino’s back anymore. He could only see through limited peripheral vision that the boy who’d crossed the threshold was still walking forward step by step.
The difference was...
Constrained by the terrifying pressure, his footsteps finally became heavy enough that each step looked like slow motion.
"Not bad. To persist this far, you haven’t disgraced your senior sister."
The woman lightly kicked her foot under her skirt, her beautiful eyes showing slight relief as she nodded and smiled.
Under her gaze, with Unity stage prassure bearing down, as the pressure accumulated second by second, Yino finally gasped heavily and took his final step like an ancient tortoise.
When his foot landed, even the entire courtyard’s floor trembled slightly.
Rumble!!!
As the rumbling fell, the black-skirted woman slowly widened her beautiful eyes.
"To persist this far, you’ve already surpassed Yuyan when she was in Nascent Soul stage"
Whooom!!!!
Another realm elevation. The pressure made a qualitative leap.
Thud!!
Yino fell to his knees.
"To withstand Great Vehicle stage pressure before kneeling, your foundation has transcended mortal flesh limits. Your potential already surpasses Yuyan from five years ago..."
"For one born with a spirit of such unyielding pride, it is a matter of great wonder how Yuyan managed to temper your will, that you would willingly acknowledge her as your senior."
...
"Oh my lady, do you wish to know?"
Classic intimidation tactics. Yino had seen this countless times before.
In situations like this, the other party usually had no killing intent. They just wanted to test your limits. So no matter what cultivation level they had, you couldn’t back down. Just grit your teeth and push through.
Back in the Demon Abyss, Yino had faced off directly against the Pain Mother Goddess’s divine might. Now confronting Ye Chaerin at Great Vehicle stage on Jinglan Peak was just routine.
The only strange thing was this - when Yino faced the Mother Goddess in the Demon Abyss, his legs never went weak. But now, when Ye Chaerin gradually raised her pressure from Emptiness Refining to Great Vehicle stage, Yino only lasted three seconds before dropping to his knees, gasping for breath.
From a commonsense perspective, this didn’t make sense...
But if you brought up the so-called "protagonist halo," everything suddenly became reasonable.
After all, the original protagonist had similar experiences. Maybe Yino’s innate Sword Dao Holy Physique had unusual resistance to abyss-type enemies?
Of course, it might also relate to the ancient phoenix bloodline Nina mentioned before.
Either way, today’s slap of pressure from Ye Chaerin made Yino recognize his body’s true limits in normal conditions. Under Emptiness Refining pressure, he could walk normally. At Unity stage pressure, he could barely stand. At Great Vehicle stage pressure? He had to kneel.
"What a stubborn little thing..."
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