"Be careful!" Lin Shiwei shouted, hastily sending orders through the contract.

"Mmm~" One of the Rose Double Spirit's little heads let out a soft cry. The rose vine tied around Du Yu's waist and belly suddenly yanked hard.

The arrow in Du Yu's hand had just been shot out when his entire body was yanked backward, rapidly pulled away from the battlefield with help from the vine.

Meanwhile, Lin Shiwei also lunged forward in big strides, brushing past the flying Du Yu, and quickly blocked in front of him.

Lin Shiwei was deadly serious about protecting her own ADC!

The Continuous Pearl Arrow broke the Red Mist Shield but couldn't pierce the enemy's defenses. With the protection of four Red-robed People, the Red Mist Woman in the rear was acting recklessly.

The Little Shadow Gu Tower in her hand was sucking out the soul of the Black-robed Person!

"Wuu wuu~ wuu..."

The previously struggling black-clad person was no longer screaming in misery, just reduced to desperate sobs.

A faint shadow of black mist could be seen seeping out from the Black-robed Person's body, slowly merging into the tower.

"Jingle jingle~ jing~"

The bell bracelet on the Red Mist Woman's wrist grew quieter, ceasing its sound, because the Black-robed Person dangling from her hand had stopped struggling and had wholly become a corpse.

"Dammit!"

Du Yu's face darkened, firing rapid shots while summoning his Demon Pet through the contract: Go support Shiwei—blast those enemies!

"Ying!" From behind in the distance, Xiaoyan and Ghost Firefly had already darted back, passing right by Du Yu.

Yet the Red Mist Woman completely ignored all this. She picked up the Little Shadow Gu Tower, held it before her face, pressing her forehead to the tower's body, as if sensing something.

Gradually, her body started to tremble lightly...

Who knew if it was excitement or the reward she had just gained, but this image was uncanny to the extreme!

"Ying!" Xiaoyan leapt onto Lin Shiwei's shoulder, letting out a fox cry toward the Red-robed team in the distance!

Unyielding Silver: Spark Splash!

"Hehe~" The Red Mist Woman let out a delicate laugh, as crisp and melodic as her bell bracelet.

She suddenly raised her hand, and the bell bracelet shook noisily: "Jingle jingle~ jing~"

"Ugh~" Lin Shiwei made a strange guttural sound, her body was suddenly blown away backward?

Not only her—even the Rose Double Spirit and Xiaoyan on her shoulders, along with the Ghost Firefly Torch at her side, were all flung aside by some inexplicable force.

Du Yu froze on the spot. What kind of bizarre power was this?

Could the Red Mist Woman really manipulate things at a distance—grab people out of thin air, and even fling them away?

How do you fight something like this?

The vine tied around Du Yu quietly loosened, searching along the ground and quickly coiling into a "spring" to soften the impact of his fall.

Du Yu dashed to the center of the road and caught the falling Xiaoyan in his arms. "Are you alright?"

"Ying~" Xiaoyan gave a pitiful whimper, rubbing her head against Du Yu's chest.

Du Yu looked over at Lin Shiwei. "Are you hurt?"

"No." Lin Shiwei landed steadily. The vine coiled behind her once again wound around Du Yu, binding his waist and connecting the two as a team.

Lin Shiwei frowned tightly and spoke in a deep voice, "My Demon Breath Battle Robe didn't vibrate. The enemy's trick is very special; there's no output attribute involved—it just tossed me back... Hm?"

Before Lin Shiwei finished her sentence, her face suddenly changed.

In her vision, the Red Mist Woman took a tiny Twin Tree Seedling from her chest and fiercely stabbed it into the Black-robed Person's corpse.

The withered Divine Tree among them quickly came alive, lush and flourishing!

"Jingle jingle~ jing~"

The Red Mist Woman casually tossed the Black-robed Person's body toward Du Yu.

The Black-robed Person's soul was gone, his corpse drained of blood—he had become a useless husk, with no value left, and was finally free of the Red Mist Woman's grasp.

The Red Mist Woman stepped off the sidewalk, crossing the street straight toward the central square on the opposite side.

The pedestrians had long since fled, and the once-crowded square was now utterly deserted.

Du Yu was just about to draw his bow when he felt his body lose control and, without warning, was flung backward.

"Mmph!" Rose Double Spirit tried to reel Du Yu back with its vines, but couldn't resist the bizarre force at all.

With a heavy "thud," Du Yu's back slammed into the wall of a roadside shop.

"Tss..." Du Yu sucked in a cold breath from the pain. Luckily, this power didn't include any spiritual power or Demon Breath output, so his Battle Robe was intact.

"Du Yu." Lin Shiwei quickly ran over. "What do we do? We can't get close to the enemy, and even our attack actions are being blocked."

Du Yu's face was grim, and the soldiers at the monitors all looked grave as well.

This level of the Shadow Gu Tower—the difficulty was really off the charts!

One soldier couldn't help saying, "The last Demon Tamer who climbed to the sixth floor didn't face anything like this!"

"And the storyline was different, different enemies too!"

"This shouldn't be." Yang Qingqing pursed her lips, "Even if the form is different, the core of the story should be the same."

"The Twin Trees are taking root!"

On the monitor, the Red-robed team reached the center of the square and planted the Twin Tree Seedling.

In just a few seconds, the Twin Tree's roots spread outward, splitting the square tiles apart.

A gigantic Twin Tree shot up from the ground, its branches swaying beneath the neon-lit city center!

Beneath the Twin Tree, the Red-robed People quickly turned and left, vanishing behind the tree.

The Red-robed People disappeared without a trace; only the dead Black-robed Person still lay quietly on the sidewalk.

He didn't evaporate into mist, nor was there black-mist blood on the ground, because he'd been sucked completely dry...

A comrade, right before Du Yu and Lin Shiwei's eyes, had his life snatched away, his soul seized, and even his body drained to a withered husk.

The two had only managed to save him for a few dozen seconds.

In the end, he was still cruelly killed, tormented in pain, left with not a shred of dignity, his corpse left exposed right here.

Suddenly, a woman in a black woolen coat quietly appeared by the corpse.

She held a Black Rain Umbrella in one hand, and a Black Robe in the other, looking silently at Du Yu across the street.

Slowly, she held out the black robe. Losing the umbrella's cover, the rain fell in sheets, quickly soaking the robe.

Lin Shiwei seemed to understand the meaning of the Shadow Gu Tower. She placed a hand on Du Yu's back and gently pushed him forward.

Du Yu took one step forward, then a second.

"In the real story, he didn't even have anyone to cover him with a robe, did he?" Du Yu's voice was low. Coming to stand before the Black Mist Woman, he reached out to take the robe.

The Black Mist Woman responded in silence, simply lowering her head to look at the corpse at her feet.

Du Yu unfolded the black robe, spreading it over the Black-robed Person's remains.

Swoosh~

Du Yu and Lin Shiwei felt their vision blur. The moment the black robe covered the corpse, the scenery around them changed at once!

Shadow Gu Tower, second layer!

The surroundings were dark, with only the Ghost Firefly Torch offering a little illumination, revealing the dense fog all around.

What kind of hellish environment is this?

So much thick fog—where am I?

"Du Yu." A girl's voice came from somewhere in the distance.

"Hmm?" Du Yu looked toward the right, following the sound.

From the left, Lin Shiwei's voice suddenly came: "I didn't say anything."

Du Yu: ???

"Let's go this way!" Once again, the girl's voice came from the right, farther away.

Lin Shiwei's voice had a strong, unique tone—he was sure he wouldn't mistake her for someone else.

But then, suddenly, a hand reached out from the left and grabbed Du Yu's hand tightly.

Lin Shiwei hurried over, pulling Du Yu to her side and lowering her voice: "That's not me! I haven't said a word just now!"

Instantly, Du Yu felt the hair on his arms stand up. Some demon was trying to deceive him?

He tensed up, clutching the Demon Soldier Linked Beads tighter, and turned to look at Lin Shiwei beside him.

Lin Shiwei immediately ignited a Fire Fist, illuminating her own face.

Her familiar strong brows, sharp gaze, and the gentle words on her lips: "Back in the barracks, you asked me about the promise between me and my aunt. I never told you."

Little Fen Yang: "Du Yu, this really is Sister Xiaowei. It feels like we're underground—whoa..."

Du Yu: "What's wrong?"

Little Fen Yang: "Do you sense spiritual qi? To the left, to the left~"

Du Yu raised the Ghost Firefly Torch in that direction. "Shiwei, use the Rose Fire Vine to check the way!"

"Okay." Lin Shiwei knew she had passed the trust test, but the entire Shadow Gu Tower was full of unsettling weirdness and she was extremely tense.

The identical voice from the right side was baffling.

But Du Yu wasn't planning to check to the right—he wanted to go left?

What did he discover?

Receiving her master's command, the Rose Double Spirit on her shoulder immediately sent out two Rose Fire Vines.

To their shock, even the fiercely burning vines lost their flame-light a few meters away.

The mist here was simply too thick.

"There's a tunnel opening." Lin Shiwei reported, and with the Rose Double Spirit's vines flailing about, she was able to roughly discern the surroundings.

"Let's go!" Du Yu raised the torch and strode forward, really sensing spiritual qi!

"Master Qing."

"Talk."

"There's spiritual qi here, thin, but richer than under the Twin Tree."

"Hmm..." Yang Qingqing's expression grew grave, as if she'd realized something, and glanced at Battalion Commander Liu.

Liu Camp stood with arms crossed, silent.

Du Yu and Lin Shiwei explored ahead. "Little Fen Yang, any enemies around?" he asked in his mind.

Little Fen Yang: "Nope, very quiet."

The underground tunnel was silent, and the farther they went, the thinner the mist became.

"We're going uphill," Lin Shiwei whispered.

Du Yu desperately absorbed spiritual qi. With Little Fen Yang's help, not a bit was left behind along his route.

Who would have thought you'd get this kind of bonus while climbing the tower?

To Du Yu's surprise, the two of them walked for a whole half an hour...

And the tunnel's slope grew steeper, with spiritual qi richer still!

Suddenly, Du Yu stopped.

Lin Shiwei, who was blazing the trail ahead, one hand on the ground, one hand pulling Du Yu, suddenly noticed he'd stopped and turned anxiously: "What's wrong?"

Du Yu's face stiffened. He whispered, "I'm... I'm about to advance!"

Lin Shiwei paused. Didn't he just advance to Demon Tamer·Great Success two days ago? What's he advancing now...?

And then she seemed to realize something, her mouth slightly agape.

Du Yu means... Spirit Tamer advancement?

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