"Ah... it's too late to talk about that now!"
The woman sighed and looked up into the sky,
"Sister's Slave Refinement Technique is indeed more sophisticated than mine. Her Medicinal Slave is already equivalent to a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, truly remarkable..."
As she finished speaking, she gently raised a hand, and a piece of white silk flashed with spiritual light, drifting lightly towards the Flight Lights and flew upwards,
"You deal with the three ahead, and I will capture this Medicinal Slave alive..."
"Yes!"
During the conversation, several Flight Lights arrived, and in an instant, the spiritual light on the boat flashed continuously, followed by constant explosion sounds—they had started fighting!
The spell combat on the Five-Color River lasted an entire day, but by then Gu Shi Yi had already taken the jade box far away.
As the transfer boat was much smaller than the previous one, there weren't enough cabins, but Gu Shi Yi still exclusively occupied a large cabin on the third floor, right next to Sixth Master Huang. He had this arrangement out of concern that something would happen at night, fearing that his men would not follow his orders and come out to check and accidentally harm them. Therefore, he decided to guard it personally. However, his considerate intentions caught the eye of those who loved to gossip within the Escort Team, sparking whispers among themselves,
"Our Sixth Master has always been a ladies' man and generous with women, could he... could he have taken a fancy to Shiyi?"
Everyone found the idea inconceivable,
"Shiyi! Brother Shiyi! Even if Sixth Master were blind, he wouldn't fancy her?"
The Sixth Master was no Playboy!
"Tsk... I'm telling you folks, no matter how forthright Shiyi is, she is still a woman, isn't she? Besides... haven't you... noticed that Shiyi is actually quite... you know?"
The speaker gestured with his hands across his chest, and as he gestured, his face turned red; everyone had an epiphany—it seemed they truly hadn't paid much attention to this before!
Liu Er, who was sharpening his knife, suddenly yelped, having cut the thumb of his right hand, which now bled profusely. Seeing this, everyone laughed,
"Liu Er, what were you thinking about that you cut your hand!"
Liu Er blushed and shouted,
"Stop talking nonsense, Shiyi is a good brother, Sixth Master might be a flirt but he's not the kind to fraternize with his own people. If you keep gossiping and Sixth Master hears about it, you'll see what's coming to you!"
Everyone sheepishly responded,
"It was just idle chatter. Why so serious?"
And so, the topic was dropped, and no more was mentioned.
Of course, Gu Shi Yi didn't know that the guards had finally started to recognize her gender and included her in Sixth Master Huang's list of beauties.
Once she settled in on the third floor, Li Yaner didn't dare to wander around carelessly, while Gu Shi Yi always kept the jade box close to her, never showing it to anyone. The second night after they entered the inner river, Gu Shi Yi was meditating on the bed, and Li Yaner sat cross-legged by the window absorbing the moonlight. The river was calm, the moonlight was as gentle as water, covering the outside world with a silver glow, the land lying vast and endless. Aside from the occasional low conversation, there was no other sound throughout the boat.
Suddenly... without any warning, Gu Shi Yi disrupted the circulation of her cultivation and abruptly opened her eyes; Li Yaner also lifted her head,
"Shiyi?"
Li Yaner asked Gu Shi Yi softly. Gu Shi Yi nodded solemnly, propped herself up with her hands on the bed and lightly alighted to the floor, silent as a cat. She walked over to the cabin door and pulled it open,
"Whoosh..."
A gust of strong river wind, mixed with a chilly, damp air, rushed into the cabin. Standing at the door, Gu Shi Yi coldly watched the figure on the deck ahead. She squinted her eyes. Tonight, the moonlight shone splendidly, bathing the earth in silver brightness, and everything on the boat was clear except for that shadowy figure which remained blurry, just a hazy shape with a large splash of water beneath its feet. This was a Water Ghost!
Gu Shi Yi thought for only a moment before the shadow closed the distance to just five steps ahead,
"Gu... Shi... Yi... Gu... Shi... Yi..."
The voice was ethereal, distant yet very close,
"Gu... Shi... Yi... come here! Come here!"
A hand emerged from the mass of darkness; it was pale and the long fingernails shimmered with a bluish-purple glow. Gu Shi Yi stared at it as if petrified by fear. After a long moment, she slowly reached out her left hand towards it. The shadow seemed pleased,
"Hohoho... Gu Shi Yi, come with me! Come with me!"
Gu Shi Yi placed her hand into the palm of the other, then coldly uttered a phrase,
"Go... to... hell... you... freak!"