Miss Loser is too enchanting

"Father, do you know what this is?"

"We’ve never seen anything like this before." Mo Zhenting shook his head.

"Let me try." Youwu took out a Holy Artifact from his Space Ring, infused it with Phantom Power, and threw it over, but the water wall engulfed the Phantom Device along with it.

"Let’s try together." Mo Zhenting suggested. So Mo Zhenting, Qiongli, and the five brothers of the Mo Family attacked the water wall together. Such a group could make the Continent tremble with a single stomp, yet this time they were thwarted by a water wall, as all their attacks were devoured by it.

"What on earth is going on?" The people from the Secret Pavilion watched from the side, also secretly astonished.

"I’ll go take a look."

Dugu Qianye got up from Qingluan and flew to the front of the water wall. It looked similar to the water walls formed by typical tsunamis, so why was this one so strange? Unable to resist her curiosity, she reached out to touch it—icy and slippery to the touch. When Dugu Qianye stretched out her hand, the water wall surrounding the island suddenly moved, receding out to sea. The water wall in front of them parted to either side, forming a watery corridor.

"Girl, how did it change like this when you touched it?" Youwu asked curiously. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Dugu Qianye shrugged, indicating she didn’t know either.

"What is this?" Mo Zhenting and the others flew over as well, looking at the corridor before them, all somewhat perplexed.

"It looks like it wants us to go through here." Dugu Qianye said.

"If we’re going to leave the island now, this is the only way." Qiongli said.

"Who knows what’s ahead?"

"Let’s go find out." Youwu said.

Everyone returned to their Phantom Beasts. Dugu Qianye had Qingluan lead the way, with the others following behind. The water wall closed off the island after they entered the corridor, forming a wall behind them, cutting off their retreat. The Sea Phantom Beasts that had previously surrounded the island were lined up in two rows outside the water wall, following alongside as if they feared the group might escape.

"Heh, old man that I am, I’ve lived for so many years and never seen something as strange as this." Youwu said, seated next to Dugu Qianye, observing the surroundings.

"Uh, why do I hear excitement in your words?" Dugu Qianye said, speechless.

"Haha, indeed. Isn’t this fascinating?" Youwu laughed heartily, unconcerned about what lay behind them.

The group flew for most of the day before finally arriving at a desolate island. The water wall disappeared after Dugu Qianye and the others landed on the island, and the Sea Phantom Beasts scattered.

Dugu Qianye and the others stopped at the seaside, looking at the desolate, uninhabited island, unsure why they had been led here. As they didn’t know the reason and night had fallen, they found a mountaintop to camp and rest.

"Hei Zi, you from the Secret Pavilion should be more familiar with this place. Do you know where this is?" After dinner, while everyone was chatting around the campfire, Dugu Qianye asked Hei Zi.

Hei Zi thought for a while, then shook his head, saying, "I don’t know, this island isn’t on our maps."

"Even you don’t know?!"

Hei Zi shook his head. He truly didn’t know about this island. Their maps were improved versions based on the maps of the Divine Temple, and this island was definitely not on them.

"Do you know what brought us over here?" Hei Zi asked.

A force that not even several Phantom Venerables working together could break—when had the Phantom Sea Domain produced such a formidable person?

"I don’t know either. For now, we can only take it one step at a time." Dugu Qianye said.

She felt that all the strange occurrences before were related to Little Baiqiu, after all, everything had started after she contracted Little Baiqiu and also had left with it. They had all arrived at the island after being surrounded by the Sea Phantom Beasts, and the only one taken away was Little Baiqiu. All of this must have been manipulated by someone, but she didn’t know who that person was or what their intentions were.

A peaceful night passed without incident.

The next morning, everyone got up early, packed up their things, and prepared to leave. Youwu tried and found that, just like before, the island was surrounded by an invisible force, and nobody was able to leave.

"Wow, what do we do now?" Youwu said excitedly.

"Since they brought us here, of course, they won’t let us just leave like that," Mo Zhenting said.

"Let’s check out the island, perhaps we can discover something," Qiongli suggested.

The others had no objections, so they all headed to the interior of the island. The lack of objections was because there were no other options available at the moment.

"Keke, there’s a voice calling for me," said Little Baiqiu, who had been gnawing on a nut this whole time.

"What did it say?" Dugu Qianye asked.

"It’s telling me to go over there," Little Baiqiu replied.

"Go over? Go where?"

"Over there," Little Baiqiu pointed in a direction.

Dugu Qianye looked at Mo Zhenting and the others, and, seeing that they had nothing to say, followed the direction pointed by Little Baiqiu. As they walked, they didn’t discover anything unusual.

"Qiuqiu, are you sure it’s this direction?" Dugu Qianye asked.

"I’m sure. I can feel the calling getting stronger," Little Baiqiu asserted, clearly dissatisfied with Dugu Qianye’s doubt, waving the nut firmly in its paw.

Dugu Qianye and the others continued walking for a while and came across a forest. After entering, they found some strange stones arranged within. As everyone was busy examining the stones, they realized that both Dugu Qianye and Little Baiqiu had disappeared.

"What’s going on, where’s Qianye?" Mo Zhenting was the first to notice Dugu Qianye’s disappearance and asked.

"Huh? The girl vanished," Youwu also noticed that Dugu Qianye was gone.

"She was still here before we entered the forest," someone said. "She was always walking in front of me, I saw her enter. How could she disappear just as I blinked?"

At that moment, Dugu Qianye indeed was no longer in the forest, but in a dark, secluded chamber with Little Baiqiu. She’d simply followed the direction indicated by Little Baiqiu, and it seemed that she hadn’t walked many steps before they were, in fact, far from that place.

"Keke, I’m scared," Little Baiqiu clambered into Dugu Qianye’s arms, clenching vigorously onto her clothes at the chest.

Petting Little Baiqiu’s fur, Dugu Qianye said, "Qiuqiu, don’t be afraid. Didn’t you say you would bite anyone who bullied me? You don’t look like you could protect me right now!"

Regardless of Dugu Qianye’s teasing, Little Baiqiu clung to her clothes, trembling.

Dugu Qianye produced a flame in her hand, illuminating the entire chamber. They then realized they were in a large, enclosed cave surrounded by strange stone pillars, and inside was a cold pond.

"Keke, I hear that calling voice again," Little Baiqiu said. "It’s coming from underneath the cold pond."

Dugu Qianye holding Little Baiqiu, approached the edge of the pond without detecting anything unusual. Suddenly, a surge of water sprang up, dragging Dugu Qianye into the pond in an instant.