Chapter 53
What struck Ye Bai with an intense brightness was not the light reflected from the bald head, but the spirit of the other party!
That kind of radiance, she had only seen in one person before—Xi Liena.
That bald man was a B-rank powerhouse!
This realization made Ye Bai's pupils involuntarily constrict, cold sweat creeping down her back. The B-rank powerhouse pretending to be an ordinary person walking out of the Makur Group was most likely a high-ranking member.
Moreover, the glow of his spirit was stable, indicating he didn’t seem to be one who had suffered injuries in the myriad realms. With Xi Liena absent, their strongest member was merely C-rank and not at full strength. If she attracted his attention, she would definitely be no match for him.
Can’t see me, can’t see me…
Ye Bai silently chanted in her heart, feeling as if she had summoned all her acting skills to feign nonchalance and shift her gaze away.
Meijia, disguised as an ordinary employee and mingling in the crowd, merely raised an eyebrow before retracting her gaze.
Ye Bai let out a sigh of relief; it seemed she had narrowly escaped.
However, the next moment, through her spirit's perception, she saw the bald man's spirit suddenly begin to change, morphing into a bizarre eyeball shape.
The eyeball's iris glowed with a blue light, and once formed, it turned slightly, directly locking onto Ye Bai.
—She had been seen!
Ye Bai felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her, her limbs momentarily numb.
Her keen spirit sensed a mental 'gaze' sweeping over her spirit.
This was the first time Ye Bai had felt the sensation of being 'spied on' by another spirit on a mental level.
Worse still, almost simultaneously, the other party's spirit emitted a strong glow and rapidly approached her.
At this point, Ye Bai could no longer pretend that nothing was happening; she turned her gaze back toward the bald man.
He could not contain his excitement and eagerness, his expression revealing that he had seen some secret during the earlier 'scan.' Ignoring the risk of exposure, he violently pushed through the crowd, charging straight at her!
Ye Bai took a deep breath and shouted with all her might:
“Enemy attack!”
Having fought alongside her earlier, the people nearby quickly reacted, locking onto the aggressive Meijia and unleashing mental attacks.
However, for a C-rank mentalist, Meijia seemed to have used some ability; with just a wave of his hand, he shattered their assault and sent them crashing to the ground.
“His target is me!”
Ye Bai found a gap and rolled away from her companions, then sprinted away at full speed.
The fastest of them, the Xiren clan member Li Ke, moved like the wind. Once he realized what was happening, he dashed toward Xi Liena's location without needing further instructions.
In less than half a minute, as Ye Bai had just covered a hundred meters, she felt a dazzling spirit light appear behind her, and that light transformed into a powerful pressure surging toward her.
“What a special spirit; you can't escape…”
Upon hearing those words, Ye Bai knew that if she were caught this time, she would undoubtedly be sliced apart! Perhaps even along with her spirit!
At that moment, she truly felt how fortunate she had been in the myriad realms, and how harsh reality could be—
What was this? Just because she had glanced at him in the crowd?!
**Chapter 37**
She had to hold him off until Xi Liena arrived; that was her only hope!
The question was, how could she stall him?
Ye Bai initially thought of using her mental power to 'scare' him, but she quickly realized she couldn't do it. In actual combat, she discovered that the state of a spirit in attack mode was entirely different from that in a non-combat state—
The other party's mental power was like a solid balloon continuously expanding, actively emitting a special force field that pressed down on her spirit.
In comparison, Ye Bai's spirit was uniquely agile, like a ghost, and might have a frightening effect, but now, perhaps due to the overwhelming difference in rank, she found it impossible to turn her mental power into the 'needle' that could pop the balloon.
“Two levels of pressure, and the spirit can still move? How about this?”
As he spoke, that chilling sensation washed over her again. Ye Bai 'saw' the other party's spirit transform back into that eerie eyeball shape, but this time, the iris had turned purple.
The moment the purple iris fixed its gaze on Ye Bai, an invisible force enveloped her, compressing her mental power within her body and swiftly binding all her movements.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
Meijia's heavy footsteps approached, and in his hand appeared a device resembling a thumbtack, the sharp end made of a material Ye Bai recognized all too well—it was the 'Youci' that could block mental power.
No, she couldn't be caught!
Ye Bai tried to struggle, but even with all her strength, she couldn't manage to turn her head, only able to move her eyes slightly.
Meijia's hand reached out, casting a shadow over her just as she was about to be captured. In that critical moment, her peripheral vision caught sight of a sculpture several meters away—
【Shadow Step】!
In the next instant, Meijia froze in place, his mental suppression device missing its target.
As he turned his gaze, he saw Ye Bai emerging from the shadow beside the sculpture, quickly fleeing.
“Special racial ability? Shadow, huh…”
Meijia's expression turned determined. He had initially thought Ye Bai's only valuable trait was her mental power, but now it seemed her physical genes had something special as well.
It seemed someone was calling for reinforcements, but before they arrived, Meijia was confident he could catch a D-rank.
…
How could this be?!
Meijia's face darkened, disbelief etched across it. It had been a full six minutes, and he still hadn't caught a D-rank!
He had thought that using shadows to escape was her last resort, but the experiences that followed opened his eyes:
Passing by a water facility, ice projectiles suddenly shot out; moving through a green area, he was unexpectedly ensnared by a wildly growing vine; and there were fireballs and inexplicable lightning strikes that kept appearing… all of it made Meijia feel like he had stumbled into a nightmare.
He couldn't even tell whether this was a mental ability or a racial trait, and regardless of the answer, the variety was overwhelming!
Fortunately, Ye Bai's D-rank mental power was no match for a B-rank's. Even though she had managed to evade him for a while with her unexpected tactics, she was now reaching her limit.
Meijia closed the distance to Ye Bai again, now just ten meters away.
If he got any closer, he could use his binding ability again.
In fact, if Meijia hadn’t been intent on capturing Ye Bai alive, allowing her to use her tricks, he wouldn’t have been delayed for so long.
Just then—
“Stop!”
A fiery red figure transformed into a blur, rushing toward them.
Xi Liena had arrived! Ye Bai was overjoyed, dodging desperately.
Meijia's expression changed, cursing Peng Si and Hu De in his heart for being useless. He shifted his spirit again, transforming back into that purple eyeball shape with binding abilities.
This time, the purple eyeball aimed at Xi Liena, while Meijia charged directly toward Ye Bai.
The private spaceship had already flown nearby; if Meijia could capture her and get her on board, Xi Liena wouldn’t be able to catch up.
At this critical moment, Ye Bai didn’t use any other magic to obstruct Meijia.
She poured all her mental power into a spell she had never used before.
【Mind Ray】
Mind-based spells were particularly unique in the myriad realms, ignoring levels and defenses. Although the damage was low, it dealt pure real damage, relying solely on health to sustain it.
Even though Mind Ray was the most basic of mind spells, normal elemental mages needed to become a second-tier class to even have a chance to access mind spells.
Thinking about what skills she had that could potentially harm Meijia, the B-rank mentalist, Ye Bai settled on the mind-based spells.
She had been using basic magic to interfere and obstruct him, avoiding more complex spells like Light Arrow and Slow, one to keep him underestimating her and the other to conserve energy. Compared to the earlier basic elements, the latter three types of spells required significantly more energy just to 'form.'
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