Don't Die Chasing the Wind

“Master, you’re here?” Liu Xiaoji followed Li Shiyin's bad example and spoke with an odd tone after spending just half a day together.

Qin Ran glared at them and asked, “Where is Chasing the Wind?”

Li Shiyin pointed behind her and laughed. “That big, dark lump over there. Can't you see it?”

“I’m blind!” Qin Ran rolled his eyes and asked again, “What’s wrong with him?”

“Based on my analysis...” Li Shiyin imitated Qin Ran’s mannerisms when analyzing problems, speaking in a deep voice. “He probably exhausted his spiritual power. He might just...alright, he’s tired and needs to sleep for a while.”

“Is this his mischief?” Qin Ran said as he walked over to Chasing the Wind's side and quickly checked his condition, discovering that he really was asleep.

“Yes, it's a new divine ability Chasing the Wind learned,” Li Shiyin said.

“What divine ability?”

“I don’t know,” Li Shiyin shook her head. “Chasing the Wind didn't say.”

“I told you guys not to make trouble, I told you guys not to make trouble, but you just have to make trouble!” Qin Ran said angrily. “You can't go a single day without causing some kind of incident!”

“No way. We were cultivating...” Li Shiyin “corrected” him. “We were practicing our divine abilities.”

Qin Ran was too lazy to spar words with her. He glared at her from the side and held out his left hand, separating his little finger, and asked, “Can you still use your sword qi? Give me a sword qi."

"Why?" Li Shiyin summoned a shadow sword qi, not understanding what Qin Ran intended to do.

"This is my clone..." Qin Ran said. "Let's see what happens if my finger gets cut off?"

"It won't cut through," Li Shiyin shook her head. Her sword qi sliced through Qin Ran's little finger without leaving a mark. Qin Ran's little finger was completely undamaged. "See? I didn't lie to you!"

Qin Ran looked at his little finger and then towards the outside world. The real Qin Ran had a grave expression on his face, also looking at his own little finger.

"You didn't mess around with your sword qi, did you?" The clone Qin Ran hurriedly asked Li Shiyin.

"No! I just made one cut towards the ground. The ground here is dark like everything else. My sword qi didn't even make contact," Li Shiyin replied. As she spoke, she saw the expression on the real Qin Ran's face outside and suddenly understood what his clone meant. "But I did kick Chasing the Wind. My foot passed right through his body."

As soon as she said this, the real Qin Ran's expression drastically changed.

The clone Qin Ran hurriedly turned back to Chasing the Wind's side and examined his condition closely.

"Master...what's wrong?" Li Shiyin asked fearfully.

"Just now when you cut my little finger, I couldn't feel any injury in this dark state," the clone Qin Ran replied. "But...the original body outside felt the pain. In other words, any attacks suffered in the World of Darkness do cause injury even if we can't feel them."

Li Shiyin recalled her foot kicking through Chasing the Wind's waist. She couldn't help but be greatly shocked. "I didn't kick Chasing the Wind to death, did I?!"

"I don't know..." The clone Qin Ran shook his head. "I can't detect anything now."

A chill went down Li Shiyin's back. Her kick had split Chasing the Wind cleanly in half. While they felt nothing in the World of Darkness, what about outside? Would Chasing the Wind suddenly snap into two pieces when he left this space?!

The more she thought about it, the more fearful she became until she collapsed next to Chasing the Wind in tears. "Chasing the Wind...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to kill you. I...I...I didn't know..."

Just as she cried, Chasing the Wind suddenly yawned having been woken up by her noise. His eyes opened revealing a pair of glowing black-gold irises. Although nearly the same color as the darkness, it was the only hint of light and color in this dark world. As soon as his eyes opened, he saw Li Shiyin crying while talking to herself. Extremely confused, he said, "Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet!"

But seeing him like this only made Li Shiyin cry harder. "Chasing the Wind...don't die!"

"Eh? What are you doing?" Chasing the Wind sat up from lying down. "Why would I randomly die when I'm perfectly fine?"

"You'll die as soon as you leave!" Li Shiyin cried. "You'll break into two pieces with blood flying everywhere. How terrible, Chasing the Wind! You'll die so tragically!"

"Why would I die after I leave?" Chasing the Wind looked at Li Shiyin. "Don't curse me, alright?"

"How do you feel right now?" Qin Ran suddenly asked.

While Li Shiyin's laments about his gruesome death didn't faze Chasing the Wind, Qin Ran's voice scared him badly. After all, he knew he had done something wrong. Looking towards Qin Ran, he stammered, "D-Dad?"

"I asked how you feel," Qin Ran frowned and repeated.

"How I feel? Not bad. I slept pretty comfortably," Chasing the Wind answered honestly. "It's just, it feels like someone kicked my waist. It hurts a bit."

"Ah!" Hearing this made Li Shiyin even more certain that Chasing the Wind would die. "Chasing the Wind..."

However, Qin Ran realized something from this. He clearly had no sensation of pain in this dark space, yet Chasing the Wind could sense being kicked. Of course, as the master of this World of Darkness, he would be an exception.

Pondering this, he asked, "Chasing the Wind, can you retract this World of Darkness without affecting..."

But Chasing the Wind was a child who had done something wrong and kept trying to make amends. Hearing only the first half of his words, he eagerly nodded, "I can, I can!"

Not waiting for Qin Ran to react, he opened his mouth wide and forcefully sucked all the darkness back in.

"No, that's not...!" Qin Ran tried to stop him mid-sentence before realizing he had reverted to normal. Looking down, his little finger had indeed disappeared. He hurriedly looked towards Chasing the Wind and saw him standing there perfectly fine with eyes and mouth agape. "Dad, what did you say?"

"Oh..." Qin Ran let out another sigh before dissipating into a puddle of water. Qin Ran to the side said, "It's fine now."

Seeing that Chasing the Wind was alright, Li Shiyin quickly stopped crying and wiped her tears. She ran over to look Chasing the Wind up and down, confused. "How are you totally fine?"

Glancing to the side, she saw a person-sized hole in the ground, pitch-black and leading to some unknown place. There were also scattered traces of sword qi cuts that she had tested out earlier. The hole was from when she had burrowed underground while the lingering sword qi were the marks she had sliced.

"Why wouldn't I be alright?" Chasing the Wind was also very perplexed.

Did he not remember the specifics of this divine ability? It was Ao Yi who had taught it to Chasing the Wind to protect his life, allowing him to shadowize his body to avoid attacks and burrow into shadows. For such an ability of which he was the wielder, how could anything happen to him?

"Ahhh!" Seeing that Chasing the Wind was unharmed, Li Shiyin jumped up and punched him in the nose. "Give me back my tears!"

Chasing the Wind's nose was assaulted so he retaliated with kitty punches and yelled, "What's that got to do with me?!"

Watching the two start fighting again, Qin Ran looked up at the sky speechlessly.