"Huff! We're back again," Dream Jia said with mixed emotions as she steadied herself unsteadily.

"We've already completed the performance, haven't we? Why are we being teleported back here again? Does that mean we have to perform again?" Hao Yun asked uncertainly, rubbing his buttocks in discomfort as he got up from the ground.

"Well, logically, we should have successfully completed the performance. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been forcefully teleported back here without suffering any fatal accidents," Dao Lao said, equally puzzled.

Then, Dao Lao frowned first, then said with surprise, "Huh? My perception has suddenly recovered a bit, and my system online store is showing signs of reconnecting!"

Hao Yun and Dream Jia quickly checked themselves through the system and soon heard Dream Jia happily saying, "Me too! My basic strength seems to have recovered a bit! Also, my online store is showing signs of reconnecting!"

"Hey! Me too! The system is assisting me in reactivating the state of using the Blade of Speed and Passion. It looks like it won't be long before I can summon my weapon again!" Hao Yun said excitedly. Regardless of how much of a threat the Blade of Speed and Passion posed with his current strength, given the current precarious situation, just having two ordinary weapons for self-defense would add some sense of security to Hao Yun.

"It seems that every time we are teleported into this tent, our abilities and our system will recover. This is quite an interesting phenomenon," Dao Lao said as he checked his restored state.

"Indeed, it seems to be the case! Moreover, it seems that we are not just being teleported here; it seems that every time we are forcefully teleported, our abilities in various aspects will show signs of recovery," Dream Jia pointed out, realizing that their abilities or system functions also recovered after being teleported to that white space.

"Could it be that every time we accept a forced teleportation, the Countess's shielding power will temporarily malfunction? So that our divine power can take advantage of this brief vacuum period to undergo a slight low recovery?" Hao Yun speculated.

After seriously thinking for a moment, Dao Lao said, "It's very likely. Otherwise, why wouldn't our abilities suddenly show signs of recovery at other times but only after each time we are forcefully teleported?"

"In that case, why don't we grit our teeth and endure a little longer, and then participate in more performances and be forcibly teleported a few more times, so that our strength can recover faster?" Hao Yun suggested with a sudden idea.

"Although your method is silly, it's quite reasonable. However, participating in more performances means enduring more torturous deaths. This kind of mental torment is still a big challenge for us. So, if we want to restore our strength in this extreme way, we must be prepared to avoid our minds being completely devastated before our strength is restored," Dream Jia agreed with Hao Yun's idea but also cautioned that they must proceed with caution. After all, the taste of death is extremely unbearable for anyone.

"Hey! If we had known this earlier, we wouldn't have rushed to complete the performance just now!" Hao Yun regretted and then firmly gripped the iron railing. However, deep down, he was still conflicted about whether his suggestion was feasible. After all, Hao Yun also felt that if he had to endure the pain of death for a long time, he would go completely crazy before long.

However, what Hao Yun thought in his heart was one thing, and what he said was another. So, just as he finished speaking, the tent's curtain door was immediately rudely lifted open by someone. Then, several angry clowns strode in and dragged the three of them, who were handcuffed, outside without saying a word. Hao Yun, whose strength had been restored, naturally didn't want to be manipulated by the clowns again. So he tried to forcefully pull the chains to knock down the clown and take the opportunity to vent his anger, which he had been dragged around like an animal by the clowns. However, to Hao Yun's surprise, although he exerted great force, the clown was unmoved, and continued to drag Hao Yun outside without any resistance.

Just as Hao Yun was surprised that his strength could not compete with the clown's and was ready to try again, Dao Lao's dissuasive voice came instantly from the system: "Hao Yun! Be calm! Don't be so angry at this time. Logically, we have already successfully completed a performance, so we shouldn't participate in another one. So, the situation may have changed now. Let's not startle the snake, see what they want us to do, and then figure out how to deal with it."

"That damn clown, where did he get the strength from? Humph! Don't let me catch you, or I'll make you regret it!" Hearing Dao Lao's words, Hao Yun calmed down. However, he still cursed in his heart about his inability to resist the clown and was amazed at the astonishing strength of this clown.

At the same time, Dream Jia cursed loudly in the system channel: "That damn Daddy Cat! How dare he play tricks on me! Humph! Don't let me see you again! Otherwise, I will make sure to suck all the air out of you!"

After several clowns dragged them out of the tent, the three of them realized that the stage outside was still the same, the clowns were still the same, and the audience was still the same. The difference was that the aerial props and the spears inserted in the center of the stage had disappeared. In their place were two large turntables facing each other. At this moment, two clowns were laughing wildly as they rapidly rotated the two turntables. At the same time, another clown stood between the two turntables, laughing hysterically with his eyes closed, continuously making throwing knife gestures towards the two turntables.

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"They're planning to blindfold us and throw knives?" Upon seeing the stage setup, Hao Yun immediately recalled Daddy Cat's words about the knife-throwing show after the aerial performance.

After the clowns performed the knife-throwing act with exaggerated movements several times, Hao Yun and his companions were dragged to the front of the spinning discs. Then, the clowns who had just finished their performance began to clumsily demonstrate to Dream Jia how to throw knives. Meanwhile, other clowns prepared to tie up Hao Yun and Dao Lao to serve as living targets for the performance.

"Huixu!" At this moment, Hao Yun struggled and called out twice, pointing to himself and making a throwing motion, indicating that he wanted to be responsible for throwing the knives in this performance. In order to obtain permission from the clowns, Hao Yun even imitated the exaggerated performance style of the clowns, randomly performing a few knife-throwing movements and mimicking some ridiculous actions of being hit by the flying knives, which elicited continuous laughter from the audience.

Hao Yun's seemingly absurd performance successfully moved the clowns in front of him. Thus, under the authorization of the leading clown, Hao Yun took over the extremely sharp daggers and successfully obtained the qualification for the knife-throwing performance. The reason Hao Yun wanted to win this opportunity for performance was that they had already arranged the task distribution through private chat as soon as they stepped onto the stage, deciding that Hao Yun, who had experience in handling daggers, would be responsible for throwing knives.

After the three of them were in position, the clowns blindfolded them to prevent them from directly reminding each other through sound, which would reduce the fun and excitement of the performance. However, Hao Yun and his companions were not worried at all. Because now, Dream Jia and Dao Lao's perceptions had already recovered. So even with their eyes covered, the two of them could accurately help Hao Yun choose the timing to act. Plus, the three of them could communicate through the system channel at any time, making this seemingly dangerous performance on the surface safer in private, and giving Hao Yun more confidence to successfully complete the performance.

With the circus march playing once again, the atmosphere at the scene quickly heated up under the leadership of the clowns. To increase the entertainment and excitement of the performance, the clowns responsible for spinning the turntables shamelessly kept changing the speed and direction of the rotation of the two turntables. At the same time, the clowns, who were laughing weirdly, occasionally made hushing gestures, indicating to the audience not to inform on the performers on stage.

After the clowns had haphazardly spun the two turntables for about a minute, the leading clown waved the whip satisfactorily, completed the countdown of three, and announced the official start of the performance. At the moment when the leading clown announced the start of the performance, Hao Yun, who had received accurate positioning reports from Dream Jia and Dao Lao, immediately, without hesitation, threw the daggers in his hands towards the eight o'clock position on the outer edge of the left turntable and the three o'clock position near the center of the right turntable.

Due to Hao Yun's swift action, the clowns and the audience thought Hao Yun was going to prepare emotionally before performing, so they were surprised when Hao Yun threw out two daggers at the beginning of the performance. However, even though Hao Yun threw out the daggers at the beginning of the performance, the unexpected events arrived as expected.

Everything happened in an instant. At the moment when the two daggers left Hao Yun's hands, the turntables binding Dream Jia and Dao Lao malfunctioned suddenly due to gear failure. With two sharp "click" sounds, they were both stopped on the spot. And the two daggers, which were supposed to be stuck in the blank space on the left side of Dream Jia's forehead and the right side of Dao Lao's thigh, flew towards the most vital parts between Dream Jia's forehead and Dao Lao's thighs.

As the unexpected event was about to happen, the audience erupted into a happy exclamation again. However, when Hao Yun heard the exclamation, a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Dong! Dong!" As the sound of two daggers firmly inserting into the turntables rang out, the knife-throwing performance came to an end. Watching Dream Jia, who had turned her head to avoid the fatal blow of the dagger, and Dao Lao, who had exerted all his strength to tighten his sphincter, lifting his entire buttocks and abdomen in an extremely exaggerated posture to make room for the dagger inserted between his legs, the audience, after a brief silence, burst into cheers full of puzzled excitement.

However, what the audience and the clowns did not expect was that Hao Yun was able to successfully avoid the sudden accident of the turntables because before he stepped onto the stage, he had received a detection report from his half-dead fungal energy tracking system, stating that his Blade of Speed and Passion could be restored for use and his ability to manipulate daggers was also recovering. Therefore, when Hao Yun threw out the daggers, he had already attached the Blade of Speed and Passion to the bottom of the two prop daggers using the still extremely weak spiritual power, giving him the ability to control the two prop daggers through the Blade of Speed and Passion.

This enabled Hao Yun to still exert a slight control over the speed and angle of their flight even after he had released them. Although his control over the knives was extremely limited, it was enough to quickly alter their flight paths according to his instructions, ensuring that he successfully averted the unexpected incident and smoothly completed this additional dangerous performance.

Indeed, if we were to be strict, Hao Yun did resort to cheating by secretly leveraging the power of the Speed and Fury Blade to accomplish this performance. However, a performance completed is a performance completed, and there were no rules explicitly forbidding the use of other props during the performance. Therefore, the audience at the scene could only grit their teeth and cheer loudly for the great success of the performance.

While celebrating the successful performance, the audience still seemed hesitant, constantly looking around as if awaiting a final judgment that did not actually exist. Likewise, the group of clowns, upon seeing Hao Yun and his companions successfully finish the act, mechanically performed various celebratory acrobatics while anxiously awaiting further instructions.

In this awkward atmosphere, both the clowns and the audience celebrated nervously and with puzzlement. However, as uncertainty grew about whether the outcome of this performance would count, the cheers at the scene began to diminish. Soon, the bustling venue turned into a library where one could hear a pin drop.