ck felt fragile in his grasp, like a reed bending in the wind.A cool touch grazed my ear, Jiang Qiyun's cool thin lips lightly brushing against it.He bent slightly behind me, his icy tone sending shiv...The miraculous arts of immortals, shrinking the earth into a single step.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Qiyun had me traversing the crumbled mountains. The precipice we just stood on was now far behind us.

Just now, the place where we stood was like a broken dragon's claw nail. Now turning around, we have landed at the end of this dragon's "claw".

The atmosphere here is completely different from the gloomy and chaotic one facing it!

The suffocating stillness in the air sent shivers down my spine. The usual hum of life felt jarringly out of place here!

Need not mention those immortals, demons, and spirits with cultivation, even someone like me, who is just starting out in the Xuanmen, can feel where there is an "unharmonious" energy.

" —This is a burial ground, I suspect. It's not the resting place of some high-ranking official, but rather akin to my uncle's ancestral home, a mass grave for an entire family."

Otherwise, why would the air feel so heavy and oppressive A hint of life appeared here, like a drop of water falling into simmering oil, causing a ripple effect that shattered the atmosphere.

"I... I should probably leave" I swallowed nervously, asking Jiang Qiyun beside me.

Over the past couple of years, Jiang Qiyun has become much more gentle when he's with me. He seems rather indifferent to all the worldly causes and karmic obstacles.

At this moment, his brows were tightly furrowed, his aura cold and sharp, completely on guard, which made me even more nervous.

"If an ordinary woman had wandered into this place, she should have long since lost consciousness. Why is that vital energy still moving" Jiang Qiyun's gaze turned towards the mountainside.

"What ordinary woman would come to this place A godforsaken wasteland... the nearest villages are miles away." I turned my body to point in the direction we came from.

This straight-line distance must be over ten kilometers! All the surrounding villages have long since moved away, what ordinary woman could appear here

As I turned my head, a hazy white figure swept over me, so cold that I shivered!

“My Lord Emperor~~~ Your subordinate has found that foolish Zheng expert, under the collapsed cliff, being guarded by Yin soldiers.” Bai Wuchang said with a smirk. “Oh my~~ The aura here is so comfortable……”

Comfortable This kind of aura that gives you goosebumps, is it comfortable

Bai WuChang covered his mouth and smirked: "Little Lady, if you're scared, you can go down the mountain to find your older brother~."

"...I'm not afraid, I'm just worried that I'll hold you back." I mumbled softly.

I'm also very curious to see what the "corpse demon" summoned by the demonic lord is like upon his arrival.

"Don't leave my side." Jiang Qiyun frowned. "This place is full of formations; don't fall into somewhere else again, making it hard for me to find you."

"Oh…" I shrank my neck and quietly pinched Jiang Qiyun's sleeve.

"Hee hee, then I'll go scout ahead first ~~" Bai Wu Chang smiled and drifted away, his figure leaving behind a faint, hazy shadow.

People tend to imagine the ghosts and spirits of the underworld as vicious and terrifying. This is an instinctive fear of death. In reality, even the smallest deity in the underworld is still a deity. If they didn't have merit or a good reputation in life, they would merely be a shade waiting on the Naihe Bridge.

Therefore, although they are somewhat "scary," their aura is different from that of a "ghost."

After practicing, I can gradually distinguish these auras. The saying that cultivators have sharp ears and bright eyes probably means that after transcending the mundane noise of the world, their perception of all things in nature is enhanced.

In such a desolate and barren wilderness, I could faintly sense my brother's life energy. For here, the silence was so profound that any sign of life felt jarringly out of place.

My brother, although he is not a cultivator, is very perceptive. He sensed that something was amiss here and stopped at the foot of the mountain, not continuing upwards.

Jiang Qiyun turned his head and looked at me, asking in a low voice, "Does the aura here make you feel uncomfortable"

I shook my head. "No."

He chuckled softly: "Alright, progress in cultivation."

After finishing his words, he reached out and embraced me. With a gentle leap, he soared through the wind and clouds, landing on the middle of the mountain in just a few steps.

Here you can see a full moon, the moonlight shines down looking very holy.

“My great-grandfather's ancestral tomb in my aunt’s hometown is the same way. The moonlight is white, so bright it's unsettling.” I whispered.

Jiang Qiyun nodded slightly: “Moonlight is the essence of Taiyin, very important for cultivation, but such white moonlight is quite abnormal. It is most likely that a magic artifact has gathered lunar energy within this house.”

"The magic artifact, is it like that hanging pearl" That hanging pearl is now in Jiang Qiyun's hands, being used as a large marble by his daughter — snatched away from its rightful owner to be a toy.

Jiang Qiyun guessed what I was thinking, slightly tilting her head to glance at me: “What do you understand… That pendant is a spirit creature from the demon realm. It has been nourished by moonlight for countless years. Yu Gui is a woman. Holding this thing is beneficial to her cultivation.”

Is she a female A woman

I couldn't help but laugh and cry: "You're missing a word, aren't you It should be 'girl child', not just 'child'. A child this young practicing—"

Jiang Qiyun didn't find it amusing at all. He stated calmly, "My child, wouldn't cultivation begin from the moment a fetus takes shape Don't view the divine child through ordinary human eyes."

"...Yes, but you shouldn't have snatched it..." I thought of Chong Mo's furious expression and couldn't help but smile. I originally thought Jiang Qiyun was deliberately provoking Chong Mo to grab the pearl, but I didn't expect that Jiang Qiyun felt that this pearl was beneficial for a woman's nourishment, so he deliberately snatched it away.

"Hmph, relying on those city lords of the Demon Realm Even if they call themselves Demon Lords, without the ability to take back what they lost from me, they want it back Let Yin Su Bai say it himself." Jiang Qiyun had a rather wicked sense of humor.

Over these past millennia, the Demon Realm and the Underworld must have fought countless times. That's why he's so deliberately provoking them.

A woman's shriek suddenly broke our conversation from the hillside.

“What if Qīyé is alright” I asked nervously.

"Come on." Jiang Qiyun grabbed my hand and chased after me into the woods ahead.

This grove of trees was littered with jagged rocks. Such a vein of dragon energy, at the edge of its power, had long since been altered by natural and man-made disasters. The vegetation, stones, and even the very air seemed wild and withered.

Every person possesses a spark of spirituality. Even ordinary people who don't understand Feng Shui can instinctively distinguish between barren, desolate landscapes and beautiful, auspicious ones. Here, after the change in Qi flow, even animals and plants have transformed, appearing more sinister in the darkness.

Bai Wu Chang's physical form turned semi-transparent, dragging a long shadow behind him. It was like raising a white veil in the night, making it easy to spot his presence.

He was now hovering precariously at the mouth of a crevice in the mountain, just one step from the cave entrance, separated by a small piece of stone.

Behind the stone, a woman was hiding. In the moonlight as white as frost, the stone couldn't conceal her.

She seemed startled, her voice trembling.

"...Help me, I'm...not a bad person—"

Hey

I was taken aback, who was this woman talking to

And Jiang Qiyun and I were completely out of her line of sight. Besides, I was within the protective barrier around Jiang Qiyun, which ordinary people couldn't see us through, right

To whom was she calling for help

I looked at Jiang Qiyun, he also seemed a little strange. In front of that woman, there was only a white ethereal form floating!

Could it be that this woman can see Bai Wu Chang

The smile at Bai Wuchang's lips gradually vanished, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, a sharp gleam in them as he looked down at the woman.

I held my breath. I was thinking that if the other party was a living person, it would be better for me to go forward and ask about the situation, but this scene in front of me...

Was that woman calling for help from Bai Wuchang

"I... I was captured... What is this place You, you can take me out, can't you" The woman sobbed, hiding behind a rock and clutching her head.

She speaks so politely, even in this situation using honorifics. I immediately softened my heart and wanted to go see her.

Jiang Qiyun stopped me, glaring at me menacingly: "Don't move!"

"But this is a living person..." I whispered.

"She can see Bai Wu Chang." Jiang Qiyun looked over with a serious gaze, signaling for Bai Wu Chang to handle the situation himself.

Bai Wuchang's evil grin appeared on his face again. Was he going to scare this womanstarting to show prominently now. I sleep very deeply in the second half of the night. I could normally summon ghost servants to guard the four corners of the courtyard, but Madam Lin and Lin Yanqin...