Xiao Hei blinked and sat upright, waiting.

Qi Yu also sat cross-legged in front of the water mirror and began to cultivate quietly.

After a while, she opened her eyes and saw that another person had appeared in the water mirror.

Li Daogu!

Qi Yu stood up nervously, watching Li Daogu frown and look around.

Hua Nongying said that the space within the hairpin would not be detected by cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. Although Chu Mo was at the Golden Core stage, as the male protagonist, he must have some opportunities unknown to ordinary people, so it was normal for him to be able to sense that something was wrong with this space.

Li Daogu is now a Nascent Soul cultivator. If he wants to know if someone is hiding here, he can simply unleash his spiritual power to attack and find out.

Sure enough, the next moment, Li Daogu waved his sleeve, and a spiritual energy attack was launched into the air.

As the air vibrated, the various buildings in the courtyard seemed to appear for a moment on the open ground, as if touched by a spring breeze.

Li Daogu was overjoyed and launched a series of attacks into the open space.

The space suddenly shook violently, and several ordinary birds, still unaware of their surroundings, darted out of the trees in panic and circled in the air, while the koi in the pond also bumped against the pond wall in unease.

Qi Yu clenched his fist, pondering a solution.

Hua Nongying had just given her this magical artifact; she couldn't just watch Li Daogu destroy the space.

Should I use the teleportation scroll again?

No, she's already used this trick on Li Daogu, so he'll definitely be on guard this time.

what to do……

The shaking of the space intensified. On the bed in a room of Flower Moon Pavilion, Green Bird suddenly opened its beady eyes, screamed, flew out of the room, rushed towards Qi Yu, and shouted, "What's wrong! What's wrong!"

Qi Yu turned around, pursed her lips, and said, "There's a Nascent Soul stage cultivator chasing me."

"Nascent Soul stage!" The green bird landed on Qi Yu's head, its wings covering its head, hardly believing what it had just heard. "What do I do? What do I do? Nascent Soul stage! If this keeps going, the space will shatter! I'm doomed!"

Qi Yu asked, "Are you the spirit of the hairpin that brushes the railing in the spring breeze?"

The green bird, utterly dejected, nestled in a pile of hair and grumbled, "Yes, but you stupid girl are going to get me killed!"

Qi Yu chuckled dryly and took the green bird down. "Since you're a spirit of the artifact, can you let the people outside in?"

"What do you mean? You want me to let your Nascent Soul stage enemy in? Do you want me to die even faster, you brat!"

"So that's it?" Qi Yu patted Green Bird's head reassuringly. "Don't worry, his target is me. If he comes in later, just say I've already run away and he can't find me. He won't do anything to you."

"Really?" Green Bird looked at her with suspicion and said, "Fine, anyway, that stinky woman Hua Nongying doesn't want me anymore, so let me die!"

Qi Yu twitched the corners of her mouth, quickly ran into the room, stuffed Feng Xiao into her arms, and then picked up Xiao Hei.

She took a deep breath, took out the book "Chaotic Spirit Body", and said, "Okay, wait until I disappear before you release the person. If the person leaves, pat this book twice."

The green bird nodded, indicating that it understood.

Qi Yu gently tapped the page and said, "Master, let me in."

The Chaotic Spirit Body emitted a beam of light, drawing Qi Yu inside.

In the space within the book.

Qi Yu had just carried Xiao Hei inside when he was greeted by the gray dumpling's puzzled question: "Why are you here to see your master again so soon?"

"Master, why does that sound like you're not welcoming your disciple?" Qi Yu joked, then sighed and said, "A Nascent Soul cultivator wants your disciple dead, so he's come to seek refuge with you, Master."

The gray ball of fur was so startled that its body swayed several times. "How did you, a Qi Refining cultivator, get involved with a Nascent Soul cultivator? No matter how much you want to quickly ascend to the Chaos Spirit Body, this isn't the way to do it!"

Qi Yu rubbed her forehead, annoyed, and said, "Can I say that I didn't offend anyone? This trouble came to me of my own accord."

Zhu Xiuzi nodded in sympathy, "Indeed, all unlucky people are like this."

Unlucky Qi Yu: "..."

Zhu Xiuzi asked again, "Then hiding like this is useless. What if that Nascent Soul stage cultivator keeps guarding us?"

"Well..." Qi Yu smiled mysteriously, "I have my own brilliant plan."

...

Outside, as Qi Yu entered the space within the book, a green bird chirped a few times, and the space where the spring breeze caressed the railing completely merged with the outside world.

Li Daogu stopped his attack, a smug grin spreading across his face. "Trying to dodge? Why aren't you dodging anymore?"

A phantom figure, standing on something, suddenly flew past him at high speed. A bloodthirsty glint flashed in Li Daogu's eyes, and he followed the phantom figure on his sword.

"Trying to run away!"

While controlling his sword, Li Daogu continuously launched attacks on the illusory figure, sending talismans mixed with spiritual energy flying towards it.

Several towering trees nearby were blown apart by the talisman paper, but the phantom figure dodged Li Daogu's attacks by weaving left and right.

Li Daogu grew increasingly furious. His hands moved rapidly, forming an extremely complex hand seal. In an instant, dozens or even hundreds of talismans with different runes appeared behind him. As he completed the hand seal, countless talismans flew towards the illusory figure.

"Boom boom boom—"

A series of explosions rang out, and the phantom was blasted into countless pieces of blood and flesh by the talisman.

Li Daogu raised his hand, wiped the blood and mud off his face, and gave a cold snort.

"A mere Qi Refining stage ant dares to dream of escaping my grasp? How naive!"

He glanced at the blood and flesh on the ground one last time, then flew away on his sword.

A moment later, the blood and mud on the ground gradually faded in color, turning into pieces of paper.

...

Space in the book.

Zhu Xiuzi asked in confusion, "What brilliant plan? Tell me about it."

Qi Yu smiled and said, "I have two magical artifacts here, which can be used to lure away that Nascent Soul stage cultivator."

"A substitute artifact that can take my form."

[Standard Paper Doll - Can replicate the selected target one-to-one and complete tasks issued by the host, but cannot speak or act independently. It exists for 30 minutes and costs only 50 points!]

“A flying artifact can carry my substitute and flee in one direction at high speed. I guarantee he won’t be able to catch up.”

[A super skateboard with wings—reaching speeds of up to 3,000 kilometers per hour! Ride it and experience the speed of the wind! Price: 100 points!]

"In this way, I only need to wait for my companions outside to remind me when to go out, and I can perfectly avoid that Nascent Soul stage cultivator."

Zhu Xiuzi exclaimed in surprise, "You actually have such a magical artifact? Apart from puppeteers, I have never seen a substitute artifact that can deceive a Nascent Soul stage cultivator."

Qi Yu chuckled twice. "You didn't expect that, did you? I have a cheat code!"

Zhu Xiuzi sighed again, "Alas, if it weren't for my bad luck, I could have easily taken care of a mere Nascent Soul cultivator. There would have been no need for all this trouble."

"Things are different now. If you were to pass away, Master, I wouldn't be able to meet you again!"

Just then, two "bang bang" sounds came from inside the space, as if someone outside was gently tapping on a book.