Chapter 91 Heading North to the Capital

The four men were piled together, each one vigorous and incredibly strong, exuding an imposing aura.

Qi Cang said gruffly, "Boss, we're here to save you!"

Gao Shijie's eyes shone brightly: "Don't worry, boss, with the help of the Four Tyrants of Yunzhong, we will definitely be able to eliminate them!"

After saying that, he stylishly tossed his hair at her and snapped his fingers.

Bai Yuheng: "..."

"Why are you here?" Cui Mingcan asked as if he had met his saviors.

"Hehe, our demon-catching team just happened to be passing by and discovered that this place was teeming with demonic energy, so the four of us came to scout ahead," Gao Shijie interjected.

"Are there any Nascent Soul cultivators among you?" Cen Ying asked, remembering something important, as she chopped down the man in black before her.

"Chengzhi, Shijie, and I are all Nascent Soul cultivators!"

Li Tiankuo: "One more person is needed!"

Bai Yuheng retracted the golden snake into her wrist, focused her energy in her dantian, exhaled a breath of stale air, and said, "Let me give it a try!"

"Yu'er?"

"It's alright," Bai Yuheng shook her head at Cen Ying, "I also want to see how far my cultivation has progressed. If I succeed, wouldn't that mean I'm already a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

After saying that, he gave her a reassuring smile.

"Master, let's begin!"

Pei Yuan nodded, and while communicating with them telepathically, he chanted incantations.

The others, on the other hand, drew most of the firepower away from them.

Guhua, who had been watching the battle with great interest, noticed something amiss. She leaped down and landed on a boulder. With a flick of her wrist, a purplish-black jade flute appeared in her palm.

The flute music was dark and gloomy. The black-clad puppets seemed to hear celestial music and take a powerful tonic, their black aura instantly multiplying. Under her control, they mainly targeted the five people who were forming the formation.

"Golden Crows in formation?" Guihua looked at the cold, handsome man in flowing white robes and narrowed her eyes. "You are Pei Yuan."

Pei Yuan glanced at the words, then focused on chanting incantations and hand seals. The array instantly burst forth with golden light, illuminating the entire mountain forest clearly.

The hurricane that was also generated would blow away everyone except the five people who were in formation.

With a series of roars and howls, the demon, which had just been gaining momentum, was instantly swallowed up by the golden light.

The golden light dissipated, and the mountains and forests returned to their tranquility.

Finally, everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. This time, they all collapsed, lying on the ground or hanging from the trees.

"Oh dear, that tiger-faced demon has been annihilated!" Gao Shijie said regretfully. "This kind of fourth-tier demon is rare. I should have captured it first!"

Qi Cangbai said to him, "Alright, it's just a fourth-order demon beast. If you want it, I'll take you to the Netherworld Realm in a few days. There are plenty there."

Gao Shijie chuckled: "Big brother is right, little brother takes it seriously!"

Qi Cang waved his hand, explaining that activating this formation had used up a lot of his spiritual energy, leaving him feeling weak. He plopped down on the ground to circulate his energy.

Guhua wiped the blood from the corner of her lips, leaned against the tree trunk to stand up, and looked at them coldly.

Noticing her gaze, Bai Yuheng looked over as well.

"Guhua, Guhua!" The three-eyed toad sensed Guhua's presence as the Qiankun bag around its waist stirred, shouting at the top of its lungs, "Guhua, Guhua, come save me!!!"

Guihua rubbed the purplish-black bloodstains on her fingertips, chuckled, and ignored the three-eyed toad's words, retorting to Bai Yuheng, "Immortal Master's restoration of the primordial spirit is truly amazing, but you don't know that the rest... are all on my body."

Having said that, she burst into laughter, and before anyone could make a move, she instantly transformed into a wisp of black mist and vanished, leaving only her cheerful voice echoing through the forest:

"If you wish to be resurrected, come to the Netherworld and find me. I will be waiting for you..." Emperor Hengluan.

Those last four words echoed in Bai Yuheng's mind.

"Are you alright?" Pei Yuan came over, clutching his chest, and took her hand. Seeing her absent-minded appearance, he thought she had just exhausted too much spiritual energy from the formation and couldn't recover for a while.

"Boss, boss, what did she mean by what she just said?" Gao Shijie asked with a grin.

Bai Yuheng pretended not to know and shook her head: "Perhaps it's a lie deliberately spread to confuse people."

Qi Cang also came over, wanting to ask more questions, but Pei Yuan pulled him behind him, blocking their view, and said coldly, "Alright, now that the crisis has been resolved, you all still have the great plan to capture the demon, so hurry up and get to work."

The four tyrants also had missions to complete, so they had no choice but to leave disappointed.

Even as he left, Pei Yuan couldn't help but complain: "Why was that guy so domineering? I just wanted to chat with the boss for a bit, did he have to look at me like I was a thief? His eyes were as cold as ice shards in the dead of winter, it was really annoying!"

Yun Chengzhi said thoughtfully, "Perhaps he thinks we are not perceptive. I see that the eldest brother is restless, as if he has lost too much spiritual energy. He is the master, so naturally he cares about his disciple."

"Who has ever seen a master like him?!" Gao Shijie complained. "He talks to us, but he has to hug us while he talks. It's like he's from heaven and earth when he talks to us. I've never seen Master Pei so tender and affectionate..."

Gao Shijie muttered, "I haven't even had a chance to spar with the boss yet..."

Ouyang Shuda, who had been quiet and reserved, said, "It's probably because Master Pei is jealous; he likes our boss."

Upon hearing this, Qi Cang, who was rough but shrewd, and Yun Chengzhi, who was a little cunning, both looked over. Only the clever Gao Shijie was still immersed in regret that he hadn't been able to exchange the newly learned moves with Bai Yuheng.

The three exchanged a glance, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. They quickly stopped themselves from thinking too much and hurriedly put their arms around Gao Shijie's shoulders to divert his attention: "Old Gao, don't think so much. Maybe we'll run into it again next time. Hey! I heard that the sacred mountain ahead is the hometown of some powerful sorcerer. Do you want to go take a look? Maybe you can even absorb some of its divine energy and break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm!"

"Where? Where? Old Qi, why didn't you say so sooner! Come on, come on! Let's go take a look together! Shuda, hurry up and catch up too! It'll be a good opportunity for you to experience the aura of a powerful being, so you can break through to the Golden Core stage sooner. It's been so long..."

The four of them, bickering and arguing, walked down a road in the opposite direction from Bai Yuheng and the others.

*

Jiangzhou Wharf.

"Miss Bai, who knows when we'll meet again? If you ever come to Jiangzhou, please let me know immediately so I can do my best to be a good host." Ling Yu, now in Hualien, held Bai Yuheng's hand with eyes full of reluctance.

Bai Yuheng laughed: "Of course, I'll pester you until you get annoyed."

Hualien Shi Ye laughed: "Hahaha, then I look forward to that day."

"Thank you for taking care of me these past few days, Madam Cui. These are pills I made. This bottle is for nourishing the body and mind. This red bottle is for emergency use; it can be used to save lives if you encounter difficulties."

Cen Ying handed the two medicine bottles in his hand to Madam Cui.

Madam Cui waved her hands repeatedly, "This medicine is precious, how can we accept it! We've only stayed for a few days, and we haven't even had a chance to show our hospitality. We've been too kind to you..."

Cen Ying smiled and said, "Madam, what are you saying? All the treatment in the manor is the same as Xiao Can's, so how can you say it's neglect? Please accept it. My family refines many pills, and I can't provide anything else you need, but I do have this kind of nourishing pill. It's only because it's for you that it's considered precious!"

Madam Cui was delighted by her clever words, and kept smiling. She held her hand and said "good" several times.

Upon seeing this, Bai Yuheng also gave them parting gifts.

"Even after a thousand miles of travel, we must part ways. The ship is about to depart, so please take good care of yourselves while you are away!"

Madam Cui looked at her son, whom she hadn't seen for long, her eyes welling up with tears. She hesitated to speak, and in the end, all her words of advice turned into a sigh.

"Father, Mother, I'm leaving now. I'll definitely come back to see you when I have time!"

Cui Mingcan stood on the deck and waved to them.

Seeing off loved ones is especially touching. Unspoken words and boundless love are transformed into reluctant glances, reddened eyes, and forceful waving goodbye.

"call--"

The ship slowly sailed away from the dock.

"Tap tap tap tap—"

The rapid hoofbeats echoed across the street.

"Whoa—"

Zhu He watched the departing ships, then circled his horse with a complicated expression before finally rushing to the dock, just inches from the edge.

"Bai Yuheng!!!"

Pei Yuan immediately looked at the person who had shouted, feeling extremely displeased.

"Bai Yuheng!!!"

They weren't far apart to begin with, and everyone on the boat looked over at the same time.

Zhu He waved his hand vigorously.

"You must come and look for me next time you visit Nanling!!!"

Perhaps realizing that the chances of them coming to Nanling were slim, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's fine if they don't come to Nanling, I'll come find you then!!!"

"White jade—"

The sound stopped abruptly.

Zhu He choked violently, coughing intensely. As the boat receded into the distance, he couldn't bring himself to say what he hadn't finished. He could only watch them go by with reddened eyes.

"Why did you put a mute spell on him?" Bai Yuheng glanced at the cold-blooded man beside her, speechless at his childish behavior.

"Too noisy, disturbing the peace," Pei Yuan replied calmly, watching the vibrant color turn into a tiny dot before the frustration in his heart subsided.

Bai Yuheng chuckled: "You really are something else..."

"Really what?" Pei Yuan stared intently at her, eager to hear what she would say next.

Bai Yuheng's face flushed as if burned when she met his gaze. She turned away, pursed her lips, and mumbled, "Nothing..."

Pei Yuan wanted to ask more questions, but Cui Mingcan suddenly appeared out of nowhere, hooked her arm around Pei Yuan's shoulder, and asked loudly without any sense of propriety, "Little Yu'er, where are we headed this time?"

Pei Yuan coldly brushed his hand away, wishing he could cast a silencing spell and an invisibility spell on the person in front of him as well, each one more obnoxious than the last.

Cen Ying retorted, "All you did last night was eat and sleep, didn't you? You didn't listen to anything we said, did you?"

"I was just starving..." Cui Mingcan complained. Everyone had clearly used up a lot of spiritual energy, but everyone replenished it in different ways. Some people could simply meditate and recite a few lines of the Heart Sutra, while others needed to cultivate for another ten or twenty years. But he was the only one who needed to eat like crazy, like a locust swarm passing by. After eating, he was overcome with drowsiness and could fall asleep standing up. He slept for three days and three nights before he recovered.

As a result, Cen Ying laughed at him, saying that he must have been a pig reincarnated in his past life, otherwise how could he eat and sleep so much that he couldn't be woken up even when it thundered.

Li Tiankuo suppressed a laugh and coughed lightly: "Xiao Can is just different from us. She is the chosen one, one of a kind. She can eat and sleep well, isn't that great?"

Cui Mingcan glared, panting, and said, "Fine! Li Tiankuo, when did you learn to make fun of people! You dare to laugh at me? I'll teach you a lesson!"

"Alright, alright, why are you two still acting like children..." Bai Yuheng stopped the two who were fighting and bickering, so as not to hurt the innocent people next to them.

"snort!!"

Cui Mingcan snorted with his nostrils flared, then asked, "So where are we going this time?"

I'm really itching to find out the details.

Bai Yuheng looked at the vast river surface, bathed in the warm orange sunlight, and smiled, "Let's head north!"

"Let's go to the capital!"