The crowd remained silent for a long while.

Liu Ying scoffed, breaking the silence, and said, "Liu Nian, you were my nine-tailed fox in your past life, and in this life you are my younger sister who grew up with me. I know you better than anyone."

"If you're going to brag, at least come up with something believable! Digging a Buddha pond and stunning the Roc? That's something even Nan Hua and Yin Shan Jun couldn't do, let alone you!"

Master Nanhua looked at Liu Ying with a hint of helplessness and reminded her, "Yingying, the restriction she placed on your mother is something that neither Yin Shanjun nor I can remove."

Liu Ying felt a little embarrassed after hearing this: It's one thing for others to slap me in the face, but Nan Hua, you and Qingqiu have a long-standing relationship, why are you jumping out to slap me in the face too?

Although she was dissatisfied, she didn't show it on the surface. Instead, she lowered her head meekly, almost saying, "I know I was wrong." It was precisely because she always acted this way, or appeared pitiful and whimpering, that she successfully won the hearts of many people.

Yin Shanjun asked, puzzled, "Miss Liu Nian, there's something I don't understand. You said you dug a Buddhist pond, but where did you put it after you dug it? Later you said you wanted water, not the pond, so you returned the pond. So where did you put the water from the pond?"

Chu Nian simply stored them in her Soul Ruins. Everyone said that the water of the Buddha Pool could dissolve all things, but she didn't feel anything special about it; it was just very powerful Buddhist energy.

In the interstellar world, coveting various energy mines, she deliberately imitated their composition to learn how to condense veins. Since Buddhist teachings are also energy, she condensed them into veins and temporarily stored them within a mountain in the Ruins of Souls.

But Chu Nian had no intention of mentioning the Ruins of Souls to these people, so she gave a perfunctory reply: "I just put it into one of my little spaces."

Bai Jiuxiao frowned and asked, "Small space? Where did you get a small space?"

Chu Nian: "What's it to you?" she said, rolling her eyes again.

Zhao Feiyang couldn't help but laugh when he saw her like this.

Chu Nian questioned, "What kind of expression is that?"

Zhao Feiyang whispered to her, "Your eye roll is so cute, you're trying to please Bai Jiuxiao's mother, aren't you!"

Chu Nian chuckled and said, "Now you can imagine why Li Shuangshuang blushed when you were always talking about her!"

Zhao Feiyang was taken aback, then his face turned bright red.

Chu Nian laughed out loud this time, patted his shoulder and said, "Alright, let's go back to the underworld!"

As soon as she said this, she noticed that everyone's expressions were rather strange, especially Liu Ying, whose face was full of sarcasm.

Then Liu Ying laughed and said, "Fifth Sister, you must not know that this Lord Zhao Feiyang once contacted the Northern Emperor of the Underworld!"

"The Northern Emperor is truly a master. After hearing Lord Zhao's account of the events, he already deduced that you were going to the Underworld. So, he left Lord Zhao with a message: if Lord Zhao dares to take you to the Underworld, then you should never return to the Underworld again." *Pfft…* He couldn't help but burst out laughing after saying that.

"Oh..." Chu Nian said with a meaningful smile, then turned to Zhao Feiyang and asked, "Have you already contacted your Emperor?"

Zhao Feiyang nodded.

Chu Nian: "He actually guessed that I was going to the underworld?"

Zhao Feiyang nodded again.

Chu Nian raised her lips and sneered, saying, "He has amnesia and doesn't remember that I'm his master. Yet we still have such a good understanding! It seems that some things are etched into one's bones and cannot be forgotten even if one wants to."

After speaking, she was silent for a moment, then said to Zhao Feiyang, "Fine, since he doesn't want me to go to the underworld, then you can go back by yourself!"

Zhao Feiyang asked in surprise, "You're not going to the underworld?" This woman doesn't usually seem like the type to be so obedient!

Chu Nian nodded and said very seriously, "Yes, I'm not going now."

Zhao Feiyang looked at her suspiciously: This woman's specialty is spouting nonsense with a straight face...

Chu Nian said helplessly, "What do you mean by looking at me like that? Don't you believe me? Fine, since that's the case, I'll go home first. You guys can go wherever you want, is that alright?" After saying that, she rode the wind and transformed into a flash of light, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Feiyang looked at the empty space in the direction she had gone and was still a little incredulous that she would be so easy to talk to.

Liu Ying gave a light snort and said, "You're just going to let her go like that?"

Everyone looked at her with a sense of helplessness: If they didn't want her to leave, who could stop her?

Liu Ying continued, "Tell me, how much of what she said is true? And there's something else I don't understand: how exactly did she leave Mount Ling? Did she follow us all the way here?"

How come I didn't detect her presence until she appeared? Was her concealment ability really so strong that even Nan Hua couldn't detect her? But even if Nan Hua couldn't detect her, couldn't the powerful defensive barriers of Mount Ling detect her? This... how is that possible?

Bai Jiuxiao was a little dumbfounded and murmured, "Yingying, why do you have so many questions?"

Liu Ying: "I still have so many questions to ask! Don't you all think Liu Nian is strange?"

Zhao Feiyang rambled on, saying, "In my opinion, such highly skilled people are all so strange."

Liu Ying scoffed again, saying, "What kind of expert is she? She's my Nine-Tailed Fox; all her abilities originate from me."

Zhao Feiyang: "Miss Liu Ying, you really are..." You overestimate yourself. However, because several seniors were present, and they all seemed to have a connection with Liu Ying, he didn't say it aloud.

Yin Shanjun earnestly advised Liu Ying, "Miss Liu, from the moment she was severed from you by the Golden-Winged Roc and fell into the Buddha Pool, she was no longer the nine-tailed creature you lost. In my opinion, her abilities did not originate from you, but rather a large part of them came from the Buddha Pool."

Nan Hua agreed with this, otherwise how could one explain why that woman was so powerful at such a young age? So he nodded to Liu Ying.

Zhao Feiyang sighed somewhat nervously and said, "Seniors, this junior must return to the underworld to report back."

Yin Shanjun nodded and said, "Go back and tell your master that this matter between Nanhua and me is not over yet." This meant that he would hold him accountable again.

Zhao Feiyang could only give an awkward laugh, quickly clasped his hands in a traditional greeting to everyone, then activated the boundary stone, opening a gate to the underworld in the void. He nodded to everyone again as a greeting, and then stepped into the gate.

Liu Ying pouted and said to Bai Jiuxiao, "Mother, I still don't understand how Liu Nian escaped from Lingshan. By the way, what did those two lines on the note she left behind mean?"