"It was...it was I who opened the barrier myself," Qin Wan said, her face pale.

Murong Yan looked at her in surprise, seemingly puzzled as to why she would do such a thing.

Before he entered meditation, he did indeed tell Qin Wan how to open the barrier.

But he never imagined that it was not Feng Yi who opened the barrier, but Qin Wan herself.

Under Murong Yan's puzzled gaze, Qin Wan bit her lower lip lightly, her eyes darting away as if she didn't want to continue.

Taking in her changing expression, Murong Yan asked a question as if possessed...

"Junior sister, are you worried that Feng Yi will disturb my cultivation?"

Qin Wan looked up in surprise, the look of astonishment in her eyes caught by Murong Yan in time.

The truth is actually like this...

With a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, Murong Yan was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Senior brother, don't blame yourself. I'm perfectly fine, nothing's wrong with me."

"Besides, I have so many magical treasures given to me by my father, so even if Feng Yi wanted to hurt me, it wouldn't be so easy."

Qin Wan's understanding nature made Murong Yan's already chaotic thoughts even more complicated.

[Murong Yan's favorability increased by 5, current favorability is 63.]

"Senior brother, I'm really fine."

Seeing that Murong Yan remained silent for a long time, Qin Wan suddenly became agitated and struggled to get up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, the outer robe she was wearing slipped off, exposing her fair and alluring shoulders to the air once again.

Murong Yan's brow twitched, and he immediately turned his head to avoid the scene.

"Put your clothes on first," Murong Yan said in a deep voice.

"good."

Qin Wan struggled to pull up her outer robe and tie the belt.

"Alright," Qin Wan said softly.

"Can you stand up?" Murong Yan asked again.

"I...will give it a try."

As she spoke, Qin Wan struggled to get up, but after only a second, she swayed and fell backward.

It was only thanks to Murong Yan's timely intervention that she was able to catch him and avoid falling.

"You've just undergone a cleansing and marrow-refining process, and haven't even started cultivating yet. Your internal meridians and bones are being reshaped, and you've invested a lot of effort..."

"Don't force yourself if you can't stand up."

As he spoke, Murong Yan noticed that she hadn't changed her clothes yet.

"Didn't you bring any clothes?" Murong Yan asked.

"I brought it... but I don't have the strength to put it on right now," Qin Wan explained softly.

Murong Yan: "..."

"Rest for a while and change your clothes when you've recovered your strength."

"Um."

After a brief exchange, neither of them spoke again for a while.

An eerie silence fell over the vast cave.

Qin Wan would glance at Murong Yan every now and then, and then...

Even though Murong Yan was distracted at the moment, he still noticed Qin Wan's little actions.

"...I'm not angry."

Murong Yan's slightly helpless voice came through.

"Really?" Qin Wan asked cautiously.

"Hmm." Murong Yan looked up and stared directly at her, allowing her to see the sincerity in his eyes.

Seeing this, Qin Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension and unease in her eyes completely disappeared.

Taking in Qin Wan's series of reactions, Murong Yan felt a complex mix of emotions.

Qin Wan probably didn't even realize that she had changed drastically ever since they were trapped in the spatial rift...

He lost the confidence he had in Tianyuan Sect and became uneasy and fearful.

Thinking of this, a hint of speculation flashed across Murong Yan's eyes...

"Are you... afraid of the dark?" Murong Yan suddenly asked.

Upon hearing this, Qin Wan was taken aback, then shook her head, "I'm not afraid."

Not afraid of the dark...

"I'm not afraid of the dark."

"It is...it is one person."

Murong Yan looked up at her in surprise.

Qin Wan seemed to recall unpleasant memories from the past, and a faint sense of loss appeared in her eyes.

"Father is the sect leader of Tianyuan Sect, in charge of all the sect's affairs..."

"Shortly after I was born, he faced a breakthrough in his cultivation and had to go into seclusion to cultivate."

"At that time, my two senior brothers had not yet become my father's disciples. During that period, I stayed alone on Wuwang Peak..."

"Later, when my father emerged from seclusion, I was sent to the tutelage of True Monarch Fengyi on Shangqing Peak..."

“True Lord Fengyi doesn’t like to go into seclusion, but I can’t cultivate, and he doesn’t like to see me either…”

So she was still all alone on Shangqing Peak.

He lost his mother at a young age.

He has been alone since childhood.

Feng Yi wouldn't make things difficult for a child like her, but because he disliked her, he inevitably didn't want to see her and didn't treat her well.

As the head of a sect, Qin Ge has to manage the entire sect, cultivate, and has too many other things to worry about.

She might not be afraid of the dark.

But in the darkness, he entered into meditation, while she remained alone...

"sorry."

Murong Yan apologized to her again.

Qin Wan shook her head, "It's not my senior brother's fault."

"It's my own inability to overcome this inner conflict."

“Senior brother, you have already taken good care of me. I know that your situation was critical at the time, but even so, you still withdrew from your cultivation to take care of me.”

"Senior brother, you've done very well, really."

She was so well-behaved that it broke your heart...

[Murong Yan's favorability increased by 5, current favorability is 68.]

The difference between before and after falling in love is truly significant.

Before she fell in love, his favorability rating increased very sparingly, only rising by 2 points each time.

After falling in love, his favorability rating immediately skyrocketed, increasing by 5 points at a time.

Half an hour later.

Qin Wan regained some of her strength, and Murong Yan left the cave while she stayed inside to change her clothes.

Halfway through...

"ah!"

The woman's startled cry suddenly rang out.

At the cave entrance, Jiang Liufeng and Nie Xiao were about to question Murong Yan about why he had attacked them and why he had driven them out of the cave.

Before the two brothers could even speak, they were interrupted by a sudden female voice.

The two exchanged a glance and thought to themselves, "This is bad."

At the same time, Murong Yan had already appeared in the cave.

Seeing the icy spring suddenly rise into the sky, Murong Yan immediately stepped forward and shielded Qin Wan, who was about to be submerged by the icy spring, into his arms.

"This is……"

"A tribulation at the Nascent Soul stage," Murong Yan said in a deep voice.

Tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage?

Someone who can disregard the laws of the abyss and forcibly break through to the Nascent Soul stage...

There was no one else but Feng Yi.

Qin Wan and Murong Yan exchanged a glance.

"When I woke up, I was in this icy pool, but I didn't see Feng Yi," Qin Wan said.

"However, the last person I saw before losing consciousness in the spatial rift was indeed him."

"It seems he has gained a great opportunity at the bottom of this icy pool," Murong Yan said in a deep voice.

Immediately, Murong Yan seemed to realize something, his eyes darkened, and his expression became very gloomy and unpleasant.

As the two patriarchs of the Tianyuan Sect had said, Qin Wan gained a glimmer of hope because of Feng Yi and officially became one of the many cultivators in the cultivation world.

But what Qin Wan just said meant that she was able to obtain this opportunity not out of Feng Yi's good intentions!

Feng Yi knew she was a mortal, yet he still threw her into this icy pool... His sinister intentions are obvious!

Even cultivators whose cultivation level has not reached the Golden Core stage will suffer damage to their cultivation foundation or even death if they fall into this icy pool!