Soul-Gathering Stream, separated by a stream, two worlds.

Just like before, it's not a suitable place for training, so naturally, not many people come.

The last time the Soul-Staying Valley was the most lively was when Liu Yunqing led his friends on an adventure and when Liu Yunzhao tested them.

In the end, they were outmaneuvered by Liu Yunqing and suffered heavy losses.

Upon further reflection, Liu Yunqing realized that it was after the Soul-Stealing Valley that the remnant soul within Liu Yunzhao began to appear and cause trouble more frequently.

After that, Liu Yunzhao stopped bothering me and instead focused a lot of energy on the wisp of remnant soul within my body.

Only when that wisp of remnant soul appears does it attack me without warning.

Liu Yunqing was thinking about her last visit to the Soul-Gathering Abyss, while her eyes and divine sense scanned her surroundings. After confirming that there was no one else around, she concealed herself and stepped into the Soul-Gathering Abyss.

The wandering souls and vengeful spirits in the Soul-Staying Valley still stained the air black, but this time, wherever Liu Yunqing passed, a passage automatically opened up for one person to pass through.

As Liu Yunqing strolled past, the wandering spirits and vengeful ghosts gathered behind her again, as if no one had ever passed by.

When Liu Yunqing reached the spiritual energy platform where she and Wuchen had first arrived, she felt a gentle force enveloping her. When her feet touched the ground, Liu Yunqing had already entered the earth's core and was swept into it by the mother tree.

"Good boy, you're here."

"You know?"

Looking up at the golden, radiant mother tree, Liu Yunqing asked.

The leaves of the mother tree rustled softly, their loving sound carrying a tolerant smile.

"Yes, come on, put it in that stinking puddle."

Liu Yunqing nodded and walked to the edge of the stinking water without hesitation. With a thought, a strong and tall purple vine suddenly plunged into the foul-smelling black water.

"How are you feeling? Are you feeling any better?"

As soon as Liu Yunqing finished speaking, he realized he had asked a stupid question.

The sewage had been there for who knows how long; no matter how powerful the wisteria was, it couldn't have been there so quickly.

"Huh?"

Just as Liu Yunqing was laughing at herself, she heard the mother tree first let out a surprised sound, and then the entire tree's branches and leaves swayed as if trembling with excitement.

"Good boy, where did you get this?"

After a while, Liu Yunqing heard the mother tree ask this question, seemingly with a comfortable sigh.

Liu Yunqing was taken aback by the question. Didn't the mother tree already know?

But now it seems like that's not the case?

Perhaps the wisteria was indeed powerful, truly making things much easier for the mother tree. Noticing the doubt on Liu Yunqing's face, it explained:

"Although I am the mother tree of the Sun Realm, it does not mean that I know everything."

"The Way of Heaven is unfathomable. The more entangled people and things are with the cause and effect of the Way of Heaven, the less I can see them clearly."

"I only knew that you brought something that could purify impurities, but I didn't know that it was actually my companion spirit."

Liu Yunqing nodded, easily grasping the key point in Mother Tree's words.

What does it mean to be entangled with the cause and effect of the Heavenly Dao?

"Since the Way of Heaven is unfathomable, how can one become entangled with its cause and effect?"

This time, the mother tree didn't give a direct answer. Instead, it stretched out a branch, its leaves brushing against Liu Yunqing's hair, and said gently:

"It's the answer you're looking for."

Liu Yunqing was taken aback. What was the answer in her heart?

The self-salvation of the Heavenly Dao of the Sun Realm.

"Therefore, I am the one chosen by Heaven, or a pawn that Heaven has already laid out."

Was I too stupid a pawn in my past life, so I'm trying to set things right in this one?

"If I am chosen by Heaven, then who chose the Daughter of Destiny?"

That wisp of a remnant soul?

However, based on her few encounters with that remnant soul, Liu Yunqing did not believe that its performance would convince the powerful ancestors of the Sun Realm.

In his previous life, Liu Yunqing was unaware of the existence of that remnant soul, and Liu Yunzhao was indeed far more successful than in this life.

In this life, after Liu Yunqing's involvement, she always felt that Liu Yunzhao's side sometimes seemed to have been forcibly de-intelligented, including that wisp of remnant soul that was said to be extremely powerful.

The mother tree did not directly answer Liu Yunqing's question, but instead spoke from the side:

"Don't overthink it. Just stay true to your principles and achieve your goals, and the truth will naturally come to light."

Liu Yunqing bowed and responded, but when she heard the mother tree's voice again, she had already changed the subject.

“When you came this time, I felt that there was something different about you.”

A leaf was placed between Liu Yunqing's eyebrows, probably to check on his condition. In the next instant, the leaf spontaneously combusted without fire, turning into a wisp of spiritual smoke and dissipating into the air.

The mother tree remained silent.

But Liu Yunqing could sense its genuine surprise.

However, the mother tree was not persistent. Knowing that there were probably some things about Liu Yunqing that could not be examined, she stopped investigating and instead gave Liu Yunqing some instructions before sending her directly out of the Earth's core.

Upon returning to the Soul-Gathering Valley, Liu Yunqing felt much more at ease knowing that he had completed the task entrusted to him by the Mother Tree.

As she slowly walked up the Soul-Gathering Stream, just before stepping out of it, Liu Yunqing stopped.

Something's not right.

My heart was pounding so fast that the hairs on the back of my head stood on end.

There's probably something waiting for her outside this Soul-Gathering Valley.

Liu Yunqing thought of Qi Yunguang, and of the person who could withstand Qi Yunguang's attack.

Thinking this, Liu Yunqing slowly withdrew the step she was about to take and then retreated step by step back into the depths of the Soul-Stealing Abyss.

Liu Yunqing trusted her intuition.

And her intuition about danger certainly didn't lie to her.

...

"Are you sure they've entered the Soul-Gathering Abyss? Why haven't they come out yet?"

Outside the Soul-Gathering Valley, a handsome young male cultivator was gently waving a folding fan, his eyes desperately trying to pierce through the black mist and see where Liu Yunqing was.

It's a pity he can't enter the Soul-Gathering Ravine, otherwise he wouldn't need to wait outside; he could just rush in and grab the female cultivator.

The man waiting outside the Soul-Stealing Gorge to capture Liu Yunqing complained that the gorge prevented him from advancing, unaware that if Liu Yunqing knew the truth, he would secretly be overjoyed.

However, Liu Yunqing was indeed a little puzzled as to why the people outside were just waiting for her to come in and catch her instead of doing so.

But these curiosities didn't take up much of Liu Yunqing's time.

After retreating to the depths of the Soul-Stealing Abyss, Liu Yunqing felt that he couldn't just sit idly by, so he took out the beads he had obtained from fighting wandering souls and vengeful spirits in the Soul-Stealing Abyss from his storage items.

Liu Yunqing glanced around at the small spaces that the wandering souls and vengeful spirits had automatically vacated, and without much hesitation, she immersed herself in the beads.

Liu Yunqing was just trying it out, but before he could even finish half a cup of tea in his meditation, he sensed something unusual.

Previously, the beads had yielded no results when he tried to refine them, but now, in the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, Liu Yunqing felt streams of power continuously flowing into his body from the beads.

And those powers were miraculously identical to the powers Liu Yunqing obtained in the Temple of the Sun Valley!