Geng Qi stayed at Tianzhi Sect for two days, but the righteous sects still made no move. The disciples who went to meet the entrance of the secret realm and the people in the secret realm returned to their respective sects, but the sect leader of Tianzhi Sect had not returned for a long time.

"We're not really going to have our grandmaster go and beg for the antidote, are we?"

He sighed softly.

Rong Yu was behind him, their two naked bodies pressed together, covered by a thin blanket.

What would you do?

His earlobe was being pecked and kissed repeatedly, making it slightly itchy. Geng Qi laughed and tilted his head back to rub the back of his head against his neck. "What else can we do? If someone in our sect were poisoned by this, I would hand over the antidote without hesitation. But now... hehe."

Before he could finish speaking, he burst out laughing.

Rong Yu whispered, "Us?"

"Yes! I went through the apprenticeship ceremony before joining the sect, so don't even think about not doing it..." He said, his face slightly red, "Could you... perhaps you could back out first?"

It started reacting again.

I worked on it all night last night!

Rong Yu asked softly, "Are you tired?"

"It's...it's alright."

His body could withstand his exertions now. After returning from the secret realm, he didn't seem to get sleepy so easily. He also found the process quite enjoyable, so he didn't even hesitate and just gave in.

He didn't know if Rong Yu had actually studied the diagrams he sent, but he knew that the guy was very skilled at using them in practice!

After their passionate encounter, the two embraced on the bed. A black bird flew in through the window, fluttering its wings and landing on the edge of the bed. Geng Qi noticed it, but the other man's hand still lingered on his waist and hips. Helplessly, he pushed the person on top of him away and said, "Wait a minute..."

Rong Yu then waited considerately for a while.

The message from Shepuzhu appeared before the two of them, and Gengqi raised an eyebrow and said, "Qinghan ran away."

Rong Yu said, "You knew all along?"

“I heard it,” Geng Qi said. “That day, the Demon Realm was surrounded. The royal family’s national advisor recognized Qing Han and must have said something to him when he left. So Qing Han followed him to Sangzhong City.”

It must have taken a lot of agonizing to get to the point where it took so many days to run.

Rong Yu pondered for a moment: "Let's go to Sangzhong."

"I won't go!" Geng Qi declared resolutely!

"..."

"Mushan wouldn't concern himself with these matters, and Sister Mei wouldn't use birds to transmit messages, so why was this Shepuzhu sent here?"

Knowing his exact location clearly, it's obvious who sent the message.

People are always so contradictory. They know they shouldn't do something, but they still do it anyway, and then they regret it and try to make amends.

It's clearly a scorpion, but it's more cunning than a fox.

You want him to go and bring Qinghan back again? Dream on!

"Have someone keep an eye on him. He's about to break through to the next level. That silly boy, don't let him get hurt again!"

Although they said they didn't care, they were still worried.

Rong Yu couldn't help but smile and responded softly.

Several more days passed, and the Gu worms in the bodies of those sect disciples began to ferment. They did not have the correct solution and instead stimulated the Gu. Originally, they were just blocking the spiritual veins, but after being stimulated and going crazy, they began to devour the spiritual roots. Once the spiritual roots were destroyed, they would have no hope of cultivation in this lifetime!

Some sects secretly sent messages into the Demon Realm, but received no response.

The major sects began to feel the pressure from their disciples. Those who were afflicted by the Gu were all at the Nascent Soul stage or above. Cultivation was not easy, and the few days of ordinary life were already unbearable for them. The thought of losing their cultivation and gradually growing old, experiencing birth, aging, sickness, and death like ordinary people, filled them with unknown fear that overwhelmed them.

The younger disciples who had just emerged from the secret realm saw their master and uncle suffering and it was as if they saw their future selves in them. Disappointed with their sect, some of them had already requested to leave the sect!

At least the wandering cultivators in the mortal world were never harmed by the demon realm!

More and more people are realizing that leaving the sect is the safest option, and some small sects are already facing disintegration!

The sect leaders and elders of each sect increasingly realized the wicked intentions of the Demon Lord, who used the disciples' suspicion and fear of their sects to cause internal strife, thereby causing the righteous sects to collapse without a fight.

Meanwhile, the Demon Lord, whom the righteous path considered "deeply scheming," was leaning against a ginkgo tree, flipping through an ancient cultivation manual.

These past two days he has been trying to cultivate. The fragments of the Glazed Heart mentioned by the system might really be able to repair the heart meridian. He tried one by one the cultivation methods recorded in the ancient books, drawing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into his body, circulating it through the spiritual meridians, and then gathering it into his dantian.

It's a very strange feeling.

On his first attempt, the spiritual energy he gathered was less than a hair's breadth compared to the vast spiritual energy within his body. However, this was the first time he had increased his spiritual energy through his own cultivation, so he couldn't help but share this joy with others.

Rong Yu was cooking a delicious meal for someone using the makeshift stove he had set up.

The disciples of Tianzhi Sect would never have imagined that a stove would be built on the most sacred Shangxu Peak in the sect, which is so out of place with the serene Shangxu Peak.

However, the reality was that not only was a stove set up, but standing in front of it was none other than their even more unexpected young sect leader!

Rong Yu was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe and wore a silver crown with intricate patterns. The stove was made of jade, crystal clear, and the cooking utensils were made of materials that Geng Qi had never seen before. The man's slender hands never touched the cooking utensils; he could control them with the slightest movement of his fingertips.

The tools and utensils are spiritual artifacts that transcend the mortal world, while the ingredients are just ordinary ingredients. Although it is a bit of a waste, it complements Rong Yu's temperament.

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