Having learned the reason, Tianning understood why Ye Yiyi had been so resistant before.

Tian Ning said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I will never tell Fellow Daoist Ye that I want to become a cultivator."

"Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​this is none of your business." Not everyone can know about other people's past. Yan Xiu is rare to begin with. Tian Ning's previous words were perfectly normal. Pang Yi brought it up mainly because she was worried that it would cause conflict within their team. It's better to clarify things when problems arise.

Tianning treated them so well, and Pang Yi trusted her too.

I believe Tianning will never be like some people before, looking at Ye Yiyi as if she were a monster after learning that Ye Yiyi's slip of the tongue caused the death of her own younger brother.

When Tianning and Pang Yi returned, Ye Yiyi was in much better condition, and Gao Yue had already used a cleansing spell to remove the unpleasant bloodstains from his body, though he still felt a sticky, bloody smell on him. There was no cover in this place, making it inconvenient to change clothes; he planned to change after they left.

Ye Yiyi held several sheets of paper in her hand, filled with apologies she wanted to say to Tianning for her bad attitude earlier.

When she saw Tianning, she hurriedly found the piece of paper she was most satisfied with and handed it to him.

Tianning now views Ye Yiyi through a filter, thinking, "Look how wonderful this little girl is! It's such a pity she had to go through such a thing in her childhood!"

So, Tianning grabbed a handful of top-grade Rejuvenation Pills and stuffed them into Ye Yiyi's hand: "Fellow Daoist Ye, look how thin you are! Eat more!"

Ye Yiyi: "..."

She looked at her like a worried old mother.

Tianning: "Are there enough children?"

"That's not enough, I have more here!"

Pang Yi: "..."

Gao Yue: "..."

As a cultivator specializing in alchemy, Gao Yue couldn't help but say, "Fellow Daoist Tian... my third senior sister can't eat that much... she'll explode and die..."

Tianning: "..."

I almost forgot about that.

Ye Yiyi refused to accept it and hurriedly pushed the top-grade Rejuvenation Pill back to Tianning. She wrote too slowly and could only turn to Pang Yi, who could understand her meaning, for help.

Pang Yi understood her meaning, and fearing that Tian Ning would try to force another top-grade pill on her, she quickly spoke up:

“Fellow Daoist, we were able to enter the Immortal Island Secret Realm entirely thanks to you for providing the spirit stones, the Fuxi Qin, and the coffin where my second junior brother is lying. We really can’t afford these top-grade pills now…”

Cultivators have always believed in cause and effect, and Pang Yi felt that they owed Tian Ning far too much!

Without Tianning, they wouldn't even be able to enter the Immortal Island Secret Realm.

Not to mention that Tianning found what he wanted in just one day, and now he's even helping them search for their junior uncle.

Seeing their refusal, Tianning did not press the matter.

Ultimately, as a woman herself, she naturally understood even more how painful Ye Yiyi's misfortune was. The phenomenon of valuing sons over daughters still exists even in another technologically advanced time and space.

After the brief incident, the group stopped to rest for a while.

Gao Yue frowned as he looked at the headless monsters on the ground: "What exactly are these things...?"

As a pill refiner, he knew a lot about beasts, because pill refining sometimes required materials from beasts, but he had never seen such a monster before.

"It's a person."

Tian Ning spoke up, answering his question.

"A person!" Gao Yue's eyes widened in disbelief.

But after Tianning said that, upon closer inspection, these monsters do look like humans because they have less fur than monkeys. But how could a normal person turn into this?

Gao Yue speculated, "Could it be that these people turned out this way because they stayed in the poisonous fog for a long time?"

Recalling the strange white bones he had seen after landing, Gao Yue felt a chill run down his spine. If they couldn't leave, would they end up like these monsters...?

The more he let his mind wander, the more panicked he became.

"Could it be that Junior Uncle has also become one of these monsters?"

"Don't talk nonsense, Junior Uncle is a lucky man, he'll be fine!" Pang Yi immediately shut Gao Yue up. They had already come this far, and they had to come in and find Junior Uncle no matter what.

Continuing to speculate won't yield any results, so after resting, the four of them carried the coffin and continued on their way.

We encountered an attack by a swarm of bats along the way.

Tianning's earlier guess was correct. The bats here had lived in the poisonous fog for a long time and had mutated. Their sharp fangs were extremely terrifying, and their faces had become incredibly ugly. At first, they almost didn't recognize that thing as a bat.

Even with fire talismans, Tianning couldn't burn away the swarm of black bats. Fortunately, Qiuqiu breathed fire in time and killed a large number of them.

But the fresh blood of the monks was incredibly delicious to the mutated bats; as soon as one group was burned to death, another group would appear, so they could only run forward as fast as they could to escape.

They ran for an unknown distance until the four of them entered an abandoned hall. The bats were kept outside by a barrier, which provided them with temporary safety.

"Where...where is this place..." Gao Yue was panting heavily as he ran along the coffin. He was truly envious of his second senior brother inside, who was so comfortable.

Tianning guessed: "The Hall of Inheritance?"

She had heard from her third senior sister that if she was lucky, she would encounter the inheritance hall left behind by a major sect, and she could obtain the opportunity by passing the test.

It's strange, though. This crack is so bizarre, could there have been a sect there before?

Pang Yi also felt something was off: "Could this still be an illusion?"

Tian Ning shook his head; the grand hall before him was indeed real.

However, ever since entering the barrier, she inexplicably felt that something was watching their every move, as if it were monitoring them.

"Let's go in and take a look."

At worst, we'll deal with whatever comes our way.

Four people pulled the coffin into the main hall—

Tian Ning's premonition was correct. In the hidden space deep within the main hall, several demonic cultivators whose souls were sealed there were greedily looking at these young bodies. Over the centuries, very few cultivators had been able to enter this place.

Unexpectedly, not long after the arrival of a boy with a naturally demonic physique, several young cultivators arrived, which made them eager to make their move.