"What? Who? Is there anyone else here besides us?" Ghost Face looked around when he heard Shang Xiye's unusually wary question, and even looked up at the sky above where only one day remained, but he didn't see anyone.

Shang Xiye's brows furrowed: "Didn't you hear someone speaking just now?"

Ghost Face looked at Shang Xiye with a suspicious and disdainful gaze, and shook his head seriously.

The subtext was clearly: "Master, that's enough. What time is it? You still have the mood to lie to me?"

At this moment, Xue Bingling's chanting had ended.

Unlike Shang Xiye and Guimian's somber mood, she seemed very happy that she had successfully saved Shang Xiye.

“Brother Shang, the demonic energy here is very strong. You may have let your divine sense pass through the defensive barrier and been affected by the demonic energy outside, causing you to hallucinate. That’s why you heard sounds that weren’t there before.” Xue Bingling walked happily to Shang Xiye’s side, her eyes sparkling.

"You know this place?" Shang Xiye met Xue Bingling's loving gaze with a calm expression.

His businesslike tone made him appear exceptionally calm and firm.

He seemed oblivious to her emotions, simply calmly dealing with the situation at hand.

Xue Bingling's eyes dimmed slightly, but she wasn't discouraged; her smile remained beautiful: "I'm not entirely sure either, but this place is very similar to some of the legendary stories of our Snow Fox Clan. That's why I jumped in to take a gamble, and I didn't expect it to succeed!"

"Another legend of the Snow Fox Clan. Your Snow Fox Clan certainly has a lot of legends," Ghost Face added sourly.

He also wanted to maintain his composure.

But he couldn't help feeling a pang of jealousy towards this little fox who had hurt his young heart for the first time and who coveted the position of his mistress.

Xue Bingling didn't sense any of Guimian's affection, but she didn't miss a single bit of Guimian's resentment.

However, although Ghost Face was a divine beast, his cultivation level was low and he had not yet taken human form, so Xue Bingling never took him seriously.

Considering he was Shang Xiye's spirit pet, Xue Bingling didn't mind being teased a couple of times.

Her eyes were still fixed on Shang Xiye, and she deliberately brought out the alluring quality of her fox-girl voice to the fullest: "Our Snow Fox Clan does have many legends, and they are all about the extremely distant gods and the Holy Realm. However, ordinary clansmen don't know much about them. Because I am the Holy Maiden of the Snow Fox Clan, it is my duty and mission to memorize these legends."

Seeing her like this, Ghost Face was completely heartbroken.

He turned his head, sat down beside Shang Xiye's robe with his back to Xue Bingling, leaving behind a melancholic and childlike figure.

Shang Xiye glanced down at Er Gouzi, who was unusually sullen for the first time, and didn't respond to Xue Bingling's words.

Looking up, Shang Xiye gave Xue Bingling a very businesslike look that said, "You continue."

"'A dark and demonic land, with magma covering the ground, where demonic dragons lurk in the depths of the abyss, and the only path leading to the underworld is guarded by seventy-two great generals.' This is the legendary description of the place where the power of the God of Life slew the demonic dragon. Doesn't it look a lot like this place?" Xue Bingling's big eyes sparkled as she stared intently at Shang Xiye, her gaze unwavering.

Shang Xiye, however, only sensed an endless crisis in her words: "If what you say is true, then this illusion is based on the scene where the God of Life slays the demon dragon. In that case, what awaits us ahead are seventy-two demon generals and a deep abyss dragon!"

Ghost Face: "!!!"

Xue Bingling: "..."