"Xi Que" Ji Fengyao turned around, reached out and grabbed Xi Que tightly, pulling her to her other side.

Xique was pleased that her young lady had come to see her, but she also knew that with a formidable enemy at hand, it was not the time to speak, so she said nothing more.

"Senior, if my maid or we have accidentally offended you, I apologize to you here; if you feel that a few words of apology are not sincere enough, please tell us what we should do. We will do our best to cooperate if we can do so." Ji Fengyao adopted a very humble attitude.

She's always been very pragmatic; saying a few nice words won't hurt her.

"It's not that you offended me," Shang Beiyu said calmly.

They just took my man before I did.

He stepped forward slowly, and with a wave of his sleeve, he directly shielded Xi Que and Shang Xiye from the outside. Rolling black mist emanated from his body, enveloping him and Ji Fengyao.

Shang Xiye and Xique's hands were still tightly clasped together with Ji Fengyao's, but they could not see what was happening in the fog.

"Yao Yao!"

"Miss!"

Ji Fengyao naturally couldn't hear Shang Xiye and Xique's anxious calls, but she could feel the tense force coming from their hands.

She gently shook their hands in return, indicating that she was alright.

At the same time, she also felt that Shang Xiye and Xi Que gripped her hand even tighter, as if they were afraid that she would be kidnapped at any moment.

"You were originally a cultivator, why are you willing to associate with mortals? Why not come with me and return to the cultivator world to seek immortality?" Shang Beiyu stood in front of Ji Fengyao, his toes almost touching hers.

In a dim, black fog.

Ji Fengyao couldn't see Shang Beiyu, let alone his face;

But Shang Beiyu could clearly see the little female bandit calmly and futilely looking at his face with her clear, water-washed phoenix eyes and her head slightly raised.

Those clear eyes carried a hint of innocent charm; her pure and pretty appearance was very endearing, and the way she raised her head and tilted her chin up was just like waiting for affection.

Shang Beiyu leaned down slightly.

Just as his lips were about to touch Ji Fengyao, Ji Fengyao leaned back slightly as if sensing something: "Senior, do you perhaps want to take me as your disciple? Thank you for your kindness, but unfortunately, I already have a master and cannot abandon my sect to become your disciple."

"You cannot be my disciple," Shang Beiyu said, his voice trembling slightly with emotion. "But you can stay by my side. Mortals only live for a short hundred years, and this world is lacking in spiritual energy. Even if you can teach them cultivation, they will not amount to much. Even if they do, they will never be able to break through the barriers of this world and go to the outside world."

"Why?" Ji Fengyao found it strange: "Since you were able to come to this world, it means that this world must have an entrance and exit that connects to the outside world."

“Because this is a world abandoned by the gods.” When talking about this issue, Shang Beiyu’s voice was tinged with coldness and detachment: “This is a world that has been abandoned, a prison and a dead land that has cut off all paths of life and death.”

The spiritual energy in this world will slowly be depleted, and resources and species will gradually become extinct until the seas dry up, the rocks crumble, and the stars disintegrate, completely disappearing.

There is no way out in this world;

The last teleportation portal connecting this world was completely destroyed more than twenty years ago.

"What!" Ji Fengyao was shocked.