When Bai Ying stepped out of the secret chamber, her spiritual power was contained as deep as an abyss, showing no sign of her previous weakness.
Qi Haoyuan and several elders had been waiting outside for a long time. When they saw her come out, they hurriedly went to greet her.
"How are you? Have your injuries healed?" Qi Haoyuan asked with concern, his gaze carefully examining Bai Ying.
The white-haired elder's eyes were full of satisfaction—it was truly a blessing for the Lingyin Sect to have such a prodigy.
"It's all over now," Bai Ying said to Qi Haoyuan, her brows slightly furrowed.
"By the way, Elder Qi, do you know of any other cultivation sanctuaries that resemble illusionary spaces?"
Bai Ying's voice was calm, but her fingertips unconsciously caressed the eroded jade pendant at her waist.
She desperately wanted to improve her cultivation level quickly.
Even though she is already incredibly powerful at her age, it's still not enough!
The thought of that Void Refinement stage cultivator from Huayang Sect filled her with unease.
In his previous life, after emerging from seclusion, that cultivator killed all the cultivators in Zhongzhou who opposed him in order to unify the region.
Sects that were once enemies of the Huayang Sect were even wiped out.
Bai Ying would never allow such a monster to wipe out the Lingxiao Sect and Lingyin Sect.
She is determined to be strong, and even stronger.
Qi Haoyuan frowned, his white beard fluttering even without wind: "The Enchanted Space can only be visited once in a lifetime. This place is too extraordinary; being able to open it even once is already an extraordinary feat... I don't know of any other place that can compare to the Enchanted Space."
Just as everyone fell silent, a soft rustling of clothes came from a corner. A cultivator who had just handed his soul blood to Bai Ying pushed through the crowd, saying, "Fairy Bai, I know where you're looking for."
Ancestor Qingming bowed respectfully, his eyes gleaming with an unusual light: "During my travels downstream, I discovered a secret realm located deep within the 'Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range' of Zhongzhou. Time flows there at a completely different rate than outside; ten days in the secret realm are equivalent to only one day outside."
Bai Ying's eyes suddenly lit up. "Could you explain in more detail?"
"That secret realm is teeming with demonic beasts, the weakest of which possesses the cultivation of a Nascent Soul cultivator." The Azure Nether Ancestor looked ashamed. "Back then, I barely managed to hold out on the outer perimeter for over a month before retreating due to overwhelming odds. But with Fairy Bai's strength..."
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Ying had already walked slowly to him. "Are you sure the flow of time there is abnormal?"
The Azure Nether Ancestor nodded without hesitation: "Your subordinate swears by his soul and blood."
Where is that place?
"In Zhongzhou."
Bai Ying had no idea that the so-called Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range was actually in the place she had come from, "Zhongzhou".
It seems she needs to go back. This trip will be a good opportunity to visit the Lingxiao Sect; she hasn't seen her fellow disciples in a long time.
"Elder Qi, I need to go to Zhongzhou. Although the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range sounds extremely dangerous, it should also hold considerable opportunities. Would you like to go with me?"
Qi Haoyuan shook his head.
What he lacks most right now is not time, but insight. Placing him in a physical space would actually hinder his insight.
Moreover, the Lingyin Sect is currently preparing for the sect competition, which is the busiest time for everyone in the sect.
"We won't go. You can keep this; it might come in handy."
Bai Ying took a talisman from Qi Haoyuan's hand and immediately looked at him. Her heart was filled with emotion.
This is a life-saving talisman that can block a fatal blow from a cultivator below the Integration Stage.
"This was given to me by my master. Now I'm giving it to you. You little rascal, remember to come back and visit as soon as you become stronger."
"good!"
Three days later, in front of the Lingyin Sect's mountain gate.
Eighteen Nascent Soul cultivators stood solemnly, their uniform black battle robes fluttering in the morning breeze.
The Azure Nether Ancestor stood at the forefront, respectfully presenting a jade slip: "Now, I have planned the route. From the border of Central Continent to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, it will only take seven days at the fastest."
Bai Ying glanced at it and nodded.
"let's go."
With her command, nineteen streaks of light shot into the sky and disappeared into the horizon amidst the admiring gazes of the Lingyin Sect disciples.
At this moment, outside the Lingyin Sect, everyone who wanted to befriend Bai Ying was filled with envy.
"Look! That's the White Fairy's escape light!" A young cultivator pointed excitedly at the sky, his voice trembling. His companion beside him clutched the recording jade slip tightly, wanting to record this historic moment.
An elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect stroked his beard and sighed, "Eighteen Nascent Soul stage experts accompanying us as protectors—such a grand entourage is something even those old monsters in the Central Plains might not have!"
The sect envoys in the front row were extremely envious.
The Xuan Yin Sect envoy said sourly, "If only we had known, we should have spared no effort to win over Fairy Bai back then. Now look what's happened..." His words drew sighs from the crowd. Who could have imagined that the unknown female cultivator from back then would now become someone the entire cultivation world looks up to?
On a distant cliff, Zhou Ying clutched her husband's sleeve tightly, tears blurring her vision.
She gazed greedily at the figure she had longed for day and night—Bai Ying, dressed in snow-white robes, exuded an aura of dominance over the world with every gesture, a far cry from the naive girl she had been when she first returned to the Bai family.
"We...we don't even have the right to speak anymore..." Bai Ying's voice was hoarse. This once spirited head of the family now had graying temples and a hunched back, looking like he was a hundred years old.
Just as the couple were feeling downcast, Bai Ying seemed to sense something and suddenly turned to look in their direction.
Zhou Ying's heart stopped. She subconsciously took half a step forward, only to see her daughter's gaze sweep over her as if she were looking at a stranger. Then, she rode away in a burst of light and disappeared into the sky with the eighteen Nascent Soul cultivators.
Nineteen streaks of light pierced the sky and vanished into the horizon in an instant. Zhou Ying finally collapsed to the ground, sobbing uncontrollably. She finally understood what it meant to be so close yet so far—the daughter she had carried for ten months was now standing at a height she could never reach.
On the Cloud-Viewing Platform at the highest point of the mountain gate, Qi Haoyuan stood with his hands behind his back, his white beard fluttering in the wind. He gazed in the direction the crowd had left, his brows furrowing unconsciously.
"Is the elder worried?" a deacon asked in a low voice.
Qi Haoyuan didn't answer, but only sighed deeply. For some reason, he felt uneasy...
Meanwhile, in a secret chamber somewhere in the Central Plains, thousands of miles away.
An elderly man with white hair and a youthful face slowly opened his eyes, his gaze seemingly flashing with lightning. In the water mirror in front of him, the figures of Bai Ying and her group were reflected.
"Finally you've arrived..." the old man chuckled hoarsely, his laughter filled with a chilling undercurrent. "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Bai Ying."
He raised his hand and cast a spell, switching the scene in the water mirror to the depths of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range—there, a massive and eerie formation was slowly operating, radiating an ominous crimson light...
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