After the toxins were fully eliminated and An Zhisu's physical condition was completely stabilized, Ling Yunpo finally had time to look around.

To be honest, although he has been practicing the Huafu cultivation for more than 500 years, he has just realized the real benefits of it.

The more perfect and flawless the Jade Palace is, the faster the Qi Sea rotates, and the faster the probability of regenerating true essence from the Qi Sea is.

An Zhisu had been fighting in the miasma for a while when the miasma poison had already entered his body and he could not save himself. Ling Yunpo had not rested from beginning to end, and the speed at which the poison spread in his body's true essence was not as fast as the speed at which his qi sea regenerated true essence.

After carrying his senior sister who was no longer seriously injured, Ling Yunpo carefully looked around.

This underwater ruins... No, it wasn't supposed to be underwater.

The corridor we just came in has steps, but the underwater passage does not require steps at all (after all, there is buoyancy), so the ruins here should have been in a sunken valley somewhere.

Later, the valley was flooded and the entrance to the ruins became the bottom of a deep pool, which is why it was occupied by a poisonous dragon.

However, it seems that the terrain of the entire ruins is gradually upward from the entrance to the depths, so up to this point, the ruins behind have not been eroded by water... As for whether the poisonous dragon has entered inside, no one knows.

Ling Yunpo's inclination is that he should have been in there, because the dragon has at least reached the transformation stage, which means it has intelligence close to that of humans.

When faced with ruins like this, it is unlikely that someone has never explored them.

After taking An Zhisu for a tour inside, Ling Yunpo confirmed that the ruins had indeed been looted and nothing was left.

Standing in the central hall, Ling Yunpo began to think again:

Logically speaking, for a swordsman who has reached the great perfection of the Golden Core Realm, it would be easy for him to deal with a dragon.

But the Crazy Sword Immortal was crazy after all, so who knew? What if he suddenly made a mistake and revealed some flaws...

No, I still have to get closer to the surface to confirm.

Ling Yunpo was thinking this when he heard Kunlun Mirror suddenly say:

“There’s room underneath.”

"Ah?" Ling Yun was stunned for a moment, then he lowered his head to look down at his feet.

The ground under my feet is made of bluestone. Although it is covered with dust, if I look closely... there does seem to be some kind of scratches, but because of the long time, they have been filled with a lot of dust.

Ling Yunpo then pulled out the Qingping Sword and used a move called Empty Mountain New Rain, then used the water-based sword energy to remove the thick dust and stone chips on the ground, revealing the original formation path.

Um……

Ling Yunpo looked at it carefully for a long time, and felt that it was not a formation, but more like...

footwork?

If you look closely, you will see that all the lines are made up of arcs, and the radius is basically equal to a person's stride length.

If Qingping Sword had not taught him the Fenyun Bagua Step, Lingyunpo might not have thought of this direction, but now he immediately recognized that this arc was the moving trajectory of a person's heel.

This is a footwork.

He lowered his head and studied it for a while, and realized that this footwork seemed to have the same origin as the Fenyun Bagua Step, but it was obviously much more complicated and mysterious.

Perhaps when Taoist Master Daoye came here, he found a clue from somewhere and knew that this footwork was hidden here... Of course, it has been so long that there is no way to verify it.

Ling Yunpo followed the lines and performed this step completely.

Just after taking the last step, the ground suddenly shook, and then quickly cracked, collapsed, and sank along the cracks.

Ling Yunpo quickly controlled the magic sword, grabbed Senior Sister An who was almost falling with him, and then slowly flew down.

There seemed to be a natural crack under the floor, which was bottomless to the naked eye. With constant earthquakes and shaking, countless small rocks fell along the edge, and there was no echo of hitting the ground at all.

Ling Yunpo had no choice but to release a small universal clear sound light spell to illuminate the surrounding environment.

I don't know how long it took before a faint outline finally appeared below.

It wasn't some huge fortress or palace, but a huge, dead tree.

Um, trees?

"Ajing...this tree?" Ling Yunpo did not dare to land directly, but asked Kunlun Jing cautiously.

"Dead." Kunlun Mirror gave a positive answer, "It was a tree demon."

"Tree demon." Ling Yunpo was a little surprised.

Among the demons and monsters, the rarest ones should be dead things that have become spirits, followed by plants. Tree demons are not uncommon, but such a big tree demon... Ling Yunpo has never seen one before.

He landed carefully at the bottom and saw that the tree was about ten feet tall, without leaves and with dry branches. It was indeed dead.

Near the roots of the tree, there is a piece of peeled bark.

Under the bark was the upper body of a woman, tenderly hugging a skeleton. The skeleton was wearing a tattered Taoist robe, which looked like it was neither from the Three Pure Ones and Six Paths nor from the Chan and Jie sects.

Ling Yunpo looked carefully and found that the woman's lower body was almost melted into the tree trunk, or in other words...

"Stupid! This woman is a tree demon." Qing Ping Jian reminded him, "After the tree demon died, its body could not maintain its shape, so it turned into a half-grown tree. This tree demon obviously committed suicide by destroying its own dantian."

"What about this skeleton?" Ling Yunpo asked again.

"Probably her husband." Kunlun Mirror guessed.

"A Jing, don't be in love." Ling Yunpo said dissatisfiedly, "How can you tell that they are lovers?"

"Look at the expression on her face. Isn't it very similar to the expression your Senior Sister An gave you?" Kunlun Jing defended.

Ling Yunpo took a look and found that it really was like that. The tenderness between her eyebrows was as gentle as water, and the love inside was almost overflowing.

"Oh, I remember now." Qing Ping Jian also said suddenly, "The Taoist robe on the skeleton was worn by the Taoist master of the ancient Emei Sword Sect."

"So you are from Emei Sword Sect." Ling Yunpo nodded.

What a pity, this skeleton is a human!

Hey, you two are of different races, how can you two be in love?

"I guess this is another tragedy of that era." Qing Ping Jian sighed, "The confrontation between humans and demons is the trend and fashion of the whole world, but there are occasionally some people who go against the trend, such as interracial love..."

"Do you think they are okay?" Kunlun Jing asked in astonishment.

"Problem?" Qing Ping Jian asked again, and then answered, "How can there be a problem? It's not up to you to decide which race you are reborn into."

"Even if it was like the Sun Sword Master, who fell in love with a demon and caused great losses to the human race, I just felt it was a pity. If it were now, how could there be such problems?"

Ling Yunpo listened silently and had to admit that it was true.

In ancient times, falling in love with a demon was almost a capital crime of treason; but now that the human race has ruled the world of cultivation for more than 100,000 years, the spirit of racial struggle has long been almost extinct.

Even if a Shushan disciple was out for training and passed by a village, and heard that someone in the village had married a demon woman, he would kill the person or not depending on his mood.

If you are in a good mood and have heard that the other party, although a demon, has not done any bad things, then just pretend you didn't see anything and walk away. This kind of thing is likely to happen nine out of ten times.

Otherwise, if she destroyed the demon, she would be hated and hostile by her human husband, which would be very unlucky.

Ling Yunpo collected his thoughts, perked up, and began to examine the bodies of the tree demon and the skeleton.

Sure enough, a storage bag that had not decayed was found at the waist of the skeleton's Taoist robe.