"Xiuyuan, I'm sorry. Your father and mother are trapped in a perilous situation and cannot return to Beihefang City. I guess we won't be able to see you one last time. Alas, you've suffered so much these past years. It's all my fault for being so stubborn, bringing you to such a dangerous place..."
"Xiao Yuan, I don't know if you'll see this message... Your mother has missed you terribly these past years. If I had known we would end up in this perilous place, I would have left you more spirit stones. These past years haven't been easy, have they, staying in Beihe Market..."
“Xiao Yuan, if you encounter any obstacles on your path or face any crisis, you can seek help from the Zhou family of the Dayue Yunxiao Sect. Your mother is a direct descendant of the sixth branch of the Zhou family, but our branch has already declined. Back then, due to some internal family infighting, your mother was arranged to marry into a powerful family, so she had no choice but to elope with your father…”
As he put down the jade slip, Lin Xiuyuan couldn't help but wipe away the tears in his eyes.
The jade slip was filled with longing and reluctance. He had initially harbored some resentment, hating his parents for suddenly abandoning him, leaving him with only a few hundred spirit stones and a house with a lease that was less than a year old...
If it weren't for Liao Yong's care, he would probably have ended up either dying in the wild or returning to the mortal realm!
But now that we know all this, how can we blame anyone?
Lin Xiuyuan carefully put away the jade slip containing the bloodline restriction, placing it separately in a small Qiankun bag and hanging it at his waist, before shifting his gaze downwards.
"Father, Mother, rest assured, once I successfully establish my foundation, I will surely ensure your souls return to your homeland!"
Lin Xiuyuan murmured softly, raised his hand and made a hand seal. As his magic power surged out, wisps of fire lit up and gradually formed a huge fireball.
I never imagined my parents came from such a faraway place, from the Great Yue Kingdom, and they even eloped... No wonder in my memory, my father, Lin Cheng, was always in ascetic training; it turns out there was this reason!
This trip to the secret realm was definitely worthwhile. Though fraught with danger, it also held immense opportunities, and I finally discovered my parents' whereabouts, even though...
Lin Xiuyuan sighed, his expression shifting between light and shadow in the flickering firelight.
A moment later, Lin Xiuyuan bent down, collected the ashes, put them into jade bottles, and placed them into the Qiankun bag of the bloodline jade slip.
Lin Xiuyuan turned around, walked calmly toward Chen Xue, and said, "Let's go. This place is too close. Let's find an abandoned cave."
Chen Xue glanced at Lin Xiuyuan, nodded silently, and walked over to let him pick her up.
They sped through the intricate passages once more, continuing their search for the next abandoned cave.
About half an hour later.
Lin Xiuyuan felt he had run far enough that he couldn't remember the way he came, and his magic power was almost exhausted, so he found an abandoned nest nearby.
In addition to setting up a concealment array, Lin Xiuyuan also set up a Gale Array, which is an offensive array that can generate several wind blades to continuously attack and kill enemies. Each wind blade has the power of a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator.
It cost a fortune to acquire, amounting to tens of thousands of spirit stones. Combined with a concealment formation, it is undoubtedly a reliable tool for traversing the wilderness. Even for those who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage, it remains an extremely useful formation.
This formation's offensive is very powerful, but it consumes a lot of spirit stones. A single wind blade attack requires several thousand spirit stones.
Therefore, the spirit stones piled up like small mountains near the main array plate and the four secondary array plates, ready to be consumed at any time.
Besides that, what's missing is a defensive formation, but unfortunately, a good defensive formation plate costs at least 70,000 to 80,000.
Lin Xiuyuan wouldn't even consider ordinary arrays, so he only equipped these two array plates, but that was enough. With the Gale Array, combined with offensive and defensive capabilities, even if Chen Shaorong and his two companions came knocking, they would have the confidence to fight back head-on, unless the other party used talismanic treasures...
"You should recover from your injuries first, then contact the sect's cultivators to find out what happened."
After arranging everything, Lin Xiuyuan spoke to Chen Xue and then went to meditate to recover his magical power.
Chen Xue nodded, then took out several pills, sat cross-legged, and began to refine them with her magic power, smoothing out the disordered spiritual energy in her body and repairing the broken meridians.
After more than half an hour, the medicinal power had spread throughout her body. Chen Xue then slowly refined the medicine by circulating her magic power. Such an injury could not be recovered in a short time. Although it was not too serious, it had damaged her meridians and caused them to break. She could only patiently repair it.
Seeing that the medicinal effects were gradually taking hold, Chen Xue took out a communication jade talisman and began to contact cultivators within the sect, and even other friends.
But as time went on, Chen Xue's expression gradually darkened.
Because, in just a few minutes, she had sent messages to more than ten people, but not a single one had replied!
So……
"What exactly happened? Could they really have been wiped out by the demonic cultivators? That can't be! What did these demonic cultivators do?"
Thinking of this terrible consequence, Chen Xue's face turned extremely gloomy, as if water could drip from it.
The fact that no one replied demonstrates the severity of the situation!
This made Chen Xue feel extremely uneasy and indescribably fearful.
Fortunately, after a while, a slight ripple appeared on the jade slip containing the message.
Chen Xue was delighted and immediately picked it up to examine it.
As Chen Xue examined the information, her expression grew even more somber, but at least she had learned about the situation outside, giving her a glimmer of hope for breaking the deadlock!
"What's wrong?"
At this moment, Lin Xiuyuan, who was meditating and recovering, noticed that Chen Xue's state of mind was fluctuating too much. He frowned, as if he also sensed that the situation was not good. Otherwise, why would Chen Xue have such an expression?
"Fellow Daoist Lin, take a look!"
Chen Xue was overwhelmed by the information and didn't know how to begin, so she simply handed the communication jade talisman to Lin Xiuyuan.
Lin Xiuyuan's expression hardened. After taking the document and examining it, his brows furrowed even more, and the dark look on his face intensified, gradually turning gloomy.
"Elite disciples of the demonic cultivation sects, including top geniuses from all over, have quietly entered the secret realm. The four major demonic sects have joined forces to capture all the cultivators from the Nine Kingdoms Alliance within, intending to wipe them out in one fell swoop, seemingly as sacrifices to seize the Demon King's remains!!!"
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