"I've finally waited for you..."
The familiar voice and the familiar face—it was Ouyang Yan, whom Bai Hao had always been thinking about!
At this moment, Ouyang Yan stood unharmed under the big tree, looking at Bai Hao. A weight was finally lifted from Bai Hao's heart. He excitedly rushed over, grasped Ouyang Yan's delicate hand, and carefully examined her from head to toe.
"Ouyang, I'm so glad you're alright."
Before this, he was really afraid that something would happen to others. The extent of the world's devastation far exceeded his imagination. What he was seeing now was just the tip of the iceberg.
Without the power of solar lightning or a weapon blessed by it, one can hardly move an inch in this world and is constantly under attack from those whose souls are separated from their bodies.
The Cold Moon Sect is a case in point. Of the ten members, most of them have died because of the curse and corruption, their souls leaving their bodies.
Therefore, Bai Hao was always worried that something might have happened to the other people in the Dan Sect and Luo Hai Sect.
Only now, when he saw Ouyang Yan, did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"Are you all alone?" Ouyang Yan blushed slightly as Bai Hao held her hand, but she didn't struggle. Instead, seeing that there was no one else behind Bai Hao, she asked curiously.
“No, I was all alone when I was transported to this world. Along the way, I did encounter some people from the Inviting Moon Sect and the Cold Moon Palace, but they had all become souls separated from their bodies…” Bai Hao’s eyes were somewhat dim.
Ouyang Yan's expression also changed slightly, tinged with sadness: "Is that so... so many people have already become souls separated from their bodies..."
"Where are you all? Where are you besides you?"
Only Ouyang Yan was there; Bai Hao didn't see any other members of the Dan Sect.
Ouyang Yan smiled mysteriously and said, "Guess where they'll be next week?"
"You want me to guess?" Seeing the cunning in Ouyang Yan's eyes, Bai Hao simply looked around as well, but apart from the bare tree trunks, there were only some scattered souls separated from their bodies, and there was nowhere to hide.
"If it's really around here, then it can only be up there?" Bai Hao looked up at the dense canopy of trees above him.
The branches and vines above are so dense that they are almost invisible, and it is indeed very likely that someone could hide there.
"You guessed it so quickly..." Seeing that Bai Hao guessed it right away, Ouyang Yan immediately pouted, feeling a little bored.
However, she quickly relaxed, raised her eyebrows, and said, "This is a rare and wonderful place. Even if your soul leaves your body, you can't get up there. It's very safe. I'll take you up there now."
As she spoke, Ouyang Yan pulled Bai Hao to a spot under a tree, and with a light touch, she jumped up.
There was a hollow space in the middle of the tree canopy, as spacious as an ordinary hall, though the light might be a bit dim.
Inside the tree canopy, there were four or five Dan Sect disciples, including Duan Qiyun and Sun Rong. When they saw that there was also a Bai Hao behind Ouyang Yan, they were all surprised.
Duan Qiyun was taken aback for a moment, but quickly recovered, her expression showing a hint of surprise and joy as she exclaimed, "Junior Brother Bai?!"
Bai Hao nodded and smiled in response, "Senior Sister Qiyun, it's been a long time. How have you been lately?"
"Good, good, of course it's good! I never expected to see you today, it's such a pleasant surprise!" Duan Qiyun was also overjoyed and quickly invited Bai Hao to sit down on the rattan chair...
The reunion was exciting, and through a brief exchange, Bai Hao gained a clear understanding of Duan Qiyun's current situation.
Unlike the Cold Moon Sect, Duan Qiyun and her group were initially teleported here and quickly found this tree canopy, where they safely hid without anyone in their sights.
During this process, they gradually explored their surroundings and roughly understood their current situation. They realized that this was a broken and corrupt world. Although the individual strength of those wandering souls was not strong, the danger level was completely different when their numbers increased.
Later, Duan Qiyun and her friends also found a grove of Saint Rose fruit trees, and they would pick some every two days to make a living.
“We don’t have much information right now. I wonder if Junior Brother Bai has encountered any clues along the way?” Duan Qiyun asked.
Compared to them, Bai Hao had traveled a long way from afar and had certainly seen more of the world.
But Bai Hao shook his head: "I don't know much either. I only know some information about this world, but I have no clue how we can get back."
He now realized that although he had encountered many things, he knew absolutely nothing about how to return to the Divine Radiance Continent.
“Then we can only continue exploring. Now that you’re here, Junior Brother Bai, we can start preparing to look for clues,” Duan Qiyun said.
While this place is safe, clues won't come to them on their own, and since they learned that the souls living here, more and more people around them have been leaving their bodies.
Although the soul cannot come back up after leaving the body, no one can be sure whether the soul will be able to come back up later.
Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative.
Bai Hao nodded: "Okay."
He was about to get up after speaking when Duan Qiyun called him back.
"Hey, not now. We can set off tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Bai Hao was taken aback.
Duan Qiyun immediately understood his doubts, smiled, took out a funnel from behind her, and placed it in front of Bai Hao. The sand inside was almost gone, with only a tiny bit left.
She said, "There is no night in this world, so we made an hourglass. Each time it runs out, it marks six hours, which is the boundary between night and day."
"That's really a good idea! Why didn't I think of that?" Although there is no night or day outside, they can distinguish between night and day themselves.
“So, you must not have rested for a long time either. Now, take a good rest and we’ll set off again after six hours.” With that, Duan Qiyun turned the hourglass around and started timing again.
In a world where time seems to have stopped flowing, it's easy to lose your way if you don't have a sense of time.
“We only have ten tree holes here, Junior Brother Bai, so please make do with a room with Yan’er.” Duan Qiyun glanced at Bai Hao and Ouyang Yan beside him. The latter immediately blushed and glared at Duan Qiyun as if she were angry.
The others covered their mouths and chuckled, then returned to their own tree hollows, leaving only the two of them in the huge canopy.
"Come on over." Ouyang Yan, her face flushed, led the way with her head down...
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