Space Rift
Sensing the unfamiliarity in Yun Yin's eyes, Ruan Qingyu suddenly felt interested in teasing him.
He allowed the Phoenix Divine Fire to turn his eyes red, revealing a pair of golden-red eyes.
Yunyin suddenly took half a step back, and the person in front of him no longer had the familiar aura he had just felt.
"Roar!" Yunyin suddenly roared, and a strong crackling of lightning suddenly erupted from his four claws.
Seeing that the lightning was about to strike her, Ruan Qingyu quickly deactivated the external effect of the Phoenix Divine Fire and revealed a familiar smile to Yun Yin.
"How could you be so stupid?" The contractual consciousness told him that he was safe, so why did he still believe it?
Yun Yin cautiously circled around Ruan Qingyu. At this moment, she was indeed emanating a familiar aura, and he realized that he had been tricked.
Suddenly, Yun Yin pounced on Ruan Qingyu.
A massive thunder leopard, weighing the equivalent of three Ruan Qingyus, pounced on her. Caught off guard, Ruan Qingyu was immediately knocked to the ground.
Somewhat annoyed, Yun Yin lowered his head and kept rubbing against Ruan Qingyu. Some of his prickly hairs scratched against Ruan Qingyu's neck and cheeks.
He kept brushing against people, trying to avoid them, and said with a mix of helplessness and uncontrollable laughter, "I was wrong, I was wrong."
Hearing Ruan Qingyu's plea for mercy, Yun Yin's anger subsided. But looking into Ruan Qingyu's smiling eyes, he subconsciously licked her upper lip.
Suddenly, Ruan Qingyu, who was lying on the ground, sat up abruptly, touched her lips, and looked at Yun Yin with a surprised expression.
The expression in the Cloud-Hidden Beast's eyes, which had been pushed aside, was obscure and difficult to decipher.
Seeing that Ruan Qingyu's expression turned serious, he quickly went up and flicked his tail, wrapping it around the other's arm.
"Has the soul completely dissipated?" Within the contract's consciousness, Yun Yin proactively spoke to divert attention.
"I devoured it myself; it wasn't entirely due to the Phoenix Divine Fire." Knowing his worries, Ruan Qingyu explained in detail how she captured the other party and devoured his soul.
Seeing that Yun Yin was still a little worried, Ruan Qingyu patted his head reassuringly.
"If you're worried, you can come and take a look at my sea of consciousness." After thinking for a moment, Ruan Qingyu came up with this good idea.
Little did anyone know that Yunyin froze upon hearing this suggestion.
Beast Eyes carefully looked Ruan Qingyu up and down, and seeing that her expression was pure and without any other thoughts, he sighed inwardly.
This person, those bloodline inheritances, actually only learned how to cultivate but couldn't achieve it?
However, out of concern for Ruan Qingyu, Yun Yin nodded. He moved closer to Ruan Qingyu and slowly closed his eyes.
In an instant, through the power of the contract, Ruan Qingyu felt a familiar divine sense approaching her. Unlike the soul that had tried to seize her body earlier, she did not sense any danger or abnormality.
However, his soul trembled slightly before he made contact with the other party.
Yun Yin tried his best to avoid Ruan Qingyu's soul and probed into the other's sea of consciousness.
At this moment, the withered phoenix flowers bloomed again, and the entire sea of consciousness was filled with fiery red phoenix flowers, swaying continuously with the body's relaxed and joyful mood.
Feeling the pleasant emotions in his sea of consciousness, Yunyin's inner turmoil unconsciously subsided.
His divine soul quickly scanned the other parts of his sea of consciousness before hastily retreating.
Ruan Qingyu, who had been observing Yun Yin through the lens of his soul, felt a rare sense of regret, as this was the first time she had seen Yun Yin's soul clearly and completely.
Even when the other person's soul entered her sea of consciousness, she had a strange feeling. This feeling was not bad; she even felt a little warm.
Perhaps it's because of the contract between the two? Ruan Qingyu considers the contract between herself and Yunyin to be the best thing she has ever done.
This gave her a place she could trust in this cold and impersonal world of cultivation.
"Yunyin, this person has put all the treasures of the Puppet Sect into a secret room." Ruan Qingyu stood up and walked towards the place in her divine soul's memory.
There should have been a mural at that location, but now only a bare wall remains.
Therefore, Ruan Qingyu immediately noticed the conspicuous and abrupt wall bricks.
Having experienced the soul possession incident, Ruan Qingyu reviewed her soul memories again to ensure there were no other disgusting things before pressing her hand on the stone brick.
Boom—
After the stone bricks dented, the wall in front of Ruan Qingyu slowly moved away.
A small door appeared, big enough for one person to pass through. Looking down at Yunyin next to him, he knew that the other person was still shaken.
Ruan Qingyu simply reached out and tugged at the other's tail, pulling the leopard by its tail as she went inside.
The scene was exactly as it appeared in his memory, with spirit stones piled high on the ground. Many rare materials for crafting puppets were also scattered there.
If it weren't for the spiritual light it still emitted, others would probably mistake it for some ordinary, common material.
At the very back of the small room stood a black-armored puppet, about two people tall.
The aura was mysterious, and the external armor seemed to be a defensive magical artifact that cultivators could wear. Ruan Qingyu carefully recalled her divine soul memories and couldn't help but gasp in amazement.
"These two Xuanjia puppets have combat power reaching the Mahayana stage!" Having a Mahayana stage Xuanjia puppet is no different from having a Mahayana stage bodyguard.
After thinking it over, Ruan Qingyu did not hesitate to drip blood onto the two puppets to bind them to her as her master. If she were to encounter an enemy she could not withstand in the future, these two puppets might be able to help her resist to some extent.
In this light, while the spirit stones, resources, and puppet-making techniques in this secret chamber are somewhat useful, none are as useful as these two Mahayana stage puppets.
Afterwards, Ruan Qingyu put all the remaining usable items in the secret room into her storage bracelet.
"Looking at it now, these two not only deserved to die, but they also died a worthy death." Ruan Qingyu's lips curled up, feeling that she had gained a lot today and would probably save a lot of cultivation resources in the future.
The spirit stones that were lost at the West Mountain Market have all been replenished today through the Puppet Sect's inheritance.
“You can usually only leave a secret location once the time limit is up. Try activating the secret location token and see if you can leave earlier,” Yunyin said slowly. This was the case for the several secret locations he had visited before.
Upon hearing this, Ruan Qingyu nodded and tried to inject her spiritual power into the black jade token.
After waiting for a long time, there was no change in the token.
Seeing this, Ruan Qingyu couldn't help but frown slightly. Could it be that she really had to wait until this secret place was closed before she could leave?
Thinking this way, Ruan Qingyu naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait for her doom, so she walked out of the puppet gate.
Aside from the Puppet Sect's buildings, this hidden place was no different from an ordinary mountain forest. Ruan Qingyu walked from day to night without encountering any powerful demonic beasts.
The highest level is Qi Refining stage, so why is there such abundant spiritual energy at the Puppet Sect?
Yun Yin, who had been silently following her, sniffed the air and said, "There should be a spiritual vein beneath the Puppet Sect."
Immediately, Ruan Qingyu hesitated: "Spiritual veins?"
Nodding affirmatively, Yunyin continued, "Take apart that spiritual vein, and you can put it into your spiritual mansion when your sea of consciousness transforms into it, or it can become part of your own foundation."
"How do I dismantle this spiritual vein?" Ruan Qingyu had only known that spiritual energy was naturally formed between heaven and earth. If it was said that spiritual veins could be transferred, she was completely bewildered and did not know how to do it.
Yun Yin said, "It's alright, I'll dismantle it." His cultivation has now reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, so dismantling a spiritual vein is a piece of cake.
Seeing his confidence, Ruan Qingyu couldn't help but feel hopeful as well.
The two quickly returned to the location of the Puppet Sect complex, and Ruan Qingyu obediently retreated a hundred meters.
Then, Yun Yin suddenly soared into the sky, instantly becoming hundreds of feet taller. A tremendous pressure suddenly appeared, which, although it avoided Ruan Qingyu, still surprised her.
Accompanied by the tremors of the earth and the earthy smell that filled the air, Ruan Qingyu curiously released her divine sense and saw a milky-white spiritual vein emerging from the ground like a serpent.
Along with the spiritual vein, a large amount of spiritual energy also emerged, and the surrounding spiritual energy suddenly increased with the appearance of the spiritual vein.
The entire puppet gate was transformed into a vast expanse of white. Ruan Qingyu saw the spiritual vein shrink continuously until it became a palm-sized 'spirit snake,' which was then enveloped by Yun Yin's spiritual power.
As it flew towards her location, Ruan Qingyu's heart stirred, and she used her divine sense to envelop the spiritual vein, attempting to put it into her storage bracelet.
It actually worked!
Ruan Qingyu looked at Yun Yin with some delight, and was about to speak when she suddenly saw Yun Yin's pupils dilate and he suddenly flew towards her.
It was at this moment that she realized something was wrong with the aura around her. A cold, chaotic aura was spreading around her.
A Golden Core cultivator's body is inherently tough, but at this moment she felt as if her skin was being cut by countless invisible blades.
Although it didn't cause bleeding, it was still very uncomfortable. Ruan Qingyu immediately prepared to use her movement technique to leave the spot.
But I found myself unable to move. When did this start? Was it after the spiritual vein appeared, or when it was severed?
Ruan Qingyu turned her head and could only see a dark hole that was constantly expanding around her. The spiritual energy that had been lingering around her was being absorbed into the hole.
Her eyes widened instantly. This was a spatial rift! Alarm bells rang in her mind, and she desperately wanted to leave the spot, even if it was just an inch away from the spatial rift.
A long-absent despair lingered in Ruan Qingyu's heart. Looking at Yun Yin heading towards her, Ruan Qingyu gave a bitter smile: "Don't come any closer. This spatial rift has already locked onto me. If you come any closer, we'll both go in together."
Not to mention that once inside the spatial rift, one might find a glimmer of hope, but if the two of them entered together, they would both be doomed.
Seeing Yun Yin's anxious expression, Ruan Qingyu actually laughed: "Don't worry, since I am a person of great fortune, I might be able to come down safely."
Yun Yin ignored these words and rushed straight into the spatial rift that was still absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy. The spatial rift, which was about to expand, seemed to have eaten its fill.
They vanished just like that, and the spatial lock that had been controlling Ruan Qingyu's immobility also suddenly disappeared at that moment.
"Cloud Hidden—!"
Exhausted, Ruan Qingyu collapsed to the ground, but she didn't care about her depleted spiritual energy and kept looking around.
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