In my next life, I will definitely stay far away from you.
Thick, wispy golden mist, like vines, clung to the rock walls on both sides, forming a large net that tightly gripped the protruding and recessed rocks.
Yan Huanyue was held and suspended in mid-air.
A warm breeze stirred beneath my feet, ruffling my clothes. It rose from the unseen depths of the earth, carrying a dark and profound tone as it flew towards the abyss.
Yan Huanyue looked down at the dark and terrifying abyss, her long, disheveled hair, reeking of blood, swaying wildly.
She gripped the long hairpin and small knife in her hand, suppressing the violent impulse that came with surviving the ordeal, and refrained from further ravaging the golden mist clinging to life.
Even if some of them, damp with moisture, clung to her to reminisce, nestled against her temples, raised their tails to gaze at her, or rubbed against the wounds on her face and hands, she let it all go.
Pei Xuanzhi's clothes were stained with a lot of blood. Seeing that she was no longer angry, he said gently, "I can take you up, why should I let you hang there and suffer? It was wrong of me to pull you down. I will treat your injuries after we get out of here."
Yan Huanyue said in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"
Pei Xuanzhi pulled her closer, as if certain of something, and said earnestly:
"I was looking for you, I couldn't find you anywhere, and finally I found you had fallen into a crack in the ground, so I came to look for you. I jumped down, but you were hanging in mid-air. I didn't want to pull you up, but you were having such a hard time..."
"I'm asking why you're in the ghost market. Why are you rambling on about this and that?"
His tone was a bit harsh, but since her life was in his hands, Yan Huanyue immediately softened her tone, "Shouldn't you be by the Sect Leader's side?"
Pei Xuanzhi said sincerely, "Father took me back to Mingde Sect, and then disappeared with Headmaster Wen and the others. I heard that the Ghost Market was just a cover, and I thought there would be no danger, so I came to find you... Sister, I just... I'm so glad I came, otherwise how would I have survived?"
Yan Huanyue asked, "Did you blow up the white jade platform in the underground palace?"
The culprit, Pei Xuanzhi, immediately denied it, saying, "It wasn't me. Didn't you see? It clearly exploded there after I left."
"Then what were you saying to that person chanting the sutra?"
“I advised him that since he was practicing the Dharma of Compassion, he should have a heart full of benevolence and kindness, and not to go against the great Dharma scriptures he was talking about, forcefully suppress resentment, and protect those who harm others.”
Yan Huanyue gave a silent, cold laugh and said softly, "You're quite kind-hearted."
Pei Xuanzhi smiled modestly, resting his chin on her black hair, and said softly, "It's not that I'm particularly kind-hearted, I'm just like any other person, I couldn't stand it."
Yan Huanyue said, "In that case, let's go up."
"No rush, look up at the sky."
The golden mist clinging to the rock face slowly crept forward, carrying them along into the endless darkness ahead.
Yan Huanyue looked up at the sky above the crack in the earth.
In the deep night sky, the moonlight was exceptionally bright, falling into the cracks like a thin veil of moonlight cascading down from the sky, magnificent and graceful.
Aside from the beautiful view from beneath the fissure in the ground, it was no different from any other night scene.
Pei Xuanzhi turned her around and hugged her face to face.
In the soft, golden light, one could see that the koi fish mask was still covering his face.
However, she didn't care. She immediately wrapped her arms around his neck and clamped her legs tightly around his waist.
In case he becomes too weak to carry her and lets go, she might accidentally fall from mid-air.
Pei Xuanzhi held her lower back with one hand and pressed her head against his shoulder with the other.
Having not been this close in a long time, he couldn't help but feel his heart pounding, his ears turning red, and a blush spreading from his face under the mask all the way down to his clothes.
But this lasted for less than a moment before his expression suddenly darkened, and he realized something was wrong.
Her two lower legs were dangling beside his legs, swaying in the wind, occasionally bumping against the hem of his clothes; this was not a normal posture.
What happened to your leg?
Yan Huanyue rested her chin on his right shoulder, inhaling the cool fragrance emanating from him, and said casually:
"He must have fallen, or perhaps he inhaled too much putrefactive poison in that secret room, and the poison settled all over his calf."
Suddenly the sky darkened, and Yan Huanyue subconsciously looked up.
A dark cloud rolled across the crack in the ground like a surging wave, and the wind beneath the crack grew even stronger.
A deep, resonant rumble shook the earth, obscuring all light from the sky.
The golden mist continued to wriggle forward like flowing water, pausing and swaying, while his belt secretly rubbed against her legs.
Yan Huanyue could hear Pei Xuanzhi's heartbeat and his slightly heavy breathing under his mask.
Carrying a person and driving the golden mist through the cracks in the earth, it might not be an easy task for him.
What's going on?
Pei Xuanzhi said, "This is the Gold Melting Array. Someone wants to refine all the humans and demons in the Ghost Market. I felt something was wrong after the ground cracked just now. On my way to find you, I saw dark clouds coming from the west."
Yan Huanyue said, "But there aren't even any spiritual veins here, so how can we manipulate the formation?"
Pei Xuanzhi said, "That's why there's this fissure in the ground. There's no danger of spiritual energy flowing back into a place without spiritual energy. If someone secretly hides a small secret realm and connects the earth vein energy of this place to the small secret realm, then they can use the earth vein energy to refine this place simply by hiding in the secret realm."
Using the ghost market as a pretext to lure people from sects is not a feint to cover up any operation... but rather a way to gain an advantage on both sides.
Yan Huanyue said, "You want to go find the gap in the earth veins? Getting close to the earth veins will cause you to be reduced to ashes in an instant! We don't have any spiritual power to use either. Let's go up first and think of another way."
Pei Xuanzhi said, "The people from the Ghost Market may not be able to get out. As for what you said about finding the gap in the earth's veins, it's not impossible to give it a try."
Yan Huanyue punched him twice and said quickly, "I didn't give you this idea! Xuanzhi, listen to me, let's go up first! There must be people from the sects lined up waiting by the river, there's always a way."
As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Xuanzhi suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.
The golden mist on the rock wall suddenly lost its force, and he, holding Yan Huanyue, plummeted downwards.
Suddenly losing her footing and falling, Yan Huanyue instinctively clung to him tightly.
Just as he was starting to recover from his near-death experience, he was suddenly being dragged down into the ley lines by this reckless idiot.
Is this life really going to be lived so hastily?
If she had known she was going to die here with this unreliable and untrustworthy scoundrel, she would have killed Fu Yinhuan herself first, so she could die in peace.
She was unhappy and wrapped her arms tightly around Pei Xuanzhi's thin neck. She turned her head and bit his ear, wanting nothing more than to bite off his ear, which couldn't understand human speech, and swallow it whole.
Yu Guangzhong saw a quiet, dark blue river of light not far below his feet.
The hazy halo stretched silently, with no beginning and no end in sight. The rising blue smoke, tinged with a faint white, enveloped the sky above the river of light.
Facing imminent death, unsure if she would be reduced to ashes in the next moment, Yan Huanyue suddenly felt calm.
She released his lips, which were now tinged with blood, raised her hand to rub his ear, sighed softly, and whispered, "Why didn't you give me any hope just now... I'll stay far away from you in the next life."
Pei Xuanzhi said in a deep voice, "That won't do..."
Yan Huanyue's vision went white, and her body suddenly floated up.
I felt my consciousness dissipate into thin air, and in an instant I was plunged into darkness.
Pei Xuanzhi, carrying the unconscious person, stopped above the dark blue ley line. A golden mist untied the ribbon on his mask and tossed it out.
The mask had barely landed a few inches from his feet when it turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared without a trace.
He maintained this distance, allowing the golden mist to continue crawling forward along the rock wall. Before long, a tiny gap appeared in the dark blue light.
Above the gap, three small blue beads, each the size of a pearl and shimmering with golden light, floated in a triangle, slowly rotating and drawing in the dark blue light stream towards the center.
By cultivating the inner elixir externally, nourishing oneself with the earth's essence and flesh, and using heaven and earth as a furnace to refine it, one can achieve unparalleled merit.
Cultivating the inner elixir externally is not easy, and it is also too easy for others to steal it. Therefore, very few people are determined to cultivate the inner elixir externally, and the time spent on it is naturally not short.
Furthermore, the feat of excavating the earth's veins to cultivate inner elixir with such a grand scale is impossible to accomplish in places with spiritual veins.
Firstly, the sect and the Sky Patrol Bureau always have ways to suppress you; secondly, if your inner core is flooded with abundant spiritual energy, whether it explodes or not is just a matter of a blink of an eye.
The best place is the spiritless land where the ghost market is located.
Using the reopening of the Ghost Market as a pretext, they lured a group of evil cultivators over, and then used these evil cultivators as bait to lure people from other sects.
It can refine almost any talented individual.
However, this kind of inner core that has absorbed the earth's veins is also known in legends as the Thousand-Year Child. By absorbing the refined earth vein power within it, one can extend their lifespan considerably.
A wisp of golden mist slipped into his robes and carefully extracted a piece of air.
Under the reflection of the dark blue river of light, the object swirling in the golden mist remained unrecognizable, as if the golden mist was carrying a thin wisp of wind.
Now that she's here, he doesn't need to try to steal one to take back to her.
The golden mist, carried by the wind, swept towards the three thousand-year-old seeds, and in an instant, a rich vitality swept over them.
Pei Xuanzhi held Yan Huanyue in his arms as they faced the violent storm, bathing together in the ancient and profound divine power of the Goddess Houtu.
The formless and colorless Crying Spirit Blade spun in the air, then suddenly plunged into the River of Light, churning and surging with waves, before flying back to his side.
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The howling wind suddenly stopped, and the thick, dark clouds retreated awkwardly.
With a single sword strike, Su Xianqing found himself on the riverbank, a place he had been unable to leave just moments before.
Seeing this, a group of people behind them hurriedly fled along the border, but all of them were captured by the sect members and the Sky Patrol officers guarding the riverbank.
Tan Guiyi glanced back at the horizon where the dark clouds had dispersed, a hint of disbelief flashing in her eyes.
In a panic, she avoided the chaotic crowd and ran along the large crack in the ground, where the wind howled, towards the open field that was gradually being illuminated by the moonlight.
Exhausted, they finally saw a mountain range where a person stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the bright moon in the sky.
"Father......"
It was just a blurry profile, yet it made Tan Guiyi's knees buckle and she knelt down, tears streaming down her face.
Did you know I was here too?
The wind was strong on the mountain, and the man's robes fluttered. He seemed to have heard her voice and slowly turned around.
In this desolate place, he strode through the night wind and descended from the mountaintop to stand before her, saying calmly, "Your three brothers are temporarily crippled. I need to find some things to help them rebuild their inner cores."
Tan Guiyi wiped away her tears and straightened her back. "I asked, did you know I was here too? Are you going to refine me as well? I clearly sent you a message..."
The man strolled past her leisurely, speaking in a tone that was both reproachful and emotionless:
“Your three older brothers are crippled, yet you are not worried about them, but concerned about things that have never happened. Daughter is indeed prone to having ulterior motives and is somewhat selfish.”
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