Have you just arrived at the Qi family's place after landing?
Yu Ye frowned and said in a deep voice, "Impossible. My senior brother, Guan Yunchuan, and I have been here for almost half a month."
"Here, the sun rises and sets every day. Apart from not being able to leave, how could I not know about the changing of time?"
"I'm stupid, not blind!"
His words stunned not only Lu Qing'an and the other man, but also Guan Yunchuan, who was playing with a laser cannon nearby.
"How could it be that more than half a month has passed?"
"How could it be that you just got ashore?"
Two different questions arose at the same time.
The members of the Invincible Sect couldn't understand it, so they all turned their gazes to Qi Wenyao beside them.
The latter didn't show much expression on his face; his gaze remained fixed on Sheng Ning.
The atmosphere inside the bamboo house suddenly became quiet.
Just as Yu Ye, with her impatient nature, was about to rush up to Qi Wenyao and question him about what was going on,
A clap of hands startled him so much that he almost jumped up on the spot.
"I see!"
Sheng Ning's sudden clapping and speaking drew the attention of the Invincible Sect members.
"What did you find out, Junior Sister?" Lu Jingshen frowned. "Do you know why time flows differently here compared to outside?"
Sheng Ning had been studying the chessboard.
The chessboard was somewhat similar to the ancient chess games she had studied before.
Therefore, she did not hear what her senior brothers had just discussed.
She shook her head, walked over to Su Daiyuan, and picked up a black chess piece.
"Get off here first."
As soon as her piece was placed, Qi Wenyao's white piece immediately followed.
Having studied this type of game before, Sheng Ning's mind raced, and he placed his black pieces very quickly.
Soon, Qi Wenyao could no longer keep up with her speed.
When the black pieces finally captured all the white pieces, Sheng Ning looked up again and saw that the person in front of her had fine beads of cold sweat on their forehead and a somewhat forced smile on their face.
"Junior Sister won?"
When Sheng Ning picked up the chess piece, Lu Jingshen and the others dared not say anything more.
They saw her holding the chess pieces, placing the black pieces one by one on the chessboard with ease, and occasionally glancing up at the bamboo forest outside the window.
Only after the game ended and Sheng Ning defeated Qi Wenyao did they dare to speak.
Su Daiyuan's tense expression finally relaxed at this moment.
He raised his hand and patted Sheng Ning's shoulder, saying in a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Junior Sister."
Sheng Ning didn't understand the deeper meaning in his words, and just chuckled, saying, "I was just playing around."
Su Daiyuan did not reply, but simply pulled her behind him to protect her.
Then he raised his head and met Qi Wenyao's eyes. "The game is over. Fellow Daoist, can you let us out now?"
Sheng Ning blinked as she stood behind him. She peeked out and looked at Qi Wenyao with a scrutinizing gaze. "Senior Brother, isn't he Fellow Daoist Qi?"
Her words made Yu Ye and Guan Yunchuan, who were trapped in the bamboo house, gasp in shock.
"Not Qi Wenyao? He's the one who brought us to this dilapidated bamboo forest, and look at him..."
Yu Ye's gaze fell on Qi Wenyao, but the words that were on the tip of her tongue just wouldn't come out.
They didn't actually spend much time with Qi Wenyao.
Therefore, they couldn't say for sure whether the person in front of them was Qi Wenyao.
Guan Yunchuan was more direct. He raised the laser cannon in his hand and said what he had always wanted to say.
"It's okay, let's kill him first, then we can get out."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Wenyao, who was sitting on the soft couch, chuckled softly.
However, the laughter did not sound like a man's, but rather like a woman's.
Upon hearing the laughter, a patch of icicles suddenly appeared behind Su Daiyuan.
He would immediately take action if the other party dared to harm the Invincible Sect.
"Young Taoist is quite impressive. Since you've already guessed that I'm not Yao'er, why don't you expose me instead of staying here?"
"Because if we disappear for too long, Junior Sister will definitely notice and then bomb the Qi family to come after us." Yu Ye said this with a hint of pride on his face.
That's why he didn't want to alert the enemy.
As long as Junior Sister wakes up, or even if she doesn't, Lu Qing'an and the others will sense something is wrong and come looking for them.
The Invincible Sect's tacit understanding is never based on what they say, but on what they do.
A look of astonishment flashed across Qi Wenyao's face.
He then chuckled softly, and his handsome face suddenly transformed into that of a woman with a full head of white hair but a very young face.
It's more accurate to describe it as a spirit than a woman.
Seeing her almost transparent figure, Sheng Ning voiced the guess in his mind.
"Is this your spiritual space?"
The woman never expected that Sheng Ning, a cultivator at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, would even know about the divine sense space.
She blinked, smiled and shook her head at the latter, "Yes and no. A thousand years ago I died in a war of the gods, and after that I could only stay here and could not go anywhere else."
Upon hearing that she had died two years ago, Sheng Ning felt a chill run down her spine. "Then Fellow Daoist Qi..."
“At that time, Yao’er was still in my womb. It was my husband who used medicine to keep my body from dying. Hundreds of years later, my body finally gave birth to Yao’er.”
At this moment, Sheng Ning had only one thought in her mind.
She saw the living Nezha!
The older generation on the mainland all know about the war of the gods that took place a thousand years ago.
Or perhaps, the collapse of the pillar of heaven and the destruction of this world were also caused by that war of the gods.
Su Daiyuan had heard of that war to some extent.
It is said that after that war, heaven and earth were almost merged, but for some reason they separated again.
The continent, which was originally plagued by widespread suffering and corpses strewn across the land, has recovered over the years.
It was precisely because of that war of the gods that the originally abundant spiritual energy on the continent gradually became thinner.
Unexpectedly, sitting in front of him was someone who had died in the War of the Gods.
Su Daiyuan clasped his hands in a fist and bowed, "Su Daiyuan of the Invincible Sect, along with his five senior brothers and sisters, greets Madam Qi."
Qi Wenyao and his mother look alike, both with gentle expressions on their faces.
As Su Daiyuan bowed, a faint smile appeared in her eyes. "Young friend Su, please rise. I presume you have all come to the Northern Region because you have heard that the Northern Region Secret Realm is about to open."
"And is it true that totems will appear in the secret realm?"
As Madam Qi spoke, her gentle, watery eyes remained fixed on Sheng Ning, who was being protected by Su Daiyuan.
She raised her hand and beckoned to Sheng Ning, "Come here."
Seeing this, Sheng Ning turned around and glanced at her empty back, then pointed to herself, "Me?"
Seeing the other party nod, Sheng Ning stepped forward and said, "Although Madam Qi is dead, this bamboo forest is still your territory. You can let my senior brothers out."
Sheng Ning is right.
Madam Qi can indeed let them out.
She looked at the girl standing in front of her, her smile deepening. "So alike, so very alike."
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