In addition to the sound of her heartbeat, some rustling sounds gradually rang out around her, and Yu Yi felt the creepy gazes. It was as if countless "people" were surrounding her, watching her, smelling her, and talking about her.

Senior Brother He's feathers all exploded.

Suddenly, something licked the back of Yu Yi's hand heavily. The wet tongue had rough barbs, which wrapped around her wrist and drilled into her sleeve. Yu Yi got goosebumps all over her body from being licked, and she grabbed Senior Brother He's beak with her backhand and stabbed it hard.

There was no way, her spiritual power had not recovered when she was in the mist of Yunshan. And it seemed that she couldn't use spiritual power in this damn place.

Senior Brother He had been training with her in the secret bamboo forest for five years, and the two of them had a tacit understanding. The red-crowned crane handed its neck to Yu Yi without hesitation, treating it as a sword in her hand.

Relying on Senior Brother He's sharp iron beak, they temporarily pushed back the things around them.

Taking advantage of this gap, Yu Yi silently recited the sword technique, and after a moment, a faint green light lit up in the dark space and sank into the depths of the darkness.

The man and the crane were both greatly energized at the same time. Yu Yi lay on the back of the red-crowned crane, pointed at the green light and said, "Senior Brother He, it's over there."

The fairy crane immediately flapped its wings and flew to the place where the green light was lit. The rustling sounds all around followed them all the time, like waves surging in the darkness, wet, sticky, and incessant.

This dark space seemed to be infinite, and the light of the Green Bamboo Sword was clearly in front of them, but they could never get close. After an unknown amount of time, they finally got close to the green light.

Yu Yi reached out to grab the green light, held the Green Bamboo Sword firmly in his hand, and breathed a sigh of relief: "I got it!"

Now they had to find a way to get out of this damn place.

But this damn place was filled with darkness from top to bottom, and apart from the regular sound of their heartbeats and the rustling sounds following them, they couldn't even tell the direction.

Yu Yi used the sword to push back the unknown thing that surrounded them again in the darkness. A ray of spiritual light flashed in her pupils. With her spiritual vision, she vaguely glimpsed a faint white mist like a caterpillar in the deep darkness.

She used the light of the green bamboo sword to point the way to the red-crowned crane, saying, "Brother Crane, there is a light over there. It may be the exit. Follow the sword light."

The red-crowned crane spread its wings and quickly flew there in pursuit of the sword light. The white mist seemed to be out of reach, but it was unexpectedly much closer to them than the green bamboo sword was before.

The white light in front of them suddenly expanded and swallowed up the man and the crane in an instant.

The thing chasing after them suddenly became anxious. The white light reflected the dense human and animal shadows around them, as well as the shadows of dancing tentacles. They surrounded the white light, twisting and roaring violently, but dared not get close.

When escaping into the white light, Yu Yi subconsciously raised her hand to cover her eyes. After the dazzling white light dissipated, she suddenly found herself in front of a tall gatehouse.

The gatehouse was embedded on a mountain. It was mainly painted red, with black tiles and red pillars. There was a dark door inside the gatehouse. There

was a strange totem of a priest carved on the door. The priest sat in the middle with his five hearts facing the sky. His expression was holy and compassionate. Behind his left and right shoulders, overlapping faces were arranged in sequence, as if they were his phantom clones. The lines became more and more blurred as he went further back.

Under the priest's seat were layers of grooves and wrinkles, which were polished to be extremely smooth and delicate, like layers of fat piled up. The holy priest sat in the middle of this meat mountain, and his lower body almost merged with it, which looked particularly weird and incongruous, making people feel uncomfortable.

Suddenly, music sounded behind him. Yu Yi turned around and found that there were more than a hundred people standing neatly just a few steps away from him.

These people were all wearing luxurious white clothes, and the patterns on the hem of their clothes were embroidered with gold thread in a similar pattern to the meat mountain under the priest's seat. Regardless of whether they were men or women, they were all young, beautiful, and extraordinary.

Everyone clasped their hands together, raised them in front of them, chanted prayers, and knelt down to the priest at the door. It looked like they were holding some kind of celebration ceremony.

Yu Yi and Senior Brother He were standing right in front of them, accepting their kneeling greetings, but those people were completely unaware and could not see them.

After the ceremony, the man who presided over the ceremony walked into the dark door alone, while the rest of the people were still kneeling and chanting scriptures.

At the end of the crowd, two young men with childish faces relaxed while the head of the family was away, and whispered something to each other.

Yu Yi swaggered over and listened.

"I hope that Bai Taisui can produce more this year, so that I can refine more Bai Lingdan. I am in the stage of forming a pill this year. If I can only get one pill, how can it be enough?"

Bai Taisui? In this case, the meat mountain under the seat of the priest on the top of the door does look a bit like Taisui.

She seemed to have heard somewhere that the Ji family of thousands of years ago seemed to have a rumor that they worshipped Bai Taisui as a god. Did they travel back thousands of years? This did not seem likely.

Did they enter a fantasy? Then they must find the eye of the formation.

Yu Yi glanced at the young man who was speaking. He looked younger than herself, only about thirteen or fourteen years old, but he was already preparing to form a pill. The talent of the Ji family was indeed enviable.

The person next to the young man said in the interval of reciting scriptures: "Dad has already made plans for you. He applied for an extra elixir for you. If it cannot be applied for," she pursed her lips lightly, paused and continued, "I will find other ways to get it for you."

Yu Yi bent over and looked at everyone in front of him, one by one, trying to find someone who looked like Xue Chenjing.

Not long after, the head of the family who had entered the dark door earlier came out again. He went in alone, but when he came out, he was followed by a group of half-human-tall little Taoist children in white clothes, all of whom were holding a black jade box in their hands.

Senior Brother He followed behind those children, trying to peck at the boxes in their hands with his bird's beak. Of course, he couldn't peck them. The people here couldn't see them, and they couldn't exert any influence here.

Yu Yi walked forward and approached the boxes to see what the Bai Ling Dan was. However, the black jade boxes were sealed tightly. Not only could she not see what was inside, she couldn't even smell any smell.

She tilted her head to look at the boy's eyes, only to find that these Taoist boys were all puppet boys made of clay sculptures, not living people.

Under the gaze of everyone, the head of the family drove these puppet boys to send the black boxes in their hands into a pill refining furnace that was taller than a person, opened the furnace formation, and activated the real fire in the furnace, and then began to refine the pill. The

scorching fire instantly submerged the area, and even the air was roasted to produce waves.

After the Taoist boys delivered the boxes, they lined up again and returned to the dark door.

Yu Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked around. He caught a glimpse of Senior Brother He lingering outside the dark gate. Before the gate closed, the red-crowned crane's snow-white body flashed and it actually followed the group of Taoist children into the gate.

"Brother He, don't run around." Yu Yi shouted hurriedly. Seeing that the door was about to close, she could only grit her teeth and squeeze into the gap of the door in two steps.

Unexpectedly, the space behind the door was not dark. What came into view was a long corridor. The walls of the corridor were carved with exquisite landscape murals and totems. Every ten steps, there was a long-burning lamp inlaid. The white light was like moonlight, sprinkling silver frost on the ground.

Although it was inside the mountain, this corridor looked much more exquisite and luxurious than the porch carefully built by the rich.

Yu Yi grabbed Senior Brother He's long neck, pulled it to his side, and warned: "Senior Brother He, why do you go into a cave just because you see one? This is not the cave where you hide your fish. If we go in, we may not be able to get out."

The red-crowned crane tilted its head and quacked twice innocently.

Yu Yi sighed. The door behind him had already closed. The door was made of heavy iron and was more than ten feet high. It could not be moved at all. Since they could not get out, they had to follow the Taoist boy inside, hoping that there were other entrances and exits.

After walking along the corridor for half a minute, they saw a hollow courtyard at the end, and a magnificent temple stood in the courtyard. The eternal lanterns all over the ground made the temple buried deep in the mountain brightly lit without a trace of darkness.

"It's too weird that the temple is built in the mountain." Yu Yi muttered to herself. Is this to worship gods or to imprison gods? In a temple built in the mountain, can the gods inside still enjoy incense?

While looking around, she stepped over the threshold of the temple and followed the Taoist boy's steps inside.

The temple looks very spectacular from the outside, but there is only one temple inside, so the space inside the temple is very spacious, with twelve columns on the left and right. On the shrine in the middle of the hall, the strange priest carved on the gate is enshrined.

The statue was also quite large, already shaped like a small hill. After changing from a flat surface to a three-dimensional object, the fleshy Tai Sui piled under the priest's seat looked even more lifelike. When there was light projected on it, the layers of fat seemed to wriggle, which made people even more uncomfortable.

The Taoist children in white entered the temple and stood at both ends, serving under the priest's seat, looking extremely small.

Yu Yi was shocked by the statue in the middle. After a long while, he noticed that there was a person sitting on the cushion in the middle of the hall.

The person had his back to the door of the temple. He looked like a young man, wearing the same white clothes as the Taoist children around him. His long hair was tied in a simple hair crown, and the ends of his hair fell to his waist, with a winding arc like seaweed.

The young man in the hall suddenly turned around, his eyes piercing through the empty hall and directly into Yu Yi's eyes.

Very good, it's Xue Chenjing.

Yu Yi clenched the green bamboo sword in her hand, strode into the hall, and shouted: "Xue Chenjing, let us out."

Her voice echoed in the empty hall. Xue Chenjing stood up slowly and walked towards her.

Yu Yi stared at him warily. The boy was tall and thin, with a very pale face, which made his eyebrows like ink and eyes like deep pools. The eyebrows and eyes that were originally sharp now tended to be gentle and soft. The silver frost of the ever-burning lamp coated his body, making him look almost transparent and weak.

Somehow, Yu Yi always felt that the feeling of Xue Chenjing in front of her was different from before.

Yu Yi stared at him like this, her tone softened, and she said again: "Xue Chenjing, I didn't mean to run into your formation, I just wanted to get my sword back..."

The soft and pleading voice reached her ears, and Yu Yi didn't realize at first that it was her own voice. It was not until the end of the sentence that her heart sank and she suddenly reacted.

What's going on? Is she the one talking? Is her mood affected by him again? What is he trying to act?

Yu Yi immediately pulled her eyes away from him, but she saw Xue Chenjing brushing past her straight away, ignoring her words and walking straight out of the temple.

The puppet boys serving in the hall followed him out.

One of the boys followed him and asked, "Sir, do you want to take a bath and rest now?"

Xue Chenjing paused, reached out and gently stroked the boy's head, and said softly, "I don't want to rest yet. You guys go play by yourselves. I'll call you if there's anything."

The boy nodded, and when Xue Chenjing turned around and continued to walk forward, they still followed him closely. It seemed that here, they had nothing to do except serving him.

Xue Chenjing led this group of little followers and walked around the courtyard twice, and said helplessly, "Okay, you guys go prepare hot water for me." The

white-clothed Taoist boys stopped following her and turned to the back of the temple, obediently preparing a bath for him.

Yu Yi adjusted her mentality, took two quick steps, and came to Xue Chenjing again. She waved her hand in front of his eyes, but Xue Chenjing did not react at all.

"Strange, when he turned around, I clearly felt that he saw me." Yu Yi said to Danding He. Senior Brother He tilted his head with a silly look on his face.

She thought about it, raised the green bamboo sword, and stabbed it straight into Xue Chenjing's eyes.

The tip of the sword was less than a millimeter away from his eyeball, and it had just touched his long eyelashes, but Xue Chenjing still didn't notice it, and even his pupils didn't change at all.

Yu Yi's sword tip deflected and brushed past the side of his face. The breeze brought by the sword blade blew the black hair on his ears.

Xue Chenjing paused, looked around in confusion, and whispered, "Who?"

Yu Yi warned herself not to be influenced by him, and observed his reaction, and replied, "It's me, your dear wife. I don't know what kind of a place this is, and I didn't mean to break in. Can you please let us out?"

Xue Chenjing frowned slightly, as if he didn't hear her voice at all, and couldn't see her existence. He stood there for a moment, lowered his eyelids, shook his head in self-mockery, and said, "It seems that I think too much. How could he let anyone in here?"

Xue Chenjing said, and then walked to the back of the temple, apparently to rest.

Yu Yi was so anxious that she reached out to grab him, but she grabbed nothing, and her hand passed through Xue Chenjing. Yu Yi frowned and looked at her hand. So, he was actually just like those people outside, unable to detect their existence?

She suddenly remembered that since she saw him here, she had not heard the noisy system sound on him again.

Xue Chenjing walked around the corridor outside the temple and went to the living hall at the back. His figure was about to disappear around the corner.

Yu Yi thought for a moment and chased after him again. She held the green bamboo sword in her hand, with the tip of the sword pointing at Xue Chenjing's back, and this time she stabbed him directly. The

green bamboo sword pierced Xue Chenjing's right shoulder, but did not cause him any harm, but Xue Chenjing still felt something strange. He lowered his head slightly, raised his hand and pressed his right shoulder, turned around abruptly, and asked again: "Who is it? How did you get in?"

The confusion and surprise on his face did not seem fake. Yu Yi looked at his expression, retracted her sword, and took two steps closer to him, but she was vigilant and did not look at those eyes that could deceive people.

She cupped her hands and whispered in his ear: "I believe that you really can't see me, but you can still feel me a little, right? What the hell is this place? How can I get out?"

Xue Chenjing stood quietly in place, his eyes slightly lowered, and his expression was focused on feeling the presence of another person.

After a long while, he vaguely heard a faint female voice coming into his ears intermittently, and heard a few words in it, "Do you want to go out?"

He shook his head, indicating that he could not help: "This is the deepest part of his heart sea purple palace. Unless he comes in personally to take you out, you can't get out."

Yu Yi chased him and asked: "Who is he? This should be your heart sea, right? Xue Chenjing, what are you doing?"

Xue Chenjing kept listening to the side. He stood for a long while in a posture of listening, and said softly: "Sorry, I can't hear what you are saying."

After he finished speaking, he raised his foot again and walked slowly into the living room. Yu Yi picked up the sword and stabbed him several times, and simply stuck the sword into him, roaring: "Can you hear me like this?"

Xue Chenjing probably felt her anger and soothed her: "Don't worry, he won't allow outsiders to stay here for too long, and he should come to take you out soon."

"I'm surprised that he could let someone get in here."