“What’s going on?” Han Li raised an eyebrow and asked.

“Earlier, they wouldn’t let me go with them, and I was worried, so I had Nian Yu follow them. It's already a Great Ascension stage demon, so I thought everything would be fine, but now it seems… my brother and the others are probably in trouble…” Meng Qianqian’s face was extremely pale as she muttered.

A glint flashed in Han Li’s eyes, and he looked at the azure bird. After communicating with it for a moment with his divine sense, he said:

“Yun Gui and the others are trapped in a forbidden area of the Meng Chi Kingdom’s palace. Nian Yu escaped to bring you the news.”

“Lord Li, please allow Qianqian to go and rescue my brother immediately.” Meng Qianqian said immediately, her expression slightly relieved after hearing this.

“Why don’t you ask me to help you save them?” Han Li asked, slightly surprised.

“Although Qianqian is foolish, I know that the reason you are leaving the Northern Cold Immortal Domain is probably because of the great changes that are about to come. I am already very grateful that you made a special trip to see us, and I would never dare to delay your journey.” Meng Qianqian said quickly.

“Nian Yu, with its Great Ascension cultivation, was severely injured. This shows that the opponent’s cultivation is much higher than yours. How can you save them if you go? Moreover, Meng Chi Kingdom is not too close to here. Can they hold on until you arrive?” Han Li nodded inwardly and asked.

“This…” Meng Qianqian was speechless, unable to say anything.

“Let’s go, it won’t take long.” Han Li said indifferently.

“Uncle, leave this injured bird to me to take care of.” Before Meng Qianqian could answer, Jin Tong had already walked over, patted her chest, and laughed. When she grinned, there was still a little bit of red oil on the corner of her mouth.

When the azure bird Nian Yu saw Jin Tong, it immediately felt its feathers standing on end. It struggled to get up on its own, but because its injuries were too severe, it fell several times.

“Jin Tong, do you know how?” Han Li glanced at Jin Tong and said.

“Of course, I’ve been studying the various books in the bracelet these days!” Jin Tong heard this, her little face immediately puffed up, and she shouted angrily.

“I didn’t know you could read. I thought you only knew how to eat.” Han Li raised an eyebrow and shook his head.

“Uncle, don’t underestimate me. I’ve discovered that I vaguely know some of the things mentioned in these books. This is probably talent.” Jin Tong heard this, her little face changed immediately, and she hurriedly shouted.

“Then how will you take care of Nian Yu?” Han Li asked.

“This is too simple.” Jin Tong said somewhat arrogantly. She didn’t know when she had an elixir in her hand, and with a gentle wave, it entered the bird’s mouth.

Nian Yu swallowed it in one gulp, its gaze toward Jin Tong still full of wariness.

Jin Tong curled her lips disdainfully: “So delicate, useless, not like my Xiaobai. Xiaobai, where are you? Why are you slacking off again!”

As she spoke, she turned her gaze to the white jade Pixiu pendant hanging from Han Li’s waist.

“Here you come bothering me again…” A burst of light trembled on the pendant, and a very unwilling voice came.

“You don’t appreciate good intentions. I just asked you to eat something good together, and you’re putting on airs!” Jin Tong said, her little eyebrows raised.

“I’m not interested in what mortals eat.” The white jade Pixiu said in a buzzing voice.

“Then don’t regret it!” Jin Tong said, puffing out her cheeks.

Responding to her was the pendant shaking a few times.

With Jin Tong’s interruption, the atmosphere immediately relaxed.

Han Li turned his hand and took out a few other elixirs of various colors, instructing Meng Qianqian to feed them to Nian Yu.

“I already know the location, so you can stay here and recover.” Han Li said to the azure bird, and with a wave of his hand, a jade flying chariot floated in mid-air.

Then, with a sweep of his sleeves, he took Meng Qianqian and Jin Tong onto the flying chariot and shot toward the night sky, transforming into a stream of light and disappearing into the sky.

……

Southern Gu Yun Continent, Meng Chi Kingdom.

Hao Yun City, the capital of the kingdom, had its gates closed for days, and the people in the city were confined to their homes and were not allowed to go out at will.

It was now late at night, and the streets in the city were quiet. Not many lights were lit in the houses on both sides. If it weren’t for the occasional sight of fully armed soldiers in some street corners and alleys, this capital city would even be mistaken for a ghost town.

Unlike the dead silence of the outer city, the palace located in the south of Hao Yun City was brightly lit. Imperial guards with torches patrolled back and forth everywhere. The open Imperial Garden behind the Hall of Mental Cultivation was even surrounded by layers upon layers of guards.

These guards numbered in the hundreds, and their bodies faintly radiated aura fluctuations, all of whom were cultivators.

The leader was an old man with a white beard wearing a purple brocade robe. He was tall and slender, with a somewhat immortal air about him. He was a mid-Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

This person was Xu Shou, the old ancestor of the Xu family, a family of cultivators who secretly controlled Meng Chi Kingdom.

At this moment, his pair of white eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and his face looked very unsightly.

Just half a month ago, the descendants of the original Sun imperial family of Meng Chi Kingdom had actually colluded with the Yun family and suddenly returned. Some former court officials actually cooperated with them from the inside, giving them an unexpected blow.

By the time he came out of seclusion in a hurry, more than half of his Xu family’s cultivators had been killed or injured. The puppet emperor they supported, that good-for-nothing Gao Clan member who indulged in wine, women, and a life of drunken stupor, was so frightened that he developed heart disease and was directly scared to death.

After he stabilized the family’s situation with swift measures, he personally came to fight against the Sun descendants.

As a result, unexpectedly, they joined forces with a junior from the Yun family. The two of them didn’t know what kind of opportunity they had. The level of the cultivation methods they practiced was higher than his, and the magical treasures on their bodies emerged one after another. Although his cultivation realm firmly suppressed them, he couldn’t do anything to them.

Even more shocking to him was that the two of them were actually accompanied by a Great Ascension stage bird beast, which almost took his life with a single strike. If his backer hadn’t arrived in time, he would have already lost his life.

“Old Ancestor, these rebels have been hiding in this dry well for two days. We are extracting the spiritual energy from it with the array bestowed by our benefactor. At most, in another two hours, we will be able to break the restrictions here.” A middle-aged man with a black mole on his face bowed to the old man and said respectfully.

“The Yun family has been operating in Meng Chi Kingdom for many years. This restriction was built with an unknown amount of their resources. We must not be careless to prevent them from having any hidden tricks. This time, we must eradicate them completely and never let a single one of them escape.” Xu Shou’s expression sank slightly as he slowly instructed.

“If the benefactor hadn’t insisted on chasing that demon beast, breaking this restriction would have been as easy as lifting a finger…” The middle-aged man said casually after hearing this.

Xu Shou was about to scold him for speaking presumptuously about the benefactor when his expression suddenly changed, and he looked up at the night sky.

He saw a yellow stream of light streak across the night sky and land on the edge of the dry well.

“Greetings, Benefactor…” Xu Shou immediately bowed down after seeing who it was.

The rest of the people knelt on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads.

On the edge of the dry well, a young man with ordinary looks wearing a yellow robe glanced at the middle-aged man kneeling at Xu Shou’s feet, a fierce look flashed across his face, and with a casual wave, he took off the man’s head.

Blood splattered everywhere, covering Xu Shou, but he just tensed up, his body not even daring to move.

The young man was expressionless and captured the Nascent Soul of the middle-aged man in his hand. After gently rubbing it, he turned it into powder.

Earlier, he went to chase that azure strange bird and found that this beast was only at the Great Ascension level, but its escape speed was even faster than that of a late-stage Great Ascension cultivator. He had tried his best but failed to keep it, so he was in a very bad mood.

This middle-aged man spoke without thinking, so he was casually killed to vent his anger.

“How is it?” The young man asked casually.

“Reporting to the Benefactor, it should be broken in another two hours.” Xu Shou replied quickly.

“I can’t wait any longer. I have to clean up this mess and return to the sect. From now on, your Xu family’s offerings to the Shiji Palace will be doubled.” The young man said indifferently.

Xu Shou’s heart sank upon hearing this.

Originally, the reason why their Xu family seized Meng Chi Kingdom was for a Hwa Yang Sand ore vein in the kingdom. They were already going to offer most of the harvest to this young man from the Shiji Palace.

Now, the other party even asked to increase it by double. Where would they have any profit to take?

“What, is there a problem?” Seeing that he didn’t answer, the young man raised an eyebrow and asked.

“No, no… I respectfully obey the Benefactor’s decree.” Xu Shou trembled and replied quickly.

The young man heard this and ignored him. With a wave of his hand, five yellow talismans appeared on his five fingers.

After he chanted a spell, the five talismans burned with a “whoosh.”

He waved his hand casually, and five flames of different colors flew out, falling toward the wellhead.

The earth-yellow light at the wellhead immediately lit up, and an earth-yellow array arranged around it was activated, cooperating with the five flames to rush towards the wellhead.

With a “boom!”

A faint golden light curtain appeared inside the wellhead, and after a sudden flash, it directly shattered.

Immediately afterward, seven or eight beams of various colored light suddenly rushed out from the wellhead, shooting into the sky like fireworks and scattering in all directions.

However, before they could disperse, a huge five-colored umbrella fell from the sky, and as it spun rapidly, an invisible suction force swept out, immediately pressing all those beams of light back to the ground. The light converged, revealing cultivators scattered around the dry well.

The Xu family cultivators, who had been prepared outside, immediately surrounded them, each holding a weapon and looking at these people with a sneer.

Near the edge of the well, stood a young man wearing a green robe, with a crescent-shaped jade pendant hanging from his waist, and looked somewhat simple and honest. He was also supporting a man of similar age, who was burly like an iron tower.

These two were none other than Meng Yun Gui and Sun Bu Zheng.

The others scattered around were Meng Xiong and others, all of whom were also seriously injured.