Bai Shengyi swept them a cold glance and spat out a single word.
"Scram!"
Long Xin felt she could finally breathe. This time, without Long Zining needing to say anything, she fled in the opposite direction of Bai Shengyi and the others in a panic.
Just as Long Zining was about to order someone to search, she heard Bai Shengyi's chilling voice.
"I meant, all of you, scram."
Long Zining's movements froze, and her expression shifted slightly.
"Divine Lord Bai, this might not be reasonable, would it?"
As the words fell, a powerful pressure surged forward, forcing everyone in the Lunar Star Middle World to their knees. The ground cracked beneath them, forming two deep holes.
"The strong are respected. Since when did we need to consider whether things are reasonable or not?" Qin Si's phoenix eyes were slightly raised, his aura of aggression and killing intent no less than Bai Shengyi's.
"You... you've also reached the peak of the Saint Realm?" Long Zining exclaimed in shock.
In such a short time!
Qin Si was delighted by her reaction. Finally, someone noticed his progress. His Ah Yi was growing too fast. If he didn't work harder, wouldn't he be left far behind?
Qin Si was definitely feeling a sense of urgency.
"Are you going to scram or not?" Qin Si hadn't forgotten the main issue.
Long Zining looked around, then glanced at Bai Shengyi again. Resigned, she said grudgingly, "We'll leave now."
Seeing that they had finally recognized their place, Qin Si and Bai Shengyi didn't do anything further. However, just as Long Zining and her group took a few steps, a blue mist suddenly floated in the air.
The ethereal and light blue mist seemed to drape a veil of fine gauze over the remnants of the divine hall.
"Master?"
Bai Shengyi's eyes lit up, and she immediately went to find the source of the blue mist.
However, the mist came without a shadow and left without a trace. It arrived silently and departed without hesitation. In the blink of an eye, it vanished.
Qin Si said, "Ah Yi, the mist took Long Zining and the others away."
Bai Shengyi then noticed that Long Zining's group had completely disappeared.
"Did you sense Senior Uncle's aura just now?" Qin Si asked again.
As he brought this up, Bai Shengyi's expression became peculiar.
"What's wrong?"
Bai Shengyi said with a troubled look, "I didn't sense Master's aura. Instead, I sensed it in four directions of the Vastworld. It's very strange."
"We should go into the time channel to search," Bai Shengyi quickly decided. Since the aura was everywhere, she wanted to see what was happening in the time channel.
Qin Si did not object.
Bai Shengyi took out the Samsara Brush, and a flowing white river of space instantly appeared. Bai Shengyi, holding Qin Si's hand, stepped into it.
This time, she entered proactively, searching with purpose. Her eyes scanned scenes of spring thunder and wind, snow, and the renewal of all things. She walked forward step by step and then suddenly stopped.
"Here."
She pulled Qin Si into a time shard. Unseen, a wisp of blackness clung to the hem of her clothing and followed them in.
"Damn it! How are you still here?"
Inside the shard, a person appeared whom neither Bai Shengyi nor Qin Si had anticipated.
Yun Youyue.
Yun Youyue was covered in black energy, completely demonized. She seemed to be on the verge of destroying the precarious secret realm when she was intercepted by Daoist Master Qinglan.
Daoist Master Qinglan's phantom form was as transparent as a cicada's wing, yet he stood firmly in front of Yun Youyue.
Yun Youyue angrily exclaimed, "Qinglan! You are at the end of your strength. Do you think you can stop me?"
Daoist Master Qinglan said calmly, "Whether I can stop you or not, you'll find out if you try."
A sinister glint flashed in Yun Youyue's eyes. Instantly, her entire body exploded. The immense impact nearly shattered Daoist Master Qinglan's phantom form. Even though it didn't, Daoist Master Qinglan watched the wisps of grey matter scattering everywhere and had to transform into mist, dispersing into the surroundings.
"Prison Fiend?" Bai Shengyi exclaimed in shock, watching all this unfold. "How could Yun Youyue be a Prison Fiend?"
"She isn't, but Yuan Bingxin is," Qin Si realized almost instantly. "Back then, when you entered the Vastworld Minor Secret Realm for training, Yuan Bingxin and Yun Youyue disappeared together. Yuan Bingxin is the daughter of a Prison Fiend princess and a human cultivator. It's likely that Yun Youyue found some way to devour Yuan Bingxin's Prison Fiend abilities."
"I see. Then I know where Master is," Bai Shengyi said. "Let's go out and find Qing... Black mist?"
Bai Shengyi looked at the small tail clinging to the hem of her clothes.
A tiny wisp of mist, she didn't know from where, but Bai Shengyi felt it was the black mist she had once owed a debt to.
However, what she never expected was that her utterance seemed to awaken the black mist, and it immediately flew towards the area where Daoist Master Qinglan and Yun Youyue were fighting.
"Black mist!"
Bai Shengyi couldn't even stop it.
The scene flickered, and she and Qin Si were immediately expelled.
"Ah Yi, you said you can't interfere randomly in the river of time," Qin Si said, holding back the eager Bai Shengyi and persuading her. "But this hasn't happened long ago. If we search now, we might not only find Senior Uncle but also the black mist."
Bai Shengyi immediately calmed down.
She led Qin Si out of the river of time and began searching the entire Vastworld.
They expelled all cultivators who had come to the Vastworld with possessive intentions. In the first year, they quelled the incessant hurricanes in the east of the Vastworld and collected a wisp of blue mist.
In the second year, in the west of the Vastworld, they suppressed the surging, rolling malevolent energy of the blood river and found a wisp of blue mist.
In the third and fourth years, they sat in meditation in the north of the Vastworld, watching the massive spatial rifts that appeared in the sky. They set up a grand formation to mend the rifts, and then Qin Si intercepted a wisp of blue mist in the spatial turbulence that had almost been swept away.
In the tenth year, Bai Shengyi and Qin Si finally dealt with the residual chaotic energy in the south of the Vastworld. Spiritual items were born in the Vastworld, and then the first intelligent beings appeared, the Qu Yao. The Qu Yao, resembling humans but not quite, began to multiply throughout the Vastworld. In the center of the Qu Yao tribe, Bai Shengyi and Qin Si found a drifting wisp of blue mist.
The four wisps of blue mist converged and fused in Bai Shengyi's hand, transforming into the appearance of Daoist Master Qinglan. However, Daoist Master Qinglan had only a spiritual body and no intelligence.
Just as Bai Shengyi and Qin Si were puzzling over this, the Hong Meng Paper reminded them, "His sentient core is still missing. It's true that Daoist Master Qinglan, as a spiritual being, is neither born nor dead, but all life has its destiny, and the sentient core is the destiny of spiritual beings. If you can't find it, you'll have to use the Tong Ling Bone..."
"No!"
Qin Si interrupted the Hong Meng Paper before it could finish, shielding its voice with his spiritual power.
He looked at Bai Shengyi. "We'll keep searching. There's one more place we haven't been."
Qin Si led Bai Shengyi to the Heavenly Dao Mountain Ravine in the Vastworld.
Because the world was newly formed, everything here also appeared bleak and sparse. The vegetation grew sparsely everywhere, with large expanses of stones piled up like mountains, which was quite obvious.
The red boundary flower, Huhua, appeared from nowhere and spat at Qin Si with "pff pff pff" sounds, but Qin Si couldn't afford to pay attention. He pulled Bai Shengyi and ran towards the stone mountain.
"Ah Yi, look quickly!"
The blue mist in Bai Shengyi's hand also flew over.
On top of the stone mountain, the lingering blue mist merged with the arriving blue mist. A blue human figure gradually formed. Black mist swirled around his feet, and he suddenly turned around, smiling at Bai Shengyi and Qin Si.