Yuan Bingxin was the child born from the union of a human and a prison demon, not entirely of the prison demon royal bloodline. In her childhood, her innate talent was not evident, and the human genes held the upper hand. Although Daoist Master Yanhua doted on her, she raised her in a rather laissez-faire manner.
After all, prison demons lacked the concept of kinship. Once children were born, they were independent individuals. Parents were responsible only for procreation, not upbringing. If Yuan Bingxin had not been a child that she painstakingly requested from the elders, Yanhua Daoist Master might not have even cared for her.
But now Yuan Bingxin had grown up, and Yanhua Daoist Master saw in her a talent even greater than her own, one that might lead the prison demon tribe to its peak. Thus, Yanhua Daoist Master naturally paid even more attention to Yuan Bingxin.
She swallowed her unsaid words and changed her tone, saying, "Mother will go prepare it for you now. Wait here."
As soon as she agreed, Yun Youyue severed the communication.
Yun Youyue, indifferent to Yuan Bingxin's heart-wrenching fury in her mind, leisurely took out a book from her storage pouch. She sat by the window in her room, unfolded the book, and began to write on it while reading.
Yun Buyu walked in from outside and saw this scene.
"This book of yours..." Yun Buyu's gaze shifted as he looked at the title.
Yun Youyue seemed to have just noticed Yun Buyu and stood up from her seat in surprise, but quickly regained her composure and bowed respectfully.
"Thank you for saving my life. This book was passed down from my ancestors."
"Oh?"
Yun Buyu responded with an unfathomable tone, "And how much of this 'Yun Family Medical Codex' have you learned?"
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"The secret realm is here!"
Cai Zhi exclaimed in delight and hurried forward.
Behind him, Hou Changming followed closely and remarked, "That demonic cultivator truly didn't lie to us. It's a pity he was on his last breath and couldn't explain things clearly, otherwise, we could have found the secret realm even sooner."
Qiao Yi said, "The progress we've made so far is already quite good."
The Vast Universe Secret Realm floated in mid-air, surrounded by dense black clouds from which lightning occasionally flashed. To approach the secret realm, they either had to traverse through the clouds or ascend from directly below. However, the divine light was so majestic that any attempt to get close would result in them being knocked to the ground.
Cai Zhi, lacking patience, immediately captured a few ordinary cultivators from nearby. "Hou Changming, quickly, use the Life Transferring Technique to let these people shield us from the divine light."
The so-called Life Transferring Technique was not a matter of one life for another, but rather transferring another's life to become one's own second life, shielding oneself against heavenly tribulations, divine lightning, and the like.
This was a secret technique of the Hou family, not to be passed down.
Hou Changming hesitated not at all. He directly took the cultivators over, slashed the left wrists of the cultivators, and chanted incantations. Soon, a string of red blood mist floated out from their left hands and formed several small blood figures in the air.
As these blood figures took shape, Hou Changming's face turned pale.
"It's done," Hou Changming instructed these blood figures, "Go and shield us from the divine light!"
The blood figures charged forward, and Hou Changming, Cai Zhi, and the others followed behind them, their auras seemingly masked and not attacked by the divine light at all.
The secret realm's divine light fell entirely upon those blood figures, and the cultivators captured by Hou Changming let out pained screams.
Xun Meng was also one of the captured cultivators.
In her pain, she briefly regained consciousness, her fingers rapidly manipulating an abacus to transmit information.
"Hou Changming, what are you staring at?" Cai Zhi asked indignantly as Hou Changming stopped. "Don't drag us down, alright?"
Hou Changming cast aside the vague sense of unease he had just felt and retorted, "Who is dragging whom down? Don't you have any idea?"
As they spoke, they began to argue again.
The others were used to it and had no intention of intervening. While the team was in a noisy state, Qiao Yi's expression suddenly changed drastically. "Hou Changming! Get out of the way!"
Hou Changming was a step too late. A wisp of ethereal green mist permeated the distance and reached them in an instant, engulfing Hou Changming entirely.
"Ah!"
The others had no idea what had happened to Hou Changming inside the green mist, only seeing him go mad!
Hou Changming yelled in despair, running back and forth in the green mist like a madman. The blood figures, no longer under his control, became unruly and dissipated into the air as blood mist. The secret realm's divine light began to attack them again.
"Hou Changming, you idiot, what are you doing!" Cai Zhi roared in annoyance.
Qiao Yi could no longer suppress his displeasure. "Cai Zhi, shut up. Changming must have fallen into an illusion. That green mist is suspicious, and we need to rescue him quickly."
Cai Zhi was clearly unwilling.
Qiao Yi said coldly, "If Hou Changming doesn't regain his senses, do you have any way to deal with the secret realm's divine light?"
Cai Zhi and the two behind him immediately wore grim expressions. Finally, they said unwillingly, "Fine."
The four reached an agreement. Two went to disperse the green mist, and two tried to grab Hou Changming, intending to pull him out of the green mist's range. However, before they could reach Hou Changming, they heard the whistling of wind.
"Not good!" Qiao Yi exclaimed. "Where is this gust of wind coming from?"
He had checked earlier; this was a dead sea, so how could there be wind!
At the junction of Qianlian Sea and Jueren Road, this place was constantly filled with spatial turbulence, and spatial rifts would frequently appear. Few people ventured here, but today, a figure in red strode out from a newly formed rift, followed closely by another person.
"Ayi..."
Qin Si called out to Bai Shengyi, but Bai Shengyi, with a stern face, ignored him, fearing that her first words would be hurtful.
Just as Qin Si was trying various ways to coax her, Bai Shengyi's expression suddenly changed, and she quickly flew towards the center of Qianlian Sea.
A moment later, both Qin Si and Bai Shengyi saw five figures at the peak of the Spiritual Light Realm in the center of Qianlian Sea. Upon closer inspection, the auras of these five individuals suggested their original cultivation was even higher, likely suppressed by the Heavenly Dao of the Divine Enlightenment Small World to only the peak of the Spiritual Light Realm.
Bai Shengyi looked at the green mist and pursed her lips. "Master has also arrived."
Qin Si also saw it. "What do you plan to do?"
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Shengyi took out the Samsara Brush and quickly wrote two characters: "Gale."
A violent gale immediately swept in, as if to overturn all the water in Qianlian Sea.
The ethereal green mist was also blown further apart by the wind, engulfing Cai Zhi and a cultivator behind him. In a short while, Cai Zhi and that cultivator also began to act like madmen.
Qiao Yi and another cultivator narrowly avoided it, their faces looking extremely grim. "Damn it!"
They hadn't even seen the person manipulating things from behind, and already three of their own had been taken down! If the person behind them had poisoned the green mist...
Qiao Yi dared not imagine.
"Fellow Daoist from behind, we have no ill intentions! We implore you to show mercy and spare us. This is our sincerity!"