"Plop–"

Accompanied by a faint, soft sound, the "Curved Realm Ark" that the Jie Sect disciples were aboard merged back into the heaven and earth.

The entire process was extremely smooth, without the slightest tremble.

The scene before their eyes instantly transformed from dark nothingness to an imposing Immortal Mountain brimming with vitality.

Emei!

One of the most renowned Immortal Mountains in the Southern Continent.

Looking around:

Rugged peaks towered, with pines and cypresses standing tall.

Layer upon layer of mountain ridges, stretching endlessly.

Clouds gathered around the mountainside, forming a sea of white.

A Green Bird burst through the clouds, spreading its wings towards the Taiyang, its magnificent feathers sparkling in the sunlight with dazzling colors.

Below the sea of clouds, another vibrant world existed.

Rivers of emerald green flowed past the white-capped green peaks.

Water wound around the mountains and the mountains around water; the mountains seemed to float on the green water, and the water floated the mountains.

The surface of the river was flat like a mirror, reflecting the beautiful silhouette of the peaks, sometimes hazy, sometimes clear.

Together, they composed a breathtaking ink-wash scroll.

Majestic mountains touching the sky, colors so vibrant they seem to leap from a painting.

Bai Ling silently admired the view and, after bowing to the fellow Jie Sect disciples around her, transformed into a white light and blended into the Emei Immortal Mountains.

The Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox clan had already scattered, hiding in the various Cave Heaven Blessed Lands. Even if she returned to Qingqiu now, it would have been pointless. Instead, it was better to come to Emei to seek out the two Loose Cultivators that the young master was looking for.

However, shortly after embarking on her journey, she suddenly furrowed her beautiful eyebrows, a warning alarm going off in her heart.

Just then, a large banner entered her line of sight.

The huge banner hung from a nine-section treasure mallet that was four to five zhang high. As the banner unfurled in the wind, the front was a reddish hue while the back was dark and profound.

From a distance, thousands of black vapors and cold mists were visible, while up close, it was filled with mysterious symbols flowing around, with the energies of Yin Yang Qi subtly present.

Bai Ling instinctively sensed danger from the banner.

Without hesitation, she split into over a hundred beams of white light, scattering in all directions.

"Let's see where you can run to!"

With a cold shout, a slender Daoist appeared under the banner, his hands tightly gripping the Nine-Section Treasure Mallet with a gentle shake.

In an instant, a wind blew up and clouds surged, obscuring heaven and earth!

Countless black vapors and cold mists swept across the sky, quickly entangling nearly all the white light beams.

In the gloomy world, only one beam of white light remained agile, dodging and weaving through the attack of the black mist and cold smoke.

This beam of white light was Bai Ling's true body.

At this moment, she recognized that the slender figure was a Jie Sect disciple who had also boarded the "Ark" with her.

She immediately called out loudly, "Immortal, why do you launch a sneak attack on me?"

The slender Daoist replied coldly, "I am merely following orders to capture you. Do not ask unnecessary questions, just surrender without resistance to avoid suffering."

As soon as his voice fell, a faint sigh floated over from ahead.

In the darkness, a pure moonlight gently descended, illuminating the surrounding black mist and cold smoke, lingering and floating.

A woman in white slowly emerged from the dark depths, standing under the moonlight. Her hair was elegantly arranged, her delicate makeup distant, her forehead smooth, and her eyebrows like fine brush strokes, she gazed softly towards him.

The slender Daoist involuntarily held his breath, forgetting to continue operating the Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Banner.

The woman in white was so enchanting and captivating!

Her eyes moved gently, like water, searing into the depths of his heart.

She just stood there timidly, in the moonlight, pitifully staring at him.

It was as if time also stopped at that moment.

"Who sent you to capture me?" she asked softly.

"It's..."

The slender Daoist instinctively began to speak, but hesitated with his words at the tip of his tongue.

In that instant, the woman's water-like gaze swept over him again.

The Daoist felt his heart, which had been silent for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, thump wildly.

With a slight frown, the woman seemed to bear an endless amount of sorrow and sadness, etched in the lightness of her brows, also striking the heart of the slender Daoist.

"You, do you refuse to speak?" she whispered.

Upon seeing her seemingly forlorn appearance, the Daoist felt a deep ache in his heart and hastily said, "Of course, I'm willing... It was Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal who ordered me to capture you. He wants to use you as a Furnace Tripod... Furnace Tripod... How dare you, Demon Fox, bewitch my mind!"

Finally realizing what was happening, he reacted with both shock and anger, quickly operating the Shangqing Divine Power to calm his mind and shaking the Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Banner, summoning thousands of black vapors and cold mists.

However, the woman in white had already faded away like a bubble, her true body having already far escaped.

"Darn it! How could her Dao Xing be so profound?"

The slender Daoist, shocked and angry, quickly released his Divine Thought to search for her whereabouts, while his hands performed divination calculations.

However, with the blessing of the Star Fruit, Bai Ling was only a step away from the Golden Immortal Realm.

Her Dao Xing and realm were both above that of the slender Daoist, and having practiced the Shangqing Divine Power as well, how could she be easily found when she was determined to hide?

After a while, the slender Daoist reluctantly gave up the search, retracted the Nine Revolutions Yin Yang Banner, and took out a Sound Transmission Treasure Pearl and crushed it.

Soon, the figure of Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal appeared in the air.

"Is the task completed?"

"No...No, her Dao Xing is far superior to mine, and she's extremely vigilant and adept in the art of seduction..."

"So, not only did you let her escape, but you also revealed your identity and origins?"

"Yes... Yes, I did."

"For such a trivial matter, you've proved to be useless!" Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal could not help but scold.

After a pause, he said in a deep voice, "That fox must not be allowed to live! Immediately go to the nearby Cave Heaven Blessed Lands to search for her whereabouts. I will also send more people to assist you. At all costs, she must not be allowed to exit Emei!"

The lean Daoist repeatedly agreed, and after Long-eared Ding Guang Immortal's figure faded away, he did not dare to delay any longer, immediately transforming into a ray of grey light shooting towards the distance.

What he didn't know was that after his departure, a woman in white slowly materialized from the air, holding a treasure bead in her hand, with a slight upward curve at the corner of her mouth.

...

In the Penglai Holy Realm, after his master Golden Spirit Saint Mother left, Yu Yuan immediately took that fragment of the array map into his hands.

The array map, it signifies the core of a great formation.

Even those who are superficially versed in arrays can set up a great formation following the map.

There are also masters of array arts who can refine the array map into a spiritual treasure, which, when needed, can be activated to instantly deploy a great formation.

The Golden Spirit Saint Mother is, without a doubt, such an expert in the array arts.

This fragment of the array map had long been refined by her into a spiritual treasure, containing myriad phenomena within, capable of forming a Four Symbols Great Formation that seals heaven and earth and refines all things when activated.

Seizing the creation of heaven and earth, reversing the life and death of yin and yang.

After examining the array map for a moment, confirming its powerful nature, Yu Yuan then headed straight out of Tian Yuan Palace and arrived on an island reef near Penglai Island.

This island reef was conveniently located on the edge of the holy realm.

Yu Yuan made some arrangements on the island reef and then took out Yuan Tu and Avici from his Qiankun Ruyi Bag.

Both of these spiritual treasures were now in a dormant state, lifeless as if dead.

Yu Yuan took the opportunity to probe into their interiors with his divine thought and counted the innate restrictions within the two treasures.

Both treasures had thirty-eight innate restrictions.

In other words, they were both top-grade innate spiritual treasures.

As his divine thought entered them, Yuan Tu and Avici seemed to be stimulated, as a bright red blood light began to ooze from the dark sword bodies, which also started to tremble slightly.

Simultaneously.

Below the Netherworld Blood Sea, within the Blood God Palace, where Minghe Ancestor was meditating with his eyes closed, his eyes suddenly snapped open.

After more than ten days, he once again discerned his two companion spirit treasures.

They still haven't erased my Primordial Spirit Imprint?!

Minghe Ancestor was somewhat surprised in his heart.

Previously, when Yuan Tu and Avici fell into slumber, he could no longer sense the status of these two companion spirit treasures and thought their innate restrictions were forcibly erased, turning them into toys for someone else.

Every time he thought of this scene, his heart was filled with stray thoughts.

Unexpectedly, now he sensed Yuan Tu and Avici again.

What does this imply?

It suggests that these two spiritual treasures still hadn't been invaded by others, or attempts to invade were unsuccessful...

Regardless, these two treasures still belonged to him!

Minghe Ancestor was greatly consoled by this realization.

Immediately afterward, he sensed this was a golden opportunity!

With such a thought, Minghe Ancestor instantly focused all his attention on sensing Yuan Tu and Avici far away in the Penglai Holy Realm while sending a sliver of his Primordial Spirit through the void to the outskirts of the Penglai Holy Realm.

From a distance, he saw Yu Yuan on the island reef and his two spiritual treasures.

Yuan Tu and Avici, being owned treasures, transformed into two beams of red light attempting to escape upon awakening.

Sensing this, Minghe Ancestor's heart surged with excitement.

Although it was unclear why Yu Yuan left the Penglai Holy Realm, this was undoubtedly the perfect chance for him to retrieve his spiritual treasures!

Right then, he did not hesitate to split that sliver of Primordial Spirit into two, each entering Yuan Tu and Avici, planning to control these two treasures and directly return to the Netherworld Blood Sea!

But just at this moment, Yu Yuan activated a corner of the hazy-array map.

Four imposing figures emerged from the sky above, enveloping the entire island reef.

The Azure Dragon draped in green dragon scales, the White Tiger with silver fur gleaming, the Vermilion Bird with wings like blazing flames, and a majestic and extraordinary Xuanwu.

The illusory figures of the four holy venerables were filled with the power of the origin of rules, instantly sealing off all directions.

"Ding ding ding ding ding—"

Yuan Tu and Avici, turned into two beams of red light, rushed left and right within the Four Symbols Formation, but were all blocked back.

At the same time.

Inside the Blood God Palace, Minghe Ancestor lost the sensation of Yuan Tu and Avici once more.

The Four Symbols Formation sealed heaven and earth, cutting off everything.

The connection between him and the spiritual treasures, including the link with that sliver of Primordial Spirit, was completely severed.

...

"Damn brat!"

"What are you plotting?!"

At this moment.

Atop the Nameless Island Reef, Minghe Ancestor's sliver of Primordial Spirit was driving Yuan Tu and Avici, crashing against the Four Symbols Great Formation, shaking the illusory figures of the four holy venerables.

But that was all it could do.

After all, it was just a sliver of Minghe Ancestor's Primordial Spirit that had arrived, and to break one of the three great god formations passed down by a saint, the Four Symbols Formation, was no easy feat.

Moreover, Yu Yuan did not grant him the chance.

He kept driving the Four Symbols Array Map to shrink the space within the formation, forcing the two top-grade spiritual treasures into a dead end.

Eventually, Minghe Ancestor, in a fit of rage, launched an attack on Yu Yuan, his formidable enemy.

"Hum—"

Yuan Tu emitted an overwhelming bloodthirsty aura, sweeping over like a tide.

Avici aimed straight at Yu Yuan's forehead; its sharp blade transformed into a fine beam of light, fraught with endless killing intent.

"Bring it on!"

Yu Yuan shouted in great satisfaction, wielding the Mixed Gold Hammer and started fighting with them.

Yuan Tu and Avici's sharp edges pierced through his flesh, severed his bones, and wore down his Primordial Spirit time and again...

But Yu Yuan indulged in it.

Especially when the messages refreshed at breakneck speed on the transparent panel brought him immense satisfaction.

In the end, Minghe Ancestor's Primordial Spirit finally sensed something was amiss and couldn't help but roar furiously:

"Damn brat, what do you take this venerable one for?!"

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