Knowing the reason, Tian Ning also understood why Ye Yiyi had been so resistant earlier.
Tian Ning sincerely said, “Sorry, I won’t tell Fellow Cultivator Ye that I want to become a Words Cultivator anymore.”
“Fellow Cultivator Tian, this isn’t your fault.” Not everyone can know the past of others. Words Cultivators are rare, and Tian Ning’s previous words were perfectly normal. Pang Yi spoke up mainly because she was worried that their team would develop conflict. It’s better to clarify things when problems arise.
Tian Ning was so kind to them, and Pang Yi trusted her.
She believed Tian Ning would absolutely not be like some people in the past, who, after learning that Ye Yiyi’s words had accidentally killed her own younger brother, looked at Ye Yiyi as if she were a monster.
When Tian Ning and Pang Yi returned, Ye Yiyi’s condition had improved considerably. Gao Yue had already used cleansing techniques to clean the unpleasant bloodstains from his body, but he still felt a sticky, bloody smell. This place had no covering, making it inconvenient to change clothes; he planned to change once they left.
Ye Yiyi held several sheets of paper, filled with apologies for her bad attitude earlier.
Seeing Tian Ning, she hurriedly selected the one she liked best and handed it over.
Tian Ning now viewed Ye Yiyi with rose-tinted glasses. Look how good this young girl is! It’s truly pitiful that she encountered such things in her childhood!
So, Tian Ning grabbed a handful of Top-Grade Revival Pills and stuffed them into Ye Yiyi’s hand: “Fellow Cultivator Ye, you’re so thin! Eat more!”
Ye Yiyi: “…”
She wondered why Tian Ning seemed like a worried elderly mother.
Tian Ning: “Child, is that enough?”
“If not, I have more here!”
Pang Yi: “…”
Gao Yue: “…”
As a Pill Cultivator, Gao Yue couldn’t help but say, “Fellow Cultivator Tian… my Third Senior Sister can’t eat that much… she’ll have a Body Explosion Death…”
Tian Ning: “…”
She almost forgot that.
Ye Yiyi didn’t accept them, hurriedly pushing the Top-Grade Revival Pills back to Tian Ning. Her writing speed was too slow, so she could only look to Pang Yi, who could understand her.
Pang Yi, of course, understood her meaning. Afraid that Tian Ning would stuff more Top-Grade Pills over, she quickly spoke:
“Fellow Cultivator Tian, we were able to enter the Immortal Island Secret Realm entirely thanks to you taking out Spirit Stones, and the Fuxi Qin, and even my Second Junior Brother’s coffin. We really can’t accept these Top-Grade Pills…”
Cultivators always valued the cycle of karma. Pang Yi felt they owed Tian Ning far too much!
Without Tian Ning, they wouldn’t even have been able to enter the Immortal Island Secret Realm.
Not to mention Tian Ning found what she wanted in just one day, and is now accompanying them to search for their Junior Uncle.
Seeing them decline, Tian Ning didn’t insist.
After all, as a woman herself, she understood even better how painful Ye Yiyi’s misfortune was. The preference for sons over daughters still existed even in another technologically advanced time and space.
After the little incident, the group stopped to rest for a while.
Gao Yue frowned at the headless monsters on the ground: “What exactly are these things…?”
As a Pill Cultivator, he knew many types of beasts, as alchemy sometimes requires materials from beasts, but he had never seen monsters like these.
“They are humans.”
Tian Ning spoke, answering his question.
“Humans!” Gao Yue widened his eyes in disbelief.
But after Tian Ning said that, looking closely, these monsters lacked fur compared to monkeys; they did resemble humans. But how could normal humans become like this?
Gao Yue guessed, “Could these people have become this way because they stayed in the Poison Mist for a long time?”
Remembering the strange Bones he saw after landing, Gao Yue felt apprehensive. If they couldn’t leave, wouldn’t they become like these monsters…?
The more he thought, the more panicked he became.
“Junior Uncle wouldn’t…?” have become one of these monsters, would he?
“Don’t talk nonsense! Junior Uncle is blessed by Heaven, nothing will happen to him!” Pang Yi immediately covered Gao Yue’s mouth. They had come this far; no matter what, they had to find their Junior Uncle.
Continuing to guess wouldn’t yield results. After resting, the four of them carried the coffin and continued forward.
They encountered a bat swarm attack along the way.
Tian Ning’s earlier guess was correct. The bats here had lived in the Poison Mist for a long time and had mutated. Their sharp fangs were terrifying, and their faces were incredibly ugly. They almost didn’t recognize them as bats at first.
Tian Ning couldn’t burn away the countless bats with fire talismans. Fortunately, Jiujiu timely sprayed fire, killing a large number of them.
But the fresh blood of cultivators was incredibly delicious to the mutated bats. As soon as one group was burned, another came, and they could only quickly flee forward.
They ran for an unknown distance until they entered an abandoned Grand Hall, where the bats were blocked by a Barrier, making them temporarily safe.
“Th-this… place… what is this place…?” Gao Yue gasped for breath, leaning on the coffin. He was truly envious of the Second Senior Brother’s comfort inside.
Tian Ning guessed, “Legacy Hall?”
She had heard her Third Senior Sister say that, if lucky, they would encounter a Legacy Hall left behind by a Large Sect. They just needed to pass the test to obtain a Chance Encounter.
It was just strange that such a bizarre place under the crack had once housed a Sect?
Pang Yi also felt something was wrong: “Could this still be an illusion?”
Tian Ning shook her head; the Grand Hall in front of them was real.
However, since entering the Barrier, she had inexplicably felt something watching their every move, as if under surveillance.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
They could deal with whatever happened.
The four pulled the coffin into the Grand Hall—
Tian Ning’s premonition was correct. In the hidden Space deep within the Grand Hall, several Demonic Cultivators, whose Souls were sealed there, greedily watched these young Physical Bodies. Over the millennia, few cultivators had been able to enter this place.
They hadn’t expected that a boy with a Demonic Body had arrived, shortly followed by several young cultivators. This made them eager to act.
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