"Don't cultivate. There's something wrong with the spiritual energy here. Everyone should leave quickly," Bai Shengyi said again, her brows furrowed tightly.
"Who do you think you are?" Hua Nishang and her group finally noticed that there were other people in the grand hall!
The group immediately grew vigilant, drawing their swords to block their path, and looked at them warily. One of them said in a hostile tone, "How do we know you're not trying to trick us?"
"What benefit would I get from tricking you?" Bai Shengyi couldn't be bothered to argue further. Seeing that the Reincarnation Brush and the Crescent Moon Cat had returned, she scooped up the Crescent Moon Cat and turned to Jing Fei, "Let's go. We're leaving."
Jing Fei said nothing more and followed behind Bai Shengyi. Ji Hou looked around hesitantly. If he left like this, what if he missed the opportunity to become an immortal? Bai Shengyi said there was a problem with the spiritual energy here, but he could clearly sense that the spiritual energy was incredibly abundant and there was nothing unusual about it. He had even quietly cultivated with the spiritual energy here for a while, and nothing had gone wrong.
Just as he decided not to follow Bai Shengyi, he saw Bai Shengyi suddenly turn around, her deep eyes seeming to penetrate his heart, with a smile that was not a smile. "You're not leaving?" Ji Hou's heart skipped a beat. Before he could react, he stood up. "I'm leaving."
By the time he followed them to the doorway, Ji Hou felt extremely depressed. Damn it! Why did he actually listen to this woman?
"Senior Sister..." the disciple who had spoken earlier asked with some hesitation, "Are we just going to let them leave like this? What if they take the things we're looking for..."
"Tsk..."
"Chi Feiyue, what are you laughing at?"
Chi Feiyue slowly chuckled, "I'm laughing at how funny you are. Su Jingjing, do you know who that female cultivator was just now?"
Su Jingjing put her hands on her hips and said dismissively, "Who else could she be? Just disciples from those sects and schools. How can they compare to our Senior Sister!"
"Pfft!" Chi Feiyue couldn't help but laugh again.
"Chi Feiyue!" Su Jingjing said angrily, "Are you mocking Senior Sister?"
Hua Nishang, who was directing the other disciples to search for the Azure Dragon's trace, also frowned unhappily. Just as she was about to tell them not to waste time, she saw Chi Feiyue wave her hand.
"How dare I," Chi Feiyue said leisurely, "I'm just laughing at you for being so short-sighted for so long, only seeing what you can see. Forget it, I'll tell you directly. The female cultivator just now is alchemist Bai from Shenqi Mountain. I advise you to be more respectful, she is a Mahayana cultivator."
As Chi Feiyue spoke, she lowered her eyes slightly. In recent years, Hua Ling Mountain had truly been declining day by day. All the cultivators only knew how to compete with each other but not how to improve their own cultivation, which was the right way in cultivation. Of course, Chi Feiyue also knew that the overall environment of the Shenqi Continent was like this. Even if she was dissatisfied, she could only manage herself.
Thinking of this, Chi Feiyue couldn't help but think of Bai Shengyi's words. She stood up, patted her robe, and said to Hua Nishang, "Senior Sister, I just remembered that we haven't searched outside this hall yet. I'll go search outside." With that, she walked outside.
"Senior Sister, look at her!" Su Jingjing pointed at Chi Feiyue's back and complained to Hua Nishang, "I think she just wants to be lazy!"
"Alright, Jingjing," Hua Nishang glanced at Su Jingjing and said in a deep voice, "Junior Sister Feiyue is also doing things for the sect. On the contrary, you, don't waste any more time. Jingjing, you should know that the sect will not forget the contributions of each of you."
Su Jingjing pouted, wanting to say more about Chi Feiyue, but fearing Hua Nishang's status, she reluctantly closed her mouth, but in her heart, she hated Chi Feiyue even more.
The Hua Ling Mountain group searched very carefully. Hua Nishang even instructed everyone not to miss any corner, but soon, doubts arose.
"Senior Sister, this is not right. We seem to have been here before?" A disciple pointed at the carvings on the ground and said, "Look, isn't this the mark we just made?" To avoid wasting time, they made a unique mark of Hua Ling Mountain every time they searched a place.
"There's one here too!" another person said.
Hua Nishang strode over, her gentle face filled with a solemn expression, "But I remember we haven't been to a place with such strong spiritual energy."
"Unless, after we left, this place has undergone a great change." Hua Nishang couldn't help but think of Bai Shengyi and the others who had retreated, guessing whether these people had found something inside, which caused the environment here to change.
"But we've been walking west, how could we have turned back?" Su Jingjing asked in confusion, "Could it be that the palaces inside are constantly moving?"
Just then, the Hua Ling Mountain group also heard the voice that Bai Shengyi and the others had heard earlier. "Do you wish to become an immortal? Do you wish to become a god?"
"Alchemist Bai, please wait." After Chi Feiyue came out, she didn't expect Bai Shengyi and the others to have not left yet, so she hurried forward to call out to Bai Shengyi.
Bai Shengyi turned back in surprise, "You know me?"
"I had the honor of witnessing Alchemist Bai's competition at the Pill Competition." Seeing that Bai Shengyi's tone was so friendly, Chi Feiyue was slightly surprised and also a little excited. She took a deep breath, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I just want to ask Alchemist Bai if you can help refine a Breakthrough Pill."
Chi Feiyue wasn't lying to Hua Nishang earlier; she had truly sensed that she was on the verge of a breakthrough. However, breaking through from the Nascent Soul stage to the God Transformation stage not only required opportunity but also an understanding of the principles of the Dao Heart. She was very weak in this aspect, so she didn't have much confidence in this breakthrough and urgently needed a Breakthrough Pill to assist her.
"I, I won't take advantage of you!" Chi Feiyue saw that Bai Shengyi didn't answer and immediately waved her hand, taking out the medicinal herbs she had collected. "Look, these are the medicinal herbs I've collected."
Bai Shengyi reminded her, "Fellow Daoist, I am currently only a sixth-tier alchemist and can at most refine seventh-tier Breakthrough Pills." In fact, she had only become a sixth-tier alchemist not long ago. If she hadn't broken through to the Mahayana stage, which in turn deepened her understanding of the Dao of Reincarnation, she might still be only a fifth-tier alchemist!
"I believe you!" Chi Feiyue said firmly. For an alchemist whose pills were of top-grade quality as soon as they were produced, even if she only refined seventh-tier Breakthrough Pills, as long as they reached top-grade quality, their effects would not be inferior to eighth-tier non-top-grade ones!
Seeing this, Bai Shengyi accepted the herbs and said, "There's a problem with the spiritual energy here. I'll refine it for you after we go out." Another meaning was to remind Chi Feiyue not to be tempted by the abundant spiritual energy here and to rush her breakthrough.
Chi Feiyue trusted Bai Shengyi quite a bit and nodded, also doing Bai Shengyi a favor. "Alchemist Bai, the various palaces in this Dragon Palace should be moving." She pointed to a groove outside a palace not far away. "Because I remember very clearly, we have been here before." That groove had cost her quite a bit of blood.
As soon as Chi Feiyue finished speaking, she heard a piercing scream coming from inside the palace.
"Ah!"
Immediately after, Su Jingjing stumbled out of the palace.