Seeing that Qin Si didn't spare her even a shred of attention, Yun Youyue assumed the booming sounds of the heavens and earth were too loud for him to hear her question. She repeated herself.
“Vice Dean, are you also here to find Xingluo Dihuan?” she asked, a hint of tentativeness in her voice.
Only then did Qin Si shift his gaze to her.
Yun Youyue straightened her back and smoothed a strand of hair from her cheek. However, she saw Qin Si quickly look away, and her expression stiffened slightly.
Unwilling to give up, she intended to speak again, but Qin Si waved his hand. She felt an immense push that sent her body uncontrollably away. Moments later, she found herself outside the secret realm.
“Yun Youyue, where are the other students? Why are you the only one out?” Ling Yue asked sternly.
The commotion within the secret realm resounded through the heavens. He wanted to enter, but for some unknown reason, the secret realm's barrier, which he could usually tear apart with his bare hands, was like a tightly shut clam this time, impossible to open.
Yun Youyue's gaze shifted slightly. She couldn't help but think of the familiar figure in Qin Si's arms. She said aloud, “The Vice Dean sent me out.”
“The Vice Dean?” Ling Yue immediately stood up, seeking confirmation. “You mean, the Vice Dean actually came to the secret realm?”
Ling Yue frowned deeply. Others might not know what the Vice Dean was doing, but as the head of the disciplinary hall for the main peak, he was perfectly aware.
Ignoring the spatial rifts on the continent, not intercepting those who illegally entered the continent, and instead coming to the Qianyun Secret Realm?
No one knew that beneath Ling Yue’s perpetually taciturn facade lay a gossipy nature. He surveyed Yun Youyue thoughtfully. Could it be that the Vice Dean had taken a liking to Yun Kai’s daughter?
It was true, the young lady was indeed attractive, and her talent was exceptionally outstanding. At such a young age, she was already a fifth-tier artifact refiner. It wasn’t strange if the Vice Dean took a liking to her…
“Yes, he seemed to have other matters to attend to, and it wasn’t very safe inside, so he sent me out first,” Yun Youyue replied, seemingly oblivious to Ling Yue's scrutinizing gaze. She added, “But I’m a bit worried about Junior Uncle and Junior Sister Jiang. Elder Ling, can you take me in now?”
She pieced together the information Ling Yue had just revealed and realized that Qing Buli had not yet exited the secret realm!
Furthermore, Yun Youyue had a feeling that the immense commotion originating from Bai Shengyi’s location was undeniably connected to Xingluo Dihuan! It was possible that Qing Buli was also there!
She absolutely had to go back!
Just as Ling Yue was about to say he couldn't, Qian Ying from Qianxiao Peak was seen flying towards them on his sword. He changed his mind, “Wait a moment.”
Yun Youyue nodded. She took this opportunity to quickly send a message about everything that had happened in the secret realm to her father.
The Qianyun Secret Realm had not experienced such a significant disturbance in over a hundred years.
Among the cultivators in the cultivation world, there was a tacit understanding: whenever there was an anomaly in the heavens and earth, a spiritual treasure would surely emerge.
Yun Youyue believed that Xingluo Dihuan was the spiritual treasure in question this time. Sooner rather than later, Xingluo Dihuan would be exposed to the eyes of the continent. She had to have her father personally rush over. Otherwise, relying solely on herself, she likely wouldn't be able to protect such a spiritual treasure.
Yun Youyue's thoughts were not mistaken.
In just this brief quarter of an hour, the news of the Qianyun Secret Realm's anomaly had already spread throughout the continent. If the secret realm did not belong to the Divine启 Academy, all Golden Core cultivators would have likely rushed over upon hearing the news. Even so, the academy itself, as well as the surrounding reclusive families, had dispatched many people on their way.
Qian Ying was the first to arrive.
Without any pleasantries, he said, “Ling Yue, open the secret realm first.”
Ling Yue nodded. With their combined efforts, they finally managed to forcibly open the secret realm.
Qian Ying flew ahead on his sword. “I’ll go find my junior sister. You find the other students and bring them out.”
“Alright,” Ling Yue replied.
Yun Youyue bit her lip and said, “Elder Ling, I would like to accompany Martial Aunt Qian Ying.”
Ling Yue said indifferently, “As you wish.”
He watched Yun Youyue’s retreating back and chuckled, shaking his head. Young people, for the sake of some romantic entanglements, they would even risk their lives.
Bai Shengyi was awakened by lightning.
“Master, if you don’t wake up soon, you’ll be burnt to a crisp!”
Burnt to a crisp?
Bai Shengyi jolted and immediately opened her eyes.
Without the covering of spiritual power to transmit images, and without the feedback of spiritual energy from her Foundation Establishment stage, everything before her was truly and vividly reflected in her eyes.
Golden sand, purple lightning, raindrops the size of beans, and a hole in the sky that looked like a gap…
Bai Shengyi couldn't help but rub her eyes.
“Rumble!”
“Crackle…”
“Master, dodge quickly!”
A bolt of lightning descended from the sky. Even though Qing Meng Teng urgently warned her, Bai Shengyi reacted, but she was still struck squarely.
“Damn it!”
Bai Shengyi’s expression contorted. Forgetting to examine her new spectacles, she jumped up with a whoosh.
“Why do you keep striking me! Go strike Qing Buli if you have the guts! If he hadn’t caused trouble, would this sky have broken?”
“Rumble, rumble…”
Thunder roared!
Qing Meng Teng watched as the electric light and lightning seemed to be enraged, and it quickly said, “Master! Calm down, calm down! That person Qin is still inside the heavenly lightning cave!”
What if the Dao of Heaven became angry and took its wrath out on that man?
“Who?” Bai Shengyi hadn't fully processed it.
The thick lightning seemed to be targeting her. As she fled, she asked, “Little Teng Vine, you mean there’s someone else in that hole?”
“Yes! It’s that man named Qin Si! If he hadn’t moved Master to the side and reinforced several layers of barriers to shield Master for half the day, the heavenly lightning would have struck Master long ago…”
Bai Shengyi couldn't hear the rest of its words. She looked up at the sky.
Her sword, specifically used for flying, had disappeared somewhere. Bai Shengyi simply took out the Reincarnation Brush and recalled the feeling of it transforming into a long sword earlier. Spiritual power surged into the brush handle, and soon, a green long sword was in her hand.
There was a strange sense of familiarity, as if she was meant to wield a sword.
There was also a strange sense of incongruity, as if the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush shouldn't look like a sword.
But she didn't have time to think too much. She rode the wind and pointed her sword at the heavens.
“Stop striking! Do you think you're so great for having so much lightning? You can’t even kill anyone, and it sounds horrible! You’re deafening me! If you strike again, do you believe I’ll poke another hole for you?”
Qing Meng Teng: …Save me, Master won’t be wiped out by the Heavenly Dao, will she?
“Rumble! Rumble!”
Two bolts of lightning, as thick as five or six people, directly struck towards Bai Shengyi, full of murderous intent!
“Scram!”
The tip of the brush was entwined with fierce flames and clashed with the lightning with a "bang"!
Bai Shengyi wiped the blood from the corner of her lips. In this time, she had already rushed to the vicinity of the hole but did not see Qin Si's figure.
Did she wake up too late?
Was Qin Si already struck to death by heavenly lightning?
The panic and anger in her heart multiplied exponentially. Bai Shengyi’s clear and cold face darkened, and she directly swung her long sword—
“A’yi! Wait!”