"Heh heh..."
A laugh sounded, causing Chu Lingwei to shiver. The laugh was like cold water, piercing into every part of her body, incredibly icy.
"You've arrived in my domain and you ask me who I am? Interesting."
A woman appeared before Chu Lingwei, dressed in red, her long hair flying wildly in the air.
Seeing this woman, Chu Lingwei's mind conjured only one word: "Ghost."
"You are not a demon."
Chu Lingwei sensed no demonic energy from her at all.
"Is that so?" The woman's eyes held a trace of confusion, then she laughed, "I don't know what I am myself. How about you tell me, what exactly am I?"
"Don't you know yourself whether you are a demon or not?"
Chu Lingwei couldn't help but frown. The woman before her was utterly bizarre, and she herself was suspended in mid-air, her internal demonic energy slowly diminishing.
"Yes, I've been here for tens of thousands of years and have long forgotten past events. So tell me, am I a demon or not?"
Each time the woman uttered the word "demon," Chu Lingwei felt a hint of killing intent.
This woman, she must detest demons the most. Perhaps she was killed by demons.
"You've been here for tens of thousands of years?"
Tens of thousands of years?
Chu Lingwei had never heard of any old monsters who lived for tens of thousands of years.
Whether it was cultivators, demons, ghosts, or beasts, few reached the ten-thousand-year level, unless it was a wisp of a remnant soul.
After some powerful beings died, they would leave behind a sliver of their soul, their last dying wish.
"Yes, I've been left here for tens of thousands of years and I'm very lonely." The woman looked at Chu Lingwei, smiling. "In all these ten thousand years, no one has ever appeared here. Why have you come?"
As the woman spoke the last sentence, the killing intent in her eyes became palpable.
"Are you a cultivator?"
Chu Lingwei dodged the woman's killing intent and shouted.
She hadn't misjudged. The woman had just used spiritual energy. She was not a demon, but a cultivator.
"What did you say?"
The woman was stunned for a long time, confusion returning to her eyes. "A cultivator? I'm actually a cultivator? But they said I was a demon. Why?"
"I didn't misjudge. You just used spiritual energy." Chu Lingwei retreated with the illusionary cat. The illusionary cat had already set up numerous barriers and killing formations, hoping to eliminate the woman in one fell swoop.
The woman laughed, a hearty, resounding laugh. "So, I'm not a demon. I'm truly not a demon."
Now!
Chu Lingwei quickly altered her spiritual energy, activating the killing formation she had laid. The formation activated, but before it could surround the woman, it dissipated into a wisp of smoke.
What was going on?
Why were her barriers completely useless against this woman?
"You want to kill me?" The woman looked at the gradually dissipating barrier with sarcasm. "Here, no matter how high your cultivation, it will dissipate. You are not capable of killing me."
"How is that possible?"
Chu Lingwei heard the illusionary cat cry out in disbelief. He, a dignified divine beast, why were his barriers so weak?
"You must be very curious as to why, right?" The woman walked up to Chu Lingwei. "So, you are also a cultivator. No wonder you can confirm I am a cultivator."
"Let's go, I'll take you to see."
The woman turned and flew away into the distance.
"Weiwei, let's not go." The illusionary cat, seeing the woman leave, shouted to stop her. "We are no match for this woman. Here, we cannot use our spiritual energy."
"Since we're here, let's go and see."
It wasn't that spiritual energy couldn't be used here, but rather that it would automatically dissipate after leaving the body. There had to be a reason for this.
"Weiwei, we will be in great danger."
The illusionary cat followed Chu Lingwei, his eyes filled with worry. Weiwei was truly too bold.
"If we are in danger, we can just enter the space." Chu Lingwei caught up with the woman. Her hair had now shortened, and she stood before a swing. "I remember this swing. I used to like it here, but now I don't."
"You don't remember what happened before?"
Just now she said she had lived here for tens of thousands of years, yet now she couldn't remember what happened before. It was contradictory.
"I just don't remember this swing."
The woman seemed to see through Chu Lingwei's thoughts and sneered, "If I want to remember something, no matter how others try to conceal it, it's useless."
"See this place?"
"This is..."
Chu Lingwei looked at the familiar place, her eyes widening.
This place was so similar to the lake she had encountered when she first entered the stone mountain and met that Lord-level elder. It was exactly the same.
"I don't know."
The woman shook her head, looking at the lake. "However, this lake is the reason for the changes here."
Chu Lingwei's heart was greatly alarmed. Was this real, or was she trapped in an illusion?
She refused to believe that two completely identical places could exist in this world.
If they were the same, there must be something suspicious.
"What's different about this lake?" Chu Lingwei felt her breathing become rapid. Where had things gone wrong?
The sarcasm in the woman's eyes intensified. "What's different about this place? Can't you see for yourself? Why should I tell you?"
Having said this, the woman vanished like a wisp of smoke.
"Weiwei, this place is so strange."
The illusionary cat jumped to Chu Lingwei's side, looking at the familiar lake with astonishment.
"Have you noticed anything different here?" Chu Lingwei looked at the lake, a pebble appearing in her hand. She tossed it gently into the water.
The pebble hit the water, creating ripples.
As expected, it was exactly the same as the ripples when she first saw the lake. How could there be identical ripples in the world, unless everything here was fake?
"No, I haven't noticed anything different." The illusionary cat shook his head, his eyes filled with self-reproach. "Weiwei, why don't we go back?"
"We can no longer go back." Chu Lingwei shook her head. Since they had fallen into the trap, how could that person let them retreat?
She walked to the lake, crouched down, and took out the Seven-Colored Divine Flower from her storage bag. "This flower is about to wither. Why don't I water it with this water first?"
Chu Lingwei casually tossed the Seven-Colored Divine Flower. The entire lake surface changed dramatically.
"What are you doing?"
The woman's face was filled with anger. The Seven-Colored Divine Flower reappeared in Chu Lingwei's hand.
"Do you know what this place is? How can you be so reckless?"
"So, this is the holy water?"
Chu Lingwei never expected her luck to be so good. As soon as she entered this place, she encountered holy water. It was truly heaven helping her.
"Speak, what is your purpose for coming here?" The woman's gaze was sharp.