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Chapter 1079 Mutual Checks and Balances
Yun Xi held Zhou Yeqiu's son's life in her hands, making her dare not act rashly. In particular, the transparent flame residing in her son's dantian and heart was invisible unless she deliberately used her divine sense to investigate.

Even if she wanted to forcibly expel the flame, she was worried that if she angered Yunxi, the other party would destroy her son's foundation. She not only wanted her son to live, but also to ensure that he could cultivate and ascend. For this, she was willing to bear all the sins.

Seeing Zhou Yeqiu show weakness, Yunxi knew she had made the right move, so she flipped her hand and put away the Taixu Heavenly Ice Flame, then spoke indifferently:
"Answer a few questions for me. If you satisfy me, I will consider letting your son go. If you are lying, then don't blame me for being impolite."

Zhou Yeqiu transformed the longsword in his hand back into a blue ribbon, tucked it into his sleeve, and said in a deep voice:
"Go ahead and ask!"

Holding the Nine Nether Sword, Yunxi did not lower her guard because of the opponent's show of weakness. The Nether Dragon Umbrella was also hovering above her head, ready to defend.

"Was this secret realm specially set up to prolong your son's life?"

Zhou Yeqiu shook his head and said:

"Not entirely. They told me to send my son here and seal him within the roots of this 'Vine of Life and Death' to recuperate. Once my son's soul is fully repaired, he can leave this place completely."

"The Vine of Life and Death?"

Yunxi raised an eyebrow. This was an extinct evil vine. She had seen it in the appendix of the "Complete Book of Immortal Plants," but the one she saw was clearly mutated.

According to records, this evil vine can help cultivators revive from the dead, but the price is that the cultivator must share the lightning tribulation when the vine undergoes its tribulation, and the resurrected person will also bear a heavy burden of sins, because the principle by which the Life and Death Vine revives cultivators is to extract the life force of other cultivators.

While the Vine of Life and Death absorbs the life force of other cultivators, it also strengthens itself. Therefore, it will cleverly choose to form a pact with a cultivator, giving the other party a chance to be reborn, and incidentally transferring its own sins to its master.

Yun Xi stared intently at Zhou Yeqiu, a glint of light flashing in her eyes. She clicked her tongue and said:

"Zhou Yeqiu, you are truly great. You are the one who formed a pact with the Vine of Life and Death. Do you know what you will have to endure? Don't you feel guilty when you see the piles of white bones in the cave?"

Zhou Yeqiu gritted his teeth and said:

"For Nian'er's sake, I have no other choice."

Yunxi shook her head helplessly and asked the question from before:
Do you know what they used to repair your son's soul?

Zhou Yeqiu nodded and said:

"The souls of cultivators who enter the secret realm are the nourishment for repairing my son's soul."

Yunxi pointed to the white bones in the cave and said:

"So many people have died, how many cultivators' souls has the Life and Death Vine absorbed, and after all this time it still hasn't been able to repair your son's soul?"

Zhou Yeqiu lowered his eyes and said:

"Nian'er has been mentally and spiritually impaired since birth."

Yunxi interrupted directly:
“Zhou Yeqiu, can you stop deceiving yourself? The Nian’er you speak of is a soulless person who should never have been born. He was born to die. You forcibly brought him into this world. Did you ever ask him if he was willing?”

Zhou Yeqiu suddenly looked up, his eyes bloodshot, and said:
"No, my Nian'er was smiling at me when he was born! He's eighteen now, so why shouldn't he have been born? He was just accidentally injured when I was fighting with my Daoist partner, and ordinary methods couldn't save him, so I had no choice but to cooperate with them!"
"Nian'er is still alive and well, breathing, with a heartbeat, and has even developed her dantian. You are not allowed to curse my Nian'er."

Zhou Yeqiu's gaze seemed to devour Yun Xi, his dark eyes fixed on her, as if he would fight to the death if she continued. Yun Xi didn't want to get entangled with the protective mother beast any longer, so she simply changed the subject:

"So what was the agreement you reached with the Feng family?"

"They promised to send a group of disciples into the secret realm to help my son recover. All I need to do is spare the lives of the Luo family disciples, then create an incident, and take the secret realm away from its original location."

"You've made a contract with the spirit of the secret realm?" "No, it's my son who has made a contract with the spirit of the secret realm."

Yunxi frowned, not expecting such a response.

Zhou Yeqiu glared fiercely at Yun Xi and said:
“I have answered your question. You should keep your promise, or I don’t mind making them pay with their lives.”

After speaking, he turned his gaze to the giant eagle Thousand-Seeking Eagle hovering on the distant sea, with Luo family disciples and the unconscious Feng family disciples on its back.

Yunxi, however, answered irrelevantly:

"Zhou Yeqiu, would you like to talk to your son?"

Zhou Yeqiu was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Yun Xi with even greater wariness:
"What do you want to do?"

Yun Xi casually stroked the Nine Nether Sword, then sheathed it back into the umbrella handle, and said in a low voice:
“I can let you talk to your son face to face. You can also ask him if he wants to live like this, and I guarantee I won’t harm his soul. How about it?”

Zhou Yeqiu wasn't stupid; he asked bluntly:
What are your conditions?

Yunxi smiled slightly and said:

"Send them out of the secret realm."

"Hmph, once I send them out, you can threaten me with Nian'er's life. I'm not that stupid."

“I have a bright path to immortality to take, and I don’t want to be buried with you and your son. So let’s compromise. You let them leave, and I’ll stay so you and your son can reunite. As for whether I leave here or am trapped here to die, that’s up to us each to decide.”

Zhou Yeqiu hesitated. She always felt that Yun Xi had ill intentions, but her desire to awaken her son was even stronger. She also had some doubts. She had absorbed the souls of so many cultivators, so why hadn't her son woken up yet? Was it because the evil immortal had left a backup plan to restrain her?

Yunxi wouldn't give the other party much time to consider, and communicated with the Taixu Heavenly Ice Flame through divine sense:

"Tai Xu, expand the burning area, but slow it down."

"it is good!"

The next moment, Zhou Yeqiu sensed the icy flames spreading within her son's body. She gritted her teeth and roared:
"Wei Yunxi, I promise you, please don't hurt my son."

As she finished speaking, the Taixu Heavenly Ice Flame returned to the opponent's dantian and heart, and did not continue to spread.

"You should have agreed earlier."

Yunxi snorted coldly and immediately sent a telepathic message to the disciples of the Luo family, telling them to prepare themselves and reminding them that they would probably not be in the same place after leaving the secret realm. The Thousand-Seeking Giant Eagle would serve as their temporary mount, and they should return to Luoxiao Immortal City as quickly as possible after leaving.

"Your real training will begin once you get out of here. I will stay here to hold them off. Be careful."

"Yes, Elder Ranxi, we have noted it down and will definitely tell the Second Elder and Sixth Elder everything that happened here. Please take care."

Luo Yizhi solemnly promised, then turned and instructed his cousins ​​to secure the unconscious Feng family disciple to the giant eagle's back and prepare to leave.

The Luo family disciples, who already knew the inside story through Ranxi's conversation with Zhou Yeqiu, were now ready to tear the Feng family apart, but they had no choice but to take these burdens with them, because their existence was evidence to clear the Luo family of suspicion.

Zhou Yeqiu made a hand seal, opening a passage in the sky above the sea, and coldly said:

“They can leave now.”