Five Immortals Gate

In this karst cave, unlike the endless River of Void outside where one could fly upwards infinitely, the two of them were trapped in a cage, only able to walk along a fixed path.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu flew upwards along the mountain path, but when they truly walked here, their senses were nothing like what they had perceived from inside the cave earlier.

From below, the cave ceiling had appeared to be only about two hundred zhang away, but now that they were within the restriction, they had already traveled more than ten li in the blink of an eye, yet the path ahead still seemed endlessly distant.

Before them was a boundless expanse of mist, no longer the faint blue light of the cave ceiling they had seen before. That blue light had long since disappeared, its whereabouts unknown.

Being cautious, Li Yan and Mei Hongyu moved at a snail's pace compared to their usual flying speed, not daring to go too fast, lest they encounter a sudden event and be unable to react in time.

Li Yan moved sideways, constantly on guard, but there were no attacks along the mountain path, which only made him more vigilant.

As he advanced, Li Yan suddenly stopped, his figure frozen in place, the transition between extreme speed and stillness incredibly smooth.

He had been carrying Mei Hongyu with him, and Mei Hongyu suddenly felt a gentle force coming from ahead, instantly stopping her body in place.

The two of them, one moving and one still, were eerily silent, appearing harmonious, as if they were one and the same.

"Careful!"

Before his figure had completely stopped, Li Yan had already transmitted his voice to Mei Hongyu's mind.

"What is that?"

Although Mei Hongyu could not see the road ahead due to Li Yan's tall figure blocking her view, her divine sense was not completely blocked here and could still extend a short distance.

Just as Li Yan transmitted his voice, Mei Hongyu suddenly discovered a slender figure at the end of the mist ahead. She couldn't help but blurt out...

Li Yan did not answer Mei Hongyu's question because he was also examining the small figure in the churning mist ahead.

That person was facing away from Li Yan and Mei Hongyu, the small body just filling the mountain path, blocking their way forward.

The mist was gray, the surrounding rock walls were black, but that figure's back was blood-red, appearing strikingly like blood in a monotonous color scheme...

The slender figure sat on the ground, covered in moisture, long black hair draped down its back, and a blood-red dress spread out on the rocky path.

Just as Li Yan was observing, the figure sitting in the thick fog also slowly turned its head in the dim, drifting mist, looking at Li Yan.

It was a childish face full of innocence, skin pale and bloodless, as if extremely weak. The thick mist dampened her hair, and strands of it hung down in front of her forehead, making people feel her utter coldness.

Long eyelashes framed her large eyes, and her pupils were pitch black. Her nose was high and straight, and the heavy moisture in the mist prevented Li Yan from sensing any warmth from her.

As the little girl turned her head, her jet-black hair, wet with mist, fluttered over the blood-red dress on her shoulders.

The long dress was as dazzling as blood, and the faintly visible paper-white face made the little girl in the blood-colored dress seem full of gloomy aura, especially at the moment she turned her head to gaze...

Li Yan did not speak. Apart from instantly stopping, he made no extra movements, staring at the other party with a normal expression.

Mei Hongyu behind him, however, changed her expression. She was not surprised by the sudden appearance of the red-clothed little girl in the thick fog ahead.

Rather, she was reminded of her sick young child, who was also about this age when he was seriously ill.

Because of problems with his soul, he was always in such an extremely weak state, with a paper-white face, which immediately evoked her endless memories.

"Big brother, can you take me away from here?"

Listening to the little girl's voice, Mei Hongyu examined her with trembling divine sense. Her heart was filled with painful memories, but she did not speak.

No matter how pitiful the little girl appeared, she, who had suffered a lifetime of hardship, now had a firm Dao heart and would not truly believe that the other party was pitiful.

Even if it evoked bad memories for her, Mei Hongyu would not feel sympathy.

In such a place, the sudden appearance of such a little girl meant that there was a problem, and a big problem.

"Big brother, can you take me away from here?"

The little girl's voice came again. At this moment, she seemed to have suddenly seen hope, standing up from the ground, stirring the blood-colored long dress.

Li Yan saw that she was barefoot, her little feet covered in blood and dirt, as if she had walked a long mountain road to get here.

After standing up, the little girl's whole body was still trembling non-stop, her eyes filled with fear and a trace of timid pleading, and then she walked towards Li Yan...

At this moment, Li Yan not only ignored the other party, but suddenly raised a hand, and a dark light quietly streaked past his side, instantly disappearing into the mist.

"Chirp!"

With a soft sound, the little girl, who had just taken a small step, suddenly trembled, and then a dazzling blood hole appeared in the very center of her forehead.

Instantly, a strand of reddish-white matter gurgled out of the blood hole!

The little girl's body immediately froze in place, her big eyes still filled with inexplicable timidity and fear, but revealing even more disbelief.

She didn't understand why this person in front of her, instead of helping her when she was scared and asking for help, suddenly attacked and killed her...

Li Yan stood sideways on the mountain road, and apart from just raising his hand, his figure remained motionless.

He seemed completely detached from everything that was happening in front of him, as if he were just an observer from another space.

Mei Hongyu's divine sense swept over the little girl's expression at this moment. She clearly knew there was something wrong with the other party, but she still felt a strong sense of unbearable pain, and her heart beat violently.

She saw the blood hole on the other's forehead, from which reddish-white matter was constantly flowing.

And those reddish-white things, on the pale, bloodless little face, outlined fear and shock, making the little girl appear so helpless and desolate…

At this moment, Mei Hongyu seemed to smell a strong bloody smell, which made her feel as if someone had grabbed her heart and then yanked it down fiercely!

But Mei Hongyu did not close her eyes, and even in endless pain, her divine sense was still able to lock onto the front…

For a time, on the entire mountain road, the tender voice of the child that had just broken the silence here, returned to a dead silence.

Only the thick fog churned around, as if making the humidity here become more humid, colder, and more gloomy…

And as the bright and dazzling reddish-white matter flowed down from the forehead of the little girl in the blood-red dress, a thick bloody aura filled the mist.

"Big brother, why did you kill me?"

And in this strange silence, the little girl, whose body had suddenly stopped, opened and closed her mouth on a face covered in reddish-white mess.

Her voice at this moment suddenly became cold and stiff, like a puppet being controlled.

And as the little girl spoke, she even allowed the reddish-white matter to constantly flow into her mouth…

This caused her teeth to have reddish-white, sticky threads, which stretched into silk threads as her mouth opened.

The reddish-white bloodstains on her teeth made it seem as if she had just eaten raw flesh and blood!

Just as she was speaking, the thin body wearing a blood-red dress suddenly moved again, walking step by step towards Li Yan…

"A being without a soul!"

Li Yan quickly judged in his heart that his attack just now had not taken the other party's life. He was a Void Refinement cultivator.

Here, without any suppression from the laws of heaven and earth, Li Yan could display 100% of his strength, and he had even used his natal magic weapon.

But after the attack, the other party could still speak and move!

His Gui Yi Dividing Water Thorn had pierced through the other party's body, but there was not even a trace of pain on her face. She… didn't even have a soul?

In that case, even if he used a traceless soul technique, it should be useless. Is this a restraint against soul cultivators?

The little girl in the blood-red dress walked towards Li Yan step by step, her expression blank, still allowing the reddish-white matter to flow rapidly from the blood hole in her forehead.

Li Yan quietly unleashed a "Soul Severing Slash", which instantly struck the other party's body, but the little girl in the blood-red dress did not even sway.

Li Yan knew that his guess was indeed correct, and the other party really had no soul.

Looking at the little girl in the blood-red dress who was approaching, Li Yan unhesitatingly threw a straight punch, and a black energy instantly burst out from his fist.

"Boom!"

The little girl in the blood-red dress had already walked to a place several feet away from Li Yan when she was punched in the frail body from a distance.

The other party swayed, and then turned into a streak of blood red, flying straight out, and instantly disappearing into the thick fog behind.

"What kind of thing is this transformed from!"

Although Li Yan punched the other party away, the shock in his heart at this moment was completely different from the expression on his face.

Not only did the other party not have a soul, but how could his punch not explode the other party's slender body, but only send it flying?

Li Yan didn't show any mercy when he started, this punch would pose a considerable threat even to a Body Integration cultivator.

After Li Yan discovered that the other party had no soul, he didn't treat the other party as some weak little girl. This seemingly ordinary punch actually wanted to kill her with one blow, containing extremely terrifying power.

But it also caused an incredible thing to happen. It was clear that the Gui Yi Dividing Water Thorn he had unleashed earlier had easily pierced through the other party's forehead.

However, the physical resilience shown by the little girl in the blood-red dress under such a heavy blow was completely different from before!