Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

Gu Qinghan walked over and snatched the soup bowl from Yu Luofeng's hands.

"You're such a clumsy person, you can spill soup even when you're feeding someone."

He scooped up a spoonful of soup, blew on it carefully, and then brought it to Jiang Yining's lips.

Their movements were elegant, their posture composed, and their appearance pleasing to the eye.

"Ning'er, after you drink the soup, I will use acupuncture needles to massage your acupoints and clear your meridians. It will be good for the baby."

"What kind of golden needles? I have bone needles here made from the skull of the Ghost Emperor, imbued with innate ghostly energy. One prick, and I guarantee you'll feel refreshed!"

"Vulgar! Brute force! You call that medical skill?"

"That's what you call being effeminate! Dragging your feet!"

Jiang Yining almost spat out her soup.

She watched the two people start facing off like fighting cocks again, and rubbed her temples with a headache.

Just then.

From deep within the secret passage, a muffled, loud bang suddenly resounded.

"Thump—"

The entire stone chamber shook violently.

Dust fell from the walls in a steady stream.

The argument between Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng came to an abrupt halt.

The two exchanged a glance, their faces both showing serious expressions.

Yu Luofeng's expression was particularly unpleasant.

"Damn it," he muttered under his breath. "That old bastard's awake."

"What old thing?"

Gu Qinghan immediately became alert, and the ice sword reappeared in his hand, protecting Jiang Yining behind him.

Yu Luofeng's face was so gloomy it could drip water.

"Deep within the Ghost Realm lies an ancient ferocious beast called the 'Nine Yin Candle Dragon'."

As he spoke, he quickly put the items on the stone table back into his storage ring.

"This secret passage was built to suppress it back then. The noise we just made may have awakened it."

Gu Qinghan's pupils contracted slightly.

Nine Yin Candle Dragon?

He had seen records of this creature in the oldest texts of Danta.

Born in the depths of the netherworld, feeding on yin energy, they can rival true immortals upon reaching adulthood.

It is an existence of a higher dimension than a demigod.

"Isn't it being suppressed?"

"It's been suppressed for 30,000 years! Who knows if that broken formation still works!" Yu Luofeng scratched his hair in frustration. "This place is no place to stay any longer; we must leave immediately!"

"Thump—"

Another loud bang.

This time it was clearer and more intense than before.

The entire stone chamber was shaking, and fine cracks began to appear on the walls.

Rock fragments kept falling from above.

"Walk!"

Yu Luofeng made a quick decision and picked up Jiang Yining again.

Gu Qinghan followed closely behind, responsible for covering the rear.

The three rushed out of the stone chamber and returned to the narrow secret passage.

The stone chamber behind them collapsed with a roar less than three breaths after they left, and was completely buried by huge rocks.

"roar--"

A roar that shook the very soul came from the depths of the earth.

The voice contained boundless anger and violence.

Jiang Yining was so shocked that her blood and qi surged, and her face turned even paler.

Yu Luofeng held her in his arms as they frantically traversed the secret passage.

He pushed his speed to the limit, and the scenery on both sides rushed past in his field of vision, turning into blurry afterimages.

"Faster! Faster!" Gu Qinghan urged from behind. "That thing is catching up!"

He could feel an extremely powerful, bone-chilling aura approaching from behind at an alarming speed.

Wherever that aura passed, even space itself was frozen.

"Do you think I don't want to be fast?" Yu Luofeng roared through gritted teeth. "There's a 'Narrow Gorge' ahead! We can't get through!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the secret passage ahead suddenly narrowed.

The passage that could originally accommodate three people walking side by side instantly became a narrow crevice in the stone that could only allow one person to pass sideways.

The rock walls on both sides of the crevice were polished to an exceptionally smooth surface, covered with densely packed golden runes.

An extremely powerful restrictive force emanated from the runes, compressing this space to its limit.

"Damn it!" Yu Luofeng had no choice but to stop and curse.

He let go of Jiang Yining.

"We can't get through here." He pointed to the crevice in the stone, his face grim. "This was the last barrier set up to prevent the Candle Dragon from escaping. Only those with pure Yin or pure Yang constitutions can barely pass through."

"Then why don't you hurry up and go?" Jiang Yining urged.

Yu Luofeng's ghost body is essentially an extremely Yin body.

"I'll manage." Yu Luofeng pointed to herself, then to Gu Qinghan. "He'll manage too."

"But you can't get through it."

Jiang Yining was stunned.

Why?

You are not alone now.

Gu Qinghan's voice came from the side, carrying a hint of solemnity.

"Yin and Yang converge within your body, forming an extremely peculiar chaotic state. This restriction will treat you as the most dangerous anomaly and will directly strangle you."

Jiang Yining's face darkened.

"roar--"

The roar behind us grew closer and closer.

The ground beneath my feet began to shake violently.

The luminous pearl on the wall flickered on and off, making a "buzzing" sound, as if it might go out at any moment.

"There's no time." Yu Luofeng's eyes hardened. "Gu Qinghan, take her and go first!"

"What?"

"Hold her in your arms, envelop her with your pure Yang power, and force your way through! Your Haotian Pure Yang Body is the source of the ultimate Yang power in the world; perhaps you can fool the restrictions!"

Yu Luofeng speaks extremely fast.

"I'll stay and hold that old man off!"

"No!" Jiang Yining and Gu Qinghan said at the same time.

"You can't stop it by yourself!" Gu Qinghan said in a deep voice.

"If you die, who will massage my legs?" Jiang Yining's reason was even more direct.

Yu Luofeng's eyes inexplicably welled up with tears.

He never expected that, at this critical moment of life and death, these two people who had previously wished him dead would both choose to stay.

"What kind of time is this to keep spouting this nonsense!" Yu Luofeng roared. "If you don't leave, we'll all die here!"

"uncertain."

Jiang Yining suddenly spoke.

She walked to the narrow crevice, reached out her hand, and touched the cold rock wall.

What I felt from my fingertips was an extremely strong repulsive force.

"Who set up this restriction?"

"Who else could it be? The first Ghost King of the Ghost Realm, that old codger," Yu Luofeng replied.

"That makes things easier."

A mysterious smile appeared on Jiang Yining's lips.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, she pulled something out of her sleeve.

A black bone whistle.

It was the Ghost General's Token that she had casually stolen from Yu Luofeng's belt.

"You..." Yu Luofeng's eyes widened when he saw the bone whistle.

When did she get this thing?

Jiang Yining ignored his shock.

She placed the bone whistle to her lips, infused it with a wisp of spiritual energy, and gently blew it.

No sound was emitted.

But an invisible fluctuation traveled along the rock wall and entered the core of the restriction.

The golden runes on both sides of the crevice suddenly flickered.

Then, as if encountering a king's soldiers, the light quickly dimmed.

That powerful repulsive force disappeared.

"It's done."

Jiang Yining put away the bone whistle, turned sideways, and easily walked into the crevice.

Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng exchanged a glance, both seeing extreme shock in each other's eyes.

The Ghost General's Token can actually suppress the restrictions set up by the first generation Ghost King?

This makes absolutely no sense!

unless……

Unless the authority of this Ghost General's Token is much higher than they imagined.

Without thinking it over, the two immediately followed.

The crevice in the rock was extremely narrow.

The three people could only line up in one row, sideways, like three flattened crabs, inching forward little by little.

Jiang Yining walked in the very middle.

Gu Qinghan was in front of her, and Yu Luofeng was behind her.

This position once again put her in a predicament of being caught between two opposing forces.