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

Gu Qinghan, who was in front of her, had his back almost completely pressed against her chest because he was turned to the side.

The medicinal fragrance and pure yang energy emanating from him continuously wafted into her nose.

She could even feel the slightest rise and fall of his back muscles as he strained.

Yu Luofeng, who came after her, wasn't much better off.

His chest pressed tightly against Jiang Yining's back.

Even through several layers of thin clothing, she could clearly feel his strong and powerful heartbeat.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Each jump felt like a direct blow to her back.

Even worse, the cracks in the rocks are getting narrower.

The three people were squeezed closer and closer.

Jiang Yining felt like the ham slice in a sandwich.

It's about to be squeezed into mincemeat.

Her cheeks began to burn.

I don't know if it was because of the crowding or something else.

She could feel Yu Luofeng's breathing becoming heavier and heavier behind her.

Meanwhile, Gu Qinghan's ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

The three people remained silent.

In the narrow, dark, and silent crevice of the rocks, only the increasingly rapid breathing and heartbeat could be heard.

Jiang Yining felt that this was even more torturous than confronting the Nine Yin Candle Dragon head-on.

"You...your hair..."

Gu Qinghan's voice suddenly rang out, with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor.

A mischievous strand of hair slipped from Jiang Yining's temple and brushed against his ear.

It's itchy.

It was like a feather gently brushing across the lake of his heart.

"oh."

Jiang Yining responded and tried to raise her hand to brush her hair aside.

But her arm was so squeezed that she couldn't move it at all.

She could only turn her head slightly.

This movement caused her lips to almost brush against Gu Qinghan's cheek.

Warm and soft to the touch.

Instantly separate.

Gu Qinghan's body stiffened abruptly.

He was on fire.

Gu Qinghan's mind went blank.

He even forgot where he was.

The air around my nose was filled with her sweet yet assertive fragrance.

The lingering touch of her lips on my cheek remained—soft, warm, and with a deadly allure.

His proud Dao heart shattered at this moment, like porcelain crushed by a wheel.

You stepped on me.

Behind him, Yu Luofeng's cold and dissatisfied voice rang out.

Gu Qinghan then snapped out of her daze and realized that because she had been distracted, she had stopped walking, causing the person behind her to bump into her.

Yu Luofeng was glaring at him with a murderous look in her eyes.

"What are you looking at?" Gu Qinghan's ears were still red, but her aura was in no way inferior. "If you're so capable, then don't get so close."

"You think I want this?" Yu Luofeng gritted his teeth. "Hurry up and leave!"

The two started bickering again, this time through Jiang Yining.

Jiang Yining was in a real bind.

All she wanted now was to get out of this damn crevice as quickly as possible.

"Shut up, both of you!" she hissed. "If you make another sound, I'll throw you both out to feed the dragons!"

The two men fell silent instantly.

"Thump!"

Just then, a loud bang came from the entrance to the crevice.

A huge claw covered in bluish-black scales slammed hard against the stone wall.

The entire crevice was shaking violently.

The Nine Yin Candle Dragon has caught up!

"Hurry up!"

The three of them dared not delay any longer and squeezed forward with all their might.

I don't know how long we moved, but finally a glimmer of light appeared ahead.

"exit!"

Gu Qinghan was the first to rush out of the crevice.

Next up were Jiang Yining and Yu Luofeng.

The moment the three of them escaped from the crevice in the rocks, they all felt a sense of relief at having survived a disaster.

But this relief lasted for less than a second.

Because they discovered that they had arrived in an even stranger place.

This is an enormous underground cavern.

The cave's dome is inlaid with countless luminous crystals, illuminating the entire space as bright as day.

The floor of the cave, however, was a boundless black swamp.

A layer of pale purple miasma floated over the swamp.

In the very center of the swamp, there stands a solitary black stone platform.

On the stone platform, a huge, almost transparent lotus flower is slowly blooming.

Each petal of the lotus is as if it were carved from crystal, radiating a cool and pure light.

"Nine Netherworld Soul-Nourishing Lotus..."

Gu Qinghan looked at the lotus flower and murmured in a low voice.

This is a legendary divine object that grows only at the end of the Yellow Springs and can reshape souls and bring the dead back to life!

The value of a single Nine Nether Soul-Nourishing Lotus is enough to unleash a bloodbath throughout the entire cultivation world!

"roar--"

Before they could recover from their shock...

An angry roar came from the crevice behind them.

The enormous head of the Nine Yin Candle Dragon was forced out of the crack in the rock.

Its head was bigger than a house, and its two eyes were like two huge red lanterns, burning with raging anger.

It got stuck in that narrow crevice and couldn't get its body through.

But it opened its blood-red maw, and a black dragon breath mixed with ice crystals surged towards the three of them.

Wherever the dragon's breath passed, the air froze, making a crackling sound.

"spread!"

Yu Luofeng roared and lunged to the left, carrying Jiang Yining in his arms.

Gu Qinghan rolled to the right, narrowly avoiding the direct impact of the dragon's breath.

"boom!"

The dragon's breath struck the spot where they had just stood, and a thick layer of black ice crystals instantly formed on the ground.

The ice crystals continued to spread, emanating an extreme cold that could freeze one's very soul.

"No, we can't let it out!" Yu Luofeng's face was extremely grim.

Once the Nine Yin Candle Dragon is completely freed, the entire Ghost Realm will be plunged into chaos and suffering.

"I'll attack, you cover me!" Gu Qinghan charged forward without hesitation, ice sword in hand.

"Are you crazy? That's the Nine Yin Candle Dragon!"

"It's better than waiting to die!"

Gu Qinghan's figure transformed into a white lightning bolt in the air, and the ice sword in her hand burst forth with dazzling golden light.

The pure Yang true fire left a long trail of flame behind him.

"Nine Suns Soar Across the Heavens!"

He slashed at the eye of the Candle Dragon with his sword.

The Candle Dragon let out a disdainful roar, and its huge eyelids snapped shut.

"when!"

The ice sword struck his eyelid as if it had struck the hardest divine iron, bursting into a string of dazzling sparks.

Gu Qinghan was thrown back by the enormous force of the recoil.

Zhulong opened its eyes, and a dragon breath, even thicker than before, shot towards Gu Qinghan in mid-air.

"Be careful!"

Yu Luofeng placed Jiang Yining in a relatively safe corner.

He formed a hand seal, and the black energy behind him condensed into a hundred-foot-tall Asura demon god.

The demon roared, wielding its enormous fist, as it met the black dragon's breath.

"Boom!"

The demon god clashed with the dragon's breath, unleashing a devastating energy surge.

The entire cave was trembling violently, and crystals from the dome were falling like rain.

Yu Luofeng groaned, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

He took the blow head-on from Zhulong, and he was also badly hurt.

Taking advantage of the opening, Gu Qinghan steadied himself and landed on the stone platform in the center of the swamp.

He glanced back at Yu Luofeng, who was directly confronting Zhulong.

This was the first time he had fought alongside this love rival.

It feels... kind of strange.