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

After the dark gold temperature disappeared, Jiang Yining did not immediately pursue it.

The faint Buddha blood signal released by Fan Chenxin indicates that there are several spatial barriers between the two parties.

If she rashly responds with her heart meridian, the tracking restriction on the back of her neck will definitely transmit the fluctuations of her qi and blood to Pei Yunji.

She pressed her forehead against the cold stone wall and whispered to the divine tree within her body.

"There's only half an incense stick's worth tonight. If you still want to stay inside me, spit out 30% of the Nirvana Qi and Blood you just swallowed."

The branches and leaves of the Divine Tree of Myriad Spirits swayed gently, its roots protecting the life force of the Dark Silver even more tightly.

"Those powers are indeed rare, but we're about to lose our lives, so we can't take them with us."

The main branches of the sacred tree still haven't loosened.

Jiang Yining used her fingernail to cut open her palm and pressed the blood into the array of patterns on the wall.

"If you're willing to give me 30%, I'll find a way to give you the entire Blood Pool. The essence of the earth's veins accumulated there for three thousand years is far more valuable than Pei Yunji's lifeblood."

The purple-gold leaf finally unfurled, and a wisp of dark silver power flowed into her palm along her meridians.

"After all these years with me, you've certainly learned to pick the high-priced deals."

There was still a faint light flowing in the western array slot before midnight.

Jiang Yining did not rush to break the barrier. Instead, she used her dark silver blood to envelop her own wood energy and disguised the two forces as a normal return flow of the Returning Origin Spirit Stripping Array.

The first wisp of power seeped into the stone wall, but the array grooves did not react.

She pressed in the second strand, and half of the blood-red wood grain on the wall lit up.

The earth vein essence that was originally being transported outward was intercepted by the array patterns and quietly flowed into the crack in her dantian.

"The Pei family spent three thousand years repairing this formation. If you can't even absorb one-tenth of its power, then don't call yourself the Myriad Spirit Divine Tree anymore."

The roots of the divine tree pierced through the cracks in the dantian, dividing the surging essence of the earth veins into several streams.

Two streams of energy repaired the dantian, one protected the heart meridian, and the remaining energy traveled up the spine, gradually approaching the restriction at the back of the neck.

Footsteps suddenly came from above the stone hall.

Jiang Yining immediately withdrew her palm and slid down the wall.

The crimson array pattern, having lost the support of vital energy, was reduced to a few barely perceptible dark marks.

The stone door slowly opened, but Pei Yunji did not enter the hall. He simply stood outside the door, looking down at the corner of the wall.

"Your breathing is much more stable than it was an hour ago; it seems the crack in your dantian has begun to heal."

Jiang Yining leaned against the stone wall, her right hand hidden under her sleeve.

"The pills you gave me were quite useful, so I certainly won't waste them. Young Master Pei wouldn't be returning so late at night just to check if the container is still alive."

"An abnormal backflow of the earth's veins has occurred, and the western array slot has lost half of its power."

Pei Yunji raised his hand, and dark silver qi swept across the area below the high platform, examining the array patterns of the stone hall inch by inch.

"You were just attacked by a backlash today, so you shouldn't have any spare power to interfere with the core array. Since you didn't move the power, it's possible that the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree is absorbing it on its own."

"You've tormented it for three days; isn't it reasonable for it to eat a few bites of the earth's essence when it's hungry?"

"The formation has not yet been activated, so it cannot cross the dantian to reach the formation slot unless someone builds a path for it."

Pei Yunji's gaze fell on the wall behind her.

Jiang Yining did not move her body, but her fingertips had already gripped the pill hidden in her sleeve.

As soon as he gets within three steps, she crushes the pill, using the explosive wood-elemental medicinal power to cover the blood patterns on the wall.

"Since you suspect me, why don't you come and check for yourself? But I have nowhere to hide anything on me. If you still can't find anything, don't blame me for mocking your suspicious nature."

Pei Yunji stopped inside the stone gate, unperturbed by her words.

"The fact that you really want me to come to you means that something was indeed left on the west wall."

"I just can't stand people who stand too far away and act like they've got everything under control."

"You tried to provoke me the other day, and you're using the same tactic again today. Isn't that a bit too deliberate?"

Jiang Yining raised her hand to wipe away the remaining blood from her lips, her expression unchanged.

"I am now trapped in your array hall, and all I can say is a few words. If Young Master Pei is going to concern himself with even that, he may simply shut me up."

Pei Yunji pointed to the stone wall on the west side.

A thin, dark silver line passed over Jiang Yining's shoulder and swept across the wall.

The crimson array pattern was drawn by the Nirvana Qi and Blood, and the bottommost stroke emitted a faint purple light.

Just as he was about to close his five fingers, a muffled rumble suddenly came from the dome of the stone palace.

The dark golden light of Buddha pierced through the distant space, leaving a brief mark on the outer wall of the Guiyuan Boling Hall.

The tracking barrier on the back of the neck was shaken and immediately released a dark silver light.

Pei Yunji turned his head to look at the top of the stone hall.

"Someone is probing the spatial barriers outside the Pei family's territory."

Jiang Yining's heart skipped a beat, but her face showed only confusion.

"The Pei family has occupied this secret realm for three thousand years. Is it really worth your personal investigation after encountering a few martial artists who have accidentally wandered here?"

"Ordinary martial artists do not carry the same Buddhist blood as those in your body."

Pei Yunji turned his gaze back, his dark silver pupils landing on her face once more.

"Are they here to see you?"

Jiang Yining sat up straight against the wall.

"I did have companions with me before I fell through the spatial passage. If Young Master Pei is worried that they might alert the Pei family, why not let me leave now? I will then lead them back the way we came."

"The fact that they were able to find the outer walls means they have your bloodline's guidance in their hands. Letting you out would only expose the Pei family's territory."

"If you kill them, the bloodline guidance will remain in the secret realm. When those outside realize their companions haven't returned, they will naturally send out even more warriors."

Pei Yunji walked to the blood pool and ran his fingertips across the surface of the Spirit-Peeling Pearl.

"The Heavenly Desolate Secret Realm opens for fifteen days each time. Once the entrance closes, no one from the outside can enter. The Pei family has enough time to deal with the intruders."

"You don't even know their cultivation levels or numbers, yet you assume you can do whatever you want with them?"

"There are twelve Nirvana Killing Arrays on the outer perimeter of the territory. No one below the Saint Realm can get here alive."

Jiang Yining's fingertips, hidden in her sleeve, slowly tightened.

With Fan Chenxin's Buddha bones shattered and Lou Xiaotian's heart meridian not yet fully healed, and Wu Baoruo also nearby, any Nirvana Killing Array would be enough to take their lives.

She looked up at Pei Yunji.

"What you want is the complete divine tree; there's no need to complicate things. Move me to another array hall, and they'll lose their bloodline connection and naturally won't be able to find this place."

"Your sudden act of finding a way out for them shows that those people are very important to you."

"If they die in the Pei family's territory, I will make the sacred tree destroy its ancestral roots. You can bet on whether I'm willing to do it, or you can bet on whether the Returning Origin Spirit Stripping Array can stop me before I make my move."

The Spirit-Peeling Pearl in Pei Yunji's hand stopped spinning.

"You've just risked your life to save the sacred tree, and now you're threatening me with its ancestral roots. That's not very believable."

"I am indeed reluctant to part with the sacred tree, but I am even more reluctant to let those around me die for me. Young Master Pei has studied treasures for three thousand years, but he may not understand for whom a living person would risk their life."

Pei Yunji remained silent for a moment, then raised his hand to seal the stone door.

"I won't activate the killing formation immediately, but you need to tell me how many of them there are and what powers they each possess."

"Please remove the outer array first, and then I'll consider whether to answer."

"You have no right to bargain with me."

"Then make your move now and see if I can sever my ancestral roots before the first killing formation is activated."

A purple-gold blood-red light suddenly shone in Jiang Yining's palm, and the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree immediately tightened its roots.

Blood seeped from the crack in his dantian again, and the ancestral root deep within the sacred tree showed signs of breaking.

Pei Yunji grasped her wrist from a distance, and the pressure of Nirvana forced the purple-gold blood and qi back into her meridians.

"You're more protective of those people than I thought."

"They dared to venture into the secret realm to find me, so I cannot lie here and watch them die."

"The outer killing formation will be suspended for one hour. I'm only giving you this one chance. If they still refuse to retreat after one hour, the formation will automatically resume."

"You've driven them this far, how are they supposed to escape the secret realm?"

"That's something they need to consider."

Pei Yunji turned and left the array hall, the heavy stone door closing behind him again.

"I will return in an hour to hear your choice."

The footsteps faded into the distance, but Jiang Yining remained seated in the same spot.

Only after the restriction on the back of her neck returned to calm did she crush the pill in her sleeve and force all the bursting wood energy into the west stone wall.

The hour of midnight arrives precisely at this moment.

The core array stopped operating, and a layer of blood-red divine wood patterns on the wall lit up.

Jiang Yining poured all the purple-gold blood energy that Pei Yunji had just suppressed back into the array patterns, and the dark silver restriction loosened a small crack.

She did not attempt to remove the restriction, but instead guided that familiar strand of Buddhist blood through the narrow crevice.

The dark gold temperature surged from the heart meridian to the back of the neck, and then crashed into the outer perimeter of the stone hall along the western array groove.

The distant Buddha's light immediately responded.

This time, the power was several times clearer than before.

The dark gold Buddha blood also contained the origin of the ancient green wood, as well as a trace of the aura of the nine-tailed celestial fox belonging to the Five Treasures.

Jiang Yining closed her eyes, condensed her own position into a purple-gold wooden seal, and sent it out along with the Buddha's blood.

The array of patterns on the wall could not withstand the three forces and immediately cracked open, creating a gap half a foot long.

The essence of the earth veins surged out from the cracks, and the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree immediately plunged into them, frantically gnawing at the internal nodes of the Returning Origin Spirit-Stripping Array.

The first dark silver array stone shattered silently.

Jiang Yining leaned against the wall to stand up. Blood seeped out of the wound in her lower abdomen again, but her eyes and brows were clearer than they had been three days ago.

"You think you can stop us with just a formation? You'd better start worrying about your stones right now."