Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Yun Qing smiled as well, "Patriarch Si, if we win first place in this secret realm, please let our third senior brother stay in Chengtian Sect and not mention the Immortal Alliance again. If we fail to win, then we will personally send our third senior brother back."

She glanced at Si Mingche, "Send him back to be your heir."

Madam Xue quickly nudged the head of the Si family and whispered, "This is good. Haven't you always wanted Mingche to come back?"

The Si family head's mind raced. Compared to sending Mingche to the Immortal Alliance, keeping him in the Si family as the heir meant he was at least under his watchful eye. This bet was a win-win situation.

So he agreed without hesitation, "Okay! I'll bet with you!"

Si Mingche: ...Did you even ask for my opinion? Huh? One of you used me as a gamble, and the other just started betting without thinking. Don't I, the person involved, have the right to speak?

Forget it, once he opens his mouth, his dad will probably change his mind again.

After leaving the Si family, Si Mingche let out a long sigh of relief. "It has to be my junior sister. My father actually agreed to let me participate in the secret realm as the top student of Chengtian Sect. I was planning to hide outside until the secret realm opened before showing up."

He looked at Yun Qing, who was kicking stones, and asked, "Junior Sister, are you really confident you can get first place in this secret realm?"

"No," Yun Qing denied decisively. "That was just a way for me to stall your father temporarily."

Si Mingche immediately slumped down, and Yun Qing, seeing this, said with a smile, "But we will try our best, no matter what it takes, to keep our third senior brother in Chengtian Sect."

Cen Ning nodded seriously, "We won't lose."

"real?"

Si Mingche's eyes sparkled.

Pei Shubai patted his head. "Of course, we will never give up on you."

Si Mingche turned his expectant gaze to the last person who hadn't spoken. Jiang Mian felt a chill run down his spine from that gaze; he hated mushy things the most. "They're right."

"Anyway, if you lose the bet, you'll just go home and inherit the family business. Just remember to give each of us a spirit stone mine."

Si Mingche's感动 vanished instantly, and he chased after Jiang Mian, yelling, "Jiang Mian, you stop right there! You're not sleeping tonight! I'll teach you a lesson..."

Back at Qingyun Peak, despite the late hour, the five of them began meditating and cultivating without prior arrangement.

They must take first place in this secret realm!

Yun Qing suddenly remembered the jade slip she had brought back from the library, which she had never opened. Now that her cultivation and spiritual sense had increased, she wondered if she could open it.

Thinking this, she took out a jade slip from her storage bag, held it in her palm, and slowly probed it with her divine sense.

Unlike before, it wasn't repelled. A pale golden light emanated from the surface of the jade slip, growing brighter and brighter. Her consciousness seemed to pass through a door, and then a line of words appeared before her eyes.

"I am the way of heaven..."

"Thump!"

Yun Qing threw the jade slip aside before she finished reading it. Now she's trying to trick her with anything?

She even said she is the Way of Heaven!

Yun Qing ignored the abnormal jade slip and continued her cultivation.

As she continued her cultivation... she found herself ascending to heaven again?! Just like last time, her soul suddenly left her body...

At first, she saw "herself" meditating, with Qingyun Peak behind her, and then the outline of the entire Chengtian Sect's mountain gate...

She floated higher and higher, farther and farther away.

No way?! She died without doing anything?!

Yun Qing closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and shouted, "You damned Heavenly Dao!"

Sure enough, the familiar humanoid ball of light appeared in front of her.

"I've truly never seen anyone so disrespectful to the Heavenly Dao. You keep spouting 'Damn Heavenly Dao,' aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

Yun Qing knew that Heaven wouldn't kill her, otherwise it wouldn't have given her a chance to be reborn.

She retorted confidently, "This isn't the first time I've died; my soul left my body this time too!"

The Heavenly Dao was furious. "How dare you say that! I sent a jade slip to you so we could contact each other. I finally waited until your divine sense was strong enough to open the jade slip, and what did you do? You cut me off halfway through my sentence!"

"Otherwise, why do you think I went through all that trouble to bring you up here? Answer me!"

Feeling guilty, Yun Qing muttered softly, "Who wouldn't feel like they've been tricked after seeing that sentence?"

She cleared her throat and said again, "I was wrong, Lord Heaven. Is there anything you need to instruct me on this time?"

The Heavenly Dao returned to its unfathomable state, saying, "One good news, one bad news, which do you want to hear?"

Yun Qing: "...Are you going to tell me or not?!"

Heavenly Dao: "Good news, you've found a fragment of the Guiding Array."

Yun Qing: ? ? ? What fragment? Where is it?

She racked her brains and finally found some images in a corner of her memory: "Pale golden, blocky crystals?"

She hadn't even figured out what she found at the bottom of the spiritual spring was, but it turned out to be a fragment of a guiding array!

No wonder the spiritual energy there is so abundant; this also explains the appearance of the spiritual spring and the number of Qi Condensation Fruits.

Could the small wooden strip also be related to this fragment?

"Um."

Yun Qing was overjoyed to receive a positive answer. She had found the fragment so quickly; did that mean her mission was complete?

"So, can I go back to Liu Fushu's body? Can I ascend to immortality? Oh right, you just said there was bad news, what is it?"

Heavenly Dao: "Hmm... this is just one of them, there are seven in total..."

Yun Qing's smile froze on her face. "You scoundrel! I'll kill you!"

"You've already died once, why are you still in such a hurry?" Heavenly Dao silently took a step back.

"Listen to me, it's precisely because of your abilities that I chose you to search for the fragments of the guiding array, right? Others can't do it, but you can!"

"You've always wanted to know why your senior brothers and sisters from your previous life died, I promise I'll help you investigate."

Yun Qing took a deep breath, swallowing the profanity that was about to come out. "Then tell me, where are all these fragments?"

"I have no idea."

"??? You don't know?! How am I supposed to find it? Huh? By intuition? Or by luck?"

Before Yun Qing could completely lose her temper, the Heavenly Dao stretched out a "finger" and pointed it at the air above her head. "This is a trace of the Heavenly Dao's power that I bestow upon you. As long as you are near the fragment, you will be able to sense its presence."

Yun Qing lowered her head and remained silent for a while, accepting the fact that she still had to find six more fragments. She said weakly, "I understand. Take me back now."

Tiandao felt that her appearance was more terrifying than if she had shouted for his death. For his own safety, he quickly waved his hand and sent Yun Qing back.

After a moment of dizziness, Yun Qing regained consciousness. Thankfully, she could contact him via jade slip in the future; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to handle it.

She closed her eyes, trying to see if she could connect with the fragment. Sure enough, she felt a series of vibrations deep within her consciousness, like a heartbeat.

Every day after that, Yun Qing would first soak in the Thunder Pool for two hours, and then go to Jade Balance Peak to find her second senior sister.

As the saying goes, "An army marches on its stomach."

They've been researching new magical artifacts lately, and of course, the most important thing is to create a defensive artifact for Si Mingche.

Since Si Mingche gave up his spot in the Immortal Alliance, it's inevitable that the Immortal Alliance will target him in this secret realm.