Junior Sister must ascend this time!

The Heavenly Dao drilled into the crack, passing through layers of stone fissures, through the soil soaked in black energy, and through the lingering warmth left by the disciples' sacrifices. It looked down at the black mark that had been sealed by the Spirit Ruins Sect for ten thousand years.

Sensing her arrival, the Heavenly Demon let out a silent howl from the depths of the array's core, "You actually intend to kill me for those foolish cultivators? I was born between heaven and earth, I cannot be killed, I cannot be destroyed. If you kill me, you will die too!"

"So what?" Heavenly Dao said calmly, reaching out to grip the Heavenly Demon's body tightly. "I'm too late. I owe them."

As her fingers passed through the edge of the black mist, her fingertips began to dissipate, fading from the tips. But she did not stop, throwing her entire body into the center of the formation, perishing together with the Heavenly Demon.

The Heavenly Demon let out a short hiss and was the first to disappear from the mortal world.

With its last ounce of strength, the Heavenly Dao waved its hand, and its entire humanoid silhouette transformed into specks of spiritual light that scattered above the Spirit Ruins Sect, comforting the ravaged sect and the corpses of all the sect leaders, elders, and disciples who had died.

Finally, the Lingxu Sect absorbed the last wisp of Heavenly Dao power and transformed into the Lingxu Secret Realm, independent of the world.

As the Heavenly Dao dissipated, Yun Qing clenched her heart, and for some reason, she suddenly felt pain all over her body.

She lay on the ground, letting the pain course through her limbs, while the small wooden stick in her hand tried to help alleviate it.

Yun Qing finally recovered. She touched the wilted wooden stick and said, "Thank you. I'll give you some spiritual spring water when we get back."

The little wooden stick shook its small leaves in response.

At this moment, the entire space began to shake, the stone pillars of the main hall began to break, and the plaque fell down.

Yun Qing realized that the space was about to collapse, so she quickly woke up Pei Shubai and the others.

Cen Ning rubbed her eyes, and mumbled sleepily, "Junior Sister, what happened? Why did we fall asleep?"

Yun Qing helped her up. "Second Senior Sister, there's no time to explain. Let's run. The space has collapsed."

Upon hearing this, Si Mingche jumped to his feet, grabbing Pei Shubai and Jiang Mian, shouting, "Let's go! Let's go!"

Taking a moment, he even kicked Lu Xingzhou, who was still dizzy.

When the group, panting and out of breath, reached the spot where they had first entered the space, they found they couldn't get out.

Su Han's face was pale. "I remember the Alliance Leader saying that there's only one entrance to this space..."

Gu Changfeng bent over, supporting himself on his knees with his hands, panting heavily. "I can't go on! I swear I've never run this fast in my life!"

Pei Shubai was also in a sorry state. "If we can't find an exit soon, we'll all disappear along with this space."

Lu Xingzhou wailed, "No! I haven't become a renowned sword god yet, I can't die like this!"

Shen Qingchen slapped him hard on the back of the head. "Shut up!"

Jiang Mian looked at Yun Qing, "Junior Sister, do you have any ideas?"

Yun Qing rubbed the small wooden stick on her wrist a couple of times, then turned to the crowd and said, "Are you willing to make a bet with me?"

She thought of the pond she passed on her way to the main hall. The water there felt very familiar to her, but Elder Shou'an interrupted her, so she didn't think about it in detail.

Looking back now, it's similar to the streams at the inner and outer boundaries. These two places are very likely connected, so if they jumped into the pond, they would have a chance to follow the current back to the stream.

Pei Shubai and the others were naturally willing, and they had already consciously stood behind Yun Qing.

Aside from Cheng Tian Sect, Lu Xingzhou was the first to speak up: "Whatever Junior Sister Yun Qing says, we'll do. My senior brother thinks the same way!"

Shen Qingchen: ...Well, he didn't get a chance to express his opinion.

Gu Changfeng, being all alone, had no reason to refuse.

All eight people stared at Su Han and his group. Seeing that Su Han was still hesitating, Ye Xuan glanced at him. She now had a lot of opinions about the people from the Immortal Alliance.

"Sister Yunqing, I'll go with you. I don't care whether they go or not."

Su Han remained silent, and Yun Qing, not being a saint, insisted on dragging them along. She said to the others, "Let's go."

After the group had walked some distance, Su Han suddenly called out, "Wait! We're willing to believe you too."

Yun Qing stopped and turned around, saying, "You can come with me if you want, but you have to hand over ten water-repelling pearls."

"Why should we?" Su Han exploded. "They didn't have to hand over anything when they went with you, but I have to give them ten water-repelling beads?"

Although ten water-repelling beads meant nothing to him, he couldn't swallow this insult.

Yun Qing shrugged. "I just gave you a chance, but you didn't take it. If you want to join again now, you'll have to hand it over. If you don't, you'll have to figure it out yourself."

Su Han was filled with regret. He should have just acted like a fool and followed orders when he met Yun Qing, instead of playing tricks on her.

He and his two junior brothers reluctantly collected ten water-repelling beads and handed them over.

The group followed Yun Qing to the edge of the pond. The surrounding buildings had mostly collapsed, and there was no time to think about it anymore.

Yun Qing said to everyone, "Put the water-repelling pearl in your mouth and jump down."

Pei Shubai and the others, along with Ye Xuan, did as instructed without hesitation and then jumped into the pond.

Before jumping down, Yun Qing glanced at Su Han and said, "You guys prepare your own water-repelling beads."

Su Han: ……………

The group swam along the current, encountering many aquatic monsters along the way, but fortunately, none of them were highly skilled.

An hour later, Lu Xingzhou found the place very familiar, like the stream where he had been swept away by the Eight-Tailed Mud Seal.

He remembered it so clearly because when the Eight-Tailed Mud Seal captured him, it probably thought he was dirty, so it shoved him into the water and swung him around several times, and he almost crashed into the big rock in front of him.

He turned to the crowd and gestured for them to come ashore.

The others followed him and slowly climbed to the shore, leaving only Su Han still far away in the water. He really hated water; his limbs would stiffen without him even realizing it when he was in the water.

At this moment, Yun Qing suddenly jumped in again with a "plop," so fast that Cen Ning didn't have time to stop her.

Si Mingche looked at the other two disciples of the Immortal Alliance, "Look how kind-hearted my junior sister is. Even though your senior brother bullied her like that, she still jumped down to help him without hesitation. She was even more worried about his safety than you two junior brothers."

"Don't you feel ashamed?"

The two disciples lowered their heads. Junior Sister Yun Qing was truly too kind; they shouldn't have mocked her like that…

When Su Han saw Yun Qing underwater, his eyes lit up. He hadn't expected her to be so kind, even jumping down to save him.

Su Han waved to her, but Yun Qing didn't even look at him. She even kicked him and used the momentum to dive deeper into the water.

Get out of my way! Don't hold me up while I'm looking for something!

Su Han: …………

Yun Qing!!! I will hate you forever!!!