Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Jiang Mian, his face bruised and swollen, pointed to the unidentified creature in the sack beside him and said, "Is this a monster you hunted back?"

Si Mingche sat casually on the ground, vigorously fanning himself with a fan. He had been in several fights today, and it had exhausted him.

"You can think of him as a monster, a monster with a human face but a beast's heart, like Shi Lang."

Jiang Mian said "Oh," and immediately realized that his junior sister still loved him.

Yun Qing was staring blankly into Jiang Mian's eyes.

She secretly asked the spirit of the secret realm, and it told Yun Qing that the Condensed Ruins Pearl had been there since it became conscious.

It can be said that the Condensed Void Pearl is the core of power supporting the entire secret realm, so if you want to take out the Condensed Void Pearl, you have to be able to withstand the backlash it brings.

The Illusionary King would never put himself in danger, which is why he concealed all this and had his descendants retrieve the bead for him. As long as someone helped him bear the backlash, he could rest easy and let the Condensing Void Bead reshape his physical body.

Regardless of whether Fourth Senior Brother can bring out the Condensation Pearl this time, Illusionary Spirit King will not let him go.

There's also the practice of casting lots...

Thinking of this, Yun Qing clicked her tongue. Shi Nian wasn't a good person either. She had promised not to take action, but she hadn't said that the Condensing Void Pearl wouldn't harm her fourth senior brother.

Kill them all!

Yun Qing stroked Jiang Mian's hair affectionately, "Poor child..."

Jiang Mian turned his head stiffly. Why could he see the word "kindness" on his junior sister's face?

"Junior Sister... what did you say?"

Yun Qing almost revealed the fact that her soul was hundreds of years old, so she quickly changed the subject, "I said let's go find the Condensing Void Pearl."

Si Mingche put away his fan. "Junior Sister, do you know which way to go?"

"Of course I know." Yun Qing brought the spirit of the secret realm to the two of them. "Thanks to it."

The spirit of the secret realm lowered its head. It should have known better than to make the illusion so realistic; now, even the location of the Condensing Ruins Pearl had been exposed…

Si Mingche and Jiang Mian were confused, but they still obediently followed behind Yun Qing, doing whatever their junior sister said!

With their destination clear, the three quickly arrived outside the barrier where the Condensing Void Pearl was located.

Si Mingche stared at the complex array at the entrance, his head throbbing with pain. "Junior Sister, can you break this array?"

Yun Qing didn't speak because she was thinking about which spot to stab her fourth senior brother with her sword.

At that moment, a voice from not far away made her stop worrying instantly: her fourth senior brother wouldn't have to bleed anymore.

Yun Qing's lips curled up. "The one who can break the formation has arrived."

Shi Qi looked down at the identity jade token, "Where did my third brother go? Why can't we contact him yet?"

Shi Yan replied, "Never mind, let's go in and get the Condensing Void Pearl first, then we'll find him. Otherwise, Jiang Mian will beat us to it..."

Upon hearing that Shi Qi had put away his identity jade token, he looked up and froze, "Big...big..."

Shi Yan said irritably, "What the hell? Are you seeing a ghost?!"

Shi Qi wished he had seen a ghost. He reflexively touched his hair, which had just drooped, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Jiang Mian has arrived, and his two damned senior brothers and sisters are with him."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yan looked ahead and exclaimed, "Impossible! We found it so quickly because we had the map my father gave us. What makes them think they can?!"

"Hello!" Yun Qing jumped in front of the two of them, beaming with a smile.

It seems that Shi Jin was unaware that taking the Ningxu Pearl would bring backlash, otherwise he wouldn't have given them the map and sent his three sons to their deaths.

When Shi Yan saw Yun Qing, he couldn't help but clench his fists, the shame of being teased by her still vivid in his mind.

He said to Shi Qi, "Kill these three people first, then go get the Condensing Void Pearl!"

After saying this, the two drew their swords and charged forward, their swordplay swift and rapid.

Si Mingche had been waiting for a long time. He seemed to be addicted to fighting. He kept flipping the Thousand Machine Fan in his hand, sometimes throwing talismans and sometimes short blades at the two of them.

Shi Yan and Shi Qi were somewhat overwhelmed. Wasn't it said that talisman cultivators in the cultivation world had no combat power?

This guy is like he's cheating; his damage output is no less than that of a sword cultivator.

So the two changed tactics and tried to use illusion magic to attack the three of them. Jiang Mian came on stage playing the flute and deflected the illusion back.

Yun Qing was anxious to end the battle, so she drew both swords at the same time and slashed straight at the two of them.

After a chaotic battle, Shi Yan and Shi Qi both fell to the ground.

Yun Qing sheathed her sword, glanced down at it, and said, "Just as Shi Nian said, they're all useless idiots."

Si Mingche skillfully tied the two up and asked, "What do we do now? Kill them?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Yan and Shi Qi, no longer dizzy, trembled uncontrollably. "We...we were wrong, please...please don't kill us..."

They do want to fight for the throne, but they don't want to risk their lives.

Jiang Mian wiped the zither. "You should have thought of this outcome when you disrespected my senior brother and junior sister."

"Don't rush into action."

Yun Qing's words gave the two hope, and Shi Yan quickly nodded, "Yes, Jiang Mian, please spare us since we are all members of the Illusionary Spirit Royal Family."

Jiang Mian scoffed, "Who's from the Illusionary Spirit Royal Family? I think I heard someone say I'm a bastard..."

Shi Yan and Shi Qi fell silent, and then received another beating from the three of them.

Now they can't even speak...

Yun Qing pointed to the location of the formation and said to Si Mingche, "Drag them over here and bleed them out."

"Is it that brutal?"

"Then I'll get started!"

Si Mingche dragged the person to the front of the formation. Jiang Mian squatted down, took out his sword, and made a cut on Shi Yan's arm and another cut on Shi Qi's thigh.

Blood dripped onto the array patterns, causing the array to fail and the barrier to open.

Shi Yan winced in pain: "...You just used your swords to cut me without saying anything beforehand?"

Yun Qing didn't even turn her head: "Would you have agreed if I'd told you beforehand?"

Shi Yan was speechless again...

Jiang Mian looked up at Yun Qing, "Junior Sister, how did you know it could be untied like this?"

Yun Qing stepped into the barrier. "Guess!"

"Bring them along; they'll be useful later."

Although Si Mingche and Jiang Mian didn't know what use these two good-for-nothings were, they still obediently dragged them into the barrier and then casually tossed them aside.

Just like in the illusion, the gray-green Void Condensation Pearl lay quietly on the stone platform.

Si Mingche walked to Yun Qing's side and noticed there was another formation there. He turned to look at the two lying on the ground and asked, "Junior Sister, shall we continue with the bloodletting?"

He was already secretly preparing to take action.

Shi Yan and Shi Qi silently shrank back...

Yun Qing originally intended to use their blood to reactivate the formation, but when she reviewed the scene in the illusion again, she realized that she had almost forgotten a very important piece of information.

Why was it that when the Illusion King used spiritual power to activate the Condensation Pearl in the illusion, it was the Fourth Senior Brother who suffered the backlash?