Qi Xucheng had already left with his disciples.

The girl glanced at Ning Yue resentfully, then followed Qi Xucheng away angrily.

To maintain his persona, Ning Yue remained silent, hiding behind Shi Yinghan and giving her a raised eyebrow and a smile.

Judging from her expression, she seemed about to explode with anger.

Ning Yue straightened up in a cheerful mood.

Suddenly, a pair of hands reached out in front of her.

Yang Fei held a blue egg in both hands: "Hey, junior sister, this is Blue Flame's egg. Blue Flame is that very beautiful bird from earlier. If you don't mind, you can accept it."

Yu Xiao patted her pocket and pulled out a small mirror: "...This is what my senior sister found in the trial realm. It's said that you can see fun things there. I haven't used it yet, so I'm giving it to you."

Ning Yue hadn't even realized why he was suddenly being given something.

Jiang Yishen, not to be outdone, took out a small wooden figure.

"Junior sister, in the future, if there's anything you don't want to do, just let it do it. You only need to inject a little spiritual energy to activate it."

Ning Yue: "...Good stuff, but we clearly entered the sect at the same time, so how come you call me junior sister so easily?"

Duan Huailin remained expressionless, holding a handful of materials, and gestured for Ning Yue to reach out.

Ning Yue, unaware of what was going on, reached out her hand.

She felt something cold touch her palm, and a white light appeared in her palm, then the thing disappeared directly into her palm.

"...This is a teleportation array," Duan Huailin explained. "Within a radius of fifty miles, you can teleport directly to anywhere you want."

Ning Yue's eyes lit up.

What a great commuting tool!

From now on, I won't need to walk anywhere! And I won't need someone to carry me on a sword anymore!

Yang Fei looked at Ning Yue's palm with envy: "Wow, this is a good thing. Senior brother wants one too."

Ning Yue smiled and put her hands behind her back.

I finally got such a convenient commuting tool, how could I possibly give it to you so easily!

Lu Qingyan pondered for a moment. As a sound cultivator, she didn't usually have many opportunities to go out and train on her own, so naturally she didn't have many interesting or fun things to do.

After thinking for a long time, she said, "I don't have anything fun to give you. How about I ask my master to teach you a musical instrument? It might come in handy at a crucial moment."

Suddenly, she remembered that elder who had tried to drag her to learn music cultivation as soon as she joined the sect.

Ning Yue's forehead twitched: "...Thank you, senior sister, but I don't have much talent for music, so I guess it's unnecessary."

Lu Qingyan: "...Okay, I'll send you something else fun when I think of it."

Ning Yue waved her hand, wanting to refuse: "Oh, Senior Sister, no..."

A slender white hand suddenly entered Ning Yue's line of sight.

Ning Yue paused, then looked up—

The slender white hand held a stack of talismans.

This seems to be the senior sister of that talisman cultivator, named Song Yishi.

"...Immobilization charms, that should be pretty fun. You can throw one at someone and immobilize them. Let me show you—"

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around listlessly and stared at Yang Fei, who was closest to her.

Yang Fei shuddered, realizing something was wrong, and tried to hide behind Shi Yinghan.

Song Yishi half-raised his eyes, glanced at Yang Fei, and pinched the talisman between two fingers.

"Certainly--"

Yang Fei, who was running, stopped in a 45-degree forward lean with one foot in mid-air.

This posture does not allow you to maintain your balance.

The next second—

Yang Fei was frozen in place and fell face-first to the ground.

Song Yishi didn't even stick the talisman on Yang Fei; he just glanced at Yang Fei and froze him in place.

Cow!

A genius at talisman cultivation! He froze the target the moment he saw them?!

A cloud of dust rose, and Ning Yue coughed with his eyes closed.

Yang Fei, lying face down, was in tears, sobbing as he mumbled, "...Senior sister, could you please stop using me as an example every time?"

Song Yi didn't even glance at it, her voice listless: "Release—"

Yang Fei finally got up from the ground.

Ning Yue looked at Song Yishi with admiration and took the thick stack of money from her hand: "Thank you, Senior Sister Yishi!"

Song Yi nodded and returned to the back of the group without much energy, as if he had only come to give Ning Yue a gift.

With tears streaming down his face, Yang Fei limped to his feet.

Ning Yue asked, "Does it hurt a lot, Senior Brother?"

Yang Fei sobbed through his tears, "Junior Sister, you don't know this, it's a side effect of the talisman your senior sister used on you. Those who are afflicted by the talisman will experience numbness in their hands and feet for half an hour, and will be unable to stop themselves from crying..."

Ning Yue looked at Song Yishi with starry eyes, her gaze filled with even more admiration.

Then, speaking earnestly to Yang Fei, he said, "Senior brother, you knew you were going to get a talisman stuck on you, so why did you run? You just tripped and fell for nothing."

With tears streaming down his face, Yang Fei advised, "...Junior Sister, you'd better have the chance to have Senior Sister Yi Shi put a talisman on you, otherwise you'll never understand that this isn't something I want to do; it's an instinctive urge to run!"

Ning Yue: "..."

Ning Yue glanced back at her senior sister discreetly, then quietly looked away.

"...How could that be? I'm that obedient."

"Alright, alright," Shi Yinghan ended the farce, "It's getting late. Let's keep going and find the Azure Lotus as soon as possible."

The group continued walking towards their destination, maintaining their previous formation.

Ning Yue walked in the middle, bowed her head and smiled faintly, carefully putting the gift in her hand into her Qiankun bag.

She knew that everyone believed her because she had just acted out a sob story.

Although she didn't care at all, she was just crying to make the little girl angry.

But the way everyone carefully and awkwardly gave her gifts really touched her heart.

To be honest, it's not entirely untrue.

Even in my past life, I had never received such a precious gift.

Ning Yue specially carved out a small space in his Qiankun bag to store these things.

……

Ning Yue felt it necessary to explain that the place where the Azure Lotus grew was guarded by a giant python that had existed for ten thousand years.

So, while we were on our way, I briefly explained the situation.

Yang Fei was shocked: "Really? This is the first time I've heard of this. It's said that the Azure Lotus only grows when the secret realm opens, and only one blooms at a time."

"The last one was picked by another sect, but it's said that it just grew in a somewhat remote place, but there's no danger around it..."

Ning Yue offered no explanation, only stating, "The information is guaranteed to be true."

Shi Yinghan frowned: "...A ten-thousand-year-old giant python is not easy to deal with."

Song Yishi half-opened his eyes and tossed two talismans into the bushes beside him.

The raging flames turned the bushes to ashes.

"...A fire talisman can burn it."

Yang Fei deftly reached out and extinguished the flames, then casually withdrew his hand.

Ning Yue: "I have a fire elemental root and can barely manage a few fire-based spells, enough to probably fight a few rounds."

Shi Yinghan: "The danger posed by the ten-thousand-year-old giant python should not be underestimated; each one possesses at least the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator. If we encounter it, retreat should be the primary strategy, with offense as a secondary measure."

The group nodded in understanding. Their main purpose in coming to the Azure Valley Secret Realm was to find the Azure Lotus, so they headed straight for their target.

Avoid other groups along the way and minimize interaction with others.

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