Genius Beast Tamer

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Hua Qianye looked at her, pursed her lips, and felt a warmth in her heart that left her speechless.

I don't remember when it started, but I began to rely on her. Maybe I knew the truth in my heart, but I still wanted to hear her say it. I always felt that it would make me feel safe, warm, and touched.

Han Wuxie smiled mischievously and said, "Even if you refuse to fall in love with me, I'll still cling to you!"

Hua Qianye couldn't help but laugh at her, and all his previous worries vanished instantly. He said indulgently, "I'm just afraid that you'll become lazy and find it troublesome to rely on me, or that I'll become unreasonable and annoy you."

"Hua Qianye, no matter what you become in the future, you will not escape my clutches!" She winked seductively, her hand reaching out to grasp hers, revealing a touch of wild beauty.

Hua Qianye was slightly taken aback, then used a hand formed from wind to gently flick her nose, amused, and said, "When you act like this, I'm really afraid you'll be seduced by someone else, you little vixen!"

"Little vixen?" Han Wuxie narrowed his eyes, a mischievous smirk playing on his lips. "Want me to teach you the Phoenix Dance?"

"Feng Wu? Tianci's fiancée? Why would I learn from her?" Hua Qianye asked, slightly puzzled.

Han Wuxie chuckled wickedly, "In my eyes before, Feng Wu was a cold, aloof beauty, keeping everyone at arm's length. But Tianci secretly told me that when Feng Wu guessed he was the reincarnation of the Golden Dragon, the reincarnation of the person she was waiting for, no matter what he was like now, he was like a completely different person in front of her—a little cunning, a little mischievous, and quite likable. Perhaps that's why Tianci is so fascinated by her. From now on, I'll learn from Feng Wu and be cold to others, so you won't be afraid I'll be seduced by someone else, right?"

Hua Qianye was stunned for a moment, then asked with emotion, "If I could fall in love with you at first sight, just like Tianci did, after returning to my body, how wonderful that would be."

"It definitely will!" Han Wuxie said confidently with a smile, "Because Tianci loved Fengwu very much in his previous life, he has such a deep impression of Fengwu in this life, and he fell in love with her at first sight and is very attached to her."

Han Wuxie suddenly narrowed his eyes with a mischievous glint, and said threateningly, "If you don't have those feelings for me, it only means..."

"What does that mean?" Hua Qianye narrowed her eyes, a hint of doting and teasing in her blue pupils. "Don't I love you?"

"Good to know!" Han Wuxie sneered. "If I cling to you and you still don't like me, but like someone else, it means you don't truly love me! Otherwise, you wouldn't have no memory of me at all. So..." She curled her lips into a sneer, her gaze turning cold and sharp, her voice dangerously low, "I will kill you!"

"Eek!" Hua Qianye deliberately feigned exaggerated fear, patting her chest and pleading pitifully, "My little Wuxie, you wouldn't do this, would you? You really can't bear to kill me?"

Han Wuxie crossed her arms, glancing sideways at his affected manner, and said with a sneer, "I'm not a kind person. I might feel a little reluctant, but not to the point of being unable to do it! Even if you don't like me, you can't like someone else. I'm not so magnanimous as to say things like 'I wish you well'!" Her voice dropped eight octaves, deep and terrifying, "I don't want to see another woman laughing in your arms. I've never truly been in that embrace, and I won't allow anyone else to have it! I'll be jealous, and after that, I don't know what crazy things I might do. Killing you might be too easy for you!"

Hua Qianye's mouth gaped open in a wide arc, and it took her a long time to catch her breath. She feigned fear as she looked at Han Wuxie, patting her chest and saying, "Truly, a woman's heart is the most poisonous! No wonder they say it's better to offend a petty person than a woman!"

Han Wuxie gave him a cold glare and said awkwardly, "That's how I think now. As for the future, you'll have to figure it out for yourself!"

Hua Qianye put on an exaggerated expression of fear and extreme panic, pleading with the moon outside the window, "Heavens above, please don't let me become a heartless man! Remember Han Wuxie's terrifying face, that horrible and ruthless woman!"

"What did you say?!" Han Wuxie roared in fury. Hua Qianye quickly slipped into the ring and chuckled, "Little girl, I'm not teasing you anymore. Go to sleep."

Han Wuxie pursed his lips awkwardly and muttered, "Coward, I was just saying that casually. If that day really came, how could I possibly bring myself to do it?"

Hua Qianye, inside the ring, clearly heard Han Wuxie's mutterings. He sighed softly, and a light drizzle began to fall in the world inside the ring.

Wu Xie, if that day ever comes, don't make yourself suffer. If killing me will make you feel better, then kill me. I hate that version of myself that hurt you. If I could, maybe I would want to kill that hateful version of myself.

……

The night was long, and Han Wuxie still couldn't figure out what the golden core-like thing in a martial artist's body was after the root had been formed.

She sat cross-legged, trying to circulate her energy, using the internal force of a martial artist from the past. She focused her inner vision on her dantian. When using her internal force, her golden core was like an ice bead emitting cold air. That cold air was pure internal force, which she used.

She then tried to use the magic of cultivators. She was a divine root of ice attribute. When she used the ice-type magic Ice Dragon Technique, the seed-like divine root kept rotating, creating a very powerful magnetic field. It invisibly transformed into tangible frost, becoming the ice dragon that the ice-type magic was meant to conjure, and attacked in the direction she pointed.

As the Root of God rotated, the Golden Core seemed completely detached, making no reaction whatsoever.

If a cultivator is born with a spiritual root and cultivates to the Golden Core stage, they should use the spiritual root as an auxiliary and the Golden Core as the main when using spells, to conjure up the corresponding magical power. Neither can be missing. However, Han Wuxie now seems to possess a Golden Core that can generate internal energy, a divine root that does not need the assistance of a Golden Core or cultivation.

What exactly is going on? Could it be that the roots planted later were born with cultivation power?

Even if I don't have a Golden Core, am I still a cultivation master at the Golden Core stage? Then what exactly is this Golden Core? It only provides internal energy, so what's going on?

When one becomes a Martial Venerable, a portion of one's internal energy is transformed into roots by condensing into a pill, which is equivalent to a portion of one's cultivation being transformed into roots. After breaking through to the mid-stage of Martial Venerable, another root is transformed into roots, which means another portion of one's cultivation is separated out. When breaking through to the peak of Martial Venerable, a third root is formed.

The remaining internal energy that did not transform into roots swirls around the roots like soil. Sometimes the roots absorb that internal energy. New internal energy generated from cultivation and improvement becomes something similar to soil. The roots absorb a portion of it every day, but not all of it. They always absorb a moderate amount, and the excess internal energy accumulates and swirls around the three roots.

After consuming the Cloud Mist Fire Snow Flower, the petals combined with three roots that had sprouted from within, eventually forming a divine root of ice attribute. The excess internal energy, having nowhere else to go, absorbed the remaining petals and transformed into this golden pill-like substance.

That means your cultivation has been split into two parts!

Han Wuxie's eyes widened in surprise as he repeated what he had just thought of, "His cultivation has split into two parts! Most of it has become the Root of God, and a small portion has become something like a Golden Core. For us martial artists above the Martial Venerable level, a small portion of our cultivation is similar to the Golden Core stage, but our true cultivation is far more than just simple cultivation!"

"The divine pressure we exude is merely that of a Golden Core cultivator. To the outside world, we are just a Golden Core cultivator. Even the heavens would be fooled!" Han Wuxie's pupils widened, filled with intense surprise.

If we calculate it this way, most of our cultivation is absorbed by our spiritual root and a small part is absorbed by our golden core. According to the cultivation level of cultivators, when our golden core reaches the Nascent Soul stage, we don't even know what level our spiritual root is anymore. Our spiritual root can change!

In other words, the spiritual roots that are predetermined by everyone at birth, once cultivated by us extraordinary martial artists, will not only give us more spiritual roots, but we can also continuously cultivate the level of our spiritual roots. The spiritual roots of the Divine Medicine Valley Master and others are of the Saint grade, but they can become the Profound grade, Half-Immortal root, and Immortal root as their cultivation increases in the future, constantly growing. As long as their cultivation continues to increase, they will never stop becoming better roots, and may even eventually become divine roots!

After going to the Immortal Realm, even among the immortals, they will have outstanding performances. They will not only have spiritual roots, but will become high-level immortal roots. They will absorb better immortal energy in the Immortal Realm, and their cultivation will not stagnate because of their spiritual roots!

Many immortals in the Immortal Realm cannot advance further after reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal level. The fundamental reason is that their immortal roots are of too low quality. However, immortal roots are something that is innate and cannot be changed through later efforts. No matter how hard they try, it will be in vain. But now, this problem will not occur for this group of people!

What about oneself, Heaven's Gift, and Star Jade?

Thinking of this, Han Wuxie couldn't help but feel a little nervous, muttering to himself, "What else is above the Root of God? What other changes will our Root of God undergo, and how will it increase its level?"

……

The next morning, Han Wuxie told Han Xingyu and Han Tianci what he had thought the day before. The two younger brothers were so excited that they couldn't speak.

In the past, they were always worried that most of the people in the Heavenly Star Evil Palace had ordinary spiritual roots and would not achieve much in the Immortal Realm. After all, it was very difficult to absorb immortal energy and cultivate in the Immortal Realm with spiritual roots. Often, even after a long time of hard work, their cultivation progress was not as great as that of others who sat down and quietly refined immortal energy for an hour.

"Then, in that case, the Heavenly Star Evil Palace that we brought back to the Immortal Realm will become a powerful sect!" Han Tianci said excitedly, his voice trembling with emotion.

Han Wuxie narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a wicked smile, "According to the cultivation levels, when the Golden Core transforms into the Nascent Soul, the Saint-grade spiritual root will grow into the Profound-grade spiritual root; when the Nascent Soul stage becomes the Out-of-Body stage, the Profound-grade spiritual root will grow into the Half-Immortal root; and when the Out-of-Body stage becomes the Divine Transformation stage, the Half-Immortal root will become a true Immortal root!"

Han Xingyu stared wide-eyed in disbelief, taking a deep breath as she said, "Ordinary low-grade spiritual immortal roots are of little use back in the Immortal Realm. But if one can create an ordinary low-grade spiritual immortal root at the Nascent Soul stage, then at the Body Integration stage it's a mid-grade spiritual immortal root, at the Tribulation Transcending stage it's a high-grade spiritual immortal root, and at the Great Ascension stage it's a top-grade immortal root. After ascension, they become members of the Immortal Realm based on their superior talent with top-grade immortal roots!"

Han Tianci swallowed hard, narrowing his eyes as he said, "The Han family is already a renowned family in the Immortal Realm. Even within our Han family, there are only a handful of geniuses with top-grade immortal roots!"

"This is terrifying!" Han Xingyu gasped, as if startled by her own fantasy. "Like Sister Mo Wu, who already had excellent aptitude, and now has cultivated a semi-immortal root, there are more than a dozen of us in the Heavenly Star Evil Palace!"

Han Tianci patted his chest and explained, "Right now, the Golden Core stage is considered a half-immortal root, then the Nascent Soul stage is a low-grade immortal root, the Out-of-Body stage is a mid-grade immortal root, the Spirit Division stage is a high-grade immortal root, and the Body Integration stage is a top-grade immortal root! After the top-grade, there's no distinction between high, mid, and low; above the top-grade is directly the Saint-grade! Sister Mo Wu and the others, when they reach the Tribulation Transcending stage, will have Saint-grade immortal roots! When they ascend to the Great Ascension stage and reach the Immortal Realm, they will be Xuan-grade immortal root holders, a rarity in the entire Immortal Realm!"

Han Xingyu held her breath and said, "The Heavenly Star Evil Palace has over a thousand people, bringing so many geniuses with top-grade immortal roots back to the Immortal Realm. It's insane! Just imagining it makes it seem like an utterly crazy thing!"

Han Tianci narrowed his eyes, a sly smile playing on his lips. "The sudden appearance of such a gathering place for geniuses, and the fact that the Palace Master and Deputy Palace Master here were actually good-for-nothings from the Immortal Realm in the past—won't those people from the Immortal Realm who ridiculed us be so terrified their eyes will pop out?"

Han Wuxie shook his head with a wry smile and sighed, "Back in the Immortal Realm, I have to keep a low profile!"

"Why?" Han Xingyu and Han Tianci exchanged puzzled glances.

Han Wuxie narrowed his eyes and said with a faint smile, "Useless people are cursed, while geniuses are envied!"

Han Xingyu and Han Tianci lowered their heads and both sighed.

Han Xingyu said bitterly, "We can only keep a low profile until we have enough power to avoid being wiped out instantly, then we can try to rise again!"

Han Tianci sneered, "If I remain silent, I'll be astonishing when I do!"

……

Xu Yushan.

Xu Yu walked to the mountainside, to a secluded little bamboo house, and politely asked, "Nan Yu, is he there?"

A rustling sound came from inside the house, as if someone was getting off a bamboo chair.

The door opened, and a handsome and dashing man stood in the doorway.

"Is this Xu Yu? What is it?" Nan Yu's tone was indifferent, with a hint of arrogance.

Although Xu Yu looked quite old, he was very humble in front of this young-looking man. After all, in terms of how many years he had lived, he was far less than Nan Yu.

"Nanyu, are you able to see your friends from your hometown?"

"A friend from my hometown?" Nan Yu sneered. "Are you joking?"

"I wouldn't dare joke around in front of you."

Nan Yu glanced at him coldly and said indifferently, "There won't be any other immortals here."

Xu Yu explained, "They are indeed immortals who descended to the mortal realm, but they are not considered immortals. In your immortal realm, they would only be considered useless beings, mere mortals without spiritual roots."

"A mortal from the celestial realm? A child?" Nan Yu's eyes lit up, and he said in a low voice, "A child? The one who recently descended to the mortal realm? Are you sure you're not joking?"

Xu Yu nodded and said, "They say they descended to the mortal realm seven years ago, but I wouldn't dare to make such a far-fetched joke. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and my spirit beast hadn't confirmed that they indeed possessed the aura of immortals, I wouldn't have come to bother you." As he spoke, Xu Yu took out a small squirrel from his pocket, a level two Xuan-grade spirit beast.

Nan Yu frowned as he looked at the squirrel, seemingly afraid of being deceived. He used his divine sense to probe the squirrel's memory and confirmed that the squirrel had indeed smelled the aura of the immortal bone.

"Is there a way back?" Nan Yu's eyes did not show any surprise, but rather a very contradictory sense of melancholy and distress.

……

Xu Yu brought Nan Yu to the Heavenly Star Evil Palace. Before Nan Yu saw Han Wuxie, Han Tianci, and Han Xingyu, who were also from the Immortal Realm, he encountered someone he had been trying to avoid. He thought she must be quite old by now, but she still looked the same.

Could it be that I've mistaken someone for someone else?

Nan Yu gave the woman a deep look. Perhaps because his gaze was too intense, the woman sensed something and turned to look at him. Their eyes met, and the air seemed to freeze for a moment.

"You, it's you!" Yuqiong asked hoarsely.

Nan Yu stopped in his tracks and remained silent for a long time, neither denying nor admitting, but instead asked in a low voice, "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" Yuqiong was stunned for a long time, then smiled bitterly, "Have you already forgotten? Ten years have passed, so you don't remember me?"

"Yu...Qiong..." His voice trembled slightly as he tried to suppress his excitement and longing, and he said in a low voice, "Weren't you on the Nine Provinces Continent? Why are you on the Cultivation Continent? You don't have spiritual roots, so why are you here?"

Yuqiong smiled calmly, stepped forward, and bowed slightly to Xu Yu, saying, "Elder Xu, may I speak with him alone?"

Xu Yu glanced at Han Wuxie's door, hesitated for a moment, and then Han Wuxie's calm voice came from inside: "Old Xu, why don't you come to the room and have a chat by yourself?"

Xu Yu glanced at Nan Yu and saw that Nan Yu seemed to be rooted to the ground, not moving at all. He figured that Nan Yu must have a story with this girl. Being a meticulous person, he knew that he shouldn't stay. Fortunately, Han Wuxie gave him a way out, so he naturally walked towards Han Wuxie's room. Inside, Han Xingyu and Han Tianci were both there, including... Lü Feng.

After Xu Yu left, Yu Qiong stared intently at the closed door. Today, the Palace Master had asked her to wait in front of her room, but she hadn't come. She had been wondering why, but now she finally understood. Was it because of him?

Nan Yu and Yu Qiong stared at each other for a long time without saying a word, but their hearts were filled with turbulent emotions.

Yuqiong recalled that six years ago, she suddenly became the target of an assassin organization because a restaurant on the same street wanted to buy her shop, but she refused to sell because it was the restaurant that wanted to buy her. The restaurant paid people to kill her.

As a result, the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple, and it turned out that the leader of the assassin organization was Han Xingyu, the child who used to live in his shop and whom he had sold a house to, but who suddenly disappeared.

He was taken to a mountain inhabited by assassins. Later, he learned about him from Wu Xie's sister. He knew that he was an immortal. He left because he had no spiritual root and his lifespan would eventually run out. He did not want to suffer the pain of separation from his loved ones.

From the day he learned the truth, he stayed on that mountain and practiced martial arts diligently. Two years later, however, his strength was not good enough, so he did not go to the martial arts continent with Wu Xie and the others. It was only after Wu Xie organized the Tianxing Evil Palace in the martial arts continent that he and the entire assassin organization were moved there.

However, his strength had always been mediocre, far from the path of Martial Venerable. Fortunately, later, the divine physician Han Xingyu developed a medicinal pill to help with cultivation. With the help of the medicinal pill, he finally became a Martial Venerable half a year ago. Although the spiritual root he cultivated was mediocre, just an ordinary water-type spiritual root, it could still be considered as stepping onto the path of defying the heavens. After taking the medicinal pill, because he had a spiritual root, he could refine those immortal pills. His appearance could even be controlled by his heart, returning to the beautiful years when he first met him, but he still never met him.

Finally, we met again.

But it was such an awkward opening line: Who am I? Ten years have passed, have you really forgotten me?

Nan Yu looked deeply at Yu Qiong, his heart filled with intense disbelief and bewilderment.

Why is it that, after ten years, she still seems so beautiful?

Why is her aura completely different?

Nan Yu frowned thoughtfully, carefully trying to probe her dantian with his divine sense, but was glared at by Yu Yuqiong.

How could she have noticed? I've investigated her before, and she clearly couldn't detect anything!

Yu Qiong said calmly, "Do you find it strange? The me now is not the me of the past. Ten years have passed, and many things are different. You used your divine sense to probe me simply to find out why I am still so young after ten years, and why I am in the cultivation continent, isn't that right?"

"You." Nan Yu nodded slightly, without saying anything more.

Yuqiong smiled faintly and said, "I already possess spiritual roots, and my cultivation level is roughly at the Golden Core stage of a cultivator."

"What?" Nan Yu looked at her in disbelief, but still insisted on probing her dantian with his divine sense. This time, Yu Qiong did not stop him, but looked at him calmly and did not speak, letting him probe her strength.

"Water spiritual root? Golden Core!" Nan Yu asked in confusion, "Why? It's only been ten years. Even someone born with a spiritual root couldn't possibly reach the Golden Core stage in just ten years. How did you do it? How did you acquire a spiritual root? I clearly checked, and you didn't have one. Why did you suddenly acquire one?"

"Many things change, and you can't just run away from them." Yuqiong said calmly, then looked at him intently, her gaze complex yet firm as she asked, "If you left just because I didn't have spiritual roots back then, now that I do, will you stay by my side?"

"Yuqiong..." He took a deep breath and said softly, "If you want to live forever, you must keep cultivating. At your current cultivation speed, you will be able to ascend soon, right? This is not the time to ask me if I will stay by your side."

"Then what should I ask you?" Yuqiong's eyes dimmed slightly. She tried to muster her courage and wanted to say what she hadn't said or asked ten years ago. But when the words reached her lips, she was afraid of being rejected and swallowed them back down.

Nan Yu took a few steps forward, closing the distance between them. A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. He lowered his head, looked into her eyes, and said softly, "It should be me asking you if you are willing to stay with me. I don't know the way home. Can you stay with me? Can you allow me to greedily keep you here, preventing you from ascending?"

Yuqiong looked up into his eyes. His gaze was the same as it had been ten years ago—gentle as water, with a hint of a smile that drew her in irresistibly. Her voice was slightly hoarse as she asked, "You won't leave me again, abandoning me all alone?"

"I should be asking you, 'You won't abandon me, will you?'" He smiled, gently stroking the hair at her temple, and said softly, "Because I'm afraid of being separated by life and death, I've chosen a slightly better way than that—to leave you first."

"Now, may I ask you a question?" Her hands were already clenched into fists and were trembling slightly, as if she were extremely nervous and afraid.

"What?" he asked softly.

"Is this kind of companionship the same as it was ten years ago?" she asked tentatively. "Has anything changed? I don't want to just see you as a benefactor."

"If you don't want to, then I'm not your benefactor." Nan Yu chuckled, then asked with a deliberately mischievous grin, "So, what should you call me?"

"I...I...don't know." Yuqiong's face was flushed. Many things seemed to have gradually become clear in their hearts. If he wasn't her benefactor, then what was he? How could she not know? Looking at the smile in his eyes, how could she not know what it was?

Nan Yu smiled slightly and didn't say anything. Instead, he suddenly leaned down and sealed her lips with his, greedily tasting the lips that had been suppressed for ten years. The greedy kiss was domineering and hot. Yu Qiong's eyes gradually became hazy, and her face turned so red that it almost bled.

His lips kissed from the corner of Yuqiong's mouth all the way to her ear, then he nibbled on her earlobe and asked with a seductive, wicked smile, "Would you like to call me husband?"

"I..." Her voice was slightly breathless, her hazy eyes looking at him, and she said hoarsely, "Is it okay?"

"Do you love me?" he asked softly, his voice deep and husky, very magnetic.

This is not something I've always wanted to say, but I've never dared to say it before. I never imagined that ten years later, I would still be too afraid to ask, and that he would be the one to finally ask it.

Do I love him? The seed was planted ten years ago. Although I haven't seen him for ten years, the towering tree has grown into a magnificent tree. On every leaf, I see his name and his smiling face. I have longed for him madly and loved him to the point of obsession.

"Love!" she shouted out loud in a voice she had never uttered before. After saying it, she covered her mouth with a flushed face and carefully looked at the door next to her.

Han Wuxie opened the door and came out. Han Xingyu and Han Tianci followed him out. Xu Yu wanted to come out, but Han Xingyu locked her inside.

Han Wuxie, Han Tianci, and Han Xingyu chuckled as they watched her. Yu Qiong blushed deeply, too ashamed to hide, and buried her face in Nan Yu's arms, not daring to peek out.

Han Xingyu covered her mouth and chuckled, "Looks like we can have a celebratory drink before we head to the Immortal Realm!"

"Qinglang and Mowu haven't had their wedding yet, so we can have a couple of drinks together!" Han Tianci said with a wicked smile.

Han Wuxie glanced at the door behind him and said with a faint smile, "If possible, there should be three cups, right?"

Yuqiong blushed even more, burying her head deeply in his chest, refusing to come out.

Nan Yu looked at the three people who had suddenly appeared with surprise. Recalling Xu Yu's description of them on the road, he asked in confusion, "Are you mortals descended from the Immortal Realm? Mortals from the Immortal Realm without spiritual roots?"

"Hehe, I guess so, but now I'm no longer a useless piece of trash without spiritual roots!" Han Xingyu raised an eyebrow and said with a wicked smile, "I'll show you everything, take a look at me!"

"You brat, stop being so cocky!" Han Tianci punched Han Xingyu on the head hard.

Han Wuxie shook his head with amusement.

Nan Yu looked down at Yu Qiong in confusion. Yu Qiong was smiling, as if she was laughing at him.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

Yuqiong squinted and said, "They helped me cultivate my spiritual root. Do you think they wouldn't have one?"

Nan Yu then remembered that he had been wondering before, thinking that he had misjudged Yu Qiong and thought that he just hadn't discovered it. But now he received such news, and he was dumbfounded. He said, "Spiritual roots can be cultivated?"

Yuqiong chuckled, "Otherwise, how would I have spiritual roots?"

"What on earth is going on?" Nan Yu frowned, his face full of disbelief and surprise.

Han Xingyu curled her lip and said, "To put it simply, we were indeed useless people in the Immortal Realm in the past. After learning how to cultivate spiritual roots, we descended to the mortal realm, cultivated roots there, and also helped martial artists cultivate spiritual roots."

"Where did you come from?" This was what intrigued Nan Yu the most, and she asked curiously, "Wasn't the road blocked?"

"There are no more people going up, but there are some coming down," Han Tianci said mysteriously.

Nan Yu murmured repeatedly, "No one went up, but some came down? I don't understand, why is there a way down but no way up?"

Han Wuxie explained, "That road is guarded by divine beasts, which only allow mortals from the Immortal Realm who do not belong to the Immortal Realm to come down. After we came down, the divine beasts destroyed the road and returned to the Divine Realm. So unless we ascend back, there is no other way to go back."

Upon hearing this, Nan Yu's eyes dimmed instantly, and he said with some disappointment, "There is still no way back."

Han Wuxie narrowed his eyes and asked, "In the mortal realm, besides you, are there any other immortals?"

Nan Yu smiled bitterly, "Because I was fleeing from being hunted down, I hid in the mortal realm. At that time, many immortals did come after me, but later they seemed to have become too unruly in the mortal realm and were killed by an immortal lord. I hid until that road was blocked. Later, I learned from the demons that the immortal lord had blocked that road."

"Demons?" Han Wuxie frowned. "You've been in contact with them? You should know they've been trying to open a passage between the Immortal Realm and the Mortal Realm, right?"

"They found me, but I didn't want anything to do with them. It was precisely because they found me on the Nine Provinces Continent that I left there and decided to leave Yuqiong. Later, I settled down on the Cultivation Continent. They knew where I lived and kept sending people to deliver messages, but I never replied. I roughly know some of their situation, but I am unwilling to cooperate with them."

Han Wuxie asked, "How many demons are there in the mortal realm?"

Nan Yu answered truthfully: "As far as I know, there are three demons and one ghost."

"What are their strengths?" Han Wuxie pressed.

Nan Yu pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "The two men should be the Demon Lord and the Underworld Lord. As for the other two women, I don't know their cultivation level, but they shouldn't be at the Demon Lord level."

"Demon Lord." Han Wuxie's expression turned serious. He sighed softly, frowned, and looked at Nan Yu, asking, "And you? What is your cultivation level now?"

"After a long and arduous journey in the mortal realm, I barely managed to become an early-stage Immortal Lord. The main reason for this was that I found the corpses of the immortals who were chasing me and obtained their immortal stones and many immortal pills. However, that was only enough for me to break through to the Immortal Lord realm. I had nothing left. The spiritual energy of the cultivation continent was of little help to my cultivation, and I was afraid I would be unable to break through any further."

Han Wuxie nodded slightly, then asked solemnly, "What era were the Demon Lord and the Underworld Lord from?"

"When I met them, the Underworld Lord was at the early stage, but the Demon Lord was already at the middle stage. Because there are no cultivation resources in the mortal realm, they have probably been stuck at that cultivation level for many years."

"In that case, let's start with the Underworld Lord!" Han Wuxie smiled mysteriously.

"You want to kill them?" Nan Yu frowned.

Han Wuxie laughed arrogantly, "I will wait until you cultivate to the mid-stage of Immortal Lord before I let you make a move."

"resource……"

"That's no problem!" With a thought, Han Wuxie released a lot of immortal stones and elixirs from the ring. This ring contained countless immortal stones and elixirs, and even divine stones. The purpose of placing them there was simply to carve artificial mountains and beautify the scenery.

Looking at the several large, rock-like immortal stones, Nan Yu froze. These were single, solid immortal stones, not just pieces pieced together. How pure and refined their immortal energy must be!

He was about to ask something when Han Wuxie interrupted him, saying, "Don't worry about where these came from, just use them. Ask me for more if you need more."

Han Wuxie stroked his chin, then suddenly raised an eyebrow and grinned mischievously at Yuqiong, who was peeking out from behind the window. "My Heavenly Star Evil Palace has too many people and limited rooms. You'll have to share a room with Sister Yuqiong for now!"

"What, Wuxie, I..." Yuqiong hadn't finished speaking when Nanyu nodded vigorously, saying, "It's okay, I don't mind sharing a room with someone else, I'd be very happy, extremely happy!"

Yuqiong was speechless. Looking at Nanyu, who was grinning mischievously at her, she felt even more embarrassed and said in a low voice, "Then... then this is the only way."

Han Wuxie covered his mouth and chuckled, but the two big boys, Han Xingyu and Han Tianci, couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Hearing the laughter outside the door, the two people inside, who had been silent all along, exchanged a brief glance. Their eyes met, but they awkwardly looked away.

Xu Yu turned her head awkwardly, staring at the closed door, her eyes darting around.

Lu Feng sighed softly. After a long silence, she broke the stillness and said softly, "You...you'll stay here too, won't you?"

"I...haven't considered it yet," Xu Yu replied awkwardly.

Lu Feng smiled slightly, trying to appear calm. "The Heavenly Star Evil Palace is very powerful. Even if we ascend to the Immortal Realm in the future, having such a support will make things much easier. The Immortal Realm is probably not as good as we imagined before. It may be even more bloody and turbulent than here."

"I'll consider it." Xu Yu nodded, her gaze somewhat heavy.

Lu Feng sighed and said, "We've heard stories about someone as powerful as Xie Potian from generation to generation, but do you know what he was like in the Immortal Realm?"

Xu Yu's eyes flickered slightly, and she asked with some curiosity, "He must be as powerful as the legends say, right? A truly powerful person is powerful no matter where they are."

"That's not the case." Lu Feng said with a bitter smile, "I've heard Wu Xie tell his story. If he hadn't been taken in by the Han family head, he would probably have died long ago. Now he's just a bodyguard by the Han family head. How tragic it is that such a powerful figure in the past has been reduced to someone else's bodyguard."

"Moving to a new place and starting all over again will inevitably be full of hardships," Xu Yu said in a low voice.

Lu Feng stared at him for a long time before speaking again: "In the Immortal Realm, our spiritual roots would probably be looked down upon. In the cultivation continent, everyone thinks our spiritual roots are excellent and that we have the talent of geniuses. But if we go to the Immortal Realm, we might just be mediocre."

"There's always a direction to strive for. If you stay in the mortal realm and don't level up or ascend, your lifespan will end," Xu Yu said in a low voice.

"Why do you care so much about immortality?" Lu Feng suddenly frowned and said in a low voice, "I've always been puzzled. You loved your sister so much that you didn't remarry for her sake, so why didn't you go with her? Why live alone and pursue the path to immortality? Isn't it torture to live on when you love someone who has died?"

Xu Yu frowned and remained silent for a long time.

Lu Feng pressed further, "Isn't that how it is? You love your sister, but she's dead. Didn't you want to be with her? Why pursue immortality!"

"I...don't know." Xu Yu lowered her head and said softly, "Maybe it's fear of death, or...loves herself more, that's why she did that."

"Is that so?" Lu Feng looked at him, his eyes shining with intense hope.

"I promised her I would take good care of you, and I won't die before you do." He suddenly answered very seriously, but his gaze quickly darted away, and he said in a low voice, "But, it's only because of your sister's request."

"Oh." She raised the corners of her mouth slightly and responded lightly.

"Jade……"

"You should still call me brother-in-law."

"So you really want to sever ties?" Lu Feng nodded and said calmly, "Fine, maybe I should love myself a little more." She hesitated for a moment, then called out, "Brother-in-law!" Her voice was strong and clear, as if she had made a big decision.

For some reason, Xu Yu felt a sense of emptiness upon hearing her say those words. She had always hoped that she would give up, but now that she had actually given up, she felt a little pathetic and lost.

Lu Feng stood up, opened the door, and although the sunlight was slightly dazzling, she smiled nonchalantly. "I cried and begged you not to leave, but I forgot that's something only an older sister would do. If I were to be myself, I should be the one leaving with a smile." After saying that, she walked out the door and left nonchalantly under the astonished gazes of Han Wuxie and the others.

Han Tianci muttered softly, "Sister, you guessed wrong. We can only drink two cups of wedding wine. There's nowhere to drink the third cup."

Han Wuxie gave an awkward smile and sighed, "Love is indeed not something that can be achieved through unrequited love. No matter how hard one tries, if there is no response, one will eventually get tired."

Han Xingyu pursed her lips and glanced at Xu Yu, who was sitting blankly in the room, and said unhappily, "A grown man like you, so stubborn! Sister Lü Feng is quite nice, giving up on her is just stupid!"

Han Tianci teased, "Then go after her! If you think she's good, go after her!"

Han Xingyu's eyes lit up, and she smiled slyly, saying, "That's a good idea!"

"You...you're not serious, are you?" Han Tianci was slightly taken aback.