Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

What's even more puzzling is that Ye Xuanqiu was clearly hunting down the Twenty-One Extremes, but there was no news of any Extremes being killed. It seemed that they were just captured and imprisoned by Ye Xuanqiu.

Kunxuan didn't react at all to her creation being treated so roughly, and even gave her the key to the airspace?

Have you ever seen someone kidnap their own child, threaten to kill them, and then happily go drinking with them, arm in arm?

why?

why?

Yunping couldn't understand it.

Incomprehensible, utterly absurd.

Jueying's answer only deepened the mystery further.

“She said—” Jueying seemed to find it rather ridiculous herself, her tone carrying a mixture of disbelief and mockery: “It’s for eternal life.”

"eternal life?"

Gu Xingzhuo suddenly sensed something was amiss and immediately asked, "Wait a minute, even the Primordial Ancestor has a lifespan? That can't be right."

“No, the lifespan of the Origin Ancestor is infinite.” Jueying denied Gu Xingzhuo’s guess: “Unless something like what Old Yun did before, causing substantial damage to the Origin Ancestor’s foundation, the Origin Ancestor probably will not age with time, nor will it have the concept of death.”

What did Xuanqiu mean by "eternal life" that night?

“I don’t know.” Jueying shook the huge dragon head slightly, finding it unbelievable himself: “This doesn’t make sense, and she doesn’t seem crazy.”

Why would someone who is already immortal pursue immortality?

This is both foolish and bizarre.

"You old rogue..." Ye Yuchan's gaze finally fell on Yun Ping.

The young man in white could not possibly be unaware of Yu Chan's gaze, but he also couldn't make an accurate judgment: "Don't look at me, I don't know what's going on either."

Even the old rogue didn't know...

Ye Yuchan shuddered. She suddenly felt that Ye Xuanqiu's actions seemed to be part of a scheme.

She set up a very, very big scheme for her own purposes.

But is the goal really just immortality?

It was at this time that everyone was puzzled by Ye Xuanqiu's existence.

Yun Ping and Jue Ying, one human and one dragon, suddenly turned their gazes to the outside of the cave.

"Ok?"

Yunping frowned, as if he had noticed something was wrong.

Completely unaware, Ye Yuchan looked at Gu Xingzhuo beside her and found that her senior brother also had a puzzled look on his face.

"You old rogue, what's wrong?" Ye Yuchan asked.

Yunping's expression turned serious: "Someone's here."

"Entering from the outside of the Blackwater Abyss seems to have gone smoothly..." A sharp, cold light flashed in Jueying's dragon eyes. Although it was still lying on the Blackwater, it still adopted a fierce posture as if it could get up at any time and tear the intruder apart: "It's someone who is quite familiar with the Blackwater Abyss."

……

Ye Yuchan swallowed hard: "Could it be that Ye Xuanqiu has returned?!"

She didn't want to see Ye Xuanqiu, or the woman who looked exactly like her.

Not only because the other party's identity and purpose were quite mysterious, but also because... Ye Yuchan always felt inferior in front of her.

Whenever she thought of Ye Xuanqiu being Yunping's wife, she felt a strange, indescribable feeling, a tightness in her chest, and a deep sense of unease.

Gu Xingzhu waved his right hand, his storage ring flashed, and he then took out his magic weapon, the ink brush, from the void, staring at the entrance of the cave with a sharp and wary look.

All eyes were fixed on the cave entrance.

A figure slowly pacing paused at the cave entrance; from the shadows, it seemed possible to determine that the person was not female.

Because women don't have such a tall and slender figure with such a well-proportioned body curve—except for Ye Yuchan, who has no figure at all. Excluding the hair factor, it's impossible to tell whether she's male or female just by looking at her silhouette.

The other party paused at the cave entrance for a while, and finally stepped into the cave with some hesitation.

The well-proportioned Ye Yuchan also summoned her magic weapon, Black Rain. Silver spiritual arrows were nocked and drawn. She and Gu Xingzhuo stared intently ahead, preparing to meet the arrival of the dark figure.

Yunping, on the other hand, showed a more relieved expression. He already knew the identity of the person when the figure arrived at the cave entrance.

A black hood partially obscured the face, and a figure with a sword sheath hanging at his side slowly emerged from the darkness. He took only one step forward, and when he reached the depths of the Blackwater Abyss illuminated by light, he discovered that sharp arrows and ink brushes were both pointing at him.

"Who goes there?!" Gu Xingzhuo asked sharply.

The young man was stunned for a few seconds, then silently raised his hands to indicate that he would not resist.

And he slowly took off his hood.

Golden hair was revealed to everyone's view, and a wry smile appeared on the handsome young man's face.

Under the shocked gazes of Ye Yuchan and Gu Xingzhuo, the young man laughed:

"Don't get so worked up, it's me..."

"The pigeon spirit of Yuntian Academy".

6. Reason

"So that's how it is... Blackwater Abyss was also affected..."

Through Ye Yuchan and Gu Xingzhuo's explanation, Jiang Shaoguang finally understood the reason why Blackwater Abyss had become so miserable.

Jiang Shaoguang originally thought that with the Black Dragon King Jueying in charge and the Black Abyss Emperor Ice, one of the twenty-one ultimate beings, Black Water Abyss should not have fallen to this state. However, he never expected that Ye Xuanqiu, who was recognized by Jueying as the third source ancestor, would come to his door before him.

However, in a way, he was actually glad that he had been delayed on the road. Otherwise, if he had happened to run into Ye Xuanqiu, he didn't know what that woman would have done to him.

At least Jiang Shaoguang didn't think he could escape.

He let out a long sigh, then frowned, his left hand gripping the scabbard hanging at his waist, trembling slightly.

"In that case, the black dragon must also have been acting under Ye Xuanqiu's orders..."

"That black dragon?" Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan immediately thought of the source of the chaos: "You mean the Black Dragon King's brother...?"

Jiang Shaoguang took a deep breath and exhaled the sorrow in his heart along with the breath.

He nodded and said, "Under the storm stirred up by that black dragon, the Northern Ice Palace has been completely turned into an ice sculpture, and the fate of its thousands of disciples is still unknown."

The Arctic Palace?!

These words, once spoken—

Ye Yuchan and Gu Xingzhuo were both shocked. The Black Dragon King Jueying's majestic and ruthless dragon eyes revealed unbearable pain and resentment.

Yunping narrowed his eyes, his expression mysterious and unfathomable.

Jueying exhaled icy breath, his tone tinged with barely perceptible unease: "The Northern Ice Palace has also fallen. So, Ye Xuanqiu's target really is Yin Hanxuebing, who is inside the Northern Ice Palace..."

Is the so-called immortality achieved by recycling the Twenty-One Ultimates?

No matter how you think about it, this idea has logical flaws.

But now is clearly not the time to get bogged down in these kinds of issues—

Yunping turned his gaze back to Jiang Shaoguang. Looking at this disciple he hadn't seen for many years, Yunping first checked on Jiang Shaoguang's soul and physical condition.

His cultivation has reached the peak of the Void Realm, and he is only one step away from becoming a Saint. His soul is extremely stable without any signs of injury, and there is no hidden poison or Gu worms in his body.

From all aspects, Jiang Shaoguang is in quite good condition, especially the cultivation method I taught him. He has probably already figured out most of the Tai Chi Bagua diagram. If he goes any further, he will naturally be able to attain the Dao of Heaven.

But just because Jiang Shaoguang is fine doesn't mean the other disciple is fine.

"Where is Luo Kui? Why isn't she with you?"

When Yunping asked the question, Ye Yuchan realized that Jiang Shaoguang had come alone.

It should be noted that after leaving the airspace, Jiang Shaoguang had volunteered to go to the Northern Ice Palace with Fan Luokui. However, now, Fan Luokui is nowhere to be seen by Jiang Shaoguang's side.

Where did that directionally challenged, sword-fighting idiot go?

Ye Yuchan and Gu Xingzhuo watched Jiang Shaoguang, both hoping that their third senior brother would show an embarrassed wry smile or an awkward fake smile trying to get by—because that would at least mean that Fan Luokui had not had any problems.

but.

Backfired.

Jiang Shaoguang's expression darkened, and he gripped the scabbard in his left hand tightly.

After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Junior Sister Luo Kui... she might not be coming back."

……

Yun Ping stared intently at Jiang Shaoguang, his tone turning slightly colder: "Third brother, I hope you can give a reasonable explanation."

“In the end, it’s because I, as the senior brother, am too incompetent.” Jiang Shaoguang said with a somber expression, the veins on the back of his left hand, which was gripping the scabbard, bulging, and his whole arm was trembling: “I couldn’t stop her.”

"Where is she going?" Gu Xingzhuo asked.

Faced with Gu Xingzhuo's question, Jiang Shaoguang looked up, appearing somewhat haggard.

"Go and seek death."

……

……

The enormous, jet-black head lay quietly on the black water. Jueying blinked its golden, sharp dragon eyes twice, still not opening its mouth. With its powerful divine soul force alone, it was enough to utter words that echoed endlessly within the cave.

"It seems it went to check that well...that's why it wanted to kill that little girl."

Its battered wings drooped down, helplessly immersing themselves in the black water, allowing the remaining black water from the Black Abyss Emperor Ice to nourish its broken body.

The Black Dragon King Jueying's dragon eyes shifted slightly before finally settling on Jiang Shaoguang.

Jiang Shaoguang lowered his eyelids and asked in a low voice, "What is that well?"

The one who answered Jiang Shaoguang's question was not Jueying, who had fallen on the Black Water, but Yunping.

The young man in white crossed his arms, his cool words echoing in Ye Yuchan and the others' ears: "It exists on a mountain called Luotian Mountain in the far eastern snowfield. Legend has it that this mountain appears once every thousand years. Climbing to the top of Luotian Mountain, one can see an ancient well amidst the vast white snow. The well is dry, but it can reflect the future of the person peering into it from above. It is the Mingyan Heavenly Calculation Method."

Gu Xingzhu frowned. In fact, he had heard of Luotian Mountain before.

However, in his mind, Luo Tianshang was just a fictional existence.