Fairy, help me cultivate.

what is this?

He looked at a speck of white sand on the ground.

As he approached, the clump of white sand trembled on its own and then scattered onto Chen Yao.

A wisp of divine sense penetrated into Chen Yao's divine sense.

Jiu Luo's calm, smiling face appeared in my mind.

"You're finally back? How was your trip to the Sea Ruins? Did you retrieve the Immortal Scripture? But I suppose that's where Nascent Soul cultivators reside, so it doesn't matter if you didn't get it. It's a pity that when you found that wisp of divine consciousness, I was probably no longer with the Mingyang Sect. The righteous path has acted foolishly, the demonic sect has retaliated, the South Sea is in chaos, and demons are rampant. Sigh... why are they always causing us so much trouble?"

His consciousness dissipated.

Chen Yao just felt a headache. Sister, you didn’t give me any useful information!

A final burst of consciousness.

"I know you're secretly criticizing me. If the immortal energy within you has already begun to corrupt, why can't you use your brain if you want to find me? The Nine Demons will definitely return to the Demon Well after escaping. Don't you know where there's a secret passage leading to the Demon Well? Uh... it seems you don't know this secret. I'll tell you then, just come find me in Jiujiang!"

Even celestial energy can corrupt.

This was the first piece of information Chen Yao gleaned from Jiu Luo's words.

In this way, it all makes sense that the Immortal Scripture, the dark aura, Yang Qi, Huang Bing, and others became demonized because they handled the Immortal Scripture.

They were not corrupted by demonic energy, but rather by the corrupted immortal energy.

Thinking of this, Chen Yao's heart tightened.

Xu Junyu's right hand is still stained with black energy!

"We need to get to Jiujiang quickly."

As he spoke, he wielded the sword in his hand and slashed at the crack above his head.

Su Quanyu knew that he had got the clue, so he took Ming Zhan and followed Chen Yaofei out.

As soon as the three of them flew out of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, a barrage of icy spikes rained down upon them.

Chen Yao subconsciously used the Zixu Shield, which made several twisted "squeaking" sounds and was completely shattered by the extremely cold ice spikes.

Su Quanyu summoned a wind wall to barely block the ice spikes, but after just a few breaths, the wind wall was frozen into an ice wall.

The ice wall continues to spread.

Chen remotely controlled the sword like a dragon, its sword energy surging forth to defend, causing layers of icy mist to rise from the ground.

To this day, none of the three have seen any trace of the enemy.

Mingzhan calmed himself down and followed suit, forming a water barrier to defend, but the water amplified the ice's power, making it even colder.

"Help me hold them off for a bit!"

Chen Yao now had all five elements complete, so he immediately took out the talisman pen and paper and started writing. After more than ten breaths, ten blazing fire talismans were completed.

He rubbed his hands together, and the Blazing Fire Talisman was released. Streams of fire rose into the air and merged into a wall of fire that slammed into the ice wall.

With a cracking sound, the ice wall finally melted into water and washed away.

"Mingzhan, you really are a dog that can't change its nature."

A rough female voice came from the mist at the top of the valley.

Mingzhan's expression changed.

Chen Yao asked, "Is it the Hui'an you were talking about?"

Su Quanyu shook his head in denial: "If it were Huian, that wall of fire wouldn't have had any effect. This must be Huian's great-granddaughter, Hui Ding."

"Great-granddaughter? I thought Huian was a nun."

Chen Yao couldn't help but smile.

Mingzhan couldn't help but frown and glare at him: "What kind of time is this to still be laughing? If we're discovered, we won't be able to escape."

Chen Yao thought for a moment: "Didn't you say you were familiar with some of the secret passages in this valley?"

"That only gives you a chance to sneak away if you can escape undetected."

Chen Yao looked up and released his divine sense: "Then kill the people who discovered us."

Chapter 100: Resolving Huiding

Ming Zhan frowned upon hearing Chen Yao's arrogant words.

Su Quanyu looked up at the rolling clouds with great concern. The scarlet color in the clouds had faded, but it had mixed with the sky blue in the middle layer to form a bruised purple.

This is not a color that people like.

"Xiao Zhan, how many people do you think are up there? My divine sense can't penetrate that layer of pale red clouds."

She felt it was best to try to gather as much information as possible about the enemy, so as to avoid being caught off guard even more when things were already unprepared.

Mingzhan's divine sense was also limited, so of course he didn't know.

Having learned about her master's situation in the Demon-Suppressing Tower, she was still in a state of turmoil. Faced with the newcomer's provocation, she didn't know whether to confront him directly as she had done before, or to protect herself wisely.

She glanced at Chen Yao beside her, thinking that she probably wouldn't be able to protect herself either.

Ultimately, it was because of the mistakes made back then; otherwise, how could things have progressed to this point?

My master sacrificed himself voluntarily. What about me?

It was just a moment of impulse; I defied the entire sect for my master.

I would be willing to do it for my master, but as for some vague sect or the South China Sea... ha...

As she thought this, while feeling both sorrow and respect for her master, she couldn't help but feel some resentment towards her.

Su Quanyu nudged her: "Are you alright?"

Mingzhan flung her hand away: "Do you think I'm alright? It turns out from the very beginning, it was all a scheme by Master and the Sect Master. I had nothing to do with it at all! What have I been doing? What have I been doing all these years?"

Su Quanyu hadn't expected her to still be so emotional, and couldn't help but sigh: "I know you've wasted so many years, and it's understandable that you're sad, but right now..."

“Mingzhan, although you are confused for the moment and have colluded with thieves, if you can capture these two, I will not tell the sect leader and will forgive and forget about your past actions.”

Hui Ding's voice from above interrupted Su Quanyu's words.

Mingzhan's expression shifted.

Chen Yao glanced at her and then said, "She's lying to you. She's not the only one in Yunzhong. How could she possibly keep it from you?"

Upon hearing Chen Yao's words, Hui Ding's furious voice rang out: "How dare you, you little thief, underestimate me? I'm going to take you down by myself, so that my great-grandmother can see what I'm capable of!"

Chen Yao laughed heartily, feigning disbelief: "Then why aren't you coming? Are you waiting for your elders to cheer you on?"

Su Quanyu and Ming Zhan were momentarily confused about what Chen Yao was doing. Did he think that angering these people above would make them flock to him and that would make him happy?

Sure enough, Hui Ding yelled in anger, and the clouds at the top of the valley began to swirl and sink.

"There's no other way, let's hide in the cave for now!"

Mingzhan's tone was very sharp, and he was inevitably quite displeased with Chen Yao's antics.

Without asking Chen Yao, Su Quanyu began to rush forward with Ming Zhan, when suddenly she heard a whooshing sound in her ear.

She turned around in astonishment and found that Chen Yao had actually rushed straight into the clouds.

No, I know you're capable, but this is the Mingyang Sect, which is already on high alert!

The Mingyang Sect's grand formation back then even blew the skin off a demon lord!

Su Quanyu faltered, wanting to remind Chen Yao, but Chen Yao's figure had already been swallowed up by the rolling clouds.

Mingzhan and Su Quanyu hid in the cave, keeping a close eye on the movements above them.

The clouds and mist calmed down.

"Oops……"

A hint of disappointment and sadness still lingered in Mingzhan's eyes: "Let's hurry, maybe we'll get lucky and have a chance to escape our pursuit."

Su Quanyu actually didn't believe what would happen to Chen Yao, but she felt that Chen Yao was indeed a little stupid today, and thought it would be better to go down the mountain as soon as possible to ask Luohou for help.

Just as she turned to walk into the cave, a roar echoed through the clouds outside the valley.

The calmed clouds began to swirl again, the three colors mixing together and gradually blending into a dazzling array of hues.

Hui Ding's furious screams echoed through the valley, and then a dark shadow crashed down from the colorful clouds, leaving behind a five-colored cloud line that connected heaven and earth.

A cloud of dust rose from the ground as Hui Ding emerged, but just as she appeared, a sword aura swirled through the clouds and crashed down upon her.

"Shit!"

She quickly made a hand seal to summon a dust shield to defend herself. With a "crackling" sound, the dust shield above her head cracked like a spider web, but fortunately it still blocked the sword energy for her.

However, before she could even feel smug, a pillar of earth suddenly condensed from the dust and mist on the ground and swept across.

"what!"

A short, angry scream rose up as Hui Ding was knocked to the ground, and the dust shield she was wearing shattered completely.

She rolled over repeatedly, thus narrowly escaping being cleaved in two by the sword energy.

She got up again, her once black hair now scrambled and mangled by the sword energy.

"Bullshit! Come out here if you dare!"

Hui Ding stomped his feet and cursed loudly, raising rock pillars and earth spikes into the sky, smashing them into hideous craters in the clouds.

Mingzhan and Su Quanyu exchanged a glance, both seeing the relief in each other's eyes.

After fighting for so long, Hui Ding is in such a sorry state, yet she's the only one making a fuss. It's clear that she's the only one who came to block them in Xu Huai Valley.

No wonder Chen Yao was so confident, and Su Quanyu followed suit.

However, compared to Su Quanyu, Mingzhan's understanding of Chen Yao's strength was still insufficient, so he couldn't help but feel worried when he saw Chen Yao teasing Hui Ding.

I had known that Hui Ding, having received the true teachings of the sect's Grand Elder Huian, was a force to be reckoned with.

Take this "Soil Overturning Technique" for example. It may not seem very powerful now, but its actual destructive power is enough to instantly kill most early-stage Golden Core cultivators.

Therefore, for Yu Mingzhan, it was already unbelievable that Chen Yao had broken through to the Golden Core stage in just a few days, but now he was able to outmaneuver Hui Ding and remain unharmed, which made her even more puzzled.

Deep down, she still hoped that Chen Yao would know when to stop.