Fairy, help me cultivate.

"..."

"..."

In a panic, the old Taoist priest grabbed the little girl and pulled her close, shouting through drenched in sweat, "Blood! Quick! Blood!"

The little girl pulled a short knife from her bosom and slashed her wrist.

Lü Qing and Lu Dan's expressions changed: "What are you doing!"

It was too late to stop them.

As the old Taoist finished speaking, his throat bobbed, and dark clouds rose above his head again, accompanied by even stronger lightning and thunder than before, forming a protective electric grid that no one could pass through.

"He learned some meager thunder magic from somewhere and came to Evil Water Ridge to show off. This blood gourd is quite unique, it has even cultivated into a human form, but it's all show and no substance."

To everyone's horror, a sound came from the dilapidated mountain god temple.

A woman's voice, its tone trembling at the end.

"Death!"

The old Taoist priest was crackling with electricity, soaring into the air like a bolt of lightning crashing down on the temple.

The few remaining temple tiles were torn apart by lightning, charred and flying everywhere, and the small temple quickly collapsed halfway.

The lightning intensified, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the lightning dissipated.

"This……"

Lu Dan and Lü Qing's bewildered voices came from behind them. The little girl who had been standing there was gone, leaving only a large gourd oozing blood.

Where did she go?

Lu Dan said blankly.

"She wasn't human to begin with, I've said that before."

Bai Piao answered casually, but his eyes never left the dilapidated temple.

The dilapidated temple, mostly collapsed, revealed its walls. Upon seeing those bright red walls, Lü Qing couldn't help but gasp.

"That is……"

"That's not blood, it's human skin that's been turned inside out. Heh."

A woman's voice came from inside the dilapidated temple, accompanied by the sound of a leather strap being shaken.

"As expected of skin struck by lightning, it's both brittle and tough. I'll reward you by placing you on the altar!"

A human skin with the head of a blind old Taoist priest on it floated onto the empty altar.

Below the altar stood a woman in a flowing red robe, her back to the crowd, looking up to admire the old Taoist's skin.

"This one is useless."

With a flick of her bright red sleeve, a whole, indistinct, skinless corpse was thrown out.

Lu Dan and Lü Qing were both deathly pale and clung to each other tightly.

"Oh, aren't you all cultivators? You're so scared just because someone was killed?"

The woman appeared beside Lü Dan and Lü Qing without them noticing. Her bright red robe enveloped them, and her long, blood-stained fingers gently caressed their faces.

"Clamming!"

Lu Qing drew his sword and unleashed a sword aura backward.

The woman chuckled, disappeared, and then reappeared beside Chen Yao in an instant, teasingly lifting his chin.

Chen Yao looked at her quietly.

She laughed: "Aren't you going to exorcise demons?"

"Are you a demon?" Chen Yao asked.

The woman raised an eyebrow: "Indiscriminately killing innocent people and skinning countless people, what am I if not a demon?"

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Chen Yao suddenly took a step back, and mist rose in front of the woman.

Her expression changed and she tried to push him away, but she flashed and landed back in the same spot.

"What's this!"

She roared at Chen Yao in a panic.

"It's just an ordinary Azure Cloud Locking Mist Talisman."

As Chen Yao retreated, he unleashed a small silver cone. The cone instantly transformed into numerous tiny thorns, which rained down on the woman.

The woman screamed, and the formation vanished without a trace.

"That's it?"

Lü Qing blinked: "Didn't he brag about how amazing he was? Like how scary he was..."

"After all, he's a businessman. Didn't he also raise prices on the spot? Maybe that ghost wall was just an illusion created by this old Taoist priest. It's a pity he got himself into it."

Lu Dan chuckled, but a sense of unease lingered in his heart.

Lü Qing held his sword horizontally across his chest, glancing around.

The freeloader entered the dilapidated temple, looking at one human skin after another.

After a long while, nothing happened.

Bai Piao carefully sensed the dilapidated temple and shook his head: "There really is no aura or movement. Perhaps it's just rumors!"

"Maybe we're just too strong?" Lu Dan said quipped, trying to lighten the somber atmosphere.

"No matter what, there's no point in staying here. Let's go down the mountain!"

Chen Yao picked up the blood gourd that was originally the little girl's, and felt something was strange. As soon as he touched it, he found that the speed of the immortal energy in his body accelerated, the blood gourd rose with a blue light, and the blood color quickly faded and turned into silver-white.

Its original bulky, child-sized form quickly shrank, becoming a small silver gourd that could be held in the palm of your hand.

"So this is what it is. Ha, this old Taoist doesn't know its value and is wasting a precious thing."

Bai Piao shook his head: "You got off easy."

"what is this?"

Chen Yao, Lu Dan, and Lü Qing were all very curious.

"It was a wine gourd that belonged to the Immortal Ancestor of the South Sea. It is said that the Immortal Ancestor brewed wine with the pure energy of heaven and earth, and mortals could live forever after drinking a sip."

Bai Piao scoffed and continued, "I think it's just bragging, otherwise why would the Immortal Ancestor have died? But anyway, this thing has a history, it must be a good thing. And it's a perfect match for you."

Chen Yao nodded and put the small silver gourd into his ring. The ring vibrated, and the immortal sword and fire spirit sword inside automatically entered the gourd.

"Heh, I'm a little envious. It's a pity I don't have a sword to nurture," Bai Piao said, looking at Lü Qing and Lu Dan. "Your swords could be used to nurture them too."

Lü Qing was very tempted: "Really?"

"Alright, I think we should go down the mountain first. This place feels a bit eerie."

Lu Dan made the suggestion.

Chen Yao nodded, and the group walked down the mountain path.

The flat official road below the mountain soon appeared before them, and everyone turned back to look at the gloomy Evil Water Ridge, feeling relieved.

"Finally we're down! I don't want to stay on that gloomy mountain at all!"

Lü Qing, pulling the terrified Ling Hong along, quickly walked onto the official road.

Then, the two figures suddenly disappeared.

"Qing'er, Ling Hong!"

In a panic, Lu Dan leaped away and disappeared without a trace.

Bai Piao and Chen Yao exchanged a glance, both feeling extremely uneasy, and had no choice but to step onto the official road as well.

As Chen Yao stepped onto the official road, his vision suddenly darkened and then brightened again, as he was once again surrounded by the lush greenery of the Evil Water Ridge.

I don't know where Lu Dan's voice came from, calling for her daughter.

Chen Yao released his divine sense, only to find it scattered and disoriented by an invisible force, unable to even determine its direction.

Chapter 239 The Freebie: Big White Soft

What puzzled Chen Yao the most was that he hadn't heard Jiu Luo and Yun Jiang speak for a long time.

Are you still there?

no respond.

He had no choice but to keep walking forward. Fortunately, Lu Dan's calls for her daughter did not stop, and even though they were fragmented, Chen Yao could still find a way to follow them.

After walking along the mountain road for a while, Chen Yao finally saw Lu Dan's figure.

"Son!"

Upon seeing Chen Yao, Lu Dan's anxious face lit up with joy, and she quickly walked towards Chen Yao.

Chen Yao breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go over and hug her when he discovered that Lu Dan had mysteriously disappeared from within arm's reach.

He stopped in his tracks.

"Spatial array..."

Just then, a sword light suddenly burst forth from not far away, clearly belonging to Lü Qing.

The sword light appeared and then disappeared, never to be seen again.

Chen Yao knew he was trapped in a spatial array with reversed orientations, and understood that there was no use in panicking, so he simply sat cross-legged and quietly observed.

After a while, the sword light that had just appeared lit up again from the opposite direction.

A while later, a sword light flashed in front of Chen Yao, and Lü Qing's figure disappeared in a flash.

She glanced at Chen Yao, her surprised expression quickly disappearing.