Fairy, help me cultivate.

After all, we are outsiders; who knows what kind of traps and formations are set up inside?

With this in mind, Chen Yao used the Ghost-Controlling Talisman to unleash a wave of eerie ghostly energy in front of him, then rode his sword straight into the darkness to search for Jiang Bailian.

The crackling sounds were incessant, like firewood burning or someone chewing on crunchy bones.

Chen Yao clearly felt that the ghostly energy around him was becoming increasingly scarce, so he had to continue to release more ghostly energy with the Ghost-Controlling Talisman Plate.

Below, however, it seemed to be bottomless, with no end in sight.

Chen Yao listened intently to Jiang Bailian's movements, but to no avail.

Surrounded by darkness and with everything unknown, he dared not shout.

Just as he was frowning in worry, the surging darkness turned ferocious, and a thick object lashed out fiercely, both fast and ruthless.

Chen Yao hurriedly dodged on his sword, releasing the last batch of ghostly energy.

But when the ghostly energy touched anything, it would scream and dissipate, and the strong wind that swept by was as hard as a steel whip.

With a cracking sound, the Ghost-Controlling Talisman Plate in Chen Yao's hand shattered into eight pieces.

He himself was thrown backwards, dizzy and disoriented.

After a long while, a pain came from below.

He had barely landed on the ground when he hurriedly covered his throbbing head, rolled over to his feet, and summoned Hanyu Sword, who was not far away, to be on guard.

"Junior brother!"

Jiang Bailian's voice rang out, sounding both horrified and elated.

Chen Yao looked in the direction of the sound and saw her standing in front of a tall throne, looking up at the giant sitting on the throne.

He was also taken aback for a moment.

The sky above was still pitch black, and the thick object that had been whipped was nowhere to be seen.

The surroundings resembled an underground valley, with waterfalls cascading down and fish in the water emitting various colored lights.

"This is?"

He asked, puzzled.

Jiang Bailian's voice was solemn: "This is my great-grandfather."

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"Great-grandfather?"

Chen Yao was somewhat surprised; how could a person be so large?

"So, he actually managed to hide here?"

He then asked.

Jiang Bailian's iris showed markings as she carefully observed the giant.

After a while, she shook her head.

"This is his body outside his body; he didn't escape into it."

"An external body? He'd already mastered the art of creating an external body, how could he be killed by his own family?"

Chen Yao was puzzled.

A cold laugh rang out from beside his legs.

"Nizi doesn't understand. This is not some kind of external body; it's just a magical artifact that I crafted."

Jiang Wuyin woke up at some point.

He fell off Chen Yao's shoulder, getting covered in dust, and is now slowly getting up, spitting out the dust from his mouth.

"Who are you? Could you be Bai Lian's lover?"

Jiang Wuyin looked Chen Yao up and down, and judging from his expression, he seemed very dissatisfied.

"Second Uncle! What are you saying! He's my junior brother. Besides, you were able to wake up thanks to his Creation Yuan Pill. Hurry up and thank your benefactor!"

Jiang Bailian stomped her silver-silk high-heeled feet.

"puff--"

Jiang Wuyin's eyes widened: "The Creation and Prosperity Pill?"

He pointed a trembling finger at Chen Yao and roared, "Who told you to save me! Who told you to use such a precious elixir to save me! Bai Lian, are you out of your mind?!"

As he spoke, he suddenly started to cry, trembling, and kept slapping himself.

Chen Yao felt that the old man definitely had something wrong with his head.

How could someone like that not waste those treasures and forge a fine sword?

Jiang Bailian was also somewhat dumbfounded.

Jiang Wuyin cried more and more sadly, to the point that he stuck his fingers into his throat and started fiddling around, trying to spit out the pill.

Jiang Bailian rushed over and grabbed his hand.

"Second Uncle, what are you doing? This is a critical moment for the Jiang family, how can you still be acting so recklessly!"

Her stern reprimand startled Chen Yao, who had never seen Jiang Bailian act like a little tiger before.

After being scolded, Jiang Wuyin stopped crying, but he was very dejected: "My heart is dead. What does it matter to me whether the Jiang family lives or dies?"

"Foolish!"

Jiang Bailian pushed him down.

Jiang Wuyin simply collapsed there.

Chen Yao felt a headache coming on. Judging from the old man's condition, he didn't seem like someone who could forge swords at all.

Doesn't this mean that I've completely lost everything by coming to the Jiang family?

Why did he lose heart?

He wanted to try to save him.

Jiang Bailian shook her head: "The clansmen are very secretive about this matter, and I don't know either."

Jiang Wuyin scoffed, "None of your business."

Chen Yao suppressed his anger: "You and Bai Lian are very close, aren't you? Now your clansmen are persecuting Bai Lian, and you're just going to stand by and do nothing? At least tell us what's going on here!"

Jiang Wuyin didn't answer, rolled on the ground, and muttered to himself.

"Crazy?"

Chen Yao glared at Jiang Bailian.

Jiang Bailian shrank her delicate neck: "Let me try to persuade him again..."

Before she could make a move, a thunderous roar echoed from the darkness above.

Jiang Guanglai's roar echoed through the cave, shaking the very earth.

"Bai Lian! You think you can stop us by running all the way here? Dream on!"

Chen Yao and Jiang Bailian's expressions changed. Looking up, they saw several thick, long, tail-like objects break off and fall from the raging black mist.

The black mist emitted a faint light, clearly indicating that powerful figures from the clan and the Qingxu Sect had attacked.

"How to do?"

Jiang Bailian produced some pills, preparing for a head-on confrontation, but in reality, he had no idea what to do.

Chen Yao strode up to Jiang Wuyin, grabbed his collar, and slapped him ten times.

Jiang Wuyin and Jiang Bailian were both taken aback.

“Look at yourself now,” Chen Yao pinched his cheek, making him look at the giant on the throne. “Do you have the face to see him? How can you be like Venerable Lianjiang? A grown man, a renowned cultivator, how can you have no sense of responsibility?”

He slapped Jiang Wuyin a few more times: "I don't care what you've been through, just looking at your current state, I know you deserve it!"

Chen Yao's words were quite powerful, and Jiang Wuyin's previously lifeless eyes regained their sparkle.

He shoved Chen Yao away abruptly: "How dare you!"

Chen Yao pointed her jade sword diagonally at the ground, looking arrogantly at Jiang Wuyin: "What do you intend to do?"

Jiang Bailian was at his wits' end: "Junior Brother Chen, why are you making things worse! Can't we stop fighting at a time like this?"

Jiang Wuyin, his beard and hair flowing, glared at Chen Yao.

Chen Yao looked down at Jiang Wuyin with an arrogant expression.

Neither of them paid any attention to Jiang Bailian.

Another roar sounded overhead, and several more thick, long tails fell, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Jiang Wuyin suddenly burst into laughter, giving Chen Yao a thumbs up: "Kid, your second uncle accepts you as Bai Lian's lover! You did a good job beating me and scolding me! Two hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye, and no one has dared to scold me so harshly!"

He glanced up at the menacing black aura shimmering with light above his head, smiled contemptuously, and made a hand seal.

Several vortexes of black mist swirled out, accompanied by deafening roars from monsters.

Then, roars and screams echoed from within the black mist.

Countless entrails and dismembered remains fell to the ground.

"Jiang Wuyin! You bastard! You unfilial son!"

Jiang Guanglai and some elders angrily cursed.

"Unfilial? Take a piss and look at yourselves! Some of you are having incestuous relationships, others are doing all sorts of indecent things! Yunniang is mine! Yet you forced me to call her 'Grandma,' and in the end, you even drove her to her death! I, Lianjiang, am not doing this for you beasts, but to save Yunniang!"

Jiang Wuyin shouted angrily, tears streaming down his face.

"You beast! How dare you reveal such a shameful secret! You disrespectful bastard... Ah!"

The man in the black mist was only halfway through his sentence when a scream rang out, presumably because Jiang Wuyin had used the monster within to severely injure him.

"They've brought five Golden Core cultivators, three Nascent Soul cultivators, and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators. Although I'm a Golden Core cultivator and have the Crimson-Black Beast's assistance, I can't hold them off for long. Follow me!"

Jiang Wuyin led the two towards the throne.