Nonsense! Master is not my wife.

Xue Qingyou smiled slightly, her pure white eyes bright and lively: "It seems that we have to continue traveling together for a while."

……

Kong Yuanzi returned to his retreat place, sat cross-legged, and performed a secret technique, allowing his mind to leave his body and arrive in a strange space.

"Kong Yuanzi, I heard that there is a demon causing trouble in your Chilian Academy, and it broke into the Chilian secret storage, stole a treasure, and then left in front of you?"

As soon as he came in, a feminine voice sounded.

Kong Yuanzi looked at the shadow of a scholar in white holding a folding fan and smiled, "It is true."

Just as the scholar in white was about to say something else, a slightly low and hoarse female voice suddenly sounded:

"Kong Yuanzi, what happened that made you call us here so urgently?"

In the strange space, in addition to Kong Yuanzi and the scholar in white, there are three phantoms of divine thoughts. The hoarse female voice comes from a black-haired woman with a sword on her back and a domineering aura.

It was the lord of Xueling Ruins, Ao Qingyue.

The five divine shadows present are the five supreme beings of the Northern Territory.

Kong Yuanzi told them every detail of the demon incident in the Chilian Academy, including their speculations about the demon's actions. The incomplete stone seal that was taken away was also projected into the void by Kong Yuanzi using his divine consciousness.

"What is this stone seal?" asked a giant in tight clothes in a muffled voice.

Kong Yuanzi shook his head and said, "I don't know who put this stone seal in the Chilian secret collection and when. The academy has not found any relevant information."

"The main reason I summoned several Taoists here this time is because of the recent rampage of demons," Kong Yuanzi said solemnly. "The demons have been extremely rampant recently. Not only have they invaded cities and killed mortal cultivators, they have even destroyed several sects. Their behavior is extremely crazy, which is completely different from their lurking strategy for a hundred years."

A gentle woman with a haggard face spoke softly, "This matter is different."

Seeing the others were lost in thought, Kong Yuanzi continued, "A hundred years ago, the previous master of Xuelingxu led the top cultivators from the five regions to the Demon King's Court of the Demon Realm and killed the Demon Lord at that time. Various demons started to revolt, and the Demon Realm was devastated and fell into chaos. They no longer cared about invading the five regions."

This history was known to all cultivators in the five realms, and the five people present naturally knew it as well. The five of them had even participated in that expedition against the demons, and understood how dangerous that operation was. Countless numbers of cultivators from the Ninth Realm had fallen in the demon world.

Ao Qingyue frowned slightly: "You mean a demon lord was born in the demon world?"

Kong Yuanzi nodded slightly, his expression becoming more serious: "If there had not been a demon lord who unified the demon world and sat in the demon king's court, I really can't imagine why the demons would be so rampant and not afraid of death."

Then Kong Yuanzi continued, "Although the Tenth Realm demon who sneaked into the Chilian Secret Vault and stole the stone seal managed to escape, I was able to obtain a ball of black mud containing his original aura from him. With this ball of black mud, we can find his location, and even further find out the current location of the demon world."

Ever since the Demon Lord was publicly beheaded in the Demon King's Court a hundred years ago, the powerful people in the demon world moved their locations and dived into the darkness.

After the other four understood his plan, they all fell into deep thought.

Finally, Ao Qingyue said, "This is feasible."

After everyone exchanged some information, they left one after another.

Just when Kong Yuanzi was about to retract his spiritual thoughts, he received a spiritual message from Ao Qingyue.

When the other three had all left, Kong Yuanzi looked at Ao Qingyue: "What's the matter, Brother Ao?"

Ao Qingyue pondered for a moment and said, "You just said that in Yanzhu Realm, there was a cultivator named Yin You who walked into the teleportation formation set up by the demons and never came back?"

Kong Yuanzi was a little surprised and nodded: "It is true."

Ao Qingyue's blood-red eyes flickered slightly, and she said slowly: "He is my junior sister's apprentice."

Kong Yuanzi's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he asked in disbelief, "Fellow Daoist Yin Ci's disciple?"

“Yin You…Yin…right…” Kong Yuanzi muttered to himself.

Ao Qingyue sighed, waved his hand and threw out a divine jade token, saying: "Please help me pass it to my junior sister, Kong Yuanzi."

After saying that, her figure disappeared and she left this strange space.

After Kong Yuanzi's mind returned to his retreat place, he immediately called Chi Xinzi to ask him about the matter.

After Chi Xinzi finished explaining the matter, he said with a wry smile, "I was just about to explain this matter to the Palace Master."

Kong Yuanzi thought for a moment, called Chang Jingyao over, handed her the divine jade token given by Ao Qingyue, and told her to pass it to Yin Ci.

……

In a deep mountain valley filled with birdsong and flowers, a young man in tattered white clothes slowly opened his eyes with a confused look:

"Where is this...?"

Chapter 58: Snow Lion Avoiding the Clouds

Yin You sat on a rock and raised one hand. On his palm stood a miniature man with snow-white hair and strange eyes, who kept saying something. Yin You listened attentively.

After she finished speaking, Yin You spoke up, "Master, can't you tell which of the four realms we are in now?"

After hearing the explanation from Yin Ci's soul, he realized that he did not return to Yanshen Valley, nor even to the Northern Region, but was teleported to one of the other four regions by a column of black light.

Yin Ci's soul nodded: "A hundred years ago, the boundary wall disappeared, and the five domains of heaven and earth were completely united. Spiritual energy flowed through the five domains. Since then, there is no longer a specific regional aura to distinguish the domains."

"Plus, the Five Realms are vast and boundless, with so many deep mountains and valleys that even I can't tell at the moment what the difference is between this place and the Northern Realm, and which realm it belongs to."

Yin You looked around and saw birds singing, flowers blooming, and lush vegetation. It was obvious that this place was deep in the mountains where few people had ever been, and there might even be powerful and ferocious beasts lurking there.

Yin Ci's soul also looked at the surrounding scenery, understood what he was thinking, and smiled softly: "It's okay. Judging from the concentration of spiritual energy here, it should be some remote place. At most, there will be a few seventh-level beasts. It poses no threat to you, You'er."

Yin You had long discovered that the concentration of spiritual energy in this place was extremely low. Since he began traveling, he had passed through many cities and wildernesses, but had never seen a place where spiritual energy was so scarce.

Yin Ci's soul finally said: "Let's get out of this deep mountain first. As long as we find a city and ask around, we will know where we are."

Yin You nodded and stood up. Yin Ci's soul turned into a faint light and sank into Yin You's body.

Yin You looked for a long time but didn't find any traces of mortal cultivators, so he picked a direction at random and walked straight ahead.

Sure enough, there were many ferocious beasts along the way. Most of these ferocious beasts were at the fourth and fifth realms. Even the sixth realm beasts were extremely rare. They posed no threat to Yin You. He could deal with a bunch of ferocious beasts with a wave of his hand.

But these beasts were extremely ferocious by nature. When a bunch of them died, another bunch came back. It was almost impossible to kill them all, which made Yin You feel a little annoyed.

He had no choice but to release the aura of the early seventh realm. The nearby ferocious beasts suddenly sensed a powerful aura, and they all showed expressions of fear and trembled away from Yin You's position.

The area within a hundred steps around Yin You instantly became quiet.

When Yin You saw this scene, he couldn't help but laugh and continued on his way.

Because he was in a foreign land and had no clear understanding of the place, Yin You did not fly on his sword and tried to keep a low profile.

Yin You walked out of the valley and headed out of the mountains, but this mountain range covered a large area, so Yin You stopped and walked many times, and it took him more than ten days to get close to the outer area of ​​the mountains.

"Xiao Yi, open your mouth."

Yin You sat on a snow-white, strong and ferocious beast. After shouting, he waved his hand and threw a piece of barbecue to the front.

A majestic lion head with snow-white mane opened its mouth to catch the barbecue, chewed it for a few times, and swallowed it into its stomach, then made a "woohoo" sound as if to please.

Yin You smiled, then tore off a large piece of barbecue and threw it to it: "You greedy thing."

The majestic lion head swallowed them one by one, its eyes slightly narrowed, showing that it was enjoying it very much, even the tail behind it wagged more happily.

If other cultivators saw this scene at this time, they would definitely be shocked, because this ferocious beast is called the Cloud-avoiding Snow Lion, one of the only few seventh-level ferocious beasts in this mountain range, and has dominated the area for many years.

Four days ago, Yin You mistakenly entered the territory of the Cloud-Bidding Snow Lion. The unfamiliar Seventh Realm aura made the Cloud-Bidding Snow Lion instantly alert. It took the initiative to attack Yin You, but when its claws were about to strike, Yin You slightly tilted his head and completely suppressed it with just a look.

It just so happened that at this moment Yin You felt that walking was too slow, and even though he released the aura of the seventh level of cultivation, there were still many ungrateful beasts who attacked him, which made him a little depressed.

After seeing this mid-stage seventh-level Cloud-Biased Snow Lion, Yin You's eyes lit up and he thought of a good idea, which was to take the Cloud-Biased Snow Lion as a mount. This would not only speed up his travel speed, but also allow him to defeat ferocious beasts without having to take any action if they attacked. Therefore, he saved the Cloud-Biased Snow Lion's life.

This Cloud-avoiding Snow Lion was extremely arrogant at first. After all, it was the king of ferocious beasts that had dominated the area for many years. How could it become the mount of a human cultivator?

As soon as Yin You sat on it, it resisted frantically, shaking its body to try to throw Yin You off, but under Yin You's "gentle and soft" punches, it realized Yin You's intentions, stopped resisting, and completely surrendered to Yin You.

Yin You felt relieved to see that the Biyun Snow Lion was so well-behaved. The conditions in the mountains were difficult, and Yin You's meals mostly depended on the ferocious beasts in the mountains and some spiritual fruits. When he used fire spiritual energy to make barbecue with the delicious meat of the ferocious beasts, he naturally did not forget the Biyun Snow Lion.

The Biyun Snow Lion was a little resistant to cooked meat at first, but after seeing Yin You silently raising his fist, it took a bite anyway. It found it extremely delicious and from then on it became addicted to it and began to hate raw meat.

Seeing that it liked it, Yin You made its share of barbecue as well, and at the same time gave the task of hunting for food to the Biyun Snow Lion. He placed the ferocious beasts with delicious meat in front of the Biyun Snow Lion, letting it remember their characteristic smells, and then go hunting them.

In order to eat delicious barbecue, the Biyun Snow Lion was extremely active in hunting ferocious beasts, which delayed its journey by a day or two. However, Yin You was not in a hurry to leave the mountain, so he did not blame it.

Moreover, Yin You also discovered one benefit of taking the Cloud-Bi Snow Lion as a mount, that is, the Cloud-Bi Snow Lion grew up in this mountain range and was very familiar with the mountain environment. Yin You gestured to it for a long time and finally made it understand what Yin You meant and walked towards the outskirts of the mountain range.

Along the way, he saw more and more traces of humans. Although he had not seen any humans yet, Yin You was still somewhat happy because he knew that he was walking out of the mountains.

As they walked, Yin You suddenly patted the head of the Cloud-Bidding Snow Lion: "Xiao Yi, stop."

Upon hearing this, the Cloud-Bidding Snow Lion stopped, whined a few times, and wagged its tail happily, thinking that it was time for dinner.

Yin You saw its appearance and patted its head with a smile: "You fool, why do you only think about eating?"

Although the Biyun Snow Lion could not understand Yin You's words, after spending many days together, it also understood some of Yin You's expressions and realized that it was not time for dinner, so it lowered its head.

Yin You sensed it carefully and indeed detected the chaotic fluctuations of spiritual energy: "Yes, there are human cultivators over there."

He jumped off the Cloud-avoiding Snow Lion and pointed to the woods ahead: "Xiao Yi, go that way."

The Cloud-avoiding Snow Lion whimpered and ran in the direction he pointed.

Chapter 59: Cloud Rift Mountains, Yunxi City

Yun Hong wanted to curse in his heart at this moment!

He just got drunk at a party and boasted to a few drinking buddies that he would go to the Liyun Mountains to hunt a fifth-level ferocious beast.

Unexpectedly, those unreliable guys actually used the Shadow Summoning Stone to record the scene he boasted about at the time, and accidentally let Yi Ban, the second lady of the Yi family, see it.

Facing Yiban's eyes full of admiration, although Yun Hong was devastated inside, he showed a calm smile on his face, and told Yiban how he easily hunted the fifth-level ferocious beast.

The naive Yi Ban had no doubts but listened to his story quietly. At that time, another group of playboys who usually didn't get along with him stood up and threatened him to hand over the evidence, otherwise he was just bragging.

Of course Yun Hong had no evidence, but he couldn't bring himself to admit it in front of Yi Ban, so he ran back to the family that day and secretly took more than a dozen family guards with him and headed for the Liyun Mountains.

Yun Hong originally planned to hunt a fifth-level ferocious beast in the outer area of ​​the Lieyun Mountains. His luck was indeed good. After wandering around for a day, he actually encountered a fifth-level ferocious beast, the Cloud Shadow Leopard.

Yun Hong himself has reached the peak of the fourth realm. Among the family guards he brought along secretly, only three have reached the fifth realm, and the rest are at the fourth realm.

It was quite challenging for their lineup to face a clouded leopard that was good at speed, but after much hesitation, Yun Hong decided to hunt the clouded leopard.

Because the fifth-level ferocious beasts are already rare in the outer areas of the Liyun Mountains, if we let this cloud shadow leopard go, we don’t know how long it will take to see a fifth-level ferocious beast again.

The central area of ​​the Liyun Mountains is full of fifth-level ferocious beasts, but with the cultivation level of Yun Hong and others, it is no different from delivering food.

After making the decision, Yun Hong and others dispersed and hunted the Cloud Shadow Leopard.

The Cloud Shadow Leopard quickly noticed the abnormality of the surrounding environment. It tried to break out of the encirclement of Yun Hong and others, but was entangled by three guards with cultivation level of the fifth realm. Seeing this situation, Yun Hong and other guards hurried forward to join the battle.

More than a dozen guards formed a battle formation and firmly gained the upper hand.

The Cloud Shadow Leopard fought back vigorously, and after killing a guard with the cultivation level of the fourth realm with great difficulty, he still died under the siege of the crowd.

After Yun Hong sent his guards to divide and collect the bodies of the Cloud Shadow Leopard, he was about to lead everyone back home.

Suddenly, a sixth-level ferocious beast, the Fierce Cloud Tiger, jumped out from the bushes. A fifth-level guard was unable to react in time and had his head smashed by the Fierce Cloud Tiger's claw, killing him instantly.

Yun Hong and others were horrified upon seeing this, and quickly gathered together to form a battle formation to resist Lie Yunhu's attack.

However, Lieyunhu was a sixth-level ferocious beast, and his strength was much higher than that of everyone else. In addition, the battle formation lacked a fifth-level guard, so his combat power was greatly reduced, and he kept retreating under the attack of Lieyunhu.

Lie Yunhu seemed to have the mentality of a cat catching a mouse. He did not use his full strength, but teased everyone slowly.

Even so, guards continued to die under the attack of Lieyunhu.

By now, only Yun Hong and six guards were left.

"Second Young Master, while this Fierce Cloud Tiger has not lost its interest yet, we should attack it with all our strength and catch it off guard. You can seize the opportunity to escape!" said the only remaining guard with the cultivation level of the fifth realm.

"No, how can I abandon you?" Yun Hong immediately refused.

"It's my fault that you've fallen into this situation. If I abandon you and run away, then what kind of person would I be, Yun Hong!"

He gritted his teeth, his face fierce: "At worst, we can die here together! I will also scrape off a layer of flesh from this Lieyun Tiger!"

"Second Young Master!"

The other guards were all moved when they heard this.

At this moment, Lieyunhu seemed to smell something, and his originally leisurely expression suddenly revealed a hint of doubt.

The next moment, its puzzled look turned into fear. It no longer cared about playing cat and mouse with Yun Hong and the others, and turned around to escape.

Snapped!

Yun Hong and the others only felt a flash before their eyes, as if a black beast shadow flashed by, and then they saw the Lieyun Tiger turned into a ball of bloody flesh and blood.

Next to it, a ferocious beast with a snow-white body and a strong physique appeared, emitting a terrifying aura that almost suffocated everyone.

"This is……"