As more and more cultivators passed by the mound, Yan Ji knew that she could not continue to stay here. If she continued to stay here, sooner or later she would be discovered.
After taking out a simple disguise mask and putting it on, Yan Ji carefully took away the concealment disk. She knew that her concealment mask was too poorly graded and someone with a higher level of cultivation would definitely be able to recognise it.
As soon as Yan Ji took the concealment disk, a dark light blasted at her before she could use her flying magic weapon. Yan Ji had been out for years, and was extremely vigilant, not to mention the fact that she was wanted at the moment.
The moment the light hit her, Yan Ji sensed it, and she immediately threw up a defensive shield.
“The powerful star energy reverberated back, and Yan Ji, who was already seriously injured, spurted out a mouthful of blood again.
Yan Ji’s vigilance and swift action allowed her to escape for the time being. Only then did she see clearly who the person who had attacked her was, a male cultivator of the late Immortal Realm.
“Hey, I have long guessed that you are around here, it is fitting that our company Long has a great opportunity ……” As the male cultivator spoke, his hands raised and a large net of several feet in circumference came down.
The net locks up all the space around it. If Yan Ji had not been injured, she might have been able to escape the siege of this magic treasure. If Yan Ji had not been injured, she might have been able to escape from this magic treasure, but since Yan Ji was seriously injured, it was extremely difficult for her to escape from this net.
Yan Ji knew in her heart that if she could not escape from this net, she might as well die. If she was caught by this man, she would definitely not end up well.
But Yan Ji soon despaired as she grabbed her magic treasure, the Thousand Ren Diagram, but was unable to sacrifice it. Her divine sense and astral essence had depleted a little too much, and her injuries were a little too severe.
Seeing that the great net was about to completely envelop her, Yan Ji raised her hand and was about to slap it towards her brow.
At that very moment, the male cultivator who was attacking Yan Ji suddenly let out a miserable scream, and his entire body fell out of the air, landing in between the swamp, sending up a series of water bubbles.
The net that had lost its control suddenly lost its overwhelming momentum and the pressure that locked it in space, and Yan Ji easily avoided the falling net. The net instantly shrank and landed in front of Yan Ji.
A female cultivator in a grey dress appeared in front of Yan Ji, she raised her hand and grabbed it, an ordinary bamboo arrow with a ring flew out of the swamp and landed in her palm, which she then put away.
It was only at this time that Yan Ji realised that the woman in grey had used the arrow to kill the male cultivator who was trying to capture her, and even though she didn’t know what in the woman in grey was up to, she said, “Many thanks for saving her.”
At that moment several more flying magic treasures swept past from afar, and this woman in grey suddenly said to Yan Ji, “If you continue to stay at the Spiny Tooth Lake, you will definitely die. Besides, Lanque Star is also blocked off, so there is no way to get out.”
“You know who I am?” Yan Ji stared at the female cultivator in front of him in confusion, if she knew who she was, how could she still help her? Shouldn’t she be the first to capture her in exchange for payment? Although Yan Ji did not know how much the reward for wanting her was, she certainly would not be too low.
Could the wealth of a Star River King be simple? I was afraid that her small life was worth nothing compared to the wealth of the Star River King.
The woman in grey nodded, ”I know, and I am the only one here who can save you. There is a place in the Spiny Tooth Lake that even Shangguan Xiang, who has a grudge against you, cannot find except for me.”
“How do you know that I am in enmity with Shangguan Xiang?” Yan Ji was even more wary as she stared at the woman in grey before her. She believed that even if Shangguan Xiang wanted to arrest her, she would not say that I, Shangguan Xiang, wanted to arrest someone.
The woman in grey said calmly, “Because I have been cultivating at the Spiny Tooth Lake, I saw you kill Shangguan Man’er. I’m just giving you a suggestion, if you don’t want to go with me then I’ll go first.”
Yan Ji was silent for a moment before nodding and saying, “Okay, I’ll go with you.”
She knew that even if she didn’t go with this woman in grey, she wouldn’t be able to run away. There was no need for the other party to go to such trouble if they wanted to kill her.
The woman in grey seemed to know that Yan Ji would definitely agree, as she stepped forward and grabbed Yan Ji’s hand and said, “Don’t move, I have a teleportation talisman that can immediately teleport the two of us away.”
Sure enough, after she finished speaking, she took out a jade teleportation talisman. Immediately after the teleportation talisman was activated, it turned into a white light and swept the two away.
Shortly after the two of them left, several figures came here once again. These cultivators were not of a high cultivation level and did not notice that anything had ever happened here.
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After a brief moment of dizziness, Yan Ji felt a solidity under her feet and she landed on the ground. As soon as her feet hit the ground, Yan Ji began to take stock of her surroundings.
This seemed to be a basement, no, I should say a basement. Yan Ji’s divine sense could see that these basements were all connected by some stone wall passages, and the entire basement complex was illuminated by some bright light formations, showing a not very clear bright light.
Her gaze fell on this basement she was in, which only had a stone bed, a stone table and two stone mounds, and a futon. It was the simplest of cultivation caves, and beyond that, there was nothing else.
“Where is this?” Yan Ji subconsciously asked.
The woman in grey took out two cups, poured them full of spirit tea, handed one to Yan Ji and said, “This is still in the Thorny Tooth Lake, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to find it here. You are not lightly injured, so drink a cup of spirit tea first.”
Yan Ji did not hesitate, picking up the cups and finishing the spirit tea in one gulp, then he put the cups down and asked, “You should be in the Man Lun Star Space, how did you come to the Jiu Jia Star Space?”
“You know who I am?” The woman in grey looked at Yan Ji in astonishment.
Yan Ji raised his hand to remove his mask and said calmly, “Originally I didn’t know, but I knew when you took my hand.”
Not only did she know who the woman in front of her was, but she also knew that there was a lot of involvement between the two. The same from Lezhou, the same heavenly daughter, not only that but also known as the Lezhou parallel lotus. But the truth was that there was no friendship between the two at all, rather there was more of a gap.
If it was said that the two had completely turned against each other, it was still because of Ning Cheng.
Hearing Yan Ji’s words, the woman in grey sighed and also removed her own mask. It was a pretty face that was not half as bad as Yan Ji’s, and if it wasn’t for Yan Ji’s excessively pale face, these two women standing together would indeed be a parallel lotus blooming.
She was none other than Nalan Ruxue, who had come from Lezhou with Yan Ji.
“Nalan Ruxue, why did you save me? If I remember correctly, you should hate me.” Yan Ji said with a peaceful demeanour, calmly looking at Nalan Ruxue.
“Yan Ji, do you think that I am a person who repays kindness with hatred?” Nalan Ruxue’s tone was somewhat low.
Yan Ji fell silent, yes, she did think that Nalan Ruxue was a person who would return a grudge. It was just that just now, Nalan Ruxue had also saved her, and she was not the kind of person who was mean.
“Why are you in the Su Yuan Xing He?” After a long silence, Yan Ji did not directly answer Nalan Ruxue’s words, but instead digressed the topic. Clearly, in her view, Nalan Ruxue was indeed someone who would return a favour. As for why Nalan Ruxue had saved her, she was just as not very clear.
Nalan Ruxue took a breath and slowly said, “Do you know what sect I joined in the Heavenly Continent?”
Without waiting for Yan Ji to answer, Nalan Ruxue took the initiative to say, “It’s the War Demon Hall.”
Speaking here, she sounded a little self-deprecating, “Heh, I come from the famous Wu Nian Sect in Le Continent, but I joined the War Demon Hall, a demon sect in Tian Continent.”
“You wanted to join a devil sect because he was a devil cultivator? To alleviate the guilt in your heart?” Yan Ji suddenly interjected and asked.
Nalan Ruxue seemed to be answering Yan Ji’s words, and seemed to be talking to herself, “I don’t know, devil cultivators are all incredibly sinful in the eyes of all the people in Le Continent, and they want to weed out the roots. But he is a devil cultivator, and he is wanted because of me, so perhaps I almost did him harm ……”
Yan Ji said in a somewhat cold tone, “You didn’t harm him just here, do you know that he was almost killed by you when he entered the Rule Road? That Hang Jiao Jiao was teamed up with him and he told Hang Jiao Jiao to get lost, while you stood up for Hang Jiao Jiao and almost got him killed by Que Peng Hai.
At that time, anyone could have stood up and fought for him, but you couldn’t. If it wasn’t for you, he would have been targeted by Hang Piao Piao? He saved you from Hang Piao Piao and Sikong Kai, while you almost had him killed to help your enemy.”
Nalan Ruxue lowered her head and fell completely silent. Yan Ji was right, if Yan Ji hadn’t stood up for herself at that time, Ning Cheng, who took the name of Cheng Xiao Ning, would have been killed by Que Peng Hai long ago. As for the reason, of course, it was because she had stood up to hold a grudge.
After coming out of Rule Road, she was already suspecting in her heart that Ning Cheng might have been her saviour, and she even brought Ning Cheng out as a shield. In the end, it was because Ning Cheng was a grassroots, and life and death were not even on her mind.
The Numinous Sect was a famous sect, and what her master had taught her was that strength was everything. As long as one possessed great strength, some petty matters could be done without having to be constrained. Only being strong in one’s own right was the most important thing. What’s more, Ning Cheng’s favour to her was only a possibility and was not sat on. What was sat on instead was that Ning Cheng might have misbehaved with her and was discovered by her.
It was not until later that she was influenced by Meng Jingxiu and Yue Ying’s words, plus after coming to the Heavenly Continent, she saw that Ning Cheng was not much inferior to others just because he was of grassroots origin. On the contrary, with so many geniuses in Le Continent, none of them were able to have Ning Cheng’s achievements either, and she began to reflect on what she had done.
Growing up under her master’s tutelage, she had loathed the devil clan and devil cultivators to the extreme. Ning Cheng, with his demonic aura and the fact that he had secretly misbehaved with her, was naturally an object of her disgust. It was because in the end she learned the truth that led to a huge psychological gap, the kind of guilt that could not be reassured, that made her choose the Devil Sect.
But the Heavenly Continent is different from the Le Continent in that the Heavenly Continent is not culling the Demon Sect. After joining the Demon Sect, Nalan Ruxue’s temperament became independent and she no longer followed the clouds. Believing what Yue Ying says, sometimes even what you see with your own eyes is not always the truth of the matter.
After so many years of sharpening her independence, she has gradually let go of the knot she had at the beginning. It was because she was a devil cultivator that she was prepared to travel to the Great Starry Sky of the Devil’s Domain. When she passed through the Suyuan Star River, she inadvertently came to this place. It had helped her cultivation so much that she had stayed.