"Mm."
Leng Xingzhi grunted, not even opening his eyes.
"Senior Brother, Weiwei is injured. We should go save her," Feng Ming jumped to Leng Xingzhi's eye level. He truly didn't care about Weiwei at all.
"This place is ten thousand miles from Xiushui's Shore. Even if she's in danger, there's nothing you can do to rush there."
Leng Xingzhi slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Feng Ming's unstable aura, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes. "Go back and cultivate."
"But..." Feng Ming wanted to say more, but seeing Leng Xingzhi's terrifying gaze, her body couldn't help but tremble.
"Go back and cultivate." Leng Xingzhi cut off Feng Ming's words. Feng Ming's injuries were at the final stage of breakthrough. If she were to be injured again, it would hinder her cultivation in the future.
"Okay."
Feng Ming looked dejected, her heart filled with sadness. Weiwei had left her to Senior Brother, and her days had been difficult.
Leng Xingzhi waved his right hand, casting a barrier around Feng Ming. "Until your cultivation improves, you cannot leave this barrier."
Feng Ming's small face drooped. Cultivation improvement was not something that could be achieved overnight.
Leng Xingzhi gazed towards Xiushui's Shore, a flicker of helplessness in his eyes. This was the path Weiwei had to take.
"Weiwei, your hand?" Huan Mao saw Chu Lingwei's hand. Under the corrosive effect of Xiushui, a black spot appeared, making him quite worried.
"I'm fine," Chu Lingwei shook her head, took out a drop of Lingbingningzhu, and dripped it onto her hand. The wound on her hand immediately healed, and her skin returned to its fair complexion.
Huan Mao breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Weiwei was alright, he was content.
Chu Lingwei looked up. Above her head was Xiushui, sealed by a barrier. The barrier seemed to have been formed a long time ago, and it showed signs of cracking.
"Let's go ahead and take a look." The faint scream she had just heard seemed to have come from this direction.
"Weiwei, you clearly used spiritual energy to strike the water surface earlier. When we entered, we didn't see anyone." Huan Mao crouched on Chu Lingwei's shoulder. Weiwei said she heard a scream, but they had passed through Xiushui without seeing anyone.
Xiushui could even injure Weiwei's skin. Who could be trapped here without being corroded by Xiushui?
"It should be inside." Chu Lingwei, with Huan Mao, rode a flying artifact and slowly flew beneath Xiushui. It looked like a very deep cavern, rich in spiritual energy, a good place for cultivation.
Huan Mao crouched at the very front of the flying artifact, his eyes fixed ahead. He tried to probe the situation ahead with his divine sense several times, but it was blocked.
Chu Lingwei continued to pilot her flying artifact forward, only to find it flying slower and slower.
Regardless of whether she used her spiritual energy or spirit stones, she couldn't speed up the flying artifact even slightly.
"At this rate, it's too slow." Unable to rely on the flying artifact, Chu Lingwei had no choice but to bring Huan Mao to the bottom of the cave and walk slowly forward.
Her divine sense seemed to be becoming weaker and weaker in this cave, unable to perceive anything within ten miles.
"Weiwei, this place is so vast."
By this time, they had been walking in the cave for an hour, yet they hadn't encountered any spiritual beasts, nor had they reached the end of the cave.
"Yes, this might be beneath the Dark Night Forest." A cave with no end, and connected to the Dark Night Forest by Xiushui, this was the only possibility.
"Weiwei, could it be that there's no one here at all?" Huan Mao felt unable to calm down, a faint worry beginning to surface. This place was more bizarre than any they had encountered before.
"Impossible, there must be cultivators here." Chu Lingwei was absolutely certain she hadn't misheard. That scream was full of pain; Chu Lingwei was absolutely sure she hadn't misheard.
"I'll go ahead and take a look."
Huan Mao trusted Chu Lingwei unconditionally, even leaping forward to scout the path for her.
"No need, we'll go together." They hadn't figured out the situation here yet, and Chu Lingwei was worried about Huan Mao going alone.
As they were speaking, a collision of spiritual energy came from ahead.
The two exchanged glances and flew forward quickly.
"What is this thing?" Huan Mao blinked as he saw two spiritual beasts fighting in front of him. He had never seen these two spiritual beasts before, and even in his inheritance, there was no record of their appearance.
"These should be mutated spiritual beasts."
Chu Lingwei looked at the two spiritual beasts before her. The spiritual energy they used was the same as that of the spiritual beasts on the Xuantian Continent, only their appearances were somewhat different.
"Mutated spiritual beasts? What are those?" Huan Mao had never heard of this term.
"It means their bodies have undergone changes, making them different from their kin." Chu Lingwei sensed the ferocity emanating from the two spiritual beasts. As soon as she finished speaking, both spiritual beasts lunged at Chu Lingwei.
Two streams of spiritual energy struck towards Chu Lingwei.
"Be careful."
Chu Lingwei pushed Huan Mao away and blocked their attacks, retreating a heavy step.
Not only were they mutated, but the power of their attacks was also extremely formidable.
Huan Mao, pushed away by Chu Lingwei, used the momentum to fly into the air and cast a formation to trap them.
Chu Lingwei summoned her ancient bronze sword and slashed at them.
The ancient bronze stone sword was a divine artifact; no person or spiritual beast could escape its blade.
The two spiritual beasts were instantly cleaved in half, their auras vanishing.
Chu Lingwei walked to the front of the two spiritual beasts, squatted down, and looked at the blood flowing from them, a hint of surprise in her eyes. "Their blood is actually green."
"Weiwei, don't you think their blood looks like it's been corroded by Xiushui?" Earlier, when Xiushui landed on Weiwei's hand, Weiwei's blood looked similar to this.
"Could Xiushui have corroded them?" Chu Lingwei collected the two spiritual beasts into her spatial artifact and continued forward with Huan Mao. "The appearance of spiritual beasts here indicates that there are other living creatures below."
Perhaps there were cultivators here too.
The deeper Chu Lingwei and Huan Mao went, the larger the surrounding space became, as if they had entered some sort of training ground, and the spiritual beasts they encountered were increasingly bizarre.
"I didn't expect there to be cultivators here!" Huan Mao saw a half-corroded storage bag lying on the ground ahead, picked it up, and handed it to Chu Lingwei. "Weiwei, cultivators have indeed been here."
Chu Lingwei picked up the damaged storage bag. It was of superior quality, worth a thousand high-grade spirit stones. Its owner must have been an extraordinary person.
"Let's carefully avoid the spiritual beasts that discover us and find someone important." Since there were cultivators here, it would be best to find one to inquire about the situation.
This place was too vast, and Chu Lingwei didn't know where to look for people.
For three consecutive days, Chu Lingwei spent her time fighting spiritual beasts.