"Whether you lied to me or not, you're not going anywhere today."
Now it was a spiritual beast with greatly reduced cultivation. The three of them could handle it with ease.
"Do you know what this place is?" The Armored Dragon Beast took a step back, warily looking at Chu Lingwei. He had underestimated the cultivator before him.
"No matter what this place is, it will be your burial ground." Chu Lingwei finished speaking, and the Ice Jade Cold Frost Sword in her hand flew out, striking towards the Armored Dragon Beast's face.
"I'll help you find someone."
The Armored Dragon Beast quickly dodged Chu Lingwei's attack. The spiritual energy she directed at him this time was even more profound than in the dark river. He was greatly alarmed. Had she hidden her true strength in the dark river?
Thinking of this, the Armored Dragon Beast began to regret. It still didn't know what Chu Lingwei had made it eat.
It was too late to regret now.
Chu Lingwei ignored its pleas for mercy and sent wave after wave of spiritual energy at it.
Phantom Cat leaped forward, and a barrier was directly cast around it, trapping it and preventing escape.
"I'm going to burn it to death, this treacherous thing." Feng Ming was the most furious. Weiwei had kindly saved it, only to be treated this way. It was truly infuriating.
"Hmph, you broke into my territory and stole my spiritual herbs."
Seeing that it could not escape, the Armored Dragon Beast revealed its true form. Since escape was impossible, it could only fight to the end. Moreover, no cultivator could reach this place. Anyone who entered here would surely die.
"The strong prey on the weak, this is the rule of the spirit-cultivating world." Chu Lingwei leaped forward, using the power of space to open the Mysterious Sky Burning Fire and strike at the Armored Dragon Beast.
It was a ninth-tier spiritual beast. If it wanted to self-destruct, she would be powerless to stop it.
She had to strike true with a single blow, leaving it no opportunity to counterattack.
"Roar."
The Armored Dragon Beast let out a heavy roar, its sound reverberating throughout the entire Ice Cliff. The ground where they stood began to shake.
"Weiwei, it jumped down!" Feng Ming sent a Netherfire towards the Armored Dragon Beast's body. Its body staggered backward and fell into the newly cracked mountain ravine.
Chu Lingwei stepped on her spiritual sword and pursued it. She knew her father's appearance and absolutely could not let it live.
"Die."
Nine Phoenix鳴 Fan.
Myriad streams of spiritual energy struck the Armored Dragon Beast. Chu Lingwei watched its body shatter, falling into the ravine like snowflakes.
"Weiwei, come back quickly!"
Phantom Cat saw Chu Lingwei falling continuously. It tried to follow but was blocked by something, and its entire body was repelled.
Chu Lingwei heard Phantom Cat's voice and turned back. Unfortunately, several large icebergs in the sky attacked her, giving her no chance to leave.
Her body could only plummet downwards with the icebergs.
As expected, she had been tricked.
Chu Lingwei tried to find a gap, but could not even pause for a moment.
Looking down, there was an endless mountain ravine below.
Could this be where the spiritual fish, sought by the great powers, were located, as the Armored Dragon Beast had said?
With no way to go up, Chu Lingwei changed her approach, sinking rapidly. Only by moving faster than the descending icebergs could she find a place to temporarily hide at the bottom.
After falling for an hour, Chu Lingwei heard the sound of flowing water.
She had arrived.
Chu Lingwei accelerated, and upon seeing the river's surface, she directly entered her spatial domain.
"Weiwei?" Yu Qinghong sensed someone entering the spatial domain and instantly appeared before Chu Lingwei, unable to help but laugh. "You've come in so quickly."
"Yes, I encountered a big trouble." Chu Lingwei waved her hand, and a soft chair appeared before her. She sat down directly. "I was tricked by a spiritual beast and brought to a river in the Ice Cliff. I was about to be crushed by the icebergs overhead, so I had to come in to hide for a while."
Yu Qinghong sat beside Chu Lingwei with a chuckle. "Tell me, how did you get tricked by the spiritual beast?"
Chu Lingwei recounted her encounter with the Armored Dragon Beast, their fight, and then its plea for mercy to Yu Qinghong. "I was so eager to have someone help me find my father in the Ice Cliff."
Her father had entered here before her. He might have already left. Chu Lingwei didn't want to waste time.
"Since you know the reason, you must never make such a mistake again in the future." Yu Qinghong understood Weiwei's feelings. Having suffered this loss, she would surely not repeat it.
"I know." Chu Lingwei gave a wry smile. How could she make such a mistake? She thought she could control a spiritual beast and believed it could be used for her.
"Weiwei, tell me carefully, what did the mountain ravine you fell into look like?"
Within the Ice Cliff, there was a mysterious mountain ravine, a place many cultivators dreamed of finding.
"I didn't notice anything special about it. There were ice mountains all around. Before I fell, I only felt a weak spiritual energy. Even as I was about to fall into the river, the spiritual energy wasn't very strong."
The inner region of the Ice Cliff was where cultivators of the Supreme and Sovereign realms frequented. The spiritual energy here should be more abundant than outside.
Chu Lingwei was certain that their current location was definitely the inner region of the Ice Cliff.
"Then it should be correct." Yu Qinghong couldn't help but admire Chu Lingwei's luck. She had stumbled upon a place that those cultivators couldn't find.
"What place?" Chu Lingwei wondered to herself, could she really have reached the mountain ravine the Armored Dragon Beast had spoken of?
Would it be so kind as to lead her to that place?
Chu Lingwei said she didn't believe it.
"Linglong Ravine." Yu Qinghong stroked his beard, his eyes filled with even more laughter. "I really want to go out with you and catch some Flying Tail Ice Fish to roast and eat."
"You mean that spiritual fish that can increase cultivation if you eat one?" Chu Lingwei became interested. If this kind of fish could be raised in her spatial domain, wouldn't that be wonderful?
"That's right."
Yu Qinghong nodded affirmatively. "Legend has it that eating one Nine-tailed Ice Fish is equivalent to ten years of cultivation."
"Grandpa Yu, when did you hear that?" Yu Qinghong's age was even greater than her master's. If he heard legends, they should have long since become myths and unreliable, right?
"Uh..."
Yu Qinghong showed an embarrassed expression. He had long forgotten when he had heard it.
"Regardless, since you've already reached this place, catch a few for us." Yu Qinghong began to urge Chu Lingwei to go out quickly. "If there are any extra, raise them directly in your spatial domain, then there will be even more."
Yu Qinghong laughed even more gleefully. He had heard that Nine-tailed Ice Fish tasted delicious, even more so than the meat of any spiritual beast, and he was already looking forward to it.
"Grandpa Yu, you trust me too much. Don't forget, I'm here to seek refuge." Chu Lingwei's mouth twitched. For the sake of a meal, he didn't even care about his own safety.