"Under the sea."
Leng Xingzhi replied.
Chu Lingwei, "..." Of course, she knew they were underwater now, but she didn't know exactly where.
"Senior Brother, how far are we from Song City now?" Chu Lingwei asked in a gentle tone.
"Not very far."
"..." Chu Lingwei was speechless for a moment. Her Senior Brother didn't want to tell her the specifics.
"Senior Brother, do you not know where we are yourself?"
"I know, we are very close to Song City. However, we are not within Song City's range. If we keep going in this direction, I believe we should be able to reach the area below Song City."
Leng Xingzhi pointed to their current location. Not all areas here were devoid of seawater. At the very end of where they stood, there was a passage.
"Does Senior Brother mean that Song City's actions are related to this place?"
Her Senior Brother's words were already quite clear.
"That cannot be determined yet." Leng Xingzhi placed his hand on Chu Lingwei's shoulder and leaned almost entirely against her. This action startled Chu Lingwei. "Senior Brother, what are you..."
"Little Junior Sister, when I brought you here to escape, Senior Brother was injured."
Leng Xingzhi's voice weakened. "Senior Brother needs to heal now."
"Senior Brother, please sit down quickly." Chu Lingwei finally sensed her Senior Brother's unstable breathing and quickly helped him sit down. She took out a spiritual energy condensed bead from her spatial dimension and fed it to him.
"Senior Brother, why didn't you say anything earlier?"
Having been injured for some time and still pushing himself, Chu Lingwei was a little angry.
"If I had told you when Little Junior Sister had just woken up, would you have had the mind to look at these reliefs?" Leng Xingzhi reached out and rubbed Chu Lingwei's head. "Don't worry, Senior Brother is fine. After a little rest, I will recover."
"Senior Brother, don't talk, just heal quickly."
Chu Lingwei interrupted Leng Xingzhi. After he consumed the spiritual energy condensed bead, his complexion only slightly improved. It seemed her Senior Brother's injuries were quite severe.
She took out a thousand-year-old blood ginseng from her spatial dimension and fed it to him. "Senior Brother, eat this quickly."
Leng Xingzhi looked at the thousand-year-old blood ginseng, his eyes flashing. He did not refuse, and after eating it, he began to recuperate.
Chu Lingwei sat opposite Leng Xingzhi, staring at him as he healed.
Suddenly, she seemed to notice a very strange aura during her Senior Brother's healing process, unlike spiritual energy.
This aura merged perfectly with her Senior Brother's spiritual power and soon disappeared.
"What is this?"
Chu Lingwei quickly transmitted a message to the Phantom Cat in her spatial dimension. "Mao Mao, what is that aura on Senior Brother?"
"Weiwei, what are you talking about? I didn't see anything." The Phantom Cat sounded confused, he didn't sense anything unusual about her Senior Brother.
"If you didn't see it, then forget it."
Chu Lingwei rapidly analyzed the situation. She felt that the aura on her Senior Brother might be very similar to her own spatial power, so much so that even the Phantom Cat and the others who stayed in the spatial dimension all day did not notice.
Perhaps, like herself, her Senior Brother had his own fortuitous encounter.
She stood up and returned to the reliefs, studying them again. Her Senior Brother's information indicated that they were demons and fiends. On the reliefs, their spiritual energy bore a slight resemblance to the spiritual energy of cultivators.
Time passed unknown. Chu Lingwei felt as if at least ten days had gone by.
"Little Junior Sister, have you discovered anything after all this time?" Leng Xingzhi's voice was heard.
"Senior Brother, you're finally awake." Chu Lingwei turned her head and saw Leng Xingzhi standing before her with a smile, her face showing joy. "Congratulations, Senior Brother, on your recovery."
"This is all thanks to Little Junior Sister's spiritual spring water and thousand-year-old blood ginseng."
Leng Xingzhi smiled, looking into Chu Lingwei's eyes.
Upon hearing her Senior Brother's words, Chu Lingwei's expression stiffened. Her thousand-year-old blood ginseng was given to her by Uncle-Master Lichen.
The matter of Uncle-Master Lichen possessing thousand-year-old blood ginseng was known to the high-level individuals at the Cultivation Academy. Chu Lingwei was certain that her Senior Brother must know this.
Her master had also given her a piece of thousand-year-old blood ginseng, but it was only a small piece, not comparable to the one she had given her Senior Brother.
"It's good that Senior Brother has recovered."
Chu Lingwei felt that her Senior Brother must have already known.
"Uncle-Master Lichen has perished."
As expected, her Senior Brother's voice rang out. As he spoke these words, he looked past Chu Lingwei towards the reliefs, his back to her.
"It's such a shame that Uncle-Master Lichen has perished."
"I think it's quite good. Staying in the academy forever would only lead to a slow death. It's better to perish sooner." Leng Xingzhi's voice was laced with a smile, as if he were discussing something joyful.
"Is that so? I think Uncle-Master Lichen was a good person."
Her Senior Brother's words were likely meant to comfort her.
"Little Junior Sister, there's one thing about you that isn't good." Leng Xingzhi turned around with a smile, looking at her with strong disapproval. "It's that you are too kind. This makes Senior Brother very worried."
Chu Lingwei's heart immediately tensed.
"However, for anyone who harms Little Junior Sister, Senior Brother will eliminate them early." Leng Xingzhi's voice turned cold, with a sharp edge, making the seabed even more frigid.
"Senior Brother, I am not someone who can be bullied. Don't underestimate my abilities." Chu Lingwei walked up to her Senior Brother, took his arm, and pointed to the reliefs. "Senior Brother, before you eliminate others, could you please tell me about these two seniors?"
He kept saying he wanted to protect her, yet he still liked to keep many things from her. Chu Lingwei was too lazy to guess and asked directly.
Leng Xingzhi lightly tapped Chu Lingwei's forehead. "Little Junior Sister has been looking for so long, haven't you understood yet?"
"No, please enlighten me, Senior Brother." Chu Lingwei nodded, waiting for him to tell her the correct answer.
"I told you, they are demons and fiends from ten thousand years ago. They broke through the final hurdle and left this place." Leng Xingzhi looked at the two figures on the reliefs, a complex light in his eyes.
"Senior Brother, do you know these two people?"
Chu Lingwei continued to ask.
Leng Xingzhi's heart sank. His Little Junior Sister was indeed very clever.
"No, I don't. They are seniors from ten thousand years ago, how could I possibly know them?"
"You really don't know them?" Chu Lingwei asked again uncertainly.
"I really do." Leng Xingzhi affirmed, looking into Chu Lingwei's eyes. "Little Junior Sister, don't worry, I won't lie to you."
Chu Lingwei pursed her lips and smiled. She didn't quite believe these words.
"Let's go, let's go forward and see."
Leng Xingzhi turned and strode forward.
"Senior Brother, where did those two people go in the end?" Chu Lingwei quickly followed. Those two, after breaking through the final hurdle of their cultivation, must have had some destination.
"I suppose only they themselves know that." Leng Xingzhi stopped and stared fixedly ahead. "Little Junior Sister, be careful."