In front of the Wanfo Sect's teleportation array.
"Weiwei, I'm here." An Tao had been waiting for Chu Lingwei. Upon seeing Chu Lingwei's figure, she happily ran over and hugged her. "I knew you were the best, you'd definitely come to see me off."
"Didn't you say you were leaving first thing in the morning?" An Tao had said yesterday that she would leave early in the morning, and now it was already noon.
An Tao pouted helplessly, "The elder told me to leave at this time, I couldn't do anything about it."
"Weiwei, after I leave, I don't know when we'll see each other again." An Tao looked at Chu Lingwei with great reluctance. For some reason, she just liked Chu Lingwei very much.
"Don't worry, when I return from the Spirit Realm, I'll come find you immediately." Chu Lingwei smiled. An Tao was so sentimental today.
Nangong Luo stood beside his junior sister, looking at her smiling face, his expression had already darkened.
An Tao nodded vigorously, repeatedly urging, "Weiwei, you said it yourself. You must come find me. Keep your word."
"Okay, I'll keep my word." Chu Lingwei also really wanted to visit the Shenyin Sect.
"Since you're so reluctant to part with junior sister, why not wait until after her competition before returning?" Nangong Luo suddenly spoke. Chu Lingwei and An Tao looked at him simultaneously.
An Tao was surprised that Nangong Luo would ask her to stay.
Chu Lingwei was like An Tao, but she had more thoughts in her mind. Her second senior brother was very unusual today, and combined with the strange phenomenon today, it was different from the past.
Could it be...
Suddenly, a word appeared in her mind, shaking Chu Lingwei and causing her to step back.
"Weiwei, what's wrong?" An Tao, seeing Chu Lingwei's sudden look of shock, quickly stepped forward to support her arm. "Are you feeling unwell?"
"An Tao, I have something very important to tell you. Come back with me now." Chu Lingwei turned her head and saw her second senior brother slightly lowering his head, not looking at her. She grabbed An Tao's hand and pulled her back.
"What important thing?" An Tao was even more confused. What important thing could there be between them?
Chu Lingwei calmed herself down and gave An Tao a faint smile. "An Tao, I came today to ask for your help. Could you delay your departure by one day and leave tomorrow?"
An Tao looked at Nangong Luo with confusion. Seeing that his expression hadn't changed and she couldn't discern his emotions, and then looking at Chu Lingwei, she hesitated.
Their master had ordered her to return quickly, and the elder had delayed her for half a day today. Now Chu Lingwei was insisting on delaying her for another day.
"An Tao, I have a major competition tomorrow. If this matter isn't handled, it might be disadvantageous to me." Chu Lingwei couldn't think of a good reason to make An Tao stay.
An Tao struggled internally. Hearing that it concerned Chu Lingwei's competition, her heart already leaned towards her. At worst, after the matter was resolved, she would take the teleportation array and hurry back.
"Alright, then let's go quickly and come back quickly."
Chu Lingwei smiled, pulled An Tao, and quickly boarded her second senior brother's flying artifact, returning to Wanfo Sect at the fastest speed.
Her second senior brother's artifact was much faster than Chu Lingwei's flying artifact. In less than a moment, they were in Chu Lingwei's courtyard.
"Junior sister, take good care of fellow Taoist An. I'll be going back now." Nangong Luo put them down, turned, and left the courtyard. At the same time, he set up a barrier in their courtyard. Chu Lingwei could tell that it was a high-level formation.
"Mao Mao, can we go out?"
As Chu Lingwei led An Tao into the room, she quickly communicated with the Phantom Cat in the spatial artifact. Her second senior brother had also set up barriers in her courtyard before, but this one, she couldn't figure out for a moment.
After a long pause, the Phantom Cat's voice came.
"Weiwei, this barrier is too powerful. I probably won't be able to break it."
Chu Lingwei's heart skipped a beat. Her guess was confirmed.
"Weiwei, I'll try again." The Phantom Cat emerged from the spatial artifact and jumped directly into the courtyard.
"Weiwei, what do you need me for?" An Tao and Chu Lingwei came to her room and saw that she wasn't asking for help, so she spoke to inquire.
Chu Lingwei wasn't good at lying and told An Tao the truth, "An Tao, I'm sorry, I lied to you."
"What?" An Tao was even more confused. Weiwei was too abnormal today.
"Yesterday, as I watched you leave, I suddenly had a bad premonition." Chu Lingwei told An Tao about her premonition from yesterday. "Today, when I went to see you off and saw you standing before the teleportation array, that bad premonition became even stronger. I was worried that you would be in danger if you left now, so I brought you back."
An Tao's eyes widened as she looked at Chu Lingwei for a long time. Suddenly, she stepped forward and hugged her. "Weiwei, you are truly too kind. Thank you."
"What are you doing? This was just a feeling of mine. I don't know if it's real?" Seeing that An Tao wasn't angry, Chu Lingwei gently patted An Tao's back. She was actually crying.
An Tao shook her head, pulled Chu Lingwei to sit down, "Actually, I had this feeling too."
Chu Lingwei: "..."
"I thought I wouldn't be able to return after entering the Spirit Realm." An Tao felt very safe with Chu Lingwei now, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect it to be that I wouldn't be able to return to the sect."
Chu Lingwei didn't speak, waiting for her to continue.
"When I was very young, the ancestor of our sect once said that I would face a life-or-death tribulation in this life, and I wouldn't be able to escape it unless someone helped me." An Tao said this and tightly held Chu Lingwei's hand. "Weiwei, I think you are that person who will help me."
Chu Lingwei: "..." What could she say.
"An Tao, actually, we don't know what will happen when you go back. It's possible we're both overthinking it." Chu Lingwei stood up and saw the Phantom Cat in the courtyard trying hard to break the barrier.
"It must be so, Weiwei, you will be my savior from now on." An Tao's heart was already extremely firm. Her life-or-death tribulation was now.
"Weiwei, the barrier set up by second senior brother is too powerful. I can't break it." The Phantom Cat said with a dejected face. In this world, there was actually a barrier it couldn't break.
An Tao followed Chu Lingwei to the courtyard, her face filled with joy. She didn't notice that the courtyard had been sealed with a barrier.
Suddenly, she saw the Buddha's Light Pagoda of Wanfo Sect radiating brilliantly, with colorful auspicious clouds, a magnificent sight.
"Weiwei, look quickly, the Buddha's Light Pagoda." An Tao excitedly pulled Chu Lingwei, pointing at the Buddha's Light Pagoda.
Chu Lingwei followed An Tao's finger and looked. The Buddha's Light Pagoda of Wanfo Sect seemed to have been infused with a large amount of spiritual energy, with various five-element spiritual energies overflowing outwards, in all sorts of colors, like ribbons of neon.
"This is..."
"This is the Buddha's Light Pagoda. It must be because of the major competition tomorrow that there is such a phenomenon." An Tao stared at the Buddha's Light Pagoda without blinking, making her feel as if her state of mind was being purified.