Fairy, listen to my explanation.

Chapter 634 Evil Cultivator
"This is normal. In the Dark Prison Realm, the passage to the Heavenly Mansion Region is unstable and constantly changing. There will always be evil things trying to invade."

The old man remained calm and composed, clearly having witnessed this kind of commotion countless times.

"Emperor Yan, the Heavenly Palace must have already explained the matters that need attention to you, right?"

The old man asked again with a solemn expression.

"Please activate the formation, and I will bring the person back."

The Empress nodded, glanced at Qin Yu, and gestured for the latter to come closer to her.

Although the old woman had already told her about the Dark Prison Realm, the Empress still couldn't be sure what it was like there.

Then, the old man stretched out his arm, and a surge of primal power roared out, landing under the seven-colored light screen. In an instant, a gap appeared.

Without any hesitation, the Empress used a surge of energy to lift Qin Yu up, and her figure instantly disappeared into the gap.

As they drew closer, Qin Yu felt a strong repulsive force surging towards them, as if the entire world was preventing them from moving forward.

However, the Empress's body surged with divine light, offsetting this resistance, and she quickly reached that distorted space.

Her vision distorted, and a sharp buzzing sound came to her ears. Just as Qin Yu's blood and qi were churning, all of this suddenly stopped.

At this moment, Qin Yu found herself standing under a dark red sky, with a rotten smell permeating the air.

Looking back, there was a seven-colored light curtain behind them, similar to the one at the summit of Mount Tianming. However, the light was not fixed and disappeared after a brief pause.

"Gone?"

Qin Yu was taken aback. How was she supposed to get back?

This space is exceptionally stable; even the Empress would likely find it difficult to tear a gap in.

"With the Heavenly Palace Decree, the location of the seal can be sensed at any time."

The Empress casually explained, her eyes gleaming with divine light as she scanned the world before her.

Qin Yu also looked around, observing this world that terrified countless human powerhouses.

The entire sky was a sickly dark red. There was no sun, but there was an unknown source of light, its dim glow illuminating the earth.

In the distance, the twisted mountains resembled sleeping giants. Even the plants on the ground were different from those on the Immortal Kingdom Continent. There was no scene of a hundred flowers blooming in competition. Instead, they were mostly a strange purple and black, and their shapes were completely different.

What's most unsettling is that the energy permeating the air is far more violent than the spiritual energy of the Immortal Kingdom Continent, and when it's inhaled, it brings a burning pain.

"The spiritual energy of this world has long been polluted. For ordinary cultivators, even a trace of it will affect them."

The Empress's expression was solemn, and her aura was restrained: "However, if one can adapt to it and refine it, it will also benefit one's cultivation. This is why cultivators from the Tianfu Continent come here to train and take risks."

"Don't stray too far from me, and don't touch anything indiscriminately."

The Empress reminded her.

However, seeing Qin Yu almost pressed against her back, she felt that her worries were unnecessary.

This guy values ​​his life highly; he wouldn't be so reckless.

"call out!"

After determining the direction, the Empress led Qin Yu out with a whoosh.

Even in the Dark Prison Realm, she was not careless in the slightest. A mysterious wave enveloped the two of them, making them completely invisible from the outside.

Seeing the Empress's seriousness, Qin Yu didn't mention the tribulation. She quietly followed behind her, her eyes scanning the surroundings warily.

Since entering this region, he had felt a vague unease, as if a strong crisis was lurking in the shadows.

Behind the two, a figure dressed in plain clothes followed closely behind at a leisurely pace.

She was barefoot, standing in mid-air. No matter how fast the Empress moved, with each step she took, her figure would mysteriously appear about ten feet behind Qin Yu.

Since entering this world, a strange look has appeared in the usually calm eyes of the woman in plain clothes, as if she were recalling the past.

Scenes seemed to flash through his eyes.

That catastrophe was truly too devastating.

Although humanity has preserved its last bloodline, the price it paid was far too high.

The final battle shattered the ancestral land.

Time flies like an arrow.

The woman in plain clothes seemed never to have imagined that one day she would return to her ancestral homeland in this way.

What she didn't expect was that the battlefield still existed, and the human bloodline in the ancestral land had not been completely wiped out.

……

"Your Majesty, there are people here!"

Suddenly, Qin Yu's pupils contracted as two figures sped past below. From their appearance, it was easy to tell that they were human cultivators.

"He is an evil cultivator."

The Empress glanced at it briefly, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes.

The aura emanating from those two figures was completely different from that of the cultivators of the Tianfu Continent. Their spiritual energy was not pure; instead, it resonated with this polluted world, exuding an evil scent that inspired disgust.

The Empress did not kill the evil cultivator.

The purpose of this trip is to rescue Zhou Qingtong, who is trapped. The Holy Heaven Academy invited her here in order to take her by surprise. If her whereabouts are exposed, the danger of this trip may increase many times over.

As the Empress flew by swiftly, a day passed in the blink of an eye.

Along the way, Qin Yu had encountered several groups of evil cultivators and also saw ferocious beasts that were hundreds of feet in size.

However, none of them could sense the Empress's presence. In fact, even when a malevolent cultivator flew past them less than a few dozen feet away, they did not notice anything unusual.

With the Empress's strength, even ordinary half-saints would find it difficult to detect her presence if she didn't want to reveal herself. Traveling at this pace, a massive city soon came into view.

"Red Demon Castle!"

Qin Yu glanced around, her expression grave.

Although he had learned from Su Qingyue that there were evil cultivator cities in the Dark Prison Realm, he was still quite shocked when he saw them with his own eyes and even felt the powerful auras emanating from them.

Why would these heretical cultivators abandon their human identities and reside in this space continent for so long?

Moreover, the aura emanating from them was not purely spiritual energy.

Could it be...

Thinking of that possibility, Qin Yu couldn't help but clench her fist, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.

In order to prolong their lives, they abandoned their human bloodline and willingly became lackeys of evil beings, doing things against the Tianfu Continent, and even thinking about invading the Tianfu Continent to assimilate the remaining humans.

Such heretical practitioners should be executed!
"There are two Half-Saint Realm experts here."

The Empress did not approach the Crimson Demon City too closely; her gaze swept across the city, and her expression hardened slightly.

She was not afraid of the Half-Saint Realm!

However, the presence of two Half-Saint Realm beings was enough to hold her off for a moment.

In this region fraught with unknown dangers, the Empress did not want to cause any unnecessary trouble; it would be best to rescue the person directly.

The empress quickly stopped.

Qin Yu knew they had arrived at their destination and immediately looked down.

The scene below was extremely bizarre, with dark purple trees growing in abundance, and purple bubbles rising from the swamp-like ground from time to time, releasing a nauseating stench when they burst.

In the distance, the howl of an unknown creature could be heard, the sound like a blunt object scraping against bones, sending chills down one's spine.

What made Qin Yu even more uneasy was that he always felt that something was spying on him from the shadows, but even when he activated his Heavenly Eye, he did not find anything unusual.

"Calm your mind and don't let the energy of the Dark Prison Realm affect you."

The Empress seemed to notice Qin Yu's unusual behavior and gave a soft shout.

Upon hearing this, Qin Yu felt a chill run down her spine. She immediately composed herself, and as her true essence surged, the feeling of being spied on lessened considerably.

At this moment, he finally realized that the Dark Prison Realm was far more complex than he had imagined.

Although the presence of malevolent or deathly energy has not yet been sensed, the energy permeating the entire Dark Prison Realm is filled with unknown dangers.

If one's will is not strong, even if one can temporarily resist the polluted spiritual energy here, one's mind will probably be eroded in a short time!

Directly below, there was a dark and gloomy cliff.

The entire cliff has a dark color and its surface is covered with honeycomb-like holes, with the shadowy figures of evil cultivators flashing through them.

Above the cliff, there were countless skeletons, some human, some strange creatures, gleaming eerily in the dim light.

"Your Majesty, where are they?"

Qin Yu glanced around but did not see the mischievous witch that Su Qingyue had mentioned being surrounded.

The empress did not answer; instead, a divine light seemed to emanate from her eyes as she scanned the entire cliff.

“This cliff is an evil artifact. There are twenty-one evil cultivators around it, and there is an array at the bottom of the cliff to cover it. Zhou Qingtong should be trapped inside.”

The Empress spoke slowly.

"Evil weapon?"

Qin Yu was somewhat stunned.

The Empress saw through the evil cultivator's scheme with just one glance?
This method is simply too astonishing.

Qin Yu activated his Heavenly Eye and looked closely. Only then did he discover that at the foot of the cliff, there were several peculiar points of light that were difficult to detect, distributed in a strange manner at the base of the cliff.

"Your Majesty, how do we save them?"

Qin Yu glanced at the group of over twenty evil cultivators. Surely they couldn't move the cliff without the other side noticing?
"call out!"

The Empress did not say much. Her jade-like arm emerged from her dragon robe, and her fingers lightly touched the ground. The next moment, three beams of light shot out from her fingertips.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three booming sounds suddenly rang out, and the entire cliff was suddenly blasted away.

Below, a huge crater appeared before them, with a faint, dark aura of death swirling around it.

“Death energy!”

Before Qin Yu could even be shocked by the Empress's ruthless methods, her expression suddenly turned serious when she saw the black aura.

They can even use death energy, so even if they're not like the rats of the Black Soul Palace, they can't really be considered pure humans!

"A cultivator from the Heavenly Palace!"

A sharp voice suddenly rang out.

More than twenty figures roared out from the collapsing cliff, several of them appearing weak and clearly severely injured by the Empress's casual strike.

Just now, the Empress only intended to blast the evil weapon away; she had no intention of killing.

Otherwise, none of these people would likely have survived.

"A mere heretical cultivator actually knows some evil formations?"

The Empress ignored them as if they were nothing, as if the twenty-odd evil cultivators were not even worth her attention. Her gaze was fixed on the deathly aura gathering below.

(End of this chapter)