Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 42 Mu Fanzhi

It’s a pity that these two people will most likely die in the Shenmu Forest.

The deeper Yun Yi and Shi Yucheng went, the heavier the dead air became. The earth veins in the sacred forest were the "wood veins," and once polluted, the trees would be the first to be affected.

I saw the towering sacred trees gradually withering, leaving fallen leaves all over the ground. The dead branches were strangely bent, like eerie white bones.

Song Xinci said, "It seems that the barrier also serves to block detection. If you look into the depths of the sacred forest from outside the barrier, you should only see a scene of lush branches and leaves."

Yun Yi nodded and said, "This also means that we are getting closer and closer to the earth veins. The person behind the scenes must be guarding there. This barrier is not something that can be created by the Qi Refining Realm. It is most likely a Spirit Transformation Realm."

"What are Senior Brother Yun's plans?"

"I have some life-saving methods. If the opponent is only in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, I should be able to fight."

Song Xinci felt as if she had returned to the nameless town, the bitter battle they had fought together to harm the Blissful Heavenly King. That time, she had been seriously injured, and Yun Yi had provided the strategy, but this time, Yun Yi would be the one to lead the charge.

When she thought of Yun Yi's previous flirting with the woman named Su Qing, she became very angry, so she decided to continue pretending to be weak and let him suffer a little before helping him.

After all, the two were bound together by the Tongxin Gu and had long been "living and dying together".

Yun Yi felt that he had implicated Shi Yucheng, and said with a guilty conscience, "So my idea is that Junior Brother, why don't you stay here and find a hiding place nearby? If you have a magic weapon that can conceal your figure and aura, that would be even better."

Song Xinci asked, "Are you planning to die?"

"If the person behind this is really coming for me, he might relax his vigilance after seeing me and stop searching the barrier. Then Junior Brother will be able to hold on until Master comes to rescue him."

"Can……"

"Don't hesitate any longer. Listen to me. Find a place to hide and don't show up no matter what happens." Yun Yi explained, "Junior brother, you've only been practicing for a short time. If we start fighting, I'll have to distract myself from protecting you, and I'll be at a disadvantage."

Having said that, Song Xinci no longer insisted and asked, "Brother, what are your chances of winning?"

Yun Yi smiled inexplicably, "About 30%."

Song Xinci said something similar before his bitter battle with the King of Bliss.

It was obvious that Yun Yi also thought of his old friend, the lady he had married.

Little did he know that his old friend was right across from him, and they didn't recognize each other. Song Xinci's eyes softened a bit, and she didn't say much, but just told her brother to be careful.

Yun Yi nodded, then continued walking deeper into the forest with light steps.

But Song Xinci wasn't the real Shi Yucheng after all, so she wouldn't just wait there. After she was sure Yun Yi was far away, she cast a spell to hide her figure and secretly followed him.

The deadly aura in the depths of the sacred forest grew stronger, even condensing into a faint black mist that threatened to obscure the sky and the sun. Song Xinci recognized the black mist as originating from the Myriad Poison Sect's cultivation techniques, but she didn't know which of the sect's members had reached the Divine Transformation Realm.

Yun Yi naturally recognized the "Ten Thousand Supreme Poison Skills". In his previous life, he had followed Song Xinci to destroy the Ten Thousand Poison Sect, so he was quite familiar with this evil sect.

When he had fought hard against the man in black in Cuiwei Mountain before, he relied on the advantage of knowing both himself and the enemy, and used his cultivation in the early stage of Qi Refining Realm to suppress the man in the late stage of Qi Refining Realm, and joined forces with Xun Ziyu to kill the opponent cleanly and neatly.

However, the person who came this time should be a well-known figure in the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Realm, so he might be a bit troublesome.

But it's not completely hopeless.

Cultivating immortality is inherently against the will of Heaven. Without the courage to rise to the occasion, one is doomed to fail. Furthermore, realms are merely artificially defined; in a real fight, factors like timing, location, and harmony will influence the outcome.

If anyone had a higher level of cultivation, he would definitely win, and the world would have been peaceful long ago.

Yun Yi explored a few hundred steps deeper, and the scene before him suddenly changed. He saw countless dead trees entangled together, forming a giant cradle in mid-air. Within this "cradle," spiritual energy overflowed, struggling against the endless flow of dead energy. Clearly, the divine forest's veins lay within.

Just as Yun Yi was looking at the "cradle" in the air, branches spread from top to bottom and stopped right at Yun Yi's feet, forming a passage leading directly to it.

It seemed that the other party had discovered Yun Yi. Yun Yi thought that since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it, so he simply walked up the passage.

Song Xinci flew to the top of a towering tree and looked down at Yun Yi from above. His expression was gloomy and uncertain, and no one knew what he was thinking.

As Yun Yi walked into the "cradle", a young woman in a green robe and with purple-black lips gradually appeared in front of him.

Her eyes were cloudy, as if she was blind. When Yun Yi approached, her eyeballs did not move, but she sniffed hard a few times with the tip of her nose.

She said, "Are you the only one here? What a hassle. After killing you, I have to find another one."

Yun Yi untied the square sword and held it in his hand, "Miss, do you recognize me?"

"Your name is Yun Yi, and you once killed a disciple of my sect."

"So you waited for me here?"

"That's right. Originally, the person in charge of the Divine Forest was only a Qi Refining Realm disciple, but someone paid to buy your life, so I came here."

A few words confirmed Yun Yi's suspicions; there was indeed a traitor within the Fuyao Sect who had betrayed his whereabouts. The mysterious woman from the Myriad Poison Sect made no attempt to conceal her truth, for in her eyes, Yun Yi was already dead.

Yun Yi searched through his memories of his previous life and found that he had never seen the other person before, which was a bit troublesome.

He asked, "I haven't asked for your name yet, young lady?"

The woman didn't expect Yun Yi to be able to pretend to be relaxed even in such a difficult situation. She chuckled and said, "It's okay to tell you. My name is Mu Fanzhi."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Yi found that he was being "stared" by countless dead branches, covering all directions, leaving no blind spots.

Those branches pointed towards Yun Yi from afar, with the tips glowing black, and it was obvious that they were poisonous.

If you get even slightly touched, you'll probably lose a layer of skin if not die.

Mu Fanzhi seemed to be in a good mood and said, "How about you summon another Fuyao Sect disciple here as well, and I'll give you a quick death?"

Yun Yi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this is not appropriate."

"If that doesn't work, I'll have no choice but to spare your life, then peel off your skin and bones, and soak your body in venom until your fellow disciple shows up."

"Miss Mu is really ruthless."

"Haha, don't even think about stalling for time to wait for rescue. I've set up a flower barrier around this sacred forest, so it's going to be hard for outsiders to see through it for a while."

Yun Yi asked, "Can I find out who wants to buy my life, and who hired the girl to destroy the earth veins?"

Mu Fanzhi's expression changed. "With so many questions, do you think you can get out alive?"

"Miss Mu, you're worrying too much. I just want to die with a clear conscience."

"Whether you're a human or a ghost, it's best not to know too much. There's actually nothing wrong with being a confused ghost."

Yun Yi glanced at the dense branches around him that looked like swords and knives, and said with a smile: "Since you are stalling for time to set up the killing game, why don't you say a few more words?"

Mu Fanzhi's plan was exposed, but he was not angry, "The killing array is set, you can't escape."

"Miss Mu is an expert in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm. Why would you go to such lengths to kill a mere person in the early stage of the Qi Refining Realm?" Yun Yi assumed the stance of the White Ape Sword Technique. "Unless maintaining the barrier requires a huge expenditure of spiritual energy, and polluting the earth veins here also took a lot of effort, right?"

"You are looking for death!" Mu Fanzhi stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance, and thousands of dead trees instantly stabbed towards the target at the same time.

(End of this chapter)