He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Shen Qingqing looked at him for a while, nodded, and turned to walk out of the courtyard.

The footsteps disappeared at the end of the rose trellis, blending into the night.

Yun Yi sat alone at the stone table and filled both cups with tea.

One cup is placed in front of me, and the other is placed on the empty seat opposite me.

The tea was lukewarm—before leaving, Shen Qingqing poured out the old tea from the teapot and brewed a fresh pot.

She never mentions doing such things, just like how she always brings Yunyi a sesame seed cake when she comes back from going out, but she never mentions it and just puts it on the steps at the entrance of the study.

Yun Yi picked up his glass, raised it to the glass opposite him, and then drank it.

Then he stood up, went back to his study, and closed the door.

The moonlight outside the window was as clear as water.

The shadow of the locust tree fell to the ground, swaying gently in the wind, like someone contemplating whether or not to speak.

Yunyi arrived at Yanhuishan five days later.

He didn't bring a clone.

While his clone was still in the Great Yan Dynasty, he killed two more reincarnators and acquired their systems.

Unfortunately, there is too much repetition—the path of immortality is almost a compulsory course for every reincarnator, and although the names of martial arts vary, their core is largely the same.

The clone needs to restore its faith power at this moment.

Having killed five reincarnators, I've exhausted a year's worth of faith power. I can't take any more action during this time; I can only recover.

Then Yunyi went out by himself.

This was the first time he had left Luozhou City in sixteen years.

Yun Wantong stood at the door to see him off, his chubby face expressionless. He simply stuffed a bag of freshly baked sesame seed cakes into his hand and said, "Come back soon."

Standing behind Yun Wantong, Qin's eyes were red, but she didn't cry—her son had always been different from other children, and she knew this day would come sooner or later.

Yunyi took the sesame seed cake and scratched his head somewhat awkwardly.

He just went out for a short while, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, why are you acting like he's about to die?

Yan Hui Mountain is located in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, 600 li away from Lanzhou. It is a rocky mountain that suddenly rises from the plain.

The mountain is not high, and its shape resembles a flock of geese turning back – with its wings spread out and a narrow valley in the middle, which the locals call Goose Return Valley.

The valley is filled with scattered rocks and little vegetation. The stream seeps out from the cracks in the rocks, forming a very thin silver thread that flows along the foot of the mountain towards the plain.

Xiao Yan chose this place not because it was secluded—Yan Hui Valley was barren all around, without even a decent tree, so it couldn't hide people.

He chose this place because of its favorable "strategic location": a valley nestled between two mountains is a natural pocket that gathers energy, making it much easier to set up an array.

Shen Qingqing waited for him at the entrance of the valley.

Today she was wearing a dark blue outfit, with the cuffs and trouser legs tightly bound.

Her hair was not loose as usual, but tied up in a high ponytail and secured with a blue ribbon.

A pair of short swords hung at his waist, their scabbards undecorated, black and absorbing light.

Yun Yi glanced at her and confirmed one thing—she had never worn this outfit in front of him before, nor had she ever let him see the pair of short swords.

This wasn't Shen Qingqing's usual attire; this was her outfit when she was preparing to kill someone.

"They're here."

Shen Qingqing said.

Yun Yi nodded.

Shen Qingqing looked him up and down, a hint of surprise in her eyes:

"Aren't you going to prepare anything? This is no joke; you could really lose your life at any moment."

Yun Yi nodded:

"I have prepared the return crystal."

Shen Qingqing's lips twitched.

Yunyi looked into the valley.

Xiao Yanzhi's formation has been set up.

Yun Yi could sense it—not with his divine sense, but with the intuition that transcended the senses he gained after the fifth leaf of the innate enlightenment seed, "Return to One."

The "momentum" in the valley has been altered: like a river that originally flowed naturally, its riverbed has been deepened, its channel narrowed, and dams built on both banks by unseen hands.

The river is still flowing, but its direction, speed, and the timing of its rise and fall are no longer determined by nature.

A four-layered array.

The outermost layer is an anti-air array to prevent the target from escaping by air;

The second layer is a maze that distorts spatial perception, causing the target to lose their way in a small space.

The third layer is a trapping formation, which locks in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, cutting off all energy exchange between the target and the outside world.

The innermost layer is a killing formation—Xiao Yanzhi did not specify the contents of the killing formation, only saying, "You'll know once you go in."

Yun Yi examined each node of the four-fold array.

The nodes of the anti-air array are buried on both sides of the mountain ridge, a total of thirty-six. Each node is hidden under a stone the size of a human head, with very shallow lines carved on the stone, which cannot be seen unless you get very close.

The maze has seventy-two nodes among the rocks at the bottom of the valley, forming a maze by utilizing the natural distribution of the rocks. The key point of the maze is a large blue stone covered with moss in the middle of the stream.

The most concealed nodes of the trapping formation are only nine, all buried three feet underground and connected to the earth's veins. Xiao Yanzhi planted the foundation of the trapping formation in the earth's veins of Yan Hui Mountain. To break the trapping formation, the earth's veins of Yan Hui Mountain must be overturned as well.

The killing formation has no nodes.

Or rather, the entire Wild Goose Valley is the node of the killing formation.

The four-layered array is nested, with the outer three arrays being both independent formations and components of the killing formation.

The air-blocking formation cuts off the retreat, the maze formation confuses the direction, and the trapping formation locks in spiritual energy—the moment the target is forced to the center of the killing formation, all the power of the first three formations will collapse towards the center at the same time.

That wasn't an attack from a formation; it was the overwhelming force of heaven and earth.

Yun Yi turned his gaze from the valley floor to the opposite mountain ridge.

Helian Rong was at the mouth of the valley.

He didn't hide—a towering figure, nine feet tall, stood on a flat, large rock at the mouth of the valley, arms crossed over his chest, like a door god.

He didn't need to hide: his task was to confront her head-on, to make Xu Youlan see him as soon as she entered the valley, and then focus all her attention on him.

Liu Xier sat a hundred paces behind him, leaning against the mountain wall with her eyes closed.

She didn't look at anything, but her spiritual power had already filled the entire Wild Goose Valley, like a transparent film covering Xiao Yanzhi's formation.

The membrane was so thin that it was almost imperceptible, but any fluctuations in the spiritual realm that passed through it would be detected by her immediately.

The other two reincarnators are in a more distant place.

On the reverse slope of the eastern ridge—Yun Yi remembered Shen Qingqing mentioning his name, Su Zhong, who had reincarnated through fifty-one worlds, majoring in archery and minoring in wind-based immortal arts, and was most skilled at locking souls with an arrow from beyond visual range.

The other one is in the woods outside the valley entrance on the west side. His surname is Qin, and his given name is Yu. He has reincarnated through thirty-nine worlds. His cultivation level is not top-notch, but his healing and status removal abilities are irreplaceable in the alliance.

Her position was both the safest and the most dangerous: safe because it was the furthest from the battlefield, and dangerous because if the front lines collapsed, she would have no way to protect herself.

When Yun Yi learned about her, he was a little surprised—how did someone who majored in support have survived until now?