The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Bai Lu handed the sliced ​​meat to Leng Shanyue and asked, "What did you see?"

Shen Yifei put down the plate, the firelight reflecting on his face, his expression serious.

"My mother's grave, and my father's grave."

Leng Shanyue stopped grilling meat.

"Your parents? Aren't you an orphan?"

"When the Hehuan Sect took me in, they all said I was an orphan. Nobody knew who my parents were. I didn't know myself either."

Shen Yifei paused, "The Demon of Love pulled a thread of emotion from the deepest part of my heart, and that thread contained a memory. I saw my mother squatting in the yard picking dates, and my father's grave was halfway up the mountain. I knelt down in front of the grave and kowtowed, and my mother said that my father was murdered."

Bai Lu and Leng Shanyue exchanged a glance.

"What does your mother look like?"

"Extremely beautiful. About the same as the two of you." Shen Yifei thought for a moment, "Her eyes are blood red."

Leng Shanyue's tail stiffened for a moment.

"Blood eyes, the fox clan also has blood eyes, but they are extremely rare. They only appear when the Heavenly Fox bloodline awakens."

"I am not a fox demon," Shen Yifei said.

"I didn't say you were. Blood-red eyes aren't just for foxes; humans have them too. But the probability of a human having blood-red eyes is even lower than that of a fox—it's one in ten thousand." Leng Shanyue flipped the roasted meat over. "What's your mother's name?"

"I don't know. I don't remember any names."

"Where's your dad?"

There is no tombstone in front of the grave.

Bai Lu scooped up a bowl of soup and handed it to Shen Yifei.

"Where is your father's grave?"

"On a mountain, not high, halfway up. The mountain is covered with pine trees, nothing else."

Shan Yue frowned.

"These clues are too few to even begin to look for."

"Wait a minute," Bai Lu suddenly spoke up, "I'm trying to think of something related to the surname Shen."

Leng Shanyue looked at her.

"More than a decade ago, there was a powerful sect on this continent, what was it called again?"

"Tianyan Sect," Leng Shanyue replied. "The sect leader's surname is Shen, Shen Changtian, and he is at the Tribulation Transcending Realm."

Bai Lu nodded.

"Yes, the Tianyan Sect was wiped out overnight. The sect leader was killed, and of the more than two thousand people in the sect, less than ten survived."

Shen Yifei put down the bowl.

"Where is the Tianyan Sect?"

"The Eastern Regions, Mount Cangwu." Leng Shanyue looked at him. "You want to go?"

"If that's my dad, I have to go see him."

"That happened more than a decade ago, it's long since ruins." Leng Shanyue handed him the roasted venison. "Moreover, after the Tianyan Sect was wiped out, Cangwu Mountain was occupied by a force called Tianji Pavilion. Tianji Pavilion doesn't interact with the outside world, and a protective array has been set up on the mountain, so outsiders can't get in."

"What is the origin of the Tianji Pavilion?"

"I don't know. They suddenly appeared after the Tianyan Sect was wiped out. After occupying the mountain, they sealed it off. Some rogue cultivators wanted to go up to explore for treasure, but they were all blocked by the mountain-protecting formation. A few who forced their way in had their corpses thrown at the foot of the mountain."

Bai Lu added, "The Tianyan Sect incident caused a huge uproar back then. The number one sect on the continent was wiped out overnight, and nobody knew who did it. Some said it was a few reclusive old monsters who made the move, while others said it was a joint effort by several major sects."

Shen Yifei asked, "Who are the major sects?"

"The Golden Crow Sect, the Profound Ice Palace, and the Myriad Swords Manor. Back then, these three, along with the Heavenly Evolution Sect, were known as the Four Great Sects. The Heavenly Evolution Sect was the strongest, surpassing the other three. After the Heavenly Evolution Sect fell, these three divided up its territory and resources."

Shen Yifei didn't say anything. He put the venison in his mouth and chewed slowly.

Leng Shanyue glanced at him.

"You want to investigate your father's affairs?"

"Um."

"I can investigate. But you have to survive first." Leng Shanyue wiped her hands. "You're currently in the mid-Nascent Soul stage, which is enough to deal with ordinary cultivators. But any elder from the three sects of the Golden Crow Sect is at the Deity Transformation stage. How are you going to investigate?"

Shen Yifei didn't reply. Leng Shanyue was right; those two old men from the Golden Crow Sect were just elders, at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. The sect leader was at least at the Mahayana stage. He was currently in the mid-Nascent Soul stage, considered fast among his peers, but in front of those old monsters, he was nothing.

Bai Lu asked, "When do you want to leave?"

"A few more days," Shen Yifei said, sitting back down. "Your cultivation levels aren't stable yet, so I'll stay a little longer."

Leng Shanyue wagged its tail.

"At least you have a conscience."

For the next two weeks, Shen Yifei continued to serve as the furnace cauldron.

Bai Lu's cultivation level was stable at the peak of the early Mahayana stage, and Leng Shanyue's nine tails had all been tempered. The two no longer needed Shen Yifei's yang energy to stabilize their cultivation levels, but their dual cultivation continued.

In Leng Shanyue's words, he's gotten used to it and can't sleep without fixing it.

Shen Yifei's cultivation level jumped another level in the past half month, reaching the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. He himself found it absurd, but Leng Shanyue said it was not surprising. With two Mahayana demon kings taking turns to bestow blessings, even a pig would have reached the Nascent Soul realm by now.

Good times always pass too quickly, and Shen Yifei felt it was time to leave.

The two women silently saw him off from the Ten Thousand Mountains. Even though they were reluctant to part with him, they knew that he did not belong here!

Bai Lu took a snake scale out of her sleeve and handed it to Shen Yifei.

"If something life-threatening happens, crush it, and I'll know your location."

Leng Shanyue glanced at the scale, then plucked a tuft of fur from her tail. The fur was snow-white, with a touch of red at the tip. She wrapped it twice with red thread and handed it to Shen Yifei.

"Take it too. It's the same as the scales of the fat-headed snake, but it'll be even more effective if you hug it while you sleep at night."

Shen Yifei carefully put the two items away.

"Take care, both of you."

Bai Lu nodded.

Leng Shanyue turned and walked away, but stopped after a few steps and turned her head away.

"Bring some Hehuan Powder from the Hehuan Sect next time you come back. I've heard it's pretty good."

Bai Lu slapped her on the back of the head.

"go back."

Leng Shanyue covered the back of her head, grumbling as she followed Bai Lu. Their figures disappeared into the woods, but Leng Shanyue's voice still drifted back.

"Fathead snake, why did you hit me! What's wrong with me saying I need the aphrodisiac? Don't you want to try it?"

"In no mood."

"You just want to try but are too embarrassed to say it..."

The sound faded into the distance until it could no longer be heard.

Shen Yifei stood there, looking in the direction where the two women had disappeared, for a while.

Liu Mengli floated out of the cauldron and perched on his shoulder.

"Reluctant to part with it?"

"A little. In any case, they saved my life. They were truly devoted to me."

Liu Mengli stretched and said, "You've had a great time these past few months, but I've been so bored. With those two vixens never leaving you, I haven't dared to come out."

"Then you just stay outside and don't get spotted!"

Liu Mengli chuckled and said, "You're afraid of being discovered, so you always have a beautiful woman with you as a backup, right? To keep you entertained when there are no women around."

Liu Mengli jumped off Shen Yifei's shoulder, landed on the ground, and spun around. Before Shen Yifei could refute, she said, "Master, after you reached the late Nascent Soul stage, the cauldron changed."

"What has it become?"

"Go in and see for yourself!"

Shen Yifei took the Myriad Things Cauldron out of his ring. The monster's eyes on the cauldron were redder than before, and the dark red patterns on its scales were much deeper.

He probed the cauldron with his divine sense, and sure enough, the space inside had changed.

The hazy, gray void is gone; now it is a bounded space.

In the very center stands an alchemy room with a bluestone floor, a bronze alchemy furnace, and medicine cabinets that stretch from the floor to the ceiling.

Outside the alchemy room was an open space, where a small wooden house stood all alone.

Liu Mengli floated into the cauldron and pushed open the door of the wooden house.

"Look, this is my room. It's so empty, there's not even a bed."

Shen Yifei circled around inside the cauldron.

The open space outside was about two acres in size, its edges shrouded in gray fog, obscuring what lay behind it.

Liu Mengli's wooden cabin consisted of only one room, with bare walls and dry grass covering the floor. It seemed she had been sleeping on dry grass for over two months, which must have been quite a hardship for her.

"Once we arrive in Qingmu City, I'll get you some things so you can live comfortably from now on."

"A bed is all I need; I only feel comfortable with you here!"