Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Zhang Ruoxue glanced at Ye Yuchan helplessly, "Don't be so loud."

"I was wrong..." Ye Yuchan lowered her head, her gaze slightly evasive. "Then what do we do now..."

"Wait." Yunping looked at the guards standing on the ice pillar, using their height advantage to look down at the guards below.

If Lao Hu is truly reliable, then soon someone should come to their aid.

At a distance of ten icicles, if the guards deliberately create an opportunity, the nearby guards will not be able to notice them.

Just like Yunping said, all we have to do now is wait.

And the facts have proven that Hu Xiaolin is indeed a reliable person.

Just a few minutes later, a person dressed in a completely different manner from the other guards suddenly appeared on the ice pillar. He spoke a few words to the guard closest to Yunping and the other two.

The guard looked hesitant, but still left his post.

At the same time, the man hid his right hand behind his back—a coded signal.

“My benefactor, if you see someone with their right hand behind their back and their left hand hanging down, that person is mine.”

That's what Hu Xiaolin said back then.

“Remember, my benefactor, you only have five minutes. After five minutes, you will never have another chance.”

Yunping was well aware of this.

He darted out of the woods, and Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue exchanged a glance before rushing out as well.

However, the moment they stepped outside, Ye Yuchan saw the figure on the ice pillar.

Their gazes collided fiercely in mid-air.

Ye Yuchan looked at her in disbelief, and she looked at the three people below in disbelief as well.

If you ask why—

"You old rogue...why do I always feel like the people up there look so familiar?"

Yunping listened to Ye Yuchan's words and also looked up.

It was fine until I looked... and lo and behold, it really was someone I knew.

Moreover, it was someone I knew who I had a minor conflict with.

"Why her...?"

Yunping's tone was genuinely helpless.

Because of that person above—

A black and white scabbard was tucked into the right side of her waist, and a dazzling snowflake was imprinted on the back of her flowing, ethereal attire.

Those are people from the Northern Ice Palace, of course they are.

But at the same time, they are also members of the Palace of Judgment.

A hint of astonishment, a touch of blankness, and a dash of anger gradually appeared on his usually stern face.

She had met Yun Ping and Ye Yuchan—clearly, she knew both of them.

Moreover, she had conflicts with both of them.

As the captain of the Judgment Team of the Judgment Palace, he possesses the cultivation level of the initial stage of the God Transformation Realm and is a genius among the Inner Three Palaces.

as well as……

The person whose Silver Frost Flower was stolen by Yunping.

Standing atop the icicle, looking down at the three people below.

Fan Luokui.

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Dear readers!

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89. Sailor Moon Old Cloud

In the still of the night, on a huge icicle filled with the scent of frost, four different figures were hidden in a shadow.

"Let's go."

Without uttering any unnecessary words, the woman with a solemn expression glanced at the three of them casually before leaping down from the ice pillar.

She didn't seem surprised, perhaps because the coldness that had long been ingrained in her soul made her unwilling to care about these complicated matters.

Ye Yuchan seemed to want to ask something more, but Yun Ping behind her quietly reached out and put his arm around the slender waists of the two female disciples.

The moment the man grabbed their waists, Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue wanted to struggle, but when they remembered that the owner of those hands was Yun Ping, they immediately stopped.

As the young man leaped from the height, the woman with two arms around him suddenly slowed her descent just before hitting the ground, eventually landing gently.

—Without a sound.

The shadows of the buildings slanted across the group, making them the perfect outfits for camouflage under the night sky. The three quickly spotted Fan Luokui in a corner of the alley.

She waved to the three of them, signaling them to follow.

Yun Ping dared not delay and immediately led his two female disciples to follow Fan Luo Kui into the dark and winding alleyway.

He had no idea when the guard who had been sent away by Fan Luokui would return, and he didn't want to waste a single minute of the five minutes Hu Xiaolin had mentioned.

If they were discovered at such a time, the trouble would be immense, as the saying goes.

However, it must be admitted that the path Fan Luokui chose was extremely well hidden.

Although the group swaggered along the wide street, for some reason, there was no sound of activity from the surrounding shops and some houses; a lonely, deathly silence was the only sound in the area.

Yunping glanced at it briefly with his divine sense, and then involuntarily frowned.

Very strange.

No, it's beyond strange.

It's completely... bizarre beyond reason.

Because this street is a dead street, there is not a single living person, not even a trace of life.

What's even more frightening is that it's not just one street; the entire area within a ten-mile radius is like this.

"You old scoundrel..."

Walking beside Yunping, the girl dressed in a peculiar black and white maid outfit unusually took the initiative to link arms with the young man, her barely-full chest rubbing against him. "Why do I feel a chill around here?"

Perhaps to avoid being discovered, she kept her voice very low.

Zhang Ruoxue also felt the same way, but compared to Ye Yuchan, she was a bit braver. "It really felt a bit eerie, and there weren't many people around."

"This is a shortcut to the Palace of Judgment. Go straight through here and you will reach the entrance of the Palace of Judgment directly."

Fan Luokui suddenly stopped and stood on the deserted street. The dusty steps reflected a cold light under the nearly full moon, which was reflected directly on the woman's beautiful face, adding a touch of loneliness.

"I'm quite curious, why is this a dead-end street?" Yun Ping stood in front of the two female disciples, arms crossed. "Don't you Northern Ice Palace think it's unlucky to put a dead-end street in the inner three palaces?"

"Shouldn't you ask first why I'm here to meet you?"

Yunping waved his hand dismissively, "What's there to ask? It's just that you and Lao Hu had some past connections, so you came to lend him a hand."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Ping chuckled at Fan Luo Kui, "But I really didn't expect that someone as dedicated to their position as you would give us special treatment."

Fan Luokui's expression remained as cold as ever. "I did not abandon my post. I merely asked that guard to go to the Palace of Judgment to make a registration."

The old rogue immediately gave a knowing smile.

Fan Luokui glared at him coldly, then turned back and continued leading everyone to the Judgment Palace, one of the three palaces within the Northern Ice Palace.

During the journey, he explained this to dispel the three people's doubts.

"This place wasn't always a dead street; it's just that recently, for some reason, the Palace Master sent all the residents here to a small secret realm."

"A small secret realm?" Ye Yuchan was quite qualified to speak on the term "secret realm." "Is it the same as the one we encountered last time?"

"Tsk."

Fan Luokui's face darkened immediately upon hearing the previous incident.

You have to understand that she has been busy with work these past few days. Under the suffocating pressure, she still keeps thinking about what Yunping said to her in the secret realm.

My own knife... is too slow.

She gripped the hilt of the knife at her waist, her grip trembling almost imperceptibly, and her tone became more forceful.

"The nature is the same."

"Your Palace Master... you mean the Palace Master of the Judgment Palace?" Yunping asked.

Fan Luokui gently shook her head, her eyes filled with determination. "It's the Grand Palace Master. Although I don't know why she did this, it seems to be to investigate something that is threatening... threatening the secrets of the Northern Ice Palace."

The secret of the Arctic Palace?

Speaking of the secrets of the Northern Ice Palace, only that one person truly knows.

So that's how it is—because Yin Hanxue was being hunted by some special entity, the Palace Master of the Northern Ice Palace specifically sealed off the inner three palaces and investigated this street...

Indeed, it makes perfect sense logically.

However, Yunping always had a feeling that things were not so simple—he couldn't quite put his finger on it, it was more like an intuition.

Old Yun's intuition has always been... well, not very accurate.

One thing at a time, and after a brief exchange, a long period of silence ensued.

Although the atmosphere around them was unusually cold and even a little frightening, the group still made it to the gates of the Palace of Judgment without any major incidents.

The Inner Palaces differ from the Outer Palaces. The buildings in the Outer Palaces are not particularly palace-like, such as Zuiyang Tower. The Inner Palaces, however, are different. Although there are street scenes, palaces still dominate the landscape. The Inner Palaces are characterized by a cluster of palaces.

"Wow...it's huge."

Standing before me was a magnificent palace shimmering with a dim silver light and the glow of azure dust.

Looking up from the bottom, you can see the dazzling blue jewel at the top of the palace, shining like a star. Its brilliance is truly mesmerizing—although your neck will get sore after looking at it for a long time.

The entire Palace of Judgment is divided into five floors. The ground floor is so huge that it is almost indistinguishable from a square.