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

25. You can't afford this price.

"The Netherworld?"

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue exchanged a glance; neither of them had ever heard of such a place.

Although the word "Netherworld" sounds quite sophisticated, neither of them seemed to have any memory of a place called Netherworld.

“You come from the Desolate Heaven Domain, so naturally you don’t know about that place.”

The skinny boss sat calmly on that unknown void, his expression indifferent as he began to explain to the two girls: "Even among the cultivators in the Kuntian Domain, only a minority truly know about the Netherworld."

“That’s… a certain sect?” Zhang Ruoxue took a deep breath.

"No, it's a certain region, similar to the Yangque Fire Domain."

Yun Ping nodded, then looked at his two female disciples whose faces were full of curiosity: "To be more precise, the Netherworld is a region that is similar to a secret realm but different from one. Its spatial location is quite peculiar; it belongs to the Kuntian Domain, yet it does not belong to the Kuntian Domain."

This is also why Yunping's divine sense couldn't find the Yangque Fire Domain when it was sweeping through the Kuntian Domain.

These words completely confused Yu Chan and Ruo Xue – what does it mean to be in the Kun Tian Domain but not belong to the Kun Tian Domain?

Perhaps noticing the growing confusion on their faces, the skinny boss picked up where Yun Ping left off and continued to explain: "Its geographical location should be within the Kuntian Domain, but the surrounding space indicates that it is not in the Kuntian Domain, but rather next to an ancient star that is quite far away from the three major domains."

"Next to an ancient star?"

Yes, to be more precise—

The skinny boss paused for a moment, then casually waved his hand.

The next second, the boundless darkness around them was instantly tinged with a layer of azure light, and the calm light, like the surface of water, shone down on everyone.

Before them, a bright, pale blue moon appeared, bathed in the soft glow of the moonlight.

"Next to the moon."

Looking at that unique bright moon, Zhang Ruoxue felt a subtle tremor in the long-dormant "Silent Moon" technique within her body, as if it were yearning for that azure radiance.

As for the bright moon, our little sister Ye Yuchan stared at it for a long time before suddenly thinking of a strange question.

She tugged at Yunping and whispered, "Speaking of which, you old rogue, I want to ask you something..."

"What?"

"Living next to the moon..." Ye Yuchan's expression was somewhat strange, her tone full of doubt: "Won't they get hot?"

……

Just then, Yunping suddenly remembered that these ancient stars contained a lot of heat inside, and besides, the moon and sun in this world were almost independent of each other and did not reflect light.

In other words, it's really quite warm on the moon.

Yun Ping glanced at Ye Yuchan, who had suddenly started asking physics questions in the cultivation world, and said with a slightly embarrassed tone, "To be honest, I don't know much about the Netherworld either. Maybe they have some kind of cooling formation or something?"

"Like an air conditioner?"

"I guess it's because there's a giant air conditioner that covers the entire Netherworld."

Zhang Ruoxue and the skinny boss were completely bewildered by their conversation. Even the latter, who claimed to know everything in the world, didn't understand what an air conditioner was at this moment.

Ye Yuchan, who had just started a dialogue across time and space, coughed twice to put an end to this somewhat strange topic for the time being, and then asked, "So, that Yangque Fire Domain has now moved to the Netherworld?"

"Yes." After recovering from the super-immortal topic of air conditioning, the skinny boss nodded with a subtle expression: "As early as a hundred years ago, the Yangque Fire Domain had already completed its transfer. Although it encountered a lot of troubles during the process, it finally settled in the Netherworld."

How do we get to that place?

Zhang Ruoxue asked a rather crucial question.

When asked about Ruoxue's question, the skinny boss did not answer her directly. Instead, he looked at Yunping, who seemed to be deep in thought, and said, "Your teacher should know the answer to this question."

Yes, Yunping certainly knew.

He was also someone who had been to the underworld, and more than once.

Although he had stayed there for quite a while, he hadn't completely forgotten the special passage leading to the underworld.

But when it comes to the Netherworld, the first thing Yunping thinks of is a certain girl.

A girl who gave him a huge headache, a headache that was about to explode.

If the three demon girls from Chaos City only caused Yun Ping some trouble, then compared to that girl from the Netherworld, they were simply irresistibly cute—

If he had to choose between "going on a date with the one in the underworld once" or "going on a hundred dates with the triplets," Yunping would definitely choose the latter without hesitation.

Because the former was so terrifying that it gave him the feeling of goosebumps.

A look of distress unconsciously crept onto Yunping's face. He sighed helplessly, "Yes, I do know how to get to the Netherworld, but I never expected that the Yangque Fire Domain would actually move to the Netherworld."

"It's obvious you really don't want to see her."

The thin boss's face gradually filled with a smile—he really enjoyed seeing Yunping's troubled expression.

Yunping rolled his eyes at the skinny boss who was starting to gloat, "Isn't that obvious..."

"Hahahaha..." The skinny boss laughed from the bottom of his heart: "So many years have passed, and you are still so afraid of her."

"Even if tens of thousands of years pass, I reckon this psychological burden won't disappear..."

Hearing their conversation, Ye Yuchan seemed to sense something. She narrowed her eyes and stared intently at Yun Ping: "Who are you talking about? Is it one of your old flames?!"

Yunping's expression suddenly changed. He looked at Yuchan, who suddenly exuded the aura of an empress, and coughed twice: "No, no, how could that be? I'm such a pure person, where would I have an old lover?"

"That was an old...old friend, an old friend."

"really?"

Ye Yuchan's gaze grew increasingly sharp, as if she wanted to see right through Yun Ping.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about that now. I have other questions to ask you."

"cut."

Ye Yuchan pouted and rolled her eyes at Yun Ping's obvious attempt to change the subject. She gripped the two supports next to the wheelchair with dissatisfaction and stared intently at the young man in white in front of her.

If you don't want to say it, then don't. Anyway, once you get to the underworld, everything will come to light.

Seeing that his sister Yu Chan had finally stopped pressing the issue, Yun Ping felt a huge weight lifted from his heart. He composed himself and then met the gaze of the smiling, thin boss—

"So, that question was worth one hundred chips, and I still have two hundred and sixty (I gave Duan Xingchen forty). Can you continue asking me the questions I want to ask?"

"Of course." Although the skinny boss was very dissatisfied with Yun Ping having so many chips, he could only agree to Yun Ping's request due to the rules, "As long as you have enough chips to pay for the answer to the question."

"it is good."

Yun Ping's lips curled into a smile, and then he thought of that dark figure that even he himself could not see through until now, his expression becoming more solemn than ever before—

"What I want to ask is, who exactly is the pursuer who is hunting down the Twenty-One Extremes?"

……

After speaking, there was silence.

Zhang Ruoxue and Ye Yuchan were both stunned. They knew very little about the so-called pursuer.

Since Yunping almost always spoke with Twenty-One Extreme himself when obtaining information about the pursuers, and rarely brought Ye Yuchan and the others along, they gradually sensed that something was amiss.

At this moment, Yunping directly raised this question, confirming their suspicions...

The 21st Extreme is truly in danger.

But... do such pursuers really exist?

At this moment, the eyes of the three masters and disciples all focused on the skinny boss in front of them, who claimed to know everything, hoping to get answers from him.

My gaze swept across—

The skinny boss's complicated gaze swept over Yun Ping, then over Zhang Ruoxue, and finally settled on Ye Yuchan. But his gaze didn't linger for long; a few seconds later, he slowly closed his eyes.

"You can't afford this price."

These words were undoubtedly spoken to Yunping.

Yun Ping frowned, casually waved his hand, and laid out all the remaining chips in his storage ring, pointing to the mountain of chips: "Even with more than two hundred, you still can't afford to pay?"

"Can't afford it."

The skinny boss's answer was decisive; he kept his eyes closed and didn't even look at the chips Yunping was pointing to.

Yun Ping's expression changed slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up, his tone becoming particularly sarcastic: "Boss, you don't actually know the answer to this question, so you lied to me and said I couldn't afford it, do you?"

"This kind of low-level provocation won't work on me."

"I'm not trying to provoke you." Yun Ping resumed his serious and solemn demeanor, a faint pressure emanating from his body: "If you say I can't afford it, then tell me, how much do you want?"

……

no answer.

Yes, the skinny boss did not answer that question.

He simply sat silently in his seat, eyes closed, like a puppet, offering no response whatsoever to Yunping.

An eerie silence lingered and wandered in this void.

Half a minute later, the young man's words of reflection broke the silence.

"Is that so... Even you..."

Yunping seemed to have figured something out. His face showed a look of understanding and astonishment, which then turned somewhat gloomy.

He turned around and sighed.

"Yu Chan, Ruo Xue, let's go."

"But……"

Ye Yuchan glanced at the thin boss who had fallen silent; she seemed to still care about the so-called pursuers.

He won't answer.

After leaving those words, Yunping gestured with his hand as if it were a sharp sword, cleaving a white crack in the darkness before him, his voice low and filled with regret: "Let's go."

Although Zhang Ruoxue and Ye Yuchan's curiosity was still not satisfied, they had now obtained the most important information about the Yangque Fire Domain, so leaving now would not be a problem.

Finally, the three of them left this void and pitch-black realm.

After everyone left, the skinny boss finally opened his trembling eyes, which seemed to be filled with fear. He stood up stiffly and stared in the direction where Yun Ping had gone.

He still didn't say anything.