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

It was a small pebble, a small stone that had already broken and whose origins were unknown.

She took a deep breath, her teeth almost grinding to powder, and glared fiercely at the snow-white figure that slowly emerged from beside Zhang Ruoxue.

He pronounced her name slowly and deliberately, as if he had been hating her for a long time.

"Xu! Yan! Liu!"

Upon hearing the name of someone familiar, Zhang Ruoxue couldn't help but stop in her tracks.

It was at this moment that she noticed Ding Rong seemed to have been defeated, and that in the endless shady forest beside her, the figure of the person who had tried to do something naughty with her the night before was slowly emerging.

The tall woman named Xu Yanliu was playing with a few small stones she had picked up casually in her left hand, while holding a wine gourd in her right hand. With a faint smile on her face, she turned her head and looked at Zhang Ruoxue.

"Did you get the Blood Orchid Root?"

Zhang Ruoxue was taken aback at first, then realized what was happening and nodded in surprise.

Xu Yanliu raised the corner of her mouth, "Not bad~ I thought it would take you a long time to find this hundred-year-old Blood Blue Root, otherwise I wouldn't be here."

"You're here... to help me?"

"I originally came to help you find that Blood Blue Root," Xu Yanliu said with a smile after taking a few sips of wine. "But now, I'm here to help you solve your troubles."

"Xu Yanliu!!"

On the other side, Ding Rong, who was furious because Xu Yanliu ignored her, was like a powder keg in her heart that had been lit, and the spiritual energy in her body was extremely unstable and surging.

She glared fiercely at the snow-white figure, her long sword tilted slightly, and her spiritual energy surged instantly: "Why are you here?!"

"I'd like to ask you why you're here." Xu Yanliu completely ignored Ding Rong's irritable and angry attitude, and continued to drink her wine as if nothing had happened, her tone as if she were drunk: "What, do you have your eye on my Xiao Ruoxue and want to steal my woman?"

She reached out and used her elbow to clamp Zhang Ruoxue's snow-white neck. With a slight pull, she dragged Zhang Ruoxue into her arms, giving Ruoxue a close-up "face wash" with her full breasts.

As if asserting her dominance, she looked at Zhang Ruoxue, whose face was flushed with embarrassment, in her arms and said indifferently, "Let's make this clear first, Ruoxue is our sister. You bunch of ugly ducklings can forget about touching her."

As Zhang Ruoxue felt the fragrance of Xu Yanliu's body and the smell of alcohol up close, she subconsciously thought of the word "lily" that the old rogue had told her earlier. She immediately felt a surge of heat in her body, her cheeks turned bright red, and she hurriedly tried to break free from Xu Yanliu's embrace.

She soon discovered that Xu Yanliu's strength was extraordinary, far beyond what she could resist.

So she could only remain in this awkward position, her little face pressed against Xu Yanliu's chest...

Ding Rong's expression was full of anger. She took out the token again and shouted sternly, "I am here on orders to investigate the Devouring Demon. Miss Zhang and her pet dog have a large amount of unknown demonic energy on them. Our Jin Yao Dao Alliance has the right and the qualification to investigate them."

"Oh ho, trying to intimidate me with the Ash Demon Alliance?" Xu Yanliu smiled with amusement. "Since you want to investigate, I'll just lay it out right now—"

Her tone suddenly turned serious, as if she were warning Ding Rong.

“My Ruoxue and this little dog have absolutely no connection with the demon race. If you continue to pester us, don’t blame me for not showing any mercy.”

"Xu Yanliu, you..."

Ding Rong pointed at Xu Yanliu, but was so angry that she couldn't even speak.

She was no match for Xu Yanliu. Not to mention her, even if she and the five peak-stage cultivators behind her were all together, they would still be no match for Xu Yanliu.

the reason is simple.

Because back then, they were all personally trained by Xu Yanliu...

Xu Yanliu was once their senior sister, and she was the leader with the most outstanding achievements in the Jin Yao Dao Alliance, almost on par with that senior brother.

But this person, whom everyone jokingly called the senior sister, left the Jin Yao Dao Alliance alone one day without saying a word to her junior sisters.

Moreover, the reason she left was just as absurd and ridiculous.

Ding Rong stared at Xu Yanliu, gazing at her former senior sister, and grinned.

"Xu Yanliu, do you really intend to continue protecting these demons? Don't forget, you're going against the Jin Yao Alliance."

"So what?" Xu Yanliu narrowed her eyes, the gourd in her hand hovering in mid-air. "You still want to use the Jin Yao Dao Alliance to pressure me? Don't forget, I'm no longer a member of the Jin Yao Dao Alliance."

"I wouldn't dare use the Jin Yao Alliance to pressure you." Ding Rong sneered, her eyes growing even colder. "I'm just reminding you, Xu Yanliu..."

"Have you forgotten that the fox demon's head is still in my Ash Demon Alliance?"

Fox demon?

Zhang Ruoxue frowned in confusion, her gaze shifting upwards in bewilderment as she tried to discern Xu Yanliu's expression.

The next second, she froze on the spot.

Because Xu Yanliu's expression was so cold, even colder than ten thousand years of ice, and a ruthless coldness gradually appeared on her cheeks. She was a completely different person from the Xu Yanliu who had been grinning and full of confidence earlier.

She now exudes an aura of extreme danger.

She slowly put down the wine gourd, tucked it into her waistband, her eyebrows remaining still, her beautiful eyes filled with chilling hostility.

"I advise you not to mention her again."

"Not mention it?" Ding Rong was really going all out, glaring angrily at Xu Yanliu. "Does not mentioning it mean it never happened? Xu Yanliu, wake up! Going against the Jin Yao Alliance will not end well, let alone protecting the demon race."

"You know better than anyone the consequences of doing this, don't you? That fox demon..."

"Shut up!!"

In an instant, the situation changed dramatically.

An overwhelmingly powerful spiritual energy erupted from Xu Yanliu's body, and the air within a radius of several hundred meters around her seemed to freeze.

Her vast, surging spiritual energy erupted wildly—it was the spiritual energy of the Kaiyuan stage…

Xu Yanliu is a cultivator who has already reached the Kaiyuan stage!

The pressure from being on completely different levels caused the five female cultivators from the Jin Yao Dao Alliance behind Ding Rong to kneel down simultaneously, their blood surging and large amounts of blood gushing from their mouths.

Even Ding Rong, under the overwhelming pressure, reluctantly knelt down, her long hair disheveled, and she didn't even have the strength to lift her head.

Xu Yanliu stared coldly at the kneeling crowd and said in a low voice, "Say one more word, and don't blame me for not showing any mercy."

"you……"

Despite her strong inner urge to explode, the external pressure was simply too terrifying for her, as if any thought of resistance would be torn to shreds.

Filled with almost endless humiliation, she almost gritted her teeth and swallowed it down, lowering her head completely with extreme resentment.

Looking at the Jin Yao Dao Alliance members kneeling in unison, not daring to make the slightest move, Xu Yanliu's eyes flashed with a few traces of pity, but this pity was quickly buried by coldness.

She put her arm around Zhang Ruoxue, turned around, and whispered, "Let's go."

"Where...where are we going?" Zhang Ruoxue was a little confused.

"Back to the pharmacy."

54. I'm so happy to be cheeky!

"I'm starting to miss Ruoxue a little."

"What's wrong? Still worried?"

"No...because her arm can be used as an air conditioner..."

The girl named Yu Chan sat in a wheelchair, looking like she had seen a ghost, sweating profusely as she fanned herself with her hands.

The young man, who was walking slowly beside him with a calm expression, rolled his eyes at her. "Didn't I just give you a spell to ward off the heat?"

"That spell is useless! It only slightly lowered the temperature!" Ye Yuchan stared at the raging flames all around her, which seemed to be about to engulf her completely. She fanned herself faster, her expression as if she were about to melt. "Even if the temperature were normal, just looking at these flames makes me feel hot..."

"That's probably just psychological."

Ye Yuchan seemed to have suddenly thought of something, her eyes gleaming as she pitifully gazed at Yun Ping beside her.

"Hey old rogue, you're so amazing, could you make an air conditioner right here?"

"Do you think I'm Willis...? (PS: Willis is the father of air conditioning)"

"Then can't we just make a giant block of ice?!"

Yunping completely ignored Ye Yuchan's silly request, dismissing the increasingly lazy girl with a curt reply: "A calm mind brings coolness."

Then, ignoring Ye Yuchan, he walked forward on his own.

"What do you mean by 'a cool mind naturally prevails'... Hmph~"

Yu Chan pouted and pushed her wheelchair behind Yun Ping.

Yangque Fire Domain.

As it turns out, neither the Fat and Thin Gambling House nor Xu Yanliu's intelligence deceived Yun Ping and the others.

The Yangque Fire Domain is indeed located in the Netherworld, specifically in its northwest, directly beneath the gray earth.

Before stepping into the Yangque Fire Domain, Ye Yuchan had already made ample preparations to face the discomfort brought by the scorching heat.

But in reality, when Ye Yuchan actually arrived at the Yangque Fire Domain, she found that she was not ready.

Because it's fucking hot here!

If the extreme cold of the Far Eastern Snowfield in the Desolate Sky Domain is so extreme that one might freeze into an ice block and die on the spot without using any cold-resistant techniques, then the Yangque Fire Domain would probably evaporate all the water in your body in a matter of minutes, turning you into a dried corpse if you stood still for ten minutes.

This is practically a living, breathing Flaming Mountain!

Ye Yuchan even wondered if she should remind Yunping to hurry up and go to a certain cave to find a certain woman and ask for a certain fan...

It is surrounded by continuous mountain ranges—that's for sure.

However, there is absolutely no vegetation on the mountain. The scorching heat makes it impossible for even the most resilient spiritual plants to survive here. The Yangque Fire Domain is not a place that ordinary beings can set foot in. Even cultivators, without sufficiently strong spiritual energy, would probably die a terrible death.

What made Ye Yuchan even more uncomfortable was that the closer she got to the center of the Yangque Fire Domain, the more subtle pain she felt on the right side of her body.

It was as if something was struggling within that decaying wound, hindering her from moving forward.

It's obvious without even thinking that it's probably the remnants of the Abyss Ice causing the problem.

"You old scoundrel, how much longer do we have to walk..."

Ye Yuchan gritted her teeth, barely able to bear the pain, but she had no intention of crying out.

Yunping glanced back at Ye Yuchan, who seemed to be holding back something, smiled slightly, and looked towards the distant, continuous mountain range, where he saw an unstoppable surge of spiritual energy rising into the sky.

"We should be there soon."

"Is that so..." Ye Yuchan's expression showed no sign of relaxing: "I seem to remember you saying the same thing to me just over ten minutes ago."

“Before, it was ‘I felt we were almost there,’ but now it’s ‘we should be almost there.’ There’s a difference between the two.”

"I feel like you're playing me..."