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

Yunping seemed to already know what he was going to leave for himself.

Many vengeful spirits still lingered around, but they dared not approach Yunping. Yunping then suddenly waved his hand.

The golden paper rained down like a storm, crushing the vengeful spirit the moment it touched it.

Within seconds, thousands upon thousands of vengeful spirits were completely purified.

In this space where sin, resentment, and hatred no longer exist, Yunping looked at the Seven Dream Tree, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

"go quickly."

Urged on by the Seven Dream Trees... Yunping turned around and embarked on the road to leave this place together with Ye Yuchan and the others.

Within minutes, they had left this ghostly realm.

The remaining Seven Dream Trees gasped for breath...

"Finally, this day has come."

The Seven Dream Tree can feel its life slipping away.

He was dying.

He came to an open space that was not polluted by the black water and lay down.

When faced with death, he felt only curiosity about new things and a few traces of satisfaction.

Because he can finally welcome this moment.

He slowly placed his right hand on his chest.

In the pitch black, a glimmer of colorful light seemed to be shining brightly.

A few glimmers of joy flashed across the twisted, decaying face of the Seven Dream Tree.

With a slight smile, he used his last strength to sigh:

"finally……"

"Now I can finally get a good night's sleep."

37. Self

"Is this... what happened before?"

Inside the train carriage.

The interior of the carriage with its built-in spatial array is larger than expected, equipped with furniture such as beds and tables, and looks like a room that can accommodate seven or eight people.

On the soft, warm ruby ​​bed, a girl with flowing red hair, as delicate and lovely as a porcelain doll, lowered her head slightly, her face full of regret.

Shortly after Yun Ping and the others returned to the Hunting Alliance, Lin Yuan woke up from her sleep.

After crying for a long time, her nerves, which had been tense and exhausted for so long, finally relaxed. After a particularly long sleep, she finally recovered.

Even so, when she saw Lu Yingqiu and Ning Xuchen, the tears she thought she had cried dry flowed out again.

Although she felt that as Lu Yingqiu's master and Ning Xuchen's teacher, she shouldn't show such a weak and cowardly side without any dignity, the sorrow that had been building up in her heart for so long was hard to suppress.

Even so, amidst her overwhelming grief, she also felt a sense of relief and joy.

Because Lu Yingqiu and the others are still alive.

The Cloud Heaven Academy that Lin Yuan and Jiang Yuetian established in the Extreme Heaven Domain... has not yet collapsed.

That's fine.

That's fine.

Afterwards, Yuan'er and Lu Yingqiu, the master and disciple, embraced and wept for a long time. The two looked like children, so their tears were naturally like pear blossoms in the rain, leaving Gu Xingzhuo and Zhang Ruoxue, who were standing to the side, at a loss for what to do. They could only quietly wait for them to finish crying.

After that, the two of them told Lin Yuan, who had just woken up, what had happened in that dead land of vengeful spirits.

"That means I have to go again tomorrow to get the things that the Seven Dream Tree left for the teacher."

After Gu Xingzhuo finished explaining the last words left by the Seven Dream Trees, he looked at Lin Yuan.

"What about the teacher...?" Yuan'er sat on the bed, her eyes red-rimmed. Perhaps because she had just cried again, she looked quite weak. "He... should be alright, right?"

"I don't know." Zhang Ruoxue shook her head, recalling Yunping's appearance. She couldn't quite grasp her teacher's feelings either: "He doesn't seem to have much of a reaction... He's calmer than I expected."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan's eyes darkened, and her tone softened: "When teachers are sulking, they usually appear quite calm."

"The teacher isn't a very straightforward person... He must have felt terrible about this."

Lin Yuan felt she could understand that feeling.

Not long ago, when I knelt before the ruins of Yuntian Academy, the excruciating pain I felt still lingered in my heart, difficult to shake off.

That kind of pain is something not everyone can endure.

“The teacher shouldn’t be someone who gets discouraged by this.” Gu Xingzhuo had absolute trust in Yun Ping: “We don’t need to worry about that.”

"Besides—"

Lin Yuan raised her tear-filled eyes and asked curiously, "Besides...?"

Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo exchanged a glance, each noticing a hint of helplessness and emotion in the other's eyes.

The girl in the black sailor uniform put her hands on her hips, then turned to the side and looked at the closed carriage curtain diagonally behind her, her gaze seemingly trying to pierce through it, and said, "Besides, someone has already gone looking for her because they were too worried."

Lin Yuan blinked blankly, unable to understand what Junior Sister Ruoxue was saying.

……

Hunter Alliance.

Huang Luo was taken away by Huang Xiaoliu to receive treatment not long ago.

The reason is that right after Yunping and the others stepped onto the vine staircase, he unfortunately became the plaything of two other ultimate spirit beasts.

Perhaps it was because Yunping wasn't around, and because they had already become vengeful spirits, they naturally harbored an uncontrollable hatred and resentment towards humans.

So Huang Luo was very unfortunate... and was treated like a meatball, constantly being butted around by a giant wolf and a fierce tiger, and occasionally being violently whipped and killed by its barbed tail.

Of course, the husky and the kitten were careful not to hurt Huang Luo. At most, Huang Luo only suffered minor injuries, like a broken bone or something, nothing serious.

……

On a small hillside no more than a hundred meters away from the Hunter Alliance, a young man in white sat beside a mound of earth, gazing into the distance.

Dense forests and rolling mountains stretched as far as the eye could see; one step forward would plunge one from the heights, plunging into the unknown, deep green jungle. The distant sun was even hotter than imagined, hanging high above the distant mountains.

He breathed in the extremely bland air, and then he heard footsteps.

He didn't need to look back, nor did he need to guess or imagine.

He knew who it was.

"Enjoying the scenery?"

The woman's voice was light and clear, yet carried a hint of undisguised worry.

Yun Ping paused, turned his back to the owner of the voice, yawned, and replied in a sleepy, lazy voice, "I just had nothing to do... I thought I could enter the Azure Secret Realm today, but that kid Qi Mengshu told me to go tomorrow."

"So I'm free right now, so I came over to sit for a while."

The old rogue still sounded indifferent, as if his close friend's recent decline was just a dream, something that didn't matter to him at all.

It's as if they're talking about someone else's business.

Whether it's his voice, the way he speaks, his tone, or his aura... Yunping at this moment is exactly the same as he is on ordinary days, without any particular sadness or heaviness.

He sat on the mound of earth as if nothing had happened, gazing into the distance.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that the person behind him didn't continue speaking, Yun Ping turned to the side, a wicked smile on his face, his dead fish eyes narrowed: "Why aren't you with Ruoxue and the others? Why did you come to find me? You really want to spend some alone time with your master?"

The same old teasing.

The same old teasing.

His usual wicked grin and smug expression.

But Ye Yuchan didn't act shy this time, even though the other party did say some things that would make her heart flutter.

Looking at Yun Ping in front of her, Ye Yuchan felt even more uncomfortable.

She took a deep breath, looked away from Yunping, and muttered as she walked over, "Yes... I just wanted to come and see you."

Ye Yuchan's reply surprised Yunping.

He seemed surprised by the girl's reaction. Looking at the silver-haired girl who had silently sat down beside him, a strange figure flashed in his eyes.

He was almost inevitably stunned for a second, then snapped out of his daze: "What, you really need something from me?"

"Ah."

Ye Yuchan nodded slightly, seemingly a little embarrassed, her cheeks flushed.

She tentatively turned her head and glanced at Yunping. His face wasn't exactly handsome, but after only catching a glimpse of part of Yunping's cheek, she involuntarily turned her head back.

As expected... I still can't look directly at it up close.

She gasped for breath and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you... feeling unwell?"

"Feeling unwell? Why do you feel unwell?"

"Your relationship with the Seven Dream Tree... isn't it very good?"

"Ah."

"Generally speaking, it must be very uncomfortable, right?"

"Yes."

"..."

The old rogue still spoke in a tone that suggested everything was none of his business.

Ye Yuchan bit her lower lip tightly and couldn't help but ask, "Then why... did you act so casually?"

"You're clearly very sad inside, aren't you? You're very heartbroken... Instead of hiding it... shouldn't you show it to make things go more smoothly?"

She didn't want to see Yunping's weak side.